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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	pray_v	prayer_n	supplication_n	6,912	5	11.1562	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66095	Divine meditations. Written by an honourable person. Whereto is adjoyned, a determination of the question, whether men ought to kneele at the receipt of the Holy Communion. And an essay of friendship	Wake, Isaac, Sir, 1580?-1632.	1641 (1641)	Wing W226B; ESTC R219891	35,999	169

Being thus infatuated they wilfully runne into all kind of wickednesse and so falling into the Devils snares are taken captive by him at his will 2 Timothy 2.26 A second Symptome indicating an inclination to security is spirituall drowsinesse saintnesse and wearinesse in Gods service Spontanea lassitudo indicat morbum This is ordinarily seene in the Vulgar sort of Christians who are meere Nominals and professe Christianity only for fashion Sundry of these as they do no hurt their exterior conversation being faire and unexceptionable so they doe no good They can say prayers but cannot pray as wanting the Spirit * See Zech 12 10 of Grace and Praier They honour GOD with their lips but their hearts * Such learn Religion by Roto not by Heart having no regard of their owne soules as appeared by their lewd lives are farre from him They goe to Church to sleepe there and heare Sermons but with no attention to the Doctrine nor intention to doe thereafter These Carnall Gospellers may see themselves in the ordinary Pictures of Cain and Abel the smoke of Cains sacrifice being painted descending to the earth but that of Abels mounting towards Heaven intimating that Cain serv'd God dully heavily and perfunctorily and Abel with Zeale Fervour and spirituall devotion If we be thus qualified wee may boldly approach the Throne of Grace for with such sacrifices God is well pleased Thirdly we must observe whether we bee compleatly armd against our spirituall enemies and well provided of Antidotes against spirituall Diseases For if wee have laid by our Armes t is an argument that we feare nothing and a shrewd signe that securitie begins to rocke us If we have cast away our preservatives it argues a strong presumption of a sound Constitution wherin yet we may deceave our selves as the Church of Laodicea did who thought her selfe rich and to want nothing when shee was poore blinde and naked Apoc. 3.17 Physitians say Athletica constitutio parum distat a morbo and therefore let him that thinkes himselfe so strong that he needs no Antidote know that he is neere falling into some desperate disease Our Spirituall Armes are the Shield of Faith the Helmet of Hope the Sword of the Spirit Eph. 6. The Christians A●mour of proofe and the Brest plate of Charitie 1 Thes 5. ver 8. which if we lay aside and unharnesse our selves as he that returnes from Warfare wee lye open to our enemies who sometime make a Truce with us but never firme Peace in this world and therefore are in danger of a Surprize Our preservatives are Prayer and Repentance which first is a Catholicon an Ingredient that enters into all spirituall Medicines if wee bee slacke therein and pray not alwayes with all manner of prayer and supplication of the spirit it is a signe this Lethargik disease is growing upon us Fourthly it is expedient to make a Synchronisme or comparison of the Times in which we have been in Adversity and Prosperity and to observe how wee have been affected therein In time of danger we look up to God wee bemone our selves confesse our sinnes professe our penitence acknowledge Gods Iustice implore his Mercy prostrating our selves before him in fasting and weeping Wee then are diligent in hearing Gods word and meditating therin frequent in works of Mercy to the poore and needy willing to communicate ready to distribute as seeming desirous thereby to lay up in store for our selves a good foundation of happie eternitie 1 Tim. 6.19 Now let us examine our selves whether in time of prosperity we have not cooled or relented in any of these spirituall duties in which we were formerly so fervent and diligent whether our Zeale be not lukewarme A memento for backsliding Hypocrites our Charitie frezen our Devotion faint our Prayers perfunctory our service of God onely formall and superficiall and lastly whether we say not in our hearts O that Ismael might live in thy sight that so we might entertaine our old Concubine Hagar the lusts of the Flesh after Isaac the childe of Promise is borne If we find in our selves any such Alteration or disinclination from pious duties we may assure our selves that Satan seeks to lull us asleepe in securitie Lastly we must exactly observe whether after deliverance from danger wee have not omitted to glorifie our Deliverer in imitation of that thankfull Samaritan Luk. 17.15 16. who being cured of his Leprosie by our Saviour with a loud * Compare Luk. 19.37 voyce glorified God and fell downe on his face at Christs feet giving him thanks When God spar'd Ierusalem from the Plague at the instance and intercession of David * 2 Sam. 24 17 18. the Prophet Gad commanded him to erect an Altar in the threshing floore of Araunah and to sacrifice to the Lord whence it appeares that when we have receaved any blessings or deliverance from God he expects yea * See Psal 50.14 15. commands that we offer to him the Eucharisticall sacrifices of Praise and Thankes Which if with the nine Lepers Luk. 17.17 wee faile to performe it is a signe that the Enemy of our Soules hath so stupified us with securitie that we dare not be so brutish as to put in practise that damnable Italian Proverbe Fatto il voto gabbato il santo and consequently that he intends our eternall ruine by perswading us to thinke that the bitternesse of Death is past and that God hath but one Arrow in his Quiver which he hath shot over our heads only to affright us Having declar'd the symptomes of this sinfull Lethargy Remedies against security we shall now prescribe some Remedies therof In healing whereof I will passe over those that have the Grand Vertigo formerly specified and send them all to the Hospitall of incurable mad men as being given over to a reprobate minde for of such desperate sinners the Psalms 10. and 59. are principally to bee understood yet the wilfull sinner that hath a lesse degree of the Vertigo must not be given over pro deplorato for though he be farre gone * Vertigo est diminuta Epilepsia Fernel and dangerously infected yet he may be recovered as the Prodigall being well pincht with Hunger returnd home to his Father They are bad Natures that will not returne when they are out of their way till they smart soundlie for their Errours Such must have a Boanerges to thunder into their deafe eares all the Iudgements threatned in the book of God against obstinat sinners Tophet must be painted out unto them flaming with fire and brimston God must bee represented to them as a revenging Iudge and consuming fire They must not heare a word of Peace so long as the whordomes of Iezebel and her sorceries are so many They must bee threatned with Excommunication and exterminion out of the Assembly and society of the faithfull and lastly they must bee recommended in the Prayers of the Church to Almighty God who must bee earnestly