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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	deep_a	plague_n	skull_n	56	3	16.7257	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88417	England faithfully watcht with, in her wounds: or, Christ as a father sitting up with his children in their swooning state: which is the summe of severall lecvtures painfully preached upon Colossians 1. / By Nicho. Lockyer, M.A. Published according to order.	Lockyer, Nicholas, 1611-1685.	1646 (1646)	Wing L2794; Thomason E321_1; ESTC R200573	432,053	511

their fleshly minde Satan makes the spirit fleshly first and then makes all fleshly If the eye be dark if the heart be carnnall all is so 'T is not enough to Satan to live he is a Prince seeks a kingdome and so plants and seats himself as to be Lord over all where he sits down and this can be no where but in the mind Finally sin is so seated where it may best reigne and best ruine where it may be most lively and most deadly Inward diseases are most mortall There was a plague of the skin and a plague of the skull Levit. 13.31 If the plague go deeper then the skin then saith God it is a plague of the skull and the person must be shut out from all his friends I may tell you that there is a plague which goeth deeper then the skin yea and deeper then the skull a plague of the brain and of the minde and this is mortall it shuts out from heaven and all good Plagues that go deeper then the skull exclude from all They do erre in their hearts and they have not known my wayes their plague was deeper then the skull it reached their hearts and observe what followed they were shut out with a witnesse So I sware in my wrath they should not enter into my rest Hebr. 3.10 That which goes to the heart kills and cuts off for ever the Devill seated in the soul that soul is lost for ever such a one shall never have rest for God hath sworn it Vse You see where Sin and Satan are seated naturally Are they disseated by grace 'T is the greatest blessing in the world to get Sin and Satan throughly out of the minde I am affraid that few of you consider your own danger there is malignity in you you have taken poyson down in the first Adam hath the second given you any vomit and made you throw it up Physicians purge your bodies Doth Christ purge your mindes and your consciences from defilement Within lies defilement which if not purged out will spoile us for ever Naboths vineyard was gotten into Ahabs minde 't was neerer to him internally then externally though in the latter sense it lay very neer and it proved mortall to him he sickn'd upon it and died for ever Observe well with what vigour you sin if you would finde how sin is seated action that comes from the mind is intent Thoughts beat pangs are strong the party is with childe what it longs for it must have or it dies this is minding sin or sin gotten into the minde which was the case of Ahab before mentioned Sin gotten into the minde nothing can beat it out 'T is sad to consider how some men sleep how some men talk and walk in their sleep yea how they talk and walk when they are awake just as if they were asleep especially if one be talking to them of heavenly things 'T is dolefull to consider how some sit here for an hour thoughts quite gone to this thing and to that Ah wretches vanity is got into your minds it holds its seat there the plague of it is this God cannot enter the soul will be vexed to death 't will become a sot or a Bedlam Observe with what continuation you sin Action is lasting that comes from the minde the minde is an untired power that way it takes only evill and that continually Gen. 6.5 Such another power is Satan Satan roars like a Lion one would think it should tear his throat such violent action one would think should make him breast and lung-soare and tire him out yet it doth not he goes about gaping and roaring day and night and never gives off he is cordiall in what he doth he mindes evill and this is the ground why he is untired The minde is an untired power that way it takes in all creatures the spirit evill and it is so only and continually What the heart is taken up with 't is very intense at it so that one may in a manner say that its only about such a thing and then it holds its vigor thus is the soul towards one sin or other whilest corruption keeps it's seat in the mind There is a busie immortall substance in the midst of you 't were well if you did know about what Some minde earthly things saith the Apostle i. upon the matter only and continually this man is carnally minded and it will be his death if God be not gracious to him If sin hold its seat in the minde against all means there is no way but one with the man if sin die not in the soul the soul dies in it Ye shall die in your sins 'T is the greatest blessing in the world to get sin throughly out of the mind not only by way of negation but by way of actuall fruition not privatively only but positively too Sin throughly out of the minde and the soul is altogether in heaven That which cuts our wings when we would mount up where Christ is is that so many naughty things are in our mindes Contemplation pure and the man is an Angel taken up wholly with the admiring of God and the glory of another world Sin throughly out of the mind and all tears are wiped from the eyes already What makes mourning and sadnesse amongst Saints here but that sin keeps still in their minds the evill working of their mindes The minde pure and conscience is quiet peace is setled nothing can burthen when the minde is free Sin throughly out of the minde and it becomes presently the Presence-chamber of the great King in no creature is Christ so present as in a pure minde the full explanation of this is above us COLOSS. 1.21 Enemies with the minde c. ACcording to the former reading of these words we were led to consider the seat of sin and according to this reading we are led to consider the voluntarinesse of sin We are pressed to many externall services of men but we are by nature the Devils volunteers so and so bad and with our mindes desperately set against Christ and this with our minde Enemies with your minde The expression speaks intention Some things we do that which we do not mean the will is redeemed corruption not emptied this upon advantage surprizes and carries the soul captive to what it did never intend this is transgression of the rule but not sinning willingly i. with the minde a captive under another is no volunteer I finde a law in my members carrying me captive to the law of sin Powers within clash sometimes severall things in view which to be followed not agreed debates determined the way proposed actus voluntarius est actus pleno consensu pursued with full consent is an act with the minde And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel where he sojourned and come with all the desire of his minde be colarath naphsho in all the desire of his minde then he