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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	good_a	lord_n	truth_n	4,866	5	5.5488	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19862	The wonderfull combate (for Gods glorie and mans saluation) betweene Christ and Satan Opened in seuen most excellent, learned and zealous sermons, vpon the temptations of Christ, in the wilderness, &c. Seene and allowed.	Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.	1592 (1592)	STC 629; ESTC S100202	68,496	222

Christ himselfe as we see here How carefull therefore had we need to be to finde out a fit answere for him For onely to assault vs doth hee reade the Scriptures yea but not to anie good end but euen thereby to deceaue the simplicitie of men as heere to make them put their soules in aduenture to the last hower He hath indeed a grace with some vaine youths of the Court vngodlye Atheists to set them a scoffing at the Scripture as Esay 28. 22. But with others that haue the Scriptures in more high reuerence he goeth another way to worke making it to them the sauour of death Roman chapt 7. vers 10. The words which hee vseth in the name of Samuel hee vseth to make Saule dispaire and here he vseth Dauids words to cause presumption and to make them our bane And not euerie Scripture but if there bee anie Scripture more full of heauenly comfort than another that of all other wil the diuell abuse as indeed the psalms are and of all the Psalmes this 91. especially and in that part if anie one sentence be sweeter than another that of all other will the diuell abuse Mark the second verse here cyted He shall giue his Angells charge ouer thee to keepe thee in all thy wayes These last wordes the diuell leaues out because they make not for his purpose They shall beare thee in their hands that thou dash not thy foote against a stone And we shall see nothing can be spoken more comfortablie as first in that it is said that the Angels haue charge ouer vs in all our wayes Exod. 23. 20. Behold I send my Angell before thee to guide thee in the way and to comfort and confirme vs as when Iacob was in feare of his brother Esau the Angell met him Gen. 32. 1. and to defend vs in all dangers and succour vs in all necessities spreading their winges ouer vs and pitching their tents about vs Psal. 34. 7. Secondly this charge not only concerneth our head and principal members but also our feet yea Gods prouidence reacheth euen to the haires of our head for they are numbred Mat. 10. 30. Thirdly this charge of theirs is not onely to admonish vs when daunger commeth but they are actually to help vs as it were putting their hands betweene the ground and vs. Mat. 13. 41. they shall take the rubs and offences out of our way Fourthly this doo they not of curtesie as being creatures giuen of nature to loue mankinde but by speciall mandate and charge they are bounde to it and haue a praecipe for it yea the very beasts stones shalbe in league with vs. Iob. 5. 23. This Psalme and these verses conteining such comfort hath the Diuell culled to perswade men that beeing such sweete Children of God they may venture whether and vpon what they will for the Angels attend them at an inch He bids them put the matter in aduenture and then but whistle for an Angell and they will come at first he carieth them vp to the top of the pinacle and shewes them theyr owne case in Annas and Herod and tells them God will require no more of them than he did at their hands all the way as they goe vp he singeth them a Psalm of the mercies of God he carrieth them vp with a song that Gods mercie is aboue all his workes Psalm 145. 9. And with Psalm 103. 8. how gracious and long-suffring God is who rewardeth vs not according to our deserts and Psalm 136. That his mercie endureth for euer God therfore beeing so full of mercie will take all things in good part But this mercye the diuell tells them of differeth from the mercie Dauid meant for the mercie Dauid speaketh of is coupled with iudgement Psal. 101. 1. I will sing mercie and iudgement to thee O Lord and Psal. 85. 10. Mercie truth are met together Iustice and peace haue kissed each other Thus I say they shall haue musique al the way if any at the height thinke it a great way downe no saith the diuell you need but a iumpe from your baptisme into heauen you shall need no staires at all The fift Sermon Matth. 4. Ver. 7. Iesus said vnto him It is written againe Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God COnsidering that Saint Iames saith chapt 4. 5. The Scripture speaketh nothing in vaine that as our Sauiour Christ saith Io. 10. 35. No scripture can be disappointed it may seeme strange that the diuell comming armed with The sword of the spirite for so is the word of God tearmed Ephes. 6. 17. Christ giues not place but opposeth himselfe to answere Wee see that a message comming in the name of the Lord this verie name abashed Nehemias Nehe. 6. 10. at the first hearing till hee perceaued it was contrarie to the law of God and so came not from him which here we see to bee the cause why Christ dooth not yeeld by and by vpon the hearing of the Woord but sets himselfe to make answere forsomuch as the word is not of force Quia dicitur onely but Quia creditur as Augustine noteth If there bee not the mixture of faith with it whereof Paule speaketh Hebr. 4. 2. it is nothing worth And therfore the badde spirite was nothing abashed or daunted at the hearing of the bare names of Iesus and Paule Act. 19. 15. but answered I know them but who are ye They did not beleeue and therefore could doo them no good but were wounded themselues glorious names would not serue the turne So was it here vsed without faith When the Scripture is heere vrged against one a man would thinke it were not to be answered by cyting an other place of Scripture but by some tradition of the Elders Mark 7. 1. or some glosse or other shift but wee see our Sauiour answereth here no other way but by Scripture Because the wolfe comes somtimes disguised in a sheeps skin it is no reason that therefore the verie sheepe should lay away their fleeces so here because the diuell vseth the word as the slaying letter 2. Corin. 3. 6. or as the sword to kill men with it is no reason why Christ may not therfore vse it in his owne defence Why then wil some say one of these two inconueniences will followe that hereby we shall thinke the Scripture is of the diuells side aswell as of Christs side so diuided as in like sort they make a diuision of Christ when one holdes with Paule another of Apollos 1. Cor. 1. 13. No it is not so Christ alleadgeth not this Scripture in that sort as one nayle to driue out another but by way of harmonie and exposition that the one may make plaine the meaning of the other For albeit the diuell sheweth himselfe to be the diuell in cyting that Text so as might best serue for his purpose in that whereas the Psalme whereout he taketh it hath it thus That he might keepe him in all