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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	spirit_n	worship_n	worshipper_n	5,508	5	12.7528	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61415	An admonition concerning a publick fast the just causes we have for it, from the full growth of sin, and the near approaches of God's judgments : and the manner of performance to obtain the desired effects thereof, which ought to be other than our Common Forms, and with stricter acts of moritication than is usual amongst us : with an abstract of Mr. Chillingworth's judgement of the state of religion in this nation in his time : and of a letter from the Hague concerning two sermons preached there in the French church at which were present divers of the English nobility.	Stephens, Edward, d. 1706.; Chillingworth, William, 1602-1644.	1691 (1691)	Wing S5415; ESTC R19528	31,813	42

they themselves shall judg sufficient-and convenient in others that then they should give over making Purchase after Purchase but with the surplusage of their Revenue beyond their Expence procure as much as lies in them that no Christian remain Miserably Poor c. Where almost are the Men that are or will be persuaded The Gospel of Christ requires of Men Humility like to that of little Children and that under the highest pain of Damnation c. Would it not be strange News to a great many that not only Adultery and Fornication but even Uncleanness and Lasciviousness not only Idolatry and Witchcraft but Hatred Variance Emulations Wrath and Contentions not only Murthers but Envying not Drunkenness only but Revelling are things prohibited to Christians and such as if we forsake them not we cannot Inherit the Kingdom of Heaven c. If I should tell you That all Bitterness and Evil speaking nay such is the Modesty and Gravity which Christianity requires of us Foolish Talk and Jesting are things not allowed to Christians would not many Cry out These are hard and strange sayings who can hear them c. To come a little nearer to the business of our Times They that maintain the King 's Righteous Cause with the hazard of their Lives and Fortunes but by their Oaths and Curses by their Drunkenness and Debauchery by their Irreligion and Prophaneness fight more powerfully against their Party than by all other means they do or can fight for it are not I fear very well acquainted with any part of the Bible But that strict Caution which properly concerns themselves in the Book of Leviticus I much doubt they have scarce ever heard of it When thou goest to War with thine Enemies then take heed there be no wicked thing in thee not only no wickedness in the Cause thou maintainest nor no wickedness in the means by which thou maintainest it but no Personal Impieties in the Persons that maintain it c. I cannot but fear that the Goodness of our Cause may sink under the Burden of our Sins And that God in his Justice because We will not suffer his Judgments to atchieve their prime scope and intention which is our Amendment and Reformation may either deliver us up to the blind Zeal and Fury of our Enemies or else which I rather fear make us Instruments of his Justice each against other and of our own Just and Deserved Confusion 2. An Extract of a Letter from the Hague Concerning two Sermons preached there in the French Church 2 12 Mar. 90 1. I Was yesterday in the French Church where I heard two very good Sermons and such as would have given you great satisfaction one was upon Jonah 1. 5. But Jonah was gon down into the sides of the ship and he lay and was fast asleep The scope of what was said was to shew That the Church was in as great a storm as ever she had been and that greater security was never seen amongst Professors of Religion than was to be found at this day which threatned greater desolation than our Fathers had ever been witnesses to The other was preached by Monsieur Arnold who is the chief Commander of the Waldenses as well as their Minister There was a great Auditory and amongst others the Bishop of London Earl of Nottingham Earl of Monmouth and Mr. Wharton his Text was 1 Cor. 1. 27. from thence he took occasion to tell us that we were not to expect fine language from him it being that which God seldom made use of for gaining the ends of the Gospel that he was to discourse to us of plain Truths not valuing what should be our Censures of him if he might approve himself to his God that we were not to think that he was afraid before such an Appearance of persons of all ranks to reprove what was amiss for if the King himself were present though he would give him that respect that was due to his Character yet he would speak the truth as became a faithfull Servant of Christ he did with great modesty without mentioning of particulars shew in general how by a few hundreds of the Waldenses God had scattered thousands of proud enemies and from thence took occasion to exhort us above all things to make it our business to have God on our side because it was through his chusing of them that the foolish and weak things were able to confound the wise and strong and withall did shew us that we were not like persons chosen of God to confound the designs and strength of our enemies while irreligion vanity and debauchery did so much abound amongst us and did particularly insist upon the vain Attire of Women and then with great seriousness did exhort us to amend our ways and doings assuring us without taking upon him as he said to be a Prophet of victory over our enemies if we did sincerely set about a Reformation These things I thought would give you some satisfaction as they did not a little to me which hath made me the more particular in my relation I forgot to tell you that all heard him with great attention and particularly those of our Countrey I mean Britain and I did observe that 〈…〉 could not withhold from tears 3. An Abstract of Archbishop Usher 's Prediction concerning a Great Persecution to come upon the Protestant Church to one who supposed it might have been over in his Life time All you have yet seen hath been but the beginning of Sorrows to what is yet to come upon the Protestant Churches of Christ who will e're long fall under a Sharper Persecution than ever yet has been upon them And therefore look ye be not found in the Outward Court but a Worshipper in the Temple before the Altar For Christ will measure all those who profess his Name and call themselves his People and the Outward Worshippers he will leave out to be trodden down by the Gentiles The Outward Court is the Formal Christian whose Religion lies in performing the Outside Duties of Christianity without having an Inward Life and Power of Faith and Love Uniting them to Christ. And these God will leave to be trodden down and swept away by the Gentiles But the Worshippers within the Temple and before the Altar are those who do indeed worship God in Spirit and in Truth whose Souls are made his Temples and he is honoured and adored in the most inward Thoughts of their Hearts and they sacrifice their Lusts and vile Affections yea and their own Wills to him And these God will hide in the Hollow of his Hand and under the Shadow of his Wings And this shall be one great Difference between this last and all the other preceding Persecutions For in the former the most eminent and spiritual Ministers and Christians did generally suffer most and were most violently fallen upon but in this last Persecution these shall be preserved by God as a Seed to partake of that Glory which shall immediately follow and come upon the Church as soon as this Storm shall be over For as it shall be the Sharpest so it shall be the Shortest Persecution of them all and shall only take away the gross Hypocrites and Formal Professors but the true Spiritual Believers shall be preserved till the Calamity be overpassed To this I think very pertinent that other Excellent Passage of his concerning Sanctification in these words We do not well understand what Sanctification and the New Creature are It is no less than for a Man to be brought to an intire Resignation of his Will to the Will of God and to live in the offering up of his Soul continually in the flames of Love as a whole Burnt-Offering to Christ. And how little are many of those who profess Christianity experimentally acquainted with this Work on their Souls FINIS