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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
A97102	A parable, or consultation of physitians vpon Master Edwards. Love. Justice. Patience. Truth. [brace] Doctors. [brace] Conscience. Hope. Piety. Superstition. Policie. [brace] Observers.	Walwyn, William, 1600-1681.	1646 (1646)	Wing W686; Thomason E359_8; ESTC R201169	14,728	20

your conversations Why the love of God which bringeth salvation to all men hath appeared teaching us to deny all ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and to live righteously godly and soberly in this present world Are yee publique persons Are yee intrusted to judge righteously in all causes Love is the best property even in a judge for God is Love who is the righteous judge of all the earth and slayeth not the righteous with the wicked Love rightly so called putteth no difference betweene high and low rich and poore but loveth all men as they are men alike but the proper object of Love is vertue the more vertuous the more it loveth the lesse vertuous the lesse it loveth what so ever justly deserveth the name of infirmity Love can beare with all but it is contrary to its nature to beare with wickednesse because mercy to the wicked tends to the ruine of the just and so becomes the greatest cruelty Love is just as God is spares not the greatest for his greatnesse nor the wealthy for his money nor any for any by respect so that hold but up your love to God and you can never be partiall in judgement Love doth as it would be done unto in which respect it is a motive to the compleat performance of trust for would it not grieve you to have your love abused in the trust you have given for your good doubtlesse it would Why then sayes Love grieve not those that have loved and trusted you but be watchfull for their safety tender of their freedomes and then you shall certainly reape the fruite of love whihc is an aboundance of love and reall thankfulnesse Are you in dispute what you shall doe in matters of Religion take Love along with you to light you through this laboriath whence never any Authority returned without prejudice Say now is Religion of that nature that you can referre it to him whom you must love to set you ●'es in such sort as you can assure your selfe you shall without sinne obay these rulee Nay when your friend hath done all he can doe are you not to follow your own underst ending of the word of God not his and if you doe not so doe you not sin if so how can any trust Religion And if none can must none can be trusted And love will never meddle with matters not intrusted by way of injunction but only by perswasion whilst we live here knowledge will be imperfect and whilest it is so that which seemeth truth to one seemeth an errour to another If I now shall be so anadvised as to call him an heretique who differs from me I doe but provoke him to call me so for he is as confident of his as I am of my judgement and here the rule of Love is broken that ought not to love in reference to opioion but according to vertue and godlynesse of conversation for this were away otherwise to bring all into confusion there being so many severall opinions if one should revile and reproach another with the names of Heredques and schismatiques Anabaptist Brownist Antinomian Seeker Sectarie Presbyter this tends to nothing but to devide the honest party and to make way for your common enemy for in whatsoever the true and evident rule of Love is broken it tends to dissolution it being love that preserveth all things Therefore my humble advice is in this great cause upon which more dependeth then is presently seen that you give not countenance to one before another for that begets a high conceite in those you favour and makes them dispise all others though they may be as nigh the truth as those in the one you be get pride in the other feare the fruit of both being the worst that can come to any people none are now infallible truth and errour are two easily mistaken but love is easily understood to doe as you would be done unto is a rule generally agreed on Let those that conceive they can justly submit their consciences to others arbitration in the worship of God give in their names for themselves and the places they represent I beleeve upon a little consideration few would be found t is not what formerly hath been done but what may justly be done that is to beare sway with all true reformers No man hath been more earnest then I for compelling all to uniformity and for punishment of all contrary practisers but I now see my errour and will do all I can to make amends for the evill I have done the books I have written I will burne with my owne hand for I judge no opinion so evill as molestation for Religion What I have in hand shall never see the light because I now see it to be a work of darknesse and I exceedingly rejoyce that I have this oppertunity to declare thus much before you if ever men shall kindly be brought to be of one mind I see it must be by liberty of discourse and liberty of writing we must not pretend to more infallible certenly then other men this distinction of Clergy and layety how I loath it I le no longer abuse the world therewith nor with any thing appertaining there unto I will henceforth magnifie nothing but love I am the devoted servant of Love and his lovely companions Iustice Putience truth Piety and Conscience shall be my fortresse to defend me from the wiles and force of Machiavilian Pollicy O Love I how thou hast melted me how thou hast refined me and made me all new perfect thy worke O! Love that I may become all love and nothing but love Piety Here is a happy change indeed certainly the cure is absolute we have great comfort of our poore indeavours how his discourse fell at last from the publique to his particular content my advice is that wee all silently depart and let all things be removed as if no man had been here as for you Conscience I know you will not leave him and when he wakes your presence doubtlesse will be most acceptable FINIS

his best friend Conscience wee le pray you to stay with him if he stirr● you le call us wee be but in the next roome Love This Conscience is of true temper to make a friend off he neither flatters nor feares no unkindnesse alienates him nor dange● asseighes him from doing the office of a true friend at all times on would not be with us such a friend for any thing in the world this distressed man hath extreamly abused him and yet you set with what servency of affection he sticks to him Iustice I know abudance of the name and of his kindred and truly all the generation of them are such Patience Whence is hee the a Scholler What prote 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Truth I never 〈◊〉 signes of 〈…〉 in him not doth ●● make any profession that I know of of any one calling holy in use but hens of a wounder publique spirit you shall have him at all 〈◊〉 tings that are for publique good finding fault with the 〈◊〉 of one son of men with want charity in another with pride and disdame in another willing them they glory to be esteemed Christians and till much of Religion go much to Church hear and read and pray and fast frequently because these are the cheapest parts of Religion but to deliver the captine and set the oppressed free or to feed the hungry cloath 〈◊〉 ●●ed or visit the Father lesse and Widomes to all these they are very backward when they are called to these one hath a great family and there hath marrled awrfe another hath but one servant at home cannot be spared from his wade getting of mony I says he you are rare christians that can about in this worlds goods see your brother laek His dealing is so plaine to the point that very few regard his company and that 's the reason those great meetings produce so little good as they do for without his company you shall never see any effect worthy the name of Christian he hath had no breeding neither in the universities or Ins of Court never was a Courtier not Trauailer yet he is ignorant of nothing speaks very shrewdly to purpose owneth every just publick cause without respect to persons of opinions he will not weare finer cloathes if you would give them to him gratie yet to an ingenious vertuous man there is not a more pleasant companion Hope Pray yee what Religion is he off Truth For matter of outward formes he is very reserved as if he were not fully satisfied I have often heard him say God a Spirit and will be worshipped in spirit and truth but he professeth himselfe to be clearely for liberty of worship and the greatest enemy to compulsion or restriction that can be affirming there is no sinne so unreasonable or un-Christian as for one man especially one bring man to perecute punish or molest another for matters of Religion or to make Lawes concerning any thing supernaturall he saies it proceeds not from any savour of Christianity that men doe so but from an imperious donsineering spirit that takes it in soule scome that any man should doe any thing but by Licence from him I assure yee Conscince allowes no such dealing and this is the maine quarrell twixt him and our Patient Mr. Edwardse but I hope wee shall see them good friends againe Superstition Well if this man dye under your hande your lives shall go for his I le take my oath you are the cause of his death Piety Spare your teares Superstition you shall find we have done him a good office you will see him a new man and your selle too Idcube not erelong Conscience Hoe friends pray yee all come in quickly What 's the matter Love Justice c. Conseience Doe you see this posture wherein he lyeth thus he hath layne about a quarter of an houre his lips moving his hands and eyes lifted up just as if he were praying in the Pulpit Hope It is very wonderfull He takes notice of nobody what will be the issue See he now strives as if he would raise himselfe as if his prayer were ended and he were preparing to Preach Conscience help to hold him up and see what he will doe certainly he supposeth himselfe to be in some great presence for just thus is his manner at such times peace and listen for he begins to speake Mr. Edwards Men of England my purpose is not now as formerly to promote my owne work but to prosecute what is just and necessary without respect of persons or opinions which hath occasioned me to make choice of this place of Scripture The whole commandement is fulfilled in this one word LOVE It hath often come to my thoughts why the Apostle Saint John is called in a peculer manner the Disciple whom Jesus loved but it never made so deep impression in me as at present certainly there could he nothing more joyous to his own spirit then to consider it and my heart at present panting after the reason thereof tels me that John certainly was of a mild a loving and tender disposition more eminently then any of the rest so soft that our Saviour chose his brest for a place of his repose and I am strengthened herein because I find it recorded of him that when he was so old that he was hardly able to come into the speaking place or to speake he prosecuted this most blessed and amiable theame little children love one anoher repeating it often little children love one another as having throughly disgested this lesson of his Masters the whole commandement is fulfilled in this one word LOVE Love is the true touch-stone of all Christian performances it instantly manifesteth how things are so much love so much of God It is the surest guide in all private and publique undertakings without a due regard to the rule of love all things will goe wrong observe it it will be like the North pole to the Marriners to guide you to the quiet harbour of justice and peace it is a rule easie to be understood the meanest capacity is capable thereof none can excuse themselves that swarve from this rule If you would know your duty to God it will tell you that in equity you are to love as he hath loved hath he so loved as to give himselfe an offering and a sacrifice for you then ye ought to walke in love as Christ hath loved would you know how you should manifest your love to Christ Love will set before you the sick the naked the aged and impotent it will lead you to prisons and houses of distresse and shew you the captives the widowes and fatherlesse Children and it will assure you that in as much as you ministred to the necessities of these you have done it unto him but if you have this worlds goods and see and suffer these or any of these to lack there is not the love of God in you Would you have a rule for