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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	father_n	heart_n	son_n	17,006	5	5.6134	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49773	Concerning marriage a letter sent to G.F. and with it a copy of an answer to a friends letter concerning marriage, and some queries and his reply to the answer and queries and an additional to G.F.s reply containing 13 queries concerning marriage, also the manner how the parties intending marriage are to go together / published by Benjamin Lawrence by the consent and advice of friends.	Lawrence, Thomas, 1645?-1714.; Lawrence, Benjamin.	1663 (1663)	Wing L684; ESTC R31690	11,646	18

have we Christ present with us the Word is nigh thee in thy mouth and in thy heart and God hath spoken to us by his Son and sent the spirit of his Son into our hearts and teacheth us to pray as we ought House and Land are the Inheritance of a Father said Solomon but a prudent Wife cometh of the Lord If any be staid of the Lord to desire his gift and believe God's answer that he shall have a prudent Wife then he may have such assurance also it may be of the person that Abraham's servant had even she that said Drink and I will give thy Camels drink and of the time as Jehosaphat and Elisha had to morrow 2 Chron. 20. to morrow this time 2 Kings 7. and also of the means an Angel as Tobias had Tob. from the 5. to the 13. chap. and as Abraham had for his servant God will send his Angel and thou shalt take a Wife for my son from thence And we are come to Mount Sion to the company of innumerable Angels The Angels are pure chast modest spirits and friendly without deceit who have joy in heaven when a sinner converteth and the Kingdom of Heaven is within you Whosoever hath a lustful lascivious false mind the good Angel will not stay with such The Angel of the Lord encampeth about them that fear him sometimes contracted into one the Angel of the Covenant Peter's Angel An Angel slew one hundred and fourscore thousand of the army of Senacherib and so in times enlarged to be more two Angels three Angels seven Angels twelve Legions of Angels innumerable Angels who have the testimony of Jesus are Ministring Spirits whether in a visible form as to Abraham and Tobias or invisible as to Abraham's servant and Christ and in him to the heirs of salvation the honourable marriage out of transgression hath God Angels and all good men to encourage it Qu 10. Seeing there may be denials lets and intermissions before the finishing of Marriage and when it is finished to know certainly it was of God's stirring and of God's joyning may be a continual comfort then how may one retain this certain knowledge not lose his condition Ans Losing the condition cometh in going from the power of God lin 30. To hold this condition keep innocent a conscience void of offence to God and man When doubts arise temptations come and the many things cumber heed nothing but God and what is of God know nothing do nothing be nothing but what thou beest in God God all self nothing Enoch walked with God and he was not and when ye are clean through the Word which Christ hath spoken keep the watch against relapses lest they prove harder to cure then the first sickness If there be failings doubts will arise and trouble and questioning of several kinds as Whether there be such a Faith or whether such things whereof one hath been certainly perswaded was of God which might be truly so the stirrings of God not being diligently taken heed to nor stayed in but the mind drawn out into the many things hardness got up then followeth a divorce from all that communion and enjoyment Note This particular infallible assurance of faith concerns all other things as well as marriage as to have assurance of pardon of sin freedom from all sin perseverance in the truth deliverance out of trouble and that the Kingdom Dominion and greatness of the Kingdom under the whole Heaven shall be given to the people of the Most High freedom from wants streights poverty sickness and from the noisom pestilence Qu. 11. Whether one that hath attained to such assurance of faith may not lose it Ans The Jews did go into hardness of heart afterward there might be something stir of God at first l. 6. 10 11. the people of Israel believed the Lord and his servant Moses but afterward they hearkened not whose carkases fell in the Wilderness yet their faith at first was not from imagination nor fiction I said that thy house and the house of thy Father should walk before me for ever but now it shall not be so said the Lord to Eli for they that honor me I will honor Disobedience and unbelief may lose eternal life or any other blessing Qu. 12. Whether such as are of the true Religion may marry with others that have been trained up in a false Religion Ans The state of the Christians and Gentiles there may be something stirring from the Lord as particularly Hester lin 8 9. who was made Queen to a Heathen King Hest 2.17 and was a means to deliver her people and her Kindred from the bloody conspiracy of Haman Jacob married Labans Daughters Leah and Rachel and Rachel had stolne her father Laban's Idols Gen. 31.32 which Laban called his gods v. 30. Mahlon the son of Elimelech of Bethlem Judah married Ruth a Moabite and after him Boaz Ruth 4.10 and Solomon married Pharoahs daughter an Egyptian but she was perswaded to forget her Countrey and Fathers house and so did Ruth and Laban's daughters and came into the Land of Israel and the people that were in the Gates and the Elders said to Boaz The Lord make thy wife as Rachel and Leah which twain did build the House of Israel But what is all this to them who in the deceit not stirred of God for lust lucre and self-ends marry the daughters of men not converted to the true Faith The example of Hester may afford two considerations 1. That Friends of God know his secrets sometimes by extraordinary Revelations 2. That such examples are no presidents for the people of the World to follow no more then to go naked to take a wife of Whoredoms or offer up a sons life because Abraham and some of the Prophets did so Qu. 13. What may such do as are in the doubting who say in themselves Whether had I best marry or abide Whether had I best marry such a person or not Ans The state of the Christians and the Gentiles there may something stir from the Lord as particularly Hester l. 13. who having something stir from the Lord for good ends as followed she was perswaded to receive the love of King Ahasuerus a Heathen who loved Hester above all the women and she found grace and favour in his sight more then all the Virgins so that he set the Crown of the Kingdom upon her head and made her Queen instead of Vasthi and she had the counsel and consent of Mordecai who took her for his own Daughter Hest 2. and so she became a deliverer and Nursing-Mother in Israel while captive in Babylon So if any be perswaded infallibly of Gods stirring and Gods joining all doubts are resolved All friends every particular until til they be perswaded of Gods will certain and infallible concerning their marriage were better forbear and wait on God in his Light to receive his counsel how else do Friends differ from the World the Light is the