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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	affection_n	love_n	love_v	2,092	5	6.9884	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02181	Paramythion tvvo treatises of the comforting of an afflicted conscience, written by M. Richard Greenham, with certaine epistles of the same argument. Heereunto are added two sermons, with certaine graue and wise counsells and answeres of the same author and argument.; Most sweete and assured comfort for all those that are afflicted in conscience, or troubled in minde	Greenham, Richard.; Greenham, Richard. Two learned and godly sermons.	1598 (1598)	STC 12322; ESTC S103418	97,808	214

be preferred to the chiefest places but if promotion come not then their profession is forsaken and their Religion laide aside And yet that is not all for eyther they waxe prophane in their life or haereticall in their opinions Doe the children of God loue on this manner No the holie Ghost which they haue receiued in effectuall manner doth shedde the seede of loue in their heartes and doth worke in them a speciall liking of his goodnesse of his righteousnesse and of his holines and therefore of sincere affection they loue him As the naturall childe loueth his father naturally and though his father beate him yet beareth he it and still loueth him so do the children of God deale They haue powred into them as Saint Peter saith a godly nature so that they do freely loue God their father and though he afflict them or crosse them in their desires yet they loue him and in loue performe their obedience vnto him continually therefore Iob sayeth Though he kill me yet will I trust in him They therefore are saide to haue receiued a free spirite and to serue God in the liberty of the spirite And who seeth not this to be a plaine and manifest difference betweene them therfore we may well take it as a thirde marke or rule whereby to proue and try our selues The fourth and last rule is in considering the worke and effect which Gods mercie receiued doth worke in vs for heerein doe the wicked shewe their wickednesse two waies First on the right hande the mercies of God do work in thē a wonderfull contentation but not such as causeth them to returne the glory vnto God nay rather it is such as causeth them to take all glory to themselues for the graces of God doe puffe them vp and make them proude and conceyted in themselues Heereof there ariseth a greate securitie which bringeth first neglect and afterwarde contempt of all good meanes wherby they shoulde growe vp in goodnes On the left hande others offende beeing neuer pleased nor contented with that they haue nay indeede forgetting and lightly esteeming that they haue and still desiring newe These men besides that they be vnthankfull they doe also murmure and grudge against God are neuer pleased with him Between these two doe the children of God holde a middle and euen course and therefore wee shall see these thinges in them First a sight and an acknowledging of the wantes which doe mooue them as Saint Peter saith Like newe borne babes to desire the sweete and sincere milke of the worde that thereby the graces they haue may be increased and their other wantes may be supplied and so farre are they from beeing puffed vp with pride that they reioyce when their pride may be pulled downe or their hautinesse abated eyther by some sharpe rebuke or by some fearefull threatning or by some moderate correction from the Lorde For they knowe that if it were needfull for Saint Paule to be buffited and that by the minister of Sathan to the intent that his pride might be beaten downe then it is much more needfull for them after sundry waies to be humbled Besides they doe not onely desire the worde but they also waite vppon the Lorde vntill it pleased him to worke further in them thereby and this wayting is as earnest as is theirs who hauing watched all the night doe waite and looke for the dawning of the day Secondly as they see their wantes so also they see that grace they haue receiued and are for that time will appayde and contented therewith and therefore as their wantes do humble them so the graces of God receiued do comfort them and as their wantes do call vpon them and cause them to seeke more so that they haue doth prouoke them to be thankefull for that they haue receiued See then a quite contrarye course of the wicked and those that of sinceritie doe worship God See I say howe contrarily the graces and giftes of GOD doe worke in them And therfore from the consideration heereof we may well draw a fourth rule wherby to make triall and examination of our selues So to conclude this poynte in a worde when a man by the spirite of GOD hath beene inlightned vnto a certaine and sufficient knowledge of Gods will when he findeth his affection chiefly and aboue all other things set vppon GOD when he findeth a pure and sincere loue of God in his heart not for wages but for the worke of grace which after an vnspeakable manner doth moue him thereunto and when hee doth thankefully acknowledge mercies receiued as he doth carefully attend and wa●te vppon the Lord till he bestow some greater measure of graces vpon him Then may he be vndoubtedly perswaded that he hath found the spirite working in him in a more effectuall manner and that therefore it shall neuer be taken from him But what then may such men cast off all care No for vnto them doth saint Paule giue this charge That they doe not quench the spirite And not with out cause doth he giue them this charge for though the spirite it selfe can neuer be taken vtterly from them yet doubtles if they waxe proude if they grow secure if they fall into sinne the graces and giftes of the spirite may decaye and die in them their cleare vnderstanding their feeling their affection and all may be gone so that in their owne iudgement and in the iudgment of others it may seeme that they haue quite quenched and put out the spirite Neyther must this seeme so strange for if the image of God which was more perfectly placed in Adam then it is now in vs If I say th●s image might quite be lost and blotted out as we see it was then no maruell if the graces of the spirit of God be for a time as it were dead and drowned in vs. And that we may be the lesse offended herewith the scriptures doe offer vnto vs such examples of men as hauing bene once effectually called and truely borne againe haue yet a●terwarde through some sinnes lost the graces of the spirite such were the Galathians for they were truely called and effectually regenerate by the spirite and Gospell of God as may appeare by this that for the wordes sake they reuerenced the Apostle as the Angell of God yet they were shared with false doctrine and fell very dangerously to the choaking and quenching of the graces of Gods spirite in them The spirit it selfe was not taken from them nay Christ did still continue in their heartes but yet for want of godly graces he was as it were without fashion and forme so that the Apostle did as it were trauell againe vntill Christ was fashioned a newe in them Dauid also vppon the committing of his sinne was brought into the like case therefore in the 51. Psal. he prayeth That God will create in him a newe spirit What was the spirit quite gone no for by and by in the same Psalme he prayeth That the