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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	egypt_n	lord_n	pharaoh_n	3,360	5	10.2672	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91944	The figg-less figg-tree: or, The doome of a barren and unfruitful profession lay'd open. In an exposition upon that parable: a certain man had a figg-tree planted in his vineyard, &c. Luke 13. 6,7,8,9,10. / By Nehemiah Rogers, a minister of the Gospel of Christ.	Rogers, Nehemiah, 1593-1660.	1659 (1659)	Wing R1823; Thomason E973_1; ESTC R203371	458,183	541

Anger upbraid me with my former barrennesse Though I may be suffered to stand yet not be regarded If he forgive me yet it may be he will not forget me Resp Nay all will be well in that respect too Read Jer. 31 18 19 20 33 34. Hos 14.4 He will not reserve Anger but so forgive thy sins as to remember them no more Nor will he think the worse of thee for what thou hast bin Was not Paul once a persecutor a Blasphemer breathing out nothing but threatnings delighting in nothing more then in the blood of God's Saints and Children yet being converted by a light from Heaven God takes him near unto himself appoints him to be a chosen Vessel to bear his Name takes him up into the third Heavens fills him with abundance of Revelations testimonies of favour to him above the rest Call to mind what thou rea●st Luke 15. of the Father's entertaining of his Prodig●ll son upon his return home No sooner had he any thoughts of returning and set foot forward but the Father runs to meet him he kisseth and embraceth him c. He gives kisses not stripes saith Chrysologus the force of love sees no faults He so healeth his Sons wounds as that he might not leave a scarr nor a freckle in his face Remember Mathew the Publican Peter Mary Magdalen with others and how they have bin entertained and you must be enforced to confesse that Christ did never shew so much kindnesse unto any as to those who have fell fowlest and bin most notorious Offenders upon their Repentance Nor did their former sins disable them from their Callings Joh. 3.1 Dan. 4.39 Joh. 21.15 Jonah upon his Repentance shall be restored to his Prophetical function Nebuchadnezzar to his Kingdome Peter to his Apostleship c. Thus whatsoever thou doest within the compasse of thy Calling shall be accepted as if thou never hadst offended All will be well Tell me now what resolvest thou to do wilt thou passe over what thou hast now heard as slightly as thou hast passed over other Doctrines and depart as fruitlesse from this Sermon as thou hast done from many If so I might tell thee it will not be well Or if in case thou resolvest to amend but art incouraged from what hath now bin delivered to deferr and put off because if it be done at last all will be well Then you must farther know that if it be so that will be all It will be but well your Writt will be returned though not Non est inventus yet Tardè venit and that will be uncomfortable But it is to be feared that if thou hardenest thy heart to persist in evil upon a presumptuous hope of repenting when thou pleasest as hath bin before declared thou wilt not find it so well in the end And it will be one day unto thee a Hell in Hell to remember what God hath offered and how near thou wert to Heaven but didst thrust Salvation from thee even with both hands as it were By how much the greater the mercy of God hath bin towards thee which thou neglectest by so much the soarer will vengeance be at the last Vse 2 Secondly If upon bearing fruit of Repentance and new Obedience All is well what ever was before It may direct us in our Carriage and behaviour towards Converted-ones such as have lived long in sin yet reclaimed in the end Think not the worse of them for what they have bin but judge of them as they are Object not to David his Adultery to Manasses his Idolatry to Peter his Apostacy to Mathew his Extortion to Mary Magdalen her unclean Life They have Repented God hath Forgiven and Forgotten All is now well Say thou no more magnifie God for them think well and speak well of them Thou sinnest in doing otherwise A new Life and a new Course should not be disgraced with rehearsal of a mans old sins 2 Cor. 2.7 2 Cor. 2.6 7. Vse 3 Lastly It affoardeth singular comfort to every true Penitent seeing whatever hath bin now All is well betwixt God and Them Christ and Them Angels and Them the Ordinances and Them the Creatures and Them yea betwixt Them and Themselves Should the World Flesh Devil accuse as accusing they will be ever and anon for thy former vitious life and tell thee how thou hast lived how thou hast sinned what thou hast bin c. Answer It is true thus it was but it is now otherwise Now all is well Eat thy meat with a chearful heart Go on comfortably in thy Calling for God now accepteth of thy Labour Eccles 9.7 I shall conclude this poynt with Remembring you of the Contract made betwixt Jonathan and David 1 Sam. 20.20 If the Arrow fall on this side of thee all is well c. So if this Admonition this threatning be on this side 2 Sam. 20 20. that thou turnest thy face to it to embrace it all is well but if this Arrow this Admonition be beyond thee if thou cast it at thy back in a contempt or forgetfulnesse thy case is very ill as in the next place is to be shewed And if not then after that thou shall cut it down Text. This is the Negative Branch of the Hypothetical Proposition And therein we have First An Addubitation or Suspition If not Secondly A Concession or Resolution After that thou shalt cut it down 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And if not The Speech is Doubtful and Suspicious He hath the Figg-Tree in some jealousie notwithstanding another years pains with it and about it yet it might continue as barren as it had bin the three years before And yet he will try what it will do Hence we gather That Barrennesse may be found under the best and powerfullest means Doct. Noah preached to the old World full six score years Gen. 6.3 all the while the Ark was a preparing yet with little profit for they continued disobedient and are now in Prison for it eight Souls onely were saved in that Deluge 1 Pet. 3.20 1 Pet. 3 19 20. Hear what Moses speaks to Israel Ye have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the Land of Aegypt unto Pharaoh and unto all his Servants Deut. 29.2 5. and unto all his Land The great temptations which thine eyes have seen the signes and those great Miracles yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear unto this Day Deut. 29.2 5. Hear again what God did for his Jewish Vineyard He planted it in a very fruitful Hill He fenced it and gathered out the stones thereof and planted it with the choysest Vine Isa 5.4 8. He built a Tower in the midst thereof and also made a VVine presse therein c. Nothing could be done more for it than was done And what was the Successe VVhen He looked for Grapes Behold wild Grapes Isa 5.4 8. Rom. 11.2 3. Wot you