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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	christian_a	zeal_n	zealous_a	36	3	8.0379	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02276	The spouses hidden glory, and faithfull leaning upon her wellbeloved. Wherein is laid down the soules glory in Christ, and the way by which the soule comes to Christ. Delivered in two lecture sermons in St. Andrewes church in Norwich. / By Iohn Collings Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods word in Saviours parish in Norwich.	Collinges, John, 1623-1690.	1646 (1646)	Wing C5340A; ESTC R174086	70,368	91

may cast a covering over the man that hee shall not see the Sun But not over the body of the sunne to hide day-light To whom is she hidden therefore and to whom not hidden What of her is uncovered and what is covered First She is not hidden to God Elijah thought all the saints had beere both dead and buried when hee complained that he was left alone but God saw seven thousand in Israel that had not bowed their knee to Baal Ezechiel saw no mourners but God sent him to mark out such a precious tribe from the tribes of Israel he saw their private drops God need not say concerning the most retired saint Who is this that commeth up Secondly To her selfe she is not hidden She hath her conscience bearing her witnesse the manifestation of Gods love in her owne soule the prints of his foot-steps Gods Spirit bearing witnesse with their own Spirits Christ is written in great letters in their hearts she hath her 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 her marks to know her selfe by By this we know 1 Iohn 2.3 and by this again we know vers 5. 3. She is unknowne and hidden to the world to the saints of the world her brethren know her not and to the men of the world to the one lesse to the other more the saints know her not infallibly It was a true saying of him When any of us come in heaven we shall see some faces there that we never thought had beene there and misse some others that we had verily thought to have found there But yet many wayes may the Saints discerne by the fruits betwixt light and darknesse yet not any that I know so certaine to our duskish eyes that by it I can positively and infallibly say of any This or that is a Saint of God though in charity I ought to judge so of many yet Samuel may bee deceived in Eliab Gods eyes see not as man sees Therefore I have sometimes wondred with what face any man that professeth himselfe a servant of Iesus Christ dare for a fee at a funerall lift a moralist to heaven that possibly burnes in hell that houre I should feare to speak it positively of him that in my deceivable eyes seems a pious Christian They are Hidden ones How many that shine in heaven at this day a glorious constellation that went out of the world clouded and with what face shall a minister of Iesus Christ say more of me then I dare say of my self How comes his assurance if I want mine I know charity in this case is pleaded But I conceive charity is enough shewen to say I hope or we hope if the tree may be judged by the fruits declare the probabilities and leave the soule to God But I am not amongst an indocible kinde of creatures that will tell me they are too old to be taught and I too young to teach them To return therefore whence I digrest and to tell you what of the Christian cannot be hidden and what of them is hidden 1. The acts of his graces cannot bee hidden A Christian must shew his love to God though God clouds himself to him If they have any habit of love in them it will act For Love is strong as the grave and jealousie burnes like fire Cant. 8.6 7. Many waters cannot quench love Their zeale cannot bee hidde no not from the world he cannot heare a wretch sweare see him drunk profaning Gods sabbaths nay abusing his Christs blood but he must speake The zeale of Gods house hath eaten up the Christian as well as his master The hypocrite learns that politick paradox to see and not to see to see and winke Eliah must be zealous for the Lord God of hosts The hypocrite will tell you of discretion O that idoll of discretion said hee and very well that drives the power of Godlinesse out of the Kingdome Discretion indeed is commendable The prudent man ordereth his affairs with discretion but not with discretion as now impleaded The Magistrate must be zealous in his place these tell him he must bee moderate Summum jus est summa injuria he must not anger his rich neighbour to levy the penaltie for swearing or blaspheming nor make the poore men his enemies by executing the Statutes for tipling and drunkennesse he must keepe his oath with discretion and punish sin with discret●on and damne his owne soule with discretion too The ministers they must act by the hypocriticall Newters luke-warme principles of discretion too they must not reprove faction till they see how it will be favoured above see what government will be settled and then speak against those that oppose it See the truth of Christ rent in peeces his precious robe of truth torne from top to bottome his church rent limb from limb cut in more peeces then the Levites concubine yet must they say nothing It were indiscretion want of moderation bitter Presbyterianisme what not to speak against these butchers wait and see what will bee done above and so indeed it may be salvation may bee brought to the church another way but we must know then assuredly that wee and our houses and our fathers houses shall perish The word of God was in Ieremiahs heart as a burning fire shut up in his bones Ier. 20.9 Grace commands a Christian Magistrate and a Christian Minister sometimes beyond what the world judgeth discretion witnesse that though an extraordinary case of Phineas for Zimri and Cosbi But alas where is this zeale we have more Discreeter as the world calls them then Gracious zealous preachers by one half meer Gallioes that can see a Church rent in peeces soules perverted truth torne and they care for none of these things And we have more moderate Magistrates then Godly more that the world calls honest then God will thank for their honesty another day It was never before our dayes the Commendation of a Magistrate to be last in action to do nothing against blasphemers Hereticks c. Where ●s these pretended Christians graces O away with these Cyphers on Benches act for God or the Devill When God calls as in these dayes Who is on my side who why do ye hide your heads in holes were there a dramme of grace in your hearts it could not be but we should see a little flame The acts of Christians graces cannot be hidden No one must say of them in that sence Who is this Secondly Their gracious and holy life cannot be hidden They must walk as it becomes children of the light they cannot be saints here and Devils there their company be it good or bad shall be the better for them It was a shrewd failing of Peter to be a Iew amongst the Iewes and a Gentile amongst the Gentiles Paul reproved him to his face for it Thus they are not hidden if they be Gods coine they will have his image and superscription upon them How then are they hidden from the world that they may say who is