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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	aaron_n	command_v	life_n	26	3	3.8455	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10845	Vox ducis: or, An alarme from the trumpet of God to euery souldier in Iesus Christ. Calling them to fight the good fight of faith. In a sermon at Pauls Crosse, Sept. 11. 1631. by Iohn Robinson preacher of the word of God and Mr of Arts of Kings Coll. in Camb.	Robinson, John, preacher.	1631 (1631)	STC 21117; ESTC S114096	25,235	86

and hath crushed in peeces the very head of the maligning world for bee of good comfort saies our Sauiour I haue ouercome the world Et licet atrocitèr loquantur Ioh. 16. 33 saies Tacitus of Vitellius souldiers minor est tamen apud victos animus And an enemy Hist li● 3. wee know that is once beaten though he speake big for a time yet if he come once to strokes his courage will then quickly faint and quaile Only let that exhortation of the Apostle take place with vs To lift vp our hands that Heb. 1● 1. hang downe and our feeble knees yea our hearts also that hang downe towards our feet saying with Dauid I will not feare though ten thousand of enemies doe bande Psal 3. 6. So a cow and is described cuius a 〈…〉 mus in pedious themselues against mee or with Paul send forth that triumphant challenge What shall bee able to separate me from the loue of God in Christ shall tribulation or anguish c. No I am perswaded Rom. 8. 38 that neither life nor death no nor any thing else shall euer bee able to separate mee from the loue of God in Christ And then good luck haue we with our honour as Dauid hath it Ride on because of the word of truth and meeknesse and Ps● 45. 4. our right hands shall teach vs terrible things The campe of Christ will admit of no weakling of no dastard and hence it is that S. Paul in his Panoply speaks of no armour atall for our back parts Eph. 6. 12. but only for those that are before to shew that hee would not haue vs afraid to looke our enemies in the face but to quit our selues like men and be strong and not 1 Co. vlt. 13 to be like those of Ephraim who turn'd their backs in the day of Psa 78. 10. battell for shall such a man as I fly saies Nehemiah I will neuer Neh. 6. 11. doe it Indeed I must needs confesse that in our earthly warfare wee oft times become strong by making our selues weake and ouercome our enemies like the Parthian by flying from them But in our spirituall warfare it is not thus Resist the Deuill saies S. Peter and then hee will flee from 1 Pet. 5. 9. you but if we fly from him first thereby hoping for the greater aduantage then acriùs urget hostis the enemy will come with the greater violence because wee wrastle not as they doe against flesh and blood saies Paul but against Eph. 6. 12. principalities and powers and spirituall wickednesses in high places and therefore as they can the better discry our purposes so will they also preuent our practises as well knowing whereof we are made and remembring how wee bee but dust But enough for the second requisite in the manner of our fight and this is strength or courage The third and last followes which is constancy and perseuerance and this must strike the battell through make vp of all the former flowers a complete garland of triumph For as Christ said to the yong Mar. 10. 21 man who profess'd that hee had kept all the commandments from his youth so say I now to you that haue vsed all those other meanes from the beginning of your dayes unum adhuc superest there is yet one thing wanting to perfection and this is constancy in them to the end of your daies For as finis doth movere ad pugnandum so doth it also post pugnandum exhibere coronam as it doth prouoke vs to fight at the first so also doth it reward vs for fighting at the last for no man is crown'd saies the Apostle vnlesse 2 Tim. 1. he striue first and as wee are not crown'd vnlesse we striue first so neither vnlesse we striue last euen to the last period of the battell finis enim coronat opus for the end is euer that which crownes the action so saies our Sauiour to the Minister of the Church of Smyrna Be faithfull to death and then will I giue thee a crowne of life Reu. 2. 10. And this was the reason why God commanded that vpon the outward skirts and end of Aarons garments there should bee Pomegranates of blew silke and purple because of all other fruits doth the Ex. 28 33. Pomegranate beare most the resemblance of a crowne vpon it so that as Dauid hath it the oyle of grace must runne downe from our heads euen to our beards and not rest there neither vntill it hath touched the end of the combate the skirts of our clothing Psa 133. 2. and therefore it is lamented by the Prophet touching Ierusalem that her filthinesse was in her skirts and her end was worse then 〈◊〉 1. 9. her beginning But if any man turne his hands to the plow saies Christ and looke back againe such a one is not fit for the kingdome of 〈◊〉 9. 60. heauen Neither shall my soule saies God haue pleasure in him We must not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the word is Heb. 10. 38 vsed by S. Luke and signifies properly to shrinke back as cowardly Luk. 18. 1. souldiers doe in warre when there is apparent feare of danger and so it is noted in the margent of your Edward Bibles It is but an hypocriticall tricke to enter into the performance of Sir Francis Bacon In Charles the 8. his expedition on which some compare them to a flea soone skiping into a countrey as soone out Heylen Hist● Gen 15. 11 good duties as a stranger doth into an Inne or as the French did sometimes into Italy as one said of them wittily onely to chalke vp their lodgings and bee gone But a true Christian Souldier he will alway deale with his spirituall enemies as Abraham did with the fowles that lighted vpon his sacrifice neuer leaue driuing them away vntill the euening hee will wrestle with them as earnestly as euer Iacob did with the Angell Gen. 32. 22 euen til the day of saluation break and the shadowes of the night flee away Which if we doe then shall we be truly called as our father was before vs The Israel of God because wee haue fought with our enemies and preuailed There now wants nothing but Pauls desire and then may the Phil. 1. 23 Cupio dissolui c. Isa 40. 1. company be dissolued and be with Christ Then speake comfortably to Ierusalem saith the Prophet Isaiah in the person of God and tell her that her warfare is accomplished For now shall our righteousnesse go before vs as the same Isa 58. 8. Prophet speakes in another place and the glory of God shall be our reward In a word now shall be brought to passe the saying that is written We haue fought a good fight we haue fulfilled our course we 2. Tim. 4. 8. haue runne our race we haue continued in the faith hence forth therefore is laid vp for vs a Crowne of righteousnesse Which God giue vs for Iesus Christ our onely Lord and Sauiour FINIS