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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	forget_v	son_n	womb_n	1,433	5	10.0403	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47400	A discovery of some troublesome thoughts Wherewith many godly precious souls are burthened, and extreamly pressed: that like a canker eats out all their comforts, and keeps their souls under continuall fears and distractions. Together with a compound of some Scripture and experimentall cordials, for the refreshing of those who are sick of such a disease; and through the blessing of God, may prove medicinall, to the cure of some, and the comforting of others. By Daniel King, preacher of the Word.	King, Daniel, preacher near Coventry.	1651 (1651)	Wing K489; ESTC R216092	52,316	69

them that they are sound right works As sometimes he tries their faith by this means Isa 50.10.11 Is there any among you that feareth the Lord that obeyeth the voice of his servants that walketh in darkness and hath no light Let him trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon his God To try if they will hold and hang upon him and follow him though he frown upon them as the woman of Canaan did That he may say to them at last as he did to her great is thy faith And this will be a sweet satisfaction to them when they come to see that though they saw not Gods face yet they found his grace to enable them to wait upon him in dark times It is a pretious thing to have faith tried 1 Pet. 1.7 and this way God trieth it Again hereby God trieth the sincerity of your love to him As Cant. 5.6.7.8 When Christ had withdrawn himself from his spouse she fals sick of love it works she could not be quiet nor satisfied without him her affection runs out after him though she wanted the discovery of him and this affection of hers puts her upon a constant seeking of him as Cant. 3.1.2 By night upon my bed I sought him whom my soul loved I sought him but I found him not I will rise now and go about the city and seek him whom my soul loveth c. It tryeth their sincerity whether they will stick close to his work though they see no reward as that place Isa 50.10.11 Whether they will fear the Lord and obey him though he hide himself 5. Sometimes the Lord doth it to bring thee to the sight of thy Negligence deadness dulness Security Sencelesness that you are apt to slip into And to make thee see thy unkind dealing with him that putst him off with idle excuses for self ends when he would have manifested himself So Cant. 5. When Christ had withdrawn himself then she comes to remember how unkind she was to let him call and beg for admittance and wait till his head was filled with the dew and his locks with the drops of the night She could make excuses when he was so neer her I have put off my coat how shall I put it on I have washed my feet how shall I defile them But when he was gone then she remembreth her slothfulness with sorrow and then she confesseth her Negligence my soul failed when he spake vers 6. As if she had said My heart smote me I knew it was he yet this sleepy spirit of mine overcame me and now I must smart for it 6. That the Soul might prize him the more when he manifests himself again to the soul that there might be the sweeter imbraces between him and the soul As it is with a perverse child the mother sometimes is fain to hide her self from it and call for the Bug-bear to take it that it may be quiet and more esteem of the mother when it hath her again The child cryes out as if she were quite gone but she stands neerer it then it is aware of she intends not to forsake it So the people of God in their dark times greatly mistake to say God hath utterly forsaken them Isa 49.13.14 Sion said the Lord hath forsaken me and my Lord hath forgotten me Here is the poor Discouraged souls conclusion But what saith the Answer of God to it Can a woman forget her sucking Child that she should not have compassion upon the son of her womb Yea they may yet will not I forget thee saith the Lord. When we look upon the countenance of God as we do upon the Sun shining every day as a common thing then he clouds himself from us that we may learn to set an higher rate upon it and that there may be more endeared imbracings when we meet with the Lord again Cant 3.4 After she had sought for her beloved and mist of him at last saith she I found him Whom my soul loveth and how was she affected then Oh saith she I held him and would not let him go c. Then she Clings to him with more delight and affection then ever So the bowels of the Lord as I may so speak do more yearn upon a poor soul after his withdrawings then ever as Isa 54.6,7,8 The Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit and a wife of youth when thou wast refused saith thy God This is a sad time But now mark how he makes up for this For a SMALL moment have I forsaken thee But with GREAT MERCYES I will gather thee In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee saith the Lord thy Redeemer 7. The Lord hides himself sometimes from a poor soul for the regulating of the prayers and desires of his people Many times we are begging and crying for things of lesser consequence and our minds are much upon the serving of self Now God would have us to seek him his face and countenance as the chiefest thing Therefore sometimes withdrawes that he may draw up our prayers higher and put our affections into better order then they were Hos 5.15 I will go and return to my place till they seek my face In their affliction they will seek me early Now it is Gods command to seek his Face evermore Psal 105.4 8. That his Excellency Sweetness Beauty Loveliness might be set forth by those that want the manifestations of his countenance unto others that take notice of their distempered sad condition that they may be moved also to seek after his discoveries God is pleased by this means sometimes to sweeten himself to others that stand by and behold the agony poor souls are in for want of his love manifested to them And to stir up their Spirits to look after him He is pleased to help such distressed men to preach him forth sweetly for the winning of others to him This you may see at large Cant. 5. The spouse after she was raised from her drousiness and sees Christ was gone she is extreamly troubled Sick of love as vers 8. Whereupon the daughters of Jerusalem inquire what is thy beloved more then another beloved O thou fairest among women What is thy beloved more then another beloved that thou dost so charge us What is He a None-such may not another serve thy turn as well as he What is in him more then is in another See now what glorious apprehensions she had of him now in his absence And how she preacheth him unto them to the affecting of their hearts vers 10. c. My beloved is white and ruddy the chiefest among ten thousand his head is as the most fine gold c. And so she goes on in a glorious commendation of him to the end of the Chapter And vers ult saith she He is altogether lovely or all delights This is my beloved and this is