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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	faith_n	heart_n	sprinkle_v	2,758	5	11.3113	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44489	The best exercise for Christians in the worst times in order to their security against prophaness and apostacy : good and useful to be consider'd ... / proposed to consideration by J.H. ...	Horn, John, 1614-1676.	1671 (1671)	Wing H2793; ESTC R34470	179,378	328

Son of God himself consecrated by an Oath for ever and ever living to make intercession for us in all which respects he is infinitely better and greater than the Priests under the Law abler to make us and our prayers acceptable to God c. 7. as also having an High Priest so merciful to us and so faithful both to God and us in all that concerns us one that can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities and can succour those that be tempted because he himself suffered and was tempted as Chapter 2.17 18. and 4.15 one that can pity and have compassion on those that are ignorant and ●ut of the way Heb. 5.1 2 3. Let us therefore draw near with true sincere hearts in full assurance of faith our hearts sprinkled from an evil Conscience and our bodies washed with pure water In these incouragements the Holy Ghost moves and incourages us to draw nigh and to pray to God as also is shewed Rom. 8.34 in that Christ hath died for us yea rather is risen again who also is at Gods right hand and maketh intercession for us 3. The infinite power and alsufficiencie of God in Christ and of Christ in God to hear help save and satisfie us and to fulfil all our petitions that are according to his will power belongs unto God Psal 62.11 12. therefore trust in him at all times ye people pour out your hearts before him he is a refuge for us So in Job 5.8 9. I would seek to God to God would I commit my cause who doth great things c. I am God Almighty Gen. 17.1 this incouraged Christ in the days of his flesh to pour out strong cries and tears that his Father was able to save him all things were possible to him Heb 5.7 Mark 14.36 and this through the love he hath manifested in Christ and the greatness faithfulness and mercifulness of Christ as our High-Priest and the infinite virtuousness of his sacrifice for us for obtaining favour and acceptation for us with God is of great usefulness to incourage us also that he that so loves us and with whom we have such a Priest and Sacrifice to befriend us is able to help and save us as Psal 57.2 I will cry unto God most high unto God that performeth all things for me this incouragement the Holy Ghost propounded to and by Paul as a motive to pray to him That the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is be of whom all the family in Heaven and earth is named and that in him are riches of Glory and that he is able to doe exceeding abundantly above all we ask and think Ephes 3.15 16 20. indeed this without the other would be little incouragement but rather terrifie us from him but with and through it it gives exceeding much incouragement to consider that he is able both in respect of wisdom and knowledge to discern our wants and in respect of Power and Authority to supply them 4. His Covenant and promises made and confirmed in Christ for hearing and helping those that come to him by Christ and for perfecting all that concerns them both as to salvation from evil and satisfaction with good It s his Covenant in Christ to write his Law in the heart and to put his fear into them and their iniquities and sins to remember no more c. and so it is to hear their prayers and to save them So Psal 50.14 15. Call upon me in the day of trouble and I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorifie me Psal 91.14 15. He shall call upon me I will be with him in trouble I will deliver him and honor him with long life will I satisfie him shew him my salvation so by our Saviour Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my Name I will give it you John 16.23 Godliness hath the promise of this life and of that that is to come 1 Tim. 4.8 to which add 5. His infinite truth and faithfulness through Christ to keep his Covenant and mercy for ever this incouragement is also propounded and was often made use of by the servants of God as the Apostle to move the Believer to draw nigh to God uses this amongst others Faithful is he that promised therefore let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering which is done as wel by our persevering in prayer and continuing to draw nigh to God Heb. 10 23. this was made use of and pleaded by Nehemiah c. 1.5 The great terrible God that keepeth Covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his Commandments so by those good Levites mentioned in Neh. 9 4 5. in Verse 32. and by Daniel Dan. 9.4 as also it is propounded as an incouragement to call upon God and to seek him and seek his face Psal 105.1.4 8. He hath remembred his Co●ont for ever c. 6. The Relations that they stand in to God and God to them that the Holy Spirit also makes use of to encourage to pray and to call upon God So in Matth. 7.11 If ye that are evil know how to give good gifts unto your children how much more shall your heavenly Father give good things to them that ask him So again in Luke 11.13 and this also the holy men of God have been encouraged by to pray to him as Isa 63.16 Doubtless thou art our Father though Abraham be ignorant of us c. Thou O Lord art our Father our Redeemer thy name is from everlasting c. So Jer. 14.8 O the hope of Israel the Saviour thereof in time of trouble c. 〈◊〉 very often David makes use of this encouragement that God was his God and his King his Rock Refuge c. 7. The often proofs they have had of his Goodness and Power and Mercy in former times Call to mind says the Apostle amongst other motives and encouragements to draw nigh to God and to hold fast the Profession of the Faith the farmer days in which after ye were illuminated ye endured a great fight of afflictions And this is often made use of and found as an encouragement to the servants of God in former times as Psal 4.1 O God of my righteousness hear when I call Thou hast set me at liberty when I was in distress have mercy upon me and hear my prayer and in Psal 18 3. we have David resolving to call upon the Lord worthy to be praised and assuring himself that so he should be delivered from his enemies And see what encouraged him to that assured expectation and so to that holy resolution Verse 4 5 6. The sorrows of death compassed me c. In my distress I called upon the Lord and cryed unto my God he heard my voyce out of his Temple c. Like to which is that in Psal 116.1 2. I love the Lord because he hath heard my voyce and my supplication because he hath inclined his ear unto me therefore will I call upon him

a sense the Doctrine or faith of him as setting him forth to and for men is most holy in all these respects more holy than any other vessel utensil or instrument made use of by God or at his appointment under the Law and legal dispensation though there were divers and some more holy than others yet the Gospel is above them all The most choise medium of God's power both spotless and pure in it self as being his word and most chosen and set apart to be his arm for salvation to all that believe and therefore fuller of divine efficacie for making holy and more choisely cared for and defended of God being the Everlasting Gospel and the neglects and contempt of it most severely punished Matth. 10.15 Some things under the Law conferred an holiness unto other things that touched them or that they were applied to as the Altar or the holy Oyntment c. but nothing 〈◊〉 so confer holiness as the Gospel doth them that attend to it and receive it It s the Vnction the holy Oyntment the Name of Christ therein held forth is as an Oyntment poured out Cant. 1.3 which sanctifies consecrates and makes holy to God all that receive it as Act. 26.18 Sanctified by the faith that is in me and 1 Cor. 6.11 Ye are sanctified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God The Law was holy and the Commandment holy and just and good but not able to sanctifie and make the Conscience perfect because of the flesh that it could nor subdue but the Gospel faith is so holy and set apart for Gods use and service as the medium for his sanctifying and saving men that his presence and Spirit even the Holy Spirit is in or with it and his influence or operation ministred by it to the sanctifyng and devoting the hearts and Spirits of all that receive it unto God Sanctifie them through thy truth thy word is the truth John 17.17 Yea and as it is now plainly and fully opened and preached since the coming of Christ it is more full of Spirit and divine power for sanctifying and making holy and therefore also requires and calls for more holiness in the hearers and professors of it than any former dispensations For now in these last ages God who in former times spake to the Fathers by the Prophets and to them by Angels Dreams and Visions hath spoken his mind most fully to us by his onely begotten Son whom he appointed heir of all things and by whom he also made the Worlds Heb. 1.1 2. and therefore now requires more strict obedience and more exact conformity to his minde and more severely punishes the neglectors and abusers of his Gospel and the Grace thereof than he did in former times exact or expect from men under the Mosaical dispensation and then he punished the neglectors and abusers thereof or of any holy things then in use Heb. 2.1 2 3. and 10.26 29. and 12.18 19 24 25. If the word spoken by Angels was stedfast and every transgression there against ● received a just recompence of reward how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation which at first began to be spoken by the Lord and afterward was confirmed to us by them that heard him So the Faith of the Saints is the most holy faith and so called here as also because of 2. It s most absolute compleatness and perfection It is so holy that nothing can be added to it to make it more holy perfect pure or apt and fit for the purpose to which it is ordained as to be the foundation of Faith hope love obedience c. and the mean or medium for effecting them and so of making holy to God those that receive it Christ is the most full and compleat foundation of Gods Building who is so perfected through sufferings as to become the Author of eternal Salvation to all them that obey him Heb. 5.9 Yea so as all the fulness of the Godhead dwells in him bodily and in him we are compleat who is the Head of all Principallity and power Col. 2.9 10. made unto us of God wisdome righteousness holiness and redemption 1 Cor. 1.30 a most sure foundation and precious corner stone so as that he that believes on him shall not be confounded or make haste from him for any thing that threatens to shake or ruine him The Soul that believes in him findes so much holiness and preciousness in him Isa 28.16 1 Pet. 2.6 7. there can nothing be added to the excellencie of his person being the onely begotten Son of God nor to the vertue and preciousness of this Sacrifice having offered up himself a spotless Sacrifice through the eternal Spirit by which he hath at once perfected or perfectly prepared all things for the sanctified for ever Heb. 9.14 Heb. 10.14 Nor to the dignity and perfection of his Priesthood being consecrated of God by the word of his Oath an High-Priest for ever after the Order of Melchisedech even according to the power of an endless life Heb. 7. nor to the fulness of his Prophesie or prophetical Power and Office being acquainted with the whole minde of God and filled with the fulness of the Holy Spirit to declare it and to make the declaration of it powerful and effectual and all the treasures of wisdome and knowledge being hid or treasured up in him and his Mystery Col. 2.3 4. Isa 42.1 2 3 4. and 61.1 2 3. nor to his Power and Authority as Lord and King the fulness of Gods Power and Authority being given to him even all power in Heaven and Earth a Name above every Name that at his Name every knee should ●ow both of things in Heaven and things in Earth and things under Earth c. Angels and Principallities and Powers are made subject to him Philip. 2.10 11. 1 Pet. 3.21 And so the Doctrine of faith that sets him forth is the most holy Faith to signifie that its the most compleat pure and perfect Doctrine nothing to be added to it nor taken from it The Doctrine of the Law that was very good holy and useful in its kind but it was a ministration of Death and in respect of the shadowness and typicalness of it it was to pass away as in 2 Cor. 3. is shewed and so the Testimony or Covenant made therein Heb. 8.8 9 13. but this ministration of the Gospel as it came forth first in Paradise so it is to continue abide to the end it is the everlasting Gospel that shall not pass till all be fulfilled accomplished indeed before the coming of Christ in the flesh it was not fully revealed as now it is in these last days by Jesus Christ and his Apostles and therefore till then the Vision was not sealed Dan. 9.24 nor the Law and testimony fully bound up Isa 8.16 but now it is fully revealed so as no more is to be added till the personal appearance of the Lord