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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
A79461	The watch charged. Or, a warning to God's watch-men. Being a sermon preached at Bridge-water in the county of Somerset on the 29. day of September 1658. which was a day set apart for ordination, and the generall meeting of the associated ministers in that county. / By John Chetwind, Mr. of Arts, preacher of the gospel, and one of the joynt-pastors for the city and parish of Cuthberts in Wells.	Chetwynd, John, 1623-1692.	1659 (1659)	Wing C3798; Thomason E1862_1; ESTC R210179	30,162	96

put it from you for in so doing Acts 13.46 ye judge your selves unworthy of eternall life When Saul rejected Gods counsell God rejected him When Ahab hated Micajah and Elijah he soon perished When Pharaoh drove away Moses his destruction was near What though ministers are in themselves but mean and contemptible instruments yet it's Gods 1 Cor. 1.21 pleasure by the foolishnesse of preaching to save them that believe that all the glory may be his own Hence it is that God usually works by such weak means that praise cannot rationally be attributed to Hence the Apostle tells us 2 Cor. 4.7 we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us We read in the history of the Iudges that the Midianites were destroyed by Gideons three hundred souldiers who had nothing but a trumpet on one hand and pitchers and lamps in the other and in Ioshua how Ierichos wals were blown down with the priests Rams horns weak means yet in the hand of God are strong enough to doe what they were commissionated for Learn then not from mans weakness to despise but from Gods appointment to value the ordinance of the ministry Be convinced of the necessity and usefulnesse of the preachers employment which was the great legacy which Christ leaving the world left unto the earth Eph. 4.11.12 who when he ascended on high gave gifts unto men some Apostles some Prophets some Evangelists some pastours teachers for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying the body of Christ 2. Help them in their work If ministers be watch-men ought to be men of courage faithfull c. if their work be great and weighty then Further them in it encourage them in the doing of it Say unto them as Shecaniah did unto Ezra Ezra 10.4 Arise for this matter belongeth unto thee we also will be with thee be also of good courage and do it There are two things I shall commend unto you 1. Pray for them that 's your duty that they need and such as are faithfull much desire see how earnest Paul is Rom. 15.30 Now I beseech you Brethren for the Lord Iesus Christ his sake and for the love of the Spirit that you strive together with me in your praiers to God for me and Again Eph. 6.18,19 Praying alwaies with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all Saints And for me that utterance may begiven unto me that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the Gospel And what he had thus importunately desired from the Romans and Ephesians he is likewise earnest with the Thessalonians for 2 Thess 3.1 Finally my Brethren pray for us that the word of the Lord may have free course and be glorified even as it is with you There are many are ready to complain against their preachers that they are dead and dull and to them unprofitable but few there are that pray for them and therefore let me entreat you to take this rule with you Never speak against your ministers unto men untill you have spoken unto God for them Shall we think to have blessings and never beg them one great reason why ministers labour in vain preach so unsuccessefully I am perswaded is because their congregations pray no more for them and therefore know the more you pray for us the better we shall preach to you 2. Encourage them stir them up say to Archippus Col. 4.17 take heed to thy ministry Break not their hearts by your obstinacy who are spending their spirits for your good Be not robbing of them of their dues who are wrestling with God for your souls 1 Cor. 9.11 It is a great matter when they sow spirituals that they reap carnals Consider watch-men cannot forrage much lesse plunder for themselves but must keep their stations and shall they be starved while they are doing their work shall there be no provision made for them 1 Cor. 9.9 Doth God take care for oxen and shall not he that preacheth the Gospel live of the Gospel Superstition Hypocrisy Idolatry have enough but truth goes a begging Iezebel nourisheth eight hundred false prophets but Elijah flies the kingdome but blessed be God it is not yet so amongst us and let it never be so though too many desire it were so O know there 's nothing lost which is laid out for God in the necessary maintaining of his Embassadours Matth. 10.41 they who entertain a Prophet in the name of a Prophet shall have a Prophets reward That widow that first made a Cake for Elisha her oyl increased Consider what God speaks in this Case Mal. 3.10,11,12 Bring you all the tithes into the store-house that there may be meat in mine house and prove me herewith saith the Lord of Hosts if I will not open to you the windowes of heaven and pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground neither shall your vine tree cast her fruit before the time in the field saith the Loyd of Hosts And all nations shall call you blessed for ye shall be a delightsome land saith the Lord of Hosts And again by Solomon Prov. 3.9,10 Honour the Lord with all thy substance and the first-fruits of all thin increase so shall thy barns be filled with plenty and thy presses shall burst out with new wine There 's nothing lost by a just dealing with or a liberal bounty to Gods ministers 3. Regard their warning O suffer the word of exhortation Heb. 13.17 obey them that have the rule over you for they watch for your souls Let not God's calls counsels warnings admonitions be alwayes to no purpose Let not God alwayes stretch out his hand to a stubborn rebellious and gainsaying generation that provoke him to anger every day Let not Christs complaint be directed against us as it was against the Iews that he would have often gathered us as an hen gathereth her chickens but we would not and that we would not come unto him that we might have life that he would have healed us but we would not be healed We read of Noah that preacher of righteousnesse how he warned the old world a long while but they took no notice of it and of Lot how he warned his sons in law but he was unto them as one that mocked Now what was the issue an inundation of water overwhelmes the one and God rains down as it were hell from heaven and destroies the other and hath recorded both as examples for us on whom the ends of the world are come that we may take warning not to despise warnings Let us then be prevailed with to have an eye to the watch tower