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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	faith_n	love_n	overcome_v	2,284	5	9.3905	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49178	The ascents of the soul, or, David's mount towards God's house being paraphrases on the fifteen Psalms of Degrees / written in Italian, by ... Gio. Francesco Loredano ..., 1656 ; render'd into English, Anno Dom. 1665.; Gradi dell'anima. English	Loredano, Giovanni Francesco, 1607-1661.; Coleraine, Hugh Hare, Baron, 1606?-1667.	1681 (1681)	Wing L3065; ESTC R6897	69,621	80

the Mind to no purpose for the acquiring or preserving of Grace without thy good will or Divine assistance since from thee we have our principles and beginnings our conservation protection and perfection Without thee as thou hast told us we can do nothing but we must likewise know that thou art not far from any one of us nor forsakest such as seek thee truly Many do mis-conjecture that the height of Walls the depth of Waters the thickness of Works the courage of Men the goodness of Arms the fulness of Provisions the watchfulness of Guards and the wisdom of Commanders will secure any Regular Fortification when alas all the Ramparts will founder all the Bastions and Lines fall in together like the walls of Jericho the Curtains will drop down or rend in pieces being too thin and sleight to keep out an Enemy while wrapped in them the sleepy Centinels shall be carried off to Eternal Slumbers unless thy Providence and Protection O Lord of Hosts be over such a Fortress for it is thy favour that must be its strong Tower and Rock of defence and Magazine of safety without that all we can do signifies nothing How far can humane industry advance to raise a man up like Jeremiah out of the Dungeon from the pit of Sin or despair or to support him in thy presence till thou sayest the Comfortable Edict I will be thou clean 'T is true the Angels are ministring Spirits and Holy men help instrumentally to the conservation of Grace and to the disposing of our Minds to good by their exhortations and examples And 'T is certain that I am not seldom affected with the consciousness of my provocations so that I resolve then vigorously to spend the residue of my dayes amongst the Rigors of an Austere Repentance while my Remembrance shames me with the Thoughts of thy abused patience which must needs be turned into fury and this be imbittered by delay Yet for all this without thy special Grace and particular assistance all my Resolutions are but Spiders Webbs my strongest attempts but as Stubble before a consuming fire very weak and ridiculous motions It is not in Man saith the Prophet to direct his Steps Therefore trust not O mortal men either to your selves or to your possessions trust not your enjoyments of great Knowledge or of great Strength no not of the chief Natural or Corporeal Faculties no more than you would credit the turning Wheel of Fortune or the Top of worldly Pomp and Honours Can ye think by robbing your Eyes of Sleep your Minds of Rest your Limbs of Ease or your Bodies of Health ye may do any thing on your own score to gain the applause of Heaven or to throw open the Gates of Paradise No no the Roots of your Merit should be set on another Ground it is not a Plant that will grow in the barren soil of our Earth we must have God's daily Cultivation his Love his Shelter and his Sun too or else we shall go without it And to obtain some worthiness of thy Regard some favour in thy sight a sound and sincere reliance upon Christ doth avail more than all the Watchings Fastings Austerities and Rods which some make such a bustle withall and too often to little purpose for their rising at Midnight or before Day is but a walking in darkness their arrogant reliance on their own Performances is but increasing the difficulties of such achievements as depend not on our own Strength or Merit but on God's Free-will and his alone good pleasure Assist me therefore O most gracious Lord with such a Grace as may gratifie my humble requests and graciously receive the submisness of my Heart in all its acts of Penance with sincerity of Address of Trust and Obedience to thee and to thee onely for to which of the Saints may I turn That although I have been long embraced within the Arms of Sin I may now break away from that Harlot and from the bondage of my Guilt and fly unto thee for a place of rest in the Bosom of thy Favour and Compassion Lord suffer not the naughtiness of my Heart to inveigle me to any further expectation of Comfort or hope of Satisfaction than in those things that are above and there promis'd me by thy Truth and Goodness Let not Worldly concerns or poor transitory Prizes allure my Soul which stoops too oft at low Objects she should tower more out of sight of Earth like a Bird of Paradise and direct her mount to that Summit or height where should be her Airie and which was her Country Ah! did she ply her Wings thitherward like thy holiest Dove she would not be endangered by the Floods of Humane unhappiness she would reach home with her Olive and Myrtle branches with Peace and Purity While Imploying all the Labours of my Life and longings of my Heart after a sight of God in such Righteousness as Peace and Holiness bring along with them I my self might be secured both in Life and in Death and I should find Death but as a sleep and Heaven as an Inheritance long promised to the Faithful and laid up for us in those promises as laid out in that other Life where those who are faithful unto Death may expect a full satisfaction of their Pains Hopes and desires and meet with a farther Solace in a Knowledge of one another and of all their Fellow-brethren even the whole flock of Christ which shall then appear in his Presence and enter into his Joy and triumph in his Courts to all the Ages of an happy Eternity I will therefore O my God! assert my self thy Creature the work of thy Almighty Power the Fruit of the Body of Christ begotten again to a lively hope by his blood and seeking Regeneration by his Ordinances and by my Faith so that I may not love the World nor the things of it but do the will of our Father which is in Heaven But doth it not require much Sweat vast Pains and violent Exercises and very great Self-denial to enter in at the strait Gate and to walk worthy of the Denomination of a Son of God Yea surely 'T is therefore needful to leave off the pursuit of all those vain complacencies which have served onely to amuse and to deceive me here below 'T is needfull O my Soul that thou being armed by devout Prayer and Fasting shouldest be sober and watchful to repell the most furious attacks of his Temptations who is come forth against thee like a ravenous Lion 'T is needful for thee to make Reason thy Pilot Religion thy Load-star for thy better passage through the waves of this troublesome Life and if thou steerest wisely in the faithless Sea of this World weathering all the stormes of Impetuous affections thou mayest at last arrive at the Haven where thou wouldest be and as the feigned Son of Jupiter is said to overcome the many-headed Monster so thou mayest by thy several Labours in Charity Love Faith