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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	lay_v	moth_n	treasure_n	2,139	5	9.7940	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08266	The last advice of Mr. Ben. Alexander (late minister of West-Markham, in the county of Nottingham) to his children. In two parts. The contents follow.	Alexander, Ben. (Benjamin)	1659 (1659)	Wing A912A; ESTC R172146	13,153	80

glorious and gracious Lord God the great Creator of Heaven and earth and the wise Disposer of all things which thou hast made for thine own glory and for the good and welfare of all thy servants we the most unworthiest of all thy servants do desire to prostrate our selves before thy divine Majesty under an humble acknowledgement of thy goodnesse thy grace thy truth and faithfulnesse thy many mercies renewed and continued every day to us and our great unworthinesse of the least of any of them We are not worthy of the crumbs that fall from thy Table not onely because we were born in sin but because we have lived in sin and have daily added to our sins by the vanity of our thoughts words and actions and the unsutablenesse of the whole man to all thy commands we are ignorant of them yea we have digged to our selves Cisterns that will hold no water we have doubted of thy promises and distrusted therein thy Covenants broken thy Lawes polluted thy Ordinances profaned thy Sabbaths abused thy mercies slighted thy judgments sinned against the light of our own Consciences against Grace received against the motions of thy holy Spirit against Heaven and in thy sight and we are not worthy to be called thy Children and therfore most justly mayst thou poure down thy displeasure upon us and empty the vials of thy wrath upon us and ours making our lives bitter unto us by diseases and manifold crosses and deny us the fruition of thy self in glory hereafter and yet thou art just in all thy wayes and holy in all thy works for this we abhor our selves and condemn our selves oh let us escap● the condemnation of thee our God O enter not into judgement with us for in thy sight shall no flesh living be justified our only Hope is on the Merits of Jesus Christ thy beloved Son our Saviour of whom thou spakest from thy Excellent Glory this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased in him O Lord be well pleased with us and signe thy good pleasure unto us by a full and free Pardon of all our sins Lord 't is a great Request we begg of thee and more then such sinners as we are can hope for to receive from thee but it was a great Price which was paid for us not by corruptible things as silver and gold but the most Precious blood of thine own Son we tender up to thee Lord Jesus Christ upon the Altar of a believing soule O receive him for us thou laid'st upon him the iniquities of us all that we through his stripes might be healed magnifie thy mercies towards us sinners and thy Grace by passing by our transgressions and Lord Seale up thy Pardon by giving thy holy Spirit unto us in more inlarged fullnesse and let him comfort us and beare witness to our spirits that we are thine and thou art ours that being delivered from the bondage of sin we may cry out Abba Father O let thy Spirit bring gracious answeres to our soules desires plead the cause of our soules shed abroad the love of thy selfe in our hearts leading us into all necessary truths guiding us by Grace here that we may come o● Glory hereafter And as we desire Pardon of sins so we pray thee subdue our sins mortifie those corruptions that dwell in us and oft times do tyrannize over us and bring us to subjection to the Law of sin making us most wretched creatures O let it pittie thee to see Satan rule over us who takes us captive according to his will bruise his power limit his malice shorten his chaine divide his Kingdom hasten his finall doome and condemnation O let no Lord Rule over us but thy selfe for thou art our only God and we will worship thee And good Father lead us not into temptation deliver us from the evill thereof strengthen us against them sanctifie us under them and let us finde the sufficiency of thy Grace under them to make us conquerors through Jesus Christ O make sin loathsome to us helpe us to looke upon sin as thou dost looke upon it to Judge it and condemne it give us a sight of it in thy favour a sorrow for it and a resolution against it and hold us up by the Power of thy Spirit through Faith to Salvation Helpe us to derive our Joy from Heaven and our comforts from above the cloudes and to lay up our treasure above the sun where the moth and the thiefe cannot eat thorough and steale Make good thy Covenant to us in giving us a new heart and renewing our spirit in us let the Scepter of Christ sway over the whole man our understandings wills affections bringing all to obedience of the Law of Christ Remember thy whole Church what promises thou hast for Jewes and Gentiles in thy good time make out to them bring in the out-cast of Israel and all from the high-wayes that so thy house may be full O let the Nations be thine inheritance and the utmost parts of the Earth be thy possession Remember and blesse these Nations wherein we live O Lord keep up England from falling from thee let it not languish nor decay in Godlinesse and let not the wantonnesse under the meanes of Grace in it procure the want of Grace in it thou hast divided us bring us together again O Pardon the sins of our Nation and helpe us to keep our selves free from the pollution thereof thou art a God of order O settle order in thy Church and unity among thy Saints let such as do erre out of ignorance learne knowledge and such as have sinned against knowledge finde Repentance endue the Magistrates with the knowledge of thy Spirit of Grace and wisdom as well as with Power that we may live a peaceable and quiet life under them in all godlinesse and honesty O let thy Ministers be cloathed with holinesse write it on their brest let them shine by holinesse of life as well as by Doctrine and Crown all their Labours with a Garland of soules And remove not O Father thy Candlestick from us for our unworthinesse of it and our unthankfullnesse for it but Pardon our unprofitablenesse under it and teach us to profit more and more And O Lord comfort all the children of affliction speake peace to the wounded and troubled spirit binde up the broken hearted powre in wine and oyle into their maladies that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoyce convert our enemies and make our wayes so to please thee that our very enemies may be at peace with us blesse our Relations in consanguinity affinity and Christian friendship that as there is a communion of Saints so we maystudy to edifie one another in love and piety by words and workes And good Father set us higher than our crosses and temporall afflictions in this life helpe us to cast our care upon thee who hath promised to care for us and thou that regardest sparrowes tellest us we are of far