Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	death_n	die_v	reconcile_v	1,129	5	9.1851	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23661	A discourse of divine assistance, and the method thereof shewing what assistance men receive from God in performing the condition of the promise of pardon of sin and eternal life / by W.A.	Allen, William, d. 1686.	1679 (1679)	Wing A1059; ESTC R17227	99,779	333

earth saith the Wise man Eccles 11.3 for that is the end of their being so filled to supply the necessities of the inhabitants of the earth They indeed do thus by a natural necessity but our Saviour out of his fulness supplies the spiritual wants of men spontaneously Never was the kindest Mother more willing that her full brests should be drawn by her tender Infant than our blessed Saviour is that we should draw and derive from his fulness to the relief and supply of all our spiritual wants to make us good and happy To think or to suspect that our Saviour should with-hold any of that aid from men which he hath received for them and which is necessary to enable them to perform the condition of the promise supposing them capable of it would be highly to dishonour him It is a grievous thing among men to with-hold from the people that which their extream necessity calls for when it is in ones power to relieve them without injury to himself or to his or to the publick He that with-holdeth corn the people shall curse him saith Solomon Prov. 11.26 The reverence which we owe to our blessed Saviour and the assurance we have of his goodness and good will towards men will not suffer us once to think there is in him any thing of like nature And if he himself threatned that unprofitable servant in the Gospel as he did for not using the talent committed to him to the end and purpose for which he received it we may be sure he himself will be very far from not discharging the trust he hath received from his Father 3. We have no reason to fear or to doubt but that that compassion and love towards us and the longing desire our Saviour had after our salvation which made him willing to suffer so much as he hath to obtain a conditional pardon for us and a conditional promise of it doth and will make him willing to assist all those in the performance of that condition who have not or do not make themselves uncapable of it by not using but opposing such preparatory aids as have been afforded them He who hath laid so costly a foundation in his own bloud to make us good and happy cannot as we may well think be wanting to build upon that foundation what is necessary on his part to compleat his design of grace and favour towards us We cannot think he will be willing to lose all the cost he hath already expended towards the procuring of pardon and life for us for want of doing that further for us which he can with far more ease do if we have not made ourselves uncapable of it than what he hath done already Hath our blessed Saviour any thing to give us which is better than himself or more dear to him And if not as doubtless he hath not then we may confidently conclude that that which put him upon giving himself for us will not suffer him to keep back from us that which he can give us without any detriment to himself or disparagement to his wisdom unless we have made our selves uncapable of it As S. Paul saith of God the Father he that spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us all how shall he not with him freely give us all things so we may say of God the Son he that spared not himself when we stood in need of a Saviour but gave himself to death for us how shall he not give us that also which though it be less for him to give yet is such which in some sort we stand in as much need of as we did of a Saviour his assistance I mean If when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son much more being reconciled we shall be saved by his life as the Apostle inferrs Rom. 5.10 If meerly by Christs dying for our sins we were thus far restored to Gods favour as that he was pleased to propose to us free and easie conditions of mercy and pardon much more easie will it be and most agreeable to that former essay of his goodness now he hath gone so far with us to bestow on us also ability to perform those conditions unless we have made our selves uncapable of it since without such assistance all the rest would signifie no more to us than as if Christ had never died for us nor than as if such conditions had never been obtained for us or proposed to us 4. That plenitude of power and sufficiency lodged in our Saviour to answer and to supply all the spiritual wants and necessities of men on whose behalf our Saviour took on him the great office of Mediator will never turn to such an account of glory honour and praise to God the Father of all mercies while it is restrained and kept back onely within himself as it will when communicated and given forth in the effects of it to them for whose benefit he received it nor will it till then neither redound so much to his own honour as God the Father designed it should And if not how can we possibly think there should be any thing of unwillingness in him to afford all those his assistance to perform the condition of the promise who do not refuse to make use of it For as it was the design of our Saviour in all the good he did to men while he was in the World to gain glory thereby unto his Father so it was a great inducement to him to do that good when he knew it would turn to such an account Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name that will I do that the Father may be glorified in the Son John 14.13 It was matter of great satisfaction to our Saviour when he was upon leaving the World that he could say to his Father I have glorified thee on earth I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do John 17.4 he took pleasure in doing that work for that reason because he glorified the Father thereby And we cannot think he is less zealous for the honour of his Father now he is so highly exalted by him than he was in the day of his humiliation and temptation Considering then that our Saviours assisting us to perform the condition of the promise will in several respects bring in a great revenue of glory to God as well as it will of good to men we may be consident that he will rather be grieved for that men are no more forward to make use of his assistance than any way backward to afford it them S. Paul thought it a prevailing argument to obtain a liberal contribution for the relief of fellow-Christians when he could say it would both supply the necessities of the Saints and cause many thanksgivings unto God 2 Cor. 9.12 Now our Saviours assisting men to perform the condition of the promise will not onely make them happy but will also fill their hearts and mouths with