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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	david_n	hand_n	saul_n	2,591	5	9.7819	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81210	Heaven and earth embracing; or, God and man approaching: shewed in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons upon the day of their publike fast at Margarets Westminster, January 28. 1645. By Joseph Caryl minister of the Gospel at Magnus neer London Bridge.	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1646 (1646)	Wing C779; Thomason E319_11; ESTC R200557	28,718	47

any of you Saints believers an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God This is an important dutie and of perpetuall use Suppose a man hath drawn nigh to God in that first conversion even he must draw nigh in daily conversion and get nearer God till he enjoy God fully Besides who is it that slips not fals not sometimes in his way and that sometimes doth not decline and fall back though he cannot being ever upheld by Christ fall away Let me remember such to draw nigh to God turning from those speciall sins by which they have departed from him Consider in what you have most declined from God since you draw nigh to him and let your return answer your departure He that hath departed by pride let him return by humilitie he that hath departed by unbelief let him return by faith he that hath departed by intemperance let him return by sobrietie he that hath departed by malice or envie let him return by love and charity he that hath departed by injustice let him return by doing right to all by restoring where he hath wrong'd and by shewing mercie to the poor And he that hath departed by self-seeking let him return by laying out himself for God his cause and people in all the concernments wherein he is engaged The Lord looks that upon such a day as this we should consider our selves in our with-drawings from him and so draw nigh unto him He is this day waiting for our comming home And as he waits for our personall so for our publike returnings Consider wherein the Nation hath withdrawne from God and let the Nation returne Samael bespeaks all the house of Israel 1 Sam. 7. 3. saying If ye doe return unto the Lord with all your hearts then put away the strange gods and there is one in speciall of which I warn you Put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth Why doth he say Put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth Was not Ashtaroth a strange god And might not that Idol have been wrapt up under the generall name of strange gods Yes Ashtaroth had been involved under that notion but because Ashtaroth was a notorious a famous Idol after which that people had gone a whoring from God therefore that Idol is named Put away your strange gods and be sure you put away Ashtaroth It is a like phrase with that 2 Sam. 22. 1. David spake unto the Lord the words of this Song in the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies and out of the hand of Saul Why was not Saul one of his enemies Yes Saul was his chief enemy and therefore he gives praise not only for his deliverance from all his enemies but from such an enemy by name Saul was too bigg an enemy to goe under the generall name of his enemies Thus in the day of our humbling for nationall sins we must draw nigh to God from every sin but especially from our Ashtaroth from that evil wherein we have most dishonoured God Honourable and Beloved You have been pleased sometimes to send out your discovering Ordinances and in them to lay your hands as it were upon some speciall sins of the Nation charging us to confesse and bewail them before the Lord. You have instanced in the superstition and idolatries of the former times now draw the Land nearer God in holy worship you have instanced in the bloud of the Saints shed in the Marian and other persecutions draw nigh unto God in giving all countenance and support to the Saints be so farre from letting their bloud be shed or their bodies be wounded that if their names and reputations be wounded doe as that repenting Jaylour did the corporall wash those wounds and heal the bruises which the scourge of tongues hath made upon them We have heretofore been sensible that the Nation hath departed from God by laying heavy burdens upon the consciences of his people let it be your care we may return by withdrawing those and all other burthens This is the great duty of a Fast Isa 58. 6. This saith God is the Fast I have chosen to undoe the heavy burthen to let the oppressed goe free and to break every yoke Among all oppressions the oppression of conscience is the greatest Other great sins profaning of the Lords-day swearing drunkennesse have been called out by name and arraigned as our Nationall departures from God Let all draw nigh to God by an eminent practice of the contrary duties and graces Our drawing nigh to God in both these conversions namely from a sinfull state and from all sinfull acts are necessarily antecedaneous to our drawing nigh unto God in prayer and fasting for The prayer of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord. How can such draw nigh to God in prayer The person must be accepted before the service can And if a godly man which is possible for a time and under a temptation regard iniquity in his heart David saith it of himself Psal 66. 18. the Lord will not hear his prayer So that there must be a drawing nigh to God by a double conversion a conversion from a sinfull state and a conversion from sinfull acts before we are fit to draw nigh to God in any holy dutie especially in extraordinary humblings of our souls before him And that such a drawing nigh to God is the proper intendment and scope of the Apostle in this place is clear from the words following which seem to interpret this For assoon as he had said Draw nigh to God he adds vers 9. Be afflicted and mourn and weep c. Humble your selves in the sight of the Lord and he shall lift you up v. 10. Here 's the busines of the text and the busines of the day The Point is That prayer and humbling of the soul is a drawing nigh to God Every ordinance brings us neer to God Levit. 10. 7. I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me or in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In propinqui● meis my neighbours The Priests under the Ceremoniall worship had the speciall honour of that Title to be called Gods nigh ones He caused them to come neer unto him in holy services Numb 16. 9. Now all the Saints are A holy Priesthood to offer up spirituall sacrifices ● Pet. 2. 5. they dwell so neer to God that they are all his neighbours But though they alwaies dwell neer God yet they doe not alwaies come neer to God to doe so is a speciall work of grace as to be so is their state of grace Heb. 11. 6. He that commeth to God must believe that God is that is he that praies must believe Prayer is a comming to and a meeting with God Amos 4. ●2 I will doe thus unto thee and because I will doe thus prepare to meet thy God O Israel This meeting may have a double sense it may have the sense of a challenge and the sense of a supplication