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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	brotherly_a	faith_n	godliness_n	2,884	5	9.6294	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25395	The morall law expounded ... that is, the long-expected, and much-desired worke of Bishop Andrewes upon the Ten commandments : being his lectures many yeares since in Pembroch-Hall Chappell, in Cambridge ... : whereunto is annexed nineteene sermons of his, upon prayer in generall, and upon the Lords prayer in particular : also seven sermons upon our Saviors tentations [sic] in the wildernesse. ...	Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.	1642 (1642)	Wing A3140; ESTC R9005	912,723	784

leape straight into Heaven from Predestination we leape straight to Glorification it is no matter for Mortification there be no such meane degrees But Saint Paul tels us it is so high that we had need of a ladder in which be many steps insomuch as he puts a How shall to every steppe Rom. 10.14 How shall they call on God on whom they have not beleeved c. There must be calling on God beleeving on him hearing his word There must be ordinary meanes and there is a ladder of practise aswell as of speculation or contemplation 2 Pet. 1.5 6. Joyne vertue with your Faith and with vertue knowledge and with knowledge temperance and so patience godlinesse brotherly kindnesse and love If these things be in you you shall not be idle and fruitelesse in the knowledge of Christ for he that hath not these things is blinde he goeth blindfold to the wood and may chance hap beside heaven or steppe besides the ladder A great many say as Balaam did O let my Soule dye the death of the Righteous but they care not for living the life of the Righteous He went but blindfold he knew not the Angell that stood with a sword drawne in the way but would have gone upon it if his Asse had beene so foolish A great many thinke that presumption in being secure of their salvation is good Divinity Balaam thought he went well when he went on the point of a naked sword So one entised by the flattery of a harlot thinkes he goes to a place of great pleasure but he goeth as one that goeth to the slaughter and as a foole to the stockes Prov. 7.22 Those whom it pleaseth God to have partakers of his Kingdome he puts them in minde To remember their Creator in the dayes of their youth before the evill dayes come He giveth the grace of timely Repentance and suffereth them not to deferre it till the last cast and then to thinke that with the turning of a pin as it were they shall with a trice be in heaven with Elias in a whirle winde Augustine saith We may in some cases advise men to have great hope that they shall be saved but in no case give them warrant of security So in Ephes 5.6 This wee know that no whoremonger nor uncleane person hath any inheritance in the Kingdome of Heaven Let no man deceive you through vaine words he that doth righteousnesse is righteous and he that doth unrighteousnesse is of the devill Joh. 3.7 Now therefore to neglect the hearing of the Word or when he commeth to heare it to clap downe in his place without desire or minde to beare it away thereby to be bettered in his life and without purpose after by meditating on it to chew it and so to kindle a fire within himselfe whereby it may be digested and turned into the substance of the minde this is to tempt God So also to beare a greater countenance and make more shew of holinesse than indeed is in one is to lay a greater yoke on himselfe than he need as Act. 15.10 is a tempting of God Againe he that sinneth must looke for evill to follow Psal 91.10 He therefore that sinneth and yet thinketh to escape punishment tempteth God They that by often experience have found that such and such things have beene to them occasions of sinning and yet will presume to use the same againe tempts God And those which set up their Idols in their heart and put the stumbling blocke of iniquity before their face EZech. 14.3 and thinke not they sinne such tempt God He that comes to aske forgivenesse of God and will not performe the condition of the Lords Prayer that is Forgive others tempts God Generally he that seeketh for good of God and will not performe that which he is to doe or doth evill thinking to escape scot-free without endevouring to avoyd or resist it both these tempt God and to these two may all other be referred IV. The fourth is we must not at all tempt God at no hand we must not thinke but God is able to bring water even out of a Rocke Numb 20.11 when there is nothing but rockes and stones but when we may hope to finde it we must digge for it So when the soyle will beare Corne we must Till it When Elisha was in a little village not able to defend him from the Assyrians he had chariots and horses of fire to defend him 2 King 6.17 but when he was in Samaria a strong walled City then when the King of Israel sent to fetch his head he said to those which were with him Shut the doore ver 32. Christ in the Wildernesse miraculously fed many in the City he sent his Disciples to buy meate as John 4.8 In the beginning when the Gospell was published there wanted sufficient men for the purpose the Apostles had the power as appeareth Acts 8.29 that on whomsoever they laid hands he received the holy Ghost and was straight able and meete to Preach the Gospell but after every man to his study 1 Tim. 4.5 These things exercise c. We see that notwithstanding Paul was told by an Angell that there should be no losse of any mans life in the ship yet he caused the Mariners to cut the ropes and to cast Anchor Act. 27.23 24.29 30 31 32. Nay when some would have gone out by boate he would not let them so here Christ answereth that howsoever Angels attend on him he may not tempt God V. Now follow the reasons why we may not tempt God There be two sorts of tempting the one by ignorance the other by unbeliefe It is the manner of Chirurgions when they are to dresse a wound and know not how farre nor which way it goeth to tent it In the same manner is God after the manner of men said to tempt us sometimes to prove what is in our hearts and whether we will keepe his Commandements Deut. 6.2 as he did the Israelites forty yeares To this end he both made them hungry and fed them with Manna We sometimes tempt God as if the arme of his power had received a wound or his eye a hurt as if he could not helpe or discerne our wants as well as before because he brings us not water out of the Rocke Numb 20.10 but such miracles now are not agreeing with his will which content us He will have mercy on whom he will have mercy Rom. 9.19 And we must not despise the riches of his bounteousnesse and patience and long-suffering which leadeth to Repentance Rom. 2.4 The Lords hand is not shortned that he cannot save nor his eare heavy that it cannot heare because he doth not reprove us we thinke him like us Psal 50.19 When God holds his peace we thinke his tongue is cut But I will not alwayes hold my peace saith God Mal. ult But how shall I know this say men now adayes as Zacharias knew his wife was with childe Luk. 1.18 who