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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	covenant_n	heart_n	new_a	6,959	5	6.8797	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89500	Meate out of the eater, or, Hopes of unity in and by divided and distracted times. Discovered in a sermon preached before the Honourable house of Commons at Margarets Westminster on their solemne day of fast, June 30. 1647. / By Tho: Manton Minister of Stoke-Newington.	Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677.	1647 (1647)	Wing M525; Thomason E395_1; ESTC R201634	37,335	60

for the glory of God to expose themselves to so many hazards and they doe the more confidently beleeve it because Gods Witnesses have mostly Prophecied in sackcloth and hitherto Christ hath appeared for the most part against the Worship and customes of Nations John saith Christ came into the world 1 Io. 3. 8. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to unravell Satans webbes he hath been indeed acting the demolishing rather then the adstructive part but therefore they goe away with erroneous mistakes as if he would never build establish and set up and as if the Kings of the earth should never bring in their glory to the Church * And Martyrs were made so more by the blood and suffering then by the cause Thus I have touched upon the causes and state of the present distempers much more might be said upon this subject But now I was onely willing to point at the heads of things But you will say then what hopes I Answer our wound is grievous but not incurable many things there are to incourage us to keepe silence and waite upon God till he ordaine better things for us let me speake a word or two in this matter consider then Errors usually are not long-lived the next age declareth the folly of them 1 Cor. 3. 13. the day shall declare it time will shew what is stubble and hay though men have high thoughts of it for the present we raise so much dust by the heate of our contentions that our eyes are blinded the glory of truth darkened but things will cleare up againe we wounder at the contests of former ages and so will they at ours When God commeth into his holy Temple all the earth will keepe silence Hab. 2. 20. The neerer we aproach to Antichrists ruine God will give out more light Revel. 18. Babylon fell when the earth was inlightened with the Angells glory Light will increase towards the perfect day and as light increaseth so doth love that great unity spoken of before is when there shall be more knowledge for that 's the reason rendred Isa. 11. 9. For the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the world as the waters cover the Sea And then againe the Divell usually overacts himselfe by appearing in some odious delusion no longer as an Angell of light but as a foule fiend in such direct opposition to Christ that all good men loath him usually when God maketh any great change things come to an extremity and excesse of corruption The Arrians prevailed for a long time but being so detestably vicious and insolently cruell they ruined their own cause Or else Satan runneth himself out of breath in some civill Commotions The Remonstrants in the low-countryes quite overturned their cause when they began to raise tumults and troubles every where so those under the conduct of Muncer in Germany did but run themselves violently like * the Gadarens swine upon their owne ruine and destruction usually when Satan hath such great wrath his time is but short Revel. 12. 12. God delighteth mightily to ruine him by the violence of his owne endeavours Use 2 It serveth to Exhort and presse you to hasten and set on these hopes promises doe not exclude action but ingage to it Hope keepeth up endeavours what you doe in this kinde will not be in vaine in the Lord the promises hold forth unity strive after it 1. By Prayers 2. By Endeavours 1 By Prayers when things are otherwise itremediable heere is the last refuge Psal. 122. 6. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem they shall prosper that love it If you love it that 's the least you can doe to mourne over the matter to God indeed sometimes 't is all that wee can doe * Learned Perkins said of his times Non sunt ista litigandi tempora sed orandi Prayers are fitter for these times then disputes Carnall zeale may put us upon disputes 't is true zeale that puts us upōprayer when we are so tenderly affected for Gods glory as that in that respect we can go mourne over the matter to him when Luther thought to redresse the evil of his times one told him abi in cellam et dic miserere nostri go and cry Lord have mercy upon us truly things seeme past help and cure I but goe and urge the matter to God that which is marvilous in our eyes * is not so in his a man goeth most cheerefully to the throne of grace when he hath the incouragement of a particular promise heere is a promise not onely to the case but to the times in that day there shall be one Lord and one name and that you may not thinke it a casuall promise and comfortable word that dropped out of the mouth of God unawares you shall see 't is a blessing full in the eye of the generall Covenant for 't is very observeable that when the tenor of the Covenant is expressed Unity is made one of the chiefe blessings of it Jer. 32. 39. I will give them one heart and one way for the good of them and of their children after them marke he saith in the former verse that he will be their God and they shall be his people which is the forme of the Covenant and then he undertaketh to give them one heart and one way union in opinion and union in affections so Ezek. 19. 11. I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within them 'T is a maine branch of the Covenant to give them one heart an heart united to God and so to one another urge God then with his own promise and Covenant be instant and earnest with him 2 Thess. 3. 16. The Lord of peace give you peace alwayes by all meanes the Lord of peace God that loveth it God that worketh it and the latter phrases alwayes and by all meanes note the vehemency and intentnesse of his desires one way or another let God finde out a meanes to ordaine peace for you for your incouragement consider you doe not only pray but Christ prayeth with you Christ intercedeth with the Father for the same thing John 17. 21. That they may be all one and that they may be perfect in one that the world may know that thou hast sent me that Prayer is but the coppy of his continuall intercession He knoweth what a scandall it is to his Name c. and therefore he saith let them be one now this is a great comfort when Christ prayeth for the same thing for which you pray he is worthy to be heard though you be not God will not refuse him that speaketh in Heaven however he dealeth with poore crawling wormes in earth 2. By Endeavours follow hard after it I shall speake heere to the people in generall then to the ministery and then shall be bold to lay two or three considerations at the feet of this honourable Assembly to helpe on this worke 1. To the people oh