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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	believe_v	faith_n	work_n	4,530	5	5.8487	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92885	The whole duty of a Christian containing all things necessary, both as to what he is to know, and do, for the obtaining a happy eternity ; to which is added, More particular directions, how to prepare for a comfortable death ...	Seller, Abednego, 1646?-1705.; Hove, Frederick Hendrick van, 1628?-1698.	1699 (1699)	Wing S2461A; ESTC R42613	99,994	253

Conscience Repeat and Do the wor● of the Minister again Make Conscience o● Teaching and Provoking others Pi●● Careless Ignorant Souls God usually Bless● the Grace that 's Improved in doing hi● Service The Lord's Supper THis Sacrament is so Called with Reference to the Time of its first Institution and Administration at our blessed Lord and ●aviour's last Supper Immediately before his Passion shewing whereunto it Related for 〈◊〉 Remembrance of him the Chief Subject and Inward part of it It is 1 A standing Memorial of his great Love in offering up his Life a Sacrifice for our Sins and a Seal of the Covenant of Grace 2 A Commemoration of his Passion and Sacrifice the Benefits of which are were assured to every worthy Receiver 3 A Renewing and Confirmation of the Vow ●●ve made in Baptism to be his faithful Servants unto our Lives end 4 To testifie our Inion with him and Communion with one ●nother 5 A Seal and means of our Spiritual nourishment and growth in the mystical Body of Christ the Church and of our being strengthned with Divine Grace and Refreshed highly satisfied and pleased with the sence of God's Love and Mercy through the Sufferings of our Blessed Redeemer as the Pallat is with wholsom agreeable food The Body and Blood of Christ is signified by the Bread and Wine All the Spiritual Change is wrought by the Faith of the Receiver not the intention or words of the Giver to him that believes they are the very Body and Blood of Christ who as in his Sufferings as undertaking and accomplishing our Reconciliation with God accepted in full Discharge for all our Sins i● Received by the Believing Soul for its life and support Comfort and well-being to all Eternity The Ministers Consecrating them so setting them a part from a Common to a Spiritual Use signifies God's setting hi● Son apart to the work of our Redemption Breaking of the Bread and pouring out the Wine signifies the Sufferings Christ endured for us His giving them to the Communicants signifies God's giving his Crucified Son to and for every Believing Receiver a their Redeemer and Saviour His saying Take Eat c. fignifies God's Will for applying Christ unto our selves Before we Receive we must Prepare our selves by examining and awakening our Knowledge of the Principles of Religion particularly of the Sacrament Our Faith Repentance of all our Sins Our sincere Obedience which we must fully Resolve upon else we are false and play the Hypocrites with God in the Covenant we are going to renew and Seal Our love to God and the Brethren Our Forgiveness of all Men and Charity to them Our Sins and wants sueing for Pardon and Supply Our earnest desire after the Graces of the Spirit Renewing the Exercise of them by serious Meditation and Earnest Prayer Taking a strict account of the Miscarriages of our Hearts and lives as to God and Man and our selves in publick and secret and being deeply humbled for them especially since the last renewal of our Covenant with God cleansing our selves from every new Pollution seriously considering all the Work we are going to do and all the Mercies we are going to Receive and what Graces and Exercises of them are necessary to all this In Receiving our Behaviour must be humble and reverent as to the outward Gesture of our Bodies and inward frame of our Souls We must seriously mind the Elements and Actions and the things signified represented exhibited thereby We must Meditate on Christ's Death so Disgraceful so painful for us grieving for hating loathing our Sins the Cause of it Hungering and Thirsting after him and the Benefits purchased by him Applying the Promises of the New Testament which is of full force through the Death of the Testator wholly Trusting our miserable Souls upon him as our All-sufficient Help and Saviour Drawing nourishment and all needful supplies from Him in whom all fulness Dwells Rejoycing in and giving thanks for his Love Renewing our Covenant mingling all with Faith and most indeared love to him and his Servants with a firm Resolution of future Obedience and unfeigned Consent to our Covenant with him After Receiving we must Examine our selves as to our Carriage and Behaviour Mourn for our Defects in Preparation and Performance be Earnest for Pardon by after Pains endeavour to obtain the Benefits of the Ordinance Be very Thankful for any Assistance and Enlargement labouring to retain the sweet relish still upon our Spirits Encourage our selves in Attendance upon God in this and all other Duties Endeavour to draw more and more Virtue from Christ for Crucifying our Inordinate Desires Irregular Passions and Affections and every thing displeasing to him Be very watchful against Sin and Carnal Security that we let not In his and our Enemy but preserve our Souls his Temple clean and undefiled Carefully perform our Vows and keep the Covenant we have Renewed and Sworn to A Prayer before or at the Sacrament LOok down from Heaven the Habitation of thy Holiness and Glory most gracious Father upon a vile sinfull worthless Creature that desires in all Abasement and Humility to prostrate himself before thee To serve thee is my highest Honour and to enjoy thee my greatest Happiness yet how apt am I to look upon thy Service as my Burden And how oft do I draw near unto thee with my Lips and seem to honour thee with my Mouth when my Heart is far from thee Which of thy Mercies have I not abused Which of thy Corrections have I not despised or been impatient under Which of thy Sabbaths have I not prophaned Which of thine Ordinances have I not polluted Which of thy Promises or Threatnings have I not slighted undervalued disbelieved Which of thy Commandments have I not broken in Thought Word or Deed Wherefore I abhor my self and repent in Dust and Ashes God be mercifull to me a Sinner Thou mayest justly inflict upon me all the Curses that are writ in thy Law and give me my Portion with Hypocrites and Unbelievers But there is Mercy with thee that thou mayest be feared that my Sins may be pardoned and my Soul saved Thou hast exalted thy Son to be a Prince and a Saviour to give Repentance unto Israel and Remission of Sins He came not to call the Righteous but Sinners to Repentance O for his sake pardon all mine Iniquities accept of me graciously and love me freely look favourably upon me be mercifull unto me as thou usest to do unto those that love and fear thy Name Receive me into thy favour Give me an unfeigned Consent and the necessary Conditions of my Right to that Covenant which I am going to have sealed unto me by thee Let Christ be formed in me and altogether desirable unto me Indue me and all that celebrate thy love at this Institution with sutable dispositions and qualifications for so solemn an Ordinance a through Sence of our own vileness and deserts and of thy Infinite love and goodness A stedfast belief

an Eternal state which will be happy or miserable according to your Carriage Here. Make it therefore without delay the design of your whole lives with a resolved Chearfulness to be happy for ever and to escape those endless pains which are the Portion of the slothful careless and secure Rest not until you are Born again your Corrupt Natures changed into a love of God and Goodness your wills and desires subdued into the Will of God and your Superiors and not eagerly set on any thing they deny you Be serious sober-minded humble modest chast avoid the occasions Provocations and Temptations to Sin especially evil Company that great Snare of the Devil which hath ruin'd Thousands And acquaint your selves with serious sober-minded experienced Christians Wast not your precious time in reading vain Romances or other Obscene Prophane or Blasphemous Books or Plays Neither Spend it as too many do in Alehouses Tayerns and Debauchery with Lewd Women Which courses will destroy Body Soul Estate and good Name Remember the difference which you will shortly find between Serving the Lord from your youth and daily making Work for Sorrow in old Age at Death for Repentance or Despair Beware of and avoid their Mischief Sin and Folly that Delay a Holy Life that think it time enough to prepare for Death when they are Arrested by Sickness or withered by old Age. That think tho' they neglect God in their Youth they shall be Happy after Death if before it they Repent and Call for Mercy They consider not the terrible Doom denounced against the negligent and disobedient and that the Absolutely necessary Condition and qualification for a Happy Eternity is a Holy Life without allowing any liberty to Sin If there be any single Instance of God's Receiving late Penitents they are back'd with no Promise we may not live to old Age or may not have space or grace to Repent or not be accepted God saith to day if you will hear my Voice we limit no certain day God saith now is the accepted Time we say we shall be accepted at any Time The longer we delay the more unfit unable indispos'd discouraged the more sin hardens the heart the World and the Devil gets stronger possession the more we provoke God to give us up to our selves to leave us to become our Enemy to take from us that which we have abused instead of giving us any extraordinary assistance at last Is it Prudence to expose our precious Immortal Souls to so many hazards as there are Accidents and Diseases to surprize our Bodies to lay the greatest Burden upon the weakest Back to put off our main Business to that Instant when we have least Time and Strength to do it in to begin our work when it should be finished and we entering upon our Reward To have our Oil to Buy when the Bridegroom comes To trifle away our precious hours and neglect our main Errand for which we came into the world whenas we may be hurried away without any space between our Health and Death or when we shall have enough to do to Conflict with a Disease and to bear up under it To trust to a Death-bed Repentance which will not be in our Power except God follow us with his grace when we have given him so much Cause to forsake us and he hath no where promised that if we neglect him in our health he will Remember us then but protested the contrary Because I have Called and ye refused I have stretched out my hand and no man Regarded but ye have set at nought all my Counsels and would none of my Reproof I also will laugh at your Calamity I will mock when your fear Cometh when your fear cometh as Desolation and your Destruction cometh as a whirlwind when distress and anguish cometh upon you Then shall they call upon me but I will not Answer they shall seek me early but they shall not find me c. (i) Pro. 1.24 to the end The Foolish Virgins when they should have entered their Oyl was to get and when they would have entered ●he door was shut How can we think it enough for God to ask him forgiveness with the Remainder and last drawing of our Breath To serve him when we have no Inclination or Temptation to Sin can follow it no longer To present him only with the Ruins and Spoils of Vice the leavings of the Devil the World and the Flesh with that only which we know not where else to bestow Consider further Is not he a Fool that withstands his Market neglects his Seed-time sows Tares and expects to reap Wheat learns not to Trade goes not to School till Old and Blind of Age That hath received a Mortal wound or drunk deadly Poison and saith he 'll endeavour Recovery next Winter That hath a long Journey to go and sets not out till the Sun is setting his strength spent his vigour exhausted That intends to do the work of a whole life in one Day That begins the Christian Race when that of Nature is almost finished to fight the good fight of Faith in old and decrepit years under Aches and Infirmities which attend the Ruins of Nature That thinks not of drawing Water out of the Wells of Salvation till the Silver Cord is loosed and the Pitcher broken at the Cistern That lays not up in Harvest because of Heat so starves in Winter when others live upon their hoarded Store That expects Heaven should meet him and save him the labour of a long Pilgrimage That God should be so fond of him as to be always working Miracles for his sake and that when he will not be saved God should save him whether he will or no They dislike the Punishment not the Sin grieve not so much because they are wicked as that God is just and when they see they are Condemned Repent Think Is it Reasonable to give unto Sin Satan the World the Flower the Fruit the Strength of our Age A quick Understanding lively Affections a tenacious Memory subtilty of Wit solidity of Judgment an Eloquent Tongue active Hands clear Eyes nimble Feet and reserve for God only the old withered dry sapless decayed leaves a baffled benummed Understanding broken Intellects flat and low Affections a slippery Memory a dull Wit a tired Judgment a stammering Tongue paralitick Hands lame Feet feeble Knees trembling Joints putrified Lungs dazled Eyes a fainting Heart that Age which is the sink of Life a Center of all Misery i. e. what the World hath cast off May he not justly say offer it now unto thy Prince see if he will accept it perswade him to turn his Court into an Hospital to make up his guard of Cripples to be attended by nothing but Infirm Diseased Age and Impotency As if the Service of the great God was nothing else but the Refuse of Sin and Satan's leavings only then to be done when we can do nothing and Repentance so easie a work that he who