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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	deny_v	live_v	ungodliness_n	2,303	5	11.2667	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66418	A sermon preached at the Northampton-shire feast, November 8, 1683 being the first general meeting of such citizens and inhabitants in London, as were born within that county / by John Williams ...	Williams, John, 1636?-1709.	1684 (1684)	Wing W2725; ESTC R7241	20,162	36

which mankind generally hath to the particular place of their Nativity and abode This I think is well represented by that great Philosopher as well as Emperor who saith My City and Country as Antoninus is Rome as a Man its the World For their Relation to the World did no more lessen a due affection and care to their own particular Country or Birth-place than he could be supposed to cast of all regard to Antoninus because he considered himself as a Man Or however natural inclinations do not stand or fall by the Maxims and Reasonings of Philosophers but as long as men be men and that there is such a thing as a Relation betwixt men and men or men and places there will consequently be affections in them sutable to those Relations in which they are From hence it is that Parents and Children are naturally prone interchangeably to love each other and to go no further that mankind hath a respect and affection for the place in which they were born and for the people more or less amongst whom they received their Life and Education From whence this proceeds whether from propriety or the possession it took of their first thoughts and earliest affections or from use which renders things connatural to us is not so easie to resolve as it is to observe the potency of this affection When whatever the Country may be subject never so much to the extreams of heat and cold if there be in it things necessary for subsistence men generally rather chuse the quiet enjoyment of their own than to have their portion in another that is in it self far more excellent and delightful So the Poet observed of old Quid melius Roma Scythico quid frigore pejus Huc tamen ex illa Barbarus urbe fugit What more delightful than Rome What less than Scythia And yet the Barbarous Native forsakes that for this Let it be the Country of the Samoiedes where for Six Months of the year they have one continued Night and are shut up in their pitiful Huts half under ground yet the Inhabitants prefer their manner of life before the delight of a better Climate as a modern Traveller relates So that there is no Country so bad which those that are there born do not generally chuse And there is no Country so bad but has a right and duty owing to it from such as were born there Therein verifying that of Seneca Nemo patriam quia magna est amat sed quia sua No man loves his Country because its great or noble but because it is his A Duty so necessary and obliging that it hath been thought nothing could be too dear to part with nothing too difficult to be undertaken for its wellfare and security that Parents and Children Life and Estate were to be sacrificed in so noble a cause O fortunata mors quae naturae debita pro patria est potissimum reddita O happy is that death which when due to Nature is laid down for the Country before the other calls for it said the Orator But it is not my intent as well as it is not so much to my purpose to consider in general what is due to one Nation in opposition to another to the Land of our Nativity in opposition to what is not since we are here assembled only as a small part of the whole as what is due to any place which we have a relation to by birth and education whether it be a Nation or Country or City or whatever bounds greater or less it may be circumscribed in To all of which there is an Honour due and which every man doth give that discharges the duty belonging to his place and station with faithfulness and sincerity and like a good man and a Christian denying ungodliness and worldly lusts doth live soberly righteously and godlily in this present world For as I have before shewed that Virtue and Piety are the Honour of a Nation so he that would do honour to his Country must live vertuously and piously Other things we may receive from That as Birth a temperament of Body some dispositions of mind priviledges and immunities respect derived from Ancestors These are advantages we receive from That and so cannot honour that by them but piety and vertue are our own and when we are eminent in these the honour of it redounds to our Country and all that we are related to For the former we are beholding to our Country but for the latter our Country is beholding to us And this is it that we should most of all aspire after that we may rather chuse to do Honour to our Country than depend upon any Honour or Advantage from it being like Themistocles that when told by a Native of the Island Seriphus a place so craggy and desolate that Malefactors were Banished thither that he had his glory from his Country and not from himself replied If I had been a Seriphian I had been Noble and Great but if thou hadst been an Athenian thou wouldst have been base and dishonourable It is not in our power to chuse where we will be born or from what stock to derive our selves this we owe to other Causes but it is under God in our power to chuse whether we will be good and vertuous and do things worthy of a Man and a Christian and by being so we do truly honour our selves and our Country To be an Hebrew of the Hebrews a Roman and a Schollar of the famous Gamaliel were privileges St. Paul owed to his parentage his birth-place and his education but to live in all good conscience before God to do like an Apostle of Christ and to labour in that Office more abundantly than all was an Honour that he brought to Tarsus to Jerusalem and was therein more an honour to them than they could be to him Men may be honourable by what they receive from their Country but they are more honourable for things that are honourable all the world over and will make them honourable where-ever they are And it s by the same that they do honour their Country by the things I say they receive not more than by what they do receive from it And therefore he that would study so to do as every one should let him begin here and first of all to learn to be pious and virtuous as to himself good and useful to others and in all to have a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men and he will deserve well of his Country and in the highest sence be an honour to it But on the other side if these be neglected and Virtue and Piety be the last things taken into consideration the more honourable their Country is the more blame-worthy are they that do thus detract from the honour of it and as much as in them lies rob it of that it hath before acquired Greece was famous for a Country Crete for an