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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	lord_n	psal_n	trust_v	3,209	5	9.2539	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49543	A sermon preach'd before the Honourable House of Commons on the anniversary fast for the martyrdom of King Charles I by E. Langford ...	Langford, E. (Emanuel), b. 1657 or 8.	1698 (1698)	Wing L386; ESTC R7375	16,818	30

Eternal and Everlasting Life What doth this then come short of a plain demonstration That in wrestling with all deliberate sins it is not only possible but wonderful easy for us thro Jesus Christ to be more than Conquerors And if we consider Matters right the very same Methods and Powers will prove every whit as effectual even in mastering of those sins that seem to overtake and seise us at unawares and appear most directly opposite to that peaceable quiet and meek Disposition we have been discoursing on I mean Trouble Vexation Anger or the like For no Man can deny but that there may be perfect habits of Holiness as well as of Impiety That a Man may be as absolutely dead unto Sin as dead unto Righteousness and that from low beginnings Men leisurely rise up to both these heights Now there are very few Men Subject to these hasty and violent passions but upon calm thoughts will be grieved and much displeased at themselves and perhaps tell you that they would give all the World that it was otherwise with them This I look upon as a very fair and laudable Foundation of this great work I would then ask them if ever they exercised themselves by often putting all those Calamitous Cases which are most likely to move their particular passions in them for by such frequent Meditations they by degrees arm and prepare themselves against all events In time they will have a Defence and Guard for every blow that Fortune can offer If the Crosses of the world disturb thee or thou art shaken at every Loss remember then O Man remember it often all that thou hast in this world Wife or Children or Lands or Goods Health Strength Honours or Preferments or the like They are all but lent thee and are to be surrendred again upon demand That devout and daily Petition Thy Will be done O God on Earth as it is in Heaven together with these good thoughts constantly and seriously laid to heart and repeated by the Blessing of God will at length teach thee such patience and humble resignation as e-even in Jobs condition thou wouldst chearfully say c. 1.21 The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away Blessed be the Name of the Lord. Or something like this Lord I am not worthy the least of those mercies which thou hast left me Be not then vexed O my Soul Psal 43.5 and be not thou disquieted within me Still trust in God for I will yet thank him who is the help of my Countenance and my God And there is the same Methodical cure for anger and wrath which from their heats and extravagant effects have got themselves the Name of Passion by way of Superiority or Singularity Certainly such a serious Course of Spiritual Exercise as I just now mentioned would strangely soften and much unbend the spring of any Mans fury if not quite unwind and let it down I would therefore humbly advise an angry Man to make experiment first in small occasions For if he could not bear a slight offence a great one must needs quite overset him There is no hopes he should put up Injurious words much less blows if he cannot pass by a frivolous jest If as a Philosopher somewhere observes he rages when his idle Servant le ts fall a Trencher or a Glass what would he do if by sad mischance he should set fire to his House or kill his only Child But I shall leave Phylosophy for behold a greater Master than even Socrates himself is here The Meditation of whose Example and Divine behaviour under all those things which seem most grievous to Flesh and Blood and are counted the cheifest if not the only grounds of Provocation will prove the most effectual means to beget in us the same most quiet and heavenly mind How easily are Men exasperated with reproach and slander And ill words we commonly say Cut deeper than Blows Yet he that was Innocence it self thought it no shame to pass them by They call'd him a Man Gluttonous and a Wine-bibber A Friend of Publicans and Sinners All he return'd was only that meek saying Wisdom is justify'd of all her Children VVisdom may be scofft at Mat. 11.19 contemn'd and abus'd by the vain or ignorant world but this is her comfort she is justify'd and esteem'd and honoured by those that understand her They call'd him a Samaritane a Schismatick or Heretick They said He had a Devil and was Mad. Nay that all his mighty works were done by Belzebub himself Yet when he was thus shamefully and blasphemously revil'd He reviled not again but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously 1 Pet. 2.23 He that shall frequently ponder all these things in his Heart and endeavour to imitate them will never value opprobrious Language or any envious Report for if it be false he will bless God for the satisfaction and comfort he finds in his own Innocency If it hath any thing of Truth in it he will bless God for that too because the Reporter thereby proves his Monitor instead of his Enemy The Venom which is spit at him he converts to balm and precious Oyntment that will serve to correct and heal his infirmity and I dare say he will be so far from counting it impossible as he will soon find himself fully able to return the like soft and gentle Answers to the most piercing and most grievous words whatever nay he will find it easier at any time and I should think many times much wiser If like a Sheep before the Shearers he be dumb and say nothing at all 2. The next thing that is commonly esteemed matter of Provocation and Resentment is in general churlish and evil usage And here our Lord and Master hath trodden this rugged Path and hath made it also plain and very easy for those that will tread in his steps When the Satuaritans refus'd to entertain Him it seems to have been about the Eating time of the day when Men usually say the Peevish Humour is most stirring Two of his Disciples were presently for commanding Fire from Heaven to consume them But he rebuked them and said Ye know not wnat manner of Spirit you are of Luk. 9.54 55 56. The Son of Man is not come to destroy Mens Lives but to save them When his Countrymen despised and rejected Him He only return'd that Great Truth A Prophet is not without Honour save in his own Country and in his own House Mat. 13.51 When the Jews took up stones to stone him He said unto them Many good works have I shew'd you from my Father for which of those works do you stone me John 10.31 To the ungrateful and treacherous Judas Friend wherefore art thou come Betrayest thou the Son of Man with a Kiss Mat. 26.50 Luke 22.48 To the Officer that smote him If I have spoken Evil bear Witness of the Evil but if well why smitest thou me John 18.23 When the Multitude