Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	command_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	11	3	10.2512	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91791	Divine consolations, or, The teachings of God in three parts ... with an answer to the objections made against it, and Doctor Crips [sic] booke justified against Steven Geree / by Samuel Richardson.	Richardson, Samuel, fl. 1643-1658.	1649 (1649)	Wing R1406; ESTC R42708	221,129	494

he may thinke he wants because he is possessed with all things God is his God It 's best to want that which we cannot injoy unlesse we sinne Weeping Excesse in weeping is against nature reason and Religion Many make a Christ of their teares World The whole world is a vanitie of vanities and vexations Will. To will is naturall but to will spirituall is above nature He cannot resist a sinfull will who hath no other then a sinfull will A man may perswade the will but it cannot be compelled To make Gods will to depend on mans will is to deprive God of his honour When we want a will to doe a thing wee pretend want of power and say I cannot Many prefer their wills before their lives for when they are crossed they wish for death The creature cannot doe more or lesse then God will Those vertues that adorne the will as love mercy justice are more glorious then those that adorne the understanding as wisdome power c. If the will gets into the understanding it puts all the powers of the soule upon action As the will is so answerable is the endeavour Wit A dull wit is fittest and best for him that wants discretion Winde Most men feed upon winde yet there is no satisfaction in it Words Many in stead of proofe will give big words but bare saying is no proofe Wonder For men not to prise their best workes is a wonder Naturall men wonder at worldly and sensuall things It 's no wonder if a naturall man seeke himselfe in all things Wisdome Wise men forecast how to doe most with least noise It 's wisdome sometimes to let passe and take no notice of a fault To feare to sin is wisdome and to depart from evill is understanding Wisdome goeth as farre beyond folly as light beyond darknesse It 's a speciall piece of wisdome to finde out and improve such places of Scripture as are sutable to our present condition The way to be wise in things naturall and spirituall is to observe and consider the reasons and causes of things It 's wisdome to doe that which is safest Wisdome is better then strength Worldly wisdome few have but what they paid too deare for The wisdome of man cometh from conference of things past and to come The more wise a man thinkes he is the more foole he is World This world is insufficient uncertain and perishing Every worldly thing is inconstant and a vaine vanitie Many are deceived by the false and vaine shews of the world The nourishing in our selves the love and care of worldly riches choakes the love of heavenly and kils many good things in us The things of this world are sutable to our spirits The world affords no stable comfort it perisheth in the using and when wee have most need of it The lesse the Saints desire the world the large their hearts are for God The more we love this world the lesse minde we have to leave it The more men are afflicted the more willing they are to leave this world The consideration of the end of the things of this world tends to weane from the world Such as are full of the world are empty enough of spirituall things He that is full of worldly businesse needs no other trouble The world is a great snare and deadly enemy to spirituallnesse they are the strangers that devoute our strength According as the world is sweet unto us so accordingly spirituall things are bitter The more men possesse of this world the lesse many use and injoy the more we love it the more we are crossed with it and the more we have of it the more we are in want Weaknesse Weaknesse with watchfulnesse stands when greater strength with selfe-confidence faileth The wisest and strongest Saints are most sensible of their own weaknesses Workes To be saved by Christ and to be saved by works are contrary the one excludes the other Christ will be all or nothing It 's possible for a person that beleeves through weaknesse to goe aside to the covenant of works Watchfulnesse Spirituall watchfulnesse is a speciall gift of God a chiefe part of godlinesse and a speciall helpe to holinesse and a Saints great priviledge Because the Saints watch no more they fall so much There is no good order in their lives who watch not Watching keeps the soule awake and fits us to exercise seasonably the fruits of the Spirits Of zeale The height of the affections is zeale Zeale is the height of love and the heat of the intention and affection Zeale is an affection wound up to the highest peg Zeale is the fire of the affections and it 's very hot Zeale is good when it 's for God it 's evill when it 's against him The command of God and Christs love to us and ours to him begets zeale for him it kindles it and makes it burne and flame Riches honour pleasure ease consumeth the Saints zeale and cooleth them The world and carnall friends powre much water to quench our zeale Zeale should eate us up and we eate it up Every man is zealous for God or himselfe To be zealous for a trifle is a great weaknesse Zeale cannot indure to see God dishonoured in no kinde A Saint loaths himselfe because he hath so little zeale for God c. AS it were with wings Mount thy selfe my spirit Vnto stable things Without alterings Which all comfort brings Them for to inherite Earthly things despise In them take no pleasure But thy selfe advise Higher for to rise Where true substance lies And the chiefest treasure Shadowing things are here Better things are higher In the Heavens cleare Let it then appeare That as things right deare Thou doest them desire Earthly things we know Soone away are sliding Here on Earth below They doe ebbe and flow And to dust they goe Without long abiding Yea they are by kinde So base and unstable That they should not binde To Earth a pure minde The which we may finde To be honourable Counsells Concerning Actions 1. SEe that what yee doe be lawfull see that your actions have a good foundation a word of God to warrant them else they are evill to doe things not required of God is the error of the wicked 2 Pet. 3. 17. that when God shall say Who required this at your hands Isa 1. 12. Deut. 12. 32. we may say thou O Lord. 2. Look what yee doe be expedient the circumstance of time place and person must be wisely con●idered to a good action is required that all the circumstances be good 3. Look to your end why yee doe what yee doe the end and scope of an action conduceth to the being of it if two duties come together doe the chiefest first unlesse works of mercy and necessity hinder 4. Look yee doe what is required because it is required and as it is required and when it is required to doe one dutie and neglect another is uncomely give each dutie it 's due