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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	adoption_n	cry_v	father_n	9,732	5	5.0154	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13405	Selfe-satisfaction occasionally taught the citizens in the lecture as St. Magnes neere London-bridge. By Francis Tayler, M. of A. and pastour of Clapham.	Taylor, Francis, 1590-1656.	1633 (1633)	STC 23717; ESTC S107523	37,254	60

saeculo maior est Cypr. ep 2. He can now couet nothing he needs desire nothing of the world who is already greater then the world Now as he need desire nothing that the world hath who is at peace with God so need he feare nothing that the world can doe against him for God can supply him with what the world denies him and can protect him against what the world threatens him with Thus is hee by Gods fauour in despight of all the world able to giue satisfaction to himselfe The legacy that our Sauiour left vnto his Disciples was peace Ioh. 14.27 Non pax temporis quia exponendierant mul tis tributationibus sed pax pectoris et paxaeternitatis prima in praesenti secunda infuturo Lud. vita Christi part 2. cap. 77. fig. 6. Peace I leaue with you my peace I giue vnto you What that peace was let Ludolphus declare Not peaceable times in this life but a peaceable heart leading to eternall life As when the mind is troubled with the sense of Gods anger all the world cannot pacifie it gold and siluer please no more then strawes friends are but miserable comforters we languish inwardly notwithstanding a world of outward comforts so when the conscience is pacified with the sweete perswasion of Gods fauour all the tribulations of the world cannot daunt that heart but like the Bee it can come abroad and taste the commodities of summer and feede it selfe with the honey it hath gathered biding within the hiue when the winter stormes with her tempests By this meanes hee enioyes the benefits of all outward comforts and can fustaine himselfe with his inward peace in the midst of all outward crosses The second fauour wherewith God graces a good mans soule to enable him to satisfie himselfe is the testimony of Gods Spirit Testimony of Gods Spirit This confirmes and assures vs of the former peace with God It breeds also vnspeakeable ioy in the apprehension of Gods fauour That reioycing we haue in tribulations in hope of the glory of God Rom. 5.2.3.5 proceede from the holy Ghost which is giuen vs. The summe of the testimony of Gods spirit within vs is to perswade vs fully of Gods loue and fauour to vs in Christ So S. Paul instructs vs. It is the Spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba Father Rom. 8.15.16 The Spirit it selfe beareth witnesse with our spirit that we are the children of God Now what better newes can the Spirit of God bring to vs then the tidings of Gods fauour Dauid preferres it before his being Psal 63.3 Thy louing kindnes is better then life This testimony internall of Gods fauour to the soule is able to sustaine a man against all outward force and malice They that haue store of foode and rayment of weapons of munition being lodged in a strong hold feare not the enemy without though he be very powerfull No more need a good man feare troubles Hee that hath store of gold and siluer within his coffers cares not though he want brasse or leaden mony So hee that is warranted by Gods Spirit that God affects him neede not care much though he want health or wealth or other worldly comforts Thus Gods Spirit dwelling in him makes him able to satisfie himselfe howeuer it goe with others A third blessing that helpes the seruant of God to vphold himselfe Memory is his memory This is the chest of the soule wherein she lookes vp all her treasures It is the retentiue faculty of the mind wherein the instructions it hath formerly read or heard are registred The vnderstanding without this is like a prodigall it receiues many rents but spends all Or like the weake stomacke that takes food but is not nourished by it because it cannot hold it to feede vpon it S. Augustine compares the memory to a barne wherein things seene are laid vp for future prouision Thou seest something sayth he and perceiuest it with thine eyes Aug. in euang Ioh. Tract 23. and commendest it to thy memory and that which thou hast committed to thy memory is there laid vp within in a secret place as it were in a barne as it were in a treasury as it were in a certaine closet or inward garden The memory then is much beneficiall to the settling and satisfying of a good mans minde meanes of further comfort may be kept from him The Scriptures and creatures may be denyed to his eyes sermons and friends maybe kept from his eares but what is lodged in his memory can neuer be taken from him by the malice of persecutors there may he read in the darkest dungeon without a candle Two things there are that may stagger the satisfaction of a good man in time of trouble The one is the doubting of Gods power to deliuer him in regard of the greatnesse of his afflictions The other is the questioning of Gods will because of the greatnesse of his sinnes The memory helpes to giue satisfaction to both these doubts To the first it answeres by precedents Memoria animae nostrae quasi columna est notae huic in scriptae bonorum exempla Greg. Nyss Tract 2. in The memory according to Gregory Nyssen is the pillar of the soule the memorials written in it are the examples of good men So the godly Iewes perswade themselues that God can doe wonders for them because hee hath done them for their fathers O God say they wee haue heard with our eares and our fathers haue told vs what workes thou didst in their daies in the time of old Psal cap. 4. Psalme 44.1.2 How thou didst driue out the heathen with thy hand and plantedst them Psalme 119.58 how thou didst afflict the people and cast them out So Dauid cheares vp himselfe and rouzes vp his spirits I remembred thy iudgements of old O Lord and haue comforted my selfe Thus the good mans memory tells him what God hath done for others and his reason informes him that he can doe as much for him If he should be tempted to doubt of what God hath done for others yet he cannot doubt of such great acts as God hath done for himselfe Thus Dauid armes himselfe against the Gyant The Lord that hath deliuered me out of the pawe of the Lyon 1. Sam. 17.37 and out of the pawe of the Beare hee will deliuer mee out of the hand of this Philistine Thus S. Paul strengthens himselfe from his Asian deliuerance 2 Cor. 1.10 God deliuered vs from so great a death and doth deliuer vs in whom we trust that hee will yet deliuer vs. Thus he perswades himselfe strongly of Gods power to free him from other inconueniences by reason of his Romane deliuerance I was deliuered out of the mouth of the Lyon And the Lord will deliuer me from euery euill worke 2 Tim. 4.17.18 and will preserue me vnto his heauenly Kngdome So the goodmans memory assists him against all doubting of GODS power To