Selected quad for the lemma: saint_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	day_n	sabbath_n	week_n	2,310	5	10.5996	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90864	Spiritual flovvers for saints and sinners. Gathered out of the garden of the sacred scriptures, and writings of men famous in their generations. / By Robert Port minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.	Port, Robert, b. 1617 or 18.	1655 (1655)	Wing P2981; Thomason E1548_2; ESTC R209461	39,839	195

thee yet while God is better to thee than thou deservest thou hast no cause to complain Questions Of all questions there are two questions most necessary for a people to ask and most comfortable for a Minister to resolve them in The one is what shall I do to be saved The other how shall I know that I shall obtain salvation R Rash men Rash men are commonly harsh men Receiving Christ They who receive not Christ in the acceptable day of the Lord will not be acceptable to God in the day of the Lord. Religion True religion takes most from the Creature and gives most to God Men may differ in religion and yet be of the same religion for every difference in religion is not a differing religion All other which of a truth are false religions teach salvation by the work of man towards God but our which indeed and which onely is the true religion teacheth salvation as a work of God towards man and in man He is not learned in religion who knows all the matters that ought to be known but he who knows them in the manner how they ought to be known The use of the world takes many a man off from religion religion takes no man off from the use but onely from the abuse of the world In religion not to do as thou sayest is to un-say thy religion in thy deeds and to undo thy self by doing Reason Reason it self will dictate so much that the mysteries of religion should be above reason for could a man by reason comprehend God and his wayes which are unsearchable he might think it reason and no robbery to think himself as much a God as God himself Reason and faith may walk together provided that reason give faith the upper hand Reason is not equall in all men nor perfect in any man but so weak sickle and inconstant in the most of men that as there is no reason why any man should lean to his own understanding and there is none or little reason why any man should impose on another he being so seldome and so little while consistent with himself who was as confident of the opinion wherein he was as he is of the opinion wherin he is Remission God doth not onely give remission of sin to them that repent but he also giveth them repentance for remission of sins and gives them to repent of the sins remitted Rest laboured for In this world the Saints labour for rest but in the world to come they shall rest from their labour Reproof Reproof should not be with passion but with compassion not with jearing but grieving I tell you these things saith Paul not laughing but weeping He that reproves anothers fault and approves his own is an Hypocrite Reproofs should not be forborn though they should not be born Many men are so forward to reprove that they reprove others for sinning before they prove that that for which they reprove them is a sin 'T is the wisdom of the reprover to reprove well that the reproof may take and 't is the wisdom of the reproved to take the reproof well 'T is the part of a good man to reprove though his reproof should not be taken in good part Repentance Some men there are that repent of their sins but forsake them not others that forsake their sins but repent not of them others who onely are truly penitent repent of them and forsake them too Christ did die not onely to give life to them that repent but also to give them repentance unto life not onely to give salvation to them that believe but also to give them to believe unto salvation Some men so repent of their sin that they sin in their repentance so that their very repentance is to be repented of Repentance for sin is nothing without repentance returning from sin Many men do nothing else but make work for repentance and yet do nothing less than repent of their works In the repentance of a grave Saint there is much in a little but in the repentance of a Babe there is but little in much Resurrection The glory of the Sun finds a resurrection how much more then the Sons of glory Revenge Though God suffers his people not to sin in revenging their adversaries yet God suffers not their adversaries to sin unrevenged To revenge a wrong done is to do a wrong to God so a man becomes guilty of that which he complaines of and therefore unjustly complaines of that which he himself doth Reward Though we should not serve God for a reward yet we shall have a reward for our service Though our reward be not for our good works yet we shall have our good works rewarded and have a good reward for our works Riches Riches and the increase of riches are neither evils nor dangers unless that when they are given to us we give our selves to them If you can say 't is certain I am rich I can say 't is more certain that your riches are uncertain Rich men Few rich men are godly but all godly men are rich It s to be feared that they that care not how rich they be or how much riches they get do not much care how they be rich nor how they get their riches It s very likely that they who enrich themselves with other mens riches will be ruined by their riches for other mens goods will never be good to other men Rich men need poor mens labours as much as poor men need rich mens money The rich should not despise the poor for God made them both And he that made thee the rich man and him the poor man could have made him the rich man and thee the poor man 'T is more honour to be rich in goodness than to be r●ch in goods Righteousness Though beleivers are not to work for righteousness yet they are to work righteousness Christ is the righteousness of sinners unto God and the righteousness of God unto sinne●s Rome Rome would prove the truth by miracles when it should prove the miracles by truth It will not be long ere Jesus Christ makes room for himself in Rome it self and it will not be long after the destruction of the man of sin that the sin of man shall be destroyed as some think Running after Christ When we run after Christ he doth not run from us yet many times when we run from Christ he runs after us S Sabbath Man was not made for the Sabbath but the Sabbath was made for man Some persons do formally serve God on the seventh day but do really serve the Devil and sin all the seven dayes they pretend to keep a Sabbath to God but spend the week all the week in the devils service Safe No man is safe among his friends without God but with God a man is safe though without his friends and among his enemies Saints excellency All the Saints are excellent and some are more excellent than others yet the highest