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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	apostle_n	speak_v	word_n	1,386	5	3.9429	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76059	The godly mans portion and sanctuary opened, in two sermons, preached August 17. 1662 / by R.A.	R. A. (Richard Alleine), 1611-1681.	1662 (1662)	Wing A989A; ESTC R214832	102,389	183

Hearers and if you will needs have it so then let it be forborn Secondly Hath the Devil yet given over Preaching and are the Preachers yet silent Hath the Devil yet given over his Preaching his deceiving Souls his perverting the good ways of the Lord and discou●aging persons from walking in them Sure there 's need that Christ be preached while there is a Devil that impeaches him Hath the Devil them that preach him every day and must not Christ have them that preach him at least every Sabbath-day may once a moneth or once a quarter be enough for these when every day and all the day-long doe● scarce suffice for those When or where are evill men silent Are they not preaching daily in the House in the Streets in the Taverns on the Stage i● the Stews Preaching by their Oaths their Curses by their L●es by their Scoff● by their Habits b● thei● Cups by their W●ores and almost by all their words and work● And is there no need that Christ be any longer preached any where when the Devil is preached every where If in such a case the Preachers of Christ should altogether hold their peace might we not expect that the very stones would cry out This is but a seasonable Demand Let Faith and Holiness first have none found that preach against them before those that preach them be concluded such as may well be spared But what need we reason any longer in a case so plain wherein I can have no Adversaries but such as the Apostle had when he fought with Beasts at Ephesus Whosoever is an Adversary to Prea●hing is either an Infidel or a Brute I shall onely leave one word for such to ●hew upon and so leave them and their cause to the Judgment of God Act. 13. 46. It was necessary that the Word of God should have been first spoken to you but because you put it from you and judge your selves unworthy of everlasting Life Lo we turn unto the Gentiles Let all back-friends to Preaching pause s●dly upon that Word you have prevented the Judgment of God by putting the Word from you you have given your selves your own Sentence you have judged your selves unworthy of Everlasting Life Well by what hath been said notwithstanding all that can be said against it it appears that the removal of the Gospel and the preaching of it is a grievous Judgment 2. This grievous Judgment shall yet work to the good of Saints That which comes in Wrath on some may be in Mercy to others 'T is the ignorant the unconverted the unbelieving part of men on whom the Vengeance of this Judgment falls 'T is those that are weary of the Word that can worse it Sinners you that say to the Seers see not to the Prophets prophecie no more to us let us alone we have enough of this preaching if God once say as you say Let it be according to their word 't is your Souls are like to go for it And 't is not the least aggravation of the Sorrows of the Saints the misery they see hereby coming on you As for themselves that I may answer more distinctly 1. The Gospel shall never be totally removed from them they shall never see days of Famine If they never again hear the joyful Sound from without they shall have it within The Word which they have receiv'd shall be in them a Well of Water springing up unto Eternal Life If the Showers and the Rain fail yet the Spring which is within them shall supply that want If they have no Bible in the House no preaching in the Pulpit yet they have 〈◊〉 Bible in their Hearts a Preacher in their Breasts th●● shall instruct and comfort them Pharaoh's Dream and the Interpretation of it shall be to the Egyptians and not to Israel The lean Kine shall not devour the fat ones there is a Store-house from whence they shall be supply'd Whatever scarcity there be this is certain not one of them shall want a Viaticum to bring them to the● Journeys end God will not suffer one of his Ele●● to starve or perish in the way There shall not fa● means of one kind or another till the whole Bod●●e perfected and built up Till we all come unto p●rfect Man unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ 2. That Scarcity that does at any time befal the● shall happen to them for the better and not for th● worse 1. For who knows when ever the Ministry is removed but it may be in orde● to a greater Glory it 's Return Perhaps God's sending away Pasto● from a People may be as Paul's absence from the Romans that they may return in the fulness of the blessing of the Gospel Or as Onesimus his departing from Philemon Perhaps they therefore depart for a season that they may be received for ever Or if this should not be the case of any particular Church if they should return no more yet 2. Their want of means shall supply their want of means their want of means shall be their means When they have no Preacher their empty Pulpits shall preach to them this most smarting of Rods will have its voice If they have no longer the Light with them their Darkness shall instruct them if they want their burning Lights the very Cold shall preserve and increase their inward vigour the wickedness of others shall make them more holy the violence of evil men upon sin shall enkindle their zeal for God the darkness that 's here below shall make them to live more above and all this shall make to their fuller Reward 'T is a greater Ver●ue to keep up the Heart to keep on our way where there is a want than where there are abundance of means and helps and an higher Vertue shall have a greater Reward 3. The failing of the Word will bring back to their Memories and upon their own Hearts that which they have receiv'd and as the emptiness of the Stomach will cause a second and better Concoction and turn it into better nourishment when there are no more Loaves they 'l gather up the Fragments that nothing be lost the less there is more to be h●d the more reckoning and the better use they will make of what they h●ve their present want will be a rebuke of their former wantonness their want of Remembrancers will help their Mercies and whet their Appetites Every old truth that hath been too much laid by will then be pretious 4. Whenever ordinary means fail God will either find extraordinary means fail God will either find extraordinary or else will feed them more imm●diately from himself Psal 34. 9. God hath promised that those that fear the Lord shall want no good thing If that be meant of temporal good things yet sure it will yield us an Argument that will reach the present case If God will provide for their Carkases much more for their Souls If God will supply them with less necessaries then