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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	earth_n	hand_n	lord_n	2,385	5	3.7503	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50106	The duty of submission to divine providence, in all its dispensations described and recommended from the example and argument of Job / by Samvel Masters.	Masters, Samuel, 1645 or 6-1693.	1689 (1689)	Wing M1070; ESTC R103	29,258	129

and Sickness which we make the instances of Adversity may become very good Things to us if they render our Minds more Sober Teachable and our Hearts more Meek and Submissive Wherefore the Stoicks who in Matters of Morality came nearest to the Institutions of our Holy Religion were Unanimous and confident in this Maxime that there was no Good or Evil but only Virtue and Vice. So Tacitus describes Helvidius Priscus Doctores sapientiae secutus est qui sola bona quae honesta mala tantum quae turpia potentiam nobilitatem caeteraque extra animum neque bonis neque malis annumerant Tacit. Hist lib. 4. That he followed those Masters of Wisdom who taught that those Things only were Good which were Honest and only those things Evil which were dishonest but Power Honour and other such things which affected the outward Man they accounted not to be either Good or Evil. And tho we Acknowledg that they went too far in this Assertion and that According to the style of the Holy Scriptures we are allow'd to call Temporal things Good or Evil and there be this plain Reason for it because these things respect the Interests of the Body which is a part of the Man tho the ignoblest part in the Composition yet after all we must assert that these outward things are not Good or Evil in an Absolute sense with respect to the whole Man or in the highest Sense with respect o his more valuable Interests and that in the strictest Sense ●hose things only deserve to be accounted good or evil to a Man which can affect the Spiritual interests of his Soul. These notions will be very useful to us for Proportioning our Estimations and Affections toward the things of this World for allowing them to be in some degree Good or Evil we shall be dispos'd to thank God for Temporal Blessings and to humble our Selves under his Temporal Corrections but knowing withal that there are other things which relate to our Spiritual Interests which do comparatively far exceed them in their Goodness or Evil we shall be induc'd to regard these with our highest Estimations and our strongest Affections 2. We are next to consider what that Hand is which dispenseth to us both our Good and Evil things the Text asserts it to be the Hand of God which can import nothing else but the Power and Instuence of his continual Providence whereby he sustains the Beings he hath given us and disposeth of all Events and Circumstances about us so that nothing doth or can befall us without or contrary to the Council of his Will. This hand of providence deals out to every Man that proportion of Good or Evil which the divine Wisdom thinks fit to assign to him so that nothing happens to us by a blind Fortune or an unaccountable Fate but by the Conduct of that good God who is the great Creator and Sovereign of the whole World. If therefore there be any Creatures about us which are Good or Hurtful to us it was the Hand that made them which put those Qualities into them If any Good accrue to us thrô our own Skill and Industry or by the Care and Favour of our Friends we must acknowledg that We or our Friends are but Instruments in the Hand of God for conveying such Blessings to us Or if we suffer thrô our own Default or the Injury of other Men we are to account of our selves or our Enemies as Rods in his Hand whereby he inflicts such Punishments upon us Thus the pious King of Israel acknowledged to God All that is in Heaven or in Earth is thine 1 Chron. 19.11 12. thine is the Kingdom O Lord and thou art exalted above all both Riches and Honour come of thee in thy Hand is Power and Might and in thine Hand it is to make great and to give Strength unto all So on the other Hand the Prophet demands Shall there be Evil in a City and the Lord hath not done it Amos 3.6 and with respect to both kind of Events God himself declares I form the Light Isa 45.7 and create Darknesss I make Peace and create Evil I the Lord do all these things And the Hand of God doth thus concern it self not only in the greatest and most important Events but also in those which may seem most slight and inconsiderable to us for our Saviour assures us that God numbers our very Hairs Luke 12.6 7. and that a Sparrow cannot fall to the Ground without his Knowledg A right Apprehension and firm Perswasion of our entire Dependence on the Hand of Divine Providence in managing and ordering our Conditions in this World would have a very great influence on our Religious Devotion for who would not be careful to please him who hath the dispensing of all Blessings and Curses to whom shall we direct our Prayers for what we want or our Thanksgivings for what we enjoy but to that bountiful Hand which is the Fountain of all our Blessings Or what can make us more Meek and Patient under Correction than the sight of that Almighty Hand which holds the Rod and lays on the Stroke 3. We are in the last place to consider how we should receive both Good and Evil from the Hand of God. Job hath used but one word with respect to both sort of Events and that word Debemus accipere sive excipere cum affectu lubentiâ reverentia acquiescentia id enim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signisicat nempe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 acipere quod ad Donum sua natura refertur Cocceius in locum doth properly denote such an Acceptance as that wherewith we entertain a Gift from a Superior with a chearful Reverence and a graceful acquiescence Now tho the design of the Argument would require only to explain how we ought to receive our evil Things from God's correcting Hand yet inasmuch as we are equally concern'd in the Duty of receiving Good as of receiving Evil I think it will be worth our while to Study out the right Art of doing both in order to which I shall take both parts of this Duty under a distinct Consideration 1. The right manner in which we should receive our good Things from the Hand of God doth consist chiefly in this threefold disposition of Mind viz. that we receive God's blessings with a contented thankful and an honest Mind 1. We should receive our good Things from God with a contented Mind i.e. with a Mind that can contain it self within those Injoyments which God thinks fit to allow so as to be well pleas'd with his Blessings of whatever Kind in whatever Degree by whatever Means or at whatever Time confer'd upon us not to despise our Blessings or to be dispise our Blessings or to be dissatisfied with them because they are not of such a sort or not so much or do not come in such a way or so soon as we would have them and that