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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	require_v	spirit_n	worship_v	1,990	5	8.9686	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81791	Moral instructions of a father to his son upon his departure for a long voyage: or, An easie way to guide a young man towards all sorts of virtues. With an hundred maximes, Christian and moral.; Instruction morale d'un père à son fils. English	Dufour, Philippe Sylvestre, 1622-1687.	1683 (1683)	Wing D2455A; ESTC R231963	42,504	123

to pray It was his custom in his Prayers to say thus O God grant me those things that are good when I ask them not and deny me when I ask for those things that are evil God often favours us by not hearing our Prayers and sometimes punisheth us by granting our requests when we pray for that which is pernicious to our welfare as we commonly do for as our Lord JESUS CHRIST said we often know not what we ask Physicians order those who have a weak Stomach to eat little and often If it be hard for you to keep up your Attention which is the Soul of Prayer do you after the same manner and following the Counsel of our Blessed Saviour when you pray use not vain repetitions as the Heathen do for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking If therefore your Prayers must be short let them be the more frequent but chiefly I shall once again exhort you to this Let neither your Zeal nor your Faith be wanting My Son if you remember I said we might pray to God in all Places though all places were not equally Proper for this Exercise Yet if we consider Prayer to be as we must not doubt a darting forth of our Soul towards God to unite it with his Holy Spirit why cannot we do this every Hour if not every Moment in the Day wheresoever we are at home or abroad And why cannot we often turn our Hearts to God though in the midst of our most important Affairs and in walking whether it be in the City or in the Country To do thus is to pray to him The Heart of Man is a moving Closet a Place of Retirement a holy Solitude where we may enter every Moment and from thence send such fervent though short Ejaculations as shall penetrate Heaven and be more acceptable to God than those long Prayers which too often want Attention These Ejaculations are without doubt what the Evangelist means when he exhorts us to pray always And why my Son should you not observe this good Custom of praying to God and praising him in your Bed whensoever you happen to awake since Prayer is so much the principal part of Divine Worship that the Scripture comprehends thereby all Religious Duties This my Son is the chiefest of what I had to say to you concerning Prayer in particular But take notice you cannot pray to God without putting your Trust in him neither can you put your trust in God without loving him Love him then if you expect his Love Fear him if you desire to be wise for the Fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom This fear as Solomon said is to hate and avoid all evil and consequently to do good If you fear God you will love him and if you love him you will keep his Commandements my Son you know all those Commandements let nothing then be an Obstacle to your Practice of them God is a Spirit and the Truth and he will be worshipped in Spirit and Truth This Religion wherein through his goodness you was born for the full and perfect Knowledge whereof I have throughly cultivated your Understanding This I say is the only natural Worship which he requires Adhere to this Worship and you will find it more advantageous to you than the Star was to those Shepherds whom it guided to Bethlehem for that only led them to JESUS CHRIST in his lowest Estate whereas this Worship shall conduct you to him in his Glory This Divine Saviour of the World speaking of himself to St. Thomas said I am the Way the Truth and the Life And 't is the only way through which we must go to the Father Stray not from it my Son whatsoever may befall you For instead of Springs which you will find in this Way flowing with living Water every where out of it you shall meet with puddles of Water both impure and loathsome You cannot go out of this Path wherein you have entred without departing from God and consequently from all those Joys whereof he is the Center Let neither Wealth Honour nor Pleasure lead you aside and though you suffer the most rigorous Persecutions yet be not disheartned Esteem it as a great Honour to bear the Cross after your Saviour it would be an honourable Reproach to you to have your Body marked and bruised for the sake of Christ This is the way through which all the Martyrs have passed to enter into those heavenly Joys If God should call you to such Proofs turn not away for the least Thron falling from our Saviour's Crown upon your Head will affix thereto a Crown of Glory If therefore you happen to suffer for Christs sake be not ashamed but rather praise and glorifie God for it Sickness Loss of Persons dear to us Loss of Goods Wealth and an infinite number more of unwelcome Accidents compose generally the Series of our Life My Son do not think you can avoid them The Afflictions of this World are most certain Characters of the Children of God wherewith he corrects those he loves as a Father useth a rod to chastise the Child whom he tenderly cherisheth 'T is true the Flesh takes no delight in being chastised neither are we to hearken to Fleshly Sentiments when we would put in practice what is necessary to our Salvation If it is God's good Pleasure you should undergo Afflictions of what nature or how sharp soever murmur not Take heed when you suffer it be not deservedly And remember in your sufferings though exceeding great that they cannot be equal to the Glory which will be your reward hereafter These afflictions which if the right use be made of them immediately pass away will produce in your Mind the Brightness of that transcendent Glory Moral Philosophy teacheth us that Vices of all sorts spring from Passions disorder'd whereas from regulated Passions do proceed all Vertues And Christian Divinity doth verifie by experience that afflictions which in Reprobates occasion nothing but Despair are to the Faithful so many inexhaustible Fountains of Joy The Rods which God makes use of to punish the Wicked are like that of Moses which turned into a Serpent and those wherewith he chastiseth his Children have a resemblance to that of Aaron which brought forth Flowers and Fruit. Make good use of them My Son Kiss those Rods wherewith he corrects you adore the secret Vertue in them and even in the most Severe Chastisements acknowledge his Divine Goodness in raising you out of that heavy Sleep wherein Sin may have cast you If they are more sharp than Flesh could wish for believe that it is for your good to be thus afflicted for a little time that the trial of your Faith being much more precious than of Gold that perisheth tho it be tried with Fire might be found unto Praise and Honour and Glory at the appearing of JESUS CHRIST My Son you ought to have observed that I have reduced under four Heads all the