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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	woman_n	year_n	young_a	333	4	5.9667	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93751	A sermon on Phil. IV., 11, 12. For I have learned in whatsoever state I am in therewith to be content I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound; every where, and in all things, I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1698 (1698)	Wing S5131A; ESTC R230357	23,094	32

from Sin for the time to come and that I may finish the Work which he hath sent me on Earth for to do and that I may perform all the mean and preparatory Acts which are necessary that my Soul may be committed into the hands of God and received up into Heaven after it shall be dislodged from this Body or Tenement of Clay wherein now for a very little time longer it doth inhabit and reside These are the desires of mine heart and I do again truly declare that I have not the least desire or coveting whatever but what comes within or in subordination under these first and great desires If I have any further desires after more Money or Estate than now I have it is not that I may consume it upon my Lusts James 4. 3. or upon my Pleasures according to the Marginal reading there or the pride of Life but that I may hononr the Lord with my substance and consecrate my gain unto the Lord and my substance unto the Lord of the whole Earth Micah 4. 13. for then I would be ready to distribute the same towards the outward charge and labour for the publishing and propagation of his Eternal Truth I would to God there was th● same and alike mind in the Rich and substantial People That they also would be Rich in good Works ready to distribute willing to communicate 1 Tim. 6. 18. and contribute towards it for the Work of the Lord is common and should be the joynt endeavour of all his Servants The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble the name of the God of Jacob defend thee Grant thee according to thine own heart and fulfill all thy Counsel Psal 20. 1 4. But if the Lord grant me according to mine own heart and fulfill all my Counsell then as it is elsewhere written the Lord hath d ne great things for us whereof we are glad Psal 126 3. So the Lord would do great things for me he would do even my all that I am capable of that is to serve him here according to his will so that I may be accepted of him at the last and obtain and be invested with Eternal Salvation The same Lord who Created the Soul Created those Desires also that are in the same Soul and it may be observed that these Desires are in relation and tendency unto and they reach after somewhat which again is not vain for the same God who first implanted in a desire towards it will afterwards give the thing it self And this Desire puts us upon using the Means Labour Endeavour and seeking after it Now the Complex and whole of the Desire of Man is after these things which are also connected together Life Happiness and Salvation As the hungry craves after Food the covetous Riches the ambitious Honour and every one Rest and Satisfaction and they will use also the common means in their own Power towards the having them So likewise there is a desire ingrafted into Man after those things which God hath promised And it is but reasonable he should do so much towards obtaining them as the Men of the World do for the things of this World for otherwise he will come short of them And those pertaining to the Kingdom of God are set forth by the very same things in a greater degree then what is so earnestly followed after here We should do well to give heed and attend unto the working of those desires within us which way they make and after what they do point and reach forth If those desires be after Temporal and worldly Things Here the best way is by contracting and lessening of them for a Man may sooner draw off those boundless and unlawful desires then he can fulfil them He may be more quickly contented then great and he will find it better to have been innocent then to have been Rich. But if these Desires do rise up after Heavenly Spiritual and Eternal Things there let God enlarge thy Heart and in his Name desire as much as ever thou wilt The more thou desirest if thou dost accordingly labour after it with diligence and earnestness the better it will be for thee and the more thou wilt receive for here the sure word of promise is Open thy Mouth wide and I will fill it Psal 81. 10. the wider it is opened the more it will receive And nothing is a more certain Truth though we must apprehend and lay hold upon it by Faith because it will not be all fulfilled in this Life and on this Earth then that God will at length satisfie those Desires he hath put into us He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him Psal 145. 19. This is expressed in the future tense and in ver 16. it is said He satisfieth the desire of every living thing That is spoken in the present tense because that belongs to the living and unreasonable Creatures for we may perceive evidently that Beasts Birds and Fishes are contented and satisfied with the things before them whereas Man is not It is the same Creator of all But hereby is shewn forth that God will do somewhat more for Man in the future state of things which he will not do for them And hereunto is another Promise The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me Psal 138. 8. And we are to wait his good and appointed Time Here this great Expectation from the last end and distribution of things should quiet and silence our Spirits every time they begin to rise and be troubled Who is much concerned for the pleasantness or dreadfulness of a Dream after that it is over and past For there is no odds and it is all near the same as to the good or evil nature thereof All this may be learnt and understood as a Man But then the Grace and Knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ doth set before us such very great wonderful and enduring things that the present is or ought to be no more minded in comparison to them then one who is in pursuit and likelihood to obtain ten thousand Pounds doth value or regard the loss of a Pin or of a Farthing However unconcern'd he stands to it now yet the reasonable Creature can never be content to miss of Happiness and Salvation and so he will manifest and make it appear when this Happiness and Salvation comes to be present and ●ust before him for therefore it is that People do so little regard it because 〈◊〉 seems future and to be at a distance and there 〈◊〉 this disadvantage against all our Preaching concerning which they imagine He prophesieth of Times afar off Ezeck 12. 27. Whereas all this great matter which is cryed up so much to be at a distance and to be afar off is no futher off then the death of each Man or Woman which for ought we know may be this Night to Morrow within a Week or a Month or a Year as to the healthiest youngest and lustiest of us