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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nation_n	peculiar_a	people_n	priesthood_n	1,265	5	9.7438	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85207	Hidden manna or, the mystery of saving grace. Wherein the peculiarity of Gods especiall grace to the elect is asserted and proved, and divers objections of Pelagians and Arminians about the power of the will of man to supernatural good, are fully answered and confuted. By that reverend, learned, and faithfull minister of Gods word, William Fenner B.D. late of Rochford in Essex. Perfected many years since by the author whilst he was preacher at VVillingsworth in Staffordshire. Imprimatur Edm. Calamy.	Fenner, William, 1600-1640.	1652 (1652)	Wing F692; Thomason E1310_2; ESTC R209026	31,828	115

then with Pelagians and Semi-pelagians and Arminans what shall I call them Scabiosum tesserula far possidet their grist is all musty that say God gives no secret thing to any one man more then another that rifle up all Gods secrets and would have all men so many Tiresiases that swallow up St. Pauls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as it were a depthlesse depth St. Paul cryes out Oh how unsearchable Rom. 11. 33. Oh how secret are these things and these Numicians Cosmongers pick-lock Gods secret closet and expose his hidden treasures St. Paul he admires 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Who hath knowne vers 34. who hath knowne these secrets Arminius vol Commagenus Aruspex pectora divorum rimatur exta as Juvenall the Satyrist speakes let me translate it Arminius and his company ransack all Gods secrets divulge and communicate them to the seed of the woman and of the Serpent all alike they make Gods eternall love of Election no secret but a vulgar Idea they make the mystery of Christ and him crucified no secret but like an Apothecaries drug Catholicall they make the especiall grace of God no secret but a common quality faith no secret but a general vertue repentance and the new creature no secret but a universall gift no secret favour to St. Peter but make God a party ante not to love St. Peter more then Judas no secret intent to any one person more then another but that Christ might have dyed for all him and never a man saved no secret working of the Lord in any more then other but for any thing that either God the Father hath done by creating God the Son by redeeming or God the Holy Ghost by sanctifying all the world were left to their scrambling take it if you will if you will not chuse they say God would have men to be saved but that hee will not worke it for his owne part rather for this man or that man determinately that he be saved as Stilpo sayd that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 man is no man an universall is never a man for it s neither this man nor that man for why not this man as well as that man so say they Christ dyed for man that is indeed for no man not this nor that man for why rather this man then that man or that man more then this man Abraham Isaac and Jacob Paul and John and all the Saints might Man in regard of Gods grace is like Pontilian Saepe salutatus nunquam prior ipse salutas sic crit aeternum Pontiliane vale Martial l. 5. Ep. 67. He was often saluted first but he never began first so that he gave a continuall farewell So God often prevents man but man never prevents him first and were it not for God he would give an eternall farewell too all grace have been damned for all God and Esau and Ahab and cursed Herod might have beene saved and not they for all him no secret reference to God in this man rather then that man but blessed Lazarus in heaven is no more bound unto God then damned Dives in hell Nun quis te discrevit No secret putting a difference betwixt Angel or Devil but if David be better then Saul he may sacrifice to his owne net Thus these heretical Opinionists schimatical Quodlibetists so I may call them are worse then the Roman blabs that Paulus the Lawyer speaks of that disclosed secrets for they cut off all Gods secrets at one blow But we beloved we let us hold this as a foundation For the foundation of God remaineth sure and hath this seale the Lord knoweth who are his 2 Tim. 2. 19. The foundation is faith as St. Ambrose speaks and as a foundation is secret under God so is faith secretly grounded in the hearts of those that are Gods This seale is Gods confirming grace saith Chrysostome and as a seale is set upon secrets so is this grace secretly radicated and abiding in them this Knowing the Lord knoweth who are his In the secret election of God saith Haymo as if the Apostle should say though Hymeneus and Philetus and such like were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without seale and erred concerning the Faith and fell off from what they seemed to have Neverthelesse Gods secret is with his the foundation of God is sure and hath this seale the Lord knoweth who are his For the secret of the Lord is with them that feare him and he will shew them his Covenant My third use shall bee for Consolation Oh what incomparable comfort is this to Gods people Gods secret is with them God hath and will reveale his secret mysteries unto them God hath given them a prospective Chinke to looke by into his secret things they are Gods friends and as they turn my Text in meeter they know Gods secret intent they are so honoured with the Lord that God hides no good thing from them which is necessary for their salvation All the earth is Gods but such as obey Gods voice are Gods peculiar treasure Exod. 19. 5. Gods speciall jewells Segullah it is in the originall that is Gods proper ones or Gods secret ones that he keeps in store for himselfe and for especial use 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Greeke turnes it like a jewell which the King delivers not into the hands of any of his officers but keepes himselfe in secret saith Rabbi Menahim he hath chosen them to be a speciall people to himselfe above all people that are upon the face of the earth Deut. 7. 6. that is a secret people A chosen generation a royall Priesthood a holy Nation a peculiar people 1 Pet. 2. 9. that is a secret Nation his peculiar pearle Psal 135. 4. that is 〈◊〉 secret gem all 〈…〉 ●omfort that God gives them some speciall peculiar secret grace that he gives to none else in the world but to them Christ hath given himselfe for them That he might redeem them from all iniquity and purge to himselfe a peculiar people zealous of good workes Tit. 2. 14. that is a secret generation God loves a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and a speciall claime to them as Synesius useth the word for to them alone he maketh known the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure Eph. 1. 9. even his secret will and hidden pleasure They are Gods portion Deut. 32. 9. The lot of his inritance as a great inheritor reserves in some secret boxe or some secret closet his bonds and writings he keeps them secretly under locke and key so are the godly Oh what a blessed and happy estate is the estate of all that feare God! Dost thou serve God in thy family Dost thou serve him in thy calling Dost thou stand to his truth openly and indeare it above all riches privately Dost thou make conscience of every of Gods Commandements feare not the Lords secret is with thee there is no evill shall ever hurt thy soule For in the time of trouble hee shall hide