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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	grace_n	holy_a	lord_n	14,167	5	3.6878	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73426	A ievvell for the eare. By Ro. Wilkinson; Sermon of hearing, or, jewell for the eare	Wilkinson, Robert, Dr. in Divinity.	1602 (1602)	STC 25652.7; ESTC S125576	15,447	42

and apply it to the conscience as when we hear of gods mercy to be rauisht with ioye and when wee heare of his iudgements to be stricken with fear when we heare of his promises to rise vp in hope when we heare of our sins to repent and loath our selues This is the laying of the word to our hart and thus did Marie when she heard what straung things the shepheards reported from the Angels Saint Luke saith She kept all those sayings and pondred them in her hart A special Luk. 2 10 help to this is an often reuoluing and meditating in our minds of that we haue hearde for Dauid did not onely talke of Gods testimonies amongst his friends but being alone likewise did meditate of his law for so he saith that in Gods law was his continuall meditation and that both euening and morning and seauen times in a day and it hath bin the practise of Gods saints from time to time to enter into continual meditation of his mercy and of his iudgments It is commended in Isaac that euery euening hee went Ge. 24 63 Esay 5 12 14. out to meditate in the law those beastes were onely cleane which chewed the cud by which was figured a spirituall meditating ruminating of heauenly things and it is the cause of much vncleanesse in mens liues and of much iudgement vpon the world because they meditate not of Gods waies Indeed saith the prophet The harpe and violl the Timbrell pipe and wine are in their bankets but the works of God they consider not therefore hell hath enlarged it selfe and opened her mouth and they that reioyced shall goe downe into it and so saithe the Prophet Ieremie That the whole land is fallen into desolation because there is none that considereth in his hart Ier. 12 11 Therfore in the name of God beloued let vs prepare our eares and harts that we may first heare then remember and last of all lay vp the word in our harts for this is the right hearing and he that heareth hath not onely eares but eares to heare I would ye did consider that euery man by his obedience in this regard is iudged of what flock he is for so saith Christ My sheepe heare my Ioh. 10 27 voice so that if a man be desirous to hear then straight he is iudged to be of christs flocke but if the word be vnsauory and bréed no delight in his hart it is a shreud presumption that that man is a Goate And great reason we haue to delight in Gods voice for there is no word procéeding out of his mouth but it sauoureth of mercy and saluation to the soule for so Cant. 5 13 the Church testified of Christe that his lips are like to Lillies dropping downe pure mirrhe and how then should God indure our contempt who prefer the diuell before him nay God will endite vs not onely of contempt but of mockery too for if we shall beséech God to supply the meanes of hearing and send down a prophet amongst vs and when that Prdphet commeth shall shut our ears against him what is that but a mocke Besides what an vnresonable thing is it that we desire God to heare vs who could neuer vouchsafe to heare him if we stand in any néede of God how clamorous are wee and importunate vpon him Heare my prayer O Lord bow down thine ear vnto my supplicatton and why hidest thou thy face and forgettest all our afflictions and if God séeme a little to delay vs how hasty are we vpon him come Lord Iesus come quickly and make noe long tarrying my God and O god make hast to help vs but when God speaks to vs there is none that turneth his eare as if we had him in a string that he were bound to vs and not we to him therfore it shall come to passe that we shall pray and he shall not heare vs for so he threatneth Because I haue called and ye refused Prou. 7 24 26 27 c. I will also laugh at your destruction and mocke when your feare commeth when your feare commeth like a sodain desolation and your destruction like a whirlewinde when affliction and anguish shall come vpon you then shall they call vpon me but I will not answere they shall seeke me earelie but they shall not finde me because they hated knowledge God shall take from you either the preaching of the worde as he threatneth by Amos. I will Amo. 8 11 send a famine into the lande not a famine of bread nor thirst for water but of hearing the word of the Lord. Or God shall take from you the Preacher of the word when ye shall runne from coast to coaste and shall finde none to preach peace vnto your consciences or at the least god shall take away the guifts of the Preacher because of the hardnes of your harts It is a notable obseruation of Saint Gregorie that God doeth sometime multiply his gifts and his spirit vppon the Preacher because the hearer is desirous to learne and sometime againe he doth take away his giftes and his spirite from the Preacher euen for a plague and iudgement vpon the people because they neither desire to heare or care to learne Therefore doe ye prepare your heartes and eares to heare and I doubt not but god will multiply his spirit and send a blessing vppon these my labours And of this let me aduise you before hand that no one of you at any time presume to set his foote within these wals who first setteth not down with himselfe to practise in his life what here hee heareth with his eare Some come not to haue their liues resormed but to haue their eares tickled as at a play some come for nouelty some for fashion some to sléepe some to sée and some to be seen but few to practise but let these things be farre from you for our sauiour Christ sayth He that is of God beareth gods words nay he goeth further in the Iohn 8 47 same place speaking to the vnbeleeuing Iewes ye therefore heare them not beecause ye are not of God and Saint Iames Iam. 1 22 saith that he deceiueth himselfe who is onely a hearer of the word and not a dooer for Gods word is a leuen whose nature is to turne the whole lumpe into his owne nature to season and make it like it selfe as when you haue heard a Sermon of humility to shew forth the fruite of that Sermon in your liues and conuersasions when you haue heard a Sermon of repentance to be stricken in hart with a feeling of your sinnes when you haue heard of Gods iudgementes against blasphemy couetousnesse lying stealing against vsury or prophaning of the Sabboths euery man to set downs with himselfe I will surely with Gods help purge my selfe of this and that corruption and amend in my selfe what I now see is amisse then may we say of you ye are our Sermon as Paule saide to the Corrinthians ye are our Ep●stle 2 cor 3 2 When whatsoeuer doctrine hath flowed out of our mouths doth spring vp as freshly in your liues let vs therefore say with Dauid O Lord prepare the harts of this people vnto thee send downe thy holy spirit into our hartes and into our eares gouern vs when we come to hear for paule may plant and Apollo water but thou must giue increase and in vaine shal the voice of the preacher beate vpon the doore of our eares vnlesse thou fill our hartes with thy spirit which we beséech thée of thy infinite mercy and goodnesse to performe that we may proceed from grace to grace vntil we come to the state of glory vnto which the Lord of his mercy bringe us To the sonne and to the holy ghoast thrée persons but one God bee ascribed all praise dominion and glory nowe and for euermore Amen Finis