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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	nature_n	power_n	1,617	5	4.8157	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04596	Christs vvatch-vvord Being the parable of the virgins, expounded and applyed to these times of security. Or an exhortation of our Saviours to us, that we may watch and prepare our selues for the unknowne times of death and judgement.	Johnston, Thomas, Chaplain to the Bishop of Dromore.	1630 (1630)	STC 14715; ESTC S107830	129,458	212

doe And therefore we ought to fasten us to the rocke of Gods word and build our faith on it so shall we be able to abide all the tempests and temptations and quench the fiery darts of the Divell It is all one to be without all religion as to be without hope of the resurrection for they cannot have the knowledge of God saith Saint Paul for if our hope be onely of this life 1 Cor 15 34. Ibid verse 19. then of all creatures are we most miserable because wee have more miseries following us than all the creatures besides and if we feare God onely for what may befall us here it can no more save us from the evills wee most feare than feare can save a beast going to the slaughter Acts 23 8. The Heathen and the Sadduces a kinde of them who were and would bee ignorant of the resurrection insensible of their owne soule making their Disciples tenants to religion onely during life filled them with fruitlesse feares disappointed them of immortall hopes by an uncertaine promise of their famous memory to walke as their ghost in the world after their deceasse yet could they never reach the conscience and therefore * In coelo est meretrix in coelo est turpis adulter c. Quid non mentiri vel quid non protinus audet Fingere mortale ingenium ut sibi maior cundi In praeceps pateat via liberiorque potestas peccandi detur c. Marc. Pal●●g lib. 1. all their religion was to be onely religious in wickednesse and these in likest possibility to be neere their Gods who were next to them in wickednesse So that it must be true that Saint Paul said once of the Ephesians that they were without hope and without God in the world Ephes 2.12 For they that have no expecting of the life to come must live without respecting of God in this world The cause of the ignorance of the resurrection saith Christ is that men are deceived Matth 22 29. not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God The causes of ignorance of the resurrection If men consult with naturall knowledge they may easily be deceived for although wee finde the forme of it which is the joyning together of soule and body to stand with naturall reason yet nature cannot shew by what power and in what fashion it shall be done and though we see many examples in nature some whereof I will hereafter set downe yet are they not able to beget faith in us but are as apochryphall proofes helping so farre as they are able to strengthen our faith begun and are sufficient to confound naturalists and to disprove the impossibility they conceive in it Againe if men consult with flesh and blood that is with their owne strength appetite and desire their affection will blinde their knowledge for seeing their wicked life in all justice deserveth a wretched recompence Execrabilis plane crudelis malitia quae Dei potentiam sapientiam iustitiam perire desiderat Bern. de Resurr ser 3. Credimus quis enim damnet sua vota libenter spem fovimus Martial lib. 9 Epig. 41. they wish that there were neither Iudge of power nor time nor place for their punishment and seeing they cannot condemne their owne desires they feede themselves in hope and finding no experience of what they need to feare rest fully perswaded that they shall have no other life than this which they desire But if you consult with the Scriptures and consider the power of God you shall finde that of necessitie we must rise againe and how easie it is to God to bring it to passe The Mercy Iustice and Truth of God confirme the Resurrection unto us If we consider the Lord either as mercifull just or true then our bodies must needs be raised againe The great mercy of God appeareth in the Redemption of man which cannot be fully done if corruption the punishment of sinne keep Gods servants prisoners for ever and therefore as he is mercifull in redeeming us he must needs raise up our bodies againe which God by the Prophet acknowledgeth to be a part of our Redemption saying I will deliver thee from the power of the graue Hosea 13 14. The Iustice of God requires it also Vna poena implicat quos unus amor in crimine ligat Bernard Si resurrectio non est nec Deus est nec providentia est Videmus enim plurimos iustos esurientes iniuriam patientes peccatores autem et in iustos in divitiis in omni voluptate abundantes c. Damasc lib. 4. that soule and body which have joyned hand in hand for sinne should be coupled together againe for punishment and wicked men are loaded with Gods benefits and Gods servants with miseries if God be just he must change their states and each must receive in their bodies according to what they have done be it good or evill which is onely to be done when * Consider 2 Cor. 5 10. Dan. 12 2. wee shall appeare before the Iudgement seat of Christ and not before for in Iustice neither can rewards be given nor punishment inflicted before the persons be brought in place taken account of and their deservings rewarded unto them accordingly Thirdly God hath beene pleased to ingage his truth unto us for the certainty of the Resurrection he said by Daniel They that sleepe in the dust shall awak some to everlasting life and some to shame and perpetuall contempt By Hosea Hosea 13 14. I will deliver thee from the power of the grave And Christ saith The houre shall come Iohn 5.28 29. in which all that are in the graves shall heare his voice and they shall come forth that have done good unto the resurrection of life but they that have done evill unto the resurrection of condemnation And Saint Paul saith 1 Cor. 15 22. The dead shall rise incorruptible 1 Thess 4.15 16 17. and in Christ all men shall be made alive the dead in Christ shall rise first c. These are his promises which cannot faile though heaven and earth should passe away and though men in diverse ages have waited long for the fulfilling of Gods promises yet they never failed to come and men were onely deceived in them This appeareth both by the name of Noah and the reason of it given Gen. 5 29. because they knew not the time so from before Noahs flood untill Christs first comming hee was looked for the space of 2900 yeares before hee came And in the primitive Church there was more looking for Christs comming 1100. yeares agoe than there seemeth to be now But the rule of the Prophet must be considered in all Gods promises Habbac 2 3. that the vision is appointed for a certaine time but at the last it shall speake and not lye though it tary yet we ought to waite for it shall surely come Our faith