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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	faith_n	overcome_v	temptation_n	1,809	5	9.3055	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91739	Divine efficacy without humane power. Opened in a sermon preached at St. Margarets Church in Westminster before the Right Honourable the House of Commons, June 28. 1660. Being the day of solemne thanksgiving for the happy return of the Kings Majesty. / By Edward Reynolds D.D. and chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty.	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1660 (1660)	Wing R1246; Thomason E988_27; ESTC R203408	21,066	55

do it Isa. 46. 11. The Lord hath ordered all duty to have some difficulty in it And the same word which is the Rule of the duty is also the comfort against the difficulty We have therein the comfort of his Authority requiring it of us It is the work which he hath given us to do we have not rushed upon it presumptuously our selves We have the comfort of his promises quickning us unto it for every word of command hath a word of promise with it 2 Cor. 7. 1. Heb. 10. 36. We have the comfort of his grace working together with the Word facilitating the duties required and proportioning the soul to the service giving an heart to do the word Ezek. 11. 19 20. And therefore by faith and hope we may improve every word unto comfort and courage in duty Faith giving a kinde of Being unto the things promised Heb. 11. 1. and hope waiting with joy for the accomplishment of them do powerfully work the heart above difficulties unto cheerful obedience Faith quencheth temptation overcometh the world purifieth the heart worketh by love removeth fear the discourager and obstructer of duty 1 Iohn 4. 18. Hope causeth us to purifie our selves 1 Iohn 3. 3. To serve the Lord instantly day and night Acts 26. 7. To deny ungodlinesse and worldly lusts Tit. 2. 11 12 13. To wait on the Lord and to keep his Way Psal. 37. 34. To renew our strength to run and not be weary to walk and not faint Isa. 40. 31. When the soul of a man is in such straights and perplexities that all the world is not able to comfort him one sentence out of the word wisely managed by the hand of faith is able to bear up the heart and to make it victorious above all the powers of darkness Wit wealth power policy youth strength security sensuality worldly imployments will peradventure serve a while to fence against fear and discouragement but these are but like a bush in a storme which shelters a while and after annoys with its own dropping Nothing will minister durable and final comfort against all doubts and fears but a word from God seasonably brought unto the conscience this alone can hold up the heart against the roarings of Satan and all the powers of darkness You may haply have before you many knotty and difficult debates and be at a stand which way to steere your judgement and to dispose your suffrage men may like Carneades dispute plausibly probably on either side and the substantial merits of a question may lie hidden under the Oratory which hath pro con been spent upon upon it In such cases attend not only to what you have heard spoken but with David make the word of God your Counsellers Psal. 119. 24. Let not frowns dismay you let not interests biass you let not paralogismes dazle you but seriously weigh what is most consonant to the Will of God what is most likely to promote the great Ends which that calls for the Glory of God the Salvation of men the Cause of Religion the Simplicity of the Gospel the Spirituality of worship the peace unity and integrity of the Church the healing and setting in joynt the dislocated and divided affections of men the impartial setling of judgement and righteousnesse in the Land And when you hear a word behinde you saying this is the way then walk in it turn not to the right hand or to the left Isa. 30. 21. We have seen how the Lord encourageth his servants in difficulties and by what means he doth it by the Word of his own mouth now this word is brought by the Prophet to Zerubbabel and by the Angel 1. By Christ unto the Prophet The Angel in the former Chapter spake immediately to Iosua here mediately by the Prophet Zachariah unto Zerubbabel 1. The first Revealer of the counsel of God unto the Church is the Angel of the Covenant It was his Spirit which spake in the Prophet 1 Pet. 1. 11. He by his Spirit preached in the dayes of Noah to the spirits which are now in prison 1 Pet. 3. 19 20. for so Andradius a learned Pontifician as well as Beza and other Protestants have expounded that place No man hath seen the Father but by the revelation of the Sonne Joh. 1. 18. Mat. 11. 27. He was the Angel that spake unto Moses Act. 7. 30. 38. and unto Isaiah John 12. 40 41. He instructed his Apostles in things pertaining to the Kingdom of God Acts 1. 3. They must deliver nothing to the Church but what they had first received from him 1 Cor. 11. 23. Greatly do the profane the Ministry of the Word and betray the Trust which Christ hath put upon them as his Ambassadours who preach the vision of their own heart and not out of the mouth of the Lord and a woful curse they incurre by so high a presumption Deut. 18. 20. The lesse there is of Christ in a Sermon and of the evidence and demonstration of the Spirit how full soever it may otherwise be of Exotick learning of heaped allegations of strains of wit or luxuriancies of fancy and language it hath so much the lesse of the power of God to the salvation of the souls of men For we are not to preach our selves but Christ Jesus the Lord 2 Cor. 4. 5. And as they are the best Ministers who so preach so they are the best hearers who savour and relish nothing so well in a Sermon as the gracious and powerful manifestations of Christ to the conscience and evidences of the commission which the preacher hath received from him 2. When the Prophet brings no other then the Word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel It is his duty to heare it Princes and Magistrates men of highest place and authority must receive Gods counsel from the mouth of his Messengers and be contented to be directed comforted encouraged by their Ministry David though himself a Prophet was not without his Seers Gad Heman Asaph Jeduthan Nathan to admonish reprove comfort him as his condition required So we finde Shemaiah a Prophet sent to reprove Rehoboam Oded and Azariab to encourge Asa Jehu and Jahaziel to threaten and comfort Jehoshaphat We read of the writing of Eliah to Jehoram of the threatning of Zachariah to Joash of the Prophet Isaiah counselling and rebuking Ahaz comforting and encouraging Hezezekiah Jeremy and Ezekiel denouncing judgements against Zedekiah Hosea and Amos against Jeroboam Jonah sent to the King of Nineveh and John Baptist to Herod And though great difference is to be used in the manner of our application to great and to ordinary persons yet the same fidelity is due unto all Cum eadem omnibus debeatur Charitas non eadem omnibus adhibenda medicina as Saint Austin speaks If a Minister must shew all meeknesse to all men much more must he deliver his message with all Reverence and humility with all awe and tenderness with all honour and prudence unto those