Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	write_v	young_a	youth_n	54	3	7.9977	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79993	The sect every where spoken against or, the reproached doctrine of Ely. As it was held forth in several sermons in the year, MDCLI. By Christopher Cob, lay-man, minister of an united people in Ely. Collected and analized for a private use, by Hampden Reeve, Master of Arts, one of that Society, and a constant hearer. Now published by the assent of the whole Society (as a short character, at present, of them and their way, till an opportunity of a farther and fuller discovery) for satisfaction in general.	Cob, Christopher.; Reeve, Hampden.	1651 (1651)	Wing C4769; Thomason E1251_1; ESTC R209173	234,596	386

thy seed be blessed Ishmael though he may live in the House yet He must not be Heir with Isaac There are many flourishing Plants in the world that grow and thrive apace I but every Plant that my Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up The King will overlook all his guests and then Friend how camest thou hither will light on all that have not the wedding garment on However we may strive to pull in Husbands and children and other relations according to our selfish wills yet alass That will not stand That will not make any who are not to be this chosen Generation It is not whom man approves but whom the Lord approves It was once so That all lay in the confused Chaos together in one lump like the Potters clay and then there was no difference at all none could say This is accepted or this rejected this is Jacob or this Esau this a vessel of honor That of dishonor till the Potter hath separated and distinguished his clay to several purposes and then was the Portion of the Nations divided and then the Lords People became his portion Then this chosen Generation had their first Being and were both from the womb of the morning Now in choosing these several things are considerable 1. Before a man chooseth any thing he weighs well and considers and overlooks it in his minde He weighs all the flaws and all the perfections in it that he may know what he chooseth and not do it hoodwinked So the Lord was pleased to weigh all his creatures When he divided to the Nations their Inheritance and separated the sons of Adam then he said Jacob is my portion He knew what he did how he would prove as God says I knew thou wouldst have iron sinews and a brazen brow He throughly considered what he did took in all faults and provocations that should ever spring from them and yet he pitches on this chosen generation and yet Jacob is the lot of his Inheritance Hence it is there are no repentings in God because the thing was throughly weighed We often repent because of our heady rushing upon this and the other but God is not as man He made his choyce with full advice and counsel Hence it is The gifts and calling of God are without repentance And In him is no variableness nor shadow of change because all his works were done in counsel therefore they stand fast for ever and ever And therefore saith David Walk about Zion Mark well her Towers c. Consider her strength the sure unmovable Rock she stands upon For this God is our God for ever and ever He will be our Guide unto Death This God is Zions God that hath done things at a certainty not at hazard that will be a Guide unto Death that will never leave nor forsake The bottom and ground is certain and 't is expressed thus in the Proverbs That I may make thee understand the words of Certainty This choyce of God is a certain unfailable unchangeable choyce This will seem wonderful when you shall come to consider it and the thing sink to your hearts Wert thou once in the same lump with the reprobate silver Was Esau Jacobs Brother and Jacob loved and Esau hated How comes this thing about What means this favor What manner of Love is this O Lord if it did but sink into your Souls what a thing is it to be chosen of God! Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom nor the strong man in his strength nor the rich man in his riches This is not the thing which puts the difference And so Christ to his Disciples Rejoyce not that Devils are subject to you That is not your Happiness No but that your names are written in Heaven that you are of this chosen generation that God pitched upon you what ever you are rejoyce in that Samuel he looks upon Eliah because of his stature and goodly personage as if sure he was the Lords anointed No but saith God not He but it is the stripling the little youth in the field the youngest and unthought of David he is the man He saves not the whole the honorable and learned the Scribes and Pharisees but Ought not this Daughter of Abraham to be loosed whom Satan hath bound lo these eighteen years She must be loosed because a Daughter of Abraham of that stock how ever mean and base in the eyes of man for God sees not as man seeth He picks where he pleaseth one of a City and two of a Tribe Though Israel be as the sand of the Sea yet but a remnant shall be saved Though there be threescore Queens and fourscore Concubines yet My Beloved is but one c. That he should let thousands and ten thousands go and yet pitch on me this will be wonderful to us when we shall see into it 2. A man affects the thing he chooseth his heart goes after it more then that which he lets alone And therefore Moses said to Israel The Lord chose you not because you were better or more in number then other people but because He favored you and set his Love upon you And in Jeremy he says I have loved thee of old with an everlasting Love and when thou wast in thy blood one would think that a strange time to love in yet then was thy time the time of Love Though there was no cause yet he loves Even so O Father saith Christ for so it pleased thee Two in a womb two in a mill two in the same condition and the one taken and the other left To be left is enough there is need of no more reprobation then that If a man be but left and not dayly maintained kept up and preserved he will corrupt of himself and run naturally to destruction There is no need of a cursing or destroying any Creature but he is pleased to leave some and that is enough They naturally tend and fall into the curse and bring it on their own heads if a preventer step not in and therefore that is not first concluded in God concerning any This is a damned wretch whom I hate and detest No his damnation is of himself he procures his own curse and if he be but left if not held up and hedged in and kept alive he cannot but dye No man can keep alive his own Soul The Branch if it be left without Sap from the root must needs dye If the Lord hath not chosen nor set his love upon any that is destruction enough that creature will sure enough run thither therefore see how Esau first sells his birth-right then loses his Blessing and one misery follows another till he be quite ruined and therefore the choosing the setting his heart upon any that is the thing which saves If God say as Sampson did concerning Delilah Give me her for she pleaseth me be she what she will yet she pleaseth me so Christ saith of the Spouse Thou hast