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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	abraham_n	call_v	seed_n	781	5	8.3208	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64241	Jacob wrestling with God, and prevailing: or, a treatise concerning the necessity and efficacy of faith in prayer Wherein divers weighty questions and cases of conscience about praying in faith, are stated and resolved. For the comforting and satisfying of weak and scrupulous consciences: the conviction of formal hypocrites, and awakening of all saints, both weak and strong, great and small, to this great duty of prayer. By one who hath obtained mercy to be a minister of, and sufferer for, the gospel of Jesus Christ in this hour of temptation.	Taylor, Thomas, 1624 or 5-1700.	1663 (1663)	Wing T555; ESTC R222503	60,235	214

And in thine hand is there not power and might so that none is able to withstand thee Art not thou our God who didst drive out the inhabitants of this Land before thy people Israel and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever And they dwelt therein and have built thee a Sanctuary therein for thy Name saying If when evil cometh upon us as the sword judgement or pestilence or famine wee stand before this house and in thy presence for thy Name is in this house and cry unto thee in our affliction then thou wilt hear and help And now behold the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount-Seir whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade when they came out of the Land of Egypt but they turned from them and destroyed them not Behold I say how they reward us to come to cast us out of thy possession which thou hast given us to inherit O our God wilt thou not judge them for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us neither know wee what to do but our eyes are upon thee And all Judah stood before the Lord with their little ones their wives and their children Oh here is a prayer of Faith indeed there is much of the life of Faith and strength of argument in this prayer of good Jebosaphat 1. By Faith he sees and pleads the near relation betwixt God and his people Israel the seed of Abraham his friend 2. By Faith hee presses God upon his Covenant and Promise made to Abraham Isaac and Jacob by which hee gave the Land of Canaan which is therefore called the Land of Promise to Abraham and his seed for ever 3. By Faith hee acknowledgeth and improveth the soveraignty and ruling power which God keepeth in his own hand over all the Kingdomes of the world yea over the very Heathen and those that are the enemies of his Church and People and therefore is able at all times to frustrate their deepest counsels disappoint their greatest designs bridle their greatest rage and power so as to deliver his people that put their trust in him 4. By Faith hee pleads the special Covenant and Promise of God made to Solomon on the behalf of his people at the dedication of the Temple and applies it to the present case in hand 5. By Faith hee improves the various passages of providence clearing up the innocency and integrity of his people Israel and the righteousness of their cause and on the contrary declareth the guiltiness ingratitude and wickedness of these ungodly nations that were now combined together to seek the ruine of Israel And upon the whole leaves the case with God as a most righteous Judge holy faithful and able to plead the case of his poor people in this great distress And prevails so far with God by this prayer of Faith that hee hath a gracious answer and a most glorious return in the wonderful Salvation of the Church and People of God for whom hee prayed and in the utter destruction and overthrow of their potent enemies against whom hee prayed for vers 14. Then upon Jahaziel c. came the Spirit of the Lord in the midst of the Congregation And hee said Thus saith the Lord unto you be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude for the battel is not yours but Gods And ver 17. Yee shall not need to fight in this battel set your selves stand yee still and see the salvation of the Lord with you And vers 22. When they began to sing and to praise The Lord set ambushments against the children of Ammon Moab and Mount-Seir which were come against Judah and they were smitten for the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the Inhabitants of Mount-Seir utterly to slay and destroy them And when they had made an end of the Inhabitants of Seir every one helped to destroy another And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness they looked unto the multitude and behold they were dead bodies fallen to the earth and none escaped And vers 25. When Jehosaphat and his people came to take the spoil of them they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies and precious Jewels which they stript off for themselves more than they could carry away and they were three daies in gathering of the spoil it was so much Oh what a wonderful deliverance and salvation was here obtained by one prayer of Faith Good Jehosaphat prayes in Faith and prevails by prayer with God The enemies are divided one against another and utterly destroyed one by another Israel saved with a wonderful salvation and greatly enriched with the spoil of their enemies 4. The Saints and Servants of God by Faith in prayer have prevailed with God for the stopping the course and changing the very law of nature in his government of the Creatures so that they have at the command of God been serviceable to his Church and People not onely beyond but even against the course and law of nature Instance 1 So holy Joshua by Faith in prayer commands the Sun and Moon to stand still and stay their course until hee had avenged the Lords people upon their enemies Josh 10.12 Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel And hee said in the sight of Israel Sun stand thou still upon Gibeon and thou Moon in the valley of Ajalon And vers 13. The Sun stood still and the Moon stayed until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies Is not this written in the book of Jasher So the Sun stood still in the midst of Heaven and hasted not to go down about a whole day And vers 14. There was us day like that before it or after it that the Lord hearkened to the voice of a man for the Lord fought for Israel On the wonderful force and prevailing efficacy of Faith i● prayer that even the course and law of nature which no creature can resist or withstand should thereby be stayed Job 38.31 32 33. 34 35 Ezek. 1.17 and the Sun and the Moon which by the ordinance of God are to bee in continual motion and move with such wonderful speed Psal 19.1 2 3 4 5 6 as to compass the world in the vast circumference of the Heavens in a few hours should at the word of a poor frail man stand still and stay their course for the space of a whole day Instance 2 Thus also holy Moses prevails with the Lord by prayer for the dividing the waters of the Sea even the Red Sea so that contrary to the law and course of nature they stood upon an heap and were a wall to Israel on the right hand and on the left Exod. 14.15 16. And the Lord said unto Moses Wherefore cryest thou unto mee Speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward But lift up thou thy Rod