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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	eternal_a	life_n	way_n	4,470	5	5.3302	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86528	The immortality of the soule: the excellencie of Christ Jesus, treated on. Wherein the faithfull people of God may finde comfort for their souls. / By T.H. Published according to order.	Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647.	1645 (1645)	Wing H2651; Thomason E309_20; ESTC R200423	15,087	23

bloud in defence of this truth Christs Preachers by the holy Ghost preach his Word and him the innocent bloud of the children which Herod slue were Martyrs for him Christ and his Apostles and Deacons great works and miracles beare witnes of him Five hundred Brethren at once saw him risen again the Angels beare witnesse of his resurrection Christs Apostles beare witnesse of him and did eat and drink with him after he was risen Againe before that Mary saw him and cryeth out Master and Thomas felt his hands and his sides and cryeth out My Lord and God and after hee had beene seene of them the space of forty days he gathered together his Apostles and promised them to send the holy Ghost to comfort them and then hee ascends to Heaven before their faces where he sits at the right hand of God in glory untill he come again to render vengeance to his enemies which persecute and wrong his Saints and will not obey the Gospell of our Lord Jesus Christ and then will Christ Jesus gather his Saints and faithfull people from the East to West and from all places with thousands of might quick and strong Angels and bring to rest in Heaven for ever Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour was also shadowed out by thousands of burnt offerings of Bullocks Goats Lambes and fruits for sin-offerings and peace-offerings in all ages from the beginning of the World before Christs comming whose bloud and the blould of the paschall Lambe which were slain by hundred thousands every yeere was a shadow and a finger of the precious bloud of our glorious Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ which willingly offered up himself once for all whose bloud is a sufficient sacrifice for the sins of the whole World if they had the grace to lay hold on him by a lively faith but his death and merits shall save none of them but the faithfull and condemne the wicked Rebels because Christ was offered and they would not regard him Christ our High Priest is entred into Heaven and maketh daily intercession for us Now wee need not to offer the bloud of Buls Goats and Lambs Now since Christ is risen this is the Sacrifice God requireth at our hands to have his Laws written in our hearts to obey him to love him to honour him with our souls and bodies in our holy Assemblies and to keep his Sabbaths to give him prayse for his love unto us to trust in him to pray unto him upon all occasions to love mercy and to doe right and justly and to speak truth out of an honest heart for the increase of Christs Kingdome of grace upon earth and for the right of the innocent poore and fatherlesse children and widdows and oppressed people and to pray unto God for all good things in the name of Jesus Christ and for his sake alone to forgive us our sins these sacrifices are more pleasing unto God then thousand rivers of Oile or the bloud of all the cattle on a thousand hils For now seeing Christ Jesus our High Priest is entred into heaven there remayneth no more bloud to be shed for sins for Christ Jesus the eternall Son of God hath once shed his precious bloud for the sins of all that lay hold on him by a lively faith and maketh dayly intercession for he is the only Mediatour between God and man for peace and salvation for he loves us and will give eternall life to all that with faith labour to keep his commandements Christ Jesus our glorious Lord and Saviour is the way to Heaven hee is the truth and the light No man can come to the Father but by him he hath God the Father sealed and in him stands the covenant and the right to the faithfull which love him even the Kingdome of Heaven and all good things which hee sees needfull for them by sure promises of the mighty God which cannot be broken and if God cast gold and silver corne wine and Oile and government and the use of all the creatures upon Turkes Infidels and unfaithfull Christians because hee made them reasonable men Yet it is not blest unto them without the word of God and prayer in the name of Christ Jesus wheresoever Christ hath been preached unto them for they must give account for government for their riches for their honour for all their wrong and blasphemous words for all their abused knowledge of conjuring witchcraft and for their abuse of their knowledge of sea and land the Sun Moon and Stars and all Gods works of order and mercie and his providence unto them and the light of their conscience all these shall witnesse against heathen people which will not follow the light of conscience which they have written in their hearts and give honour thanks and worship to the great God of heaven and earth that gave them their being but they will worship vain Idols stocks stones and dumb creatures kill and devoure one another such heathen people shall be turned into hell with all that forget God Such Popish Christians as confesse Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour to be the onely Sonne of God and yet if they doe deny him to be the onely mediator between God and man and pray to Saints departed and trust to their own merits and their own righteousnesse and good works and consider not the Law of God to be holy and pure so right and strait that no mortall man can wholy keep without the help of Christ Jesus who was God and man he keepeth Law perfectly and did good all his life and was obedient to God his Father unto the very death he hath aboundance of grace and good workes he loveth righteousnesse and hateth iniquity but mortall man is weak and sinfull The opening of the Law by our Saviour Christ Iesus in the fifth sixth and seventh chapters of Saint Matthew's Gospell shewing mans weaknesse plainly when we have done all the good we can we must say we are unprofitable servants we must repent of the ill workes we have done and desire with teares and sorrow Christ Jesus to wash them away with his precious bloud and with a lively fayth desire him to accept of our good works and to cover them with his good works and then they will please God and he will have delight in us but if Popish Christians hide Gods Word the bread of life from many millions of men and women which for want of true knowledge perish and cannot come to drinke of the water of life freely the spirituall stock Christ Jesus as they should doe this is an evill worke and if they persecute and murther harmlesse people for their holy and spirituall worshipping of God which deny their own righteousnesse and desire with teares faith and joy to be cloathed with the righteousnesse of Christ Jesus then this is an evill wicked work also For Christ Jesus fulfilled the Law of God in everything wholy for the faithfull men and women which love him and obey him for

in Christ Jesus the holy Trinity and blessed unity of God immortall and onely wise is well pleased and his justice satisfied for the sins of all the faithfull which love him with an upright heart and God will not give the glory of his spirituall worship of mankinde to Saints or Angels not yet the adoration of her bodies to dumb Images for God is a jealous God of his glory and true worship and will visit the sins of all idolaters without repentance with eternall death and punishment in hell fire But O England and all Reformed Churches which have the Word of God to read in which have faithfull Preachers to preach Christ and amendment of life unto us which have wholsome and 〈◊〉 Books to read in which have the Lords day kept and mayntayned amongst us which have the Sacraments the Seals of Christ Jesus love giving unto us which have godly and needfull Prayers Conf●ssions and Thanksgivings appointed and set out in the name of Christ Jesus for to help the weak and confirme the strong which have had the example of many Martyrs in times of persecutions under Bishops and learned Doctours men and women of all conditions and estates which have had godly Kings and Queenes which have bin nursing Fathers and nurs●ng Mothers unto Christ Jesus true Church mil●●●nt hereupon earth and have defended the true faith with the Word of God with the sword of God and mayntayned true vertue and punished vice O England how m●rcifull is God unto us if we will embrace his mercy and know them 〈◊〉 times of his visitation and love unto us the name of the Lord God of Heaven and earth be praysed honoured and sanctified for evermore Which hath sent his mighty Word the glad tydings of his Gospell unto us and caused it to be made more playnly read and preached in our own language so that men and women need not sit in darknesse not walk in darknesse except they suffer their understanding to be blinded with the Devill and so become wilfull sinners worse than Turkes or Popish ignorant Christians and some wee have which are larger in their opinions then the Word of God or the Church of God teacheth them and so cause the Lord to chastize them with temporall punishment and sin are too curious and nice not contented with the wholsome and pure doctrine of Christ Jesus which is preached in most places but take offence at every trifle and somtime at that which is very good through their ignorance or else their pride and self-conceitednesse and so make more divisions and rents then need these our brethren cause the Lord God to chastize them with temporall punishment also and some doe what they can to serve the Lord God with an upright heart and to maintayn the true worship of God peaceably and so of weak and strong the Lord God be praysed we doubt not but that wee have hundred thousands of faithfull Christians in these Northwest parts of the World yea CHRIST JESUS lovingly calleth all men to his Marriage and Noble Banquet for ever to be betrothed to him in faith and love here in this world militant to obey him and to trust unto him and to receive all things needfull from him who knows our wants better then we and after this short life to be spiritually marryed to him in heaven for ever But alas unbelieving ungodly men and women have out of their foolishnesse desired excuses they love this world and the vain things thereof of short continuance better then everlasting Christ Jesus full of all riches and glorious excellent dignity One hath marryed a wife and cannot come another hath bought a farme and cannot come another hath bought oxen and cannot come poor silly excuses all these things they have received of God for Jesus Christ his sake and they should be helps for them to trust in Christ who having received good things from him already but blinde foolish worldlings content themselves so they may have mammon and worldly vanities rather then they will obey Christ Iesus and trust to him for everlasting glorious possessions and so such foolish men and women shall never be married to Christ which will not believe his word and obey him here but they shall be divorced from him for ever and sent to eternall misery but yet the name of the Lord God of heaven and earth be praised and glorified for his own gracious promise who hath promised that many shall come from the East and from the West from the North and from the South and shall sit down in the Kingdome of heaven with Abraham Isaack and Iacob yea many thousands of men and women are very joyfull glad and willing to come and prepare themselves with faith and amendment of life for God hath chosen them and those whom CHRIST JESUS hath chosen and giving a lively faith which worketh by love in him there shall neither men nor devils be ever able to pull them out of Christ hands for as many as believed in him to them hee gave power to be the Sonnes of God and Christ Jesus will not lose one of them but will glorifie them all in their tentations and infirmities their slips and falls shall not pull them out of Christ Jesus his hands God the Father gave them to him and he is stranger then all and in this world he will make them willing to come to Christ Jesus by faith and repentance Of the Joyes of HEAVEN GOD will give an eternall Kingdome of glory in heaven for ever where there shall be rest love joy peace riches honour plenty and great knowledge health strength beauty and fulnesse of pleasure for evermore and God will wipe away all teares from their eyes and place them in blisfull plight in heavenly and glorious Mansions where we shall behold our glorious excellent and mighty God and Father and his eternall love in Iesus Christ shining upon us to our everlasting joy and comfort and there we shall behold thousand thousand millions of men women and children changed like Angels shining as bright as the Sun in their Fathers Kingdom all the good works and godly fruits all the Prayers Humiliations Fastings and Teares which which we have shed for our sins and for the sins of others and in prayers for grace for others in obedience to Christ Iesus Commandements shall be rewarded in Heaven with eternall crownes of glory all the good works of almesdeeds charity and love which wee have done in giving to the poore and in giving for the increase of Christ Iesus Kingdome of grace here upon earth by our good example shall be rewarded in Heaven with eternall crowns of glory all the contending and striving for Gods true worship and godly truth and studying for ●cuity mercy true justice and judgment in men that are called thereto Mal. 3.16 all the good works that men do through faith in obedience to Christ Iesus shall be rewarded in Heaven with eternall crowns of glory all that have