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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	great_a	sin_n	sin_v	3,244	5	9.7690	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10015	The saints submission and Sathans overthrow. Or, Sermons on James 4.7. By that faithfull and reverend divine, Iohn Preston, Doctor in divinitie, Chaplaine in ordinarie to his Majestie, Master of Emmanuel Colledge, sometime preacher of Lincolnes-Inne	Preston, John, 1587-1628.	1638 (1638)	STC 20266; ESTC S110465	38,733	336

corne and to purge out the drosse from the pure gold Another answer to the former objectio● may be this thoug● God suffer Satan t● foile his children ye● in the end they over●come and becom● conquerors as in bat●tell a man may re●ceive many foyles● and many wound● of his enemies and yet in the end overcome him But wee have had experience that many have lyen under a ●entation to their ●eath and have not ●eemed to have over●ommed it how ●ould these prevaile ●ver Satan For answer wee ●ust know the spirit ●eing in the child of God tempted there ●ust needs bee some ●ct and fruit of the ●pirit although the ●arty himselfe dis●erne it not and this ●orke of the spirit is such as God accepts Rom. 8. 26 27. So the● the victory is in truth though not in shew and therefore as profitable to them But here this caution must bee added that wee looke not to overcome whilest we stand still and remain idle wee must performe our duty before wee can expect that God will performe his promise we must therefore resist the divell God keepes and preserves us but it is by means as appeares 1 Pet. 1. 5. God keepeth us through faith unto salvation and the Apostle S. Iohn saith that hee who hath a true hope will purifie himselfe as God is pure 1 Ioh. 3. 3. Although God be said to keepe us yet wee are said to keepe our selves which is to be done by a carefull use of the meanes which God hath appointed If a Patient should professe that hee had committed his life unto the skill of the Physitian and wholly depended upon him whereas notwithstanding hee would neither abstain from the things which his physitian told him to bee hurtfull nor take any thing which hee prescribed were this man to be beleeved The like may be said of him who professeth he desires to get the victory in ten●ations and that he depends upon God wholly for it and yet never useth the meanes God hath appointed for it Now these are especially three two whereof are things to be abstained from namely reasoning and conferring with Satan and gazing upon the object one thing is to be done to get the armour of salvation to be girt with it to have the shield of faith especially there is none which hath beene overcome in tentation but he hath failed in one or all of these Eve failed in all she conferred with the Serpent Secondly shee gazed upon the object the fruit of the forbidden tree Thirdly she used not the shield of faith to reject the lyes of the Serpent who said you shall not dye at all when God had said to the contrary The like wee see in Davids tentation hee gazed upon the object till he was taken neither did he use the armour of salvation as he ought to have done Iob failed in neither of them when as hee said Iob 31. 1. I made a covenant with mine eyes there is his resolution for not reasoning or disputing with his corruptions why then should I thinke upon a maid there is his resolution for not staring upon the object For what portion of God is there from above and vers 3. it is evident that it was faith in beleeving the threatnings of God towards the wicked whereby he was terrified from walking in their wayes Is not destruction to the wicked saith hee and a strange punishment to workers of iniquity Doth not hee see my wayes and count all my steps Now followes some Consectaries or Vses from the former doctrine the first may be for reproofe of those who stirre not up themselves to resist the divell notwithstanding they have the promise here made them Such are those who by custome and the bad inclination of their natures give themselves to some lusts which they never set themselves against and herewithall they excuse themselves it is their weaknesse and inclination of their nature they must be borne with their heart is good and their mind is good but to these bee it spoken their excuses wil not defend them for if they would resist as they ought the promise is made to them they should not faile to overcome This is the excuse usually made of most men for some principall lust that raignes in them But whereas they have the promise of God for victory there should be no doubt of overcomming and whosoever doth not last out these Anakims these lusts which are his deadly and sworn enemies betimes hee shall find they will be pricks to his sides and thornes to his conscience even all his life-time and at the houre of his death especially The second Vse is for tryall Herē wee may have a rule to try whether we have resisted Satan or no and surely most fearfull is their estate who have not put Satan to flight by resisting but are put to flight by him in yeelding and of these there bee two sorts First those who never resist at all Secondly those who after resisting a while fall away and give over First for those who never felt any combat of Satan and know not what his assaults meane it is impossible that they should bee escaped out of Satans power he will never leave his possession so easily We see when he was cast out of one whose body hee did but possesse before his departure he rent and tare him and will he so easily leave the possession of a soule which is his more proper seat How then can any man think he hath gotten the victory in this spiritual combate when he hath not stricken a stroake nor felt any blow none are Christs souldiers or those whom he came to redeeme but such as are described Isa. 61. 1 2 3. The Apostle saith Rom. 8. 15. Yee have not received againe the spirit of bondage to feare c. intimating that they received that before they received the spirit of adoption whosoever therefore hath not felt any assault from Satan sure it is that as yet Satan raignes in him as his king and those men who themselves have had no skirmish with Satan for the most part censure rashly of such whom they observe to bee more fearefull of offending in lesser matters Yea indeed they judge foolishly of the wayes of God having had no experience of them But the estate of the second sort who fall away is most fearfull and those men become most dangerous of all and greatest enemies to the most sincere professors because they have had some knowledge in the wayes of God that the estate of these men is fearfull appeares Heb. 10. 26. If wee sinne wilfully after wee have received the knowledge of the truth there remaineth no more sacrifice for sinne but a certaine fearefull looking for of iudgement and fiery indignation which shall devoure the adversaries and verse last wee are not of them who drawe backe unto perdition Here is implied that such as draw back doe it unto perdition Now that these men resisted not truely appeares