Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

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
A90811	Authentēs. Or A treatise of self-deniall. Wherein the necessity and excellency of it is demonstrated; with several directions for the practice of it. / By Theophilus Polwheile, M.A. sometimes of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, now teacher of the Church at Teverton in Devon.	Polwheile, Theophilus, d. 1689.	1658 (1658)	Wing P2782; Thomason E1733_1; ESTC R209629	246,682	521

are so frequently in the Scripture prest upon us 1 By our Saviour himself Take my yoak upon you and learn of mee for I am meek and lowly in heart Matth. 11.29 When the mother of Zebedees children desired that her two sons might sit the one on his right hand and the other on the left hand in his Kingdome and the other Disciples were moved with indignation against the two Brethren hee called them unto him and said Yee know that the Princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them but it shall not bee so among you but whosoever will bee great among you let him bee your minister and whosoever will bee chief among you let him bee your servant even as the Son of man came not to bee ministred unto but to minister and to give his life a ransome for many Matth. 20.27 28. So after hee had washed his Disciples feet Joh. 13.5 hee said unto them Know you what I have done to you Yee call mee Master and Lord and yee say well for so I am If I then your Lord and Master have washed your feet yee also ought to wash one anothers feet For I have given you an example that yee should do as I have done unto you vers 14 16. 2 By the Apostles Wee that are strong saith Paul ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and not to please our selves Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification For even Christ pleased not himself Rom. 15.1 2 3. Again 2 Cor. 8.7 exhorting them to liberality hee thus presseth the exhortation vers 9. For yee know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though hee was rich yet for your sakes hee became poor that yee through his poverty might bee rich And Phil. 2.2 pressing to love and concord thus hee perswades them vers 3.4 Let nothing bee done through strife or vain-glory but in lowliness of minde let each esteem other better than themselves Look not every man on his own things but every man also on the things of others Let this minde bee in you which was also in Christ Jesus who being in the form of God made himself of no reputation but humbled himself c. vers 5.6 7. Peter exhorting servants to bee subject to their Masters not onely to the good and gentle but also to the froward and that even when they do well and suffer for it they should take it patiently gives this reason 1 Pet. 2.21 for even hereunto were yee called because Christ also suffered for us leaving us an example that yee should follow his steps who did no sin neither was guile found in his mouth who when hee was reviled reviled not again when hee suffered hee threatned not but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously vers 22 23. Hee that saith hee abideth in him ought himself also so to walke even as he walked 1 Joh. 2.6 The Twentieth Direction 20 Bee much in Prayer After the putting on of the whole Armour of God to which the Apostle exhorts Eph. 6.16 17. hee prescribes Praying alwayes with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance vers 18. in like manner after all the Directions that have been given to help you in the practice of Self-denial this I would commend unto you as without which all other means are ineffectual Consider u Self-denial is not of our selves but of God who only can take us out of our selves Dr. Sibbs Souls Conflict God must inable you or else you will never do it Self-denial is the gift of God Object 1. Why is it required then Answ Not because it is in your power but because it is your duty Object 2 Well then God can give it if he please Answ True hee can but will not unless hee bee sought to for it Yee have not because yee aske not Jam. 4.2 Object 3. But if I pray will hee hear mee Answ Try and see what will come of it Consider God is a God hearing prayer Psal 65.2 and hee hath said Aske and it shall bee given you Seek and yee shall finde Knock and it shall bee opened to you Matth. 7.7 Object 4. But will hee give this this gift of Self-denial Answ Hee is the giver of every good and perfect gift Jam. 1.17 and this is one of them Object 5. But my want is so great c. Answ Hee gives liberally bountifully Object 6. But I have nothing to move him Answ Hee gives freely Isa 55.1 Object 7. It may bee once or so but what if one come often again and again Answ Hee upbraideth not Object 8. But it is onely to some that hee gives thus liberally and freely hee will not do so to such an one as I am Answ To all men Hee giveth to all men liberally Jam. 1.5 that is to all that ask of him all that ask in faith vers 6. Obj. 9. But what if he hath decreed not to give Answ What if hee hath decreed that hee will give the one is as likely as the other Bee not solicitous concerning the will of his decree but attend to the will of his Precept Object 10. But I have prayed and yet cannot deny my self Answ Yee ask and receive not because yee ask amiss Jam. 4.3 Ask in faith ask importunately ask again and again Paul prayed thrice against the thorn in the flesh that it might depart from him and at length obtained a gracious answer 2 Cor. 12.8 9. Therefore pray continually pray without ceasing and it will not bee long ere thou get the victory Draw mee wee will run after thee Cant. ● 4 Turn thou mee and I shall bee turned Jer. 31.18 A vv It was no ill wish of him that desired God to free him from an ill man himself Dr. Sibbs Souls Conflict cap. 5.62 malo homine meipso Libera me Domine Luther THE END Books Printed and sold by Tho. Johnson at the Golden Key in St. Pauls-Church-yard THe History of Fourfooted Beasts and Serpents deseribing at large their true and lively figure their several names conditions kindes Ver●ues Countries Of their breed and the wonderful work of God in their creation preservation and destruction Together with the Theatre of Insects or Lesser living Creatures as Bees Flies Caterpillars Spiders Worms c. A most elaborate work By T. Muffet Dr. of Physick in Folio The Lord Francis Bacon's Natural History in Folio Lexicon Auglo-graco-latinum Novi Testamenti or a Compleat Alphabetical Concordance of all the words in the New Testament both English Greek and Latine in three distinct Tables Shewing also the several significations Etymons Derivations force emphasis and divers acceptations of each word in Scripture A work of very great use for the furtherance of Scripture-knowledge Spiritual refinings in two parts The first treating of Grace and Assurance both practically and controversally delivered in 120. Sermons The second treating of Sin with its Causes Differences Mitigations and Aggravations the deceitfulness