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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	believe_v	faith_n	overcome_v	3,934	5	9.3895	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41317	The Failing & perishing of good men a matter of great & sore lamentation : held forth in a sermon preach'd the 26 of June 1662, being the day before the internment of that eminent and faithful gospel-preacher, Mr. John Sympson.		1663 (1663)	Wing F93A; ESTC R40573	25,149	50

Sodom untill Lot was got safe to Zoar for saith the Angel to Lot verse 22. Hast thee escape thither for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither c. The people of God by their prayers tears preserve the places wherein they live from wrath and judgement as appears by these scriptures Gen. 19.20 Exo. 32.11.12.13.14 31.32 33.12.13 34 8 9 Deut. 9 18. to the end Ioshua 7 7 8 9 1 Sam. 23 Jer. 13.17 14 7 8 9 19 to the end Lamen 1.16 And although it's possible the sin of a nation or people may be so very great 2 Chion 36.16 of such a Scarlet die and cloathed with such circumstances as that God may not hear the prayers of his righteous ones for that nation or people as Jer. 15.1 Ezek. 14.14 but pour out his wrath upon them without remedie * yet nevertheless such is the prevalency of the saints with God in prayer as that we find when destruction and ruine hath been threatned and hath seemed to be entring in at the windows and at the door the prayers and intercessions of righteous ones they slinging themselves in the gap and pleading with God upon the account of his name honour and mercy hath diverted judgement and procured national mercy and pardon many a time And again such is the prevalency of saints in prayer as that if God be resolved to destroy a nation he first restrains the spirit of prayer he saith to his holy ones pray not for this people for their good Jer. chap. 7.16 11.14 14.11 and let me alone that my wrath may wax hot against them and that I may consume them Exod. 32.10 as much as to say Give me my hands at liberty and do not tye me up from destroying this people I can't destroy while Moses doth thus pray and therefore Moses hold thy peace cease praying that I may devour and destroy Yet once more such is the prevalency of Prayer that if there be a spirit of Faith and Prayer in the Saints on the behalf of a Nation or people it 's almost an infallible sign that God will not destroy but have mercy upon that people The prayers of the Saints with holy reverence be it spoken do overcome the Almighty so that God cannot withstand the faith and prayer of his people and the reason lieth here Because they wrestle with God in his own strength they engage the Almighty in almighty strength and so must needs be prevailers Well then might Elisha say of Elijah that mighty man of prayer when he was taken up to heaven the chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof and also King Joash say the same of Elisha when he lay sick of his deadly sickness For that indeed the strength of a Nation lyeth not in chariots and horsemen in towers and castles c. but in the prayers of the Faithful of the land It 's not the Common-prayers of the common swearers and drunkards that will secure and insafe a people but the fervent prayers of righteous ones Wicked swearers Drunkards Adulterers Idolaters and truce-breakers are the plague and curse of a Nation but holy believing and praying ones they are the blessing of a Nation A Nation is more beholding to the meanest Kitchin-maid in it that hath in her a spirit of prayer then to a thousand of her profane swaggering Gentry such Gentry that are better at whoring swearing and drinking then they are at praying When they are drunk they 'l curse and ban the people of God to the pit of hell but alas the people of God in a holy sense doth laugh them to scorn they 'l put the prayers and tears and sighs of one righteous person against ten thousand of these poor self-destroyers and will be confident that the prayers and tea●s of that one person be he a Cobler or a Tinker or be she a Kitchin maid as abovesaid shal do them more good then ten thousand of them shall do hurt by all their oaths and curses These profane wretches are ready to wish the people of God all out of the world but alas what would then these wretches do they are beholding to the saints for their very beings and for the continuance of all their mercies When God hath but once gathered in his elect and done his work in Zion he will soon pull the world about these mens ears If the righteous be taken away he is taken away from the evill to come Isa 57 1 Wo to Sodom if Lot depart and so I may say Wo to England if the righteous should be taken away Wo to London whenever thou ceasest to be a refuge to the saints whenever thy gates shall be shut against the ministers and people of the Lord Jesus Ten thousand woes to that man family citie or nation that engageth against the prayers of the Saints that seeks to defend and maintain that interest which the Saints do by Scripture-rule pray against and believe must go down If I know my heart I would not be in the condition of such for the whole world Blind fools do they think to stand against the faith and praiers of the Saints which in a holy sense overcometh God himself If they do they may find themselvs mistaken when it is too late The children of Israel though they slighted and despised the Prophets would in time of destress come to them for prayer 1 Sam. 7.8.9 12.19 Yea Pharoah as proud and as high as he was yet when the plague was upon him Moses he must be sent for and be entreated to pray for him and his people The time may come when the proudest persecutor on earth may see cause to beg the prayers of such whom he now persecutes And thus much for the reasons of the doctrine shewing why the people of God must needs be affected with and mourn over the death of praying and believing ones Wee shall now proceed to application Use 1 And first it affords matter of information as First if it be a Christ like frame to mourn over the death of such as are truly gracious it informs us how unlike to Christ such are who though they plead for Christian buriall yet do attend funerall solemnities with a vain wicked ungodly spirit and carriage making the house of mourning a house of laughter and filling themselves with wine wherein is excess until they become more like beasts then men which is a practice that may be found not onely among the poor ignorant country people but too often in this great city You may soon judge how fit such persons are to attend upon a funerall Sermon but indeed I am apt to think funerall Sermons have generally been rather for ostentation and vain glory then for profit Hereby is likewise condemned that heathenish practice of ringing of bells so soon as ever funeral solemnites are performed How unsuitable is it that so soon as ever the husband or wife or a godly friend is laid in the earth to