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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	care_n	child_n	paternal_a	50	3	16.5764	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26694	Remaines of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection of sundry directions, sermons, sacrament-speeches, and letters, not heretofore published ...; Selections. 1674	Alleine, Joseph, 1634-1668.; R. A. (Richard Alleine), 1611-1681.	1674 (1674)	Wing A976; ESTC R22421	168,509	338

in flesh which is the wor●…t of all Now is it not a wonder of all wonders that God should look upon such a one as man That God that humbles himself to behold the things that are done in heaven that this great God should look upon us or take any pleasure or delight in us O how should we admire this Grace Secondly If you consider what man is What a Vain what a Vile thing he is 1. What a vain thing he is His vanity appears 1. By Gods testimony of him 2. By mans own hand subscribing to it 1. By Gods testimony of him Isa 40. 15 16 17. All natious before him are as vanity They are as the drop of a 〈◊〉 and as the small dust of the ballance c. 2 You shall see mans own hand subscribing to it If you will but look into other places of Scripture you shall see man setting his own hand to it Psal. 39. 11. Surely every man is vanity mark every man Men of all Ranks and conditions Psal. 62. 9. Surely men of low degree are vanity and men of high degree are alye to be laid in the ballance they are altogether lighter than vanity The Psalmist doth not speak it rashly but as one that had tryal of what man was and yet he g●…ves this as the result of his experience and tryal that if man were put into one ballance and vanity in the other it would weigh●… him down So Psal. 39. 5. Verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity Not vain but vanity it self yea every yea altogether yea at his best state he is altogether vanity Job 11. 11. For he knoweth vain men That is the proper Epethite that belongs to man Man is a vain thing and that in two particulars He is Worthless and Useless 1. He is a worthless thing Iob 11. 12. For vain man would be wise In the original 't is Empty man Man is by Nature empty of every good thing So the Apostle in me that is in my slesh dwelleth no good thing There is nothing that is spiritually good left all is lost by mans Apostacy from God Yea man is not onely nothing worth but worse than nothing We use to say that a man that is over head and ears in debt is many thousands it may be worse than nothing so is man he is insinitely in his makers debt and cannot come out as we acknowledge in that petition forgive our debts where we acknowledge two things 1 That we are in debt to God 2 That we cannot pay him This is the condition of man he is infinitely in God's debt he cannot pay any thing he hath nothing to pay 2. He is a useless thing Able to doe the Lord no service Eph. 2. 1. Yea when he is recovered by grace 't is very poor service that he can doe for his maker And therefore our Saviour teacheth his disciples to say they are unprofitable servants when they have done their duty Yea we are so far from doing him any acceptable service that we cannot but sin against him and offend him Now put these things together and doth it not appear to be a wonder that God should make such account of man Is he a vain thing Worthless and Useless and yet will God set his heart upon him what a wonder is this 2. Man is a vile thing If he were onely empty of good this were something but now he is not onely empty of all that is good but he is full of all that is displeasing to God Job 15. ver 16. Man drinketh in iniquity like water This is the condition of man he drinketh in sin as the fish drinks in water Sin is his proper Element The filthy carcase lying before us is not more loathsome to us than we are to God in our sins Man before God in himself is like a carcase lying in its crawling worms Now is it not strange that so vain yea so vile a thing as man have any room in Gods heart How should we cry out with the Psamist here in the text Lord what is man c. Thirdly This will appear by considering What great account this great God hath of this poor thing man What great account God hath of him will appear 1 In what he hath laid out upon him 2 In what he hath laid up for him 3 By the near union he hath taken him into with himself 4. By his near relation to him 5 By his entertaining such familiar communion with man First If you consider what God hath laid out upon him The care and the cost 1. The care Ah brethren this is strange grace that the infinite God should lay out his care his thoughts upon such a thing as man is yet thus he doth 1 Pet. 5. 7. For he careth for you Now this will appear worthy of your admiration if you consider what this care is 'T is a Paternal care a Personal care a Perpetual care 1. It is a Paternal care A Fatherly care As a father pittieth his children so the Lord pittieth them that fear him So Mal. 3. 17. God calls them his Iewels Now if a mans house be on fire he will be sure to save his Jewels But if a mans children be in the house he will rather loose his Jewels than his children And if he saveth any Child then that that is the dutifull child So God will spare them as a son that serveth him Now this Paternal care is upon that account Natural Constant Vigorous 1 It is a natural care which is in fathers and this is in God This the Apostle commend ed Timothy for Phil. 2. 20. That he 〈◊〉 rally cared for their state That which is n●…tural is delightful so is Gods care of his people he takes pleasure in it in his projects and designs to bring his people to glory Yea God is so Ambitious as we may so speak that he is angry when we will not cast our cares upon him He would have us be carefull for nothing 2 Upon this account it is also constant and uninterupted That whis is Natural is constant As the fire doth naturally give heat therefore it alwaies doth so But that which is contrary to Nature is quickly gone As if you heat water over the fire the heat is quickly gone again because it is against nature Now Gods care is Natural and therefore Constant. 3 That which is Natural is vigorous That which is done against Nature is done slowly As when you cast a stone upward Now Gods care is a Natural care and therefore a vigorous care 2. It is a Personal care God will look to us himself Isa. 66. 2. It is true God doth put others to look to us but he will not trust us with these but he will look to us himself 3. It is a perpetual care As when Daniel was to be cast into the Lions Den Dan. 6. 14. The king set his heart upon Daniel to deliver him c. So Gods heart