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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	heart_n	spirit_n	word_n	8,255	5	4.2520	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86525	The danger of desertion or, A farvvell sermon of Mr. Thomas Hooker, sometimes minister of Gods Word at Chainsford in Essex; but now of New England. Preached immediately before his departure out of England. Together with ten particular rules to be practised every day by converted Christians.	Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647.	1641 (1641)	Wing H2645; Thomason E171_3; ESTC R1512	16,119	33

keep company in the paths of sinne what is this his proffer what are the tearmes no harder what then should I doe but bid sinne adieu would you have God to be your God and will you not keep out of sinne If not he will not be your God But now let every soule forsake his uncleannesse and God will come to that soule and therefore that place is marvellous sweet Isa 58.8 You shall call and God shall say here I am if that you will forsake your evill courses Thus you see you have as faire an offer as faire a warning as God can propound 2. As you must prepare roome for God so you must give him content let him have his will Where the King comes there he will have all according to his minde so it is with God if he may have his owne worship you please him well you must dresse his dish according to his tooth but when you put poison into his meat you discontent him then you doe not give him his mind you must lay aside all superstition and errours then you please his tooth above all when your soules submit to his truth At the name of Iesus every knee shall bow This is not meant of the word Iesus to give a bow with the knee and a stab at the heart If so why do we not bow at the word Iehovah as at the word Iesus but the bowing at the word the syllable is Idolatry And here we doe not give him his minde but the meaning of it is that we should worship him in spirit and truth 3. As we give him his minde so we must give him welcome also and entertainment If you look lowring towards him and grudge at him and his truth no wonder but he goe away This is the sinne of England We beare an ill will to God and his word God hath done much for us of this land What could he have done more for his vineyard Isa 5. 4. but it brought forth fruit contrary to his expectation and therefore marke what he saith I will take away the hedge thereof it shall be troden downe so will it be with us Are we better then the old world the same sinnes that were found in them are found in us Sodome and Gomorrah on whom God rained fire and brimstone are not our sinnes as great and are there not as great sinnes in us as were in Ierusalem that was carried away captive are we better then other Churches then our brethren that have drunk so deeply of the cup of Gods wrath what are we I will tell you we are a burthen to God he cannot beare us he will thinke his paines well over when he hath destroyed us You know all men are glad when their paines are over so it is with God we are a paine and a trouble to him and why should God goe continually in paine and trouble with us who are worthy to be destroyed If his decree once come forth then shall England seeke peace and shall not finde it God will not pitty us as in Isa 7.25 Ah! Brethren what a heavy case is it when a mercifull God doth shew himselfe unmercifull when a patient God will be impatient O beloved there is a hard time befalling us of England yet we consider it not lamentable is our time God wept over Jerusalem a long time Oh that thou hadst known in this thy day the things that belong to thy peace but now they are hid from thy eyes So may I say to England their Lord hath wept over it in mercy and patience a long time but it hath not been taken notice of God hath hid it from our eyes what shall we doe when his mercy is turned into fury and his patience into frowning what shall we doe when we have leasure to consider what once we did enjoy we can never prize Gods patience till that we finde the great want of it Thus then the poore soule will say There was a time when we might have been at peace with this patient God but now it is hid from our eyes I might have had mercy but now the gate is shut and not onely shut but locked and barred too Thus when people refuse mercy he sends the contrary judgement and then it will grieve and wound our soules to thinke what once we did enjoy but that man that will bid God welcome to his heart may goe singing to his grave 4. You must be importunate with him to stay and to continue and count it a great favour that he will yet be intreated Isa 37. Iacob wrestled with God and thus must we doe if we meane to keep him You that live under the means and will not walk in them what great condemnation wil be to you over to them that have not the meanes as it is said of Capernaum Mat. 18. so say Ito England Thou England which wast lifted up to heaven with meanes shalt be abased and brought downe to hell for if the mighty works which have been done in thee had been done in India or Turky they would have repented ere this therefore Capernaums place is Englands place which is the most insufferablest torment of all and marke what I say the poore native Turks and Infidels shall have a cooler summer parlour in hell then you for we stand at a high rate we were highly exalted therefore shall our torments be the more to beare The Lord write these things in our hearts with the finger of his owne Spirit for his Christs sake under whom we are all covered FINIS THE RVLE OF THE NEW CREATVRE GAL. 6.16 And as many as walke according to this rule peace be on them and mercy and upon the Israel of God THe rule of the new Creature which is to be practised every day by all beleevers consisting of these ten particulars First be sensible of thy originall sin corruption daily know how it enticeth thee to all evil indisposeth thee to all good groan under it and bewayle it as Paul did 7. Rom. 14. O wretched man that I-am who shall deliver me from this body of death Also take notice especially of thy actuall sinnes or daily infirmities in thought word and deed endeavour to make thy peace with thy God for them before thou goest to thy bed by repenting and confessing of them to thy God worke thy heart to grieve for them by some melting considerations of Gods mercies towards thee 1 Iohn 1.9 by beleeving or casting thy selfe wholly on Christs righteousnesse for removall of thy sinne and reconciliation with thy God 3 Rom. 22 23 24 25. Cleave to Gods promises of pardon and peace Isa 43.25 Rom. 5.1 waiting till the Lord shall speake peace to thy soule Psal 85.6 The second rule of the new Creature is get thy union with Christ and interest in Christ cleare and confirmed unto thee daily more and more that thou art a branchin that vine a member in that body 2 Cor. 13.3 this may be done three wayes