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ground_n	believe_v	faith_n	great_a	1,674	5	3.5313	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26346	God's eye on the contrite, or, A discourse shewing that true poverty and contrition of spirit, and trembling at God's Word is the infallible and only way for the obtaining and retaining of divine acceptation as it was made in the audience of the General Assembly of the Massachusetts Colony at Boston in New England May 27, 1685, being the day of election there / by William Adams.	Adams, William, 1650-1685.	1685 (1685)	Wing A498; ESTC W12431	33,350	44

I might break my covenant which I had made with this people And it was broken in that day and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the Word of the Lord. 2. This will dispose you to that Mourning and weeping which we have now need to attend upon God with We have reason to make this day yea these dayes wherein God is afflicting us and these years wherein we are seeing evil to be times of Mourning and Sorrow The Lord God calls to weeping that we look over our sins look unto Christ whom we have peirced by our sins and look and goe after God in attendance to His word weeping and mourning 3. This will spirit and dispose you to embrace and practise all those counsels have been given you in the Lord's Name and from his Word To attend all those Duties the Lord requires of you If the Question be ask't What does God now look for from us The Answer is in Deut. 10. 12. And now Israel what doth the Lord thy God require of thee but to fear the Lord thy God to walk in all His wayes and to love Him and to serve the LORD thy GOD with all thy heart and with all thy soul. You need not look for any thing in particular from me now Much hath been plainly spoken from God to this people again and again God hath told us his mind fully what He would have us doe and where our life lies Deut. 32. 46 47. Set your hearts unto all the words which I testifie among you this day for it is not a vain thing for you because it is your life And if we had but this spirit that I am now pleading for we should then be ready to rise up to doe the words of the Lord which we have heard from Him and thereupon to engage in a saving and lasting work of Reformation It would raise us to an excellent temper in Christianity to be high in worth but low in spirit to doe much for God and think little of our selves 4. This will give us access to and acceptance with God in prayer Psal. 10. 12. Arise O Lord O God lift up thine hand forforget not the humble ver 17. Lord thou hast heard the desire of the humble Thou wilt prepare their heart thou wilt cause thy ear to hear God sometimes denies to hear His own people's prayers when their spirits are no so low as they should be And how often hath God refused to hear our prayers But here is a way to have certain Audience at the Throne of Grace Psal. 102. 16 17. When the Lord shall build up Zion He shall appear in His glory He will regard the prayer of the destitute and not 〈◊〉 their prayer New England had never more need of importunate earnest praying Wo to us if we be wanting now in importuning mercy from heaven A People or person become speechless in this respect is near to death Pray therefore we must and ought and if we would be heard and accepted we must get our hearts and spirits thus meekly and humbly disposed God could not over-look them when thus humbly praying Ier. 31. 18 19 20. I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus Thou hast chastised me and I was chastised as a bullock unaccustom'd to the yoke Turn thou mee and I shall be turned for thou art the Lord my God Surely after that I was turned I repented And after that I was instructed I s●…ote upon my thigh I was ashamed yea even confounded because I did bear the reproach of my youth Is Ephraim my dear son is he a pleasant child For since I spake against him I do earnestly remember him still therefore my bowels are troubled for him I will surely have mercy upon him saith the Lord. 5. This will dispose us to Patience and enduring under all Sufferings The heart that is not truly broken and meek'ned finds it harder to comport with and bear quietly that which is contrary to him without flinching one way or other either on the one hand by succu●…bing and yielding to the Temptation or on the other by d●…sorderly flying out beyond his Duty The Historian gives that as the reason why Origen faultred under the Temptation quia virtutum omnium parente summissione et humilitate excidisset because he had lost or wanted the Mother of all virtues Humility and lowliness But the Contrary is observed of Athanasius as the cause of his Constancy that steel'd him against all his Adversaries and Sufferings that he was Ypselas tois ergois tapeinos de to phronemati He was as truly low in heart as really high in worth He had great attainments but was very humble and lowly under all By this humble meek frame of spirit we shall be enabled with Patience to endure under all Tryalls whatever we may meet with 6. This will give ground for and further our Faith and Reliance on the Lord. The humble Centurion had great Faith Mat. 8. 8. Lord I am not worthy that thou shouldst come under my Roof but speak the word only and my servant shall be healed The more humble we are the more we shall be disposed to believe aright without any mixture of presumption and the more ground we shall have to beleeve Let New-England be humble and New-England shan't fail to be happy It is only the contrary hereto that will undoe us If we be poor and low in our selves we may trust in the Lord for His Salvation Zeph. 3. 12. an afflicted and poor people and they shall trust Isai. 14. 32. the poor of His People shall trust God will have His time to appear for the joy of those that tremble at His Word Isai. 66. 5. To make the first-born of the poor to feed and the needy to ly down in safety Chapt. 14. 30. To make the meek to encrease their joy in the Lord and the poor among men to rejoice in the Holy ONE of Israel Cap. 29. 19. yea to tread down the lofty Chapt. 26. 5. 6. And God can easily make the designes and hopes of such as would or have already in heart swallowed the poor of His people to be but empty dreames Chapt. 29. 8. If we be truly humble God's Ax shall not cut us down but His hand shall lift us up in due time 1. Pet. 5. 6. Humble your selves therefore under the mighty hand of God that He may exalt you in due time God knowes how to make distinction between the humble and the proud when his Wrath makes the greatest confusion in the world When we are once brought to this Frame of Spirit we may look for good tofollow The more humility and less Pride in Christians the nearer we may suppose good times We cannot saith One expect those glorious days which are to commence upon the fall of Antichrist till we see all Christians sincerely set upon destroying what is Antichristian in themselves And a spirit of Self-exaltation is such They