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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	aaron_n	lord_n	pharaoh_n	29	3	9.4695	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13530	Christs combate and conquest: or, The lyon of the tribe of Iudah vanquishing the roaring lyon, assaulting him in three most fierce and hellish temptations. Expounded, and now (at the request of sundry persons) published for the common good, by Tho. Taylor, preacher of the word of God, at Reeding in Barkeshire; Christs combate and conquest.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1618 (1618)	STC 23822; ESTC S105331	393,043	443

He hateth the word of God because it is the greatest enemie to his Kingdome euery way resembling God the author and carrying his image It is light and no maruell if the Prince of darkenes resist it it discouers his subtilties and fenceth the Christian against his pollicies it discerneth spirits that let him come as an Angel of light he shall be vncased As he preuaileth in darknes so he worketh in impuritie now here the word resembling God himselfe crosseth him it is pure in it selfe and a purifyer as Christ saith Yee are cleane by my word Further his cheife power beeing in the sonnes of disobedience and in the hearts of infidels here also the word clips his wings beeing the word of faith and Ioh. 17.20 Christ prayed not onely for his disciples but for all those that should beleeue in him by their word In a word seeing he exerciseth his cheife power in the sonnes of perdition who are giuen him to rule at his will here the word is his enemie because it conuerteth sinners and saueth soules called therefore a word of saluation 3. Hee opposeth Gods word through the malice he beareth Gods children for he euer opposed true professors casts them into prison and would neuer let them haue a good day in the world if he might haue his wil and followes them with temptations and with outward afflictions But this is the sword of Gods mouth and the sword of the spirit by which they cut through his temptations and make them forcelesse it is that which comforts them and sustaines them in their troubles and directs them happily to heauen so as no way he can haue his will of them 4. It stands him in hand to oppose Gods word for his long experience hath taught him that so long as men hold to the word they be safe enough vnder Gods protection and hee could neuer winne his captaine-sinners to such high attempts in sinne were it not that he had first shaken the truth of Gods word out of their hearts How could he haue brought Pharaoh to such obstinacy against God and his people as to say Who is the Lord and I will not let Israel goe but that he had brought the word in Moses and Aarons mouth into contempt further then the sting of the miracles forced him When Saul had once cast off the word of the Lord Satan lead him as in a chaine to hunt Dauid to throwe a dart at Ionathan to seeke to the Witch against whom himselfe had enacted a seuere law The like of Ahab Herod Nero Domitian c. 5. The word of God is the sentence and rule of righteousnes which condemneth Satan and therefore no maruell if he cannot endure it and wish it false and loue it no better then the bill of his owne condemnation and death eternall It is a note of a man foyled by the temptation of Satan and of a deuillish spirit to call Gods word into question either to deny it as false or doubt of it as vncertaine either of which if Satan can perswade vnto he hath his wish for he knowes they are no subiects to God that will not acknowledge his scepter but doubt of the rod of his mouth he can easily blindfold them and lead them whether he will that denie the light he can easily vanquish them and lead them captiue to all sinne if he can get them to cast away their weapons Yet what a number of men hath the deuill thus farre preuailed with in this violent kind of temptation Some call in question whether the Scripture be the word of God or no swarmes of Atheists and Macheuillians that hold the word but an humane deuise and policie which is to open a doore to all carnall and bruitish Epicurisme and to confound man and beast together Others doubt not of all but of some bookes and others not of some bookes but of some places of the holy Scripture But we see that Satan would haue Christ but to denie or doubt of one sentence and what Eues calling into question of one speach of God brought on all our necks all we her posteritie feele And it is in our natures when God speakes plainely against that sinne we make ifs and peraduentures at it and so turne it off As for example 1. Our Sauiour teacheth plainly that whosoeuer are of God heare his word and his sheepe heare his voice Either men must beleeue it or denie it and yet how few can we perswade conscionably to heare the word all who must plainely either make the voice of Christ false or themselues none of Gods none of Christs sheepe for not hearing it 2. Our Sauiour saith expressely He that heareth you heareth me Luk. 10.16 and that God speakes in the mouthes of his Ministers 2. Cor. 5.20 and that they haue an heauenly treasure in earthen vessels But how fewe are of this minde neuer did any heathens so despise the voice of their Priests and the answer of their Oracles as Christians in generall despise our voice in which God and Christ professe they speake 3. Christ plainely saith this word is the immortall seed of our new birth the sincere milke to nourish the soule the bread of life heauenly food But who beleeue him for generally men haue no appetite no desire to it and can well be content to let their soules languish in grace and be staruen to death And whereas they would goe as farre or farther into other countries as Iacob and his sonnes into Egypt when there was no corne in Canaan to supply their bodies with food this they will not stirre out of their doores for Well take heed of calling diuine truths into question stand not in them vpon thy reason and vnderstanding which are but low and shallow suspect them in things thou canst not reach rather then the truth of Scripture and make good vse of these rules 1. In the rising of any such temptation know that Satan seekes aduantage against thee and would bring thee into the same condemnation with himselfe by the same sinne and malice against God If he durst thwart so diuine a truth so strengthned from heauen and that to Christs owne face he dares and will contradict Gods word to thee 2. Consider if thou sufferest Satan to wrest away the credit of any part of diuine truth or the word of God what shall become of all our religion and the ground of our saluation all which is laid vpon the truth of the word of all which our Sauiour saith that not one iot of it shall faile 3. Know that by yeelding a little to Satan herein God in his iustice may giue thee vp to such strong delusions as the deuill himselfe cannot be so besotted as to beleeue See it in some instances Satan beleeues there is a God and trembleth saith S. Iames and yet he so farre deludes a number as their sottish hearts say There is no God Psal. 14.1 Satan knowes there is a day of reckoning and