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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	child_n	king_n	son_n	4,367	5	5.1460	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40078	A discourse of the great disingenuity & unreasonableness of repining at afflicting providences and of the influence which they ought to have upon us, on Job 2, 10, publish'd upon occasion of the death of our gracious sovereign Queen Mary of most blessed memory : with a preface containing some observations, touching her excellent endowments, and exemplary life.	Fowler, Edward, 1632-1714.	1695 (1695)	Wing F1703; ESTC R7038	47,822	152

the suddain death of her Child Cryed out to the Prophet Art thou come unto me to call my Sin to remembrance and to Slay my Son 1 Kings 17. 18. And thus Iosephs Brethren upon the Severity he used towards them Said one to another we are verily Guilty Concerning our Brother in that we Saw the Anguish of his Soul when he besought us and we would not hear therefore is this distress come upon us Gen. 42. 21. God saith Hosea 5. 15. I will go and return to my Place or I will withdraw my Protection from them till they acknowledge their Offence and seek my Face In their Affliction they will seek me Early And it is said Psal. 78. 34. When He Slew them then they Sought Him and they Returned and Enquired after God And they Remembred that God was their Rock and the High God their Redeemer Or then they called this to mind who till they were Afflicted could never be perswaded to Consider it As Stubborn a Wretch as Pharoah was his Hard heart was quickly from time to time Softned by the Plagues and it reteined its Softness under each Plague till it was removed When the Prodigal Son was brought to extream Penury he soon came to himself and Returned to his Father King Manasseh was a Prodigy of Wickedness yet When he was in Affliction as the Text saith he besought the Lord his God and Humbled himself greatly before the God of his Fathers And Prayed unto Him and He was intreated of him c. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord He is God Or he had a Powerful Sense thereof upon his Mind 2 Chron. 33. 12 13. Afflictions are so necessary to the Conversion of Sinners that those who have spent many years in a Loose Sort of Life are very rarely Effectually Reclaimed otherways than by Gods Blessing upon some Sharp Affliction II. Evil things or Afflictions are very Needful and Necessary for Imperfectly Good as well as for Bad People They greatly need them in order to their Growing in Grace and rising to higher degrees of Goodness Particularly in order to their being more Watchful against Temptations to Sin This Experience King David had of the Benefit of Afflictions Before I was Afflicted saith he I went Astray but now have I kept thy Word Psal. 119. 67. In order to the more weaning them from this Vain World and the Mortifying of all Remainders of Sensuality In order to the more Humbling them under a Sense of their Frailty and Impotence and their more close dependence upon God In order to the more Softning of their Hearts and more opening their Bowels of Compassion towards others in Affliction None have such a sympathy with their Suffering Brethren as those who are made sensible of the Sadness of their Condition by their own Feeling In order to their more loving of God and Trusting in Him To which the Experience they have had of Divine Supports under Afflictions and Deliverances out of them doth greatly Contribute In short by Afflictions The Iniquity of Jacob is purged and this is all the Fruit to take away his Sin Isaiah 22. 14. III. Evil things are needful too even for the Eminently Good And that as upon some of the forementioned Accounts so more Especially 1. For Prevention For which End the most Healthy Persons do sometimes take Physick St Paul as Eminent a Saint as he was had a Messenger of Satan sent to Buffet him lest he should be Exalted above measure through the Abundance of his Revelations as he tells us 2 Cor. 12. 7. There are none so Good as to be out of all danger while they remain in this World as to be able to bear long and uninterrupted Prosperity without being lyable to be the worse for it in several respects Who is so Humble who so Heavenly minded as to have no Reason to fear his being too much Opinionated of himself and loving the world too much if God did not sometimes mind him what an infirm and weak Creature he is by Afflictions of one kind or other and never imbittered his Comforts to him 2. The Best People need them likewise for the Tryal and Exercise of some Graces and Virtues which cannot be exerted without them What Exercise can there be of the Grace of Contentment while all things succeed according to a man's desire and expectation Of Patience while he feels no pain Of Submission to God's Will while God never Crosseth his Own Will Of Meekness and Forgiveness of Enemies while he hath no Enemies to forgive or meets with no Provocations from them And this leads me to Add 3. That the Best do need Afflictions in Order to their doing so much the more Credit to Religion and the more benefiting the World by their Examples For we have now seen that they cannot be Examples of all Virtues without them 4. The Best need them also to make them so much the more to Value and consequently to be the more Thankful for the Good things they enjoy There is no Man so good but he prizeth Health the more for being some times Sick No man can be so affected with his Obligations to God for any Blessing who never was without it as he who hath felt how uneasie and grievous a thing it is to want it Nay were there no Life after this we should think tolerable Evils necessary to give the better Gusto a more pleasing Relish to the Gratifications of our Senses The more Hungry or Thirsty a Man is the greater is the Pleasure he takes in Eating or Drinking How pleasant is a Bed or Couch to a Man tyred with hard Labour a cool Shade to one parched with Heat Liberty after Confinement the Enjoyment of a dear Relation or Friend after a long Absence and even Indolence or mere Ease after great Pain As Socrates observed in his last Discourse with his Friends after he was rid of his Shackles And perhaps there are not many Evils which we are able to bear with any patience and that continue not over-long which do not make us a good Recompence by the much more pleasant Enjoyment we have of the Opposite Good things upon their Leaving us Fourthly The last Consideration I named which gives great Weight to the Motive in the Text To Receive Evil things at the Hand of God is That they are Ordered and Appointed to us by God from the Self-same Principle that Good things are viz. That of Good Will And therefore as was said the Evils which come from Him are Good as they come from Him There is an Excellent Saying to this Purpose of an Heathen Philosopher viz Simplicius We do not say that the Divine Iustice is the Cause of Evil but of Good because the Evil which proceeds from thence is in order to Good We have seen that all sorts of Men do need Evil things as well as Good and we are now to shew that God inflicts them because we need them We have shewed That they are Spiritual