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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	faith_n	heart_n	love_n	8,204	5	5.2375	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02706	Peters enlargement vpon the prayers of the Church. By Master Harris	Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.	1624 (1624)	STC 12839.7; ESTC S120172	14,964	35

there is too that speakes who prayes not if thou wilt pray thou must open thy needs to God as thy Father through Christ God-man as thy Mediatour from God the holy Ghost as the inditer of thy prayers if thou wilt pray thy heart must be 1. Psal 66.18 emptied of purposes of sinne 2. broken 3. purged from guile by faith which faith must then worke before thou beginnest Psal 86.7 And the 56.9 say with David I will call and God will answer mee and when thou hast done conclude I haue spoken and shall in due time and manner be answered thus doe and be sure that thou neither begin nor end a lawfull petition of such onely we speake before thou art aware let faith enter thy sute and end and subscribe it and thou prevailest Now to particulars How findes the Angell Peter Sure he cannot sleepe this night being vpon his life to morrow and in all likelihood knowing of it by the Church howsoever not sure of life one day to an end but like enough to be sent for at an houres warning as Iohn Baptists head was Notwithstanding all this Peter sleeps as soundly as ever in his life and wakes without terrour whence was this from corruption no from naturall courage no when Peter was younger and therefore naturally bolder he was a distard whence then consider the reasons before and it will be found that it was from speciall comfort and confidence in God which comfort most attends prisons and persecutions here see the strength of spirituall peace and comfort The Lord hath comforts for his children Doct. 2 that will quiet and support them in any feares straits his consolations will make a man sleepe without a bed liue almost without a soule They will make one bold in danger quiet in trouble liue in the iawes of death The ioy of the Lord is strong Nehe. 8. saith Nehemiah strong indeed that will carry a man over all Peter had a strong heart that can thus sleepe thus wake that can looke vpon Chaines vpon Prisons vpon Tyrants vpon Torments vpon Angels good and bad and never breake his sleepe for the matter Pauls ioyes were strong Act. 15 that made him sing in the stockes Davids saith strong that made him say I will lye downe and sleepe Psal 3. I will not feare though ten thousand rise vp against me those were strong and strange ioyes that supported Dauid in all his feares and made him say In the multitude of my thoughts Psal 94 1● thy comforts glad my soule Those strong that triumphed over rackings mockings scourgings c. as in the eleventh to the Hebrewes Quest But whence comes their strength 1. Q Whence these comforts Because they be Gods ioyes the ioyes of the Spirit derived immediately from the fountaine Reas 1 and things be purest and strongest there 2. Because spirituall for as spirits are more actine and powerfull then bodies so spirituall things then bodily and naturall 3. These ioyes are most certaine and durable these overcome and out-liue all crosses and all other comforts 4. They are al-sufficient and borrow no helpe from creatures Nature and Art worke with instruments and by meanes they cannot support without meate strengthen without sleepe giue sleepe without warmth nor warmth without a bed c. But God can beyond meanes without means work comfort make one see in the darke liue in death Quest But what be these comforts of God 2. Q. What. Ans Precious promises applyed by God in due season Answ 1 and brought home to the heart which reviue the spirits more then any balme and these promises come thicke vpon Peter now He thinketh hath not God said that the fighing of prisoners comes to him that he bottles vp all our teares that we should cast our care vpon him and he will care for vs that in six and seven troubles they shall not come neare me that in fire and water he will he with me did not I heare my Saviour say Blessed are they that are per secuted for righteousnesse sake reade not I how David said I will lie downe and steepe and therefore I will doe so too 2. Strengthening graces God poures the spirit of faith patience power courage into his in due time and they raise the heart as wine the fainting spirits every saving grace is healing is strengthening 3. Hourely experience of Gods care and providence dence and a childe never sees the loue of his mother so much as when he is sicke so Gods children c. Now that makes them plucke vp their feete with Iacob and say with Paul I know whom I haue trusted and with the Church Thou wilt guide vs to death and after as David addes receiue to glory 4. Speciall peace of conscience and ioy of the holy Ghost by new expressions of Gods fauour and ravishments of heaven then God opens heaven and they see their life and crowne and so are carried over all Quest When doth God thus comfort his 3. Q. When Ans When they most need it as then the mother brings out her preserues when the childe is sicke first when they be most humbled and emptie of themselues therefore after greatest humiliations come greatest consolations as Dauid Abraham and others ever found 2. But specially in the day of tryall and persecution the more the Devill bestirres him the more God bestirres him thus the sweetest nights that ever Iacob spent were in the field and so for Peter Gen 28. and 32. chap. Psal 219. and when had David those large affections to rise at midnight when was the Word so swcete but when his troubles were bitter The Vse is double Vse 1. get these comforts we get aqua vitae ready against qualmes Bezoar-stone and cordials against fits but the cordials that helpe all is the holy Ghost the Comforter Art is blind and often posed Nature weake and often foyled like a bow that must not be drawne beyond compasse onely grace and spirituall comfort is invincible get this and you may sleepe in a dungeon liue in the darke want all and yet haue all want these and a flea may breake your sleepe Dan. 5. and a hand-writing dash your mirth in the midst of all friends 2. Let such as haue spirituall hearts thus affected stay themselues here feare not povertie there be comforts beyond the paine of famine feare not sicknesse there be comforts beyond all fits of sicknesse feare not death feare not chaines feare not any thing that you can or shall suffer Not any thing Rev. 2.10 Why a man is subiect to racking to burning c. yet feare not and why the Lord hath comfort in all and aboue all tribulations when he cals a Saul to a crowne 1 Cor. 1. he makes him another man so when he cals a man to a chaine Peter is not the man in prison he was out of prison at the first he was fearefull of a wenches word after he was