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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	believe_v	eternal_a	promise_n	4,611	5	7.0069	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89032	Good company being a collection of various, serious, pious meditations; Christian experiences, sayings, sentences; useful for instruction, consolation and confirmation. / By John Melvin, M.A. preacher of the word at Udimer in Sussex.	Melvin, John, M.A.	1659 (1659)	Wing M1656; Thomason E2124_1; ESTC R210169	44,421	139

natural corrupt weaknesse is a spreading deceit 4. If God at any time by any means restore thee to bodily health he can as easily give thee spiritual physick and soul-health 5. Praier hath the nature of violence in besieging God and taking him prisoner and bringing him to our conditions and God is as it were glad to be straitned by us in that siege 6. Little knows the Devil how much good he doth us when he tempts us exciting us to go to God who gives the issue with the temptation 7. God hath as many Antidotes as the Divel hath poisons as much mercy as the Divel hath malice 8. God is glorified in those victories which we by his grace gain over the Divel 9. An afflicted spirit and wounded soul dwell at the gates of atonement and restitution 10. A delicate and prosperous life is highly contrary to the hopes of a blessed eternity 11. He that considers himself well will find that for a secular joy and wantonnesse of spirit there are not left many void spaces of his life 12. Never any charitable man died an evil death for when other graces shall be useless this will bear up the soul upon the wings of Cherubims unto eternal bliss 13. Death to the Godly is the best of all evils and the end of all troubles 14. Impatience with a disease doth mischief by its self and mischief by the disease 15. They that bear the yoke with indignation and murmure gall their spirits fret the skin and hurt nothing but themselves 16. Faith is the life of just men the restitution of dead men the justification of sinners the support of the weak the confidence of the strong the magazine of promises and the title to eternal happiness 17. Faith will trust God's goodness and believe him to be a Father when the storm rises and the keels toss till the cordage crack 18. In all sufferings the cause makes it noble or ignoble tolerable or intollerable 19. Ignorant believers are soon swallowed up and rid over standing in an open field but understanding believers are in a fenced Town and have out-works reasons to lose before the Town be taken 20. No soul hath so prostituted her self but God can make her a Virgin again 21. In every sin we become prodigals but in the habit of sin we become bankrupts 22. He that knows not or takes no knowledge of an injury hath no injury 23. They that are too inquisitive what other men say of them disquiet themselvs 24. God warns before he wounds coming seldom to that dispatch a word and a blow but to a blow without a word to an execution without warning never 25. How many sell heaven and happiness for grains of dust 26. We are born in the last age of the world and died in the first 27. No meditation more serious then the worlds vanity no consideration more seasonable then the brevity of life and uncertainty of time no knowledge more wholesom then the diseases of the mind no contemplation more heavenly then humane misery 28. Poor Infants newly born not able to speak yet prophesie and the contents are lamentations mournings and woes by the tears they shed to fill up the vale of tears they enter 29. 'T is a sign of one nobly bred who first learns to hold his peace and afterwards to speak 30. Wise is that man that sets forth towards heaven in the morning of his daies giving God the first and best part of his time 31. Many old men at the instant of their dissolution desire the continuance of life their flesh being like the Peacocks which being sod grows raw again so after mortification by diseases and age desire to enthral themselves in earthly pleasures 32. No distinction in the grave all have hollow eier flat noses and ghastly looks and all is but dust 33. Seeing the fashion of the body is onely to be altered and the body to be worn again it 's fit we carefully lay it up in deaths Wardrobe the grave 34. On earth we labour for rest in heaven we rest from our labour 35. Water your plants at the departure of your dearest friends but drown them not for whatsoever we complain of here they are freed of in heaven 36. Never any died at London who never lived there so no man ever died in Christ who never lived in him 37. God seldom or never makes use of a godly man to be the scourge of his people 38. As water is powred into a garden-pot at one place but runneth out at an hundred holes so one coming into the world but an hundred waies of going out 39. It was a wise mans complaint that every man thought himself qualified either for Magistracy or Ministry two weighty burthens but now though in the declining age too many are undertakers of both 40. Ambition will to the pinacle of the temple for the glory of the world though it tumble for it to eternal ruine 41. Eminency is seldom sudden and permanent for they which in the dawn of fortune break so gloriously meet with a storm at noon or else a cloud at night 42. If destruction dog us wee are to thank our corrupt affections not blame our Maker he doth but leave us and they harden us 43. A busie prying into the Ark of Gods Predestination is accompanied with insolence and with danger to enquire the the cause of Gods will why this man is elected and not that is an act of lunacie not of judgment and the question is as guilty of reproof as the author 44. Make not curiosity the pick-lock of divine secrets knowing that such mysteries are doubly barred in the Coffers of the Almighty 45. Man's work is to contemplate God's works not to sift his mysteries to admire his goodness not blur his justice 46. In God's dark mysteries he that can see no reason if he see his own infirmity sees a sufficient reason why he should not see 47. Worm and no man take heed how thou struglest with thy Maker let it be thy happiness to be made his Steward though not his Secretary 48. O blessed Jesu though I have committed those transgressions for which thou maist condemne me yet thou hast not lost those compassions by which thou maist save me 49. Never a tear dropping in sincerity is unpitied or unpreserved 50. Outward percussion of the breast without inward remorse of conscience is rather an aggravation of sin then release 51. Study to be truly that what we seem to be and not seem what we are not 52. Meteors and false fires of Religion by-path the soul into blinded zeal leads others into steps of error 53. We may expect a blessing and an acceptance when God's ordinances are used in his order 54. God fills the hearts of his people according to the size and capacity of their vessels 55. As the Water which made the clean woman fruitful made the unclean swell and rot so as the receivers are so Sacraments prove either for good

one to Christ thy surety to pay thy great debts as thy small ones 52. Upon whom God bestows much cost there he looks for some answerable fruits 53. Sin may draw down judgment on a godly man but it shall not rest on him 54. The Church hath evermore received more hurt by discord then open enemies 55. In all diseases take away the proud and dead flesh and the plaister will fall off 56. When the fuel of sin is taken away Gods fiery wrath ceaseth 57. Saints by their great falls lose their communion but not their union with God 58. Of all burthens the absence of God's favour is most intollerable 59. Except healing and pardoning mercy go together man hath no comfort and God no glory 60. It 's very ill when small temptations makes us question the truth of God's promises 61. It 's sad to see carnal men contriving other waies of coming to Christ then ever he ordained or revealed 62. We must go to the promises for enlargement to duty our service requiring no portion but meer poverty and emptinesse 63. He that is content Christ should take all from him and dispose altogether of him hath a holy frame of heart 64. It 's Satan's policy either to let us see no sin or nothing but sin 65. Never any saved but rebells nor received mercy but such as opposed mercy 66. No Scripture saith the greatnesse of man's sin hinders the greatnesse of God's mercy 67. It 's not properly some men's unworthinesse but their pride which hinders them from Christ desiring something in themselves and not to have all from him 68. There 's no limitation of the riches of God's free grace but onely in the sin against the Holy Ghost 69. God shews mercy not because wee please him but because mercy pleaseth him 70. Whatsoever sight of sin unfits a man for mercy that sight is sinful 71. He that depends upon the power and mercy of God in his Ordinances shall find proportionable succour and success 72. When all means fail let the soul look up to God and out from it self being the fittest time to meet God and disappoint Satan 73. As a tree may want leaves and fruit not wanting sap or moisture so a Christian may want sense and feeling when there is faith 74. Sometimes some mens souls are like sullen children refusing their meat because they have not what they would 75. It 's a bad custome some men have never to be well but when judging rashly of their eternal being 76. Some men in hearing study how to find answers to put by their comforts 77. He ●hat listens to carnal pleas sins deeply and wounds his soul dangerously 78. He that enters the lists with Satan concerning God's Decrees will be carried into a wood where no body comes and no comfort to be had 79. We must not measure the riches of God's love nor sweetnesse of his grace by our own conceits 80. In self-judging observe the good as well as the bad and do not lie at the catch with thine own soul to take it at the worst 81. There 's a great deal of evil in that self-willed proud heart who hath all his objections answered yet renews them afresh 82. It 's a sin to reject mercy when God offers it as to kill a man which he hath forbidden 83. It 's better crosse our own humors then crosse God's Spirit 84. Stubborn peevish souls if saved in the end yet they are as it were in hell upon earth 85. Let souls hold to the Word in their dispute with Satan and he will be weary and go away 86. Look from one end of the heavens to the other and see if ever any man leaning upon God was disappointed 87. A soul leavs all other things for that which is chief with the soul 88. Faith gives a kind of being to whatsoever we do or speak 89. We must not think to bring any good to the promises but go to them for all good 90. We must not look for sanctification till we come to the Lord in vocation 91. O precious faith which brings all goodnesse with it grace here happinesse hereafter 92. There would be a sweet mutual peace in God's holy mountain if every one kept in his own limits knowing his duty 93. It 's an eminent and infallible mark of regeneration to have the violence and fierceness of our nature taken away 94. He that refuseth works of mercy to those in need is a murtherer 95. The doctrine of Christ is preached to many but the power thereof extended but to few 96. That man is holy and harmlesse who when opportunity of doing evill is offered can abstain 97. It 's a blessed thing when we are provok'd to forbear to revenge our selves 98. It 's a sign of a woful state when our tongues flie out in words and our hearts are set on mischief in small matters 99 No man can love a saint as a saint but a saint 100. Religion and Rebellion are inconsistent CENTURY 7. 1 NO man is turned unto God but he loves the society he formerly hated 2. It 's dangerous too much to admire fleshly excellency for those gifts of goodness which are in the same 3. As there is a cruell justice many times so there may be a cruel mercy 4. A heart set upon chafing brawling and raging is void of comfort 5. He may be assured of the remission of sin who is released from the bondage of sin 6. No sin so small but there 's an enmity against God in it and a dishonour to God 7. He that would make all comfort sure to himself let him make this sure first that his sins are forgiven him 8. The onely way to quiet our hearts is to hearken what God saies 9. All God's children must be plowed and have the clods of their corruption broken 10. Misery to the righteous is as a sojourner but it rests on the back of the wicked man 11. The means time and measure of afflictions is of God's own appointment 12. The wounds of a friend with holy reproof are precious but his wounds by sinful counsel are pernicious 13. There 's another life besides the natural life and the root of it is Christ our life 14. That nothing can suffice man coms from a divine instinct to make him seek out another life wherein consists happinesse 15. He that finds such an antipathy betwixt his spirit and sin as betwixt him and poison hath true grace in his heart 16. We must hate the conversations of such who hinder us in the growth of spiritual life 17. As without shedding of blood no forgivenesse of sin so without the Spirit sealing the promises to our souls we have no comfort 18. Christ is the fountain of spiritual life but faith is the pipe conveying it to us 19. Better for us to sleep in a house full of Adders and Serpents then in a state of sin 20. Happy practice when with the day we clear the sins of the day fitting