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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	babylon_n	state_n	zion_n	15	3	9.4426	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54483	Sermons and devotions old and new revived and publisht as an oblation of gratitude to all such of the nobility, gentry and clergy as retain the noble conscience of having ministred to the weak condition of the author, now aged 73 : the sermons at Court were before the war brake forth betwixt King and Parliament : also a discourse of duels, being a collection and translation of other mens opinions, with some addition of his own : and this in special dedicated for their use ... / by Thomas Pestel ...	Pestell, Thomas, 1584?-1659?	1659 (1659)	Wing P1675; ESTC R39086	197,074	355

ye sont of men Arise and come to Judgement Let us do so Arise quicken our thoughts prepare for since prevent we cannot that last by considering of this first Judgement 2. Wherein the parts we made at first are four The two first the two parties appearing in the Judgement God the Judge and Man the Delinquent then the manner of the process by way of calling and last the matter of the process and summons Where art thou in literal sense Whither fled But in the mystick caries a secret increpation and touch of pitty as if he had said How is man the glory of my works fallen to be the shame of all my creatures And of this sense I must entreat you to be mindfull now in special because now I shall make special use of this sense only 3 Both the parties God and M●n and how far the divine Nature is laid forth in these names and then how far we were enabled to take notice of mans condition by the help of two books this book of Genesis first and then another volum which we cary about us the book of Conscience I have already shewed at large as also what we are to think of and what to learn both by the manner and matter of this summons in literal sense Of all which things I will make no repetition nor will I touch any more upon that review of the Text wherein I divided it into two parts only namely a Judgement and the methode of that Judgement Nor of that Doctrine on easie inference and uses thence deducible That our Judgement shall certainly overtake and come upon us to cause us first to stand in aw and not sin against God and then yet to love the Lord for beginning a foundation of a mercy-seat where he first erected his Throne for Justice even in Paradise in that promise of the womans seed to bruise the serpents head Nor will I speak any further of the Methode of Gods proceeding first calling to the man before the woman or the Serpent Nor of the different addressing of this Judgement against the first Monarch of mankind wherein he proceeds by himself immediately and that Judgement afterwards against the two first Kings of his own people wherein he doth all by Delegates by sending his Prophets of which divers reasons are rendred by Interpreters But passing all over that hath passed in several handlings of the words come we only to reflect on that which I called the mystick sense of the last part which is the question Where art thou that is for so I find it opened Where is thy former happiness To what a miserable state art thou now by sin reduced How hath thy fall bruised the seal and defaced that glorious Image I created in thee Alas Adam where art thou From which passionate Increpation and Rebuke mixt with a gracious bemoaning of mans fall divers doctrinal points might be raised as the term is if a man should raise as some do such things as would sleep and be quiet or lie for dead if no such Raisers and Wresters would enforce them up That I only intend and yet will crave leave to insist upon is what this question seems to others to imply and is no coacted no violent expression namely the mifery and desolation of Adam and consequently of all his race by Disobedience Quanta de re decidit 4. In which consideration first the sin was disobedience from a double root of evil An inordinate Covetize of what God had prohibited and pride of heart to be as God which was the fall both of man and devil The losses by this fall which disperst the whole flock of divine Graces were life of body to be perpetuated as the Angels plenary knowledge with a supernatural influx of divine Faith in admirable clearness both of the object and the internal power with lucide notions of the Trinity and the then future incarnation But above all that choicest Jewel of original Justice And now the Doctrine from this part of the Text in this sense opened and dropping thus from the mouth of God himself will as an Influence coelestial if we open our bosoms our hearts and Understandings and Affections to receive and cherish it with care and conscientious Devotion produce many usefull flowers 5. The first flower or use if so we will call it that is the first good way to take in appliance of this Truth is to sit down like the mourning Levite in the Psalm by the waters of Babylon and looking back and remembring Sion reflecting on the pleasures of the first state in the Garden of Eden turn words to sighs and melt our brains to tears in doleful recounting our lost beatitude and sight of our deplorable condition Where first in stead of a glorious is inferred a sordid nakedness with internal turpitude and privation of all those excellencies Rebellion in the flesh and appetite drawing on black guiltiness and Deformity and a liableness to eternal damnation all sprung from that bitter root of Pride cloven into two one explicite of eating the forbidden fruit the other implicite of unthankfulness to God which was doubtless their sin of omission Ingratitude being the principle and primipile of sin then as it continues the core and bottom of all ill nature ever since 6. Secondly Weigh mans misery in that only term of Destitutus the state of dereliction whereby the appetite becomes enormous having now no guide which is a thing we are so far from missing or hating that from our youth up 't is fatally affected by us all Tandem custode remoto What then why then Cereus in vitium flecti flexible and moldable into any form of vanity or wickedness For it is just so with all the children of Adam as with a child left of his Parents and Tutors to himself which rooted inborn Pravity is bound with Iron round and close unto our souls that even Gods own reborn sons and daughters feel and bewail it in themselves So far St. Paul will witness to the whole world and gives Glory to God in that woful confession O miserable man that I am who shall deliver me from that body of sin and death And thither I must not scorn tocome and Thou and He though thou upon the ground or in a Dungeon and he as high as ever man was mounted on a Throne or in a Palace We all though admitted with open face to contemplate the joyes of heaven in the face of Jesus Christ shining in a Gospel of Peace and Salvation yet in our selves with shame and confusion of face and spirit must pronounce that Wo that Vae misero mihi to every one of our selves single and in a deep sense of our own perversness and infirmity before we can come with comfort to take up that following Antheme of our Apostle I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let us then labor beloved in our Lord and Saviour to be truly humble in the sense of this our Orphan