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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	david_n	psalm_n	sing_v	985	5	9.2598	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80798	Captivity improved to spiritual purposes. Or spiritual directions, given to prisoners of all sorts whether debtors or malefactors Principally designed for the use of those who are prisoners in those prisons which are under the jurisdiction of the city of London, as Newgate, Ludgate, the Counters, &c. Though also applyable to others under the like circumstances else where. To which are annexed directions to those who have their maintenance and education at the publick charge, as in Christ-Church hospital, or cure, as in St. Bartholomew's and St. Thomas's, or reducement to a more thrifty course of life, as in Bridewel, or have been happily restored to their former sense[ ] as in Bethleem, alias Bedlam.	Cressy, Edmund.	1675 (1675)	Wing C6889A; ESTC R230962	54,833	136

this nature they themselves are standing monuments of the goodness of God in that kind They are Lodged in those Chambers that their Parents never hired cloathed with those Garments they never provided fed with that meat they never paid for and supplyed with all things necessary by the care of those good Patrons which the Providence of God hath raised up for them And now that God hath so largly blessed them Let me teach them the duty of gratitude to him out of the Book of Psalms which they so often sing at their meals and so often read by the injunction of their instructors They may every one of them say with David Psalm 16. 5 6. The Lord is the Portion of my Inheritage and of my Cup he maintains my Lot the lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places yea I have a goodly Heritage And therefore let them say with David also v. 7. I will bless the Lord who hath given me Counsel by the instruction of my teachers and maintenance by the bounty of my patrons My reins also shall instruct me in the night season They may again say all in general and each in particular in the words of the same King David Psalm 116. 5 6 8. Gratious is the Lord and righteous yea our God is merciful The Lord preserveth the simple I was brought low through the poverty of my Parents and he helped me Return to thy rest O my soul for the Lord hath dealt plentifully with thee For the Lord hath delivered my soul from death and from want which is almost as bitter as death mine eyes from tears and my feet from fallings And as their mercies are proportionable to his so let their thankfulness be proportionable to his also which they may appositely express in his words v 12 13 14. What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits towards me I will take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people Even those vows which I made in my low condition when my friends were forced to forsake me for want and no eye pitied my poor condition And as these great mercies ought to teach them thankfulness for all the loving-kindness of God towards them hitherto so Secondly Let the same mercies teach them to place their faith and hope and confidence in God for the time to come They have already found to their great comfort that God is a Father to the fatherless a protectour of the destitute and a ready help to them in the needful time of trouble and now of all men in the world they will be the most inexcusable if in their age they forget the God of their Childhood and of their youth or ever neglect to depend upon him who hath already been so good and so gracious to them The experience of the continued goodness of God should encrease their relyance in him and make them say in a pious expectation of his gracious providence towards them for the time to come In the words of Job which we find Chap. 5. v. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27. God hath delivered us in six troubles yea in seven no evil hath touched us in famine he hath redeemed us from death and in need from the hand of poverty and now we will confidently rely upon his faithfulness and without wavering depend upon his providence for surely he that hath so soon prevented us with his loving kindness will be our God all the residue of our lives We shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue neither shall we be afraid of destruction when it cometh At destruction and famine we shall laugh neither shall we be afraid of the beasts of the earth For we shall be at league with the stones of the field and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with us We know that our Tabernacle shall be at peace we shall visit our habitation and not sin We know our seed shall be prosperous and our off-spring as the Grass of the earth We shall come to our grave in a full age like as a stock of Corn cometh in his season Lo this we have searched so it is After this manner we have found it hitherto and so we trust in the loving-kindness of our God we shall find it for the time to come But because those to whom in this Chapter I am to direct my exhortation are very much practised in the singing and reading the Psalms of David I shall from them further instruct them in this useful and comfortable duty of encreasing their relyance and dependance upon God from their experience that they have of his gratious protection and watchful providence over them hitherto This Lesson the Psalmist teaches them in Psalm 23. 4 5. Thou art with me O Lord thy rod and thy staff they comfort me Thou preparest a Table before me thou anointest my head with oyl my cup runneth over These words are very applyable to those that have their education in Christchurch the rod of God corrected them heretofore in the poverty and destitution of their parents his staff supports them now in their present maintenance they have a Table prepared for them and that plentifully their cup runneth over this is their present priviledge as exactly described in the expressions of this Psalm as if it were on purpose penned for them and their duty is in the ensuing words they ought confidently to expect that God will still preserve and bless them in well doing ver 6. Surely goodness and mercy shall preserve me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever The like expressions we have concerning his early hope in God and God's early provision for him in his Childhood Psal 22. 9 10. But thou art he that took me out of the womb thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mothers breasts I was cast upon thee from the womb thou art my God from my mothers belly And therefore he prayers with full assurance to be heard in the expressions that follow v. 11. Be not from me for trouble is near and there is none to help me excepting God only who hath been my helper from my very birth and in whom I trust that he will be so still And if at this second teaching the Scholars will not learn this Lesson we have it inculcated a third time Psalm 71. 5 6. For thou art my hope O Lord thou art my trust from my youth By thee have I been holden up from the womb thou art be that took me out of my mothers bowels and from these premises within few Verses follows that prayer v. 8 9. Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day Cast me not away in my old age forsake me not when my strength faileth And both these immediately succeed each other v. 17 18. O God thou