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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	aaron_n	duty_n	moses_n	19	3	8.1014	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66967	Motives to holy living, or, Heads for meditation divided into consideratins, counsels, duties : together with some forms of devotion in litanies, collects, doxologies, &c.	R. H., 1609-1678.	1688 (1688)	Wing W3449; ESTC R10046	220,774	378

unto God for any mercies received c. God being pleased with nothing that we can render unto him but only in his Son so often iterated Matt. 3.17 17.5 12.18 and in what is offered unto him by and through and upon the Sacrifice of the Lamb of God through whom be all praise and thanks to God for ever Heb. 13.12.15 Levit. 3.5 Col. 3.17 §. 156. The danger and loss inneglecting the use of these Holy Mysteries Digr I. Of the great danger and loss of infinite benefits by neglecting the use of these holy Mysteries Numb 9.13 Act. 20.27 Which being the Holy Sacrament and instrument of the most intimate union between Christ and the Soul many times the devout Soul is replenished with an extraordinary sence and ravishing delight of this union at the time of the using them Digr Recommendation of frequentation 2. Using the help and seeking the benefit of this holy mystery upon any special occasion and with relation to some particular end As for remission of your sin for obtaining a remedy of some infirmity deliverance out of some affliction for receiving some grace and benefit for a thanksgiving for some benefit received for the helping your neighbour in some necessity for the increasing the Spirit and the love of God in you 1. Cor. 12 13. 3. Seting apart an hour or some good space of time immediately after your Communion to abide with and entertain our Lord in Prayer now entred in Person into your house and present to the Soul in so extraordinary a manner Using the acts of Mary Magdalen in lamenting your self to him and kissing his feet and attentively hearkning what then he shall say to you For this seems the least duty and observance you can pay to so divine a Guest to stay with him in your devotions and shut out all other thoughts and business for so small a season 4. Often examining your self concerning the fruits which only can be wanting by your default of your having so many times received it §. 157. The danger of using them unworthily Digr 2. Of the great danger of using them without due preparation 2. Chron. 30.20 Exod. 12.3.6 Jo. 15.5 1. Cor. 11.28 29. 1. Sam. 11.4 Matt. 22.12 Digr That the conditions and preparations required to make us partakers of the benefit of Christ's death and passion are also required to make us partakers of the benefit of this Sacrament Thus much of our diligent practising all Christian Duties whether towards God our Neighbor or our Selves Or doing good and what Actions are required of us §. 158. Of the Four Sufferings Now in the last place concerning our passive duty and suffering Evils 1. Exercising Christian Patience 1. Sanctifying with our willingness and concurrence with God's pleasure all those sufferings and judgments for our sins which we undergo upon necessity Levit. 26.41 As being all sent by God much greater than these deserved by us effective instruments and inducements to God's pardoning our former offences and averting his eternal wrath from us All redounding if it be not our fault to our further benefit and to God's greater Glory in and by us Heb. 12.11 Lastly in all ability being given us to endure according to the intenseness of the sufferings Dum auget Dolorem auget patientiam Offering them up unto God to be accepted through the more perfect sufferings of Christ This was Job's patience so much celebrated 2. Since God useth out of Evil to bring some greater good especially for those who fear and serve him when any cross and afflictive Accident happens to you considering presently what greater good may possibly come to you from it which thing will set your heart much at rest and facilitate your due correspondence with the Divine good pleasure As also the imagining that God sends every cross whoever is the instrument thereof on purpose to try your patience and behaviour in receiving it will suddenly change your anger against such instrument into thanksgiving and the practice of this virtue For indeed Crosses are great favours if well-husbanded 3. Not complaining nor bemoaning your self of them This being a lesser degree of impatience 4. Patiently undergoing any natural infirmities or defects and the shame that accompanies them according to which being not in our power God and his Angels whose praise only we ought to look after make no estimate of us but according to our virtues which by their growing out of infirmity become so much more praise-worthy Meanwhile our defects being the best preservers of humility 5. Patiently undergoing and not disquieting your self for any shame coming from some otherwise harmless deficiencies or also avoidable faults As some ignorances fooleries and incivilities undiscreet words or actions Separating as it were the shame from the defect and whilst you implore God's pardon and endeavour to redress and to prevent for the future the one accepting and thanking God and pardoning your self for the other Contrary to the custome of men who are angry at themselves only in respect of the shame not the fault or no less for the shame where they are not all faulty But know that all such anger and impatience proceeds from some degree of pride Digr Of all mens some or other infirmities which may make us more contented with our own 6. Chiefly arming your self with patience against such Crosses which no honor accompanies but shame and infamy and that with good men for honorable calamity any one can endure as disgraces contempts c either for your natural infirmities or also misdeserts Whoever hath perfectly quitted the solicitude of worldly reputation hath took away the sting of the most of mishaps 7. Not too solicitously avoiding and striving to remove afflictions incumbent both for the former considerations Numb 12.14 and also because that many times by humane wisdome avoiding one tolerable by God's judgment we fall into another worse 8. Advices concerning Sickness the most common and ordinarily the greatest and the last of all evils that happen to men §. 159. 1. For your behaviour before sickness in preparing for it Often premeditating of it which makes all Evils easier and not surprizing Often making your will and disposing of your temporals in which special care to be taken of dedicating some particular proportion thereof for the poor and setting in order your affairs in your intention at least as if you were then warned like Aaron or Moses or Hezekiah to leave the world And doing these not only That being in perfect health and use of faculties you may better perform this great duty of your stewardship in disposing more wisely of your Master's Goods for which disposal you must be called to account or That you may be eased of such a trouble in your sickness when most unfit for it and then may be wholly vacant for spiritual affairs But also undertaking it as an exercise most beneficial for quenching worldly cares Quantulumcunque ut relicturus satis habet minding you of your being a stranger here as