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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	body_n	soul_n	whole_a	13,673	5	5.8632	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02119	Meditations and disquisitions, upon the seven consolatorie psalmes of David namely, The 23. The 27. The 30. The 34. The 84. The 103. The 116. By Sir Richard Baker Knight.	Baker, Richard, Sir, 1568-1645.	1640 (1640)	STC 1226.7; ESTC S115817	99,457	216

deliverance are often-times spirituall and so Job might be said to bee delivered from all his troubles when God gave him patience to endure his troubles but specially Lazarus might be said to bee delivered from his troubles when he was carryed by Angels into Abrahams bosome Verse 7 And here it falls out fitly to mention Angels for the Angell of the Lord encampeth round about them that feare him and delivereth them Wee little thinke we have a continuall guard about us and lesse we thinke that wee have a whole Campe for our guard but least of all that it is a Campe of Angels oh how safe should we thinke our selves if this were so O my soule this is so and yet wee thinke our selves not safe enough and may it not then be justly said What doubt yee of O yee of jittle faith But how can wee thinke there be Angells to guard us when we scarce thinke there be any Angels for if there bee they must bee creatures of God and then certainly creatures of a most excellent nature and would Moses then have left them out in his Catalogue of Creatures where he reckons them all up Indeed for this very reason because they are Creatures of a most excellent Nature hath Moses left them out for hee speakes but of materiall Creatures in this materiall world of which number the Angels are none But wee may thinke perhaps there are none because wee can see none as though we could see a thing that is invisible shall we therefore thinke we have no soules because we cannot see our soules Wee live now by Faith and not by sight and therefore can neither see soules nor Angels we shall then see both when we shall live by sight and not by Faith Alas if we beleeve no more then we see we seeme not to live by Faith neither for Faith beleeves that which it cannot see Oh therefore my soule to make it appeare thou livest and that thou livest by Faith let this be an Article of thy Creed that the Angels encampe and pitch their Tents about thee that if at any time thou bee assaulted if assaulted by enemies if by an Army of enemies thou maist have recourse to the confidence of this Guard and never tremble for any Alarum seeing there are more with us then are against us But how can the godly thinke they have a Guard about them when it is for Princes onely to have a Guard and the godly for the most part are but private men O my soule this is a Guard that attends no lesse the poorest man then the greatest Prince and attends him with as much carefulnesse as if he were a Prince But if there be Angels to defend the godly why doe they not defend them why doe they suffer them to be so molested so afflicted as they are for who are in such troubles who groane under such afflictions as the godly and would this be so if that were so would they be so oppressed if they had Angels to relieve them O my soule thou little considerest the infinite benefits that the godly re-receive by the ministerie of Angels If perhaps they suffer troubles of the body doe they not escape farre greater of the soule If they endure perhaps some momentarie afflictions doe they not avoid afflictions that would be everlasting Is there not an Army of malignant spirits to assault them and could they be safe from tearing in peeces if there were not a campe of Angels to assist them But though the Angels be a guard to the whole man both body and soule yet being creatures spirituall and invisible they are chiefly a guard to the invisible and spirituall part which is the soule The body they know must goe to the earth and therefore though a part is the least part of their care It is the Soule they chiefly waite upon because it is the soule they chiefly waite for for they stand waiting for the soule when it shall leave the body that they may take it and carry it into Abrahams bosome for till then they breake not up their Campe. And now O my soule seeing the Angels are so beneficiall and so good unto us Oh tast Verse 8 and see how good the Lord is for by the goodnesse we find in the Angels we may take a taste of the goodnesse that is in God if it be a great goodnesse in the Angels to encampe about us how great is his goodnesse that gives it them in charge for the Angels would not doe it if God did not command them Alas they could not doe it if God did not enable them Oh then taste and see how good the Lord is Not how good the Angels are though they bee good and exceeding good in their kind as Ministers yet what is this to the goodnesse of God who is the Fountaine of goodnesse to the Angels themselves O then Taste and see how good the Lord is for taste him we may but we can but tast him while we live here wee shall not have a full comprehension of him till wee come to see as we are seene when wee shall need no more encamping of Angels round about us O then Tast and see how good the Lord is but how can wee tast him that is not bodily how see him that is not visible Not him indeed but his goodnesse and not his goodnesse neither in its selfe but in its effects and not in its effects neither as they shall be but as they are which God knowes is but a small part of that they shall be O then Taste and see how good the Lord is if you would but taste him you would never take pleasure in other meat if you would but see him you would never delight in other object O my soule if thou couldst but taste the sweetnesse if but see the goodnesse that is in God it would make thee fall into a greater extasie than that of Saint Peter at the sight of Christs glory in the Mount at least it would weane thee from all the pleasures that the taste or the sight can minister to thee in this vaine world for alas what are the pleasures of the taste to the sweetnesse that is in God but as bitter Aloes to the sweetest honey What are the delights that passe by the senses to the delight in God that passeth all understanding May I not justly say now Blessed is the man that trusteth in him for hee that trusteth in God and he onely is like to bee admitted to taste the sweetnesse and to see the goodnasse that is in God which onely are the things that can make us blessed What is it to trust in God but to depend wholly upon him and to put all our confidence in him To trust in the world is to leane upon a broken reede to trust in our selves is to leane upon a shadow onely to trust in God is the true Terra firma where the Angels pitch their Tents and where if wee fixe our selves