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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	seek_v	worship_v	worshipper_n	1,970	5	12.2546	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01554	Two sermons tending to direction for Christian cariage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and in judgements imminent : the former on Psalm 13.1, the latter on Hebr. 11.7 / by Thomas Gataker, B. in D. and pastor of Rotherhith.	Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.	1623 (1623)	STC 11681.3; ESTC S118743	126,618	154

humble you and to proue you and to know what is in your heart whether you loue him heartily and will constantly keepe his Commandements or no. As a Father will sometimes crosse his Sonne to trie the Childes disposition to see how he will take it whether he will mutter and grumble at it and grow humorous and waiward neglect his dutie to his Father because his Father seemeth to neglect him or make offer to runne away and withdraw himselfe from his Fathers obedience because he seemeth to cary himselfe harshly and roughly toward him and to prouoke him thereunto So doth God likewise oft-times crosse his children and seemeth to neglect them to trie their disposition what mettall they are made of how they stand affected toward him whether they will neglect God because God seemeth to neglect them forbeare to serue him because hee seemeth to forget them cease to depend vpon him because hee seemeth not to looke after them to prouide for them or to protect them like ●…orams prophane Purseuant This euill saith hee is of God and why should I depend then on God any longer Or whether they will still constantly cleaue to him though he seeme not to regard them nor to haue any care of them and say with Esay Yet will I wait vpon God though hee haue hid his face from vs and I will looke for him though he looke not on vs for they are all blessed that wait on him and he will not faile in due time to shew mercy vnto all them that doe so constantly wait on him As Samuel dealt with Saul he kept away till the last houre to see what Saul would doe when Samuel seemed not to keepe touch with him So doth God with his Saints and with those that be in league with him hee withdraweth himselfe oft and keepeth aloofe off for a long time together to trie what they will doe and what courses they will take when God seemeth to break with them and to leaue them in the suds as we say amids many difficulties much perplexed as it was with DAVID at this time Thus was Sauls hypocrisie discouered Hee would seeme to depend on God and sought to him in his troubles and asked aduice of him But when God seemed to neglect him and ga●…e him no answer neither by dreame nor vision nor by Vrim and Thummim neither by Prophet nor by Prie●…t then left he God and sought to the Sorceresse and by the Sorceresse to Satan Where a question may be moued how that is true that the Holy Ghost saith else-where that Saul did not at all aske counsell of God Saul asked counsell of God saith one place but the Lord gaue him no answer And Thus died Saul in his sinne saith another place which he sinned in that he asked counsell of a Witch and asked not of God and therefore the Lord ●…ew him But the answer is easie and may be returned in two Rules of the Ciuill Law 1. That is not deemed done that is not sincerely done or that is not done so as it should God accounteth that as not 〈◊〉 that is not done in sinceritie Take it b●… 〈◊〉 like It is said of the idolatrous Heathen that were placed in Samaria that they feared the Lord and yet serued their owne Idols too and yet in the very next verse againe it is said of the very same persons Neither they nor their children feare God to this day Their Feare was no feare because no sincere feare and so Sauls seeking to God no seeking because no sincere seeking The Lord is neere to all that call on him but that call on him in sinceritie And The true worshippers are such as worship in Spirit and Truth But no counterfeit coine will go for currant with him 2. That is not done that holdeth not out that keepeth not firme There is nothing said to be done as long as ought is yet vndone Perseuerance is all in all He is faithfull indeed that holdeth out to the last He is a true louer that loueth euer But He neuer loued truly that loueth not continually He was neuer a true friend that euer ceaseth to be a friend that is not a friend alwaies that loueth not in aduersitie as well as in prosperitie nor is content to take part with him whom hee seemeth to loue in either So he neuer truly trusted in God that euer ceaseth to depend vpon him that dareth not trust God as well at sea as on land as well in aduersitie as in prosperity that is readie to leaue and giue ouer relying on God so soone as God leaueth in outward shew at least to looke after him On the other side thus was Iobs sinceritie approued Why saith he to God doest thou hide thy face away from me and carriest thy selfe as an enemie towards me Surely for no other end Iob but to trie thy sinceritie and to make it manifest what thou art The Deuill slandered Iob and traduced him as if he had beene but an hireling one that serued God onely to serue his owne turne vpon God and would therefore soone leaue God if God should seeme to leaue him yea would not stick to curse God if he should but a little anger him to his face But the Deuill proued a lier like himselfe it was farre otherwise with Iob As he was no hireling so he proued no changeling As the Heathen man saith of one Hee ceased not to worship euen an angrie God Though he slay me saith Iob yet I will trust still in him And thus the Saints of God approue vnto God their owne sinceritie in that though God had forgotten them yet they had not forgotten him though he had smitten them that is by smiting throwne and thrust them downe to the very bottome of the Sea the place where the Whales lodge and had ouer-whelmed them with the shadow of death and suffered them to be butchered and massacred all the day long as if they were no other than sheepe sent to the shambles and set apart for the slaughter yet for all this they would not from him nor seeke to any other but him As Diogenes the Cynick somtime told his Master Antisthenes there was no cudgell so crabbed that could driue them away from him Secondly God doth this to exercise the gifts and graces of his Spirit in them For many graces of God as Patience Confidence in God and the like are like Torches and Tapers that shew dimme in the light but burne cleere in the darke or like the Moone and the Starres that are not seene in the day but shine bright in the night There is no vse of patience when all things goe well with vs. Yee haue heard of Iobs patience saith Iames. But we had neuer heard of it had Iob neuer