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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	jesus_n	life_n	spirit_n	8,523	5	5.0461	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87671	Orders given out; the word, stand fast. As it was lately delivered in a farewell sermon / by Major Samuel Kem, to the officers and souldiers of his regiment in Bristoll. Novemb. 8. 1646.	Kem, Samuel, 1604-1670.	1646 (1646)	Wing K254; Thomason E366_3; ESTC R29849	10,638	28

and counsel you Especially upon the discovery of a late large and numerous Recruit on the Enemies Partie for the most part all consisting of such as have revolted from our own Partie and have quit their ground of truths The Commander in cheif of this Regiment is Error whose Colours are fresh and of glorious resplendency but changeable and therefore stand fast for his fairest quarter is ruine which appeareth by his free quarter in your families when his first actings are to division yea betwixt those of the neerest and deared relations and a house divided cannot stand I by Commission am ingaged for your relief and therefore for your future security I shal intreat you to strengthen your selves by this Recruit consisting of three Divisions First Fidelity or Constancy Stand fast in the truth quit your selvs like men be strong Second Spiritual Gallantry Stand fast in the truth quit your selvs like men be strong Third Unity Let all things be done in love The first of these wil keep you from being Routed The second from being Conquered The third from being Ruined The first wil argue you men The second wil report you gallant men or men of men The third wil demonstrate you holy and humble Christian men And therefore now beloved Officers and Christian fellow Soldiers take Courage take you the Field to scare not to face your Enemies and give me leave to shew you your General compleatly accoutred in Johns vision observe his ordering the Feild and give me leave leaving the issue to God to fal on First let Constancy in the Faith and all the Truths of Jesus Christ have the Battalia Secondly let spiritual Courage have the right wing Thirdly let Love have the lest and overcome all I shal adventure to fal on with Constancy second me with Courage and I beseech you that all may be done and suffered by the conquest of Love First of the first Stand fast that 's the Word Faith in the heart not in the head is the signal Stand fast not a while and then revolt or give ground To walk a while in the truth and after for any ends to desert it is base it argues not a Soldier to list his name and to purchase a feather shews are light things in military actings or wear a sword or to appear on the march if they either take hedge or windmil for a shelter or quit their ground or trust in the shock of Battail Truly we say a drunken man never made good Souldier nor a reeling headed man a good Christian Soldier Secondly In the Faith not in falshoods in the truths not shews zeal and stedfastnesse are right when the one is a sharp weapon for Truth and the other is stiffe and unbending for the Faith Now you are to know there is a two-fold Faith One by which wee beleeve Secondly Is that which is beleeved and this is called Doctrinall Faith Now when Christians are zealous resolute and will dye in the Truths and for the Truths of Jesus Christ this is to stand fast in the Faith Observation Standing fast to the Truths of Jesus Christ strenuously with constancy is a notable peece of spirituall Gallantry This you shal find hinted to the Angel of the Church of Smirnians Revel 2.10 Fear none of these things which thou shalt suffer for the truth and in the 11. verse and latter end Be faithful to the death and I wil give thee a crown of life The Spirit of God records this point of Gallantry in the Church of Pergamus verse 13. I know thy works where thou dwellest where Sathan hath his seat i. e. where wicked men are in authority and heresie prevaileth yet thou holdest fast my name and hast not denyed the faith even in those dayes wherein Antipas my faithful Martyr suffered c. Rev. 3.10 11 12. 1 Joh. 2.23 24. Let that therefore abide in you which ye have heard from the beginning If that shall abide in you ye shal continue in the Son und in the Father now to be in God is to be Heroick indeed 2 Pet. 1.12 That ye be established in the present truth 1 Pet. 5.9 Whom resist stedfast in the Faith 2 Thes 2.15 Therefore brethren stand fast It was Gallantry in the Grecian women who when their sons put on their sheilds gave them in charge either to bring them back or dye It is storyed of Epaminondes that hee was so addicted to his buckler that he was wont to say I wil either hold thee or dye with the losse of thee It was the gallant resolution of a Roman Officer either to keep his ground or lose his life Truly Christian friends it is gallantry in you in these sad times of Alaruming Truth in its quarters and upon the several charges is given the men of truth daily to stand or fall with it in our hearts Quaere But Sir I pray what is truth one saith he is for truth and this is truth another says that is and is for it what is the truth you councel us to stand fast unto Solut. There are humane moral Truths rules in secular Arts such as Paul held fast until his conversion but then let go not the use of them but the abuse of them he left glorying in them counted all dung for the excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ. Secondly There are Divine truths called Scripture truths these are either Imaginary or Real I do not say it is gallantry to stand fast to all that every man delivers to you for truth or propounds or conjectures to bee so but such as Scripture determines to be so such as the word wil own and wil own the word upon demand in the evidence of his not our own spirits For truly it is with Truth at this day as with the Infant brought to Solomon the false mothers cry divide it and let every one share in that limb which his own conscience which indeed is no conscience guides him unto which is to profer themselves to posterity the founders of an intolerable Toleration of all Errors and by this way Antichrist himself against whom we have solemnly protested and before God so unanimously covenanted must be in equity admitted a childs portion The LORD direct our Solomons to that height of surpassing wisdome as to give the child of Truth to its own Parents that cry a whole and one or none To stand fast to this whole truth of God and for it is indeed Spiritual gallantry Athanasius and others of the Nicene Fathers would not add one jot about the Diety of Jesus Christ no not in any time Times may differ men may change and vary but Truth never whether in prosperity as in Constantines days or in adversity as in Neroes truth is the same The fixed stars shine in the coldest nights yea then brightest Josephus reports of the Samaritans that if any good befel the Jews then they would claim their kindred and boast that they came from Jacob but if in any misery or