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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	godliness_n	grace_n	temperance_n	1,804	5	11.7669	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96951	The only sovereign salve for the wounded spirit: approved by the author in himself Delivered by him in several sermons after his recovery: and now, published for the glory of his most gracious restorer, and for the comfort and settlement of any afflicted soul, that doth, or may labour under that weighty burden. By Richard Wortley, minister of Christ in his church, in Edworth in Bedfordshire.	Wortley, Richard, d. 1680.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3642A; ESTC R231974	144,585	300

this Office by the Lord of the Family Luke 12. 42. A sharp Appetite 1 Pet. 2. 2. A Stomack purg'd from the clogging humours of sin 1 Pet. 2. 1. Improvement in all Grace is compared by St. Paul to the Fruitfulness of a Tree Col. 1. 10. To this universal Fruitfulness is required Seed in the soul disposing to such Fruitfulness Gal. 5. 22. Plentiful juyce or nourishment Psal 1. 3. Purging or pruning John 15. 2. Improvement by degrees is by our Saviour compared to the growth of Grain Mark 4. 26 27. To this is required A good soyl Luke 8. 15. Dews Rain and Influence from above 1 Cor. 3 7. Perseverance in Grace is compared by St Paul to a Race Phil. 3. 13 14. To this is required as there A Consideration of the richness of of the Price Fixing the eye upon the Mark of Perfection to which we must run Eph. 4. 13. An only serious and hearty minding of this A forgetting of our good deeds which are behind A reaching forth and pressing forward to the utmost of our power A careful shunning of the by-waies Of soft effeminat●ness or yielding upon a slight temptation 1 Cor. 6. 9. Of perverse stubbornness wilfully persisting in Error 2 Tim. 3. 8. Thus as St. Peter adviseth 2 Pet. 1. 5 c. the effectually-Called are with diligence to add to their Faith in which is included Hope as its life-blood Charity and so they have the three Theological Graces To these they are to add the four Cardinal or Mother-Vertues to which all other do refer namely Vertue or Fortitude a Branch whereof is Patience Knowledge or Prudence Temperance And Justice rendring To God his due in Godliness To our Neighbour his in Brotherly kindness Having these they have the whole Gold-Chain of Graces that precious Chain of the Spouses neck wherewith she ravished the heart of Christ her Beloved Cant. 4. 9. Which being in them and abounding will assure them of their effectual Calling and Election and doing of them they shall never fall but an entrance shall be ministred unto them abundantly into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Obs The Effectually-Called are to grow in all Grace by degrees and to persevere therein They are to grow in Grace Texts 2 Cor. 10. 15. Having Hope when your Faith is en creased Rom. 5. 13. The God of Hope fill you with all joy that ye may abound in hope Inst He that had received the five Talents traded with them and made them other five Talents Mat. 25. 16. The Church in Thyatira is commended because her last works were more than the first Rev. 2. 19. They are to grow in all Grace Tex●s 2 Pet. 3. 18. Grow in Grace Col. 1. 10. Being fruitful in every good work Inst The Ephesians are to grow up in Christ in all things Eph. 4. 15. Paul prayes that the Thessalonians may be sanctified wholly 1 Thes 5. 23. They are to grow by degrees Texts Prov. 4. 18. The path of the just is as the shining Light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day 2 Cor. 4. 16. Though our outward man perish yet the inward man is renewed day by day Inst He that delights in the Law of the Lord c. He shall be like a Tree planted by the Rivers of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season Psal 1. 3. The good hearer that with an honest and good heart hears the Word keeps it and brings forth fruit with patience Luke 8. 15. They are to persevere therein Texts Ezek. 18. 24. When the righteous turneth away from his righteousness and committeth Iniquity in his sin that he hath sinned he shall dye Rom. 11. 22. Behold the goodness of God towards thee if thou continue in his goodness otherwise thou also shalt be cut off Inst Paul finished his course and kept the Faith 2 Tim. 4. 7. The Angel of the Church of Smyrna with the Members thereof have a Crown of life promised upon their faithfulness to the death Rev. 2. 10 Reas For growing in Grace 1. There is food enough in thy Fathers House that thou maist grow Luke 15. 17. 2. Thou must aim at Perfection Phil. 3. 12. 3. Not to go forward is to go backward Rev. 2. 4. Reas For growing in all Grace 1. Gods Command 2 Pet. 3. 18. 2. The Seed of the Spirit disposeth to such fruitfulness Gal. 5. 22. Reas For growing by degrees 1. God will have man to wait upon him Phil. 1. 6. 2. Preproperous hast discovers want of Faith Isa 28. 16. Christians too hasty are rootless and will fall away in the day of temptation Luke 8. 13. Reas For persevering therein 1. Without Perseverance we cannot partake of Christs Benefits Col. 1. 23. 2. We are as much as in us lies to strive to proportion our Work to the reward which will continue for ever 1 Pet. 1. 4. 3. Without Perseverance we cannot be saved Mat. 24. 13. 4. They who want this mark shall be ●lain without pity Ezek 9. 5 6. Use 1. Get an assurance that thou hast the Spirit that maketh fruitful and is known by its Fruits Gal. 5. 22. 2. Let thine obedience be Universal Psal 119. 6. 3. Bear afflictions patiently by them thou art pruned that thou maist bring forth more Fruit● John 15. 2. 4. Think on the rich Price Phil. 3. 14. 5. Pray unto God to perfect thee and trust him upon his Promise Phil. 1. 6. 6. Fall not from thy first love Rev. 2. 4. 7. The wicked sloathful and unprofitable Servant shall be cast into utter darkness Mat. 25. 30. Resol I will strive to be fruitful in every good work and to encrease in the knowledge of God so shall I walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing Col. 1. 10. and continue stedfast in the Faith 2 Pet. 3. 17 18. Ejac. Thou O Lord who hast called me art faithful and wilt do it O sanctifie me wholly and let ' my whole Spirit and Soul and Body be preserved blameless unto the Coming of my Lord Jesus Christ 1 Thes 5. 23 24. Paral. XIV Circ I observed men under the Scaffolds as lurking there to hinder those that would ascend Obs Our spiritual Enemies are to be watched with diligence lest they hinder us in our Improvement in Grace BY the Assistance of that Mighty Power backing me in my Descent into the Building one would think mine enemies had been sufficiently baffled and discouraged Yet here they are ready again if not with violence to oppose yet subtilly to supplant Though the serpents head be broken yet if possible he will bruise the heel Gen. 3. 15. When he first set upon our Great Captain he shewed himself a bold As●ailant who would not be beaten off with one or two Repulses Mat. 4. 8. He hath not his Name of Beelzebub for nothing This great flesh-fly for so the Word signifies flap him away as often as you will yet will light on again Before at the Building he assaulted