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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	foot_n	lord_n	wash_v	4,431	5	10.4086	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47309	The practical believer, or, The articles of the Apostles Creed drawn out to form a true Christian's heart and practice in two parts.	Kettlewell, John, 1653-1695.	1688 (1688)	Wing K380_VARIANT; ESTC R36226	263,804	566

being a shame for a Servant to be more nice and delicate and more hard to please than his Master Answ. Very right And accordingly he presses us on to those Duties which otherwise we should be most like to disdain and grumble at by putting us in mind how he has done or undergone the same himself If I your Lord and Master have washed your feet ye ought also to wash one anothers feet Joh. 13. 14. If men give you hard names be content they have done the same to me and the Disciple is not above his Master nor the Servant above his Lord 't is enough for the Disciple that he be as his Master and the Servant as his Lord Matt. 10. 24 25. He that would be greatest amongst you saith he again let him minister most and strive to be most useful as he that serveth for I am among you as he that serveth Luk. 22. 26 27. Be patient when you are persecuted remembring what I said unto you that the Servant is not greater than his Lord. Joh. 15. 20. Thus must we spurn at no condescensions or labours of Love and Service no nor at Reproaches for well-doing or suffering in God's Cause since thereby we only wear our Lord's Livery nay are made like to him and follow his steps where he has led the way before us Quest. Since he is the common Lord both of Masters and Servants must not this teach us great Moderation and Equity towards our Servants and Dependants who however inferior and subject they may be in Humane Respects are yet equally near to him and Brethren and Fellow-servants in respect of his Dominion Answ. Yes God would not permit the Jews to make any of their Brethren Slaves tho' they might use them as Fellow-servants because they were all his Servants They are my Servants which I brought forth out of the Land of Egypt they shall not be sold as Bondmen Lev. 25. 42. And give unto your Servants that which is just and equal saith St. Paul knowing that ye also have a Master in Heaven Col. 4. 1. Quest. What is the third Article of the Creed Answ. Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary Quest. Why must Christ out of the Natural Course of Generation be born of a Virgin And why must the Holy Ghost beget him Answ. Because he was to be undefiled from the Womb and fit to satisfie for the sins of others having none of his own For such an High-Priest became us as was Holy Undefiled seperate from Sinners Heb. 7. 26. Quest. Was Christ truly man Answ. Yes he underwent all the wants of our Natures for he was hungry weary and sleepy as we are And all the Infirmities for he wept and was sorrowful troubled and sore amazed He was in all points tempted as we are only without sin Heb. 4. 15. Quest. Having felt them thus in himself will he not be apt to sympathize and have compassion on all our weaknesses Answ. Yes thereupon the Apostle argues him to be soon touched with the feeling of our infirmities Heb. 4. 15. Quest. Why was it requisite that to redeem us the Son of God should become Man Answ. To fit him 1. To attone and appease God that Man might gain what Man had lost and that by his performing Obedience he might be capable to restore what Disobedience had forfeited As by one man's Disobedience many were made Sinners so by the Obedience of one were many to be made Righteous Rom. 5. 19. And we having Flesh and Blood he also took part of the same that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death that is the Devil Heb. 2. 14. 2. To be Gentle and Compassionate towards us affectionately interceding for us and reasonably bearing with our infirmities It behoved him in all things to be like unto his Brethren that he might be a merciful and faithful High-Priest Heb. 2. 17. Quest. How was his becoming man necessary to give him a knowledge and compassionate sense of our infirmities was he not God before And doth not God who made our Frame know our infirmities better than we who feel them Answ. Yes he doth but on other accounts as the appeasing God because not God but only Man could suffer and satisfie and man's Obedience was fittest to regain what man 's Disobedience had lost and it would be most easie and favourable to us that he who should give Laws to us and judge us at the last should be a man like our selves it was requisite the Mediator should be man. And when he was so to make not only his Divinity that made our Frame but his Humane Nature too in which he transacts with us compassionate to the utmost of our infirmities 't was requisite he should feel them in himself since there is no way to make men so sensible of any infirmities as their feeling them by sorrowful experience Quest. What must we learn from this Condescention of the Son of God Answ. To be humble and not contemn the poorest and meanest state since he has dignified it with his Appearance in it To be Charitable and Condescensive and think nothing below us whereby we may do good To be content in any state which God allots for us thinking the greatest measure of his Love and Tenderness consistent with the greatest meanness of our outward state and circumstances as it plainly was in his Son's case Lastly To think all wickedness utterly unworthy of our Nature since now God has so marvellously united it to his own These and such like things we must learn and practise from it if we would be his followers and shew the same mind to be in us which was before in Christ Jesus Phil. 2. 3 4 5. Quest. Why must he be both God and Man in one Person Answ. To fit him for the Office of a Mediator and Reconciler who was to go between them and make them both one For it was fit he should be nearly allied to each Party and have interest in both of them CHAP. II. Of the Sufferings of Christ. The Contents An Account of what Christ suffer'd and from whom Both he and God the Father were consenting to it What he suffer'd was for our sins to save us from suffering for them when we truly repent of them Pardon on Repentance the design of his Satisfaction and the Merit of his Death This is a Free Grace which implies that it is not given in Recompence of our Deserts not that it requires no Conditions An Account why God would not grant this Grace of Pardon to Penitents without Christ's dying to satisfie for them And how his Death serv'd all the designs of God's Justice full as well as their own would have done Christ's Sacrifice but once offered but daily commemorated Several useful inferences from Christ's dying for us Christ's dead Body was buried Of his descent into Hell. Quest. WHat is the Fourth Article in the Creed Answ. Suffered under Pontius Pilate was