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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	saint_n	zeal_n	zion_n	19	3	8.7740	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65297	Gods anatomy upon mans heart. Or, A sermon preached by order of the Honorable House of Commons, at Margarets Westminster, Decemb. 27. Being a day of publick humiliation By Thomas Watson, pastor of Stephens Walbrooke, London.	Watson, Thomas, d. 1686.	1654 (1654)	Wing W1125A; ESTC R220974	18,171	56

body it opens a spiritual veine and lets out the bad blood The onely way to make God not see sin is to see it our selves but not with dry eyes point every sinne with a teare 2. It is a spurre to vertue art thou zealous for God dost thou exhaust thy self in the cause of religion God sees it thou shalt lose nothing for the present thou hast a Promise which is Gods bill of exchange * and when God comes to make up thy Accounts thou shalt be paid with overplus The more any man hath disbursed himself for God the greater sums of glory are still behinde 3. It is a whetstone to duty O thou Christian that art much in private that settest houres apart for God a signe he hath set thee apart thou sheddest many a tear in thy closet the world takes no notice but remember Gods eye is upon thee thy Prayers are registred thy teares are bottled up and he that sees in secret will reward thee openly * How should this add wings to Prayer and oyle to the flame of our devotion Let us take heed of slacking our pace in Religion let not our tears begin to freeze for this if it doth not lose yet it may lessen our Crown Here is a breast of consolation to the Saints of God in these sad times in the midst of all that hard measure they may meet with let the world frown let men persecute and calumniate and it may be think they do God service* here 's sap in the vine a strong cordial to take {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} All things are naked They do nothing but what our Father sees They make wounds and then poure in vineger God writes down their cruelty he sees what rods they use and how hard they strike he that hath an eye to see hath also an hand to punish I have seen I have seen the affliction of my people * not only with an eye of Providence but with an eye of pitty This was a great comfort to David in his affliction and was like a golden shield in the hand of his faith My groaning is not hid from thee * when I weep Christ weeps in my tears he bleeds in my wounds There are two bloods will cry the blood of souls when they have been starved or poisoned and the blood of Saints I do not mean Saints without Sanctity Titular Saints but such as have Christ engraven in their hearts and the Word copyed out into their lives 'T is dangerous medling with their blood * if we spill their blood it is no better then spilling Christs blood for they are members of his body In all their affliction he was afflicted * The People of God are precious to him There is blood-Royal running in their souls they are his Iewels Mal. 3. 17. And his heart is exceedingly taken with them it is wounded with love I was jealous for Sion with great jealousie * jealousie we know proceeds from love nay I was zealous for Sion zeal is the flame of love Oh then ye Saints of God be of good comfort whatever your measure is God sees it Exod. 14. 24. In the morning-watch the Lord looked through the Pillar of fire and of the cloud and troubled the Host of the Egyptians remember God hath an eye in the cloud Caution God being so infinite in wisdom If things go cross in Church or State take heed of charging God with folly do not censure but admire All things are naked There is not any thing that stirs in the world but God hath a designe in it for the good of his Church He carries on his designe by mens designes Al things are unvailed to the Eye of Providence God is never at a stand He knows when to deliver and how to deliver 1. When to deliver David saith My times are in thy hand * If our times were in our own hand we would have deliverance too soon if they were in our Enemies hand we should have deliverance too late But my times are in thy hand and Gods time is ever best Every thing is beautifull in its season when the mercy is ripe we shall have it It is true we are now inter malleum incudem Between the hammer and the anvill we may fear we shall see the death of Religion before the birth of Reformation But do not cast away your Anchor God sees when the mercy will be in season When his people are low enough and the enemy high enough then usually appears the Churches morning-star * let God alone to his time * 2. How to deliver All things are naked God will deliver sometimes in that way in which we think he will destroy It might seem strange when he would deliver Israel he stirr'd up the hearts of the Egyptians to hate them * Could this be a likely way yet by this means was deliverance usher'd in So now the hearts of many are stirred up to hate the People of God to hate the Covenant but God can make use of their power and rage as once he did of the High-Priests malice and Iudas treason for our greater advantage there was no way for Ionah to be saved but to be swallowed up he sailes safe to land in the Whales belly God brings his people many times to shore upon the broken Peeces of the ship God can make the enemies do his work he doth sometimes play his own game by their hand Well then may we cry out with the Apostle * {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! God will not make us of his privy counsel his path is in the deep if we cannot see a reason of his Proceedings let us censure our own shallownesse not his depth It is a word of counsel it shews us whither to have recourse in all our straits and doubts go to God all things are naked in his eye he is the Oracle of wisdom If any man lack wisdom let him ask it of God * We are here in tenebris in the dark pray with David Lord light my candle * shed some beames of divine knowledge into my soul Beg of God that as things are naked in his eyes so they may be naked in our eyes that we may see the sinfulness of sin and the beauty of holiness The times are evil let us pray to God that he would be our Pilot that he would teach us to walk jealously towards our selves piously towards him prudently towards others that he would give us the graces of our relation which do bespangle and grace our profession that so guiding us by his Counsels * we may at last be received to Glory FINIS Beza Gagneius Oecumenius Calvin 1 Cor. 4. 5 Austin Ps. 115. 5 * Hierome Calvin Doct. Ps. 44. 21. Psal. 139. 2 1. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} * Gen. 6 5. * 2 Sam. 1. 23. 2. 1. 2. * Ps. 50. 2● Psal. 39. 12 * Ps. 77. 13 * Gen. 11. 7 8. * Josh. 7. 21 What the knowledg of God is 1. 2. Quest Answ. 1. Reas. Ps. 94 9. * Aug. in Psal. 126. Reas. 2. Jer. 23. 24. Aquin. Object 1. Answ. Object 2. Answ. * Prov. 20. 27. Use 1. 1. Branch * 2 Pet. 3. 11 * Hos. 7. 11 * Psal. 12. 2 {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} * 1 Sam. 10 22 2 King 10. 15. * Ezek. 1. 16. * Seneca 2 Branch of Infor. 1. * Jam. 1. 18 * Rev. 9. 2. * Luk. 18. 8 2. * Ezek. 17. 16 17 18. * Hos. 6. 7. * {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} * Lev. 26. 25. * Jer. 3. 2. * Hos. 2. 2. * Poeni foedifragi semper habiti Plautus * Salust 3. * 1 King 19. 11. 12. * G l. 4. 16 * 2 Chron. 16. 9. * Ver. 10. * Mat. 23. 4. Rom. 13. 1. Use 2. 1. Branch of reproof D. Ames de Consc. 1. * Psal. 32. 1 2. 2. Branch of reproof * {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Gen. 19. 1 * Plut. 1. Character * Mat. 27. 6 Rom. 2. 22. * Deut. 26 12 13 14. 2 Character * 1 King 10. 16. * Chrysoft 1. 2. 3. * Hypocritae tegunt malum bone * Lachrymae 〈◊〉 d●ctae Bernard Is. 29 14 Use 3. Exhort * Sic vivendum est tanquam in conspectu sic cogitandum tanquam aliquis in itimum pectus 〈◊〉 spic●re possit quid prodest ab homine quidvis ab scondi cùm nihil Deo clusum est interest animis nostris cogitationibus mediis intervenit Sen. 1. * Plurimi radunt peccata non eradicant Bernard * Mat. 19. 29 * Mat. 6. 6 Use 4. Iohn 16. 2 * Act. 73 4. * Psal. 38. 6 * Rev. 6. 9 * Isa. 63. 9. * Zach. 8. 2 Use 5. * Ps. 31. 15. * Cum duplicantur lateres venit Moses * Isa. 60. 22 * Psal. 105. 25 * Rom. 11 33 Use 6. ult. * Jam. 15. * Ps 18. 28 * Ps. 73. 24.