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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	work_v	world_n	wrought_v	96	3	7.1841	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62052	The pastors farevvell, and vvish of vvelfare to his people, or, A valedictory sermon by George Swinnock ...	Swinnock, George, 1627-1673.	1662 (1662)	Wing S6280; ESTC R39111	44,281	80

useful and helpful to any part of the City as occasion is but specially for the benefit of those parishes in which they are We must as some Shop-keepers drive a trade a far off beyond the Seas but be sure not to be idle in our shops at home We must mind others at the Throne of grace but be sure to remember our own people He that starveth his family is not likely to feast his Neighbours Secondly By a fiducial expectation of good or by faith we commend our business to a friend when we cast on him the care of it and trust him with it Ministers commend their friends and affairs to God by beseeching his favour towards them and believing that he will be tender of them We have many cares and fears about our dear friends whom we do love and whom we must leave but faith easeth our hearts by committing them into safer hands The burden of all the Churches lay on Paul and surely t was heavy enough to have broken his back had he not learned the art of faith by which he removed it to stronger shoulders Cast thy burden on the Lord and he shall sustain thee Psa 55.22 Here is our charge and our discharge Our Charge is to cast our burden on the Lord and our Discharge He will sustain thee The Apostle prayeth God for the grace given to the Philippians and prayeth to God for its increase I thank my God upon every remembrance of you always in every prayer of mine making request with joy 1 Phil. 3.4 5. But mark how he enliveneth his prayer by the soul of faith knowing that without it t would be but a dead Corps Being confident of this very thing that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ vers 6. Our prayers for our people will be to little purpose if faith be not joyned with them There are indeed many blessings in the womb of prayer but without the Midwifery of faith it will never be delivered Whatsoever ye ask in my name beleiving ye shall receive Prayer is the Key that openeth Gods Treasury but Faith is the hand which takes out and receives of his infinite bounty Prayer must have a promise or else t is a Vessel without a bottom and that promise must have faith or else the Vessel lyeth still and cannot stir at all When a full gale of faith fills the sails then the Vessel of prayer launcheth fourth most hopefully and returnest with its riches fraught When God had acquainted Abraham with his intention to destroy Sodom Abraham sensible of his Nephews danger commends him to God by prayer and by faith Gen. 18.23 now mark the issue God remembred Abraham and brought Lot out of Sodom Gen. 19.29 Abrahams prayer hit the mark at which it aimed but t is because the eye of faith leveld the Arrow Faith honours God by committing to him so great a trust as the inestimable fouls of his people and God honours faith by being true to his trust and answering fully his chosens and suppliants faith The Children of Judah prevailed because they relyed on the Lord God of their Fathers faith engaged God in the combate and therefore they could not but conquer 2 Cron. 13. He that prayeth for himself and not for others is fitly compared to an Hedghog who laps himself within his own soft down and turns his brissels to all the World beside And he that prayeth for others without reliance on God through Christ for audience works at the labour in vain and like Penelope undoeth by night all that he wrought in the day The truth is we lye to God in prayer if we do not rely on him after prayer So then for the Preacher to commend his brethren or friends to God is in brief thus much To open their cases and conditions to God in prayer earnestly begging the releif of their indigencies and beleiving that through Christ he will supply all their necessities In the next place I come to the Reasons why the Pastor must commend his brethren and friends to God And they shall be drawn from these three heads From God from the World and from the Brethren themselves Gods propriety in them the Worlds enmity against them and their own impotency do all require that they should be commended to Gods care and charge I shall now shew the necessity of commending them to God that its the greatest good will appear in the Vse because he is the most able loving and faithful friend First In regard of God his propriety in them None so fit to take care of the Child as its Father A brute will venture its self and encounter with that which is much stronger in defence of her own the fearful Hen which hath nothing but flight to secure her self from the Dog will yet hazard a duel against the Kite to protect her little Chickens The blessed Jesus gives this ground why he commends his Chrch to God I pray for them I pray not for the World but for them which thou hast given me out of the World for they are thine Joh. 17.9 I pray not for strangers nor enemies to thee but for thine own people thine one family for them thou hast chosen called loved For they are thine thy jewels thy portion thy temple thy children Men in a flame will venture far to secure their own jewels Nabath would hazard lose his life rather then part with his own portion What cost will some be at and what care will they take to keep their own houses in good repair David would have died that his own Son might have lived Propriety is a sufficient ground for special protection God doth by a general providence take care of all his creatures because of his general propriety in them because they are his creature He feeds the young Ravens and satisfies the hunger of the Sparrows He is upon this account the preserver of man and beast but his special providence is exercised about them in whom he hath a special propriety The Saints are his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 peculiar people therefore he hath over them a peculiar protection Hence his peculiar care is compared to a Bird flying over the Nest where her young ones are Isa 31.5 He abhors him as an infidel who doth not provide for his own surely then he will take care of his own himself Aristotle saith Propriety is the ground of all the toyl and labor in the World If all things were common every one would be careless but because it s their own ground therefore they Dung and Plow and Sow it because it is their own wealth therefore they work hard to increase it God hath a propriety in his people they are his by Election The new creature was conceived in Gods eternal purpose before he was born they are his by redemption he paid an infinite price for them They are his by regeneration begotten by him and born of