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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	adam_n	draw_v	foil_n	30	3	16.0409	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12181	Divine meditations and holy contemplations. By that reverende divine R. Sibbes D.D. Master of Catherine Hall in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Grayes Inne in London	Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.; Culverwell, Ezekiel, 1553 or 4-1631.	1638 (1638)	STC 22490; ESTC S112642	60,923	350

but as anointing makes the members nimble and strong and chearefull so where the Spirit of God is in any man it makes him nimble and strong and chearefull to good duties but when wee are drawne to them as a Beare to the stake for feare or an inbred naturall custome this is not from the Spirit for where the Spirit is there duties are performed without force feare or hopes A child needes no extrinsecall motion to make him please his father because its inbred and naturall to him As the weights of a Clocke makes all the wheelesto goe so artificiall Christians are moved with things without them for they want this inward principle to make them doe good things freely but where the Spirit of God is it workes a kind of naturall freedome As the woman in the Law when she was forced by any man if shee cried out shee was blamelesse so if wee unfainedly crie unto Christ and complaine of our corruptions that they are too strong for us this will witnesse to our hearts that wee are not Hypocrites Good duties come from unsound Christians as fire out of the flint but they floow from a childe of God as water out of a Spring yet because there is flesh in them as well as spirit therefore every dutie must be gotten out of the fire And yet there is a libertie because there is a principle in them that resists the flesh Gods children are hindred in good duties by an inevitable weakenesse in nature as after labour with drowsinesse therefore the Spirit may be willing when the flesh is weake If wee strive therefore against this deadnesse and dulnesse Christ is ready to make excuse for us if the heart be right as hee did for his Disciples A child of God is the greatest Freeman and the best Servant even as Christ was the best Servant yet none so free and the greater portion that any man hath of his Spirit the freer disposition hee hath to serve every one in love Sight is the most noblest sence its quicke it can see from earth to heaven in a moment its large it can see the Hemispheare of the heavens with one view its sure and certaine for in hearing wee may be deceived and lastly it s the most affecting Sence Even so is Faith the quickest the largest the most certaine and most affecting it s like an Eagle in the cloudes at one view it sees Christ in heaven and lookes downe into the world it sees backward and forwards it sees things past present and to come and therefore it is that Faith is expressed by beholding A Vaile or Covering had two uses amongst the Iewes one was Subjection and therefore the women were vailed another was Obscuritie and therefore was the Vaile on Moses face Both these are now taken away in Christ for wee serve God as sons and as a Spouse her husband we are still in subjection but not servile and now also with open face we behold the glory of the Lord wee behold the things themselves they are now cleerely laid open the Vaile is taken away Our happinesse consists in our subordination and conformitie to Christ and therefore let us labour to carry our selves as hee did to his Father to his friends to his enemies In the dayes of his flesh hee prayed whole nights to his Father How holy and heavenly minded was he that tooke occasion from Vines and Stones and Sheepe to be heavenly minded and when he rose from the dead his talke was onely of things concerning the Kingdome of God for his carriage to his friends Hee would not quench the smoaking flaxe nor breake the bruised reede hee did not cast Peter in the teeth with his Deniall Hee was of a winning and gaining disposition to all for his carriage to his enemies Hee did not call for fire from heaven to destroy them but shed many teares for them that shed his blood O Ierusalem c. and upon the Crosse Father forgive them for they know not what they doe So that if wee will be minded like unto Christ consider how hee carried himselfe to his Father to his Friends to his Enemies yea to the devill himselfe when hee comes to us in wife children friends c. we must doe as Christ did bid avoid Satan and when wee have to deale with those that have the spirit of the devill in them wee must not render reproach for reproach but answer them It is Written When wee finde any grace wrought in us wee should have a holy esteeme of our selves as when wee are tempted to sinne What I that am an heire of Heaven a King a Conqueror the Sonne of God a Freeman shall I staine my selfe God hath put a Crowne upon my soule and shall I cast my Crowne into the dirt No I will be more honorable these are no proud thoughts but the befitting our estate Those that are besotted with the false lustre of the world doe want spirituall light Christ himselfe when Hee was here upon the earth Hee lived a concealed life onely at certaine times some beames broke out So let it comfort us that our glory is hid in Christ now it is clouded with the malice of wicked men and with our owne infirmities but let us comfort our selves with this that we are glorious in the eyes of God and his Angells As men after a fit of sicknesse grow much so Gods children grow especially after their falls sometimes in humility sometimes in patience as wee may observe in Plants and Herbes they grow at the roote in Winter in the leafe in Summer and in the seede in Autumne so Christians appeare sometimes humble sometimes spirituall and joyfull and sometimes they grow in spirituall courage That which wee drew from the first Adam was the displeasing of God but we draw from the second Adam the favour of God from the first Adam wee drew corruption from the second Adam we drew Grace from the first Adam wee drew misery and death and all the miseries that follow death wee draw from the second Adam life and happinesse whatsoever wee had from the first Adam wee have it repaired more abundantly in the second Grace makes us glorious because it puts glory upon the soule it carries the soule above all earthly things it tramples the world under her feete it prevailes against corruptions that foyle ordinary men A man is not more above beasts than a Christian that hath grace is above other men It is an evidence that wee are gracious men if wee can looke upon the lives of others that are better than we and love and esteeme them glorious A man may see Grace in others with a malignant eye for naturall men are so vaine-glorious that when they see the lives of other men outshine theirs instead of imitation they darken what grace they will not imitate they will defame therefore those that can see grace in others honour it in them it is a signe they have grace themselves Men can indure