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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	harden_v	people_n	pharaoh_n	3,851	5	10.7995	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85388	The tyranny of Satan, discovered by the teares of a converted sinner, in a sermon preached in Paules Church, on the 28 of August, 1642. By Thomas Gage, formerly a Romish Priest, for the space of 38 yeares, and now truly reconciled to the Church of England.	Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656.	1642 (1642)	Wing G116; Thomason E119_20; ESTC R3263	28,403	44

I will allure ●●r and bring her into the wildernesse and speak comfortably unto her She shall not thinke that her wickednesse can be greater than my mercies When she most flies from me then will I most allure her Behold here dearely Beloved the good nature of our good God who like unto a su●er and wooer when his mistris most disdaineth him wooeth her more allureth her with faire and courteous promises Even so doth God with a Soule when we follow most the vices of our heart the vanities of the world seeking to please our senses and bellies more than the Lord disdaining and contemning our God and Maker then doth he wooe our Soules then doth he allure them then doth he bring them into the wildernesse from all occasions of pride of selfe-love of vanities and pstimes There when he hath got them from the worldly pleasures doth he speak comfortably unto them O Soule saith he why dost thou follow any lovers but me there is none loveth thee better than my selfe I have bestowed more upon thee than any adulterous lover of thine The beauty of thy face which thou so much esteemest is my guift The dainties of fowle and fish which so voluptuously thou bestowest upon thy belly I first bestowed them upon thee The riches of pearles rubies rings and diamonds wherewith thou shewest thy selfe so faire an object to thy lovers eye are all my gifts The flowers of all sorts and best persumes wherewith thou delightest so much thy senses I gave them to thee Why then deare Soule dost thou turne from me Why dost thou shun me for other lovers They carry thee to perdition but I to blisse and happinesse They seek thy paines and torment I thy rest and glory They fall away like a flower which to day is and to morrow will not be but I shall remaine for ever Thus O dearly Beloved doth God speake comfortably to a Soulel thus doth he allure her thus doth he woo and entice her thus doth he when furthest she flys from him discover the riches of his mercies to her An ancient Doctor called John Raulinus Cluniacexsis saith what by experience we daily know Quanto magis srigus viget tanto magis videtur Coelum stellatum The greater the frost and cold is the m●re bright do the star's appeare and shew themselves in the darkenesse of the night Lauretus who borrowed his doctrine out of Thomas Aquinas and Austin saith also of the stars in a morall explication Stellae productae in Coelo designare possunt dona Spiritus Sanctir That they may be a symbole or figure of the favours and guifts of the Holy Ghost What then meaneth it that these stars which are symbols of Gods favours shine brightest when the frost and cold is greatest O it signifieth that when a heart is most cold and frozen most voyd of the heat of the love of God then doth the Lord strive to shine brightest into that heart than doth he most discover the glittering spangles of his mercy than doth he manifest the glorious stars of his Heavenly comforts for to teach us that none shall despaire though never so deeply plunged into sin though never so cruelly tyrannized by the Devill for God with his mercies can and often hath changed a wicked sinner to a holy life and of a persecut●r and e●emy hath made a holy Apostle I cannot here passe over with silence a witty observation of Chrysostome upon those words which the Angell of the Lord spoke to Joseph Mat. 2. 13. saying Arise and take the young childe and his mother and fly into Aegypt and be thou there untill I bring thee word for Herod will secke the young Childs to destroy him Vpon these words Chrysostome groundeth great admirations wondring that God would send his only begotten Son into Aegypt a Countrey that above all Countreys misused and kept under hard slavery Gods own chosen people not suffering them to go out till God hardned Pharaoh's heart and Moses after many wonders shewed with the hand of the Lord tooke them out of bondage Now then if this Countrey was first so rebellious against God himself and his Commands how commeth it to passe saith Chrysostome that God will trust his Deare and only Son Jesus Christ with so perfidious and disobedient a Nation Could not there be Order given that Christ might bee kept from the fury of Herod in any other Countrey and not in Aegypt so stubborne an enemy to God and his Elect People Chrysostome answereth O commutatio dextrae excelsi ut popului qui a tefuerat persecutor populi primogeniti postea sieret custos unigeniti● O wonderfull change and alteration of the right hand of the Lord saith Chrysostome that that people which before had been a persecutor and enemy of the first chosen People of God now should be trusted with Gods only Son and should be made keeper of him to desend him and protect him from the wicked plots of Herod What is this But to magnifie and set out the great mercies of God who so strangely worketh alterations in Nations and in particular soules making those his dearest friends which were his greatest enemies and persecutors This is the power of the mercy of God which can prevaile against all the strength of Satan who can deliver a soule possessed by the Devill and bring it to a state more happy than ever miserable it was in Satans power This the Prophet Micah prophecied in the 4 Chap. of his Prophecies and 10 ver. saying Be in pain and labour to bring forth O daughter of Sion like a woman in travell for vow shalt thou go forth out of the City and thou shalt dwell in the field th●u shalt go even to Babylon there shalt thou bee delivered there the Lord shall redeeme thee from the hand of thine enemies What greater confusion was there ever than in Babylon What greater blindnesse than there What greater or crueller slavery than there Yet saith Micah there shalt thou bee delivered there the Lord shall redeeme 〈◊〉 from thine enemies for to teach us that there is no sinner so deeply drowned into the depth of sin so bitterly beaten by Satan so hardly captivated and bound with the bonds and fetters of his iniquities but yet the mercy of the Lord is able to take him out Therefore O dearely beloved make use of this doctrin never despaire of Gods savours though as Christ said in my text to Peter Satan sift you as wheat separating you from the white flower of the elect and chosen p●ople though he separate you like chaffe from the corne from the sin●…full granes and members of the Church by beating you as Corne is beaten with the flaile by striking out your eyes that you may not see by making you dumb that you may not speake nor cry unto the Lord by making you deaf that you may not heare any goodnesse yet despaire not of his mercies for out of Babylon the place of greatest confusion