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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	new_a	old_a	testament_n	3,965	5	8.0680	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16539	The last battell of the soule in death diuided into eight cof̃erences ... : whereby are shown the diuerse skirmishes that are between the soule of man on his death-bedde, and the enemies of our saluation : carefullie digested for the comfort of the sicke / by Mr. Zachary Boyd, preacher of Gods word at Glasgow.	Boyd, Zacharie, 1585?-1653.	1629 (1629)	STC 3447; ESTC S881	434,219	1,336

hold and heaue vp like a buckler betweene Gods wrath and our sinfull Soules In what case finde yee your Conscience to bee for the present The sicke Man One deepe calleth to another deepe at the noyse of Gods water Spouts My sorrow is like the Sea it ebbeth and it floweth As I haue swimmed thorow one deepe temptation I fall into another that is deeper My braine is turned with a whirling giddinesse The Pastour There is no such deepnesse either in our sinnes or in our troubles but the mercie of God in Christ shall bee able to ouer-reach it by innumerable fathomes S. Paul said that hee was assured that neither high nor depth shall bee able to separate vs from the loue of God Though affliction raine downe vpon vs like water falling from spouts they may well wash vs but shall not bee able to drowne vs A godlie man should not be afraide for a spo●… full of bitter waters Though th●… waters of the sea roare be troubled Though the Mountaines shake with the swelling thereof yea though the surges thereof should boast the cloudes heere is the faithfull mans comfort There is a riuer the streames whereof shall make glad the Citie of God Thogh the Mediterranean Sea yea the great Ocean with its surges should boast Gods Ierusalem a little riuer or brooke a Kidron of Gods grace sending out streames of comfortes like the waters of Siloe shall make glad the Citie of God The sicke Man But how shall I passe thórow to Canaan behold before mee what floodes of iniquities ouerflowing their bankes as in the swelling of Iordan Such fearefull floodes ru●… betweene me and Heauen 〈◊〉 place appointed for my 〈◊〉 The ●…our 〈◊〉 ●…oake with the garment 〈◊〉 Christes righteousnesse will diuide the floodes of Belial as Elisha diuided the Iordan by striking it with the mantle of Elijah that hee might safelie passe thorow Christes merits are like the Arke which made the Iordan to goe backe for to make a way for Israel vnto Canaan Our heartes like the Priestes must stand hard by the side of this Arke till all our affections the Lords Armies be come thorow the swelling Iordan of grieuous afflictions The sicke Man While I beholde my selfe I abhorre my selfe The eye of my God seeth mee and what am I but like a bemired Dogge trodde by Sathan into the puddle of perdition Alas when good motions came into ●…e heart I crosed them with my lustes Now cursed be my lusts I am so filth●… ●…hat I abhorre my selfe my sinnes are so 〈◊〉 that nothing is able to make them 〈◊〉 The Pastour Know yee Sir what God said of olde in Isaiah Come now and let vs reason together though your sins be as scarlet they shall bee as white as snow though they be red l●…k crimsin they shall bee as vvoole If yee could but reason a little with God ye should find this to be true There is no sinne which Christes blood is not able to purge What euer your sinne be if yee can repent he can forgiue Christ can doe anie thing butthis hee cannot saue him that will not repent Seeing yee know him to bee infinite in mercie haue all your recourse to him Take once a proofe of his mercie Humble your selfe at his feete and see whether or not there bee mercie with him that hee may bee feared The seruants of Benhadad knowing that the Kings of Israel were mercifull Kings Put sack-clot●… vpon their loynes ropes vpon their heads for to seeke mans mercie which also they found Shall man finde mer●… into the narrow bowels of a man and 〈◊〉 hee bound the holie One of Israel Christ who is not onelie true but Trueth it selfe hath said Whatsoeuer yee shall aske in my Name that vvill I doe Hee who is true may lye but Trueth can not lye The sicke Man That is trueth While I consider your comfortes for the distressed Soule I thinke that all your purpose pointeth chieflie at Christ as though hee alone were the ground of Grace Let mee heare I pray you more at large what Christ is vnto vs. The Pastour Hee is Emmanuell God with vs God with man God in Man God-Man In Him God and Man are but one Person Our life is hid with Christ in God Because wee did eate of the forbidden Fruite Hee was hanged vpon a cursed tree Hee hath borne vs such a loue as is vnspeakeable What tongue 〈◊〉 forme wordes sufficie●…●…or to expresse the least part of the same By the conduite pype of his Humanitie Grace for Grace hath beene conueighed to our graceles Soules who can expresse his Loue hee loueth vs to the end and of his Loue there is none end This I will say That hee hath borne to man such a loue that hath made all mankind like a Banquerupt so farre vnable to pay the principle that though man should loue his Sauiour withall his might and his minde yet should hee not pay so much as the interest of so great a loue No though hee should giue his bodie to bee brunt for the honour of his Name No though he should for his sak haue his name if it were possible scraiped out of the Booke of Life Though all our Soules should suffer for his honour the euerlasting paines of the damned all these paines were not to bee counted the interest of his paines for vs It is more that a Prince get a deadlie hurt in a Battell thā that a thousand common Souldiers were slaine It is more that the Prince of Heauen suffered vpon the crosse but an houre than that a thousand worlds had beene cast into a thousand hells for to bee tormented for euer There is no proportion in suffering betweene the creature him who was both God and Man into one person O then what can be the interest of that principall loue that moued God to die for man Let this bee like a Bell ringing for to waken your drowsie Soule Let your Soule like Iohn leane vpon the blessed bosome of Iesus Haue euer your eye vpon this Mercie-seat The sicke Man Is it onelie then in Christ Sir that Saluation is to bee found All Scripture would yee say doeth leauell at him The Pastour The Scripture is plaine There is none other Name giuen vnder heauen among men whereby wee must bee saued Hee is full of the bowels of loue Hee is that onelie Sauiour pointed out by both the Testaments Like as the two Cherubims though seuered one from another yet looked one towards another and both vpon the Mercie seate Euen so the Olde and New Testament looke one towards another yet point at one the same Christ the marrow and kernell of mans Saluation All Religion is in this that wee know Christ This is mans Saluation to know Christ and him crucified