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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	call_v	true_a	word_n	4,830	5	4.2286	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94505	Christ knocking at the doore, or, The substance of a sermon intended to be preached in Pauls upon the Sabbath day which fell upon the fifteenth day of April last: but not preached, by reason of a suddain obstruction of that liberty which was promised him, being indeed unworthy to be the servant of Jesus Christ in any such ministration for ever. / Published by the authour Philip Tanny commonly Tandy.	Tanny, Philip.	1655 (1655)	Wing T149; Thomason E1485_4; ESTC R208765	25,450	49

be a strange thing for us to patterne such a patience yet 't is not a strange thing for Christ to set us such a copy this is the Lords doing and 't is marvellous in our eyes that he is so good so gracious so patient so that we must needs looke a little upon this word Behold in this sense of wonder and truely wonderfull it is if either you consider 1. Who it is that declares himselfe 't is I saith Christ 2. What he declares himselfe to doe he stands Non dicit venio sed sto saith an honest Expositor He doth not say I come and I sit but I stand 3. But where stands he looke and wonder I beseech you he stands at the doore Cur non aperit saith Mr. Brightman Why doth he not open the doores nay Cur non effringat fores Why doth he not breake open doores say I he can if he will but he doth not but there he stands But is the doore open no the more wicked they we all 't is shut yet he will not be gone for my Text saith he seeks for entrance fairely he knocks He knocks saith my ●ext but if you looke into the following words in this very same verse you shall finde he calls too for 't is said If any man heare my voice and open the doore c. Surely a voice a call could not be heard nor supposed to be heard unlesse there were a call unlesse there were a voice both then must be yeelded he knockt he calld he did so to them it may be he doth so to us Let me onely put you in minde before I come to closer examination that it may be we shall finde this true that pulsando vocat vocando pulsat imo demum effringit fores that by knocking he calls and by calling he knocks nay at length breakes open the doores You know what Christ saith to this purpose if we rightly understand it The houre is come and now is when the dead shall heare the voice of the Sonne of man and those that heare shall live The first point of Admiration lyes in the Consideration of the party who declares himselfe 't is I Behold I stand at the doore and knock I Who is that ver 14. tells us Ver. 14. These things saith the Amen the saithfull and true witnesse the beginning of the creation of God He is called the Amen in the Greeke 't is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ille Amen that Amen and who is that Amen the next words tell us 't is the faithfull and true witnesse And who is this fairhfull and true witnesse let the Scripture tell you plainly Rev. 1.6 Grace be unto you and peace from him who is and was and is to come and from the seven spirits whih are before his throne and from Jesus Christ who is the faithfull witnesse described after to be him that loved us and hath washed us from our sinnes by his owne bloud Anselme hath a very usefull note upon this very word quia dicturus erat scilicet Christus rem mirabilem quod tepidi excommunicandi de ore suo projiciendi essent qui ab hominibus boni credebantur subaudi nec tamen essent ideo promittit se veracem esse ut in his fibi credendum esse videatur ideo dicitur ille Amen or to this purpose and very neere these words Because saith he Jesus Christ was to speake of a wonderfull thing viz. that lukewarme persons were to be excommunicated by Christ and that these were to spued out of his mouth who were of men beleeved to be good and yet were not so he premiseth therefore that he is a teller of truth and that in these things it might appear that he ought to be beleeved therefore he cals himself the Amen or that Amen as much as to say My words shall be found to be true I warrant you Heaven and Earth shall passe away but one jot of my words shall not passe away When therefore you hear Jesus Christ by his Spirit in his Servants and Ministers threatning to spue you out of his mouth for your lukewarmnesse for do not your consciences tell you to your faces that you are neither hot nor cold nay are many of you of any Religion at all do not think that when your consciences are told of these things Christ dallies with you or that he will suffer himself to be dallied with for ever or that it is nothing to be spued out of Christs mouth or to take his Candlestick from you in case you think you have it Beleeve it eleeve it Gentlemen If Christ finde you in such a condition and course of sinfulnesse as to do this to you Evemere ex ere to spue you out of his mouth I must be bold to tell you that it were better for you that you had never been born or that so soon as you had been born you had every one of you a milstone tied about his neck and that you had been cast into the midst of the Sea You will finde these things true at the length for he that testifies these things which I have spoken of is the Amenille Amen that Amen not only in whom omnes promissiones as one observeth upon the place All the Promises are yea and Amen but from whom you will finde likewise Omnes comminationes all the threatnings of Christ will be yea and Amen to those that are out of him to those that have no part nor portion in him or whom he shall spue out of his mouth You see then who it is that stood at the doors in my Text 't is Christ and truly this consideration might be improved a little the better to fix upon our affections if we remember 1. The greatnesse and Majesty of Christ 2. That he is the party offended 3. The great concernment of souls that Jesus Christ is pleased to stand at the doore of any of us 1. If we consider the greatnesse and majesty of Christ In that place of the Psalmes which I quoted to you before he is termed the King of glory In the Vision which was presented to St John Rev 1. you finde amongst many other majesticall expressions that he is described having eyes as a flaming fite his feet were said to be like fine brasse as if they burned in a furnace in his right hand he is said to have the seven Stars the Churches implying he could protect them or do with them what he would he could throw them away if he pleased Out of his mouth it is said there went a sharp two edged Sword that could cut as fast as it spoke nay Heb. 4.12 Christ who is there called the Word of God is said to be quick and powerfull and sharper then any two-edged Sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughter and intents of the hearts My Masters do you think to deceive him you