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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	church_n	lord_n	word_n	4,134	5	3.9920	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66945	A plot to disseize God of his right defeated, and the contrivers punished discovered in a sermon preached in the Cathedral of S. Paul, on the 15th of September, 1661, before the Right Honorable Sir Richard Browne, Knight and Baronet, Lord Mayor of the city of London / by Tho. Wood ...	Wood, Thomas, 17th cent.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3411; ESTC R9249	18,398	28

or every blast of present Success that we believe not every spirit or powerful perswasion or great example for divers that boast themselves of God are not such many false Prophets are come forth into the world Let it be enough that by glorious glittering pretences we have been cheated out of our Religion Loyalty Property nay our very Reason that by strong dazeling delusions we have been cajol'd iuto such a Pit-fall from which only the Almighty power and extraordinary Goodnesse could redeem us If our own harms will not make us beware neither the Texts Example nor any humane Instruction can possibly work upon us And the next blow of Gods hand must needs be far heavier because we have so soon forgotten the grief of our former misery and the comfort of our present Deliverance Secondly for Comfort To stay our hearts as with Flagons of Wine when we consider that not one word of Heavens mouth made to our own souls or others shall fall to the Ground Is thy faith assaulted concerning the truth of Gods promises made either to the whole Church as the Body in the general or to thy self as a Member in particular Take heed of giving too far and free Entertainment to such Suggestions The Lords hand is not shortned He 's commonly better then his word as good as his word to be sure he is always Though for the present perhaps thou mayest perceive nothing lesse no Shadow of Likelyhood all thing to run to a Retrograde course to their seeming accomplishment Yet possesse thy Soul with patience stand and see the Salvation of the Lord rest upon his All-sufficiency believe with Abraham even above hope c. He doth divers times work out his ends by means in our shallow conceits apparently contrary He 's so good that he would not suffer evill to be unlesse he were also so powerful as to be able to draw good out of it Nothing can make void the purposes and promises of Heaven Though a Joab though an Abiathar though all men on Earth and Divels in Hell attempt their Nullity yet Maugre all Opposition they shall stand in force and be made good to those whom they concern that Word of truth hath spoken it not one word of whose Truth shall return empty Heaven and Earth shall passe away but c. Third for Direction to steer our course on the troublesome Sea of this World that so we may arrive at the Haven where we would be and that is in all our Intendments to take Heaven along with us not to depend upon new Truths pretended to be concealed for so many Generations and now revealed to I know not whom for I know not what fanciful purposes but to make Gods clear revealed Word with David our Counsellor and Warrant and then we shall be sure to have either the Summe of our Desires or that which is better for us Then either our purposes shall have a good Issue or else our failing in them shall be more for our Good Instance You of this City desire to be rich and in places of Honour and Eminency and such desires if attended with their due Qualifications are for ought I know not amisse neither Now Solomon tells us that riches and honour are in the hands of the Almighty Length of Dayes are in his right hand and in his left Riches and Honour Prov. And if we 'l credit the Divel he 'l tell us that all these are his too once to be sure we know he told the very Owner so to his Face Matth. 4. and where he is likely to gain more belief he will cettainly be more forward to boast his vain Title And were there not too many in the World that lent a willing ear to him the forbidden paths of Bribery Flattery Extortion Over-reaching Cozenage and Cunning would not be so crowded with Passengers and the allowable Road of Truth and Honesty fair upright and ingenious Dealing so thinly frequented But brag the Divel never so confidently of these and all other good things God is the true Proprietary and we must have and hold them of him if we will have and hold them at all or long or with Comfort We take an ill Match in hand if we go about to wrestle with him and wrest them from him by Violence God is a liberal God and yet in some Sense he 's a hand-fast God too maugre all the World he can keep his hands shut if he please and untill he be pleased to open it we cannot be filled with Plenteousnesse In all our Enterprises therefore let us be sure to have him to friend to have his allowance at least if not command in the main Intendments of our Life otherwise let me tell you 't is neither the Plotting of our heads nor the Sollicitousnesse of our hearts not the Drudgery of our hands nor the whole concurrence of our created strength improv'd by all accessory procurable Assistances that can finally render our attempts successeful Adam may make himself a Garment but it shall not cover his nakedness Jonah may build him a booth but it shall not defend him from the heat of the Sun Peter may toil all right at fishing but shall catch nothing Though we rise up early and lie down late and eat the bread of sorrow yet is our labour in vain except the Lord give the blessing Psalm 127. 2. I might illustrate this by almost infinite instances out of Story Take the Texts example for all Here is an able eldest Son using the strongest humane means to settle himself in the Seat of his Father Ordering this affair with as much polity and discretion as the best heads in the Kingdome could furnish him with Many advantages he had of his Competitor both the Word and the Sword if I may so speak were on his side The High Priest and Captain of the Host The latter of which alone was so powerful in the State that David himself though a King well-beloved of his Subjects confesseth him too hard for him and for the murder of divers of his dear friends durst not punish him Yet see notwithstanding all these interests assistances probabilities Heaven overswaies and determines the contrary Go but to the latter end of the Chapter and there we shall read that Solomon is King So true is that of the holy Ghost the foolishness of God is wiser then mans wisdome and his weakness stronger then their power But stay was indeed God's hand in this business against Adonijah How then durst either Joab or Abiathar move so much as a finger for him Nay how durst he himself take counsel and plead his own Title when that Wonderful Counsellour and Supreme Judge both of Heaven and Earth was in the Cause his adversary 1. But indeed for him first I can easily satisfie my self without the puzzle of a wonderment A Crown is a strong temptation and where an apprehension of compassing it gets footing in the brain it infatuates corrupts our judgments and inveigles