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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	day_n	good_a	lord_n	2,726	5	3.8026	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84939	The gale of opportunity. Or, A sermon preached (at Lidbury-North) at the funerall of the worshipfull Humphrey Walcot, of Walcot, Esq. June 8, 1650 and now published, by Thomas Froysell, Minister of the Gospell at Clunne in Shropshire.	Froysell, Thomas, d. ca. 1672.	1652 (1652)	Wing F2249A; ESTC R177209	46,742	52

even in the very Sermon time whilst Christ was preaching to them they were delivered up to hardnesse of heart 7 In a word to passe by Jesus Christ carrieth with it the most surpassing wrath to disrespect the offer of mercy Heb. 2. 3. ushers in the greatest misery How shall wee escape if wee neglect so great Salvation That is you shall not escape so you shall not passe with an ordinary doome upon you Sinners opportunity attends you Christ is yours if you'I have him the Lord Jesus is at your service if you will imbrace him God sends up and downe the world to offer Salvation hence that phrase my salvation is gone forth Mercy wayts on you and kneels to you and does obeysance to your souls when you are running from it mercy runs after you to catch you and imbrace you Ah how long hath free-grace stood at your doors waiting your leisure when you would let her in yet she cals and knocks againe you may yet be saved but if you will goe on still and disrespect mercy it brings the greatest misery The greatest severity goes along with the Gospel greatest severity goes along with the greatest mercy The Gospel is the greatest mercy that ever saluted the world and there 's the greatest severity with the Gospel that ever came with any mercy into the world Men shall be deeper in hell because heaven was offered them and they would not All they suffer here is but typicall of the wrath to come here they but sip of the top of Gods cup there they must drink the dreggs though it be eternity to the bottome a Sodomite in Hell shall fare better then the refuser of Jesus Christ See the 10. Mat. 14 15. verses and Whosoever shall not receive you nor hear your words when you depart out of that house or City shake off the dust of your feet Verily I say unto you it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodome and Gomorah in the day of Judgement then for that City Is not here the greatest severity with the greatest mercy So againe in Mat. 11. 21 22. Woe unto thee Corazin woe unto thee Bethsaida for if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sydon they would have repented long agoe in Sackcloth and ashes but I say unto you it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sydon at the day of Judgement then for you Is not here the greatest severity going along with the greatest mercy God can better bear any thing then the contempt of his free grace in the offers of mercy More yet When the Gospel began to be preached faith the Text Now is the Axe laid to the root of the Tree Jesus Christ Matth. 3. 10. comes with his Basket and his Axe his Basket togather fruit his Axe to cut downe the tree if it will not bear fruit and is not here the greatest severity with the greatest mercy If there were a sword on Moses thigh there is an Axe in Christs hand Now is the Axe laid to the root of the tree Now that is your opportunity is Now if you passe by this now you are gone for ought I can tell you are chopt off presently Neglect not the present Now least yee be cut off for ever 8 Consider sin is your dishonour it doth f Mundiliaenim necessaria est ad hoc quod mens Deo applicetur quià mens Humana inquinatur ex hoc quod inferioribus rebus conjungitur sicut quaelibet Res ex immix-tione pejoris sordescit ut argen turn ex immixtione plumbi Aquia sum 22ae q. 81. ar 8 cup. degrade you The vesture of mans nature is base and beggarly since it was patched with sin It is a debasing of the gold to marry it with any mettal of a courser birth so 't is a dishonour to man to match his golden nature so God at first made it holy and righteous I say to match thy golden nature to base-borne drosse to low-borne sin which derives its pedigree from hell None but Jesus Christ is a fit match for the soule of man take the opportunity then and make choice of Jesus Christ Espouse thy soul to him and keep the marriage knot inviolate with him Rom. 7. 4. 9 Come in quickly take the opportunity to come in presently to Jesus Christ least your sins before you are aware ripen too fast and you be cut downe you know not how soon Sins g De uno peccato enim in aliud ex una turpitudine stuhitiâ in aliam ruerant Ita Aetas parentumpejor avis tulit Hos nequiore mox daturos progeniem vitiosiorem Neque tantum a peccato ad peccatum sed ab errore stuhitiâ ad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ad insaniam et corruptionem mentis ac rationis Eversionem proceditur Cocceius ad 2 Tim. 3. multiply one sin will shortly multiply into many they are like circles in a pond one circle begets another so doth one sin beget another a lesser begets a greater as in a case of staires one staire is a step to another so every sin is a staire to helpe up to higher and worse sins It is wonderfull to behold the great flames bred out of small sparks of sin how one sin hatched a greater sin is like a whirl-pool which first sucks in one part and then another and never desists untill it drawes in and plungeth the wholebody 10. man may performe duties of Religion after his day of grace is set upon him you thinke that as long as a man performes duties and doth many good things his day of grace is not past My beloved òbserve me A man may come to Church performe religious duties doe many good things have many meltings upon his heart after his day of grace is past and gone as Saul went on in duties of Religion aswell after Samuel had pronounced the Lords doom upon him as before How many times was he offering sacrifice to the Lord after the Prophet had told him that he was a man rejected How many good speeches came from him what meltings some time fell in upon his soule as if there were hopes of him and yet a lost man his opportunities of Jesus Christ Vse 2 My second use shall be to set out unto you the excellency and Majesty of Gods opportunities that you may stand in awe and reverence of them and by no means slight them or neglect them Mysteries are dreadfull we honor them There are mysteries Mysteria tremenda in Gods opportunities My beloved there are these three characters of mysterie and excellency engraven upon Gods opportunities It may be some may thinke of and adde more but I at present observe three characters of mysterie and excellency upon Gods opportunities First they are easie Secondly they are sudden and unexspected Thirdly sometimes they come beside our 1 First Gods opportunities are easie they bring great matters to birth with easie travell they bring hard