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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	salvation_n	5,162	5	7.3070	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67065	An account of some of the dying-sayings of Susannah Yeats, late wife of Samuel Yeats, of the parish of Minching-Hammpton in Glocester-shire with a sermon preached at her funeral by Thomas Worden ...	Worden, Thomas.; Yeats, Susannah, d. 1688.	1688 (1688)	Wing W3577; ESTC R31846	16,577	40

man hath true Faith in some degree or other or else to what purpose do these men talk of mens giving an assent of Faith to the Divine Truths of the Gospel but this is as gross as the other if Paul may be believed 2 Thes 3. 2. That we may be delivered from unreasonable men for all men have not faith 3. IT supposeth that all men by nature have Power to obey the Gospel if they please or else why do the men of this Notion talk as they do of mens living in obedience to the Rules of the Gospel but this is as foreign and wide from the Scripture as any of the former if Paul may be believed by an Arminian Rom. 8. 7. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God for it is not subject to the Law of God neither indeed can be So that unless a man have new Eyes put into his Head and a new Faith put into his heart and a new Will put into his Soul it is wholly Impossible that men should either see believe or obey the Gospel to the Salvation of their Souls but Regeneration which is right is another thing than these men dream of it is supernatural work carried on by the Holy Ghost in the Heart where and when he pleaseth it is called a new creation Eph. 2. 10. Is this supernatural or is it not it's called a being born again 1 Pet. 1. 23. Now who is there which can contribute to his own Birth It 's called a Resurrection Rom. 6. 5. Rev. 20. 6. And who is it that can contribute to his own Resurrection all as able is a poor Sinner to convert himself from sin to God or believe and obey the Gospel if Christ himself may be believed Joh. 15. 5. Without me ye can do nothing therefore see that this work be done upon your Souls before you dye or else your corporal death will lanch you into an eternal death for ever 3. Rule LAY in a good stock of Prayer against a dying hour comes it is Paul's Exhortation Lay up a good foundation for the time to come Oh let it be your Prayer night and day to God that he would prepare your Souls for Death Undoubtedly those who pray mostly for this mercy in time of life have mostly the joyful comfort of it in an hour of death they that live prayingly will dye prayingly 4. Rule IF you would prepare for Death make your selves as familiar with it as you can in a time of Life then will it be the less dreadful to you when it comes it is in the case of death as it is with a Lyon death is called the King of terrors to men as the Lyon is to the rest of the Beasts of the Forest and little less a terror to men also But if you take a Lyon when it is but a whelp you may train it up to so tame a rate that you may lead it up and down by a Chain in your Hand when others would tremble to look on it so if you would but make Death so familiar with your thoughts you might find it to smile upon you when it looks grim upon others Last Use MUST good men dye as well as bad men Yet here comes meat out of this eater and honey out of this strong one to a believer Oh what sweet and pleasant thoughts should every believer have of Death when they dye and never till they dye shall they be fully brought home to God. Death to the Saints is the door by which they enter into the enjoyment of God. The dying Christian is almost at home yet a few Pangs and Agonies more and then he is come to God in whose presence is fulness of Joy. I desire saith Paul to depart and to be with Christ which is far better Phil. 1. 23. It should not scare us to be brought to Death the King of Terrors so long as it is the office of Death to bring us to God. That dreaming Opinion of the Souls sleeping after Death is as ungrounded as it is uncomfortable the same day we loose from this shore we shall be landed upon the blessed shore where we shall see and enjoy God for ever Oh if the Friends of deceased Believers did but understand where ond with whom their Souls are while they are mourning over their Bodies here certainly a few believing thoughts of this would quickly dry up their Tears I SHALL conclude with that word in Psal 37. 37. Mark perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace FINIS