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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
A47273	Medela pestilentiae wherein is contained several theological queries concerning the plague, with approved antidotes, signes and symptoms : also an exact method for curing that epidemicial distemper, humbly presented to the Right Honourable and Right Worshipful the lord mayor and sheriffs of the city of London.	Kephale, Richard.	1665 (1665)	Wing K330; ESTC R26148	48,416	100

Jehosaphat too much failed herein he heard the Prophet say that Ahab should fall at Ramoth Gilead and yet he would accompany him thither it had almost cost him his life yet hath God his wayes and means to deliver the righteous in the forementioned cases and all other cases whatsoever As 1. By visible preservations of them from external judgements as Ebed-melech was preserved 2. By taking them from the evil to come This was before exemplified in good Josiah 3. By ordering the judgement so as it proves a means to them to honour God the more and to do more good to such as are better prepared to accept the good which they do Thus was Ezekiel carried away to Babel in the first Captivity that he might prophesie in Babylon to the Jews there who were counted good Figgs in comparison of the Jews that were at Jerusalem who were as evil Figgs 4. By making the judgement a means of their peace honour and eternal prosperity in this world Thus the captivity of Daniel and his three companions and of Esther and Mordecai was a means of higher honour and greater advancement than they could in all probable conjectures have attained unto in their own land They were also thereby special Instruments of doing much good to the Church and their names by that means are more honourable to this day in the Church of God 5. By taking them by an external judgement from earth to heaven where they live being dead yea by making the judgement a means to free them from eternal damnation of such as by some extraordinary judgement dyed for 't is said of them many sleep the Apostle saith When we are judged we are chastened of the Lord that we should not be condemned with the world Blessed be that sword though it be the sword of a mortal enemy that openeth a passage in the body for the soul to enter into heaven And blessed be that sickness though it be the Plague that thrusteth the soul out of the bodies prison to celestial glory and eternal life and they may say we had perished if we had not perished Be not affrighted O ye righteous ones be not affrighted over-much at the judgements though they be terrible judgements which fall out in the world though by reason of the multitudes of wicked ones among whom ye live in this world ye be every one forced to complain and cry Wo is me that I sojourn in Mesech that I dwell in the Tents of Kedar and to wish and say O that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men that I might leave my people yet can the Lord single you out and when he comes to sweep with the beesome of destruction set you aside and as a few precious Jewels in the midst of a great heap of rubbish sift them out and preserve them safe to himself when the rubbish is cast away It is said of Christ that he will thorowly purge his floor and gather his wheat into his garner but will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire Men when they fan their corn cannot do it so thorowly clean but that some chaffe or tares will remain with the wheat and some wheat be cast out with the chaffe witness the offal that remains after the best fanning that men can make but God's fanning is a thorow fanning not a grain not a Saint shall be over-slipt This is indeed most properly meant of the last fanning of the world at the day of Judgement yet in the mean time doth the Lord take notice of every one of his to provide for them and in the most common and general judgements doth that which in his wisdome he seeth to be fit for them When Elijah thought he had been left alone in Israel God knew many more yea he could tell the just number of them Thou mayest therefore O faithful one say of the Lord He is my refuge and fortress my God in him will I trust Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the Fowler and from the noysome pestilence c. In the midst of Judgements pronounced against sinners that are obstinate God doth reserve and proclaim Mercy unto sinners that are penitent When a consumption is decreed yet a remnant is reserved to return Isa 10.22 23. The Lord will keep his Vineyard when he will burn up the Thorns and the Bryers together Isa 27.3 4. When a day of fierce anger is determined the meek of the earth are called upon to seek the Lord Zeph. 2.3 When the Lord is coming out of his place to punish the Inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity he calls upon his people to hide themselves in their chambers until the indignation be over-past Isa 26.20 21. the Angel which was sent to destroy Sodom had withall a Commission to deliver Lot Gen. 19.15 God made full provision for those who mourned for publick abominations before he gave order to destroy the rest Ezek. 9.4 6. men in their wrath will many times rather strike a friend than spare a foe but God's proceedings are without disorder he will rather spare his foes than strike his servants as he shewed himself willing to have done in the case of Sodom Gen. 18.26 Moses stood in the gap and diverted judgements from Israel Psal 106.23 Yea God seeks for such Ezek. 22.30 and complains when they cannot be found Ezek. 13.15 And if he deliver others for them certainly he will not destroy them for others However it go with the world and with wicked men it shall go well with the righteous there shall be a sanctuary for them when others stumble and they shall pass through the fire when others shall be consumed by it Psal 3.10 11. Isa 8.14 15 16. Zech. 13.8 9. Reasons hereof are God's Justice He will not punish the righteous with the wicked he will have it appear that there is a difference between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not Gen. 8.23 Mal. 3.18 Gods love unto his people hee hath Book of remembrance written before him for them that fear him and think upon his Name And they shall bee mine saith the Lord of Hosts In that day when I make up my Jewells and I will spare them as a man spareth his own Son that serveth him Mal. 3.16 17. Here is a climax and gradation of Arguments drawn from love in a great fire and devouring trouble such as is threatned Chap. 4.1 Property alone is a ground of care a man would willingly save and secure that which is his own and of any use unto him But if you add to this preciousness that Increaseth the care A man will make a hard shift to deliver a rich Cabinet of Jewels though all his ordinary goods and utensils should perish but of all Jewels those that come out of the body are more precious than those that onely adorn it who would not rather snatch his Childe than either his Kasket or his purse out of the flame Relation workes not