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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	abundant_a	gracious_a	lord_n	1,650	5	4.2037	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29132	The last conflicts and death of Mr. Thomas Peacock, batchelour of divinity, and fellow of Brasen-nose Colledge in Oxford published by E.B. from the copy of that famous divine Mr Robert Bolton, late minister of Broughton in Northhampton-shire.	Bolton, Robert, 1572-1631.; Bagshaw, Edward, 1629-1671.	1646 (1646)	Wing B414A; ESTC R34191	21,040	82

He fearing the conclusion said Here is a snatching argument nay rather I will not suffer you because you would trouble me In the morning M. Dod came again to him and asking him how he did he answered wretchedly lamentably abhominably no stamp of grace in me Doe you desire to be eased Infinitely Oh if God would give me a drop I was so foolish that I would alwaies be doing something but did nothing well I pray you tell me what was the calling of the good thief upon the crosse Doe not you think that God can put a distinction between his grace and our corruptions Behold the Church sometimes helples and hopeles and Ionah in that his bed God seeth you though you see not him But I feel horrour Where misery is there is grace much more Then especially appeareth the excellency of the Physician when health is least hoped The Devil doth abuse your minde and tongue against your self but doubt not the Lord will cast down the strong holds of carnall reason Onely doe not suppresse that grace of God which although it appeareth but small as big as a mans hand yet it shall be increased into a mighty rain by which your dry soul shall be moistened Christ rising again did first appear to Mary Magdalen that sinner after commanded her to tell it first to Peter which had denied him See thence his mercy The godly in their afflictions doe but forget their comforts God helps their memory helps all The godly losing his sense of Gods favour is like to a man that hath lost his purse which if he could finde he were rich enough But the wicked cannot be brought to remembrance because they never knew it Thus he suffered him to rest a while afterwards returning with others prayed Then he was asked how he did Miserably Doe not you search into the secrets of God It is too true and manifest Sir doe not alwaies be digging in at your sinnes A wound continually rubbed cannot be cured Suffer the plaisters of the Word of God to rest upon it that it may be holpen Oh if I had Oh if it would please God! I had rather then any thing in this or other three thousand worlds Who now giveth this desire unto you Of our selves we cannot think a good thought God giveth both the will and the deed A desire is a sure token But I cannot truly desire You doe not desire falsely therefore truly what doe you dissemble Here is a trick You must needs distinguish between unperfect desire and hypocriticall Will you know whether your desire be true There are two signes thereof Constancy and a conscionable using of the means You have found these in you doth this argument hold You doe not feel therefore you have it not I know when you would have denyed such an argument If that did follow it should fare well with the Reprobate he hath no sense of the wrath of God therefore he is not under it Elizabeth said Whence is it that the mother of the Lord should come unto me surely from their Christian heart Truly I could hardly have come to you but that I thought I was bound in conscience because I know you to be the servant of the Lord When you were well if we should have come with proofs out of the Word of the Lord you would have believed us Yes Why not now when your judgement is blinded Oh the Iudgement of God Call it as he calleth it Corrections Oh my insensible heart Oh dead A dead man cannot perceive himself dead and God quickneth the dead Oh if he would enlarge my heart This desire is good But it is without savour God in mercy will yeild you a comfortable rellish Consider I pray you whereas man may object The Lord is strong and terrible It followeth Mercifull withall But I am backward in seeking it He is gracious more forward then thou canst be backward but I have provoked Him he is slow to anger but my sinnes are great but he is abundant in goodnes and in truth The Lord hath promised that he on his part will be our God and we on our part shall be his people For a while he commended him to God shortly after returning he prayed with him Cast your burthen upon God He hath rejected me Who made you his counsellour Secret things belong unto God but revealed things unto us will you make Almanackes He doth manifest it Oh mine abominable bringing up of youth he withall groaned most deeply If you had done as well as the justest man you should stand in need of the merits of Christ I or another may bring arguments but it belongs to the Lord to fasten them on the heart I say to you as Noah did to Iaphet God perswade Iaphet c. What if your sinnes were as crimson God can make them as snow That is true of those that are capable Behold we make your estate our own we have part in your sorrow who hath thus think you disposed our hearts God And doe you think that he which causeth us to love you doth not love you himself I fear I did too much glory in matters of private service to God The neerer we come to God the more we see our own vilenesse This is the use which I make of it blessed be God which hath not put our estate in our own hands but kept it in his The Devil hath now winnowed you and you think all is gone out but God holdeth what is his An Artificer can distinguish drosse from the metall cannot God his from yours Well with Iob lay your hand on your mouth and hold your peace and so good rest have you Onely consider your comfort though it be but small whence it came even from Gods Word and servants no otherwise When he returned again to take and give farewell he began to complain Oh great and grievous The Lord knoweth what power he hath given you A father will put a greater burthen upon a stronger sonne But see the difference When an earthly father or master setteth his on wo●k they must doe it with their own strength but the Lord setteth on work and giveth strength to be not discouraged You are now in your calling Oh mine heart is miserable What then A father loveth his sonne as well when he is sleeping as when he is waking Sir I have known you heretofore and although if I were in your case I might doe as you doe yet I remain the servant of God as you certainly are The Holy Ghost calls to your remembrance what you have heretofore taught and now heard And although I shall be absent in body yet shall I be present in minde Be not too covetous to seek abundance by and by If Iacob could say to Es●u I have seen thy face as though I had seen the face of God much more should you think so of the children of God that come to you I thank God saith he he hath begun to ease me