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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	pray_v	prayer_n	supplication_n	1,875	5	11.3215	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74686	The nonsuch professor in his Meridian splendor, or the singular actions of sanctified Christians. Laid open in seaven sermons at Allhallows church in the wall, London. / By William Secker preacher of the gospel.	Secker, William, d. 1681?	1660 (1660)	Wing S2253; Thomason E1750_1; ESTC R209664	179,725	448

be thrown into the water whole it swims if broke it sinks Or like the Mary-gold that opens with the shining and shuts with the setting of the Sun of righteousnesse Love it puts not off its pursuits of Certe amor Dei tam efficax est ut effectus potius quam affectus dici debeat plus enim facit quam afficit Stapl in Dom. Pen. Tex 1. duty till it attains the possessions of glory There 's no rocking this child to sleep till it be laid in the Cradle of the Grave A soul that loves much is a soul that works much The commands of the Gospel are not grievous to them but precious to them The highest graces are fit for the hardest duties As God is not so much displeased at our having of sin as he is displeased at our loving of sin so he is not so well pleased at our doing of service as at our loving of service Different movings express different beings When a Christian yields obedience to Christ out of a principle of love he so serves Christ as none but a Saint can serve Christ When thou saidst seek ye my face my heart answered thy face I will seeke Psal 27. 8. The heart of obedience is the obedience of the heart That 's the second 3. Would you do more then others then pray more then others Our daily bread calls for daily prayers because new wants are created when old wants are supplyed The Garden of the Church is watred by the River of Prayer Are you called by the name of Christ and will you not call upon the name of Christ Take away spiritual breathing and you take away spirituall living a child that 's still born was never a childe that 's new borne Who would not stretch forth a Beggars hand to receive a Jewel of greater vallew then the world With what boldnesse may they appear at the Court that are assured of the ear of the King We shall soon give up the Ghost if God doe not give in the Holy Ghost to stop our breath is the way to loose our life You may pray alwayes and yet not allwayes be at prayer Thou allowest thy body daily sustentation O allow thy soule daily supplication Prayer it s like Noahs Dove though it goe forth of the Arke yet it will return againe with an Olive-branch of peace in its mouth In Gods injoyning our supplications there 's the shewing forth of his greatnesse in Gods fulfilling our supplications there 's the shining forth of his goodnesse Prayer never did man rightly make it but God did quickly grant it It 's no more a duty for Saints on earth to give over praying then it is a duty for Saints in Heaven to give over praising If you would speed in the injoying of mercy you must speak for the obtaining of mercy If man lets God goe without any begging God will let man goe without any blessing I am sadly sensible how many there are that cast off this duty But it is not because the lameness of their leggs is cured but because they are ashamed to make use of crutches Christians let not your want of accomplishments create in you any discouragements Dumbe beggars have got almes at Christs gates by making of signes The waters of life are sweet O what pity it is that God should turne the cock for want of pails to set under Take a dry spunge and throw it into the river and it will suck it self full of water As he prayed the forme of his countenance Christus cum oraret transfigurabatur ita in oratione magnae fiunt in anima mutationes quia lumen animae est oratio quae saepiu● eum quem invenit desperantem relinquit exultanter Ger. med 25. was altered and his rayment was white and glistering Luk. 9. 28 29. Christ had the brightest Sunshine of his fathers affection when he was moving in the Orbe of supplication Tell me Sirs is not that mercy worth the breath of a sinner which was worth the blood of a Saviour then to pray we can do no more to the removing of our own miseries and we can do no less for the obtaining of Gods mercies methinks man should never cease asking till God cease granting Lord what wilt thou give me seeing I goe childless So say you Lord what wilt thou give me seeing I goe gracelesse Prayer is the souls trading to Heaven Oratio justi clavis est caeli ascendit precatio et descendit Dei liberatio Id ibid. for such commodities as are only locked up in Gods Treasuries By fasting the body learns to obey the soul but by praying the soule learns to command the body Dumbness should never seize on the lips of man till deafnesse seize on the ears of God Shall God in Heaven want a man that is praying whilst man on earth wants not a God that is hearing Christians though your relations are excellent yet your conditions are indigent No Christian hath so little of Christ but he hath matter for praise and no Christian hath so much from Christ but he hath matter of prayer every day we find it a great worke to accomplish a little work every new act of obedience calls for new strength and assistance as our receits are greater then our desarts so our wants are larger then our receits Ask and ye shall receive that your joy may be full Spirituall supplication is the channell of spirituall consolation you must be full of prayers if you would be full of joyes now none are more fruitfull in divine labour then those who are most joyfull in divine favour Death that shortens our way on earth and makes it nearer but delight that sweetens our way to heaven and makes it fairer The neglect of the flowers will but administer advantage unto the growth of the weeds a little Ship with a strong wind moves faster then a greater Vessell with slacker gailes I never expect that a branch which receives no sap from the Vine should beare any fruit in the Vine Si ascendat oratio descendet gratia when prayer mounts upon the wing to God then favours come upon the spur to Non verbe de precantis deus intendit sed orantis cor aspicit Bern. de inter domo cap. 48. man The gift of prayer may have praise from men but it is the grace of prayer that hath power with God a few grapes prove the plant to be a Vine and not a thorne Prayer is Gods due as a Creator though truly performed to him as a Father None can pray aright but those that are new Creatures but all ought to pray because they are creatures Christians can never want a praying time if they do not want a praying frame in the morning this is a golden key to open the heart for servise and in the evening it is an iron lock to shut the heart from sin As the raine comes down from Heaven fruitfully so let prayer go up to Heaven fervently Peter

sinfull Many a man hath been thrown out of the Saddle of profession by ●iding with too slack a Rain of circumspection Little sins are not like an inch of Candle that goes off in an absolute period but they are like a Train of Powder which takes fire from corn to corn till at last the Barrel is burst in sunder Or as a little sicknesse which is an humor disposing to a strong distemper As those persons that are way-layed by a Consumption they loose first their vigour and then their colour An honest Matron will blush to be found in the dresse of an whorish wanton What will you lay that in the Chamber which laid Christ in the Manger Is your house so largely built that you can afford that a harbour which you know to be a Traytor Hating the very garment spotted with the flesh Jude 23. If you would keep your cloaths from burning be sure you keep your skirts from singing A sick man abhors the Cup out of which he took his loathsome physick A beleever he disbands those Auxiliaries that have yielded strength to his Adversaries If Achan handle the golden Wedg his next work will be to steal it away If Ruth will lye at the feet of Boaz her next remove is into the bed of Boaz If you take the Devils Cup into your hands you will quickly lift it to your heads 13. Principle that beleevers should walk by is this That whatsoever is temporally enjoyed should be spiritually improved What we receive from the hand of Divine bounty we should imploy to the height of Divine Glory Others they make an earthly use of things that are heavenly but we should make a heavenly use of things that are earthly we should put a golden Bias into a Leaden Bowl that it may run true to him that made it The more your Wheels are oyled on earth the swifter should your Chariots move to Heaven I say unto you make to your selves friends of the Mammon of unrighteousnesse that when ye faile they may receive you into everlasting habitation Luke 16. 9. There is a way to plume the wings of riches and to lay up that treasure in Heaven which came out of the bowels of the Earth There is a Divine Chymestry that can extract the purest spirits out of the most grosse and fecculent matter That can advance Flints and Pibbles into a neer resemblance to precious stones The beast on the Altar differed not in kind from the beast at the Slaughter There is a lawful craft of coyning your money over again and adding the Image and Superscription of God to what is Caesars They say of the Philosophers stone that it turns what ever it touches into Gold Whatever Mill a Saint hath going in the world he should spread the Sailes of it for Gods glory when he doth set up us then we should lift up him How unequal is it to be hot in our prayers and cold in our praises to cry aloud Give us this day our daily bread and then to whisper out Hallowed be thy name What 's this but to open our Windows to let in the light and then to close them again to keep out the Sun or to lay a Pipe to convey the water into the Cistern and then turn the Cock against the Spring To remember God in our necessities and to forget Omnes qui aquâ indigent praecipites in fontem vadunt in eum oculos et animum dirigentes sed jam benè potati revertuntur terga fonti animumque vertentes sic multi in suâ siti et tribulatione Divinae bonitatis fontem inclamant liberati obliviscuntur Stapl Prom Mor Dom 3. Post Epip Tex 5. God in our superfluities as if his kindness were not as proper a ground for praising of him as his goodnesse is for praying to him If under miseries we can seek out God with tears under mercies we should set forth God with praise Mercies they are such gifts as advance our debts 'T is as sad a Spectacle to see a Saint in an ungrateful posture as it was to see Pharoahs lean Kine in a fat Pasture Shall man find God a Master that is bountiful and shall not God find man a servant that is dutiful If he gives us any enjoyments it is but for his own entertainments And well may that hand reap the fruits that sets the Plants Shall not he be found feeding at a Table of his own spreading Where former blessings have been improved there future blessings shall be conveyed He shall never want mercy that doth not play the wanton with mercy but if the child crumbles away the meat on his Trencher no wonder if there come a Voyder When we fight against God with his own mercies we doe but beat our selves with our own sins In vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the Wildernesse so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him and he hath requited me evil for good 1 Sam. 25. 1. There was nothing wanting to him but there was something wanting in him Take a wicked man and Sicut nubes virtute radii solaris o terrâ exaltatur et attollitur sublatâ autem ipsu aerem obnubicat radios solares obscurat sic homo ingratus Dei favori exaltatus Deum posteà spernit et mandata ejus violat Stapl ubi priùs he is not led to God by that which comes from God He is like the Sea that turns the sweetest showers into the saltest waters God hath the least of service when he hath the most of substance That which should be a Bolt to keep sin out is but a Latch to let it in The Moon when its fullest of light with which it is adorned is farthest from the Sun from whence it was derived They send that River laden out with injuries that came flowing in with commodities The more a dunghil has the Sun beams shining on it the more noisome is the savour proceeding from it Sinners instead of having Viols full of Odors they have Vessels full of evils The flames of wrath will be hottest in their burnings where the beams of love have been sweetest in their shinings How often do we see those who are above others in outward greatnesse to be below others in inward goodnesse The weaker vessels by nature are many times the stronger vessels in grace To turn from God when he blesses us is a greater evil then to turn from God when he smites us Jesus answered many good works have I shewn you from the Father for which of these good workes doe you stone me John 10. 32. He crowned them with his goodness and they stoned him for his goodness Many are like the high-way side that returns no Crop though you scatter on it never so much seed They are like Aesops Snake that lay still in the Frost but stung him who warmed it in his bosome If it be a sin to return to man evil for evil what is it to