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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	faith_n	reason_n	see_v	6,880	5	4.6981	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89591	A tvvo-edged svvord out of the mouth of babes, to execute vengeance upon the enemy and avenger. Presented in a sermon to the Right Honourable the House of Lords assembled in Parliament, in the Abbey-Church at Westminster, Octob. 28. 1646. the solemn day of their monthly fast. / By Stephen Marshall B.D. minister of Gods Word at Finchingfield in Essex.	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1646 (1646)	Wing M797; Thomason E359_3; ESTC R201165	29,362	39

world in the Land of Judea and they were at that time brought into captivity to the great red Dragon the Roman Empire the professed enemy of the God of Heaven and these were his vassalls Among them commeth Christ as a Champion to undertake this great adversary and thus he enters the Lists borne in a stable wrapped up in rags bred a poor Carpenter lives 30 yeares in the world almost untaken notice of when hee did come to shew that hee was the Saviour who had undertaken the redemption of his people from their thraldome they who should have owned him and joyned with him scorn'd him rejected him none but a few women and children and fishermen would so much as acknowledge that hee was sent of God yea they never leave him till Jewes and Romans following the counsell of the Devill had agreed together to destroy him they tooke him hung him upon a crosse crucified him and there let him remaine a shame and a reproach and curse and laughing-stock to all the world and now was the time hee was to fight the field thus was hee accomplished for the warfare and now was hell let loose upon him who that should have looked upon Christ at that time would ever have thought that deliverance should have come by him would not all have said of him as some of the sonnes of Belial did of Saul and with a great deale of more reason toe How can this Man ever save us flesh and blood I dare say would have given up the Cause as lost Secondly take another instance in the first Champions whom Christ sends out in his Name his Apostles and the rest of his Disciples taken out of Fisher-boates and from other the like conditions and hee sends them to reduce the world under his subjection see what probability there was that they should ever speed they goe out a Company of weake men without money in their purse without a sword by their side unto a prejudiced world where all were engaged against them and thus must they go to subdue the world and how I pray by preaching such a Doctrine as was for the greatest part utterly above the capacity of man ridiculous to mans reason that they should beleeve in a crucified God and appoint them a way of selfe-deniall plucking out their right eye and cutting off their right hand and their right foot and forsaking all and taking up a crosse and following a crucified God and when they had done all then they should looke for that which no man ever saw a reward in a place where no man ever was that they had heard of a reward of glory in another world after they had undergone nothing but misery in this world and with this Doctrine must they overcome the world When Mabomet came out hee had a Doctrine that suited Mans reason and his lusts And when Antichrist came hee had a way that would please whatsoever was in a carnall heart but these must go out with that against which every man hath as many principles as hee hath lusts in his heart Would ever any man thinke that all this project and undertaking would not have fallen presently into the dust I could goe on but that I have many things to handle and shew you that in all the Churches conflicts it hath been so When God sent a shepheard to fetch 600000 men out of the land of Egypt where they were in bondage how ridiculous an attempt would it appeare to flesh and blood When they were to come out of the Captivity of Babylon when Athanasius was to undertake the Arrian world when Luther and a few company of Fryers and Monkes that came out of their Cells undertooke to destroy the master-piece of policy that ever the Devill had was there any likelyhood to flesh and reason they should carry it I adde further every particular Saint who is brought home to Christ is a sufficient proofe of this when grace comes first into their heart as a sparke of fire into a well of water as a graine of mustardseed cast into a barren ground a poore weake Creature who hath onely learned to know the way to life presently assaulted with all the power of the world and hell it selfe No man that should looke upon it with the eyes of reason but would conclude it will never come to any thing And there is this reason for it because the principles of sense and reason can behold and view all the power that is against them the temptations and allurements of the Devill the world and the flesh are all agreeable to our corrupt nature and wee can discerne what strength is in them the opposition which the wisdome authority and power which all the Kingdomes and men of the world make against the Saints appeare in its full strength as clearly as the Army sent to take Elisha the Prophet did unto his servant But on the part of the Babes and Sucklings sense and reason sees their weaknesse but sees nothing of their strength that 's no more discerned then the fore mentioned servant saw the mountaines full of Chariots and Horses of fire before the Lord opened his eyes that is a hidden secret thing can be beheld and known only by the light of faith and the revelation of God which they have no understanding of there is the first The second Branch is How unlikely soever it appeare yet so it is they have a strength whereby they shall and will quell all their enemies even the enemy and the avenger the victory is sure enough For the proofe of this nothing is more cleare in the Book of God First All the promises are for it a thousand promises have declared it must bee so The seed of the Woman must breake the Serpents head I will build my Church the gates of hell shall not prevaile against it No weapon that is formed against thee shall ever prosper Every tongue that rises up against thee in judgement thou shalt condemne Feare not thou worme Jacob thou shalt thresh the Mountaines and beat them to dust Arise and thresh O daughter of Zion and I will make thy borne iron and thy hoofes brasse and thou fhalt breake in pieces many Nations I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people that burden themselves with it shall bee cut in pieces though all the people of the earth bee gathered together against it God will tread Satan under your feet shortly All that is borne of God overcomes the world I write unto you little children because yee have overcome that wicked one who hath not read abundance of such promises as these are And experience hath found it thus see it in a few examples First our Lord Jesus Christ himselfe at that time when hee appeared so unlikely as you have heard then did hee breake all his enemies and led captivity captive and hath hitherto so farre prevailed that all the Empires which