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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	great_a	sin_n	soul_n	8,809	5	5.0614	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65993	A choice drop of honey from the rock Christ, or, A short word of advice to all Christians of what perswasion soever in order to a thorough reformation / by T.W.	T. W. (Thomas Wilcox), 1622-1687.	1699 (1699)	Wing W2119A; ESTC R26362	12,576	24

Phil. 3.7.8 thy priviledges thy obedience thy Baptism thy Sanctification thy Duties thy Graces thy Tears Meltings thy Humblings and nothing but Christ must be held ●p Every day thy workings thy self sufficiency must be destroyed Thou must take all out of God's hand Christ he is the gift of God Joh. ● 10 Faith the gift of God Ephes 3.8 Pardon 〈◊〉 free gift Rom. 5.16 Ah how Nature storms ●ret's rageth at this that all is of gift and it can ●urchase nothing with its actings and Tears and ●ears and duties that all its workings are excluded and of no value in Heaven If nature had been to contrive the way of Salvation it would rather have put it into the ●ands of saints or Angels to sell it than of Christ who gives freely whom therefore it suspects ●t would have set up a way to purchase by doing therefore it obminates the merits of Christ as the most destructive thing to it would do any thing to be saved rather than go to Christ or close with Christ Christ will have nothing the soul will force some what of his own upon Christ here is the great controverse Consider didst thou ever see the merrits of Christ and the infinite satisfaction made by his death did thou see this in a time when the burthen of sin and the wrath of God lay heavy upon thy Conscience That is grace The greatness of Christ's Merits is not known but to a poor soul at the greatest loss Slight convictions will but have slight low prizings of Christ's Blood and merits Despairing sinner Thou art looking ●n thy right hand and thy left saying Who will shew us any good Thou art tumbling over all thy duties and professions to patch up a righteousness to save thee Miserable comforters are all those to thee Look at Christ now Look to him and be saved all the ends of the earth Isa 45.22 There is none else He is a Saviour and their is none besides him ver 21. look any where else and thou art undone God will look at nothing but Christ and thou must look at nothing else Christ is lifted up on high as the brasen serpent in the wilderness that the ends of the earth sinners at the greatest distance may see him and look to wards him The least sight of him will be saving the least touch healing to thee and God intends thou shouldst look on him for he hath set him upon a high throne of Glory in the open view of all poor Sinners Thou hast infinite reason to look on him no reason at all to look off him For he is meek and lowly of heart Mat. 11.29 He will do that himself Which he requires of his creature bear with infirmities Rom. 15.1 not pleasing himself not standing upon points of Law ver 2. He will restore with the spirit of meekness Gal. 6.1 And bare thy burdens ver 22. He Will forgive not only until seven times but seventy times seven Mat. 18.21.22 It put the Faith of the apostles to it to believe this Luz 17.4.5 Because we are hard to forgive we think Christ is hard We see sin great we think Christ doth so too and measure infinite love with our line infinite merits with our sins which is the greatest Pride and Blasphemy Psa 103.11.12 Isa 40.15 Hear what he saith I have found a ransom Job 33 24. In him I am well pleased Mat. 3.17 God will have nothing else nothing else will do thee good or satisfy conscience but Christ who satisfied the Father God doth all upon the account of Christ thy deserts are hell Wrath rejections Christs deserts are life pardon and acception ●e will only shew thee the one but he will give ●ee the other It s Christ's own glory and happness to pardon Consider whilest Christ was ●pon the earth he was more among Publicans ●●d sinners than Scribes and pharisees his professed adversaries for they were righteous ●●es It is not so as thou imaginest that his ●ate in glory makes him neglectful scornful 〈◊〉 poor sinners no he hath the same heart now 〈◊〉 Heaven he is God and changeth not He is ●●e Lamb of God that taketh a way the sins of the ●orld John 1.29 He hath gon through all thy ●emptations dejections sorrows desertions ●●jections Mat. 4.3 to 12. Mark 15.14 ●uke 22.44 Mat. 26.38 And hath drunk ●●e bitterest of the cup and left thee the sweet ●●e condemnation is out Christ drunk up all the ●●thers wrath at one draught and nothing but ●●lvation is left for the thou say'st thou canst ●ot believe thou canst not repent fitter to re●ent fitter for Christ if thou hast nothing but ●n and misery go to Christ with all thy impe●itency and unbelief to get faith and repentance with from him that is glorious Tell Christ Lord I have brought no righteousness no ●race to be accepted in justified by I am come 〈◊〉 thine and must have it We would be bring●●g to Christ and that must not be not a penny 〈◊〉 nature's highest improvement will pass in heaven Grace will not stand with works Tit 3. Rom. 11.6 That is a terrible point to na●●re which cannot think of being stript of all 〈◊〉 having a rag of duty or righteousness lest 〈◊〉 look at Self-righteousness self-sufficiency ●●e the darlings of nature which she preserves as her life That makes Christ such an ugly thing to nature nature cannot desire him he is just directly opposite to all nature's glorious interests Let nature but make a gospel and it would make it contrary to Christ It would be to the just the innocent the holy the righteous c. Christ hath made the gospel for thee that is to needy sinners the ungodly the unrighteous the unjust the accursed Nature cannot endure to think the gospel is only for sinners it will rather chuse to despair than to go to Christ upon such terrible terms When nature is but put to it by guilt or wrath it will to its old haunts of self-righteousness self-goodness c. And infinite power must cast down those strong holds None but the self Justiciary stands excluded out of the gospel Christ will look at the most abominable sinner before him because to such an one Christ cannot be made justification He is no sinner To say in complement I am a sinner is easy b●t to pray with the Publican indeed Lord be merciful to me a sinner is the hardest prayer in the world It is easy to say I believe in Christ but to see Christ full of grace and truth Of whose fulness thou may'st receive grace for grace That is saving It s easy to profess Christ with the mouth but to confess him with the heart as Peter to be the Christ the Son of the living God the alone Mediator that 's above flesh and blood Many call Christ Saviour few know him so To see grace and salvation in Christ is the greatest sight in the world none can do that but at the same time they shall see