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spirit_n	dwell_v	ghost_n	holy_a	7,805	5	5.5260	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66214	Of our obligation to put our trust in God, rather than in men, and of the advantages of it in a sermon preached before the honourable society of Grayes-inn, upon the occasion of the death of our late Royal Sovereign Queen Mary / by William Wake ...	Wake, William, 1657-1737.	1695 (1695)	Wing W247; ESTC R4700	18,132	41

our Trust in God there would be no Cause for us to Despond Seeing God can defend us without any Humane Help and as I have now shewn you has often done it when we could have been Protected by None but Him And this brings me to the next thing I have to observe from the foregoing Discourse and that is Fifthly That we should therefore be sure never to depart from our Trust in God and then we may be confident we shall not be Forsaken by Him For God loves to be Depended upon and has seldom been known to fail those who have constantly stuck to Him A notable Example of which we have in the History of the present Psalm and which the Antients tell us was this When Cyrus had given leave to the Jews to return to Jerusalem and to rebuild their Temple and restore the Worship of God in it the Samaritans a sort of mix'd People Half Jews and Half Idolaters so wrought with their Adversaries that little was done in it notwithstanding all the favour that was shewn them by that great Monarch No sooner was Cyrus gone and Cambyses placed upon his Throne but All Hope seemed utterly lost to them of either restoring their Temple or regaining any part of that Liberty they had before been encouraged to expect But what then was their Behaviour on this Occasion Did they distrust God and give way to such Fears as the Insolence of their Enemies and their own Circumstances did indeed but too much expose them to On the contrary it was at this very juncture of time that those two great Prophets Haggai and Zechariah composed the Psalm we have now before us And exhorted the People not to consider the ill-prospect which according to Humane Appearance their Affairs were in but to trust in God who whenever he pleas'd could turn all things to their Advantage and no doubt in his due time would do so And what was the issue of this Excellent Advice Why in a very few Years Cambyses died and Darius came into the Throne and in despite of all that either their Half Brethren or their Open Enemies could do to hinder it so encouraged the Work that both their Temple and their City were Re-built and themselves restor'd both to their Liberty and to their Religion And if to Trust in God be able to work such wonderful Effects as these How much more may we promise our selves from it who have so fair a Prospect before our Eyes if we do but firmly rely upon Him and not suffer any thing to shake our Confidence of his Mercy But then Sixthly and to Close all That our Hope may be sure to have its due effect let me add finally That we must not think it enough barely to trust in God but must take Care withall to live so that we may be in some measure worthy of his Protection We must to the Purity of our Religion add the Reformation of our Manners and then we may securely defie our Greatest Enemies to do us any Mischief And because Examples in these Cases are not only more Instructive than Precepts but more apt to Perswade too and that this is all that now remains to us of that noble Pattern which was wont to shine so brightly in all our Eyes to reflect upon Her Piety and by that to learn how to improve our Own I will conclude All with a few Remembrances of what our late Blessed Sovereign Did to shew you what we ought to Do. And First Since Good-Nature is I think by All allowed to be one of the best Preparations to the Divine Grace I shall in the first Observe it as a singular part of the Felicity of Her sacred Majesty that she enjoy'd all that is properly understood by that Phrase in as high a Perfection as it may be any Person in the World ever Did. Her Temper was naturally Sweet and Chearful Easie to her self and Acceptable to all others And if that Old Rule of the Jews be true That the Holy Ghost loves to dwell in a quiet and comfortable Breast I may be bold to say that Her Soul was always in a disposition for that Blessed Spirit to descend upon it and to abide in it To improve this Excellent Temper she had a Greatness and Generosity of Mind equal to her Rank and Quality Free from Jealousies and Suspicions as she was from Fear of Any In a word Clear of all those Passions which Agitate lesser Souls and keep them in a continual Hurry and Distraction Thus was she prepared by Nature for that extraordinary Progress which she afterwards made in Christian Piety and Vertue And as St. Luke tells us to Those to whom St. Paul preached the Gospel heretofore That as many as were Ordain'd to Eternal Life Believ'd that is such as were in their Tempers and Dispositions Fitted and Qualified for the Reception of what He deliver'd to them So may it no less truly be said of Her Sacred Majesty that She was in like manner Ordained to Eternal Life and therefore made such vast Attainments in all those Graces that were necessary to bring Her to it But Secondly To this first Advantage it pleased God to add as great an Eminence of what we usually call Good Parts as I believe has ever been known in any of Her Sex Her Apprehension was Quick and Piercing Her Judgment Deep and Correct Nor could any thing almost be propos'd to Her but She was presently ready with all Clearness to Receive it and with no less Accuracy to Pronounce and Determine concerning it And when such was Her Capacity it is not to be wonder'd if She soon came to a right Apprehension of the Design and End of Christianity And was thoroughly convinced of the mighty Concern which there lay upon Her to live in an exact Obedience to its Commands But this was not all the Advantage She had in this respect For though Her Parts were such as would with a very moderate Exercise have carried Her into a Perfect Knowledge of Her Religion yet She did not rely upon them But to Her natural Abilities added such a Care and Diligence to Improve Her Understanding and to Enflame Her Affections in all such things as seemed any way to referr to it as Few in a lesser Station have ever done To pass by Her constant Attendance upon the Publick Service of God and those Opportunities of Instruction which She provided for on all the more solemn Returns of it To say nothing of Her frequent and useful Conversation with those who Ministred unto Her in Holy Offices What a large Proportion of Her Time did She every day spend in Her own Private Retirements And of which no Business no Ceremonies much less any vain Pleasures or Avocations could ever deprive Her What vast Numbers of Excellent Books did She there read And that not lightly or superficially but with the severest Care and Reflection And how cautious was She if any Difficulty chanced to