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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	old_a	young_a	youth_n	300	4	8.2577	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14008	The true trial and turning of a sinner. Or, three plaine and profitable sermons teaching the search and triall of our waies, repentance of sinne, and true turning vnto God. The summe whereof was preached at Feuersham in Kent Aug. 3. 1606. By Thomas Tuke.	Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657.	1607 (1607)	STC 24317; ESTC S111515	67,815	193

streight tree must streighten it when it is tender If thou wouldst bee fit to serue God when thou art old invre thy selfe to his seruice whiles thou art young If thou desirest to bee a farre and straight tree in thy crooked daies turne from thy crookednesse betimes and streighten thy selfe in thy youth The Lord required a sacrifice in which was offered eares of corne dried by the fire and wheate beaten out of the greene eares Abel brought for an offring vnto God of the first fruites and fat of his sheepe so wee must giue God the greene eares of our yeares the prim-rose of our age the first fruits of our life and the fat of our daies He that would haue God kinde vnto him when he is old let him turne vnto him whiles he is yong It is vnseemely for a man to giue his youth vnto Sathan and to keepe his olde rotten bones and feebled spirits for God The Lord disliketh that men should bring him lame torne and sicke thinges for offrings yea hee saith Cursed be the deceiuer which hath in his flocke a male and voweth and sacrificeth vnto the Lord a corrupt thing Sixtly all men haue soules as well as bodies therefore all men must be carefull for them as well as for these yea rather more carefull because the soule is the more excellent and more diuine and noble part of man Agu● shewed himselfe regardfull of both in his praier when he saith Two things haue I required of thee denie me them not before I die Remoue farre from mee vanitie and lies here appeareth the care of his soule Feede me with foode conuenient for me here he sheweth the honest care hee had of both soule and body Foode makes for the good of the bodie conuenient foode makes for the good o● both He that carketh for his bodie and careth not for his soule maketh a God of his belly and resembleth the Pharisies who were diligent in tithing of mint and annise but omitted the weightier things of the Law as faith and mercy Now wherein can our care for the wealth and weale of our soules more easily appeare then in our true repentance and vnfeined conuersion Hee that saith he hath care of the health of his soule and will not turne to God dooth as if a man beeing ready to perish in the water should professe that hee would gladly liue and yet wil vse no meanes or take no paines to come out All men doe wish the welfare of their friendes And art thou not thine owne friend It thou be so then art thou bound to conuert Nature teacheth euery man to seeke the good of his own country so grace will teach a man if hee haue but one droppe thereof in his heart to seeke the prosperitie of that common-wealth country which is within himselfe Now the prosperitie of any country consisteth in freedome from euills and the fruition of good things And whosoeuer turneth truly shall bee deliuered from the greatest euills and shall inioy the greatest good euen God who is goodnesse it selfe who with the strength of his arme and by the power of his grace will fetch them out of Aegipt the land of spirituall seruitude and deliuer them from thraldome vnder Pharoah and the Aegiptians from bondage vnder Satan and sinne and will conduct them safely through the wilde wildernesse of this wretched worlde into celestiall Canaan whither our elder brother Christ Iesus is gone before vs to prepare mansions for vs. Seuenthly euerie man complaines that the worlde is naught therefore euery man to stay this complaint must amend conuert If euerie complainer woulde turne from his sinnes vnto GOD the world would bee good The world is not naught but the people in the worlde as a goodly Citie may haue godlesse Citizens a faire house may haue a foule inhabitant and a good Landlorde may haue bad tenants There is no reason for a man to complaine of the world till hee haue forsaken the sinnes committed in the world Hee that exclames against the world before hee doth renounce the fashions of worldlings discouers the skirtes of his mother and defileth his owne nest If euery one will needes accuse the world as naught let them first reuoult from the world and shake hands with the worlde let them come out of the world as the Israelites came out of Aegipt and as all true Israelites are commaunded to come out of Westerne Babylon and then let them not spare to censure and condemne the worlde First turne from thine owne naughtinesse and then say the worlde is naught and that the wisedome of the world is enmity to God Moreouer euery man was in Adam created according to the image of God and euery man by Adam was depriued of this image neither is it repaired in any man nor any man restored to it till he doe conuert and repent and then the Holy Ghost beginnes to graue and draw it vppon the tables of hearts and faces of our soules But almost euery man will say that he doth desire the reparation of this revnited image within him and without doubt if a man could with these fleshly eies behold this image as Peter beheld Moses and Elias with Christ vppon the mount it would exceedingly moue him as that sight did Peter it is so faire and louely to behold so as that if his heart were not made of marble it would so fill it with delight and so rauish his soule with the loue thereof that as Peter said vpon that glorious sight Master it is good for vs to be here so he would wish from his heart to be partaker of it and thinke no price too costly for it For it is as a mirrour wherin a man may in part beholde the f●●e of the inuisible God and a glasle wherein wee may see the countenance and colour of our first estate If any therfore lust as he doth professe to bee partaker of this glorious Image consisting in holinesse and righteousnesse of heart and hand let him turne his feete from the wayes of sinne into the wayes of God and he shall not faile of that which he saith he doth long after To conclude this point all men couet peace therfore let them all conuert Wouldest thou haue true peace of conscience thou fayest thou wouldest Then I say vnto thee turne For There is no peace saith God vnto the wicked who doe not turne Wouldest thou be at peace with thine enemies then turne for When the waies of man please the Lord hee will make also his enemies at peace with him And without doubt there is no peace comparable to that peace and amitie which is among the faithfull so that if all that seeme to desire peace would repent turne the Lion would become a Lambe and the Wolfe a sheepe all cruell conditions would be cast away and the whole world would bee at perfect peace within it selfe both for outward agreement and

greatly care whither hee trauells or how hee trauells whether right or wrong whether in dirt or drie waies by light or night so that he do trauell Yea many are so farre from searching their waies themselues as that they w●l not willingly suffer others like the foolish and vnpatien● Pa●●ent which will not lette the S●rgeon searche his woundes or to the man that hath stolen goods about him who cannot abide to heare of searching If the Minister shal set opē their gates of craft and cunning carriage and shall cut downe or breake open these thi●k and ●igh hedges of their deepe hypocrisie whereby they hide their waies as much as may be from the eyes of men and shall by that meanes or any other discouer their waies and make them see the filthines of their steps then they stamp they storm they strike priuily with their teeth like Bores and they bite like serpents and if their counsell serued and the times permitted they would openly shewe their ma●ice and vnchaine their hatred All which conuinceth them of gri●u●us impen●tencie and carnall securitie Is it not strange that men should search censure other men and forget themselues Is it not strange that all men naturally shuld affect delight in searching some for riches some for renowne one for profites an other for pleasures a third sort for promotion and yet few or almost none in comparison should search after their waies that if right they might mend their pace and haste an ende if wrong they might in time retire fetch a straiter compasse vnto newe Ierusalem where there is renowne without enuie promotiō without pride wealth and no woe pleasures but no paines yea all the good that either thought can thinke or will can wish Moreouer is it not strange that men should bee blowne euery way with the blast of an earthly Prince as to turne Turke at his command or to buckle and bende the kneee to his pleasure in any thing like the bird called Cepphos which is carried euery way with the winde and yet to stand like stockes at Gods command to mooue nothing at all or at the least not to remoue Is it not strange that many which dare no more withstand the word of a king then the shippe that Paul was in could antophthalmein outlooke or withstand the stormie winde Euroclydon yet are nothing afraid with browes of brasse to outface and resist yea to rush against the Spirit of GOD in the ministery of his Prophets as Saint Steuen said the rebellious Iewes did A King saith to his subiect search or thou diest for it he searcheth The King of Kings saith to all his subiects search or yee die yea the death of soule and body verie few regard what he saith as if either he iested with them or as thogh the mouth of his mercie were so wide that it both could and would swallow vp his iustice for a little of their lip-labour in a fit of sicknesse or when they are to shake handes with the worlde which argueth a fearefull distemper in their soules euen a spirituall Apoplexy which hath depriued them of all true sense and motion as if they were possessed with the spirits of those whom Isaiah saith had made a couenant with Death and an agreement with hell or at the least cast in the same mould with many desolute and vngracious youths who hauing exceeding kinde and affectionate parents or friendes doe play vpon them in hope of pardon abusing their leuitie to the satisfaction of their owne Iust presuming vpon their milde gentle disposition But we beloued being redeemed out of the world must not fashion our selues vnto the world Wouldst thou know thy selfe then search thy selfe Wouldst thou try thy waies then search thy waies The Iustice cannot examine a fellon till hee be found A man cannot weigh a thing in the ballance except he haue the thing Wouldst thou repent of thy sinnes and turne from them then labour to know them striue to finde them out Shall the Centurion in the Gospell being a man vnder the authoritie of an other and hauing souldiers vnder himselfe command one to goe and he goeth an other to come and he commeth an other to doe this or that and he doeth it And shal the Lord who is ouer all and vnder none commaund vs to doe this or that and shall we refuse Shall he bid vs search or shall hee say by his Embassadour Let vs search and shall wee not search Know ye not that he which doeth the wil of God is the brother the sister yea and the mother of Christ Iesus Christ himselfe did speake it But as the Apostle saith this is the will of God euen your sanstification so say I this is the wil of God euen the searching of your waies God doth will it then let not vs nill it God doth affect it therefore let vs effect it Shall the wicked hunt after the godlye as a Partrich vpon the mountaines Shall wicked Saul seeke for Dauid to kill kim so soone as he had intelligence whe●e he had hid himselfe notwithstanding the Lord had forbidden murther Shall cruel Herod bid the wise men search diligently for our Lorde with a secret intention to m●rther him and sh●ll not wee seeke and search diligently for our sinnes that we might sac●ifice slaughter them as Iohn did the Priests of Baal They had no commaun●emen● we are ●omma●nded T●ey were forbidden I speake not o● Iehu wee are bidden and exhorted He which defireth to haue ei●her good Bees or good by his B●es must search their Hiues for spiders waspes drones and mise So if we would haue the graces of God to florish and swarm within vs we must search the Hiue of our hearts for sinnes which are as waspes and spiders Brush down the spinner-webs of couetousnesse kill the drones of lazinesse driue away infidelitie inordinate cares which robbe God of his honour which should be performed in the temple of our spirits and troubleth the spirit of God which as a Bee worketh within vs building breeding refining If the king should not view and search his Ports neither by himselfe nor by his Ministers they might come to be as well harbours for Pyrates as hauens for honest Merchants so if we wil not search and suruey our hearts they wil be rather hog-sties for sinne Sathan then houses for the holy Ghost If the chanell of the hauen bee not sometimes searcht and if straight passages amōgst Syres and Sands be not sounded and well obserued there will bee many shipwrackes and losses which with wisdome and labour might haue bene preuented euen so if wee doe not search our hearts and sound them with the line of Gods lawe and the plummet of his word with a faithfull heart a painefull hand and a diligent care and if we doe not obserue and note our course and compasse all our rodes all our waies the shippe of