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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
A94757	A helpe to Christian fellowship: or, A discourse tending to the advancement and spirituall improvement of holy societie. Wherein the practise of it is commended, 1. In the communicating or imparting of their gifts and graces. 2. In their walking together in the ordinances of Christ. 3. In a mutuall serviceablenesse to one another. The particular graces necessary to the qualifying of Christians for it, are propounded. And an invitation unto it is urged by some motives from the benefit and pleasantnesse thereof. Applied to these times for the strengthening of mens hands in the happy work of reformation. By Samuel Torshell. Imprimatur, Charles Herle.	Torshell, Samuel, 1604-1650.	1644 (1644)	Wing T1937; Thomason E37_8; ESTC R11602	27,805	36

accountable unto God how we have layd out our knowledge our utterance our spirit of prayer our ability of discerning our experiences of God our tast of the promises our enlargements after prayer our improvement by conserence our comforts after private humiliation our strengthning by the Sacraments or what else might be instanced in for use of others How we got rid of such a lust how we mastered another temptation how we attained to such a facility in this or that duty There must be this commerce among them that are in this heavenly partnership Ephes 4.16 In this body fitly joyned and compacted every joynt must supply and there must be an effectuall working in the measure of every part to the encrease of the body According to this rule ver 29. the Apostle speaking in the same chapter of discourse and conserence admonishes the Ephesians not to suffer any corrupt communication to proceed out of their mouthes but that which is good to the use of edifying that it may minister grace unto the hearers We must lay out our gift of discourse or any other gift profitably with respect unto the wellfare of the whole CHAP. IV. Another exercise of Christian fellowship Walking together in the ordinances of Christ AS this fellowship is exercised in the commerce of gifts so there must be 2. Mutuall walking in the ordinances of Christ Mich. 4 5. A mutuall walking and holding hands in the ordinances of Christ There ought to be a joynt assistance for the confirming of one another in such a resolution as this to be taken up All people will walke every one in the name of this god and we will walke in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever For this I presuppose as a thing granted by all such whom the Lord avoucheth to be his peculiar people Deut. 26.17 18. that it lyes upon them to avouch the Lord to be their God and to walke in his wayes and to keep his statutes and his Commandements and his judgements and to hearken to his voice This is our covenant with God who hath entred into covenant with us which covenant we are unfaithfull in through the neglect of that help we might have from one another by mutuall watching remembrancing and exhortation I remember what a faithfull and experienced Divine Rich. Rogers 7. Treat hath related of the practise of some private men but able and godly professors who in the sense of their unanswerablenesse to the meanes made a covenant among themselves of watching over one another for their better walking together with God This is no novelpractise for besides the many presidents of the Antients this was not of yesterday for it was well neare threescore yeares since in the yeare 1588 if I remember right for I have not the Booke by me but the reader may there see the heads the rules and the forme of their agreement But to pursue the point in hand There may be a fellowship 1. In the hearing of the word quickning one another unto it helping the negligent to apply it taking forth the severall portions belonging to the different conditions and necessities of each praying for one another that it may be usefull and seasonable 2. In prayer for and with each other The Athenians sacrificed for none but themselves and their neighbours of Chios but Christians know a greater latitude of relations and doe also well know the great-benefit of putting their stock together See how St Paul speakes Eph. 6.18 19. Pray alwayes with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all Saints and for me And it seemes he had communicated his condition and present case unto them by Tychicus that he was in expectation to come before some great Tribunall in the cause of the Gospell In those times it appeares they used to transact one anothers affaires in the Court of heaven by prayer But there is one particular instance that I will not omit That fallings out and differences and jarrings may be healed by prayer which it may be is the meaning of that place in James Confesse your faults one to another and pray one for another Jam. 5.16 that ye may be healed Let not the heart rankle when it is wounded by an offence but meet together and humbly acknowledge where the fault lyes and make up the matter before God as a witnesse of your mutuall sincerenesse and only able to search the bottome of the wound and to cure it I have knowne some blessed experiments of this and can tell when a probatum est was written upon it 3. Ezra 8.23 Esth 4.16 In fasting for the afflicting and humbling of the soul 60 Ezra and his men and Esther and her maids maintain'd communion together I have knowne some that for many yeares have strictly and duely obferved this course to the wonderfull improvement of their gifts and of their acquaintance with God Such fasting dayes Mar. 9.29 are soul-feeding dayes and soul-curing dayes Some diseases some lusts will go out no other way 4. In mutuall bemoanings confessions and openings of our sores and our wounds It may be when the Apostle saith Confesse your faults one to another Jam. 5.16 he meanes more then the acknowledgement of offences whereby a man hath sinned against his brother though that be a necessary and most usefull part of this fellowship and without which the heart will rankle and the sinne will remaine upon it unpardoned but also that Christians should bewaile their failings infirmities deadnesse unsavourinesse coldnesse narrownesse unfruit fulnesse or what ever the maladie be to one another to see whether others have been in the same case and what course they tooke and what remedy they procured Many perish through too much modesty and reservednesse 5. In the Sacraments joying in one another beholding their order and stedfastnesse of faith in Christ rejoycing together in the love of God feeding at the same table as those that shall meet and sit downe with Christ for ever in his Fathers house taking occasion to renew the covenant of love among themselves and laying down all grudges rancor prejudice uncharitable surmises c. for Christs sake and giving the right hand of fellowship cordially and unfainedly as those that find themselves to be all retainers to the same Master provided for with the same care purchased by the price of the same blood 6. Lastly to name no more though other particulars might be instanced In holy conference This this indeed is it that might much improve the meeting of Christians to whet upon one another the knowledge of the holy Scriptures to obferve among themselves and speake of the remarkeable passages of providence the great and holy wayes of God the things that he doth gloriously in their eyes In the Prophets time when proud scorners and profane spirited men talkt vainely and did even what they list then they that feared the