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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	lord_n	sing_v	song_n	1,893	5	9.6892	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85486	The right vvay: or A direction for obtaining good successe in a weighty enterprise. Set out in a sermon preached on the 12th of September, 1648. before the Lords on a day of humiliation for a blessing on a treaty between His Majesties and the Parliaments commissioners. / By W. Gouge.	Gouge, William, 1578-1653.	1648 (1648)	Wing G1394; Thomason E463_1; ESTC R202327	28,997	43

through mans ordinary abuse of the goods of this world Christ stileth them Mammon of unrighteousnesse yet he adviseth us to make to our selves friends thereof Luk. 16. 9. They are necessary for the very being of our bodies Life health strength are preserved by them They may be a means of continuing the Ministery of Gods Word and Ordinances among us and we by them may be many waies helped even about the service of God These are the distinct Instructions which this text affordeth They are many and weighty It cannot be expected that I should handle them all at this time in any large manner I will therefore collect one generall observation wherein the main scope and drift of the text shall be set forth and which shall comprise under it most if not all of the points before noted It is this In a matter extraordinary The generall Doctrine extraordinary means must be used To shew that this doctrine is the main intendment of my text two things are to be demonstrated 1. The Case that it was extraordinary 2. The Means that they were extraordinary Each of these may be made manifest in seven particular branches a piece 1. These Jews were in a strange land The extraordinary case of the Jews So is the land of their captivity stiled Ps 137. 4. where thus they say How shall we sing the Lords song in a strange land 2. They were at this time captives for notwithstanding this and a former return from the place of their captivity they were even after this counted and called children of the captivity Chap. 10. 7 16. 3. The name of a Jew was odious among the Heathen Many envied them for their religion and professions sake When Zerubbabel went to Jerusalem he found adversaries Ezra 4. 1. when afterward Nehemiah went he found those who much envied that there was a man come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel Neh. 2. 10. Haman could suggest to the King of Persia That the laws of the Jews were divers from all people and that it was not for the Kings profit to suffer them Esth 3. 8. Yea many laid wait for Ezra and his company in the way vers 31. 4. They had no outward guard of horse or foot for Ezra was ashamed to require of the King a band of souldiers and horsmen to help them against the enemy in the way because they had spoken unto the King saying The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him vers 22. Thus they engaged Gods honour in this case which maketh it the more extraordinary 5. Of themselves they could not go the right way Their seeking this of God implies as much 6. They had the care of many little ones lying upon them This made their case the more difficult 7. They had a great charge with them as their own cattel and goods and a great summe of silver and gold which the King and his Councellours had freely offered unto the God of Israel and store of vessels for the service of God v. 33. Chap. 7. 15. Do not all these particular circumstances make their present case to be more then an ordinary case Answerably the means which they used were extraordinary as is evident by a like number of particular instances 1. A publike Proclamation was made to call them all together The extraordinary means which the Jevvs used and to give them warning before hand that they might come prepared Proclamations use not to be made but in weighty matters 2. A Fast was enjoyned Fasting hath been before noted to be an extraordinary act of piety 3. For want of a Synagogue or a Temple they continue their fast in the open air by a river side This was more then usuall 4. They extend their fast to afflict themselves that they might sensibly feel it 5. They do it not in appearance only but really in truth before God 6. They do not only wish for what they needed but they earnestly seek it of God 7. They plead a speciall relation betwixt God and themselves in this phrase OVR God Lay together the particulars of their Case and of the Means that they used and you shall finde the one and the other to be extraordinary yea you may also observe all the particulars of the text couched within this doctrine In a matter extraordinary extraordinary means must be used This course hath Gods Church taken throughout all ages Extraordinary cases 1. Obtaining or regaining blessings in all manner of extraordinary cases and that 1. For obtaining good things 2. For removing evils and both these about spirituall and temporall publike and private matters For good things extraordinary praier hath been made when Saints and servants of God have seen them needfull then to be granted or when they have been withheld or when they have been withdrawn and taken away This may be exemplified in sundry particulars Moses earnestly praied for a good Governour to succeed him Speciall blessings extraordinarily praied for Numb 27. 16. Christ spent a whole night in praier immediately before his chusing of Apostles Luk. 6. 12 13. The Apostles ordained Elders in every Church with praier and fasting Act. 14. 23. The Church fasted and praied when Barnabas and Saul were separated to the work whereunto God called them Act. 13. 3. The like course should be taken by us in ordaining Ministers and setting Officers in their severall places yea and in enterprising weighty affairs of more then ordinary concernment Much more ought this course to be taken when desired and expected blessings are withheld This was Hannahs case which mov'd her to weap and fast and pour out her soul before the Lord 1 Sam. 1. 7 15. Most of all is this to be done when blessings are withdrawn and taken away especially if they be spirituall blessings The sensible presence powerfull assistance and sweet comfort of the Spirit being withdrawn from David upon the great sins which he committed in the case of Bathsheba and her husband he penned the one and fiftieth Psalme which manifesteth an extraordinary wrestling with the Lord to have those blessings restored to him again His wrestling in this case was like Jacobs who would not let the Lord go unlesse he blessed him 2. Preventing or removing evils Gen. 32. 26. Hoc est totum quod dicitur malum i.e. peccatum poe●a peccati Aug. de ver relig c. 11 Evils against which extraordinary praier is to be made are sins or judgements Against-sins such praiers are to be made to prevent them or redresse them For preventing sinne Christ commandeth his Disciples to watch and pray that they enter not into temptation Mat. 24. 41. By temptations men are drawn to sin By being freed from the temptation or assisted and supported in the temptation sin may be prevented Gen. 20. 6. 39. 7 8 c. For redressing sin after we are fallen into it two things are to be praied for One that God would be