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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	artery_n	blood_n	vein_n	5,874	5	10.2889	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85498	The saints hony-comb, full of divine truths, touching both Christian belief, and a Christians life, in two centuries. By Richard Gove.	Gove, R. (Richard), 1587-1668.	1652 (1652)	Wing G1454; Thomason E1313_1; ESTC R202241	83,389	226

former favour shewed to him threw aside the coat and came before him clad onely in his own usuall garments whom when the Emperour saw being extremely angry with him caused him to lose his head and life at once Whether this were true or no I know not neither will I enquire onely thus much it may teach us that we having with Pilate crucified Christ with our sinnes and sinfull course of life there is no hope for us ever to appear before God with comfort except we have on us the robes of Christs righteousnesse and be found in him not having our own righteousnesse Expression VIII How Gods Child may be known from others that are not so by his words and language A Father lying on his death-bed called unto him three children which he kept and told them that onely one of them was his sonne and that the other two were onely brought up by him and to him that was his sonne he gave all his goods But which of these was his naturall sonne he would not in any wise declare When he was dead every one of the three children pleaded that he was his son and therefore that the goods were his The matter at last was brought before a Judge he did what he could to end the controversy between them but being not able by any means to doe it he took this course with them He caused the dead corps of the Father to be set up against a tree and commanded the 3 sons each of them to take a bow and arrowes and to shoot at their Fathers dead corps thus set up to see who could shoot nearest to his heart Whereupon two of them took the bow and arrows and did shoot as they were willed and hit the body in severall places but the third was angry with them for thus shooting and when it came to his turn he out of a naturall affection of a child to a father refused and could by no means be perswaded to shoot The which when the Judge saw he gave this Sentence That surely the two first who had thus shot at their father were none of his sonnes but the third only which had refused to doe it and that therefore he should have the goods The like triall may be made to know who are Gods Children for they that use to blaspheme the holy name of God and to shoot that his name thorow with horrible and fearfull oaths as it is the fashion of too too many to doe certainly they cannot be so continuing the children of God neither will he another day so judge them to be nor any of those goods which he hath reserved in Heaven for those that love and fear him to belong unto them but being the Children of the Devill must with him be cast into that everlasting fire prepared for the Devill and his Angels Expression IX That whosoever hopes for the Kingdome of Glory hereafter in Heaven must make his entrance into the Kingdome of Grace whilest he lives here on earth FOr as amongst the Romanes Honour had a Temple and Virtue had a Temple but these Temples were so built and situate that none could come into the Temple of Honour but he must first passe through the Temple of Virtue So there is a Kingdome of Grace in this life wherein God reigns by his Word and Spirit in the hearts of his Children and there is a Kingdome of Glory in the life to come wherein they shall reign with him for ever in Heaven but God hath so ordered and disposed of these two Kingdomes that none shall enter into the Kingdome of Glory hereafter that doth not make his entrance into the Kingdome of Grace here Expression X. That there is no standing at a stay in the way of Godlinesse FOr man in his going towards Heaven is like a boat that is rowing against the stream or tide the which will go forward as long as the watermen ply the oares but let them but once withdraw their hands from the oares the stream or tide will presently carry the boat backward So 't is with man in his going towards Heaven for he goeth allwaies against the stream against the stream of his own corruptions against the stream of the Devils temptations and against the stream of the worlds sollicitations and therefore if he ply not God continually by his prayers and use all other good means to set himself forward in Grace and goodnesse the stream of his own corrupt affections if there were nothing else would carry him backward and make him worse than he was before Expression XI How we may know whether we belong to Gods Kingdome or the Devils IN the History of Scotland there is mention made of a Controversy between Scotland and Ireland for a certain Island that lay betwixt both Kingdomes to which of them it did belong and that after much a doe and great contestation for it they put it to the determination of a certain Frenchman who concluded and umpiered the controversy thus That there should be put a living Snake into it and if it did there live and thrive the Island should belong to Scotland but if it did not live and thrive there then it should belong to Ireland because it is said that no venimous creature will live there In like manner there is a great controversy between God and the Devill about the little Isle of Man the heart of Man whose it should be and to whose Kingdome Heaven or Hell it should belong ●nd there can be no better way to decide the controversy than to doe as the Frenchman did to try whether wicked and envenomed thoughts doe live and thrive therein or no for if they doe 't is a true sign that our hearts belong not as yet to God and his Kingdome but to the Devill and his for a sanctified heart which is Gods will be ever crucifying mortifying and killing all such vile lusts and sinfull affections and thoughts and the faith that is in it will purge and purify and cleanse it from them Expression XII That those whom Christ hath redeemed by his bloud he doth allso in some measure sanctifie by his Spirit FOr as in the naturall body of man the spirit ever goeth with the bloud there being in every part thereof an arterie to carry the spirit where there is a vein to carry the bloud so it is with Christ his Bloud and his Spirit go allwaies together so that his Bloud doth never cleanse any man from the guilt of sinne whom his Spirit doth not in some measure sanctifie and free from the power and dominion of sin Expression XIII That there will be sin in us as long as we live in this world FOr it is with man as it was with the house wherein was the fretting and spreading leprosie mentioned Levit. 14. 41 c. for though that house might be scraped round about and much rubbish and corrupt materials be removed yet the leprosie did not