Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	day_n	holy_a	work_n	15,741	5	6.0955	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44592	Saints blessed for ever: or, God's people never forsaken asuring every true believer, of their blessed estate, and condition: very profitably to read, and comfortable to every believing soul that truly fears God. Being a rich portion of Gods love to his people; and worthy to be kept in memory for ever. Together with several perswasions to poor sinners, to leave their sins, and come to Christ by repentance. By Roger Hough.	Hough, Roger.	1667 (1667)	Wing H2914; ESTC R215375	10,941	27

as silver nor gold from your vain Conversation received by tradition from your fathers but with the precious blood of Jesus Christ as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot Therfore séeing here the unsearchable riches of Gods love to his people Oh! let us glorifie God in our members and double our diligence in his service The Fourth Ground or Reason Why Gods people shall never be forsaken is drawn from the great care God hath over them God hath purchased them at a very high rate and that which a man buyes dear he will be very unwilling to cast away God therefore sets a continual guard over them Psal 91 11. to the end He shall give his Angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy wayes they shall bear thee up in their hands least thou dash thy foot against a stone c. Gods care over his people is such that they that will but truly rest upon him he will not suffer an hair of their heads to perish as you may sée Mat. 10.30 Acts 27.34 Beloved God hath ever béen his peoples kéeper He that keepeth Israel never slumbreth nor sleepeth Psal 121.4 Isa 27.3 He ever taketh care of his own Inheritance The Fifth Ground or Reason Why God will never leave nor forsake his people is drawn from the Promises of God made over unto them God hath promised his Presents to be with them to the end of the world Mat. 28.20 God hath promised them deliverance from trouble Job 5.19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles and in seven no evil shall touch thee Gods promises to his people are either absolute or conditional those which are conditional God looks that believers should fulfil the conditions close with the promise it is to believers only that the promises are made Acts 2.39 For the promise is to you to your children to all that are afar off even as many as the Lord our God shal call The Sixth and Last Reason Why God will never leave nor forsake his people is drawn from the high esteem God hath of his people He values them at a high rate they are his own peculiar treasure Fxod 19.5 Psal 35.4 For the Lord hath chosen Jacob to himself Israel his peculiar treasure God esteems them above all people of the earth Deut. 10 15. They are his Jewels Mal 3.17 They are his precious ones in whom he delights And therefore God hath a high Estéem of them they are his beautified ones in whom he sées no deformity Cant. 4.7 Thou art all fair my Love and there is no spot in thee The Lord Iesus Christ sées a Beauty in them and so he estéems them And thus you sée it 's plain God will never leave nor forsake his people that wait upon him as it appears First In respect of his Love to them Secondly In respect of his Choice of them Thirdly in respect of the price of their redemption Fourthly In respect of his special care over them Fiftly In respect of his Promises made over unto them Lastly In respect of his great Esteem of them Lēt us now therefore with all diligence set about to make our Calling and Election sure 2 Pet. 1.10 Let us take our blessed Apostles Counsel laid out for our instruction 2 Cor. 7.1 Having these Promises dearly beloved let us cleanse our selves from all filthiness of flesh and Spirit perfecting Holiness in the fear of God Oh Souls let it be all your care and endeavour to honour your Heavenly Father Consider seriously beloved you can never do too much in the Service of God live up every day in new obedience to God God hath given you a sure word of Promise Oh! do not loyter in the Lords Vineyard hath God Chosen you for his People Oh! up and be doing the work of the Lord Consider seriously our God is a Holy God he cannot endure the unfruitful works of darkness let not any Afflictions you méet with in the Body or Estate draw you from God upon any accompt Satan is very full of policy and a most cunning Sophister Wherefore that you may be the better enabled to encounter with him in the first place take unto you the whole armour of God and Secondly by the examples of other precious servants of the Lord labour to strengthen your graces and build up your selves every day as objects to follow such examples First take unto you the whole armour of God which Armour is recorded Ephesians 6.13 14 15 16 17. And indéed every piece of this Armour is precious tryed mettel the which being cloathed with makes the Soul beautiful in the sight of God and will make you able to stand in the evil Day For if you but seriously Consider it here is first Truth to you presented in the Form of a Girdle Truth is that that should be the very girdle of your Loyns it is that that makes you like to your Heavenly Father it imprints the Image of Iesus Christ upon you John 14.17 17.17 And Secondly The brest plate of righteousness is a most famous and rare piece of Armour and turns back all those bolts fiery darts of Satan from the heart of a true Believer this imprints in you the name of a precious Redéemer who is called the Lord our Righteousness Thirdly There is another piece of this armour for the féet having your féet shod with a preparation of the Gospel of Peace so that we must be active in this our spiritual Warfare with all our members our féet must be made swift and prepared to run in all the wayes of Gods Commandements until we come to this everlasting Prince of Peace In the Fourth place here is the great weapon of our Warfare the Shield of Faith which we are Commanded above all others to take 't is that whereby we are made able to quench all the fiery Darts of the wicked as Faith is the most rarest and excellentest above all other Graces so it s a weapon that will not be turned back as saith the Author to the Hebrews 11.1 Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen Fiftly Here is the Helmet of Salvation which is a most rare piece of Armour for a Believer to put on and to close with Iesus Christ who is the Salvation of his People Luke 2.30 And Lastly Here is the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God to attend this great Weapon of your Warfare the Shield of Faith which is that Weapon you should Continually gird upon your Thigh alluding to that in the 45 Psalm the 3 and 4 verses Gird thy Sword upon thy Thigh O most mighty with thy Glory and Majesty and in thy Majesty ride prosperously because of Truth and meekness and Righteousness and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things This Sword of the Spirit is a most prevalent Weapon and Beloved may sometimes be alluded to the Sword of the Lord and of Gideon