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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	david_n	king_n	saul_n	12,106	5	9.9774	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55741	Christ's revvard of a Christians watch and ward, or, A sermon preached at the burial of Mr. John Berry of Thorverton in the countie of Devon, Aug. 23, 1654 by John Preston ...	Preston, John, b. 1598 or 9.	1655 (1655)	Wing P3297B; ESTC R1152	15,552	24

as laid forth in the ensuing Sermon in which your obsequious friend being dead yet speaketh Many be the Epistles which whilst he lived he wrote to you by my hand Accept I beseech you of my appearing his Amanuenlis once more And keep this by you First as a Remembrance of him that honoured you and was faithfull and diligent to serve you in your employments in our Countrey And Second as a Funeral Ribband for your soul to wear which may daily minde you of your mortal condition and stir you up to get such necessaries and preparatives to go hence that when you shall be no more seen on earth you may enjoy the beatifical vision of our Lord Jesus in Heaven So prayeth Sir your Worships Servant in our great Master Iohn Preston A SERMON preached at the BVRIAL OF Mr. JOHN BERRY August 23. 1654. Luke 12. ●7 Blessed are those Servants whom the Lord when he cometh shall finde watching HEre Christ compares himself to a man lately married solacing himself preparing a place for his Spouse leaving a servant at home to wait for his return Christ hath married his Church to himself is gone into heaven to solace himself after his sufferings for he ●ught his Church with his bloud In the mean time we are to ●atch for the coming of our Lord Blessed are those servants whom ●●e Lord when he cometh shall finde watching Where you have 1. The Master 2. the Servants 3. their Works 1. Here is our Relation Servants 2. our Condition a wayting a ●●tching Condition 3. The encouragement Blessed are those Ser●●nts c. 1. Our Relation Servants Doct. Our greatest Title of honour in this life is to be Gods Servants his servants are Kings To serve him is to reign that is over lusts over sin His service is perfect freedom He is greater than Alexander the great that subdueth his passions and corruptions And hath made us Kings Revel. 1. 6. us his servants not onely in adopting us to be the Heirs of his Kingdom but also through the power of the Holy Ghost hath made us Conquerours over sin death Hell Sathan and all our enemies as it is written in all these we are more than Conquerours Rom. 8. 37. and he will Crown all his Members with glory and honour Vse 1. Account it so make great account of and glory we in this Title And indeed this is all our glory our joy and rejoycing that the Lord hath vouchsafed to call us forth to serve him to wear his Badg and Livery And it is a rich and beneficial service we serve a Lord that hath the Scepter of Heaven and Earth that will reward to a cup of cold water A poor man beg'd a penny of Alexander he gave the poor man a City what will our munificent most magnificent Lord do if we ask in faith He will give us a Kingdom a glorious Kingdom a Kingdom of glory that cannot be shaken Ask of me and I will give thee the Heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the Earth for thy possession Psal. 2. 8. said God to his Son Aske of me in my Sons name saith the same God to his servant whosoever he be and I will give the Heaven for thine Inheritance and the uttermost parts of the boundless Inheritance which is above for thy possession so that Gods servants may say every one of them I am a Citizen of no mean City I am a King of no mean Kingdom I am a servant of the great God of heaven He will not set us to gather stubble as Pharaoh to work of our selves but he will enable us to work where we fail he will pardon and when we do his works by his own help he will reward Crown his own works in us and when our enemies oppress he will take our parts Vse 2. Do we our duty as servants else the Lord will not own us When David was contriving to build a Temple to the Lord then 't is Go tell my servent David but when out of Gods work numbring the people then onely Go tell David So when the people of Israel did well then Go tell my people but when they committed Idolatry Go tell thy people Exod. 32. 7. The Lord will not own us if we be away from his work and service But is it for nothing that God so highly honoureth his people Seemeth it a small thing saith David to be King Sauls Son in law So say I seemeth it to you a small thing to be the King of Sauls Sons by grace to be his Servants Nay dignity calls for duty this honour looks for service and Gods servants must be watching which is the 2. part The second part of the Text is the condition Watching Doct. It is the office of every Christian constantly to watch and wait for the Lords coming All wakers are not watchers There is a natural waking and there is a spiritual waking and so there is of watching Waking natural is when the obstructions of the spirits being dissolved the spirits return into the senses for sleep is the binding up of the senses when upon the discessation of vapours that stopped the senses before there is a return of the spirit into the senses which may be done by some call some motion some stirring up of the body or by some great shining light In a spiritual sense Worldly thoughts and fleshly thoughts as foggy vapours do obstruct the workings of Gods spirit and cause the soul to sleep in sin God calleth by his word stirs up good motions of his spirit sends a proclamation by his messengers scatters a light either the light the delightsome light of his mercies or the startling terrifying light of his judgements or the light of divine truth and awakens these sleepers And this waking is a preparative to waching as watching is a I reparation for the Masters Advent Watching natural is when upon waking we have our senses exercised and are intent and carefully look about us to prevent some mischief or inconvenience which careless security would let in upon us Spiritual watching of which in the Text is when upon our waking our souls are exercised the faculties and powers bent and intent in the work which God hath set us to do when we do quicken actuate and raise up our graces avoiding of evil preparing for God to prevent that hurt and dammage which a sleepy State brings upon men Here 't is spoken of the vigils of the soul yet the body may so far be taken in as it is an Instrument of the soul in the action In the Primitive times they had their vigils because of present persecution or when they had some great business in hand to seek the Lord for direction or for preparation to the Sacrament In process of time it fell into superstition and the Papists rise up to their blinde devotions at certain hours of the night which they call canonical hours But how are we fallen from the zeal and piety of