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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	hate_v	love_v	persecute_v	3,099	5	9.6553	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80547	The perfect-law of God being a sermon, and no sermon;-: preach'd,-, and yet not preach'd;-: in a-church, but not in a-church; to a people, that are not a people-. / By Richard Carpenter. Wherein also, he gives his first alarum to his brethren of the presbytery; as being his-brethren, but not his-brethren.	Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?	1652 (1652)	Wing C625; Thomason E1318_1; ESTC R210492	112,779	261

unsounded unsifted unexamined which is not Mysterious I presume we are not all traiterous-hearted and afraid to be search'd The wise Mariner rests his Vessel upon a side and examines the bottom at home in the River lest he should be lost by an unsound Bottom at Sea The Latin Speech will be sometimes Oratio resistens ac salebrosa Because the Discourse cannot be forcibly and properly deliver'd without our acceptance of a few sublimated Terms from School-Divinity I shall be an Englishman here and there for a word or two in the course of this Discourse ut Populum expectatione longiùs hiantem foveam demulceam d●tineam and to take off as with a file the roughness and strangeness of my thronging so much Latin together These concerning the Difficulty when it enters ye are advertis'd of it In the mean time I shall turn the face of my Endeavour to the preparing and qualifying of the Matter Scripture is the Word of the most holy God the Author and Revealer of Truth I receive it as such in the posture in which some insigni●ris Notae Sancti Saints of more illustrious Note have alwayes read it that is upon my Knees I am induced to this by these Notes Marks and Reasons 1 By the resounding or Ecchoing of the New Testament to the old which sing the one to the other like the two Parts of a Quire and betwixt them make compleat Musick The New shews that to be done which many Ages before by the Old was foretold should be done The singing of the New is neer and at hand of the Old far off but heard clearly because lowd and plain The Foundation stands upright both in Divinity and Philosophy Future Contingents depending only upon the most free and close Decree of God and upon the various Wills and secret Thoughts of Men are known to God alone to whom only his own Counsills and the Hearts of Men are known God therefore is the Author of this Scripture thus resounding 2 Although no Writing may be reasonably beleeved speaking in it's own Cause when it wholly resteth upon its own Testimony yet when it hath miraculously shew'd it self to have come from God as the first Reason evinces that Scripture hath then our Belief may reach a Confirmation from the Testimony of a Writing testifying for it self Wherefore when the Scripture professeth often in the old Testament Haec di●●t Dominus Thus saith the Lord and attesteth also in the New 2 Tim. 3. 16. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God c. We may reasonably throw weight upon the Testimony even which it giveth of it s●lf 3 It is no way carnall Not carnall inwardly because it containeth a Doctrine consonant altogether to the Spirit and that elevated by Grace not to the Flesh Not externally or outwardly carnall because neither God the Author nor the Instruments the Prophets and Apostles the Penners of it gave the least expressions of any carnall Ends in the commending it to us or the writing of it 4 The Miracles that under both Testaments were wrought in ratification of the Doctrine comprehended in Scripture which have descended to us by the Testimonies also of most approved Writers in all knowing Ages 5 The holy Simplicity shining in the Vide S. Aug. de verâ Relig per Librum totum Stile Phrase and Disposition which in those honest Ages wherein Scripture was written was not used for Imposture 6 The high Straein of Consent and Agreement which Scripture above all other Writings hath with a pious and religious Soul made after the Image of God in respect of her Beginning and for God in reguard of her End Which Agreement and Conveniency is such that a good Soul afflicted or oppressed thinks her self as it were safe and secure in Scripture the Word of her Creator Friend Husband Saviour and last End and feeds there as upon the choysest Dainties and most pretious Restoratives She finds a Congruity with all Wants all Passions but evill ones 7 The Promises of God in Scripture promising Eternity and Himself to a Soul which cannot be otherwise satisfied From the result of which is manifest That Scripture answers though not to the desires of corrupted Nature yet to this nacurall Appetite ingrafted into us in our Creation by the which we desire our own Perfection the Consecution of our last End and not only to continue our Being for Eternity but also to endow it with all the blessed Conditions and adornments of which it is capable For Man being infinite and immortall in Desire can not lay his Desire to sleep but upon an infinite Good which being infinite in all Things is withall infinite in Duration And no Book promiseth Eternity and God but as a Borrower from Scripture 8 It is known to be God's Word by the Effects Because by such a Doctrine of Humility and Mortification and such calling to difficult and high perfection as Matth. 16. 24. If any man will come after me let him deny himself and take up his Cross and follow me And Matth. 5. 44. Love your Enemies bles● them that curse you do good to them that hate you and pray for them who despitefully use you and persecute you The whole World hath been converted and turned to performance For Acts so contrary to the Pride and Elation of our corrupted Hearts and so clashing and jarring with Flesh Bloud could not be done the respect to Vain-glory which discovered it self in the Philosophers secluded without the Cooperation Combination and Influence of the holy Ghost Which holy Ghost doth not Cooperate with false fictitious Things or Things belying the most holy Name of God 9 The Consent Convenience and Agreement which it hath in it self in respect of every part and particle though written by divers Persons and in divers Languages and Times For as the Ordination of inanimate Things in Nature to one End the Glory of God arising from the Good of Mankind shews one Ordinator So the Ordination of Scripture to one Thing and the same a most divine one through so many diversities shews one and the same Author God who is the Cause of all perfect Vnity 10 The Martyrs gave up their Lives joyfully in the Confirmation of Scripture declaring plainly by their Heavenly Courage and Constancy that they were strengthned from Heaven and that Scripture was Heaven-born Wherein is eminent the much different working of God in Christ the Prince of Martyrs and the Martyrs his Servants For God laid his Son open to all the sufferance whereby Nature could be afflicted and assisted his other Martyrs relieving and easing Nature in their extremity These Reasons Notes and Ma●ks argue sufficiently for Scripture in the particular Matters from which these Marks Notes and Reasons are taken Yea for Scripture in every Letter of it as it first came from God or is rightly conveyed to us But concerning ordinary Translations amongst those especially that heap all the weight of their Belief upon their Translation as