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truth_n	goodness_n	lord_n	mercy_n	3,985	5	6.6454	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55635	A persuasive from the creatures to a perfect resignation of the will to God's. By B. Pratt, of Merton Coll. Oxon.	Pratt, Benjamin, 1676 or 7-1715.; Drapentier, Jan, fl. 1674-1713, engraver.	1695 (1695)	Wing P3178B; ESTC R218996	23,292	125

and Thousands of Thousands of its most Charming Happy Choir who for ever thus delight to Celebrate their Light and Life * Ch. Ser. c. those Lovely Harmless Little Officers of GOD whom the Prophet saw as much (a) They were asham'd at their Comparative Deformity and therefore they are represented as veiling their resplendant Faces before the Presence of the more Transporting GOD Isa 6.2 asham'd as pleas'd to stand round the Throne of GOD dissolv'd with Love of Him shouting out by turns Holy Holy Holy LORD of HOSTS do intimate by their frequent Repetitions their Impossibility of doing Justice to GOD and that they can never satisfie themselves enough in singing Praises to HIM HIM who besides is as HE calls Himself The LORD Exod. 34.6 7. the LORD GOD Strong Merciful and Gracious Long-suffering and Abundant in Goodness and Truth keeping Mercy for Thousands forgiving Iniquity c. that will by no means clear the Guilty and is so far beyond Descriptions that the loftiest Hyperbole's and most exquisite Figures of Rhetorick us'd by Men as well instructed as inflam'd and transported by that inaccessible Light where JEHOVAH dwells cannot arrive so far as I say not to reach but so much as to approach the Subject they would pretend to solemnize But from this short Descant on the Excellence of GOD Sect. 21. as the strongest Incentive to your Resignation to HIM let me now inform you Philomuse of those Troubles you will be rais'd above and the Inestimable Joys you will even in this Life feel by an entire Consignation to that Holy WILL only think it no Digression that I tell you first That besides a Preparative the due Contemplation on that most happy Object I ventur'd to discourse of above will be to the Reception of those unutterable Joys you may be bless'd with it should provoke you to a careful avoiding of all Sin Indeed the Heroick Heathen could tell you Senec. that Licet sarem Homines ignoraturos Deum ignosciturum tamen peccare nollem ob peccati turpitudinem Though I were certain Men could never know and God would furely forgive I should * How he hated Wilful Sins scorn to Sin for the Foulness and Dishonesty that attends it Doubtless since 't is directly contrary to the Nature of GOD there can nothing more unfit our Intellects for Sublime Satisfaction than the Transgression of that Law enjoyn'd by GOD or more Unman us than the Commission of what makes us so vastly Err from that Perfect Ens we should be most ambitious to imitate Oh! Gen. 39.9 how can I do this great Wickedness and sin against GOD was the Just Question of the Right Noble-Spirited Joseph to his importunate Mistress I observe 't is the Sin not the Punishment he sticks at as one that would have abominated the Crime though there had been no Hell And whereas though the LORD himself had prepar'd the Prophet Isaiah for that Vision wherein he was Bless'd as much as Mortality would permit with an intuitive View of the Divine Majesty Isa 6. and a Hearing the Seraphick Spirits Harmonious Anthem and thereby though Mortal he was so highly sensible of the Almighty's Worth that he would fain have joyn'd though he wanted Skill in Consort with the Heavenly Host he dar'd not because he was impure nor could he enjoy that mighty Satisfaction would have flow'd from thence had he been free from Sin but was reduc'd to exclaim by the dismaying sense of his Dissimilitude from Them Wo is Me Isa 6.5 for I am undone because I am a Man of polluted Lips and I dwell in the midst of a People of polluted Lips for mine Eyes have seen the KING and LORD of HOSTS I am led to conclude That we must be as free as possible from wilful Transgressions or we cannot enjoy the Beatifick Sight and should be terribly afraid to presume on pleasing our selves by Anthems to God unless we are first rightly prepar'd as HE has order'd and expects When you have once Sect. 22. through a due Contemplation of what has been wrote submitted as is told you to the Divine Will you cannot be insnar'd by any Earthly Good for you will know them well and on their Excellencies then look down with Eyes as unconcern'd as Eagles you may fancy cast on silly Glow-worms after they have newly gaz'd on the Meridian Sun You cannot Sin with Pleasure Philomuse or Wilfully and therefore you 'll be free from those Tormenting Stings of Conscience trouble most from servile fear of a Discovery and inward mighty Shame You need not dread the Horror of a Dying State from sad Reflexions on your vanish'd Days or that you have not liv'd as GOD commanded you No Accidents of Providence how dark soever will surprize your Mind nor can you be with Reason long Concern'd or ever Discompos'd for any Loss Below For Sect. 23. by this near Conjunction of Your WILL to GOD's you will in time find it nothing to Deny your self since thereby you will be wholly devoted to GOD and perfectly cleans'd from all that basest Dross of Selfishness or Ends with which before you were unhappily alloy'd So that 't is impossible any thing should happen to cause your immoderate Grief for you enjoy all your Desires in General and Bulk though not always perhaps in Retail And whereas your greatest Wish is That God's Will be done your Assurance That 't is HE is the Supreme and Uncontroll'd Disposer of Events does perswade you All Accidents that can fall on you are but exact Completions of His Divine WILL and therefore of Your's so far as 't is compriz'd in His And therefore His Dispensations to you are in effect but the Acts of your own Will with the superlative Advantage of their being directed by Him who is Wisdome Power and Love Then you 'll be convinc'd Sect. 24. That GOD is Just in All and that you have reason to Bless HIM with Job Your Thoughts will then be such as these Job 1.21 HE takes but His Own and he lends us All. ch 2.10 Shall we receive Good at the Hand of GOD and shall we not receive Evil Well! 1 Sam. 3.38 'T is the LORD let Him do what seemeth Him good Isa 63.9 He grieves not the Sons of Men willingly but in all our Afflictions is HIMSELF Afflicted and will give us Grace to help in time of Need. Heb. 4.16 However Though HE Kill me Job 13.15 yet will I Trust in HIM You will not be Concern'd if you have not an immediate Return suitable to your Prayers to GOD You 'll remember the Parable told by Christ Luk. 11. from v. 5. to v. 14. That HE is your Father your peculiar Friend That 't is easier for an Affectionate Mother to forget her Darling and First-born Child than for God to forget You Though She should yet cannot HE He tells you so Isa 49.15 The Heathen Satyrist