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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	accusation_n	high_a	transcend_v	32	3	15.9484	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86422	Practicall divinity: or a helpe through the blessing of God to lead men more to look within themselves, and to unite experienced Christians in the bond and fellowship of the Spirit. / Delivered in sundry exercises lately spoken by Cap. Paul Hobson, upon these texts. Published by an hearty wellwiller to peace and unity among the dissenting godly, and to the promotion of spirituall and experimentall truths, without affectation of opinions, or prejudice against persons. Tending as to the edification of the reader chiefly : so also, somewhat in vindication of the authour.	Hobson, Paul.	1646 (1646)	Wing H2275; Thomason E1167_3; ESTC R208788	40,074	124

cannot forsake him for all this And old Ely when there was such bitter things spoken against him by God saith he it is the Lord let him do with me what seemeth him good I Sam. 3.18 And that is the highest Act that is expressed of him And the reason is because that man that lives in God understands God in himselfe what his heart is If we looke on God as he acts out of himselfe and not as he acts in himselfe there is nothing but changes to day sicke tomorrow well to day in prison tomorrow not this yeare rich next yeare poore Now if we shall judge that God changes as our condition changes I●●● 17. what comfort But God in his nature is one the same no changes nor shadow of turning alwaies alike Againe a saint in God lives in the will of God Gods will is all in all to him And this is that which brings him up to that raisednesse and height of spirit he sees God in what ever he doth to act his owne blessed will on him and so he see but that accomplished therein he rests and rejoyces because he lives above aloft he lives in the Center in the Fountaine of loves If we live in the streames if we live below among the Creatures there is nothing but trouble and rumbling this way and that way ebbing and flowing but the Center the Fountain the upper Regions are quiet still composed sattisfied Againe because if God do take all from the Creature and take him up to live in himselfe he hath not lost all but found all a thousand fold Yet in the most roughest acting out of God he finds loves in God else his spirit would be downe to day and up to morrow according to those actings but this life with God in the bosome and bowells of transcendent loves there all disputs are at an ends he lives in providence above providence he lives above reasons Region and Element and therefore when Reason would make disputes and arguments from Gods externall dealings as if God were as rough as his providence this life silences all and layes the soule to rest in the sweet embraces of the loves of an unchaingable Father though he kill me yet will I trust in him And againe the Saints have such experience of the loves of God flowing warme from the heart of God that they cannot be beaten out of good thoughts of God as we say by a freind whom we know and love have intimate acquaintance with if this man or that should bring tales of evill intended by him towards you you would say I wil not beleeve him for I know him so well that the thing is impossible to be true So doe the Saints find God such a true freind such an intimate close freind that hath so much exprest his love to them that though sin the Law Hell Death the Divell the World Providence or whoever should bring them ill tydings from their father ob say they it cannot be I know him so well I have such sweet such frequent enjoyments with him that I cannot thinke a hard thought of him this drawes up the Soule to a high yea a higher and higher enjoyment of God This enjoyment transcends yea sleights all other enjoyments below it it transcends Nature it transcends Reason it transcends externall providence and all the roughest actings thereof Let never so high accusations be layd on the Saints they value them not their life with God makes up all As some have laid divers accusations on me and on the Saints some are Truths and we are ready to maintaine them we hope to the death others are false and charging upon us that we never said nor held and all to make us odious to the World As for instance that I should say there was no other use of Christ but to declare love to the World and for this end he came and for no other Who ever holds it for my part I count it an errour my Judgment is otherwise I hold no such thing I disclaime it Christ came to sattisfie and answer a law as well as to make out love and though these and the like and such other things may be fathered upon us partly through darkenes not seeing and enjoying Truth partly through malice to lay to our charge the things we never knew nor held yet we hope God will vindicate his Truth and vindicate his saints and Truth shall burne and flame out so gloriously that he will make all opposers and slanderers ashamed therefore let not the saints much trouble themselves at these things let the Creature be still and silent and let God alone he is but working a way for his owne praise in confounding his enemies and vindicating the simplicity of the saints who live with him and in him to their everlasting comfort and Joy BEloved freinds that I intend to speake unto you at this present shall be from the word of God in the 6 of Cant. 9 verse My Dove my undefiled is but one she is the only one of her mother she is the choice one of her that bare her That which I shall speake to you at this time shal be only from the first words My Dove my undefiled is but one There is not much dependance of these words on the foregoing words but so much dependance there is that as you may see in the former words that the Daughters of Jerusalem enquire of the Spouse of Christ where her beloved is she had so set him out and expressed her ardent affection to him that they begin to wonder desire to see what a one her beloved was because she was so ravished with him say they in the first verse whether is thy beloved gone oh thou fairest among women whether is thy beloved turned aside that we may seek him with thee she answers them in the next verses My beloved is gon downe into his Garden to the beds of spices to feed in the Gardens and gather Lillyes And I am my beloveds and my beloved is mine he feedeth among the Lillies And then Christ in the next words begins to discribe and set out what his Spouse is and anotomizes her in all her portracture and beauties not only how beutifull she is to him and amiable through his beuty put upon her but also how fruitfull his Spouse is in the enjoying her beloved that ther 's not one barren among them so amiable every way that Christ was ravished with her beuty therefore saith he turne away thine eyes from me for they have overcome me But then this discription might breed this objection are all so beutifull and comly are all so fruitfull that there it not on barren amongst them they are severall and of severall tempers and judgements nether do they all appeare so fruitfull as he describes he answers all in this ninth verse My Dove my undefiled is but one All Saints in Christ are but one men of the world and poore Saints weak