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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	baptize_v	ghost_n	water_n	2,671	5	6.9232	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66112	Useful instructions for a professing people in times of great security and degeneracy delivered in several sermons on solemnm occasions / by Mr. Samuel Willard ...	Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707.	1673 (1673)	Wing W2299; ESTC R38936	67,962	82

cruel Enemies 6. That visible Priviledges are no security from Satan it 's not enough to be baptized with water un●●●s we be also baptized with the holy Ghost and with fire it 's not enough to be a Member of the visible Church if we be not also of Christs invisible Flock Satan is not te●●ified by these outward things he is not afraid to assault those that are Christs nominally and to endeavour to make them his own really Let it teach us then to beware that we trust not in lying words have a care of crying The Temple of the Lord Satan desires no better advantage upon us then to draw us to rest secure upon this bottom Bless God for our Priviledges but rest not in them prize but do not deifie them if you would not be made the prey of Satan 2ly Let us all in particular learn righteousness by this monument that is before us let it awaken us all to reform our hearts and lives to be more careful to and over our selves for the time to come let it indeed appear that we have been proficients in this School of Gods Judgements that God hath brought Correction and Teaching together that so in the winding up it may be found an happy Judgement Let us therefore apply it to our selves in our particular respects I. Let it be a Doctrinal Providence to Young and Old First To you that are Elder and more grown up in years let it awaken you 1. Consider how many more provocations God hath had from you then he hath had from this poor creature how many more Ordinances and Providences have attended upon you then ever did upon her think how long you have lived in Gods world and yet have done him little or no service since you came into it and therefore let this awaken you to see how it stands with you how the matter goes between God and your Souls whether you are secure under his wings and at peace with him When you see one so much younger then you thus visited Oh think upon what ground you stand fear the like or worse if you are yet in an uncertain state Let it in a special manner awaken old ones to make their calling and election sure considering how much danger you are in 2. Let it teach you how much you have had of the patience of God exercised towards you that God hath born with and forborn you so long you have lived a great while longer in the world and it may be have been more enormous and flagitious in your lives-thenever this poor creature was possibly you have lived in scandalous sins and grievous pollutions if you should consider and ask a Reason why God hath taken her and not taken you you may see and say that if God had gone according to outward appearance or extremity of rigour there had been transcendently more ground why he should have come upon you Oh then when you see one so young and one not observed to be guilty of any flagitious crimes taken while you are by Gods goodness spared learn to admire at and worship the patience of God towards you 3. Let it therefore teach you to amend your wayes and reform your lives and that speedily it may be a great argument to quicken you up no longer to use delayes nor put off God coming to you in his Word and perswading you by his Spirit to repent and return to him Oh see in this lecture upon what slippery and dangerous ground you stand and have stood all this while and if God had been severe towards you you had not had this opportunity of being called to Repentance and then learn to shake off all delayes to put by all excuses and bless God that you yet have an opportunity Secondly You that are Young ones behold here one of your Tribe and Form as I may say one of your own years pickt out of you by the wise Providence of God to be made an object of Gods severity and mans pity Out of doubt there is an especial Cry to you Young ones to Remember your Creator in the dayes of your youth you have been often counselled and admonished in the House of God yea earnestly and compassionately intreated to devote your young time to God to give up the prime of your years to him but you have slighted and disregarded such Counsels and Calls and have taken up firm resolutions that you would have your childish and youthful vanities let God by his Messenger say what he would to you Well now God hath singled you out in his Providence and thunders out his minde to you in this sad Object and what do you now say to it will you hear Gods voice or will you forbear are you still resolved in your vain courses or will you learn Righteousness if you would but encline your ears you might here observe God speaking something to you 1. Learn that there is no safety in dallying with the Spirit of God who comes early to bespeak your Souls for God God shews that he hath a quarrel with the Youth for sl●ghting and despising Counsels and Reproofs he would that you should know he is in haste for an answer and will not wait long if you trifl● away your time God looks that where there is so much of Gospel light● and so many endeavours used by Church and Common-wealth for the instruction of Youth in the Wayes of God there should be answerable improvement made and will have you to know that his patience will not wait so long as in places of ignorance Let it therefore teach you to beware how you presume upon hereafter and promising your selves that there is time enough you may follow your vain courses yet a little longer W●●les you are thinking it is too soon to repent and amend how soon may God come and declare that it is too late that his patience is spent and there is no more room left for Repentance 2. That either God or the Devil will have your young time you are here at your choice God by his Word and Spirit is tendring you to receive you into his service and declaring how acceptable and pleasing it will be to him but if you will not give your time to him you will to a worse Master the Devil stands waiting yea endeavouring for you and if Gods yoke please you not he will easily perswade you to take his and though that may seem delightful for the present yet know it it will be bitterness in the latter end 3. That if Young ones will not have Christ to reign over them he may give them over into the hands and power of Satan if Christs sweet government do not please you you shall be left under the tyranny and cruelty of the Devil Oh then learn hence not to despise and contemn the Calls of the Gospel lest God come out in Judgement against you and put you into the everlasting possession of that cruel Enemy of your Souls II. Let