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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	knowledge_n	understanding_n	wisdom_n	6,916	5	6.5948	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93738	The doctrine of the cross, or, The duty of Christian suffering as it is necessary and subservient in order to the obtaining eternal salvation, delivered in a sermon on Matth. 13. 20, 21 / by Richard Stafford.	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1697 (1697)	Wing S5118; ESTC R42710	24,789	39

to much more than Vanity with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak Psal 12. 2. in the Margent there for a double heart is an heart and an heart That is one heart in one sort of Company and another in another But what doth all this tend unto Or what will be the hurt and ill consequent of it It is so much Sin in the mean while and will be punishment hereafter according to what the Spirit of Truth saith The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips and the tongue that speaketh proud things Ver. 3. As it was said the more any one knows of God and the more like any one is unto God the less regard he hath to Man So this stands upon Reason for the Less must give way unto and be swallowed up by the Greater One that is afraid of the roaring and devouring of a Lion is not altogether so much afraid of the humming of a Stinging Bee And so one who is afraid to stand in the Mouth of and then to hear the Report of a Cannon loaden with Powder and deadly Bullet yet he is not altogether so much afraid of a Popgun Even so it is here should not his Excellency make us afraid Should not the infinitely exceeding Greatness of God over Man make us much more fear God than Man and so accordingly all they do as much fear him proportionably who know and apprehend him by Faith But say what thou wilt on this Subject here is one Objection against it still for it is evident that the Generality of People fear Man more than God because the Punishment of Man is present and sensible but the wrath of God is future and invisible Indeed the wrath of God in this Life is intelligible and a little sensible and perceivable but people do make a shift to harden and render themselves insensate against it Nevertheless consider the thing throughly take the wrath of God as it will be in the length severity and duration thereof and then it is as much more to be feared than the Wrath and Displeasure of Man whose Fury soon vanisheth into nothing and the utmost he can do is to kill the Body which is only to break the Husk or Shell but not to touch the Man himself as the vast Fabrick of the World doth exceed in Dimension the Bulk of one single Man When the Soul shall depart from the Body then the judgment written Psal 149. 9. to be executed the vials of wrath will be then poured out Then is it that the Souls of the Sinners and of the Guilty will have a more terrible and lasting apprehension of the dreadful Majesty and Presence of God in coming near to them in judgment Mal. 3. 5. and Punishment than the Israelites had of the appearance of his Angel on Mount Sinai or as the consternation and fear we are now in amidst the most dreadful Thunder and Lightining in an horrible Tempest or Earthquake For then the Soul will be Magor missabib Terrour round about all shivering and exceeding trembling and quaking when also the tormenting Passions shall be stretched out to the utmost and she will fear as much as is posible to fear What shall I say more Even this The more we fear God in this Life the less we shall slavishly fear him in that which is to come with that kind of fear which gendreth Bondage which only will be the Portion of the Sinners Wicked and Ungodly Vpon whom he shall rain snares fire and brimstone and an horrible tempest This shall be the portion of their Cup. Psal 12 6. And we cannot fear God greatly in this Life as Obadiah did That is above and more than all things besides unless we know and apprehend him by Faith And this is the victory that overcometh the World even your faith 1 John 5. 4. This is the very Reason why some Elect People The Lord add unto them how few soever they be an hundred fold do fear God more than Man even their Faith for such believe that he is the Great Law-giver able to save and to destroy that as he doth good so he can punish That he can and also will where he hath threatned so inflict worse and more terrible and evil things than what Man now doth in his utmost rage and malice But I will forewarn you whom you shall fear Fear him which after he hath killed hath power to cast into Hell Yea I say unto you fear him So I say again and testify the same over and over fear God more and fear Man less and then ye will not be of that kind of Hearers who when Affliction on Persecution ariseth for the Words sake immediately they are offended Which Temper and Disposition the Lord having shewed unto me by his Spirit that most People are of accordingly he hath directed and put the foregoing Words into my Mouth to fill and make up what is yet lacking and wanting in them even the inward qualifications of Boldness and Trust on God the Spirit of Knowledge and the fear of the Lord. Let therefore the Spirit of the Lord rest upon us and let himself give unto us the Spirit of Wisdom and Vnderstanding whereby we shall be enabled to trust on him the Spirit of Counsel and of might therein is included Courage and Boldness the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. Repent and do the first Works that none of those things afore-spoken of be found wanting in ye lest your Souls be not set in order before ye die and they go out of these Bodies as to which the time approacheth near and is just at hand As for my part rather than go out all my Days in a course of Perfunctory outward Worship or Worldly Prosperity I had rather be ranked among the number of those to whom Christ shall say at the last Day Ye are they which have continued with me in my Temptations and I appoint to you a Kingdom as my Father hath appointed to me Luke 22. 28 29. And I would to God that your Minds have been worked into such a good and resolved frame by the things that have been spoken unto you out of the Book of the Lord that ye will also avouch your selves unto Christ who is the word so that he who doth it for the Words sake doth it for Christ's sake Lord I am ready to go with thee both into Prison and to Death Ver. 33. And then there is assured and well-grounded Hope if this firm constant mind be in you for Peter who said and boasted this his Faith did fail and himself did flag and deny when it came to an upshot and Trial that such Men and Women who are willing to continue with Christ in his Temptations it is said in the Plural Number for the manifold kind of them will inherit the Kingdom which he hath appointed It is better if the will of God be to suffer it so far to die in a Prison upon a Bed of Straw and from thence go to Heaven than to be cloathed in Purple and Fine Linnen and to fare sumptuously every day Luke 16. 19. or to die on a Damask Bed in a Palace and to go to Hell FINIS