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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	old_a	young_a	youth_n	137	3	8.0325	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91943	The fast friend: or A friend at mid-night. Set forth in an exposition on that parable Luke 11. 5.-11. Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at mid-night, &c. By Nehemiah Rogers, minister of the Gospel.	Rogers, Nehemiah, 1593-1660.	1658 (1658)	Wing R1822; Thomason E953_1; ESTC R203374	432,120	516

As a woman that hath felt the Babe in the Womb quick and stirring albeit it lye still for a while yet she knows that she is with child by that which she hath formerly felt Fourthly it sweetens Gods Promises and mercies to us As he that hath tasted honey knows the sweetness of it better then any man can do by the reading of it So he that tastes how good God is in an experimental way finds more sweetness therein then in all that he hears or reades thereof The best Minister on Earth cannot teach so much of God's love and favour as Experience doth There is far more sweetness to be found in the performance of Promises then can be conceived in holding the Promises themselves As one that hath possession of an inheritance finds more sweetness therein then he could find whilst it was his only in reversion and expectation And he that sees the beauty of the Sun takes farr more delight in it then a blind man from his birth that heares the Theory of the Sun read unto him The meditation of Divines upon the joyes of Heaven are able to ravish the soul of the reader with much delight yet they are nothing to that which St. Paul found in his rapture into the third Heaven 1 Cor. 12.2 2 Cor. 12.2 Fifthly and lastly It is experience and observation that doth make a man to be a wise Christian what makes old men to be wiser then the yonger sort Job 12.12 as Elihu speaks but experience which youth wants breathed Deer are not so quickly caught nor experienced Christians so soon entangled with the worl'd 's deceits and Sathans snares It is only this experimentall knowledge that makes a man expert in the trade and warfare of a Christian Take a man that hath only read much of Husbandry Physick Merchandize and Martiall affaires and gotten into his head the notion of all these yet one that hath not read half so much but hath been of long practise and good experience in these will go as farr beyond the other as he doth that hath read much wants experience beyond one that is a meere novice in them Obj. But how may we make the right use of experience and profit aright by it Resp First observe Gods dealing with you or others both in Temporall and Spirituall matters take notice and observe diligently all the speciall favours of God and experiments you receive of his Justice Mercy Providence Truth Goodnesse to your selves or others from time to time There lives not a man on earth but tastes of all these in his own person from day to day yet how few are there that observe them as they ought Call to mind and keep in mind the many favours God hath bestowed on thee from thy Childhood in providing meat for thy mouth cloath for thy back c. Have you forgotten saith Christ how I fed you with a little bread and a few fishes Luke 22.35 and when I sent you forth without mony in your purse meate in your scrip wanted you any thing they answered no Lord Oh forget not this his goodnesse be mindfull of it daily Call to mind the many dangers from which he hath delivered thee and let those preservations never be forgottten by thee Psal 116.8 Psal 116.8 Above all consider how God hath dealt with thee in soul-businesses observe how he deales with thee in the use of his Ordinances what power the word hath had in working upon thy soul to the convincing humbling and converting of thee observe what answer God hath made unto thy Prayers Psal 3 4. 5.3 Psal 3.4 Call to mind and keep a record of the passages of Gods prodence towards others whether of Justice or of mercy Consider the dayes of old what God hath done Psal 44.1 2.8 and of later times what mervailous things he hath done for his Church Psal 44.1 2.8 run through the acts and storyes of holy writ Conferr with experienced Christians Psal 66.16 they will tell thee what God hath done for their soul thus keep a record of Gods works in thy mind and memory Secondly then plead them unto God bring them out of thy treasury and make use of them as occasion requires Thus did David frequently Psal 4.1.4 27.9 10. 22.9 139.13 Psal 4.1.4 27.9 10. Psal 22.9.10 Psal 56.13 71.6.9.17 18. Psal 86.13.16 139.13 Gen. 32.10 11. Numb 14.19 Isay 51.9 10 11. So did Jacob Gen. 32.10 11. So Moses pleads for a pardon of course when God was enraged against Israel upon this ground becaus he had pardoned them many times before Numb 14.19 And see what answer God makes unto it verse 20. Loe I have pardoned them according to thy word And so the Church useth this as an argument that God would preserve them from their enemyes Isay 51.9 10 11. This is no good argument with man Sir you have helped me often therefore help me still but with God it is a prevayling argument we want not arguments of this kind there is none of us but can say to God now this houre Lord thou hast preserved me this day hitherto and brought me hither now Lord enable me to heare Lord thou dost that too therefore enable me to understand and thou dost that for me too now enable me to beleeve and seeing thou hast given me grace to beleeve give me strength that I may practise and if all that be granted desire grace to persevere unto the end Thus labour for the first Grace and never rest till thou feelest the addition of the second grace and to that a third The surest and safest way to lay hold on God is the consideration of what God hath done and the pleading of it from thy experience and thus you shall get much profit by it See then that you Register God's favours and pass not heedlesly by God's dealings with you or others for in so doing you fling that staff out of your hands which should stay you and support you Did we treasure up Experiments the former part of our life would come in to help the latter had we done this long ago we might have been wiser then our Teachers Quest. But is it always safe to ground our confidence on former experience As because God hath done this formerly he will do so still Resp No For it is not barely a Providence but a Promise joyned with a Providence and the distillation that comes from both these make up that Christian experience which we must trust unto unless the cause be good and warranted by the Word and have a Promise to attend it our Confidence may come bleeding home notwithstanding former good success had In the former the Children of Benjamin failed they had a bad cause in hand yet from the good success they had in two former Battails against Israel they grew confident that they should prevail a third time Judg. 20.32 In the latter Sampson failed when he encouraged