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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
power_n	body_n	raise_v	resurrection_n	4,949	5	9.4488	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59599	Adam Abel, or, Vain man a discourse fitted for funeral occasions, but serviceable to men in all ages and conditions of life to make them humble and heavenly-minded / by Samuel Shaw ...	Shaw, Samuel, 1635-1696.	1692 (1692)	Wing S3034; ESTC R9572	39,662	130

wrestling and fighting whereas the ablest stoutest strongest of the Children of men is a meer Child in comparison of one of the Angels of God yea or of one Devil either yea I may add in comparison of any Child of the Resurrection for these Bodies of ours are buried in Weakness but shall be raised in Power 1 Cor. 15. 43. Besides this Strength of his which he pretends to has no duration with it it vanishes away in a moment and Man as a rotten thing consumeth as a garment that is moth-eaten Job 13. 28. Who could chuse but pitty Peter stretching out his Hands to be bound and carried away whither he would not who had formerly seen him girding himself and walking whithersoever he would or Sampson grinding in the Prison who had formerly seen him carrying away the Gates of Gaza upon his Shoulders Doors Posts and Bar and all Who I say can chuse but bewail the vain shew that the strong man makes who sees his Iron Sinews become like Straw and his Brass Bones turn'd into rotten Wood as the Almighty loftily expresses it in the 41st of Job And as his Beauty is but a Paint or Varnish his Strength but Infirmity and Rottenness so His Valonr is but a Flourish and a meer Vapour The bombast words and prophane brags of the Philistine-Champion Goliah who defied the Armies of the living God and disdain'd the little Champion of Israel Come unto me and I will give thy flesh to the fowls of the air and to the beasts of the field prov'd to be nothing but the blasphemous Bravado of an uncircumcised Tongue which was presently silenc'd and carried away with the wicked Head that contain'd it and his mighty brandish'd Blade was wrapp'd up in a Clout and laid behind the Ephod in obscurity Besides this Valour and Prowess will in a short time be turn'd into such Cowardise and Dastordliness that it will not dare to encounter no not so much as the Worms that will crawl and feed upon the valiant Hero and then he that sees it will wonder and say Loe here 's all that remains of great Saladine or Loe here that Limb of a man who is now a Worm and no Man His Valour is but a Flourish and a meer Vapour His Constancy and Faithfulness is but a shew of Stedfastness Ten thousand Instances do tell us how frail fickle and deceitful the Affections Words Promises Oaths and Vows of the Children of Men are they love to day and hate to morrow and the Hatred with which they hate perhaps is greater than the Love wherewith they loved Ammon is sick for his Sister Tamar to day to morrow having spoil'd her of her Glory he is as sick of her Arise be gone 2 Sam. 13. 15. And again Put now this woman out from me and bolt the door after her v. 19. Though all the world should deny thee cries Peter to his Master yet will not I deny thee I will dye with thee rather Mat. 26. 33 35. But before morning his note is changed ver 72. I know not the man And ver 74. He began to curse and swear saying I know not the man Peter I warrant ye thought he had a substantial stedfastness but see what a vain shew it proved to be It seems by the Apostle Paul that the Purposes and Promises that are made according to the Flesh i. e. according to men in the Flesh are doubtful and unstable on and off they are yea yea and nay nay 2 Cor. 1. 17. And indeed there is so much lightness and unsteddiness in humane Minds and Resolutions and so much variableness in their Affections that their Constancy is no more to be compared to substantial Steddiness than the levity of a Feather to the stability of a Mountain Besides let men be never so firm faithful and constant in their Affections alas their time comes presently when all their Thoughts perish Let them be never so just punctual and true to their Word their Breath and with that all their Words will vanish into Air in a short time so vain a thing is Man Surely every man walketh in a vain shew His Patience is but a shew of Patience mingled with a great deal of Impatience and soon worn out too Ye have heard of the patience of Job says the Apostle James yes so we have and we have heard of his Impatience too witness the third Chapter of his History when he opened his mouth and cursed his day read the Chapter We have heard of the Meekness of Moses too who was the meekest man upon Earth Numb 12. 3. but we have heard of his Passion too and rash Anger Psal 106. 32 33. It went ill with Moses for their sakes because they provoked his spirit so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips And be Man's Patience never so pure it is rare to find it have its perfect Work one Evil after another one Battery upon the back of another will shake it if not demolish it Elijah long endured the Perverseness of Israel the Affronts and Gainsayings of Ahab and Jezabel but when word was brought him that notwithstanding all his good Offices Jezabel would have his Head to morrow he arose and went for his Life and prayed in the anger and anguish of his Spirit that he might dye saying It is enough now O Lord take away my life 1 Kin. 19. 4. His Successor Elisha patiently endured many Provocations and Persecutions from that idolatrous Generation in which he lived but when the wicked and ungrateful King of Israel for whom he had done so many good Offices sent a Messenger to take away his Head he falls into a sit of Impatience 2 Kin. 6. 32. See ye how this son of a murderer is sent to take away my head And still worse in ver 33. he said Behold this evil is of the Lord what should I wait for the Lord any longer Loesa patientia fit furor And as the Patience so the Charity of Man upon Earth is imperfect it is but a shew of Charity in comparison of the pure Kindness and Benevolence of the Angels of God or of the Spirits of just men made perfect Alas how great an Allay a mixture of Bitterness is to be found in the sweetest Temper upon Earth The Children of Men indeed so far forth as they are Children of God i. e. followers of him are Children of Love for God is Love But alas the most God like and the best-natur'd of them do love but in part they have Gall mingled with their Honey the root that beareth gall as Moses calls it Deut. 29. 18. is not perfectly eradicated no not out of the Trees that are of the Lord 's own planting Paul and Barnabas were men beloved of God and his Church Lovers of God and of his Gospel great Lovers one of another constant and dear Companions in Travel in Preaching in Persecution yet for a small matter one would think this loving pair sell out and the Controversie grew