Selected quad for the lemma: father_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
father_n	holy_a	son_n	teach_v	15,032	5	6.6919	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34724	A Narration of the grievous visitation and dreadfull desertion of Mr. Peacock, in his last sicknesse together with the sweet and gracious issue, in his comfortable restauration, to the joy of Gods salvation, before his most blessed end and heavenly death, Decemb. 4, 1611.	I. C.	1641 (1641)	Wing C65; ESTC R14609	24,472	140

would have believed us Yes Why not now when your judgement is blinded Oh the judgement of God! Call it as He calleth it Correction Oh my miserable heart Oh death A dead man cannot perceive himselfe dead and God quickneth the dead Oh if he would inlarge my soul This desire is good But it is without savour God in mercy will yeeld you a comfortable rellish Consider I pray you whereas you may object the Lord is strong and terrible Exod. 34.6 it followeth Mercifull withall But I am backward in seeking it He is gracious more forward than you can be backward But I have provoked him Hee is slow to anger But my sins are great But he is abundant in goodnesse and truth The Lord hath promised that He on his part will be our God and we on our part shall be his people For a while he commended him to God shortly after returning he prayed with him Cast your burthen upon the Lord. He hath rejected me Who made you his counsellor Deut. 29.29 Secre● things belong unto God but revealed things to us wil● you make Almanacks He doth manifest it Oh my abominable bringing up of youth he withall groaned most deeply If you had done as the justest man you should stand need of Christs merits I or another may bring arguments but it belongs unto God to fasten them upon the soule I say to you as Noah said to Japhet Gen. 9.2 God shall enlarge Japhet c. What if your sinnes were as crimson God can make them as snow Isai 1.18 That is true of those that are capable Behold we make your estate our owne we have part of your sorrow who hath thus disposed our soules thinke you God And doe you thinke that he which causeth us to love you doth not love you himselfe I feare I did too much glory in matters of private service to God The nearer we come to God the more we see our owne vilenesse This is the use I make of it Blessed be God who hath not put our estate in the devils hands but kept it in his owne The devill hath now removed you and you thinke that all is gone out but God knows what and who is his An artificer can distinguish drosse from mettall and cannot God his from yours Well with Job lay your hand on your mouth Job 40.4 and hold your peace and so good rest have you Only consider your comfort though it be but small whence it comes from Gods word and servants no otherwise When he returned againe to give and take farewell he began to complaine Oh great and grievous The Lord knoweth what power he hath given you A father will put a greater burden on a stronger son but see the difference First when an earthly father or Master setteth his servant or son on worke they must doe it with their own strength but the Lord setteth on worke giveth strength too Be not discouraged you are now in your calling Oh my soule is miserable What then a father loveth his son as well when hee is sleeping as waking Ioh. 14.26 The holy Ghost calls to remembrance what you have heretofore taught and now heard and although I shall bee absent in body yet shall I be present in minde Be not covetous to seeke abundance by and by If Jacob could say to Esau Gen. 33.10 I have seen thy face as if I had seen the face of God much more should you thinke so of the children of God Christ come unto you I thanke God he hath begun to ease me He will in his good time God grant Thus hee tooke his last farewell Although we depart from our friends in the way yet we shall meet in the end One told Master Dod that he had uttered such words Now the Lord hath made me a spectacle Whereby he counselled one that attended him to be sparing in admitting commers in or speakers lest his braine should bee too much heated A friend of his comming to him asked him Dare you any more repine against God Why should I so God bee blessed It is a signe of grace But I have no means You have had them offered But not given with effect They shall I doubt not God grant but I feele it not He received a letter from a friend very respectively and much respected of them both wherin these words were written I heard I know not how true that our deare Christian friend Master Peacock is in great danger which hath much grieved and afflicted my soule and wrung from me very bitter teares if his extremities be such his tentations sure be like to be very sore Tell him from mee as one who did ever with dearest loving affection know and converse with him that I can assure him in the word of life and truth from a most just and holy God whose Minister I am that he is undoubtedly one of his Saints designed for immortality and those endlesse joyes in another world When it was read to him at these words I can assure him he said Oh take heed take heed Do you thinke that he would or durst assure you unlesse hee knew upon what grounds I deceived my selfe now God hath revealed more Another time one requested him that hee would make his friends partakers of the least comfort that the Lord had bestowed upon him as they had been partakers of his griefe If I had it I would gladly communicate it Search and take notice of the least How should I have any sense God denyeth the meanes Doe you thinke sense is a fruit of faith Yes At this season * For it was in the deepe of Winter Decemb. 4. 1611. although though the husbandman hath sowne much yet he sees nothing above groūd Applications doe not prove hold your peace my soule is broken Then the promise is yours I would gladly aske you one thing Now you will aske twenty Doe you seeke for grace in your soule I cannot How then can you know whether it be there or not It is dead The Lord in whose hands the disposing thereof is disposeth it for your good and his glory I thanke you What do you think of that place Joh. 20.23 Whosesoever sins ye remit they are remitted unto them You know how far they may goe The bargaine howsoever is not now to be made betwixt God and you Shortly after came one whom he much esteemed Oh I love said he your company for the grace that is in you and much more to the same purpose Suddenly after he breakes out into this ejaculation Oh God reconcile me unto thee that I may taste one dram of grace by which my miserable soule may receive comfort One secretly willed that man to desire him to repeat it againe Doe not trouble me with repetitions There being a Sermon he bad them about him to goe thither After he called one and asked him Whether the preacher being acquainted with his course of preaching did use his