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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	add_v	kindness_n	temperance_n	1,894	5	11.3132	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81241	Gods rising, his enemies scattering; delivered in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons, at their solemne fast, 26. Octob. 1642. But, through many occasions and hinderances, not printed till this 25. of May 1644. By Thomas Case, preacher, at Milk-street, London, and one of the Assembly of Divines.	Case, Thomas, 1598-1682.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1644 (1644)	Wing C830; Thomason E127_38; ESTC R4759	45,209	66

soul that seeketh him That is The Lord is better to such a people then victory The Lord is better then peace The Lord is better then trading c. The Lord is better to such a soul then a cure if they be sick Then enlargement if in prison then a Ransome if in the Enemies hand better then a Deliverance be they under what affliction soever Oh friends that you would study this Text that you knew experimentally this truth Yea Oh if you would but studie to know it truly well may the Lord himself be better for even a waiting frame of heart it self is better then any of these for all these are but gifts a waiting frame of spirit is a grace a people or person may have all these deliverances and perish never see Gods face but there is none that possesseth such a frame of Spirit but he hath God to be his portion it sprang from the fountain of Gods speciall love in Christ and it will carry the soul back thither again And therefore remember that counsell of the Apostle Iam. 1.4 Let patience have her perfect work There is a work of patience and there is a perfect work for to stay and waite a yeer or two for a deliverance is a work of patience to bear small trialls and great trials is a work of patience but to bear the greatest trials and to bear them as long as God will have them lie Chap. 5.7 8. to waite patiently till the coming of the Lord i. e. till he come and bring with him the mercie and Salvation prayed for and waited for this is a work and a perfect work of patience The Lord give us this and it will be the greatest kindnesse that God can do for us Well study it pray for it that as the trialls shall arise so our patience may arise also Psal 27. vlt. Let us be often renewing Davids charge upon our soules Wait thou on the Lord be of good courage and he shall strengthen thy heart wait I say on the Lord. Rise in your patience Seventhly Rise in your mutuall love one towards another God is Risen up against our Enemies shall we rise up one against another God forbid Hear the Apostle If ye bite and devour one another Gal. 5.15 take beed ye not consumed one of another Truly friends it were better the Cavaleeres should destroy us then ever it should be reported abroad in the world that praying Christians did destroy and devour one another it would be lesse scandall and reproach to Christ and his Gospell For the divisions of Reuben there are great thoughts of heart for the divisions of London and the Ministers and professors in London and elsewhere are great searchings of heart I professe to you Sirs I fear them more then I do all the power and policie of the blasphemous Enemie Yea I know they promise themselves more from our divisions then they do from all their own combinations Let us study I beseech you to disappoint and baffle their expectations To that end hear the Apostle most pathetically wooing of you Phil. 2.1 2. If there be any consolation in Christ if any comfort of love if any fellowship of the spirit if any bowels and mercies Fulfill ye my joy that ye be like minded having the same love being of one accord of one mind If you cannot hit it to be of one minde yet I beseech you labour to be of one heart why should we not One body one Spirit one Hope one Faith one Lord one Baptisme Ephes 4.4 5 6. one God one Father of all who is above all through all in all yea at this present One common Anti-christian Enemie One Cause one ende are not here Ones enough to make us one too I remember a sad complaint of Augustine of the Christians of his time and we are so unhappy as to revive it The Heathen saith he have many gods and false Gods and yet they can agree but Christians have but one God and the trve God and they fall together by the eares This was his Lamentation and this may be our Lamentation Christians you that love the peace and welfare of Sion labour to be healers of these breaches while too too many make it their designe to cast on ayle and I know from whence they are set on work even from Hell and Oxford make it your businesse to cast water on these coales least at length they break out into devouring-flames and there be none to quench them At least if the multitude should be so mad as to foment their own ruine yet let the leaders of the people studie to preserve the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace Oh that those Caelestiall Luminaries that shine upon inferiour bodies with so sweet and enlivening influence should look upon one another sometime with a Malignant aspect I could be contented with all my soul to give the best blood that runs next my heart for the reconciling of these uncomely unnaturall I had almost said unnecessary differences among Brethren were it not to widen that distance I would compose But there is better blood paid for this purchase already infinitely better blood and my prayer and hope shall be that that blood which hath been effectuall to the Reconciling of us to God the Father may be efficacious also to reconcile us one to another till we come into the unity of Faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto the perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulnesse of Christ Well Arise in Love Eightly Arise in Holinesse Our Holy God is Risen let us arise in Holinesse let us labour to be holy as he is holy 1 Pet. 1.15 that an Holy God may finde us an holy people and take delight to walk in the midst of us and may not be ashamed to be called our God Heb. 11.16 we have contented our selves long enough with Formes Formes of prayer and formes of duties and * Rom. 2.20 formes of knowledge and a * 2 Tim. 1.5 forme of Godlinesse Let us now labour for the power of Godlinesse To be Christians in good earnest not in word only but in the purity and the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ Add to your faith vertue and to your vertue knowledge and to your knowledge temperance 2 Pet. 1.5 6 7. and to your temperance patience and to patience godlinesse and to godlinesse brotherly kindnesse and to brotherly kindnesse charity Christians study your additions be still adding duty to duty one grace to another one degree of grace to another and the exercise of one grace to another Content not your selves with your former stints in profession and with your wonted formes of godlinesse get Pauls ambition Psal 3.13 I forget the things that are behinde and I presse forward toward the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus Verse 11. If by any meanes I might attain to the