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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	ghost_n	holy_a	scripture_n	19,615	5	6.1818	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51785	Divine contentment, or, A medicine for a discontented man and a confession of faith, and other poems upon several subjects / by Edward Manlove ...	Manlove, Edward, fl. 1667.	1667 (1667)	Wing M452; ESTC R31166	37,704	118

to proceed from God Nor from the dictates of meer flesh and blood The preservation of them also may Though none in time so antient be as they ●nduce us to beleive and eke accord That all the Scriptures are God's holy word Experience shewes the power of God in them Even by their humbling and exalting men And when God's spirit shall our hearts incline For to beleive these Misteries sublime And also write them in our inward parts We shall beleive them with beleiving hearts Of GOD. GOd is most glorious wise and doth excell All future things he knowes and can foretel He sees into each corner of our hearts And knowes the secrets of our inner parts This great Iehovah is Omnipotent Yea good and gracious and omniscient A God of love his love to his sincere More then their fathers or their mothers were He loves all things that he did ever make And loves his Son and his for his Sons sake His mercy 's great he succors his in need He did Elisha by the Ravens feed He is most just in works in word and will Rewarding good detecting what is ill Of the Trinity GOD is one perfect Essence full of Bliss Whose being of himself eternal is Yet in this Essence there are persons three Distinct subsistances Singula sunt in singulis omnia in singulis singula in ōnibus unum omnia Aug. lib. 6. de tri cap. ult these persons be And yet in substance all these three are one Gods Essence is without distinction And yet the persons in this Essence be Distinguish'd by the Holy Trinity The Father Son and Holy Ghost Divine Names Orders Actions do them best define The first the Father 's named in respect Of Christ his Son and then of his Elect. The second person then the Son is nam'd Because he 's of his Fathers nature fram'd And of his substance is by generation Th' Eternal Son of God not by Creation The third the Holy Ghost who by spiration Receives his Essence not by generation And is so called both in this respect That he proceeds and sanctifi's th' elect So by the order several things we see The several workings of the Trinity The Father works by th' son and holy spirit Yet each for dignity of equal merit None first none last save order is excepted One God all God all equally respected The Glotious Essence wholly in all three And in each perion of the Trinity And by the Counsel of Gods holy will He rul'd the world Kingdome of God his eternal decree and so doth rule it still And hath determin'd all things by decree From time to time from all Eternity Some unto life some unto death there be Predestinated by this great decree From hence we learn and so all Christians may God deals with Dust as Potters do with Clay The Creation GOd did of nothing all things fitly frame And made them good for Glory of his name For in six dayes created were by him The world and all things that were made therein And when he had all other creatures made Man Male and Female he did then create And into them immortal souls infus'd With Righteousness and Holiness indu'd In his own Image he did them create Both free from sin and in a holy state And God was pleas'd a Covenant to frame And ty'd them to performance of the same And life to them and their posterity Did promise if they kept it perfectly They were indu'd with liberty of will And freedome had his statutes to fulfill To them all earthly Creatures were made free For meat and use excepted was one tree That was forbidden under pain of Hell They are thereof The fall of man so Male and Female fell Pride puff'd them up they did beleive the Divel They tasted of the tree of good and evil And by this sin eternal misery Intayled was on their Posterity Three things Gods Providence each Christian may observe fro● henc● God's Power Wisdome and great Providence Who order'd all to Holy ends herein Yet was no Author of this grievous sin By Adam's fall all men have inclination To every sin and all their Generation And are bound over to the wrath of God Curse of the Law and his destroying Rod. Now see compassion in this woful case God offers Man Of the Covenac of grace a Covenant of Grace That all th'elect by Faith might saved be Both Jew and Gentile none excepted he Beleive and live God offers Christ to thee ●f thou accept him hel 'e a Saviour be A Prophet Priest and eke a Royal King Right Heire of all things is this Holy thing Head of the Church Redeemer of the same ●udge of the world Christ Jesus is his name Twixt God and man he is the great Peace-maker ●urely for Saints the only Mediator Equal with God yet did assume the nature Of Adams seed faln man a sinful creature Yet without sin but not infirmities He had a sence of all man's miseries Conceaved by the Holy Ghost he was And through the Virgin Maries Womb did pass And of her substance also did pertake And yet his God-head he did not forsake Without Conversion or Confusion there Godhead and Manhood both conjoyned were And doth remain without a seperation Both God and man the God of our salvation Who was Anointed with the holy spirit That he might mediate for man and merit He undefiled was and full of grace And fitted for a Mediators place And from his Father he receiv'd command Who put all power and judgement in his hand To undertake and execute the same For th' good of man and glory of his name That God and man might reconciled be And Christ do all things that might make him fre● Christ did this Office freely undertake And did discharge it for his servants sake Which none could do but he he did fulfil The Law exactly and his Fathers will His soul and body under sufferings were His blessed body The Passion of Christ peirced with a Spear This blessed man on'th Cross was Crucifi'd And for our sins our blessed Saviour dy'd To save the Saints and free their Souls from pai● He dy'd for them that they might live again Who all were dead by Adam's sinful Fall But now revived by Christ's Funeral Who all were slaves till Jesus made them free Till Christ did dye and climb the cursed Tree When death dominion got the power it kept Till the third day Of Christs resurrection and assention our Blessed Saviour slept Without Corruption then he rose again And conquer'd death and Hell and deadly pain And the same body which in earth did lie Assended up into the Heavens high And is exalted to the Throne of Grace By God his Father in a glorious place There to remain until he shall descend To judge the world when it shall have an end Our Saviour was a Holy Sacrifice One offer'd up to God which satisfi'd ●●s Fathers justice and hath reconcil'd ●im

confess to God and them forsake And pray for pardon for our Saviours sake And if he doth his brother scandalize Or the true Church in any wise He must confes 't and sorrow for the same And reconcile himself to them again Of good Works SUch works as God by 's holy word commands Such he accepts from all his peoples hands But such as be the products of blind zeal Or mans device shall not a whit avail Good works by men done in obedience To Gods commands are fruits and evidence Of true and lively Faith and manifest That they by Faith do in assurance rest And have a good and strong and full perswasion Founded upon the promise of salvation Men by good works their brethren edifie Adorn Profession and God glorifie They by their works shew what they do profess Their faith produceth fruits of holiness No man good works by his own power can do The spirit doth inable him thereto Yet must he not be negligent and sin But must stir up the grace of God in him They that attain unto the greatest height Yet their obedience alwaies wanteth weight Man's short of duty in a sinful state How then can any superorrogate No mortal man for sin can pardon merit Such Popish thoughts proceed from no good spirit When he hath done what ever he can do His duty he cannot attain unto What good man doth proceedeth from the spirit What 's wrought by him is staind where 's then the merit Yet as the persons of beleivers be By God through Christ accepted so doth he Their works accept yet still its all through him For their best works defiled are with sin But God accepts them if they be sincere And them rewards as if they perfect were God doth not unbeleivers workes accept And yet they sin if they good works neglect Their works proceed from hearts not purifi'd Therefore by them God is not glorifi'd Of the perseverance of the Saints VVHom God accepted hath for his sons merit And call'd and sanctifi'd by his good spirit They never can that are in such a case Fall finally from that good state of Grace But shall therein continue to the end And then their souls to Heaven shall ascend This perseverance wholly doth depend On God's decree which never hath an end And not upon th' free will of sinful men But th' spirit's power that inables them This floweth from the love of God so free In Christ that it can never changed be Yet through corruption man may sin commit And for a time may take delight in it And may thereby incurr the Lords displeasure And be depriv'd of comfort in some measure And conscience wound and hardness have of heart And eke of judgements feel the weight and smart Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation THough Hypocrites and unregenerate May through false hopes mistake their own estate And thereupon presume of their salvation When they are in the state of deep damnation Yet true beleevers may assured be Of their salvation and felicity If for salvation they on Christ rely By Faith and love him in sincerity Indeavouring good detesting every sin A happy state are such beleivers in And of salvation may themselves assure And happiness that shall for aye endure Men may have Faith and yet may not attain To full assurance nor perceive the same For many times God makes his Children waite And suffer conflicts ere they do pertake Of such assurance yet the Lord takes care For their support and keeps them from despair And they that get assurance of salvation Are not so sure but that it may be shaken For God the same doth often intermit When they are careless of preferring it Or do commit some great and griveous sin When by temptation Satan drawes them in Or if the Lord withdraw himself from them They walk in darkness like despairing men Yet when the Lord thus for a time departs He leaves his spirit working in their hearts And he himself returns in his due time Then their assurance is reviv'd again Of Religious Worship and Rest on t●● Lords Day THe light of nature shewes there is a Lord That rules and raigneth over all the world Good of himself and doth do good to all Unto this God we ought to cry and call Fear him and love him trust him day and night Praise him and serve him with our hearts and mig●● Questiō But what 's the Worship that will please the Lord Answer Such as he hath revealed in his word Not m●ns device not mans imagination Nor the suggestions that proceed from Satan But Gods good word prescribes the ready way Walk in the same Rest on the Sabbath day Religious worship's due to God alone To Angels Saints and other creatures none To Father Son and Holy Ghost then pay This Holy Tribute and no other way And that thy service may have acceptation Do all thou dost through Christ his mediation Prayer with thanksgiving from a holy heart Of this pure worship is a special part By God required from all sorts of men But that it may accepted be from them It must be made through Jesus Christ the Son And by the help of his good spirit done According to his will most reverently In faith and love with all humility And all such Worship vocal must be done Not in the Popish way but in the vulgar tongue We ought to pray for all the sorts of men But for the dead we must not pray for them Nor pray for him that doth of malice sin Against the spirit that enlightned him Read Holy Scriptures with a godly fear Sound Preaching of the Word eke gladly hear Perform these duties in Obedience Unto the Lord with faith and reverence Singing of Psalmes with good and gracious hearts Receave the Sacraments for they are parts Of that Religious Worship God commands And doth expect at all his peoples hands Besides Religions Oathes Vowes solemn Fasts And eke Thanksgivings for deliverance past Religious Worship will accepted be In any place performed reverently And is not ty'd to places here or there God may be truly worshipt every where In publick private or in families But yet more solemnly in Church Assemblies Which wilfully must not neglected be When God calls us to such solemnity One day in seven wholly must be kept And for a Sabbath must a part be set And solemniz'd unto the living Lord According to his will and holy word The seventh day the J with Sabbath was Till Jesus Christ from death to life did pass Since on the first it hath been kept alway And so is now the Christian Sabbath day This Sabbath to the Lord is holy kept When as the people do with due respect To his commands fit and prepare their hearts And worldly business wholly set a part And do observe a holy rest that day Not to their Recreations giving way Nor their own works nor words nor thoughts Works of necessity and mercy yet we ought To do but we must alwaies