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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	moses_n	people_n	write_v	2,486	5	5.9268	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56812	The great concern, or, A serious warning to a timely and thorough preparation for death with helps and directions in order thereunto / by Edward Pearse.	Pearse, Edward, 1633?-1674?	1674 (1674)	Wing P983A; ESTC R24450	97,407	255

employ'd in the work and service of Christ And again 1 Tim. 1.12 I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who hath enabled me for what he accounted me faithful putting me into the Ministry Here he blesses Christ his Lord and Master for using of him in his work yea such a worth beauty and excellency did he see in his service that he was content to stay out of Heaven and the bosom of Christs love where yet he earnestly longed to be that he might do further service for Christ in this world So you find Phil. 1.21 22.23 O for a soul to long and long earnestly for Heaven and the immediate enjoyment of Christ there and yet to be content to stay here in a sinful sinning troublesom world meerly to do some further service for Christ and to honour him yet in the discharge of his Work and Warfare this is high Grace this holy Rutherford had attained unto he could under high assurances of Heaven be content to stay many years out of it to preach Christ The same mind dwelt in Christ himself who went about doing good making it his meat and drink to do his Fathers will and to finish his work Oh when a soul comes to this then he is fit to live and fit to die when with that Ancient Father we come to say indeed What is it to live and not to live for use and service when we value life and days in the world no further than we are some way serviceable to Christ this is crowning Grace 8. For a man to rejoyce in the gifts graces and uses of others and that though they out-shine and eclipse his for a man to rejoyce to see Grace flourish in others and to see the work of God carried on by others though he himself be laid aside and does not share in the honour of it this is pure Grace Grace in lustre such Grace was found in Moses Enviest thou for my sake said he to Joshua who would have had him to forbid Eldad and Medad to prophesie in the Camp would God that all the Lords people were Prophets and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them Num. 11.29 he was so far from envying at them that he wishes there were more of them Such Grace was found also in John the Baptist Joh. 3.26 27 30. he rejoyced in Christs being owned and honoured and flock'd unto and in the increase of his esteem with men though to his own abasement In verse 26. some of Johns Disciples come and tell him that all men come to Christ well says he 't is but his due verse 27. A man can receive nothing unless it be given him from heaven you your selves bear me witness that I said I am not the Christ and this my joy is fulfilled that he must increase and I must decrease as if he had said 'T is so far from being a trouble to me that 't is indeed the compleating of my joy Such Grace was found in Paul Phil. 1.18 who rejoyced that Christ was preach'd though with a design to cloud and eclipse him Christ is preach'd and I therein do rejoyce yea and will rejoyce Some are apt to think 't will be an affliction to me says he that Christ is preach'd by any but my self whereas indeed this is ground of great joy to me I rejoyce that though I cannot be permitted to preach Christ my self yet that so many others do preach him And I remember a great speech of Luther arguing the same Grace to be in him writing to Melancthon to comfort him under the lets and opposition the work and cause of God met withal in his time the cause of God was opposed and his Work obstructed in the sense of which Melancthon was greatly troubled and dejected and Luther understanding it writes an Epistle to him to comfort and encourage him in which he has this saying God says he is able to raise the dead and he is able to support his fallen cause and to raise it when fallen If he shall not account us worthy to be used therein let him do it by others and make use of others Mark he was content the work of God should be done by others There are two things which I look upon to carry as pure and noble Grace in them as any whatever one is to be willing to be used in Gods work without being taken notice of or having the honour of it the other is for a man to rejoyce to see the work of God carried on by others though he himself be laid aside and has not the honour of being used therein Oh labour for such Grace Grace that will rejoyce in the Gifts Graces Uses and Successes of others though you thereby are out-shined 9. For a man to have great affection to the name and honour of God and Christ and to think nothing too much to do too hard to suffer or too dear to part withal for the service and advancement thereof this is noble Grace when a man has high and paramount affections to the name of God and Christ loving and preferring of it infinitely before all his own interests and concerns being ready to be do or suffer any thing for the service on 't Oh what Grace is this such Grace some of the Saints have attained to Lord says Moses concerning Israel if thou wilt forgive their sin and if not blot me I pray thee out of the Book which thou hast written Exod. 32.32 What is here meant by the Book which God has written I shall not now stand to enquire or determine but to be content to be blotted out on 't was to be sure a great piece of self denial and this Moses was you see rather than that the people should be utterly destroyed and all because he knew how much the glory of God was concerned and would suffer by their destruction as appears by comparing this verse with verse 12. the sum as one observes is That Moses prefers the glory of God before his own salvation whose glory was conjoyned with Israels preservation in respect of the Promises made to the Fathers and in respect of the Blasphemies which the Egyptians and other adversaries were ready to belch out against God should he destroy them Such Grace was found also in John Baptist in the place lately mentioned Joh. 3. latter end who was content Christ should raise himself out of his abasement such Grace was found in Christ who preferred his Fathers glory before his own life Joh. 12.27 28. such Grace was found in Paul who was willing not onely to be bound but even to die for the sake of Christ Acts 21.13 for the Name the honour of Christ Christs honour was so dear to him that he could be content to die to serve it he preferr'd it before his life O my Beloved when a soul shall be so swallowed up with love and zeal to the glory of God and the interest of Christ in the world as that his own interests are in