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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	heart_n	holy_a	soul_n	2,522	5	4.8207	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85448	The oracle of God A sermon appointed for the Crosse, and preached in the Cathedrall Church of St. Paul, in London, on the 20. day of December, being the Sunday before Christmasse, anno Dom. 1635. By Iohn Gore rector of Wenden-lofts in Essex.	Gore, John, Rector of Wendenlofts, Essex.	1646 (1646)	Wing G1294; ESTC R229607	27,053	49

if your case be the same your comfort is the same for God is no accepter of persons his Grace is as sufficient for the one as for the other 1. Saint Paul was Homo in Christo he was a man in Christ as you may see by the second verse of this chapter I knew a man in Christ that was taken up into the third Heaven Art thou such a one I meane art thou regenerate and become a new creature for he that is in Christ is a new creature 2 Cor. 5. 17. dost thou daily renew thy repentance and renew thy obedience and renew thy duty and devotion to God And is it a griefe to thy soule that so much of the old leaven thy old corruption remaines still in thy heart Then take this holy Scripture to thy comfort and assure thy selfe though thy conscience disquiet thee Gods Grace will be sufficient for thee contrarily if thou beest an old weather-beaten sinner an old rusty drunkard swearer and that standest at a stay and gatherest sinne like an old tree that stands and gathers mosse I must say unto thee as Peter said to Simon Magus Act. 8. thou hast neither part nor portion in this priviledge thou art not a man in Christ and consequently canst claime no interest in the Grace and favour of God 2. Saint Paul was Homo in Cruce a man upon the crosse Gal. 2. 20. I am crucified with Christ and elsewhere Colos. 2. 24. I fill up that which is behind of the sufferings of Christ in my flesh whereupon saith a Father quid deest passioni Christi nisi ut nos similia patiamur what is or what can be wanting to the sufferings of Christ but that as he tooke up his Crosse so wee take up ours and follow him for Vae portantibus crucem non sequentibus Christum woe to them that are crucified and not with Christ that beare the Crosse and follow not Christ but turne from him cleane another way It is well knowne that afflictions goe under the name of crosses now a Crosse was a piece of wood for a malefactour to dye on there was no other use of a crosse but that Affliction therefore is called a crosse because it should have the nature and power of a Crosse that is it should be a meanes to crucifie and mortifie all carnall lusts and affections in us that the more we are afflicted the more wee should dye to sinne and the lesse life and power should our corruptions have in us Thus it was with Saint Paul is it so with thee dost thou wish and desire the death of thy sinnes dost thou make this use of thy afflictions even to die daily as the Apostles speakes dost thou every day drive one naile into the body of sinne I meane one sigh or groane to God against it dost thou labour to draw blood of thy soule as they drew blood of thy Saviour I meane the teares of true repentance and is it a death to thy heart that thou canst not dye unto sinne and live unto God as thou shouldest and oughtest to doe Then looke no further for Hearts-ease but to the words of my Text and assure thy selfe what ever Crosses be upon thee Gods Grace in Gods good time shall bee sufficient to case thee Contrarywise if thou beest one that dost {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as Saint Stephen speaketh Act. 7. 51. one that dost fall crosse and contrary to all but to thy sinnes and art indeede a very crosse to God himselfe and to his good Spirit by thy perverse ungodly courses I must say unto thee as the Prophet Esay saith Esay 3. 6. Woe bee unto thy soule for thou hast rewarded evill unto thy selfe thou forsakest thy owne mercy and deprivest thy selfe of the comfort of Gods Grace in the time of need 3. Saint Paul was Homo in negotiis a laborious man a man full of imployments 1 Cor. 15. 10. I laboured more then all my fellow-Apostles saith hee yet not I but the Grace of God which was with mee there 's an honest acknowledgement by whom hee profited And elsewhere he tells the Corinthians 2 Cor. 11. 9. When I was with you and wanted non obt●rpui I was not chargeable nor burthensome to any man The Learned observe that word hath his weight from Torpedo which signifieth a Crampfish a Fish they say that hath such a benumming quality that the cold of it will strike from the hook to the line from the line to the goad from the goad to the arme from the arme to the body of the fisher and so benum him take away al use and feeling of his limbes His meaning is that he was none of those idle drones that by their lazinesse and lewdnesse doe even chill and benumme and dead the charity of well-disposed people but as he laboured in preaching so hee wrought in his calling too and put himselfe to any paines rather then bee chargeable or burthensome to any friend or stranger and by this meanes it came to passe that what he wanted at home he found it abroad and Gods grace that was with him did ever supply him with that which was enough and sufficient for him Is it so with thee Thou that art a poore man art thou also an industrious and a painfull man that as Iacob got the blessing in the garment of Esau which signifieth Working so dost thou work and take paines to get the blessing of thy God dost thou labour with thy hands the thing that is good that thou mayest rather bee charitable then chargeable to him that needeth and will not thy honest labour maintaine thee nor suffice the charge that daily lyes upon thee Take comfort by this Text that now is taught thee and let not thy wants nor thy necessities dismay thee for there is a God above that hath sufficient for thee contrarily if thou beest one that live in pleasure as Saint Paul saith of that widdow {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} she was dead even while she lived one that spendest thy time in this world no otherwise then that Leviathan doth in the Sea onely by taking thy pastime therein or like those Lyllies that our Saviour speakes that neither labour nor spin but onely make a faire shew as long as it will hold Then as Iehu said to Ioram What Peace so may I say to thee What Grace or what favour canst thou looke for at the hands of God 4. Saint Paul was Homo in aerumnis a man full of cares I doe not meane of carnall or wordly cares or such as Martha's were for the things of this life for these he had cast upon God and had learned in whatsever estate he was therewith to bee content but I meane of spirituall divine religious cares for the health and welfare of the soule such as he commends in the Corinthians 2 Cor. 7. 11. as being the first fruits of Grace and godly sorrow {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman}