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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	according_a	know_v	spirit_n	2,306	5	5.1083	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31402	The duty and benefit of submission to the will of God in afflictions discovered in two sermons delivered upon a special occasion at Stapleford in Leicester-shire / by John Cave ...	Cave, John, d. 1690.	1682 (1682)	Wing C1582; ESTC R30885	25,804	49

are not reserving only in their Minds such as ye slander us to be but they durst not practise these Shifts nor must we shun Misery by running into Sin chusing Afflictions with the People of God rather than all the Pleasures and Prosperity of the wicked But 2. This Subjection consists in bearing Afflictions with Patience not mourning immoderately nor murmuring at all 1. Not mourning immoderately To be insensible of Evils is not to be Men to be impatient under them is not to be Christians Lugere amicos luctu moderato decet c. It was good and pious Counsel that of Ben-Sirach Let Tears fall upon the dead Ecclus. 38.16 17. and use Lamentations as he is worthy Jesus wept over his Friend Lazarus The Church lamented the Death of St. Stephen and the Apostle Paul the dangerous sickness of his Epaphroditus To laugh or look chearfully at a Funeral yea not to drop some Tears upon the Hearse of our deceased Friend is a Breach of our Christian Behaviour yet there must be a mean in this Lachrymandum est sed non plorandum Sen. Ep. 63. we must weep under our Father's Rod but not complain of his Severity which is a further Instance of our Patience and Submission to God's Will For 2. We must not murmur at all I was dumb said David Psal 39.9 I opened not my Mouth because thou didst it Whatever the voluntary or unwilling Instruments of my Trouble may be I see thy Finger in their Hand I acknowledg thy Justice and adore thy Wisdom and Goodness in all that I suffer either from the Unkindness or Mistakes of Men and therefore I will not repine or complain so much as in a word of thy dealings with me 1 Sam. 3.18 Thou didst it and therefore I opened not my Mouth and there was as much Submission in Eli's and Job's Speeches as in David's Silence It is the Lord Job 1.21 let him do whatsoever he will said Eli after he received the sad Prophecy of his Family's Destruction The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away Job 2.10 blessed be the Name of the Lord said Job He discovers more of this excellent Spirit not only in bearing with his Wife's Frowardness but in his meek Expostulation with her and declaring the Equity of God's dealings with them both in so general a Calamity Shall we receive Good at the hand of God and shall we not receive Evil To apply this in a word to our selves It is the same blessed Hand that distributes and smites and we ought to adore it with equal Reverence and Affection whether it be opened wide in Bounty or contracted close in Severity Beloved we have had much more Experience of God's Goodness towards us in giving us Prosperity and a flow of Blessings than we have had of his Anger in taking from us our Comforts and adding to our Miseries And shall we receive Good at the Hand of God and so much Good as we have done and shall we not receive Evil Shall we not patiently bear a little Affliction not repining at the sharpness of God's Discipline but meekly kissing the Rod that strikes us humbly acknowledging the Equity of our Father's severest Chastnings that all his Ways are equal and that in Righteousness he doth afflict us that our own Ini quities have wrought Evil to us and that the Moths which fret and consumeo ur Garments have their Being and Nourishment from them which is another good Evidence of our Submission to the Divine Disposals and Punishments 3. Our Subjection in some Cases must shew it self not only by a Resignation and yielding up of our Wills to the Will of God and by an owning all Manifestations of his Justice but by a Submission of our Vnderstandings to his infinite Wisdom and resting satisfied in the most mysterious and hidden ways of his Providence such as his distressing the Vertuous and prospering the Ungodly There is a good reason why the provident Father who would make a lasting Conserve of the Roses and Violets should cut mangle and bruise them though the silly Child stand amazed at this Work and as the noble Mornay expresses it Floribus illis illachrymatur ciulat weeps over those Flowers because he would have them preserved for Poesies and Garlands In like manner the Dealings and Proceedings of Almighty God even those which are most intricate and involved want not their reasonable Considerations to move and rest upon Though we who are Children in Understanding cannot find them out yet we know so much of our heavenly Father as to be assured that his Judgments are according to Truth and that there is no Vnrighteousness in him And therefore that we are in Duty obliged to adore and submit to that hidden Equity and Wisdom of his Proceedings which we cannot comprehend and by this humbling of our Reason this confining of our Spirits within their proper Sphere of Knowledg we give a farther Testimony of our Subjection to the Father of them which yet is compleated 4. By Amendment of Life by a careful avoiding and Reformation of these Faults which were most like to move our Father's Displeasure This is it which the Prophet Isaiah expresseth by a turning unto him that smiteth us Isa 9.13 this is it which the Prophet Micah intends by hearing the Rod Micah 6.9 and him who hath appointed it Every Rod of God hath a Voice and comes to reprove us for some Sin or to instruct us in some Duty and our Subjection to it consists not only in a patient bearing of its smart but in a towardly learning its Lessons learning to be less sensual and more heavenly-minded less dejected with Adversity and more humble in Prosperity in a word more holy in all manner of Conversation That though we may say with David Before we were afflicted we went astray we may add with him also but now have we kept thy Word making it appear that God indeed hath chastned us for our Profit Psal 119.67 that we might be Partakers of his Holiness This is that worthy Fruit of Repentance which our blessed Saviour in the third of St. Matthew would have us to bring forth This is the Work which God expects from us when his Rod is shaken over us or laid upon us in any sore Calamity publick or personal even to consider our Ways that is our Omissions our Actions our Passions what we have done and how we have suffered and to turn our feet to his Testimonies as David speaks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Punishments saith Damascen are the forced Off-spring of willing Faults If we had the true conceit of our Duty towards God imprinted upon our Hearts and would we but add thereunto diligent Observation of our daily and hourly Neglects thereof every particular Cross would direct us to some particular Sin from which the Lord in Mercy would purge us And we then are subject and bear the Affliction as we ought to do if by