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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	abel_n	abraham_n	cain_n	49	3	9.6714	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38823	The Gospel treasury opened, or, The holiest of all unvailing discovering yet more the riches of grace and glory to the vessels of mercy unto whom onely it is given to know the mysteries of that kingdom and the excellency of spirit, power, truth above letter, forms, shadows / in several sermons preached at Kensington & elswhere by John Everard ; whereunto is added the mystical divinity of Dionysius the Areopagite spoken of Acts 17:34 with collections out of other divine authors translated by Dr. Everard, never before printed in English.	Everard, John, 1575?-1650?; Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.; Barker, Matthew, 1619-1698.	1657 (1657)	Wing E3531; ESTC R29421	513,595	936

make me bid defiance to the world and the things below that we would fain walk evenly in all change of conditions dost thou want spirituall riches and those things which God accounts Good things things which he gives only to his own people And not those he gives promiscuously and most plentifully to those he hates are given to destroy and to undoe them Then I say unto thee thou needst not say Who shall ascend into Heaven or who shall descend to bring Christ from the grave behold he is nigh thee Even within thee What needest thou go out of thy self for help or counsel there is that Great Counseller dewls within thee What need hast thou to go out to any Creature What need hast thou to rely upon man or the Arm of flesh Thou hast such a Counseller and Comforter within thee that is able to darken and obscure all the counsels and comforts of all Men and all Creatures But thou must first strip thy self of all manner of thoughts and fantasies and all imaginations and then thou shalt find such an infinite bottomless God whose name is called wonderfull Counseller the Mighty God the everlasting Father the Prince of Peace That thou mayst say of all Creatures as Iob of his friends Miserable Comforters are ye al. For There may be such an occasion and a man may be in such a condition wherein all the world cannot help a man nor comfort him But there can be no case wherein this great Counseller this mighty Helper cannot uphold and comfort a man Though all the world were set against a man to undo and overthrow him yet he is so safe with God that he needs not regard it If God will keep a man under his wings what need he fear Though thou art oppressed and wronged I do not mean onely outwardly do not take me too much in that sense but inwardly by Satan and by thy wicked lusts so that thou cryest our with David Mine enemies fight against me daily and I am oppressed on every side and with Ieremiah Lord help me I suffer violence and spoyl Have thy eye and thy heart most upon these inward violences so that thou seest a mighty battel fought within thee Esa. 9. 5. For every battel of the warriour is with confused noise and garments rolled in blood but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire Is this thy case There is one nigh thee whom thou mayst cry to as Ieremiah doth Lord help me I suffer violence There is one within thee that can make thee not to fear but can make thee laugh at all these things As Iob saith the Horse doth in the Battel at the shaking of the spears As here Moses went about a desperate and a mighty attempt viz. that he A poor Shepherd should offer to go to so great a King and to cause him to let half his Kingdom depart from him but there was such a Supporter within Moses that made the work seem possible to him though impossible to men Beloved your heavenly Father is so near you that he knows what ye need before ye ask he is so much you that he is more near to you then your selves He is not so present as the King is present in all his Kingdom because his power is over all and reaches to all In that sense every Iustice of Peace every Constable and every Officer is a finger of the King and therefore it is a vain foolish thing to say 'T is true Gods power is here and he is present in regard of his Attributes for will ye separate God and his power Will ye make God and his Attributes two things that cannot be for Gods power is his essence And what ever is in God is God and where he is present by his power there he is present by his Essence if you do not see it so blame your selves lay not the fault on God and deny him therefore to be there but blame your own eyes which are not opened and your own ear because they are not bored And so I say conceiving God to be thus take any yea all occasions of magnifying worshipping and praising him and with the Prophet David when ye behold any of the Creatures Say Praise the Lord in the heights Praise him in the Sun and Moon Praise him in the Stars Praise him in the Firmament of his power and Praise Him according to his most Excellent Greatness So much for this time THE MYSTERIE OR THE LIFE and MARROVV OF THE SCRIPTURES An Exposition on Exodus 3. the Six first Verses EXOD. 3. 1 2 3 4 5 6. Now Moses kept the flock of Iethro his father in Law the Priest of Midian and he led the flock to the back-side of the desart and came to the mountain of God even to Horeb. And the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush and he looked and behold the bush burned with fire and the bush was not consumed And Moses said I will now turn aside and see this great sight why the bush is not burnt c. Delivered at a Private Meeting at Kensington OUt of which words we have observed three things 1. Moses his Preparation or disposition to this Vision and that is in the first Verse And Moses kept the flock of Iethro his father in Law Priest of Midian and he led the flock to the back side of the desart and came to the mountain of God even to Horeb. 2. The Vision it self that is in the 2 3 4 5. Verses The Angel of the Lord appeared to Mose in a flame of fire in the midst of a burning bush and the bush burned and was not consumed c. Lastly the consequence and what followed thereupon In the preparation of Moses his disposition to this great sight we observed something in that it is said here that Moses was a Shepherd and shewed you the reason why the Holy Spirit takes such special notice of Shepherds and still prefers them before Husbandmen as the first of men that were begotten Cain and Abel the Shepherds offering was accepted and the Husbandmans rejected and then we produced and traced all the Patriarchs Abraham Isaac and Iacob and Iacobs twelve sons all Shepherds and so David The first of Kings that was accepted he was taken from following the sheep to sit upon the Throne to feed Gods people and still all the stock of the Messiah of whom Christ came were generally Shepherds This is the Letter of the word but what may be the meaning that Shepherds are more esteemed then Husbandmen what is the mystery what is the living sense of these words As I take it the meaning is this that the life of a true Shepherd was to depend more upon God and his providence then Husbandmen because they more resign up their wills to God and liye altogether upon his blessing And do not so labour and Toil