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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nation_n	holy_a	people_n	priesthood_n	1,806	5	9.9741	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03078	Panacea Christiana, or, A Christians soueraigne salue for euery soare deliuered in two seuerall sermons, and now digested into one treatise : published for the vse of all distressed Christians.	Herring, Theodore, 1596-1645.	1624 (1624)	STC 13203.5; ESTC S2728	34,209	104

with which that chosen vessell was laded poised and ballanced each other yet in the end verse 17. the comfort infinitely weighs downe the crosse and therfore he cals it a light affliction but a weight of glory Let mee shut vp the proofe of this point with the Epiphonema of the same Apostle 2 Cor. 1,3 Blessed bee the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ who comforts vs in all our tribulations that as our suffering for Christ hath abounded so our ioy might abound much more You haue seene God doing his part our parts now must follow This serues that I may descend frō the confirmation of the point vnto application which is the life of all teaching to minister matter of Thankfulnesse of Instruction of Meditation Of Thankfulnes first How should euery Christians hart be rauished with this consideration and transported euen beyond it selfe with the gratefull acknowledgement of so high a fauour The God of Consolation is no niggard of his Cordials he pinches not he spares not but giues vs into our bosome a good treasure shaken together pressed downe running ouer wilt thou show thy selfe a niggard in the retribution of Thankes Is Gods hand opened thine shut Is Gods heart enlarged and are thy bowels strained Shall the Creator giue vnto the Creature a Cup of Consolation a Cup brimfull an ouer-flowing Cup and shall not the Creature take vp with the Princely Prophet the cup of saluation Will ye thus requite the Lord O ye foolish people and vnthankfull Si ingratum dixeris omnia dixeris Giue vnto the Lord all ye his Saints Giue vnto the Lord. Psal 29.1 What will you giue thankes what lesse can ye giue not verball only but reall not in word alone but in deed and in truth as the Apostle wishes the Ephesians to walke worthy of their vocation such is my counsel to all that haue tasted of this sweete marrow and fatnesse Ephes 4.1 Walke worthy of so great Consolation It serues secondly for instruction to make vs enamored with the booke of God that rich wardrobe and aboundant store-house of diuine comforts If any be merry Iames. 5.13 let him sing Psalmes if afflicted let him pray and read too Whether should wee go for light but to the Sunne Psal 42.1 for water but to the Wel-head Lo here is that fountaine of consolation As the Hart brayeth after the riuers of water so let thy disconsolated soule pant and thirst after these Christall streames of liuing water Psal 46.4 which issuing from the threshold of the Sanctuary makes glad the Citty of our God Heere bee those Apples of Paradise those flaggons of Wine Cant. 2.5 the true Aqua vitae which can fetch vs againe in our deepest swoundes which alone can refresh vs in our greatest Agonies Heere is the oyle of gladnesse the balme of Gilead heere wee may sucke and be delighted heere wee may milke and be satisfied As for all other waters either they are but streames issuing from this fountaine howeuer pure in the head yet may bee corrupted in the channels or pipes through which they are conueyed vnto vs or if they flow from any other spring they are not liuing but dead waters not sweete but bitter streames corroding not comforting the bowels into which they descend All these comforters are miserable comforters Phisitians of no value drugges of no vertue These sacred volumes are not vnfitly resembled by one of the Ancients to an Apothecaries shop richly furnished with salues for euery sore with receits and remedies for euery malady Our care and wisedome must induce vs so familiarly to acquaint our selues with the seuerall compositions that in all our extremities we may be able on a sodaine to fetch and cull out proper salues for any sores fit receites against any distemper Psal 119.92 I had fainted in my affliction saith the Princely Prophet if thy word had not stayed me vp A wise man will haue his plaister ready though his head bee not broken as yet The last vse serues for meditation If there bee such store of comforts suggested to vs on earth what thinke you is reserued for vs in heauen The greatest measure of consolation we can haue here is nothing in comparison of what wee shall haue ther. The disproportion is only not infinite heere wee haue but the first fruites there is the haruest here our comfort is but in the seed there is the full croppe heere wee haue but the earnest there is the inheritance heere but a few sparkles there is the flame heere but a few drops there is the Ocean Now it is distilled into our narrow mouthed bottle as we are capable to receiue it drop after drop then wee shall bee bathed yea drenched ouer head and eares in a Sea of comfort This ioy is so great that it cannot enter into vs but wee must enter into it Mar. 25.21 So much that phrase of speech implyes Well done good and faithfull seruant enter into thy masters ioy There is fulnesse of ioy there are riuers of pleasures for euermore such comforts as eie hath not seene eare hath not heard neither euer can the heart of man conceiue Lord Giue vs euermore of this Comfort So much if not too much of the connexion We come now to the words in themselues considered where the circumstances first offer themselues to our meditation the first is the person to whom this priuiledge is entailed wee Wee that are made partakers of the Diuine nature wee that are borne not of water but of the Spirit Wee that are aduanced to bee a holy Nation a peculiar people a Royall Priest-hood We that haue tasted of the bitter waters of Marah We know c. There lies a notable Emphasis if you marke it in this particle Wee it is a word of restraint and shuts vp the doore against all carnall Wordlings and will not allow them the apprehension of so Diuine truth This Christian Aphorisme cannot bee conceiued much lesse embraced much lesse digested by a Naturalist Wisedome hath hid these things from the Wise of this world Luke 10.21 and reuealed them vnto Babes and Sucklings to such Babes are desire the sincere milke of the word that they may grow thereby The naturall man perceiueth not the things of God neither indeed can hee So Paule 1. Corinth 2.14 He perceiueth not the things of God there is his inability neither can hee there is an vtter impossibility As soone may a bruite beast conceiue discusse reason and discourse of the things of men as a man in his meer naturals comprehend the things of God This knowledge is beyond the sphere of Nature and wee are guided to it by a higher principle This is one of those deepe mysteries of Godlinesse into which the very Angels desire to pry an vnwise man knoweth it not a foole cannot vnderstand it These Celestiall thoughts transcend his dull capacity tell a worldling of the Peace of God which passeth all