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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	know_v	worship_n	worship_v	2,126	5	8.8291	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27351	The legacy of a dying mother to her mourning children being the experiences of Mrs. Susanna Bell, who died March 13, 1672 : with an epistle dedicatory by Thomas Brooks ...	Bell, Susanna, d. 1672.; Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.	1673 (1673)	Wing B1801; ESTC R4336	27,041	66

of men but was she not a secret and hidden Reliever of Gods distressed ones Did she not refresh the bowels of many with her hid treasures Will you all learn to write after this Copy Of Midus it is Fabled That whatever he torched he t●rned into Gol● 't is most sure That whatever the Hand of Charity toucheth it turneth it into Gold be it but a Cup of cold water nay Mat. 10.42 into Heaven it self cold water having not fuel to heat it cold water which costs not the charge of fire to warm it Salvian saith that Christ is Mendicorum maximus the greatest Beggar in the world as one that shareth in all his Saints necessities Heb. 6.10 and will never forget the charitable person the merciful person Cicero could say That to be rich is not to possess much but to use much And Seneca could rebuke them that so studied to increase their wealth that they forgot to use it I have read of one Euagrius a rich man that lying upon his Death-bed being importuned by Synesius a pious Bishop to give somthing to charitable uses he yielded at last to give three hundred Pounds but first took Bond of the Bishop that is should be repayed him in another world before he had been one day dead He is said to have appeared to the Bishop delivering in the Bond cancelled as thereby acknowledging what was promised was made good according to that promise Matth. 19.29 And every one that hath forsaken houses c. Fourthly imitate her in keeping off from the sins and pollutions of the day wherein you live was she not one of Gods mourning ones for the abominations of the time Ezek. 9.4 6. Jer. 9.1 2. 2 Pet. 2.7 8 Psal 119.53.136.158 did not mens abomination in worship and practice vex grieve and wound her poor soul was it not her great work to live by no Rule to walk by no Rule to worship God by no Rule but by that which she dared to die by and to stand by in the great day of our Lord Jesus she knew John 4.23 24. Phil 3.3 2. that worshipping of God in spirit and in truth was the great worship the only worship that God stood upon she did not she durst not worship God according to the Customes of the World or the Traditions of the Elders or the Examples of great men she knew that that Worship that is not according to the Word is 1. Worshipping of devils and not God Those that depart from the true Worship of God and set upon false worship forbidden by God do not serve God by it but the devil Re● 9.2 2 Chron. 11.15 Amos 5.25 26. 1 Cor. 10.20 1 Tim. 4.1 Ezek. 8.3 what boasting soever they make as you may evidently see by comparing the Scriptures in the Margent together She knew 2. That that worship that is not according to the Word is an Image of Idolatry which of all sins is most provoking to a holy jealous God The Devil saith Synesius is as glad to be worshipped in an Idol as he was by Israel in a Calf Exod. 32 4. there being nothing that provokes God to destroy poor sinners more then this The learned Jews have a saying That no punishment ever happened to them in which there was not an ounce of the golden Calf grounding it on Exod. 32.34 Nevertheless I will remember to visit this sin upon them The Egyptians worshipped a pide Bull and whereas some thought it strange that when one died they should have another of the same colour Austin thinks that the devil to keep them in idolatry might do with their Cowes as Jacob did with the Ewes present to them when they conceived the likeness of such a Bull. Certainly Satan will use all the Art he can to keep poor sinners in ways of false worship it being the most compendious way that can be to engage God to destroy them She knew 3. That that worship that is not according to the Word hath destroyed the most flourishing Churches and Nations witness the Church and Nation of the Jews See Hos 8.5 6.7 Rev. 9.20 Ezek. 10.2 2 Chron. 7.20 the seven Churches of Asia and the whole Eastern parts of the Empire She knew 4. That that worship that is not according to the Word is a cursed worship It is the observation of one well skill'd in the Jewish Learning that there is only one verse in the Prophecy of the Prophet Jeremy which is written in the Chaldee tongue all the rest being in Hebrew and that is Jer. 10.11 So shalt thou say Cursed be the gods who made neither Heaven nor Earth Weems Christ Synag and this so done by the Holy Ghost on purpose that the Jews when they were in captivity and solicited by the Chaldeans to worship false gods might be able to answer them in their own language Cursed be your gods we will not worship them for they made neither Heaven nor Earth That God that made Heaven and Earth is only to be worshipped according to his own Word for he will own no worship but what he will accept of no worship but that he will bless no worship but that nor he will reward no worship but that Your glorified Mother kept close to instituted worship when she had health and strength in this it will be your wisdom to write after her ●air Copy But Fifthly imitate her in justifying of the Lord under the sharpest bitterest and most afflictive Providences and ●ispensations how often have I heard her to justifie the Lord Joll 13.26 even whilst he has been a writing bitter things against her when Gall and Wormwood hath been put into her Cup hath she not said with Ezra Ezra 9.13 Neh 9.33 God hath punished us less then our iniquities deserve and with Nehemiah Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us for thou hast done right but we have done wickedly and with ob Job 1.21 The Lord gives and the Lord takes and blessed be the Name of the Lord. And with Daniel Dan. 9.14 The Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doth You know what afflictive Providences she has been under both in respect of her person and in the loss of her husband and in those variety of weaknesses that attended her body and in the great losses that some of you have met with in this world Besides several other exercises yet how has she commonly been taken up in blessing of God and in justifying of God and also in admiring the goodnesse of God that it has been no worse with her and here I am satisfied she would not have exchanged her gains by afflictions for all the gains of this world Stars shine brightest in the darkest night Torches are better for the beating Grapes come not to the proof till they come to the Press Spices smell sweetest when pounded Young Trees root the faster for shaking Vines are the better for bleeding