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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	believe_v	faith_n	holy_a	1,533	5	5.3032	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44499	The life of faith in death, in expectation of the resurrection from the dead opened in a sermon at the funerall of the right worshipfull Mr. Thomas Slany late maior of the famous town and corporation of King-Lynn in the county of Norfolk : who deceased in the year of his maioralty, Jan. 10. 1649 / preached there by John Horn ...	Horn, John, 1614-1676.	1649 (1649)	Wing H2804; ESTC R19330	35,460	36

weeping for her and yet it is observable that the Jews write the letter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that signifies to weep very small 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to intimate the practice of Abraham to have been sutable to what the Apostle Paul expresly wishes that beleevers in the like cases should be 1 Thes 4 13. a moderate mourning for their dead in the Lord as those that believing the doctrine of the resurrection are not without hope for them I might point you likewise to Jacobs buriall of his wife Rachel and his and Esaus buriall of their father Isaac Gen. 35.19 20 29. and to Joseph and his brethren with many of the Egyptians making a very great lamentation for old Israel when they buried him insomuch that the place where they staied lamenting him got from thence a new denomination being afterward called Abel Mizraim Gen. 50.10 11. or the Egyptians mourning because of the excessive mourning of the Egyptians by which it seems that the Egyptians though least akinne to him yet made the greatest lamentation surely not because they loved him better then his children but because they were not so well instructed and therefore had neither so much knowledge nor so much hope of the resurrection which should have put more bounds unto their mourning except we shall say that the whole company coming out of Egypt had the common name of Egyptians put upon them because so adjudged to be by the people thereabout inhabiting I might tell you too of the interring of Aaron Miriam and the lamentations made for them as also for Moses Joshua Samuel and many others but then as the Apostle sales in this Heb. 11. in another case the time would fail me or my strength would fail me by exceeding the time I shall therefore content my self with what is said to that and turn from this discourse to my text and see what it will afford for our observation and usefullnesse before we make further application of our discourse to the present occasion All these died in or according to faith The Apostle in this Epistle had most sweetly opened the doctrine of Christ to the Hebrews that were partakers of the heavenly call and thereby brought to beleeve and thence called holy brethren ch 3.1 and from his natures offices sufferings and from the dignity of them all he had abundantly evinced and cleared it that they had good ground to hold fast the faith and profession of him firm without wavering and not be moved therefrom by any cause or reason In the 10th Chapter he had laid down many other arguments also to presse them thereunto as from the danger of willing backsliding If we sin willfully after the knowledge of the truth there remains no more sacrifice for sin c. vers 25 26. and from the consideration of the excellency apprehended by them in Christ in their illumination and the effects of that apprehension in them c. vers 33 34. Remember the daies in which after ye were illuminated ye endured a great fight of affliction c. from the greatnesse of the reward promised and to be certainly enjoied by them in its season if they hold fast their faith and confidence and were not turned aside therefrom vers 35. Cast not away your confidence which hath great recompence of reward to which he adds an instruction about their need of patience ver 36. and usefullnesse and excellency of faith as that which most suiteth with the condition in which God useth to leade his and in which they should meet with preservation unto the enjoyment of the reward promised them vers 38. Now the just shall live by faith or the just by faith shall live without that the profession will be worthlesse the considence will vanish and patience will have no place but there will either be an open revolting or a secret withdrawing in a barren empty dead adhering to an outside profession Now in this Chapter he confirms what he had there said that faith is that in which God exerciseth his people and gives them life that God doth not use to keep them by sense in giving in an enjoyment of things promised so much as by faith in his word without sensible feelings and experiments but first of all he laies down a definition of this faith v. 1. It s the subsistance of things hoped for and the evidence or argument of things not seen that puts an end to vain empty disputations How do you know that God made the world or that the Scriptures are the word of God or are true c. Faith makes it evident to me God hath said thus and in his saying I am convinced and perswaded to believe though I see not the things of which he speaketh to me and in believing I am staied and satisfied about it and it s become to me as firm a principle as if I had seen It s an argument leaning upon Gods authority speaking and manifesting it self unto the conscience that gives a su●sistence to things hoped for as to my minde so that though we see not the things we hope for nor are they as yet in being yet they being beleeved have a kinde of subsistence in the heart and the soul acteth upon that subsistence towards them as really as if it saw them with the bodily sense as if they were already existent and had a being which also they shall have in their season From that the Apostle proceeds to give divers instances of the excellency usefullnesse and ●fficacy of this faith in the prime and choice Saints of God in all ages how they have lived by it and in the exercise of it without the enjoyment of the things set before them and beleeved and he begins at Abel v. 4. and so passes on to Enoch ver 5. Noah ver 7 a● thence to Abraham Isaac and Jacob ver 8 9. and Sarah ver 11. or whom he h●re saith in the text All these dieà in faith not having received the promises c. The words these all seem to referre to Abraham Isaac Jacob and Sarah both because of Enoch of whom its said vers 5. that he was translated that he should not see death who therefore cannot be here included except we take his change in his translation to be equivalent to death and also because that he tels us vers 15 of these forsaking their Countrey which we finde no where affirmed of those others mentioned before these But let us come to the words and note something from them that present themselves unto us for I shall not spend time about a curious supersluous cutting them in pieces Abraham Isaac and Jacob were worthy persons highly favoured of God chosen by him to peculiar dignity and priviledges Princes and Prophets and very famous in their proper seasons yet behold what the Apostle in the first words of the text affirmeth of them all These all died Whence let us note and I