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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	fear_v	lord_n	remembrance_n	1,962	5	9.9520	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25970	Thoughts well employ'd, or, The duty of self-observation in the care and regulation of life according to the royal pattern by Edm. Arwaker, Rector of Drumglass in Ireland.	Arwaker, Edmund.	1695 (1695)	Wing A3904; ESTC R38631	68,324	168

miscarried because we have put our trust in Chariots and Horses and have not remembred the Name of the Lord our God to call him to our help against the mighty to pray for the Peace of our Ierusalem which is not to be obtained only by a bare Address to Heaven but by duly qualifying our selves to become acceptable Petitioners at the Throne of Grace that we may receive a favourable Return of our Supplications In order to which we must cleanse our Ways be Holy Just and Good that the Works of our Hands and the Meditations of our Hearts may gain acceptance for the Words of our Mouths before him for we know the Lord is so far from hearing Sinners that their Prayers are an abomination to him Prov. 15.8 and that which should prevail for Audience makes him Deaf and Inexorable And how shall the Wicked sue for Peace to whom God hath declared there is no peace How shall they obtain his Pardon for their Sins when even the Prayers that beg it help to encrease their number But if any man be a Worshiper of God and doth his Will him he heareth And it is only by such means that we can hope to perform our Duty acceptably to sollicite Heaven with such success as to procure the Nations Peace as well as pray for it and we should think seriously on our Ways in this particular because it is a Duty we owe our Country as our Political Parent and we cannot fail therein without incurring the censure of being of the number of those foolish Sons who are a heaviness to their Mother And indeed if we make a diligent search after the true Cause why the War is continued abroad with the little success that makes us querulous and unquiet we may trace it home to our own Doors and shall find it lodged within our selves that our Unthankfulness for the great Advances which God hath made towards the establishment of our Happiness and our repining at his Goodness to us as if we envy'd our own Felicity and not any neglect or want of Care or Tenderness in those Powers which God by his extraordinary Protection hath declared to have been ordained of him hath been the only Obstacle that they have not as happily finished as they gloriously began the Restoration of our Peace A fourth Season for thinking on our Ways is When we find others generally inconsiderate and negligent of theirs This is the Tenour of St. Paul's Exhortation to the Ephesians that they should walk circumspectly not as Fools but as wise redeeming the time Ephes. 5.16 And the Reason he alledges as a cogent Argument for their observing his Direction is this Because the Days are evil The Corruption of the Age in which we live must be a Motive to our greater Goodness While others like Fools are prodigal in the expence of their precious irreparable Minutes it must be our Wisdom to redeem the Time by making the best Improvement of it and while they turn Libertines in a loose Latitudinarian course of Life we must walk circumspectly accurately and exactly keeping to the nicest Rules and aspiring to the most elevated heights of Christianity That Advice to Timothy 2 Ephes. 4.23 is much of the same nature with this to the Ephesians Preach the Word be instant in season and out of season reprove rebuke exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine And the Apostle assigns this Reason for his Charge because the Time will come that Men will not endure sound Doctrine but will turn away their Ears from the Truth and be turned to Fables The Evil of the Times should incite good Christians to an extraordinary Care and Diligence that when they see a decay of Piety they become most earnest to encourage and promote its Restoration that when the Light of Religion is darkned they may like the Worshipers of the Moon in an Eclipse be busiest to defend it from the Fascinations of Impiety that darken it When the Preaching of the Gospel that is the Wisdom of God unto Salvation seems Foolishness to Men and the Messengers of those good Tydings meet an unkind reception when there is an Apostasie and falling back from the Truth received This Negligence and Irreligion should quicken our Care and Devotion Then is the time for Rivers of waters to run down our Eyes when Men do not keep God's Law then is the Season that our Zeal should even consume us when they forget his Words And when because of Iniquities thus abounding the love of many shall grow cold then ours must be most fervent because it is then most requisite as greatest Fires are most seasonable in Frosty-weather And when we do not follow the multitude to do evil nor run with other Men into excess of riot we are not to be concerned that they resent our Singularity and take it ill to want our Company in that Carriere or speak Evil of us for refusing it For as Jewels cast the greatest lustre in the dark so Religion appears most amiable when surrounded with Impiety whose deformed Visage is a Foil to its transcendent Beauty And they who are blameless and harmless who prove themselves the Sons of God in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation shine as Lights in the world among them The rarity of Things is a great enhansement of their Value Lot had not been so eminent for his Righteousness in any other City as in Sodom where there were not Ten more of the same rank and level in Righteousness to be found What an illustrious Figure did Obadiah make in the Court of Ahab or the Saints in Nero's House and what a singular Character was it of Noch that he was a perfect man in his generation when the World was so corrupt and foul that the Deluge could sooner drown than cleanse it The Memory of Iob is sweeter than all the Aromatic Scents that perfume the Air of his Native Arabia and the World will be for ever as loud in celebrating Athanasius as he once was in opposing it Nor had it so much reason to admire its universal Arianism as this single Oppugner of that Heresie And when we find St. Paul advising Timothy to drink no longer Water We must admire such Temperance among the Ephesians who lived in all the Luxury of Asia and are said to have banished Hermodorus for being Sober and Abstemious It is a memorable Scripture which may be to us instead of all Examples That when men called the Proud happy and said it was in vain for them to serve the Lord Mal. 3.16 in that height of Impurity They that feared the Lord spake 〈◊〉 to another and a book of remembrance was writ for them God was so strangely pleased with their exemplary deference to Religion that he made it his own care to have the Names of those pious Men recorded that he might select them for his own in the Day when he made up his Iewels Among which the Church of Pergamus would not be in least