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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	according_a	lord_n	mercy_n	2,284	5	6.4641	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16529	A treatise ful of consolation for all that are afflicted in minde, or bodie, or otherwise Which armeth vs against impatiencie vnder any crosse. By Nicolas Bovvnde Doctor of Divinitie.	Bownd, Nicholas, d. 1613.	1608 (1608)	STC 3441; ESTC S114772	58,110	182

his heart was still more and more hardned neither would he let the children of Israel goe yet the Lord would turne all this to their good because he had purposed it And for the certentie and full assurance of this he leadeth them to the consideration of the purpose of God appearing in their calling which beeing very strange and many things to the outward appearance against it yet the Lord brake through them all and none of them could hinder it or stay it because God had purposed it And truly it is worthie our consideration to remember how many things haue beene in the way to hinder the calling of men vnto saluation yet none of them could doe it because God had purposed As who would euer haue thought Act. 9.1 that Paul sometimes called Saul breathing out threatnings and slaughter against the Disciples of the Lord and hauing now in this great furie and rage of his obtained letters of the high Priest to Damascus that if he found any that were of that way or profession either men or women he might bring them bound vnto Ierusalem should at this time be so suddenly conuerted that he should not onely become a Christian but an Apostle so that it should be truly said of him he which was a great persecutor in time past Gal. 1.22 now is a zealous preacher of the faith which before he destroied but he shewes the cause of it there himselfe vers 15. when he saith that God had separated him thereunto from his mothers wombe and so called him vnto it of his grace that is in his euerlasting counsell he first appointed him to be an Apostle and secondarily euen from his birth he did separate him to this office and thirdly in time of his meere grace and fauour he called him vnto it according to his purpose The like may be said of some other as of Manasseh king of Iudah 2. Chr. 33 2. who doing euill in the sight of the Lord like the abominations of the heathē setting vp altars for Baalim and worshipping all the hoast of heauen causing also his sonnes to passe through the fire in the valley of Ben-hinnom and giuing himself to witchcraft and to charming and vsing them that had familiar spirits there was no likelihoode that he should be conuerted vnto God there were so many things against it but the Lord that had purposed to shew him mercie did bring him vnto it against all these for he caused the King of Ashur to come against him who tooke him prisoner vers 11. and put him in fetters and bound him in chaines and caried him to Babel and when he was in tribulation he praied to the Lord his God humbled himselfe greatly before the God of his fathers and praied vnto him and God was intreated of him and heard his praier and then he knew that the Lord was God But to let these passe let euery man consider the manner of his own calling see how many things were within him and without him that might haue hindred him from comming to that measure of grace that he hath now receiued that so he may acknowledge vpon his owne experience that nothing is able to hinder the good purpose of God towardes those that loue him And then he shal finde that the great ignorance idolatrie or Atheisme in which all his kinred were left might haue staied this good worke but that God did draw him out of them as he did Abraham Rom. 12.1 commanding him to forsake his countrey and his kinred and his fathers house or that the manifold great corruptions that were rooted in vs and confirmed by custome like vnto the seauen deuills that were in Marie Magdalen might haue kept vs from the hope of it or the loose and dissolute life that we lead mispēding our time and the gifts of God our wit and strength in riotousnes and wantonnes as the prodigall childe did might haue kept Gods good hand from vs or that we did despise and tread vnder our feet the pretious pearle of Gods word when it was offered vnto vs like vnto the prophane beasts or swine that Christ speaketh of in the Gospel or that many things els might in the iudgement of all men haue beene as a barre to keepe vs from an effectuall calling but that the Lord in much mercy had purposed it and so according to the same purpose of his he bore all things downe before him and came thorough them vnto vs for our good And so we shall be the better perswaded that the Lord of the same vnchangeable goodnesse of his hauing purposed euen by the crosse and all manner of affliction to doe vs good how many things so euer may seeme to our selues or to others to be against it that he will verifie this promise vnto vs and we shall find it to be true as well as others that all things shall worke for the best to those that loue God euen those that are called of his purpose Rom. 8.29 In the next verse when he addeth For those whome he knew before he also predestinate to be like to the image of his sonne that he might be the first borne of many brethren he declareth an other most excellent ende wherefore the Lord laieth the crosse most of all vpon his children namely that thereby they might be like vnto Christ their eldest brother as the Lord hath ordained that all that are his should be some more some lesse And so by this meanes especially it worketh our good when it maketh vs the members conformable and like vnto Christ our head In which words he not onely saith that all afflictions doe befall vs by the very speciall prouidence and hand of God and not by fortune or chance but also he sheweth to what ende he sendeth them Luk. 24.26 namely that as Christ himself first suffered and then entred into glorie so all others going the same way that he did they might be like vnto him as the Lord hath appointed that they should be And therefore we neede not to feare that the crosse should hinder vs from our saluation no more then it did Christ from glory but rather that we ought in the midst of it to haue such hope that we shall be like vnto Christ in glorie because we are like vnto him in the crosse according as it is said in an other place If we suffer with him we shall also raigne with him Now concerning the former of these two points namely that no affliction commeth by casualtie or befalleth vs by happe hazard as we say neither that any thing is done by fortune or chance but by the very speciall appointment of God he not onely willingly suffering it and beholding it and vs in it with his own eies but laying it vpon vs himselfe euen with his owne hands and first of all ordaining it this I say not onely containeth in it most notable comfort and singular consolation considered alone