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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
child_n	father_n	fear_v	pity_v	2,202	5	10.4985	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51810	Catholick religion: or, The just test or character of every person that in any nation is accepted with God discovered, in an explication of the nature of the true fear of God, and working of righteousness, with which the same is connected. In some discourses upon Acts 10. 35, 36. Wherein several important doctrinal truths, more immediately influential upon practise, are plainly opened, and vindicated from their too common misunderstanding. By William Manning.	Manning, William, 1633?-1711.	1686 (1686)	Wing M491; ESTC R217102	67,577	173

with God Mal. 1.6 But ye say wherein have we despised thy Name Wherein have we polluted thee v. 7. The Lord regardeth not the Offering any more Yet ye say wherefore Ch. 2.14 ye have wearied the Lord with your words yet ye say wherein have we wearied him When ye say Every one that doth evil is good in the sight of the Lord and he delighteth in them or where is the God of judgment v. 17. Look to it before it be too late and God answers you with a witness Chap. 3.5 16 18. and don't set down in the bare Notion or hearing of these things or be like the man that beholds his natural Face in a Glass and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was Paralogizing or with fallacious reasonings putting a cheat on your own Souls as we have it Jam. 1.22 Whilst the word is not ingrafted there v. 21. or nothing comes of it the stock is not changed nor yet the fruit take heed that Conviction be not blasted and come to no issue 3. By way of Consolation and Establishment Is it of a Truth That in every Nation he that feareth God and worketh Righteousness is accepted with him Is the voice of the Gospel of God and our Saviour Then whoever upon the trial can witness within themselves that they are of that number they may with good warrant assume the comfort thereof and conclude themselves justified in the sight of God and in favour with him Art thou one concerned about the evidence of thy everlasting Estate and it may be dubious about it Why here thou hast the just Character of a saved Person if it may please God to help thee to discern how it is with thee Thou art one that believest the Scriptures and assentest to the Record of God concerning his Son 1 John 5.11 and hast betaken thy self to it not only as a Revelation worthy of Credit but also worthy of all Acceptation 1 Tim. 1.15 Thou trusteth in Christ Eph. 1.13 and in God the Father through him this thou doest so far at least as to conclude Christ Jesus a Saviour alsufficient for thee and to look to him and to no other Name for Salvation save unto his alone without which thou art not of the Christian Religion and it 's to no purpose to enquire any further for thee with us he that is no Christian can be no pious man to be sure else a bar is already put in against thee Joh. 3.36 But moreover hast thou counted the cost Luke 14.28 And considered the terms of thy Salvation by Christ and the Tenor of the Grant thereof that not Faith only But Godliness also hath the promise of the life which is to come 1 Tim 4.8 as Death is threatned to the contrary Heb. 12.14 hast thou accounted this also a faithful saying as the same Apostle affirms it to be v. 9 which is more hardly believed for that the flesh is unwilling to have it true or accounted it worthy of all Acceptation as the Apostle subjoyns How ungrateful soever to corrupt Nature and where the pinch with us lieth this comes home to the business yet further art thou one that truly feareth God Is his fear in thy heart Doest thou walk in it A Sinner thou art thou darest not abide by a strict Tryal according to the Original Law of Innocency thou art sensible of thy need of pardoning Mercy but art thou a righteous Person not Wicked i. e. upright to the Standard of the new Law or Gospel Doth the fear of God influence thee unto a universal and undeserved Resignation of thy self up unto his Will and Commands Hath it changed the habitual Frame and Disposition of thy Soul Is it become the governing Principle of thy Life Doth thy Conscience witness it so to be in the ordinary course and tract of thy Conversation Preserving thee from those Wickednesses which would intrench upon Sincerity and keeping thee steady in some prevalent measure in thy walk more immediately with God and in all the Duties of thy Place and Calling in the Station wherein lie hath set thee as becometh the Profession of Godliness accordingly as hath been before opened and I hope shall not need here again to be repeated If I say this be thy case whatever thy circumstances otherwaies be or may have been how heinous soever thy former Guilt how dark or doubtful soever thy present Condition may remain to thee Of a truth I am assured that thou art accepted with God thou hast the condition unto which the Promise is made and hast Gods warrant to assume therefrom and to conclude thy happy estate and God is faithful and can't deny himself his Truth his Word and he would have thee to take the comfort of it his Attributes as hath been shewed he hath laid at Stake for thy security it 's a righteous thing with God that it should so be Are men said to believe unto the saving of their Souls so are they said to repent unto Salvation 2 Cor. 7.10 and unto life in the case of Cornelius and his houshold Acts 11.18 and by patient continuance in well-doing to seek for it Rom. 2.7 and true Piety hath the promise of it If now the messenger the interpreter one among a thousand shall shew unto thee thy uprightness as Elihu speaks Job 33.23 tho thou tookest thy self for lost v. 22. Yet will God be gracious to thee for he hath found a ransom v. 24. Lift up thy hands which hang down and thy feeble knees He will be favourable to thee and thou shalt see his save with joy for he will render unto thee thy righteousness v. 26. Thou shalt behold his face in it Ps 17.15 and thou mayest trust to it in its place Ezek. 33.13 How full is the Scripture for thy encouragment The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him and he will shew them his covenant Psal 25.14 Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him Ps 33.18 like as a father pitieth his children so the Lord pitieth them that fear him Ps 103.13 His mercy is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him v. 17. To such as keep his Covenant and to those that remember his commandments to do them v. 18. when they walk in darkness and have no light let them trust in the name of the Lord Is 50.10 The sun of righteousness shall arise unto them with healing in his wings Mal. 4.2 When the day of the Lord shall burn as an Oven against all the proud and all that do wickedly shall be as stubble v. 1. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord that delighteth greatly in his commandments Ps 112.1 The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance v. 6. He shall not be afraid of evil tidings his heart is fixed trusting in the Lord v. 7. Say to the righteous it shall be well with him Isa 5.10 The work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quietness