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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	life_n	soul_n	5,160	5	5.5664	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09450	The reformation of couetousnesse Written vpon the 6. chapter of Mathew, from the 19. verse to the ende of the said chapter. By William Perkins.; Reformation of covetousnesse.	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.; Clapham, Henoch.	1603 (1603)	STC 19735.6; ESTC S106356	66,232	268

wayes and to practise the workes of our calling but onely to teach vs to leaue the successe to God To make this more plaine put the case of any trades-man he is to practise the workes of his calling as if it be to buy or sell hee may do it with diligence without wronging any but the successe must be referred to God for that take no care but leaue all to him The like commandement we haue Phil. 4. 6. Be not carefull c What then But in all things let your prayers bee made to God with supplication and thankes giuing Marke there how care is opposed to prayer and thankes giuing All care is not forbidden there but immoderate care onely We must bee carefull of our duties but not of the successe of our labours For the blessing bee not carefull but commend it to God It is an excellent commaundement to bee remembred and practised of all men in all callings It is the double care that is forbidden Thus you see what you are to doo in the compasse of your callings Quest. How can we do this It is too hard a commaundement flesh and bloud cannot keepe it Answer Do but remember what blessed promises God hath made to them that obey him and we cannot but make conscience to obey this Some rise early goe late to bed and yet are neuer the richer But God giues sleepe to his beloued such as obey him shall haue rest and sleepe they shall with quietnesse reape the fruite of their labours The Lyons shall be starued but they that feare God shall lacke nothing Though the Lyons vse rauening and get theyr pray by violence yet they shall want sooner then the children of God If we had no more commandements in all the Bible but this it should be sufficient to worke this effect in vs after due labour and diligence vsed in our callings to referre the successe thereof vnto God We ought to trust God and beleeue his promises and not distrust his prouidence If wee will not trust God in these outward things how shall we trust him in the keeping of our soules in time of temptation and in death Therefore commend all to God and for the successe liue by faith Quest. How if all things goe crosse and we finde no blessing in our labours may we not prouide for our selues Answer Cast thy care on the Lorde and hee knoweth what is good for thee better then thy selfe wherefore if he denie thee that blessing which thou desirest be content and obedient For the seruants of God to bee crost it is better oftentimes then wee are aware of Good Iosias was puft vp with pride and would needes fight with Pharaoh Necho without any warrant and it cost him his life for it And good Ezechias likewise in a pride shewed the straungers his treasure and was punisht for it Therefore if thou want any blessing the best way is to pray for it and to depend vpon God and if God see it to be good for thee thou shalt obtaine thy desire So much of this maine commaundement which is a commaundement alwayes to be remembred and written in our hearts and to bee practised in our liues Now one point further is to be marked viz. how Christ distinguisheth betweene the life and the body hee makes the meat and drinke to appertaine to the life and soule and apparell to the body yet wee know that the apparell is a meanes to preserue the life too as well as meate and drinke and yet Christ cōcludes it and that for iust cause for though in some countries the vse of apparell bee to cherish the bodie and to continue life yet the general and first vse of it is not for the life but it respects a higher matter it serues for the body it selfe I say in respect of a certaine shame that is set vpon it the maiestie of the body is lost and the nakednesse of it is now a thing full of shame and confusion and our apparel serues to couer this shame So the proper and principall ende of apparell is this to couer the bodie in regarde of the shame which befell vs after the fall yea the truth is we should be all couered hands and face and all if it were not for other necessarie vses in regard of which wee keepe them bare and vncouered And if that fall had not bene the naked bodie had bene full of maiestie This point being considered we must learne neuer to be puft vp in regard of our apparell but rather to be abashed and confounded so oft as we put it on or looke vpon it for it is nothing but a badge to couer the shame of our bodies with therefore it is as great a madnesse for any to be puft vp because of their apparel as it were for a prisoner to be proud of the boults on his legges the brand on his hand or the hole in his care Therfore we must learne to thinke of our sinne when we looke on our apparel and to be abashed abased and humbled in remembrance of it We must expresse all the graces and gifts of God that be in vs so much as we can euen in our apparel as sobrietie temperance frugalitie such like they are to be declared in the very garments So much of that point Now it followeth Is not the life more worth c. After he had giuen a most excellent cōmandement to the end it may not goe without his effect hee enforceth it with diuers argumēts of waight First saying Is not the life more worth then meate c. The reason stands thus The life is more excellent thē meate and drinke and the body is better then the apparell Now God giues the life and the body and dooth preserue them therefore he will much more giue foode and apparell The reason is taken from the creation He that is a Creator will preserue his worke In this reason Christ teacheth vs how wee should make vse of our creation by a consideration of it wee must learne to come to a confidence of Gods prouidence and to trust in him for all the things of this life for hee will preserue his workmanship Iob in the beginning of his tenth Chapter perswades himselfe that the Lord will not destroy him because hee is the workemanship of his handes hee makes that an argument Marke what vse hee makes of his very creation Commend your selues to God as to a faithfull Creator saieth S. Peter 1. Pet. 4. Marke that hee calles God a faithfull Creator and for that cause wee must commend our selues vnto him We see also by commō experience that no man is so tender and carefull for any thing as is the workeman therfore in this respect we are to put our trust in God Hath God giuen vs life and a body and wil he not giue vs foode and rayment It cannot be Thus God teacheth vs his prouidence by the creation and confidence in it 26 Behold the fowles of the heauen