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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	high_a	thought_n	way_n	6,933	5	7.2447	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01750	1. Crosses, 2. comforts, 3. counsels. Needfull to be considered, and carefully to be laid up in the hearts of the godly, in these boysterous broiles, and bloody times. / By M. Zacharie Boyd.	Boyd, Zacharie, 1585?-1653.	1643 (1643)	Wing B3905; ESTC R170737	26,502	85

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In your patience therefore possesse your souls MY wayes said God are not your wayes Isa 55.8 and my thoughts are not your thoughts For as the Heavens are higher then the earth 9. so are my wayes higher then your wayes and my thoughts then your thoughts The wayes of men for the most part have faire beginnings but end not so many like Joab first kisse and after kill first smile 2 Sam 20.9 but after smite the wayes of Satan with men at the beginning is to hide all dangers untill the last come when he would have allured Christ unto his service he spake to him of great gifts Mat. 4.8 even all the kingdomes of the world if he would but fall downe and worship him he spake not a word of hell unto him but only of preferments unto worldly honour The wayes of God are not such Hee at the first meeting speaketh to men of crosses but after that as in this text hee cherisheth them with comforts and directeth them with counsels According to this he speaketh heer to his disciples he had terrified them in the words preceeding with betraying putting to death and with the hatred of all men Now in these words he maketh his candie to shine upon their heads Iob. 29.3 hee manifesteth his love in a great measure of comfort But saith he there shall not a hair of your head perish In your patience possesse yee your soules here is a staffe of steele to leane on in great troubles I said David Psal 27.13 had fainted unlesse I had believed to see the goodnesse of the Lord c. The division of the Text. IN these Words there bee two parts In the first part there bee comforts But there shall not a hair of your head perish In the second part there be counsels In your patience possesse your soules I. PART Comforts IT was a very terrible speach which the Lord uttered unto his Disciples in the preceeding verses that they should be betrayed and that some of them should be put to death and that they should be hated of all men Behold heere how he giveth unto them a singular comforts Jer. 8.22 as Balme of Gilead for healing of their hearts that were wounded But said he there shall not a haire of your head perish Observe heere first what method the Lord keepeth in dealing with his servants The doctrine their worse things goe first and comforts come last their estate is like that wine in Cana John 2.10 the best came last Gods walking towards his owne is like his comming to Elijah at the cave of Horeb before God came in the calme a great and strong winde went before him which rent the mountaines and brake the rocks and after the winde came an earthquake 1 King 19.12 after the earthquake came a fire after these three were past the Lord came in a still small voice At the first Mary Christs mother got a hard answere from him John 2.4 woman what have I to doe with thee But a little after he did more then she required at the first he called the woman of Canaan a dog Mat. 15.27 but a little after he shew himself all love the childe of God beareth Gods yoke in his youth Lam. 3.27 his first dayes are hardest God casteth downe before he raiseth up 1 Sam. 1.7 many a sore heart had Hannah before her Samuel came Job suffered much before he could say God maketh my heart soft Job 23.16 * Note Zech. 1.19 The Prophet Zechariah saw first foure hornes scattering Judah but after anone came the comforts of the Carpenters that came to fray them The use * The use Note When troubles ly heavy upon us let us comfort our selves in this better is coming a foule Februar is a comfort to the labourer because he looketh for a dry March Sanctified afflictions in youth should be a comfort telling us that God is comming in the calme The way to the wealthy place is to passe through fire and water Psal 66.12 the Lord said to his two dissciples O fooles Luke 24.26 Behoved it not Christ to suffer all these things and so to enter into his glory Gaping of wounded men Isa 9.5 and tumbling of garments into blood goe before the songs of victory Christ himselfe was hanged on a crosse on earth before he was honoured on a throne in Heaven He was first cast down on his face upon the earth yea deseended into hell before hee was set at the right Hand of GOD in Heaven * Note The Gardener when hee setteth a tree at the first setting downe hee shaketh it to and fro and treadeth downe its roots with great force for to fasten it the more surely so doth GOD with his dearest servants that Hee may cause those that come of Jaakob to take root Jsa 27.6 It is for those that goe to hell to receive all their good things on earth Luk. 16.25 Job speaking of the Wicked said They have no changes wicked mens eyes stand out with fatnesse Psal 73.7 the portion of Kings meate is a defiling thing Dan. 1.8 beasts that goe in fattest pastures are neerest the slaughter The portion of Gods children is not heere their rest is in another place their last shall be best Psal 34.19 If many be the troubles of the righteous within a short space the Lord shall deliver him out of them all yea in the midst of the fierie tryall wee shall still bee in safetie though in some hours of temptation wee may bee as David like a bottell in the smoak Psal 119.83 Psal 23.4 Psal 119.109 Psal 68.1 Psal 37.37 or in deaths valley having our soule in our hand but O tarry a little and God will arise and help his servants The end of that man is peace troubled David said to God with great boldnesse Psal 73.24 Afterward thou shalt receive mee to glory let this be like a staffe of steele for our faith to lean upon in a stormie day Gods children must be bold Job 18.14 not subjects to the King of terrours Let us now come to the particular comfort mentioned in my text the Lord here saith that there shall not a haire of your head perish * Note The wicked are mighty and cruell they as on horse back ride over the heads of the godly Psal 66.12 yet are they not able to carry a hair with them but by Gods permission not a hair of your head said Christ shall perish Observe heere that the LORD hath a singular regard to all those that love him The doctrine they are to him as the apple of his eye Zech. 2.8 hee most carefully keepeth them * Note Hee is not like idoles that care not for their worshippers Hos 8.5 Thy Calfe O Samaria hath cast thee off but God will never cast off his servants Baal did not regard