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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	believe_v	faith_n	love_n	3,679	5	5.6620	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64004	The art of salvation preached first at Saint Maries in Oxford, and now published by Thomas Tvvittee ...	Twittee, Thomas, b. 1596.	1643 (1643)	Wing T3426; ESTC R32884	17,921	26

the prime apostle tells us 2 Pet. 2.10 Give diligence to make your calling and election sure for if you do this you shall never fall I may adde if you do not you shall perish for ever our blessed Saviour justifieth this when being advertised by a worldly Martha of her many imployments to the end that he should either comm●nd her or command her sister to assist her answereth breifly thus Martha Martha thou art carefull for many things and one thing is necessary and Mary hath chosen that better part which shall never be taken from her Where our blessed Saviour tacitely reprehends her needlesse deligence and withall plainely applauds her sisters happy carefullnesse thou art troubled one thing is necessary and that hath thy sister chosen Salvation requireth our best care diligence because tending to the preservation and eternall welbeing of the soule the best part of man that Divinae aurae particula the inbreathing of God as the Poet calleth it as far beyond the body as immortall before mortality or Heaven the Earth they were wont to say saith S. Bernard Qui corpus curat bonum curat Castellum he that keepes his hody keeps a good Castle but I say sterquilinium vile he is busy only about a Dunghill but he that is solicitous for the welfare of his soul chooseth the better part is imployed about the best businesse and in doing this hath effected all though he neglect the whole world Lastly without this all other forecast is folly all gaine losse and therefore the Holy Ghost stileth him a plaine foole whose provilence extendeth no further then the things of this life Dost thou resolve on nothing but building of bigger barnes And because thy fields are laden with a plentifull Crop therefore chant that carelesse requiem to thy soule Ede bibe lude Eate drinke take thy pastime 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thou art a foole for this night shall thy soule be required and then where is all thy plotting and plodding for the world Luke 12 20. without this happy diligence all other gaine is losse and therefore our blessed Saviour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 What shall it profit a man to gaine a world if he loose his soule Mat. 16 26. where you see the soule is pretious and invaluable the losse of it irrecoverable and a whole world nay not a million of worlds a sufficient recompence for one soule How then are the greater part of the world here to be taxed who thinke of that last of all nay least of all which doth require their prime care and greatest diligence how doth the Holy Ghost complaine of this Oh that they were wise Oh that they would thinke of their latter end and O si ad precepta mea Oh that thou hadst taken heed to my precepts then had thy peace beene as the river and thy righteousnesse as the waves of the sea Isay 48.18 And ideo captivus ductus est populus meus quia caruit scientia Therefore is my people g●●e into captivity because they have no knowledge they regard not the worke of the Lord neither consider the operation of his hands but the harpe and the violl and wine are in their feasts but alas the dreadfull consequence for therefore hell hath enlarged her selfe and opened her mouth without measure and their glory and their multitude and their pomp and he that rejoyceth among them shall descend into it And not to insist on generalities I speake in Saint Austens phrase Aures omnium pulso conscientias singulorum convenio I knocke at the doore of every mans conscience have we beene so carefull in this particular God hath not appointed us unto wrath but to attaine salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ 1. Thessal 5.9 But we live as if we were appointed onely for the service of Mammon and set upon this dunghill the earth onely to dig out our owne damnation I question not our desire salvation without doubt is every mans desire none so wretched that would not be saved Beatus vult homo esse etiam non sic vivendo ut possit esse Man would be happy though he trace those broad pathes that tend to the chambers of death but for our actions there 's the matter wherein I may truly say as holy David in that Psalme The wickednesse of the ungodly sheweth to his face that there is no feare of God before his eyes so our supiue negligence our carelesse oscitancy our extravagant intentions shew to our faces that we are not carefull for heaven nor sollicitous of Salvation The ambitious plots only for an addition of honour some more preferment The covetous sweats only to increase his substance and enlarge his Patrimony and for us all we can be content as the Psalmist saith Torise early and go to bedde late and to ●at the bread of carefulnesse for the things of this world in this we live in this we grow old in this we dye and then alasse for pitty the maine bufinesse is neglected heaven is not thought of Salvation is not finished Wherefore what distresse drove this perplexed party in the the text unto let I beseech you a religious discretion worke in every one of you and make you sollicitous for the welfare of your soules I read of Plato that when the Cyrenenses sent to him to prescribe them some forme of Government he replyed that they were too happy to yeild obedience unto any laws Oh let it not be true of any of you that your happinesse here will not permit you to thinke of being happy hereafter Consider that weighty reason of our blessed Saviour what will it profit a man though he gaine the whole world if he loose his owne soule What did it profit that rich man Luke 16. That he was clothed in purple and fine linnen and fared deliciously every day when no sooner dead but in hell in torments Nay it was the aggravation of his misery that he had once beene happy so what will it profit you that ye are descended generously clad costly fed choicely and enjoy all the pleasures and delights of the world when no sooner dead but that of S. Bernard proves true Carodatur esca vernibus anima praeda Daemonibus the body becomes a prey for devouring wormes the soule for tormenting Devills see a President in the 5 of Wisdome and there the gallants of those times unseasonably bewailing such folly Nos stulti c. We fooles erred from the way of truth and the light of Righteousnesse hath not shined unto us we have wearied our selves in in the wayes of destruction and gone through desolate places but as for the way of the Lord we have not known what hath pride profitted us and riches withall their vaunting brought us These things are past away even as an Arrow shot at a marke or as the trace of a Ship at Sea or as a guest that tarrieth but for a day Wherefore blessed beloved in the God of love Christ Jesus blessed for evermore when the eie that seeth me this day may see me no more and the eare that heareth me may heare me no more for ever when I that speake this to you may be dissolved to my originall dust Let not this my poore exhortation be as the beating of the Aire or passe unreguarded but in the fields in your houses at your tables in your closets on your bedds alwaies inturrupt all extravagant intentions with this I have a God to serve a soule to save What must I doe to be saved Consider further God willeth not your destruction he hath not appointed you to wrath he hath made himselfe knowne unto you he doth by me the unworthiest of his Messengers intreat you that you would be reconciled unto him whose voyce if you will this day heare you shall not perrish notwithstanding all your former provocations Oh then seeing God and man grace and nature heaven and earth concurre to do you good perish not through your owne obstinacy save your souls that you perish not in the condemnation of the world And when ye have obtained some comfortable assurance this way account your selves more happy then if you were Monarches of this whole universe for quanta faelicitas what unspeakable selicity is it to be saved Saul had a Kingdome and yet he did dispaire Esau was a Duke and yet a cast-away Judas had his Bishoprick and yet the sonne of perdition and quanta facilitas what facility in the obtaining of it For heaven is not now tyed to these impossible conditions doe this and live non reqnirit Deus sanguinem sed fidem sayeth S. Cyprian God now requireth not bloud but faith only beleeve and live for ever Oh then labour for faith follow faith fight that good fight of faith be faithfull unto death which is the end of your dayes and then you shall be sure to receive the end of your faith which is the salvation of your soules which God of his infinite mercy vouchsafe for the Son of his love Christ Jesus sake to whom with the all sanctifying spirit three Persons one eternall invisible indivisible Essence be ascribed all power praise might and Majesty dignity Dominion and thanksgiving from henceforth and forevermore Amen FINIS