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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	call_v	life_n	sin_n	10,775	5	4.7671	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B14212	A sermon preached before his Maiestie at the court at Greenewich the 2. of Iuly. 1632. By Geo: Iay Mr. of Arts and late student of Christ-church in Oxon	Jay, George, b. 1597 or 8.	1632 (1632)	STC 14479.3; ESTC S103190	11,906	30

they fall away should bee renewed againe by repentance seeing they crucifie to themselues the Sonne of God afresh and put him to an open shame Heere I could give you many examples of revolters and backsliders and shew you to what a height of impiety they have growne when once they have forsaken God and that goodnesse they have begun to professe which for brevitie sake I will omit and conclude this poynt with the exhortation of the Apostle in the 3. to the Hebr. ver 12.13 Take heed brethren least at any time there be in any of you an evill heart and unfaithfull to depart away from the living God but exhort one an other daily whilest it is yet called to day least any of you be hardned through the deceitfulnesse of sinne for we are made partakers of Christ if wee hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end and my Text sayes If wee continue faithfull untill death the God of life and death will give us a Crowne of life And that 's my second generall part The Promise I will give thee a Crowne of Life Ego dabo tibi Coronam vitae And heere every word yeelds matter of observation I will begin with the first word Ego and that is either taken eminenter by way of eminencie And then t is I the God of heaven and earth that decke my selfe with light as with a garment that make the clouds my chariots and ride upon the wings of the winde I will give this Crowne Great persons give great gifts Alexander gave a talent to a begger not considering what was fit for the other to receive but for him to give Heere God sprinkles Crownes now and then one a few in an age all the world over but in the next life he makes them all Kings as it were showring and rayning Crownes from his glorious head upon his glorified members Secondly heere is Ego exclusivè I by way of exclusion And then it is I and none but I that give these Crownes This preferment these Crownes come neither from the East nor from the West nor from the South but from God alone T is not S. Peters keyes that can open the doore of that kingdome nor unlocke the treasury where these Crownes are layd up he keepes the key himselfe And if you will give me leave to slide from Spirituall to temporall Crownes then I shall tell you that God is the disposer of them also By me Kings reigne Prou. 8.15 As was sayd of him by a wiser man then any of those that ever usurped that power And t is but a ridiculous intrusion extrá jurisdictionem jus dicere To execute the power of a Iudge where a man hath no jurisdiction Or to give that which he hath not in his owne power to bestow which is none of his This is like the folly of the mad Athenian that tooke all the ships in the haven to be his owne and so gave them away where hee pleas'd as if he had beene the true and right Master of them Or like the divell that tooke the Sonne of God into an exceeding high mountaine and shewed him all the kingdomes of the world the glory of them proffering all unto him if he would fall downe and worship him When all those kingdomes and Crownes were his Lords inheritance and the donation of them his prerogative And they hold them but by a false tenure that receive them from any other Donor God is Iudge himselfe hee putteth downe one and setteth up an other himselfe the word is not idle hee doth it himselfe sayes the Psalmist And for this crowne it is not to bee bought as Iulianus the Emperour bought the Roman Empire nor to be sold as the Papall disposer of kingdomes doth bargaine for it But God himselfe bestowes it Hee needs no Vicar upon earth for that purpose His hands are long enough to set the Crowne upon that head that must weare it the words are plaine in my text Ego Dabo Dabo and that 's the next word which plainely shewes the manner how these Crownes are convey'd unto us we have them not by a bargaine or sale but by a deed of gift This Crowne is no purchase but a donation Wee may talke or we may dreame of meriting or earning this Crowne but we should bee but poorely rewarded if God should deale with us according to the proportion of our workes Our workes at the best are stained with the imperfections and blemishes of our corrupted nature so that the most that we could hope for was pardon for their defect And for a Delinquent that should sue for his pardon to claime to sit in the throne with his Soveraigne were a presumption so intollerable that if wee should be guilty of it heaven and earth would cry out shame upon us and condemne us for idiots Ther 's not a word in this part of my text but will serue for an exception against that absurd claime by merit Take Ego an offended God and what is he bound to doe in iustice take Dabo and what more free and non merited then gift wee must strike out that word if wee meane to make any claime by merit Take Tibi and what is man but a guilty malefactor There is such a gulfe of sinne betwixt Ego and Tibi that nothing can passe betweene them by way of Iustice but punishment and vengeance Or take man at the best he is but an offender reconciled to grace and favour and received to mercy so that every word cuts the throat of merit Or take the word Coronam and who that hath the disposing of it will set it upon the head of a Captaine Or put the other word to it and make it Coronam vitae and what an impudent demand were it for him to claime the Crowne of life who all the world knowes hath deserved the shakles of death They are bold attempters that dare adventure to breake downe all those barres there is not a word here but is a fense good enough to keepe out all that would take possession of this Crowne by way of merit For 't is Ego dabo tibi Tibi Tibi by way of Argument I haue handled already but yet I will not let it goe untill I haue observed it to our comfort Luther saies well that there is a great deale of divinity in pronouns giue me leaue to goe a little further and to tell you that there is a great deale of comfort in pronouns too Not onely strong divinitie to ground an argument but strong consolation to comfort a weake spirit Tibi is a word of singularity and will contract Gods generall promises to every man in particular if the fault bee not his owne God Almighties promises are like a well made picture though there bee an hundred in the roome in divers places and postures yet the picture seemes to looke upon every one of them in particular and wee cannot avoyd the aspect of it except wee