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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	ghost_n	sin_n	sin_v	2,468	5	10.3762	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44342	The application of redemption by the effectual work of the word, and spirit of Christ, for the bringing home of lost sinners to God ... by that faithful and known servant of Christ, Mr. Thomas Hooker ...	Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647.	1656 (1656)	Wing H2639; ESTC R18255	773,515	1,170

this ground it was Naamans Servants perswaded their Master 2 Kings 5. 15. to give way to the means prescribed by the Prophet for his cure If he should prescribe some great matter thou would surely do it how much more when he saith wash and be clean if washing be a 〈◊〉 of clensing the very possibility of clensing should easily make him give way to prove what washing might do When men bore holes they drive pinns mervailous readily with much ease hope sets open the heart to any ordinance that it may easily find attendance and acceptance as the Criple to Peter Acts 3. 3. he gave car expecting something c. expectation draws attention he looked upon them as desirous to receive good look what the spring is to the watch the poyse or weight to the minute no stirring without it so is hope to our indeavors the Plough man plowes in hope sows and reaps in hope 1 〈◊〉 9. 10. hope is the great wheel which carries the life of our endeavor the runners would not run in the race the marriner sayl in the Sea were there not possibility for the one to attayn the goal the other the haven and the wise man when he would set al on going he 〈◊〉 hope on work keeps that in their eyes as that which would keep them constant in their course Eccles. 11. 6. Sow thy seed in the morning and in the evening let thy hand rest and what is the prevailing reason to provoak to such unweariable diligence its hope of good thou knowest not whether this or that wil prosper 〈◊〉 whether both alike do both if either of both may do that for us that is useful and may answer our need and expectation INSTRUCTION We here see the reason why Satan draws out all his forces useth the depth of his delusions on the one side sets all the policy and power of Hell a work on the other side and tryes all conclusions to the utmost of his skill if by any means he might hamstring a mans hopes put the distressed sinner beyond all possibility and expectation of Good and then he hath him close prisoner past recovery not once looks our for deliveance he is his own the 〈◊〉 off the hinges nor opens nor shuts to give way to them that pass in or out but rather is a trouble and stops their way It s so here 〈◊〉 Satan can but unhinge the heart of the hope and expectation of relief and help he makes the contrite soul wholly uncapable of al comfort or support there is no 〈◊〉 between heaven and him but is an out-lawed wretch an out-cast beyond the compass of Gods compassion and kindness and sits down confounded in his own accursed condition and 〈◊〉 further It is a stratagem usual and common amongst commanders in the taking of towns and walled cityes when provisions as they understand are low and short within they block up al passages there is none can come out none can go in as the scriptures speak in that kind none go out to 〈◊〉 or procure provision none come in to bring any and then they certainly conclude the 〈◊〉 is theirs they must either yield or famish in such a time the like is the policy of the enemy and its a direful 〈◊〉 and undoubtedly procures the speedy destruction of the soul that cuts off a mans hopes and blocks up the soul from the possible expectation of any good it deads the 〈◊〉 deads the ordinance deads a mans diligence no going out by endeavor to procure any spiritual release no coming in by the power of any 〈◊〉 to work any good in the soul and hence it is that the enemy darts in such temptations and by his wiles and subtilties casts a man into such a condition at least to his perswasion that its utterly beyond al consultation and consideration either of our souls or others and therefore there is no further seeking out but sinking irrecoverably in a mans distress And therefore 〈◊〉 hastens the soul in a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 to pass such determinations upon a mans estate that makes him past appearance of recovery or 〈◊〉 and so 〈◊〉 the reach of reason or relief As either a mans 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 past and his 〈◊〉 determined in heaven He was before 〈◊〉 worlds 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 and the 〈◊〉 never to be reversed or else the date of mercy is 〈◊〉 and the day of grace is past here on Earth God hath set a period to his patience and long sufferance and those are expired he wil not alwayes strive with man and it s not fit nor reasonable he should Jesabel had her time to repant allowed by the Lord and she repented not and then God cast her into a bed of 〈◊〉 and slew her and her children Jerusalem had a day of peace Oh that thou 〈◊〉 the things that belong to thy peace in this thy day but now they are hid from thine eyes after the day was over the darkness grew 〈◊〉 gross that she did not nor could not see things before her eyes and this is thy condition just saies Satan So many motions of the spirit so many checks of Conscience so many 〈◊〉 and strokes under the ordinances and yet out stood al and so the time of mercy also now it is too late Or else surpriseth the thoughts of the distressed with the hideous apprehensions and remembrance of some hellish distemper of spirit unto which the sinner is privy that its other and worse than ever he yet conceived 〈◊〉 al circumstances considered it amounts to no less than the sin against the holy Ghost for if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledg of the truth there remains no more 〈◊〉 for sin Hebr. 10. 26. and this is your case says Satan beyond al question when after many motions of the spirit and perswasions cast in many secret entreaties many misgivings of heart do not do so do not do it and yet you have dispised the very spirit of Grace you have been enlightened and had many pleasant rellishes of joy and peace under the good word of God and yet fallen back again and so fallen away therefore its impossible you should be restored or renewed by repentance Then should you pursue that which is impossible to be attained this dams up al passages he cannot endure to hear of any or attain the use of any means when its impossible to receive any benefit by al that can be used Thus Satan deals with the discouraged sinner as the thief with the weary traveller who is unacquainted with the way and lost in which he is he leads him out of the road far into the forrest without the ken and cal of any passenger or expectation of any means of relief and then he hath oppertunity to spoile him of his substance of his life also So Satan deals with distressed unacquainted with his own estate under this trouble stroak of contrition carryes him aside with such misconceivings of his