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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	cold_a	zeal_n	zealous_a	40	3	8.6776	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63676	The true relation of the bloody attempt by James Salowayes to cut his own throat in the compter, upon Sunday the 21. of June, 1663 together with Satans attempt and overthrow, in a sermon preached upon the occasion in Wood-street-compter, upon Sunday the 21. of June, 1663 / by R.F. ...	R. F.	1663 (1663)	Wing T2935; ESTC R39734	26,039	39

I would not have them to look to their own and let Gods House lye waste What as the Tribes said concerning their Brother Benjamin I say with sorrow for these separating Brethren O Lord how comes it to passe that one Tribe this day is wanting in Israel How comes it to passe that one Tribe one Family one Person is this day wanting in thy Temple It was David's joy and let it be ours to go up to the Temple of the Lord but admit we come to the Sanctuary Satan hath yet more baits to catch simple souls into his drag-net Abraham he prepares to sacrifice but Fowles lights upon it we prepare to sacrifice but Satan hath Fowles ready to fall upon it when the heart is unprepared when the affections are indisposed suspect a Fowl upon the sacrifice God commands Nehemiah to build up the wall that there may be no breaches but Satan wants not a Sanballet to send an errand to obstruct the work Come let us meet together let the work alone Nehem. 6.3 Nehemiah knew it to be a temptation replyes like a Prophet I am doing of a great work I cannot come down why shall I leave the work and let it cease whilst I come down to you It is the observation of an ancient Writer that Satan doth especially busie himself at these times In principio bonae actionis ne sit Hugo Car. In medio ut obsit In fine bonae actionis ne prosit That this is Divinity Christ his temptations will attest it and I think our own experience will confirm it What Saint Paul sayes of Afflictions Christ and Christians may say of Temptations me manent They wait for me Christ though formerly in the world is but entered into the work of our Redemption publickly appearing to the world for our welfares newly baptized into obedience and acting what God had sent him for David had a security in the sheep-coats though his flocks yet himself was not assaulted but when he was sent by his father to visit his brethren he meets with the insolencies of a great Goliah he is in the publick Court entertains the Challenge hearing the promise made That whosoever killeth the Philistine the King will enrich him will give him his Daughter and make his Fathers house free in Israel 1 Sam. 17.25 He is now not only tempted but his weakness is contemned a youth a stripling our better David in his privacy and retirement we find not to be tempted but now that he is sent out to gather his lost b●ethren now that he appears openly and hath received an assurance that he that overcomes the spiritual Goliah the King will enrich him giving him his Daughter the Church making his Kindred free which noteth our freedome through Christ our Conquerour ●he is unprovidedly assaulted by a strong Phi●●stine and in the beginning of his work when want is upon him is tempted by him whose weapons threaten ruine and promise victory to the owner Thus came the Tempter c. Secondly Though he be disappointed in the first design he m●y withdraw but he will not wholly desist the enterprise he leaves him for a season Luke 4.13 he set upon him without meat and he will endeavour to find him without ministration to come upon him when the Angel is gone from him and this ut obsit Christs life was said and truly to be continuata passio as well it may be templatio for in the midst of this work his Disciple Peter s●●o●●eth of Satan and would withdraw his Master from his business had the Son of God gone ten degrees backward he had spo led all had he stood still Non progredi est regredi he had hindered the work of our restoration but he rejoyced to run his course and therefore speaks a defiance to all delay rebukes Peter Get thee behind me Satan Third●● To c●●th him in his words was the Pharisees design and at last to catch him in their hands in the end of his work Ne prosit At his end how strongly is he tempted betrayed by his Disciple apprehended by the multitude forsaken by his followers arraigned accused exclaimed against mocked struck blindfolded and derided in the Tempters language If thou be the Christ prophesie who is this that smote thee either must he chuse to submit to their temptation or it must passe pro confess● he was not the chosen of God Miracles he did in the time of his trouble his enemies fall backward and yet can these blinded Jews go forward to condemn him he heals Malchus his eat and yet they kill their Physitian Nay his temptation is yet stronger one of the Malefactors in the same condemnation with him raileth on him with an If the language of the Tempter If thou be Christ save thy self and us O blessed Jesu if thou at the instance of thy Tempters hadst saved thy self from temporal how hadst thou saved us from eternal death We must not forget his Agony where those grumae sanguinis that bloody sweat that exceeding fear that parching thirst but that bitter cup that sense of his Fathers desertion was upon him which made him with his precious blood to pour out cryes and prayers and all this doth not express a tythe of his temptations whilst this work was a finishing Thus in the beginning progress and perfecting the work of our reconcilement the Tempter came unto him If Satan be thus busie at our holy works we must likewise expect him on Gods holy Day set apart for performance of holy duties The last Lords day afforded us a sad example whilst we were tendering of an Evening-sacrifice our sacrifice was mingled with blood The Word of God read and the work of Satan under the same roof our eyes and ears were witnesses and when the occasion of this dismal act was required what return could we expect Was it blood that might have required blood Was it the murdering of another which provoked ●●m to his own murder No but it was a due denyed to God the breach of his Sabbath turning his Grace into lewdness the day of prayer and devotion into playing and drunkenness this he did against God on his day and this doth the Devil against him on the Lords day this was the day when he should have drawn near to God but withdrawing himself from God Satan draws near to him into him and he that could not keep a Sabbath cannot have a rest but must attempt to be his own m●rderer This example should serve to imprint the first line of this Commandement in all our hearts Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day And in the performance of the duties relating to the Sabbath let not thy services be cold coldness and luke warmness are not relishing be zealous is Gods expectance yet let thy ●eal have knowledge otherwise it will but be madness and let thy knowledge have zeal otherwise it will be deadness let thy service be entire God loves not a half service