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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	die_v	let_v	life_n	14,740	5	4.9962	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51697	The axe at the root of professors miscarriages in a plain detection of, and a wholesome caveat against the miscarriages opposite to faith in God / by Thomas Mall ...	Mall, Thomas, b. 1629 or 30.	1668 (1668)	Wing M328; ESTC R12069	51,837	51

Samaria a strong walled City though the King of Israel sent to fetch his head he said only to those that were with him Shut the door Do not some still expect that God should provide for their Bodies though they neglect the means that God hath appointed for their nourishment clothing recovery from sickness c 2 Thes 3.10 Do not some look to eat though they do not labour But do not more expect that God should provide for their Souls though they neglect the means of grace and salvation Do not you still think that your Souls shall do well enough though you take no pains about them Do not you lay all upon God and never trouble your selves about them Do not you still cry out Let us dye the death of the righteous But are not you careless of living the life of the righteous Do not you still expect help from God in sinful wayes Do not you still expect to meet with God in wayes of worship of your own devising Now therefore why tempt ye God Acts 1● 10 to put a yoak upon the neck of the Disciples which neither our Fathers nor we were able to bear In a word as to this Head Do not you still do what tends to incline God to make good his promises though you do not perform their conditions Do not you also still expect that God should not execute his threats upon you though there be that in you against which where e're it is the threatnings are denounced Do not you still expect to escape punishments notwithstanding your very sins are threatned by God in his Word Do not you still run into temptation And are not you careless to avoid occasions of sin and yet remain fearless of falling into sin though God hath threatned Ezek. 14.3 4 5. 1 Cor. 10.9 to give up such to their own hearts lusts O that this may be your sin no more O! tempt not Christ any more as you have tempted him The naturalness of this sin should make you take heed This is an humour that we are all given unto by nature to be marvellous desirous to try conclusions that are rare and unknown to contemn things common and to be fond after strange novelties It was told the Israelites as plain as could be that they should not reserve of the Mannah till morning and they needed not to have reserved it they had fresh every day and yet forsooth they would needs keep it if it were but for an experiment sake to try whether it would s●ink or no Exod. 16.20 And though they were forbidden to gather any on the Sabbath day and on the Eeven before had enough for two dayes and it was told them they should find none on the Sabbath day yet they must needs try This sin should not only be the more lamented but the more taken heed of because it is such a provocation unto God It comes from much wickedness Such an one that will undertake a new way to know the will of God is not satisfied with Gods discovery of his will in his Word yea this sin proceedeth from pride and arrogancy such a soul refuseth to subject its will to the will of God and doth seek to make Gods will subject to its lusts This sin lays you open to all manner of temptations to any wickedness whatsoever neither are we overcome by any temptation of the Devil unless we do in a sort tempt God ●nar● 8 11 12 Psal 95.11 The Lord Jesus sighed for the Pharisee tempting of God and why Because God sware in his wrath that their Fathers who tempted him should not enter into his rest It is verily height of madness to tempt God To tempt God is to put God to it 1 Cor 10 22 and do yee provoke the Lord to anger are yee stronger than he If you will needs tempt it were best for you to tempt your matches There is no dealing with Fire it is very ●langerous to make experiments thereof it will burn all that toucheth it Heb 12 29 and God is Fire yea our God is a consuming Fire 2 Not trusting in God Against not trusting in God The Hebrews express this act of faith by a word that signifieth to lean on or to cast the weight of ones body for support or stay And it shall come to pass in that day ●a 10 20 that the remnant of Israel and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob shall no more stay upon him that smote them but shall stay upon the Lord the holy one of Israel in truth But which of our souls do yet wholly rely upon God for the making good of his promises either for the bestowing or continuing of what is good or for the preventing or removing of what is evil Is not our not trusting in God still evidenced in our ignorance of God● can God be more trusted than he is known They that know thy name Psal 9 10 and they only will put their trust in thee Is it not also evidenced in our want of interest in God by reason of our not assenting and consenting to him Who is this that cometh up from the Wilderness Cant 8 5 leaning upon her beloved who can suppose God to be thy leaning-stock if he be not thy beloved May not God say with a bitter scorn Teate c page 333 334 who art thou that learned upon anothers beloved How darest thou lay thine head in his bosome unto whom thou never yet gavest the heart in thy bosome 'T is interest and only interest in Christ in God in and through Christ that gives a right to this act of leaning upon him If you still refuse to enter into Covenant with God he is so far from calling you to take hold that he will even knock off your fingers from holding upon his Covenant with what hast thou to do Psal 50.10 to take my Covenant into thy mouth I● God be thine if thou believest him and consents to have him to be thy God lean and welcome and the more thou leanest the dearer shalt thou be unto him Christ loved that Disciple best that leaned upon his bosome most John 21.20 Isa 49.5 Psal 18 ● If thou canst say with Christ my God th●● ma●st add he shall be my strength If thou canst say with David the Lord is my God thou mayst add my strength in whom I will trust But if God be not thy beloved thy leaning will be counted wantonness impudence and presumption Is not our not trusting in God also evidenced in our not keeping his way the way of his Commandments Psal 37.3 and the way of his Providence but tempting of him But of these evidences already in the former Chapters and the first section of this Once more what else do your carking cares and carnal sears argue but your distrusts of God Trusting in God will not indeed suffer you to be slothfully careless what becomes of you and