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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	enter_v	sin_n	sin_v	10,991	5	9.5827	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52808	The crown and glory of a Christian consisting in a sound conversion and well ordered conversation.	Ness, Christopher, 1621-1705.	1676 (1676)	Wing N450; ESTC R26867	31,261	167

till your Vessel be cleansed and till you have some sense that your sin is pardoned you will not go to bed with a bone out of joint but it must be set right with expedition 't is pity that the soul disjointed with sin should be so long neglected 5. 'T is a blessed frame of spirit to nourish in you both the sense of your own sin and the fear of Gods wrath for your sin The heavier that your sins are to you the lighter will your afflictons be on you 't is wind and rain coming both together that makes the storm upon our bodies So 't is sin and affliction joining both together that makes the storm in our souls when your sin is your burden 't is then repented of and so pardoned this will make your affliction a far lighter burden 6. Take heed of putting holiness upon you as a loose garment to cast off or on at pleasure according to your differing companies and occasions but be sure that you gird it close to you with the golden girdle of truth Ephes 6. 14 that in all places you may be what you seem to be that you be to God what you seem to be to man and that you be to God at all times what you seem to be to man at any time 7. Take heed of grieving the good Spirit of God wherewith you are sealed to the day of Redemption Ephes 4. 30 and which is a delicate thing as some reads Psal 143. 10 res delicata est spiritus tuus and therefore loves to live in a clean house in a clean heart 'T is a foul fault to grieve an earthly father but 't is far greater to grieve this holy Spirit If you grieve the Holy Ghost how can you expect that he should comfort you When you are grieved you cannot do your work as you are wont and neither can the Holy Spirit do his work in and for you a guest that is grieved may leave the house that grieves him so this delicate thing the Spirit of God may leave your house desolate when grieved with your sins Mat 23. 38 and then wo to you if God and his good spirit depart from you Hos 9. 12. 8. But above all take heed of quenching the spirit 1 Thes 5. 19 to wit in his motions and graces If God have kindled from heaven the holy fire upon the altar of your heart be careful that it be kept burning there continually in your love to Christ and zeal for him it must never go out Lev. 6. 12 13. You must stir up this fire as the Apostle counselleth 2 Tim. 1.6 and not despise Prophecying for the Priests lips blows it up into a flame it may be quenched either by withdrawing of fuel to wit neglect of Ordinances or by casting on water to wit by falling into foul courses you must beware of both 9. Be not ashamed to become a fool for Christ 1 Cor. 3. 18. Self-conceit self-will and self-love like Noahs three Sons hath spread themselves over the whole World you must deny your own self-conceit and carnal wisdom you must account your self more brutish than any man with Agur Prov. 30. 2 3 when you come to Ithiel and Vcal which is Christ both goodness and power to be instructed in Christs school Act. 4. 13. Remember it was the Devil that spoke in the subtile Serpent Gen. 3. 4 and it was God that spake in the silly Ass Numb 22. 28. Remember also how it was an Ass that carried Christ to Jerusalem Mat. 21.5 10. Yet though you must be as silly as Doves you must also be as wise as Serpents Mat. 10. 16. You must have the silliness and the meekness of wisdom Jam. 3. 13. As you must be wise to salvation so you may be wise to safety in Gods way and not cast your self upon needless dangers Christianity allows you as much of the Serpent as of the Dove the Dove without the Ser is easily entangled and the Serpent without the Dove is venomously hurtful the head of the Serpent and the heart of the Dove makes up the best and the most blessed composition piety without policy is too simple to be safe and policy without piety is too subtile to be good 11. You must chuse any suffering rather than the east sinning you must not chuse iniquity rather than affliction Job 36. 21 for there is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest suffering in as much as Moral evil is far worse and greater than that which is meerly Natural Quas non ergo oportet mortes praeeligere saith Zuinglius therefore what deaths ought not a man rather to make choice of what torments not rather undergo yea into what deepest gulf of Hell it self not rather enter than wittingly and willingly to sin the least sin against God The ancient Martyrs would not accept of deliverance upon ignoble and the sinful terms Hebrews 11. 35. They would not throw so much as one grain of frankincense to the Idol though it would have saved their own lives hence Daniel chose rather to be cast to the Lions than to violate his Conscience and so to have a lion roaring in his bosome he knew that in an angry Conscience he might feel the unbearable strokes of an angry God and a man had better anger all the Witches in the world yea and all the Devils in hell than anger God 12. You may not do the least evil no not for the procuring of the greatest good Rom. 3. 8 do no evil that good may come If a lie would save your life you may not tell it Gods people are children that will not lie as their father is a God that cannot lie Isa 63. 8 they will rather die than lie Non ideo negare volo ne peream sed ideo mentiri nolo ne peocem I will not therefore deny least I perish but therefore will I not lie least I sin said the good woman upon the Rack of whom St. Jerome writeth And Austin saith That a man ought not to tell a lie though he might save the whole World from Hell thereby for there is more evil in one lie than there is good saith he in the salvation of all the World and he would chuse Hell rather than sin if set before him for choice Thus the Primitive Christians cried Ad Leones potius quam ad Lenones Throw us to your Lions rather than to your Harlotry though this would save our lives yet would it destroy our souls The Armenian Mouse will die some write rather than be defiled with filth insomuch that if her hole be besmeared with dirt she rather chuses to be taken than polluted Such ought all the servants of God to be 13. Examine your call from God for every action you undertake be oft crying Quo warranto what warrant have I for this or that from the Lord whom I ought to obey in all things and for this end mind those four voices 1. Of Providence how it