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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	eagle_n	young_a	youth_n	138	3	8.2983	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28186	A cordiall for a heart-qualme, or, Severall heavenly comforts for all those who suffer any worldly crosse or calamity by Simon Birckbek ...	Birckbek, Simon, 1584-1656.	1647 (1647)	Wing B2944; ESTC R22613	48,952	202

off sooner but then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fall off alone The Lord will●… heare thee but it may be thou art not yet fit for the mercy not because he doth not heare thy prayer and tender thee in that case thou art in but thou art not yet fit Herein God deales with us as the Physitian with his Patient The Patient earnestly desires such and such things the Physitian wants not will to give them him but he resolves to give them as soone as he is fit and therefore he makes him stay till he have purged him and made him fit for it till he be fit for such a Cordiall for such a Medicine God heares the complaints of this our distressed Church and State it may be God staies us for this end wee are not yet●… haply in that capacity of mercy as is fit Twice was the Israelits the better part foiled by the men of Benjamin the lesse in number and such as had the worse cause The Israelits f they wept and fasted once or twice and adventured upon the Benjamits but prevailed not till the third time They were fitted and prepared when they fasted and wept and prayed three times T is to be feared wee are not yet fit there is somewhat more that must be done wee are not yet humbled enough Some Colts are so untamed they must needs be broken so some corruptions are so unruly that they will not be●… wrought out without great afflictions Wee shall have neede of Patience as the Apostle saith g to endure these penall and painfull evils Fulgentius a godly Father was often divers dayes before his death heard to cry out Domine da mihi modò patientiam postea indulgentiam Lord grant me patience heer and case heereafter Lord give us patience to bear and constancy to endure whatsoever it shall please thee to inflict And since this evill of paine this painfull evill must come heere or elsewhere say we with S. Austin Domine hic ure hic seca ut in aeternum parcas Lord feare us lance us heere let us smart heere so thou spare us hereafter And yet since wee must suffer for our sins have so deserved 't is our comfort that wee are under the protection of the highest and guided by such a providence as stoupeth to the lowest and wisely disposeth of whatsoever can befall us Let us then lay our hands upon our mouthes and command our soules an holy silence not daring to yeeld to the least rising of our hearts against God I was dumbe and opened not my mouth because thou did'st it saith David i That which I●… could not attaine to by reason while I looked on the second causes now I have obtained by grace looking up to thee now I keepe silence Thus Aaron when he had lost his two sonnes both at once and that by fire and by fire from Heaven which carried an evidence of Gods great displeasure with it yet held his peace k In this silence and hope is our strength Flesh and bloud is proane to expostulate with God and to question his dealing as Gedeon l did If the Lord be with us why then is all this befallen us But after some struggling betweene the flesh and the spirit the conclusion will be ●… yet howsoever matters goe God is good to Israel m Truely God is good to Israel saith David though God may seeme to favour bad men because they prosper and to hate good men because they are crossed yet he assures himselfe that God in the end would blesse the godly and such as were not hypocrites Hold out faith and patience then and our worke will speedily be at an end and wee shall receive the end of our faith n even the salvation of our soules and through faith and patience o inherit the promise If wee strive but a little wee shall be happy for ever Here it will haply be expected that I should goe on to make up other Cordials for severall maladies but this is done to my hand by a rare Confectioner in his Balme of Gilead to whose store-house I referre the Patient SECT. VII Directions for the recovered Patient VVHen thou art cased of the Crosse be thankfull for thy recovery bee not like the unthankfull Lepers p or Pharaoh's cup-bearer q who admired Joseph in the jayle but forgat him in the Court Forget not God in thine health and prosperity whom thou pliedst with suites and promises in thine adversity even the wicked can be somwhat●… good whiles they are under the crosse and with Ahab hang downe the head like a bul-rush and bee humbled but take them off the rack case their paine and they run to their old Byas againe these are like Iron which is soft and will bow as the workeman will when it is in the fire but soone after it is drawne out it returns to the old hardnesse like hoggs that seldome looke towards heaven but when they are cast to ground and overturned which if they be let goe they begin to pore on the ground and roote in the earth Try thy selfe how the Crosse hath wrought with thee whether it hath bettered thee or no Thou callest it a visitation a correction how is it so if thou bee not corrected by it If the mettle bee put into the furnace and not refined it is but refuse If after thou hast been humbled under God's hand thou grow more faithfull and Conscionable in thy calling than before 't is a good token this is like Triacle out of the Viper and with Sampson to taste sweet honey out of the sowre carkasse of a dead Lion r now that thou art recovered and the Lord added to thy daies ●… as he did to Ezekiah s doe thou add Repentance and Amendement of life to thy daies as the Lord hath made thee young and lustie like an Eagle t renuing thy youth and strength like an Eagles beake doe thou likewise renue thy Repentance and pay u that now in thy health which thou vowedst on thy sick-bed to wit newnesse of life Sin no more w lest a worse thing come to thee to wit death naturall or spirituall Returne not with the Dogge to his vomit x or the Hogge that was washt to wallow in the puddle of thy former uncleannesse Fall not to thine old diet lest thou fall to●… thine old disease beware of a down-cast and be more precisely cautionate against spirituall Relapses Take heede of a Relapse Relapses are dangerous when I fell sick it was some comfort to me that I was but in the common condition of mankind now in my relapse I am barred hereof I charge the fault and that juftly vpon mine owne selfe mine owne carelesnesse and disorder I have pull'd downe a falling house on mine owne head I have marred what Physitians and friends under God had amended At the first grudging of my●… maladie I had some strength and