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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	wonder_n	wonder_v	wrought_v	26	3	7.3093	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04986	Ten sermons upon several occasions, preached at Saint Pauls Crosse, and elsewhere. By the Right Reverend Father in God Arthur Lake late Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells	Lake, Arthur, 1569-1626.	1640 (1640)	STC 15135; ESTC S108204	119,344	184

beareth up all things so can it worke his pleasure upon all things it is a commanding word and it commands effectually dixit factum est hath an eternall truth It is observed of Caesar that when he had driven Pompey out of Italy and seized upon the City of Rome when hee would have entred into the Treasury a favourite of Pompey would have hindred him at whom Caes●r shooke his sword speaking these words It is an easier matter for me to doe it then to speake it he meant to kill him he spake in the boldnesse of a Souldier forgetting the Proverb Multa cadunt inter calicem supremaque la●●a Which holds in these that are but meere men whose attempts may be frustrated when they seeme to bee consummated But it is not so with God for nothing can resist his will nor interrupt his worke his word and his work they are concurrent the one with the other not consequent the one upon the other when we speake of Christ if onely of God they differ not one from the other Dei dicere est facere and Christs word is never an emptie word which is the ground of our faith both in heating the Scripture and receaving the Sacraments That di●ere est facere in hearing the Scriptures Saint Paul maketh it plaine when he teacheth that in the Gospell beholding the glory of God wee are changed into the same Image and of the Sacraments Saint Augustines rule is true quî fit ut aqua corpus tangat animam abluat quia accedi● verbum ad elementum Therefore is Baptisme called the fountaine of Regeneration and the Eucharist doth ●ourish us unto eternall life No marvaile then if the C●●turion desire CHRIST only to speake the word and doubteth not but the third point will follow my servant shall be whole His servant as it was said before was at the point of death his case was desperate in the judgment of man Sed non est impossible apud Deum omne verbum he did not doubt but believing he should see the glory of God he doubted not but that Christ could both raise from the dead and preserve also from death and indeed had hee not so thought that he could helpe where Physicke did faile he would never have sent unto him he might otherwise have beene of Naamans minde who thought the waters of Damascus better than the water of Iordan till he found that the vertue was in Gods word and not in the water But was all this for a servant the meaner the person the greater his humility You wondred at that woman but you have much more reason to wonder at this man you have heard two speciall reasons There is nothing reported of the womans either greatnesse or goodnesse of this mans there is she confessed Christ but it was in the out parts of Sidon this man in the midst of Capernaum and whereas this woman did it presuming to come immediately to Christ her selfe this man adventureth not so farre but hee both useth the greatest and the dearest meanes hee hath But now behold whereas she did both for her daughter and her possessed with a Devill a party so neere her in a case so pittifull this man humbleth himselfe and humbleth himselfe so low having no other sute then for his servant though a deare servant yet but a servant whom the Scripture calleth in Greeke as if he observed the Sonne of Syrachs rule and a good servant was as deare unto him as his child this somewhat amplifieth his vertue and it amplifieth it the more because his servant was not possessed with a Devill but almost exanimated with the Palsey a dangerous but yet an ordinary disease that could not in probability move a double but a single compassion the Devill possesseth not but with a double mischiefe the lesse cause then there was why he should be so humble the greater is his vertue that he is so humble but he teacheth us to measure our humility not by the greatnesse of our sute but by his greatnesse to whom we make our sute who is alwaies the same though our wants may be of diverse degrees You have the Centurions confession heare now Christs testimony Christ confesseth it strange if you looke to the man therefore Christ Himselfe doth wonder at it Christs wondring doth not suppose that beforehand he was ignorant of it but implies that of this effect there appeared small outward cause In which sense he wondreth at the infidelity of the Iewes unbeliefe on whom so many outward meanes wrought so little inward effect for he could not match this faith no not in all Israel yet were there many worthy believers But Chrysostome observeth well it is lesser wonder to heare a wise man speak wisely then to heare a plow man speake but probably for the lesse is expected the more is admired if there come that from any man which his meanes seeme not to promise nor can inable him to performe Howsoever therfore there might be found a match in regard of the effect yet if you looke to the cause there was none such to bee found no not in Israel Yea and the effect too went beyond the worthies that are recorded to have beleeved in Israel Martha's faith was but this Lord if thou hadst beene here my brother had not dyed She tyed Christs power to his corporall presence Saint Peter at Christs word ventured to walk upon the waters but he thought he should sinke if he had not Christ by the hand Yea the Virgin Mary had her Quomodo hoc fiet and untill the Angell told her Non est impossible apud Deum omne verbum she made not that blessed Confession Behold the servant of the Lord be it unto me according to thy word This man prevents all he expects no promise he doubts no distance of place hee desireth no touch of Christs hand Trouble not thy selfe Lord saith hee with any of these things only speake the word and my servant shall be whole Doth not Christ justly wonder at it in an heathen when he could find no example for to match it in those that were his chosen A plaine prognostication that the Church of the Gentiles should bee more renowned for faith than ever was the Church of the Iewes and that the seed of Abraham according to the faith should far excell his seed according to the flesh his faith was strange if you look to the man but if you look to the matter it was very true the event did prove it Christ spake the word and his servant was made whole Saint Ambrose Christ takes no time neither desires opportunity of place vertue goes from him more than can be discerned in him Even when a cloud doth intercept the brightnesse of the Sunne a quickning influence insensibly proceeds from him which vegetateth the earth Even a beame passed from Christ which cured that servant Even Christ was not seene and might seeme not to worke Christ now sitteth at the right hand of