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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	beast_n	earth_n	fowl_n	2,016	5	9.9276	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09675	A sermon, vpon the wordes of Paul the Apostle vnto Timothie, Epist. 1. Chap. 4. vers. 8 Preached at Litlecot, in the Chappel of the right honourable, Sir John Pompham, knight, lord chiefe justice, of England, before his honourable Lordeshippe, and to the assemblie there, the 17. of Iulie, 1597. By Charles Pinner, minister of the Church of Wotton Basset, in North-Wiltshire.	Pinner, Charles.	1597 (1597)	STC 19945; ESTC S114276	13,808	48

is to come but of this life present also And the performance is good But everie promise is kept as it is made And though this promise here is meant vnto the godlie yet the same in precise tearmes is made vnto godlinesse as at the first was noted That so the godlie might bee taught to assure them selues of the truth hereof onely with Quatenus and clause of restraint and no otherwise to wit thus so far as the are godlie because the godlie do want of their godlines And as Paul saith of knowledge which is a part of godlines our knowledge is in part 1. Cor. 13.12 so much more is it true of the whole that our godlines is in part it were a dangerous dreame to thinke otherwise Wherefore wee accuse not the purietie and sincerity but the perfection of godlines and the most godlie wee say againe doe want of then godlines So far therefore as wee are godlie and doe keepe with God so far he keepeth with vs but when we breake with him as too often we do this altereth the case with vs but yet not with God For then he taketh the rod in hand which otherwise should lie long enough but for very neede and so that godlines might go with all his delighte is in the prosperitie of his servants Oh saith he in the 48. of Esaie Oh that thou hadest harkened to my commaundementes Isa 48.18 then had thy prosperity bene as the floud and thy righteousnes as the waues of the sea That is they should haue followed one vpon the other as one waue of the sea followeth an other and gone alonge together as companions vnseperable And in the fourskore and first Psalme Oh that my people had harkened vnto mee and Israell had walked in my waies I woulde soone haue humbled their enemies and turned my hand against their adversaries the haters of the Lorde shoulde haue beene subiect vnto him but their time to wit time of the prosperitye of his people this their time should haue endured for ever And God would haue fed them with the fatte of wheate and with honey out of the rocke woulde I haue satisfied thee But if wee harken not vnto God walke not in his waies what then 〈◊〉 then thus and it is inchided in the condition of the promise vnto David and all the faithfull in the fourskore and ninth Psalme thus But if his children forsake my law and walke not in my iudgementes if they breake my statutes and keepe not my commandements dementes I will visite their offences with the rodde and their sinne vvith scourges Neverthelesse my lovinge kindnes will I not vtterly take frō him not suffer my truth to faile So that even hee which also punisheth our vngodlinesse is true in his promise and his loving kindnesse remaineth still with it shall I say yea in it Heere is a mysterie and yet no mysterie vnto the godlye which feele and finde their vngodlinesse so to bee chastened by the hande of God with such a fatherlie good will and care of them that hee turneth them hereby from their vngodlines to stād fast in the covenant and al that furthereth this intent is therefore blessed Blessed is the sickenesse blessed are the sores blessed are the woundes of such a friend Prov. 27.6 yea better then the kisses of an enemie This I take it is the meaninge of that league and Covenaunt in the second of Hosea And in that day saith the Lord will I make a Covenant for them Hos 2.18 with the wilde beastes and with the fowles of the heauen and with that that creepeth vpon the earth and I will breake the bow and the swoord and the battail out of the earth and will make them to sleepe safely Not that there shall not bee annoyances to these confederates in heauē in earth aboue below rounde about them nor that the sword shall not be whet bow bent the battail set against them in all the earth for who in the earth more afflicced then wee but that the intent of the enemy shall be defeated these instrumēts of mischiefe prepared for their hurt shal be found in the end to do them good O Ashur the rod of my wrath saith the Lord by the Prophet and the staffe in their handes is mine indignation Isa 10.5.6.7 I will sende him to a dissembling nation and I will giue him a charge against the people of my wrath to take the spoile and to take the pray to tread them vnder feete as the mire in the streete But he thinketh not so but hee imagineth to destroy and to cut of not a few nations The purpose of the Lord his worke was by the rod of the Assirians in iustice iudgement to punish the sinnes of Ierusalem Iuda for their amendment as Ieremie saith Let thine owne wicked correct thee Ierem. 2.19 and thy turninges back reprooue thee know therefore behold that it is an evill thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God and that my feare is not in thee saith the Lord God of hostes But the bent of the Assirian was barely to destroy and to set vp his great name by mighty destructions Thus the enimies shall whet their swoord and bend their bow make readie the battail for our destruction they shall kill and leade captiue devide the spoiles yet no harme doone for the Prophecie of Esaias shall be fulfilled Isa 11.9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in al the moūtaine of my holines The reason For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters that couer the sea This plentifull knowledge doth keepe all safe Which Paul also ascribeth to our loue of God who cannot but loue him after that we haue knowen him and his loue towardes vs according as hee hath chosen vs before and called vs with an holy calling ● Tim. 1.9 to know loue and honour him in all true holines Wherefore in the 8. to the Romans most comfortablie most plainely to this purpose he saieth Also we know that all thinges worke together for the best vnto thē that loue God Rom. 8.28 euen to them that are called of purpose Where doubtlesse the Apostle meaneth not so chiefelie of the thinges which properlie are good as of those which might be hurtfull if the purpose of men and the nature of the things should be respected But such is the worke of godlines or rather of God for the godly whome he hath loued called according to purpose they know him loue him serue him in holines that for their sakes according to the warking as the Apostle saith Philip. 3.21 whereby he is able to subdue all things vnto himselfe to comaund the light to shine out of darkenes 2. Cor. 4.6 he also subdueth vnto himselfe his the nature of these evill thinges and turneth them vnto their good so