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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	knowledge_n	lord_n	temperance_n	1,588	5	11.7145	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02260	The happines of enjoying, and making a true and speedie use of Christ Setting forth, first, the fulnesse of Christ. Secondly, the danger of neglecting Christ, and the opportunity of grace. Thirdly, the Lord Jesus the soules last refuge. Whereunto is added, St. Pauls legacie, or farewell to the men of Corinth. By Alexander Grosse B.D. Minister of the Gospel, and pastour of Bridford.	Grosse, Alexander, 1596?-1654.	1640 (1640)	STC 12395; ESTC S103450	151,344	397

home the waters which are drawne out of the Wells of salvation as in firme and sure vessels by engraving upon your hearts as letters written with a pen of Iron or the point of a Diamond that it may never bee blotted out by ruminating and meditating thereupon day and night writing them upon the tables of your h●arts Pro. 7.2 3 4. keeping them as the apple of your eye binding them as jewels and precious stones upon your fingers in regard of your affection to them high estimation carefull preservation continuall remembrance of them singular delight in them let them be to you as sisters and kinswomen for your daily commemoration of them familiar communion and acquaintance with them Bee fruitfull in your affections let your love grow as the waters which flowed out under the Temple Ezek. 47.5 1 King 18 44 45. as the Cloud which was first no bigger then a mans hand and at length so great that it covered the whole heavens let it grow to a great love to a flaming and a burning fire a fire so strong that no floods be able to quench it to a love like Jonathans love to David a love surpassing the love of women to their children O love the Lord all ye his Saints Ps 35.23 saith the Psalmist love him with a childs love a friends love a wifes love love him with all manner of love love him purely in regard of the spring whence your love ariseth love him sincerely for the quality love him fervently for the measure love him continually constantly for the time love him universally for the extent love him in his Attributes as a God of power supporting a God of wisedome guiding a God of mercy forgiving love him in his Creatures as an Almighty Maker love him in his Word as a King prescribing lawes of obedience as a friend revealing his counsels declaring the riches of his mercies love him in Christ Jesus as a Father love him in his children as the fountaine of all grace and sanctification Bee fruitfull in all your sufferings As spices the more bruised the more fragrant resemble the fire in Nymphaeus which if we give credit to Pliny imbribus fit ardentior let all your sufferings be as Schoolemasters teaching fires purging trumpets awakening spurres quickning Zac. 10.9 winds driving neerer to God come forth of the fornace of affliction as gold out of the fire be able to say out of experience to Satan tempting to the world hating Gen. 50.20 traducing persecuting as Joseph said to his brethren Ye thought evill against me but God meant it unto good as it is this day Be fruitfull in your Callings Ministers in teaching Magistrates in governing every man in his particular Calling As every member in the body the head eyes hands feet are all profitable in their places so should each of us be fruitfull in the station wherein the Lord hath set us Every wheele in the clock hath his motion doth his part every starre in the firmament sendeth forth his influence giveth his light so must every person in that politicall or ecclesiastical orb where God hath set him abide and be fruitfull 1 Cor. 7.24 6 Be fruitfull in all your Actions in your hearing as fields receiving good seed in your prayers draw some water out of Gods well let not thy prayer returne empty Heb. 10.24 but like Noahs Dove with an olive branch of some comfort in your meetings Consider one another provoke one another to good workes in your speeches let your tongue be as choice silver Pro. 10.20 21. and fruitfull pasture for the purity sincerity profitablenesse enrichment of others feeding filling the hungry rejoycing the sorrowfull strengthening the weake by your gracious communication as by a spirituall banquet in your families let every man wife Luke 1.6 like Zachary and Elizabeth walk in all the ordinances of God and be blameles every master like Abraham Gen. 18.19 command his people to keepe the way of the Lord every servant like Joseph in Potiphars house so religious towards God so observant of his master so faithfull in his Calling that all his undertakings may be prosperous every son and daughter so attentive to the parents instruction so full of grace and godlinesse that they may make glad the hearts of their parents be an ornament to their families as the flowers to the garden every subject so loyall faithfull and obsequious to his Soveraigne that he prove both an honour and strength to the Kingdome every houshold like Philemons house Philem. vers 2. a Church of God in regard of holy instructions there delivered religious duties there observed in regard of the lively faith and holy life of such as live in it thus let us endevour to be fruitfull thus let us grow in grace Hearken beloved how Saint Paul perswades you We beseech you brethren 1 Thes 4.1 and exhort you by the Lord Jesus that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walke and to please God so ye would abound more and more Consider deare Christians how Saint Peter presseth it 2 Pet. 1.5 6 7. Giving all diligence adde to your faith vertue and to vertue knowledge to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godlinesse And to the end you may be fruitfull under the meanes you must be 1 Carefull in preparing a prepared field is made fruitfull by the seed and a prepared soule receiveth much benefit by the ordinances of the Lord you must put iniquity farre away from you Job 11.13 by desertion detestation declination of every occasion leading thereunto Gen. 43.24 Josephs brethren washed their feet made ready their present when they were to come before him and bowed themselves unto the earth and then Joseph made them eat and drinke and they were merry with him thus when we come before our Joseph our God and our Christ Isa 1.16 we must wash and be cleane wee must make ready our eare to heare our heart to pray and present our petition before the Lord and then the Lord Jesus will sup with us feast and feed us and make us merry Rev. 3.20 Isa 56.7 joyfull with him in his Ordinances 2 Diligent in frequenting the house of God the place where the meanes is we must wisely forecast all our businesse that we be not hindered husband our time well that we may have time to spare for good duties Cleanthes carried water by night that he might not be hindered from studying the Liberall Sciences by day thus should we rather worke by night then be absent from the house of Christ by day It is a foule shame that Shops Tavernes Market places nay the house of Baal 2 Kin. 10.20 21. should be full and the house of God empty If you purpose to be fruitfull you must attend on the Ministers of the Lord as Lydia did on Paul Act. 16.14 the lame man at Bethesda as Suiters

women of whom the Apostle speakes that were alwayes learning 2 Tim. 3.7 and never came to the knowledge of the truth Story relates of Augustus how in his solemne feasts hee gave gifts giving to some gold to others trifles So God in his banqueting house in the use of his ordinances with which hee feasts and feeds the soules of his servants giveth to some gold the saving graces of his Spirit which are more pretious then gold to others hee gives trifles common knowledge historicall faith c. and with this they rest content Fourthly how great is the number of profane carnall and ignorant people Are they not in respect of them that shew forth the power of godlinesse in their conversations as the Midianitish Armie to Gideons three hundred souldiers as the tares over-topping the wheat the people that truly feare God are to the rest but as Lot among the Sodomites Ier. 2.14 Mat. 7.13 one of a Citie two of a Tribe saith the Prophet Straight is the way narrow is the gate which leadeth unto life few saith Christ few comparatively are they that find it and among the great number of impenitent transgressours there is no one swearer drunkard adulterer idolater c. but his sinne becommeth the sinne of the kingdome congregation place family where hee lives hee being a member thereof Ios 7.12 as the sinne of Achan became the sin of the whole Army And thus it continueth unlesse wee humble our selves for it seeke the pardon stop the course and labour the removall thereof as the mariners removed Ionah Jona 1. that the stormy tempest might be appeased Fifthly what entertainment finde such as doe truely make conscience of their wayes and refuse to runne with others into the same excesse of ryot Do not the hearts of men rise against them their tongues reproach them their hands oppresse them Isa 59.15 Doth not hee that departeth from iniquity make himselfe a prey as the Sheep to the Lyon the Dove to the Raven Hath not our Saviour foretold us Luke 6.22 that for this their names shall bee cast out as abominable Sixthly what wearinesse of holy duties religious exercises as in the dayes of the Prophet they complained of the length of the Sabbaths Amos 8.5 How untoothsome to many persons is the doctrine of the Gospel it is become like the Manna to Israel Num. 11.5.7 a light bread they finde no relish in it Gods Ordinances are to many as Sauls armour unto David they cannot walke in them Seventhly what reformation have the punishments inflicted on us wrought Have we come forth of these as gold out of the fire Naaman out of Iordan Nay may not the Lord say of many of us as hee did of Israel Isa 1.5 They revolt more and more What effect have the punishments inflicted on other nations taken in us Have wee feared by the sight of their strokes Have wee learned to beware by their harmes Are we not still secure tread wee not the same path runne wee not our wonted race hath not the Lord lost his labour in regard of any reformation on the behalfe of the greatest number of people O let us thinke on these things lay them to our hearts be affected with them Ja. 4.9 10. turne our laughter into mourning humble our selves in the sight of the Lord Humble your selves and mourne inwardly in your soules by grieving as the Church did Lam. 1. Lament 1. Humble your selves outwardly by unfained confession of the sinnes of your owne soules and the sinnes of the Church Dan. 9. Kingdome Congregation Towne Family where you live Humble your selves publickly in the Congregation as Ezra did Ezra 10.1 Humble your selves privatly let your soules mourne in secret weep as Christ over Jerusalem Weep O Ministers over your congregations weep O Rulers over your people weepe O Masters of families over your wives sonnes daughters servants that the Lord may have mercie upon you pardon your barrennesse and for the time to come make you more fruitfull in all goodnesse This must cause us to strive under the Use 2 meanes and in the use of the meanes to bee fruitfull in all holinesse rich in all grace as the sea is full of waters and the starres in the firmament are full of light This the Lord who by his power created us by his hand supporteth us the Lord who hath all jurisdiction over us all interest in us before whose dreadfull and glorious tribunall every soule must shortly make his appearance requireth 2 Pet. 3.18 Grow saith the Lord by the Apostle in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Iesus Christ Grow in knowledge as Schollers in learning Tradesmen in skilfulnesse in the mysteries of their Trade grow in all grace as Willowes by the water courses Isa 44.4 as children by the milke suckt from their Nurses 1 Pet. 2.2 This is one speciall end of our Saviours incarnation passion resurrection to purifie us to himselfe Tit. 2.14 a peculiar people Zealous of good workes This is a prime and singular fruit of the Ministery the clouds are appointed for the watering and making of the earth fruitfull the builders for the perfecting of the house and the Ministers for the making of us rich in grace Eph. 4.11 13. and perfect to every good work This is the fervent prayer and ardent desire of Gods faithfull Ministers As the husbandman desires the field may be fruitfull and the nurse that the childe may grow So doth the spirituall husbandmen of Gods vineyard the nurses of Gods children pray that they may bee fruitfull in every good work Col. 1.10 This is the proper and gracious operation of the Word in the hearts of the Lords people Mat. 13. and therefore I beseech you give all diligence to make your calling and election sure and to abound in all goodnesse make the inward and the outward man like the tree bearing twelve sorts of fruit every moneth Rev. 22.2 be yee furnished with all sorts of spirituall fruits and that at all seasons Bee fruitfull in your Understandings enriched in all knowledge 1 Cor. 1.5 know the efficacie of the word of God discovering thy sinne Heb. 4.12 as a two edged sword dividing between the bone and marrow know the power of it awakening thy conscience Acts 2.37 as a Trumpet awakeneth the sleepy know the vertue of it healing the wounds of thy soule as a patient knowes the vertue of the medicine as Naaman knew by experience the vertue of the river Iordan washing him as hee that is cold knowes the heat of the fire warming him Know the Lord as a servant his master in regard of reverence and subjection as a friend in regard of communion as a father in regard of affiance and child-like affection Bee fruitfull in your Memories by treasuring up the testimonies of the Lord as gold silver pretious jewels in a rich store-house by carrying