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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	holy_a	scripture_n	4,755	5	5.8970	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54719	The holy choice, or, Faith's triumph over all worldly pomp & glory a sermon preached in St. Maries in Scilly, Oct. 14, 1677 / by Nich. Phillips, twice chaplain to His Majesties garrison there ; and tendred at the council-table, Jan. 23, 1679.	Phillips, Nicholas.	1679 (1679)	Wing P2035A_VARIANT; ESTC R36675	17,484	30

The Holy Choice OR FAITH'S TRIUMPH OVER ALL Worldly Pomp Glory A SERMON ●reached in St. Maries in Scilly Oct. 14. 1677. Nich. Phillips Twice Chaplain to His Majesties Garrison there And Tendred at the Council-Table Jan. 23. 1679. ●allem me Miserum Sanctum quam Prosperum Peccatorem Aug. 〈◊〉 that taketh not up his Cross and followeth after me is not worthy of me Matth. 10.38 ●●●●on Printed for Benjamin Harris at the Stationers Arms in the Piazza under the Royal Exchange in Cornhill 1679. TO THE PATRONAGE OF THOSE Pair of Sacred Sisters Truth and Iustice THough the one of you be strong and invincible and never fails in the end to get the Conquest and Prevail yet by reason of the slackness of the other in affording you Succor and Defence you seem many times quite vanquished and laid in the dust That my Doctrine is grounded on the Foundation of Truth and Verity will appear most plainly by the Sacred Records thereof the Holy Scriptures And I have Faith to believe that I shall in due time and when Patience hath Perfected her Work have Justice to Relieve and Right me And that from him into whose Hand God hath Committed the Sword of it our most Sacred Soverign whom God preserve long to Reign over us and still mightily and miraculously Protest and Defend from all the Devilish Plots and Conspiracies of His Enemies THE Garrison Souldiers at Scilly when they received their pay used always to give something towards the relief of the Poor which Money as appears by their several accounts was delivered unto the Church-Wardens and disposed of by them After Lient Crudge came to Command the Garrison The first pay day it was paid unto the Warden and disposed of by them The second it was taken up by Lieut. Crudge and imployed by him to pay for working up his Majesties Iron to make Harth-grates for th● Guard-houses The third the Pay-master of the Garrison Sir William Godolphin's Agent there happened to be Warden and having the Money in his Hand refused upon the Command of Lieut. Crudge to d●liver it unto him telling him that it was the Poors Money and that he being Warden● would imploy it to the use of the Poor and give an accompt of it to the Parish as his Predecessors had done Upon the Wardens refusal to deliver up the Poors Money to be imployed contrary to the intent of the Donors and former practise the Lieutenant sends a Guard for him puts him into the Dungeon or Hole belonging to the Garrison there kept him two Days and Nights to the great danger of his Life and would not let him out till he had delivered up the Money Nich. Phillips Minister there hearing of these differences about the Mon y given at the present pay-day took an occasion to inquire how the Money given at the precedent pay-day was bestowed and was told that a small parcel of it was put into the Poor Mans box and that the rest was imployed as is aforesaid Whereupon meeting as he went to Morning-Prayer Saturday October 13. with the Serjeant who was ordered by the Lieutenant to require the Money from the Pay-master and to pay with it the Smith that wrought up the Kings Iron He told him that he heard he had put Money into the Poor Mans box and asked him what Money it was He answered That it was the Poors Money the Money given to the Poor on such a pay-day He demanded of him again what was become of the rest He answered That it was imployed about the use aforesaid Thereupon the Minister endeavoured to make him sensible of the unlawfulness of such an act and how great a sin it was to imploy unto Secular what was given to Sacred and Pious uses All that he could say was to alleadge the Command of his Officer and that he could not help it if he had not done it he should be punished To whom the Minister said no more at present than that he had been better taught After Evening-Prayer that day the Smith that wrought up the King's Iron and received the Poors Money for so doing came unto the Ministers house with whom the Minister began to expostulate about the unlawfulness of such an act He replied That he had several times denyed the Serjeant to work up the Iron and that he did not meddle with it till the Lieutenant himself came down into his Shop and Commanded him to do it The serious Consideration of the great danger men would bring their Souls into by yielding obedience unto unlawful Commands for the preservation of their Bodies kept the Minister restless that Night and made him rise at midnight to add to his Sermon which he had prepared for the next day this seasonable Paragraph so marked * in the Sermon at large Which though it hath drawn upon him infinite Trouble and Vexation and caused him to be Traduced and Slandered to the whole World almost yet would be not have left it unsaid for a thousand Worlds And he doth glory more in it than he doth in any thing that ever he did or said it having freed him from the guilt of the Blood of those South which by the contempt of the Doctrine delivered in it hath been spilt The Holy Choice c. Heb. 11.15 Chusing rather to suffer Affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season FAith though challenged by some to be the peculiar Treasure of Gods younger Sons is notwithstanding the general portion of all his adopted ones and not only under the Gospel but under the Law yea and before the Law too was this Grace given to the Sons of men Abel and Enoch and Noah and Abraham are by the Apostle in the precedent Verses said to have walked by Faith even before the Law And Moses the Lawgiver himself is here in the very precedent Verse said to have walked by Faith By Faith Moses when he was come to years refused to be called the Son of Pharaohs Daughter Among all the noble Chieftains of Faith that preceded the Law Abraham hath the first place assigned him He it was that gave Believers a just Title to the promised Land and hath the Honour given him to be called The Father of the Faithful Among all the faithful Worthies under the Law Moses stands formost He he it was that brought up the Houshold of Faith from out of the House of Bondage Conducted them in safety through the Perilous Wilderness shewed them the Promised Land and gave a peerless and an unparallell'd Testimony of his Faith by chusing rather to suffer Assliction with the Children of God than to enjoy c. But before I proceed to speak of this peerless and unparallell'd Pattern of his Faith manifested most clearly by this his seeming foolish and miserable but indeed wise and happy Choyce I shall first by God's Gracious Assistance shew you the History and Manner of his Life before he come to Years of Discretion to