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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	prayer_n	spirit_n	supplication_n	1,486	5	11.4562	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00405	Sathans sowing season. By William Est minister and preacher of Gods word in Bydeford.	Est, William, 1546 or 7-1625.; Est, William, 1546 or 7-1625. Mirrour of mercy.	1611 (1611)	STC 10536.5; ESTC S118580	32,844	100

which the Apostle comprehendeth vnder the name of sword Hee calleth it the sword of the spirit because it is spirituall and from the mouth of God because our enemy is a spirit our fight must also bee spirituall Hee willeth vs to bee furnished with the word of God and testimonies of holy Scripture whereby wee may expell and driue backe our enemy from vs. And how wee should vse this sword Christ by his owne example teacheth Matthew chap. 4. in his encountring with the Diuell When he tempteth vs to pride drawe we against him this sword God resisteth the proud 1. Pet. 5. When he tempteth to couetousnesse strike him with this sword The couetous man is an idolater and hath no inheritanc in the kingdome of Christ and of God Ephes 5. 5. If hee tempt to adultery lay at him with this sword No fornicator nor adulterer shall inherite the kingdome of God 1. Cor. 6. 10. Likewise when he tempteth to herisi●s as Christ is not the true God let vs boldly dash him on the face with this sword saying This same is very God and eternall life 1. Ioh. 5. 19. and his bloud clenseth vs from all sinne 1. Ioh. 1. 7. If hee saith wee are not iustified by faith only let vs draw this sword against him saying VVhosoeuer beleeueth in him shall not perish but haue euerlasting life Ioh. 3. 16. Againe a man is iustified by faith without the workes of the law Rom. 3 28. Againe if he tempt saying that by reason of the personall vnion Christ in his body is vbique euery where obiect against him the words of the Angell He is not here he is risen Math. 28. 6. Againe the very words in the Article of our faith He ascended into heauen from thence he shal come againe c. If he say the body of Christ is in the bread really reply that Christ said not my body is in the bread but this that is the bread is my body And so let vs vse this sword of the spirit in all other temptations Lastly he concludeth with prayer which is the seuenth part of this spirituall armour vers 18. And pray alwaies This is a continuall and feruent supplication to Almighty God that he will bee present and assist vs and all the Saints in this fight against Sathan With this kinde of armour let vs defend our selues against this enemy and strike him and driue him from vs. I his is a most excellent and effectuall kinde of weapon which the Apostle therefore placeth last because except God and our Emperour Iesus Christ by our praiers be present to protect vs all the rest of our armour little preuaileth After therefore that the Christian Souldier bee on euery side armed the Apostle willeth that turning to his Emperour and acknowledging his weaknes he deuoutly craueth succour and aid and not once or twice but continually for we stand in continuall neede of his defence And this wee should doe not coldly faintly and with the lippes onely as did the Iewish people of whom the Prophet in the person of God complaineth Esay chap. 29. This people honoureth mee with their lippes but their heart is farre from me but with a feruent spirit not carelesly and negligently as if wee stood in no feare of the enemy but watching with an earnest affection in this duty of prayer And that not onely for our selues but for the whole Church that is for the whole army of Gods Saints and Souldiers of Christs band in the Church militant To conclude there are none therefore vanquished of the enemy but such as forsake this their impregnable armoure and depart from their inuincible Captaine Iesus Christ The victory shall bee ours through him who hath vanquished Sathan and shall breake his head treade him vnder foot and make vs reigne and triumph wlth him for euer Lastly I heere obserue that the Church militant in this world is not a congregation absolutely pure without spot or blemish contagion of sinne scandals vices and imperfections as the tares sowne among the wheate and growing together plainly euinceth against the Donatists Anabaptists and such like For alwaie in the visible Church in this life the good and the bad the godly and the wicked the elect and the reprobate are mingled together The Church saith Augustine est velut lilium inter spinas bonis malis permista as a lilly among thornes mixed with good and euill as it may appeare by the example of the Church of the Corinthians 1. Cor. 1. and chap. 5. and other places which may bee proued by this argument taken from the scope of this parable thus As it is with the tares and the wheat so it is with the visible Church but thus it standeth with the tares and the wheat they both grow together vntill the time of haruest Therefore in the visible Church the good and the euil are mixed together vntil the time of haruest or of the end of the world The antecedent is proued out of this parable the consecution is illustrated by this rule in logike similium similis est ratio of like things is the like reason The vse which the godly should make hereof S. Cyprian teacheth that because tares seeme to bee in the Church this should not hinder our faith and charity that because wee see tares in the Church wee our selues should depart out of the Church but we should rather indeuour vt frumentum esse possimus that wee may bee the good come that when the corne shall begin to bee laid vp in the Lords barnes wee may receiue the fruits of our workes For in a great house are not onely vessels of gold and of siluer but also of wood and of brasse some to honour and some to dishonour 2. Tim. 2. The third part Then came the seruants of the housholder and said vnto him Maister sowedst not thou good seed From whence then hath it tares vers 27. Here is thirdly contained the question of the seruants concerning the rooting vp of the tares ioyned with an admiration Sowedst not thou good seed The Protasis or proposition is euen as the housholder would not that the seruants should pluck vp the tares but that they should grow together till the time of haruest Apodosis So wicked men and heretikes shal euer be in thevisible Church vntill the end of the world when they shall be separated and vtterly rooted out This Housholder is God the seruants according to Augustine are such Christians as are carryed with a more feruent zeale to haue the church purged Their speech with the answer of the Housholder is figured by an vnperfect Prosopopoeia verse 28. 29. 30. In that the seruants wondred at the increase of the tares we are taught the iust cause of admiration is giuen to the godly if they duly consider how so many tares of vices should spring vp in the Lords field from whence are so