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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	day_n	earth_n	life_n	4,047	5	4.4029	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44674	A discourse of an unconverted man's enmity, against God Preached to a country congregation, by J.H. And publish'd by one who wrote it from his mouth.	Howe, John, 1630-1705.	1700 (1700)	Wing H3022; ESTC R215391	18,256	57

He daily loadeth us with his benefits He gives us all things richly to enjoy Act. 14. 17. God leaves not himself without witness that he doth men good He gives men Rain from Heaven when they want it and when unseasonable he with-holds it 'T is a great thing to understand the loving-kindness of the Lord Psal. 107. 42. his wonderfull works towards the children of men to understand our Mercies and Comforts and what their meaning and design is By Mercies to our outward man God designs to draw our hearts and minds to himself Mercies are bestowed on them that have the power of thought to consider the end of all God's Mercies 'T is bespeaking and seeking to win our hearts to himself Hos. 11. 4. 'T is drawing us with those cords of a man with bands of love which plainly shews what the case requires that the minds and hearts of men are very averse and alienated from him and therefore need such drawing 5. And that which is more than all the rest is God's sending his Son into the World to procure terms of peace for us and then to treat with us thereupon and that in him he is reconciling the world to himself 2 Cor. 5. 19. Doth not Reconciliation suppose enmity as here and in the Text. You that were enemies in your minds yet hath he reconciled As we have noted that on our parts our withstanding and too commonly frustrating his Overtures speaks enmity and obstinacy therein so on his part those Overtures themselves speak it too Here is the greatest kindness and good-will on God's part that can be conceiv'd But it supposes what we are evincing ill-will in us Christ came to seek and save that which was lost What a lost state was our state What to be engaged in a War against him that made us Wo to him that strives with his Maker Isa. 45. 9. Fall'n man is little apprehensive of it now If we continue unreconciled to the last at death it will be understood what a lost state we are in Upon this account it will then appear but this was our state before when it appeared not In this state Christ pitied us when we had no pity for our selves Christ came not into the World to save men only at the hour of their death from Hell but to raise up to himself a willing people that may serve and glorify God in their life on Earth He is for this purpose intent on this reconciling design And how earnest how alluring were his Solicitations in the days of his Flesh Come to me all ye that are weary He that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out How pathetical his lamentations for the unreconcilable O that thou hadst known the things belonging to thy peace And his bloud was shed at last as the bloud of Propitiation of a reconciling Sacrifice first to reconcile God's Justice to us but thereupon also as in this Context Having made peace by the bloud of his cross vers 20. to vanquish our enmity to reconcile us who were enemies in our minds vers 21 22. 6. Consider Christ sending and continuing from Age to Age the Gospel in the World the design whereof may be understood by the manifest import and substance of it and by the titles given to it As it reveals Christ the Mediator the Peace-maker in his Person Natures Offices Acts Sufferings and Performances As it contains the great commands of Repentance towards God and Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ with the promises of Pardon and Eternal Life with whatsoever is requisit to our present good state Godward and our final blessedness in him As also the various enforcements of such Precepts and confirmations of such Promises with copious Explications of the one and the other And as it is called the Ministry of Reconciliation 2 Cor. 5. 18. The word wherein Peace is preached by Jesus Christ Act. 10. 36. The Gospel of peace and of glad tidings Rom. 10. 15. as that very word Gospel signifies This Gospel was in its clearer manifestation at the fulness of time introduc'd with great magnificence and solemnity into the world as the Law had been by the Ministry of Angels When the Sun of Righteousness the light of the world was arising and dawning upon it then did a multitude of the Heavenly Host appear praising God and saying Glory to God in the highest peace on earth and good-will towards men Luk. 2. 13 14. But this Gospel is not a more express declaration of God's good-will towards men than their deportment under it their continuing to live as without God in the world is of their ill-will disaffection and enmity against God 7. And lastly The strivings of the Spirit in the Hearts of Ministers preaching the Gospel and with the Souls of men to whom it is preached shew that there is a mighty enmity to be overcome 1. God's giving forth his Spirit to Ministers enabling them to strive with Sinners to bring them to Christ according to the working of that power which works in them mightily Colos. 1. ult What need of such striving but that there is a great enmity in the minds of People to be conquered and overcome Sometimes we read of Ministers of the Gospel weeping over Souls who for their too intent minding of earthly things are called enemies to the Cross of Christ Phil. 3. 18. Sometimes they are ready to breath out their own Souls towards them among whom they labour 1 Thess. 2. 8. Sometimes represented as travelling in birth with them that are committed to their charge Gal. 4. 19. There are Ministers whose Hearts are in pangs and agonies for the Souls of Sinners when the things of God are too apparently neglected and not regarded by them and when they see destruction from the Almighty is not a terror to them and while they visibly take the way that takes hold of Hell and leads down to the chambers of death They would if possible save them with fear and pluck them as firebrands out of the fire the fire of their own lusts and fervent enmity against God and Godliness and save them from his flaming wrath Is all this unncecessary and what makes it necessary but that there is a counter-striving an enmity working in the Hearts of men against the Spirits striving in the Ministry to be overcome 2. The Spirit also strives immediately with the Souls of Sinners and pleads with them sometimes as a Spirit of conviction illumination fear and dread sometimes as a Spirit of Grace woing and beseeching and when his motions are not complied with there are complaints of mens grieving vexing quenching resisting the Spirit Acts 7. 51. Which resistance implies continual striving No striving but doth suppose an obstruction and difficulty to be striven withall There could be no resisting if there were not counter-striving And hereby despite is done to the Spirit of Grace O fearful aggravation that such a Spirit is striven against 'T is the Spirit of Grace Love and Goodness