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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	day_n	lord_n	sabbath_n	2,303	5	9.6400	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04379	Newcastles call, to her neighbour and sister townes and cities throughout the land, to take warning by her sins and sorrowes Lest this overflowing scourge of pestilence reach even unto them also. As also a direction, how to discover such sins as are the procurers of Gods judgments by divers methods. By R. Jenison, Dr. of D. Whereunto is added, the number of them that dyed weekely in Newcastle and Garth-side, from May 6. to December 31. 1636.	Jenison, Robert, 1584?-1652.	1637 (1637)	STC 14492; ESTC S107703	57,340	278

naturally beare but prosecute if God will on more proper and particular Grounds of Scripture Heare then first how God answers hypocrites According to severall texts of Scripture and such as pretend themselves to be vvilling to be at any cost and to doe any thing to please and appease him when hee is angry Michah 6. ● 7 Wherewith shal I come before the Lord and bow my selfe before the high God Shall I come before him with burnt offerings with calves of a yeare old Will the Lord bee pleased with thousands of rammes or with ten thousands of rivers of oyle Shall I give my first borne for my transgression the fruit of my bodie for the Sin of my soule Now heare Gods answer Hee hath shewed thee O man what is good Verse 8. and what doth the Lord require of thee but to doe justly and to love mercie and to walke humbly with thy God or to humble thy selfe to walke with thy God And then it followes shewing this was to be done especially when God shewed his displeasure against them The Lords voice cryeth unto the Citie Verse 9. and the man of wisdome shall see thy name heare yee the rod and who hath appointed it See againe what God requires of us in such case of his judgments whether threatned or inflicted I will reprove thee saith God c. Psal 50.21.22 Now consider this yet that forget God lest I teare you in pieces Hagg. 1 5.6 c. And elswhere Consider your waies yee have sowne much and bring in little ye eat but ye have not enough c. thus saith the Lord of hosts againe consider your waies Mich 6.7 Consider againe upon what condition God promiseth mercie and deliverance from captivitie If they shall confesse their iniquitie Levit. 26.40.41.42 and the iniquitie of their fathers c. And that also they have walked contrary unto mee and that 〈◊〉 also have walked contrary unto them have brought thē into the land of their enemies If then their uncircumcised harts be humbled they thē accept of the punishment of their iniquitie then will I remember my cocovenāt with Iacob c. and I will remember the land Now upon consideration and confession of sin the Lord looks also we should turne to him by true and heartie Sorrow and Repentance according to that his exhortatiō by his Prophet Ioel Therefore also now Ioel 2.12.13 saith the Lord turn you even to me with all your hart and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning and rent your heart and not your garment and turne unto the Lord your God The want hereof in time of Gods judgments the Lord both complaines of and also further threatens For all this Isa 9.12 13. his anger is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still for the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them neither doe they seeke the Lord of Hosts Amos 4.10 11 So elswhere I have sent the Pestilence among you after the manner of Aegypt your young men have I slain with the Sword c. yet have yee not returned unto mee saith the Lord 12. Therefore thus I will doe unto thee O Israel and because I will doe this unto thee prepare to meet thy God O Israel In turning to God hee would have us turne from our vvicked vvaies and seeke his face and favour not returning again to our former evill waies but renuing and also keeping our Covenant of Faith Obedience and a more holy walking with him than formerly taking it ill when it is otherwise Ier. 8.6 I hearkned and heard but they spake not aright no man repented him of his wickednesse saying What have I done Every one turned to his course as the horse rusheth into the battell Therefore that hee may shevv us mercie hee will first have us Cast away from us all our transgressions Ezek. 18.31 whereby wee have transgressed and make us a new heart and a new spirit Otherwise he should seeme to favour us in our Sins Therfore when God meant to deliver his people out of the hand of the Philistines he thus speaks to them by Samuel the Prophet If yee doe returne unto the Lord with all your hearts 1 Sam. 7.3 then put away the strange gods verse 4 5 6 and Ashtaroth from among you and prepare your hearts unto the Lord and serve him onely and hee will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines This they did and withall wept abundantly fasted and prayed and confessed their Sins and were accepted So before the Lord would grant de●iverance by Gideon hee would have him Destroy Baals altar which his fa●her had Iudg. 6.25 26. and cut downe the ●rove that was by it and ●uild an altar to the Lord. The reason is God will ●hew mercie favour and ●eliverance to none in ●heir Sins Hee heares not ●inners Yet he also looks that in our afflictions wee doe call upon him Psal 50.15 Call upon mee in the day of trouble I will deliver thee And Iam 5.13 Is any among you afflicted Let him pray Now with our prayers and purposes of reformation wee must renue Covenant with God and bee carefull for ever after to performe it This we are taught by the godly example of Nehemiah and the Iewes who by the mouth of the Levites having made a religious confession as of Gods goodnesse so of their wickednesse and having in the●● owne persons separate● themselves from all strangers Nehem. 9.1 2 3 and confessed their Sins they conclude all by ●ntring into solemne co●enant with God saying ●n their great distresse in which they were 38. And be●ause of all this wee make a sure Covenant and write it ●nd our Princes Levites ●nd Priests seale unto it And the rest of the people who had understanding chap. 10.28 29 30 c. separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the Law of God clave to their Brethren their Nobles and ●ntred into a curse and into ●n oath to walke in Gods Law and to observe and ●oe all the Commandements of the lord Now the points of their Covenant were Not to joyne in marriage with the people of the land not to buy ware or victuall on the Sabbath day and to charge themselves yearely with the third part of a sh●kell for the service of the house of God and concerning first fruits and othe● offerings Thus King Hezekiah when the wrath of th● Lord was upon Iudah an● Ierusalem and that he ha● delivered their fathers 〈◊〉 trouble 2 Chron. 29.8 9 10. c. Now saith he it is in mine heart to make covenant with the Lo●● God of Israel that his fier●● wrath may turne away from ●s Oh worthy example See also c● 30.6 7 8. ●ven for the best grea●est Christian Kings in ●●ke case to imitate But what doth God ●ooke that in case of evils 〈◊〉 troubles