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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	jesus_n	lord_n	speak_v	7,871	5	4.7669	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17913	A casket of ievvells and precious pearles Set forth in a funerall sermon, preached in Heckfield Church, at the buriall of a religious young gentleman, Mr. Barnabas Creswell, sonne of Mr. Thomas Creswell Esquire, by Nathanael Cannon, Batchelar in diuinitie.	Cannon, Nathanael, 1581 or 2-1664.	1625 (1625)	STC 4575.7; ESTC S115891	12,655	78

vnto a matter then another and one Scripture may yeeld more comfort against death then another which being granted then let me say for this Text that it doth so prepare or rather resolue the faithfull so perfume their graues which are their beds Esay 57.2 that they knowing themselues to bee the Saints and Seruants of God and the spirit of God bearing witnesse vnto theirs that they are his Rom. 8.16 Yea his deere darlings and precious Iewels they then feele that comfort wherof the Apostle speaketh Rom. 14.8 whether they liue or dye they are the Lords and they apprehend their aduantage in Christ Iesus who as the Apostle saith is aduantage to him both in life and death Phil. 1.21 This makes the Saints with old Simeon ready to cry Lord now lettest thou thy seruant depart in peace according to thy word for mine eyes haue seene thy saluation Now the Saints haue the same obiect to looke vpon and the same subiect to speake on and must not they then bee precious who shall bee heyres of saluation Such honour haue all the Saints of whose happy state and condition my Text here speakes Let mee therefore say thus much of this portion of Scripture that it is very seasonable for the occasion and very sutable to his person that here lyes before vs of whom I doubt not to pronounce him the faithfull St. seruant of Iesus Christ and therefore precious in the sight of God Now come wee to the worke wee haue in hand that so wee may see how this Text takes place in point of Coherence with tha rest of the Psalme The voyce of Thankesgiuing doth with a spirituall trumpet soundforth the praise of God in this Psalme wherein Dauid who was the sweet Singer of Israell hath many notes of thankful remembrance for the manifolde deliuerances that GOD had vouchsafed vnto him but more particularly hee instances in that mercy that the Lord shewed in keeping him from Saul who hunted after his life in the desart of Maon And in the 3. verse he tels vs that when the sorrowes of death had compassed him round about then hee began to lay hold on God assuring himselfe that neither Saul nor any of his argents should eyther catch or kill him without that diuine permission which did watch ouer him and there fore hee will put his life into the hands of God and vpon that very ground he will set vp his rest which hee doth in the 7. verse Returne O my soule vnto thy rest and because they are vnworthy of future blessings who are not thankfull for former hee therefore comes in the 12. 13. verses with his quid retribuam Domino what shal I render to the Lord for all his mercies then the cup of saluation must bee mentioned and the vowes must bee paide making my Text the reason of all this Because the Lord will take such care both of the bodies and soules of the liues and deaths of his Saints that whether hee preserue them from the hands of Tyrants or else suffer them to be euill intreated or persecuted that so God may be glorified this shall be surely imprinted in the hearts of the faithfull that they are right deere and precious in the sight of God And thus much shall suffice for the Analysis of the whole Psalme and the particular sense and meaning of the Text it selfe Now it remaines that wee take the Text asunder and note vnto you the diuident Branches thereof 1 Obserue the disp●sition of the Saints themselues that so their corruption may put on incorruption and that in their earthly peregrination they may passe from the Kingdome of Grace to the Kingdome of Glory 2 Obserue the Acceptation of the Saints with God to earthly men they are but meane base and contemptible in the sight of this world but in the sight of God right deere and precious and as they value Dauids life in the 2 of Sam. 18.3 thy life say they is worth tenne thousand of ours So indeed one faithfull Seruant of the Lord is worth tenne thousand others in the sight of God for they are precious in his sight 1 Ratione praetij by reason of the price that was paide to redeeme their soules withall and that was the precious bloud of Iesus Christ as the Apostle witnesseth 1 Pet. 1 Chap. Verse 19. Potens non perdet saith a Father quod pecunia emebat A great man will not loose that which hee purchaseth with his money Nec Christus perdet quod sanguine emebat then may wee bee sure that Christ will not loose that which hee purchased with his bloud that precious bloud 2 Ratione tituli they are precious by reason of their title that God hath giuen them they are called the Saynts of God What greater honor can there bee Crownes and Scepters comes short of this vnles they be within the compasse of this Herauldry hath no such scutchions Christianity hath the best Coate the Crest or helme it is saluation it selfe Ephes 6.17 therefore no meruaile though Theodosius the Emperour did preferre his Christianity before his Crowne Mallem me esse Christianum quàm Imperatorem 3 Ratione proemij precious they are by reason of the reward laide vp for them they haue precious promises made to them as Saint Peter saith 2 Pet. 1.4 They labour not in vaine as the men of this world doe Doubtlesse man saith Dauid disquieteth himselfe in vaine he heapeth vp riches and cannot tell who shall gather them But as for the Saints when they haue finished their course there is laide vp for them a crowne of glory yea for all them that loue the comming of the Lord Iesus Christ 2 Tim. 4.8 Loe thus haue wee lookt vpon the Tree and the Branches the Text and the parts now let vs gather the fruit thereof beginning first with our first Branch which is the Dissolution of the Saints There is a hedge made about Iob the iust which doth much trouble the Diuel insomuch that Sathan cannot come at him Iob 1.10 nor yet the gates of hell preuaile against him what is this but Gods prouidence which watcheth ouer the righteous and so protects that a hayre fals not from their heads without it Wherevpon it is that Chrisostome cheares vp the hearts of the faithfull thus Si sic custodiantur superflua tua in quanta securitate est anima tua If saith hee the haires of thy head and the least part of thy body be so kept in what safety is thy soule preserued And yet notwithstanding this keeping out of Sathan by the moundes of Gods mercy yet wee haue no quare impedit against death nothing keepes it out for the very Saints who are so deare in the sight of God euen they must dye the sentence is irreuocable all the children of Adam are within compasse of it for in him as the Apostle saith 1 Cor. 15. in Adam al men dye Here then let vs erect our first pillar from this first poynt The