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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	good_a	seed_n	sow_v	1,957	5	9.8778	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09013	The rose, and lily Delivered at the lecture, in Ashby de-la-zouch in the county of Leicester. By William Parks, Master of Arts, and curat of Chelaston in the county of Derby.	Parks, William, curat of Chelaston.	1639 (1639)	STC 19303; ESTC S102532	67,453	210

neither from the East nor yet from the West but from God What the Apostle saith c Eph. 2.8 of salvation may bee said of all grace It is not of our selves lest any men should boast We have no more power of our selves to work grace in our selves then these inferiour bodies have power to give light when the light of the Sunne is absent Adams ability was lost by his fall now Sampsons locks are cut off and therefore we may bee carried whither our leader the divell will since wee suffered that Dalilah sinne to steale away our strength from us Adam per malum velle perdidit bonum posse by willing that which is evill hee lost his ability to performe that that is good and since him every mothers son may bee called as the wife of Phinehas named her child d 1 Sam 4.21 Ichabod for in him this glory departed from us GOD now worketh in us c Phil. 2.13 both the will and the deed Ipse aspirando nos praevenit ut velimus quod adjuvando subsequitur ne inaniter velimus saith S. Gregory f In Ezek. lib. 1. Hom. 9. Hee by his preventing grace makes us to will that which by his assisting grace he makes us to performe The sap and juice that is in the Rose-Tree proceeds from the root and the grace that is in the members of the Church whether it be gratia infusa effusa or diffusa in thought word or worke doth proceed from God the Fountaine of grace Non est gratia ullo modo nisi sit gratuita omni modo it is not grace except it bee given gratis So that the planting of the members in the Church and the watering them for their growth being planted proceeds not from themselves but from God for therein the Church resembles the Rose of the common Field Secondly the Rose of the Field is not inclosed to a few as the garden Rose is but lyes open to all so the Church is not inclosed in some narrow nooke or corner but is spread through the World and lyes open to receive all Before Christ Israel was Gods peculiar people the nation that hee had chosen to set his name there to them hee gave his word with them hee made his covenant and shewed them the presence of his god-head He dealt not so with other nations neither had g Psalme 147.20 the heathen the knowledge of his waies So that then Iacob was the man that prevayled with God and his posterity the onely Israel that saw him He suffered other nations to sit in darknes and in the shadow of death Then Israel was h Calv. Instit the Lords Son that was his darling others were strangers Israel was received into his care and protection others were left to their owne blindnes Israel was honoured with the presence of God others were excluded from coming nigh him in a word there was a generall darknes over all the Land of Aegypt among the Gentiles but in the Land of Goshen i Exod. 10. among the Israelites there was light But since Christ the mercy of God was no longer inclosed within the narrow confines of Iewry but the glorious light of the Gospell shined through the World Before Christ the Church was a garden inclosed k Sol. Song 4.12 a spring shut up a Fountaine sealed but now she is the Rose of the common Feild The Kingdome of heaven is likened unto a man l Mat. 13.24 which sowed good seed in his Field The Church is the Field the seed is the word and the Gospell shall be preached through the World m Mat 26.13 And to this purpose the Church is called Catholique Catholica id est per totum orbem diffusa saith Saint August n Epist 170. in Ps 56. because it is spread through the World And so the Epistles of S. Iames S. Peter S. Iohn and S. Iude are called Catholique because o Willsons Christ Dictionary are written not to a particuler person as to Timothy c. or to a particular Church as to the Romans c. but either to all the Iewes every where or to all the Christians in the World And to this purpose also the Apostle calls p Heb. 12.22 the Church 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Conventus vniversalis the generall assembly to shew the Universality of it The Apostle S. Peter affirmes g Acts 10.34 Of a truth that God is no resspecter of persons but in every nation hee that feareth him and worketh righteousnes is accepted with him Though the Church bee but one yet it lyes open to all that will come unto it Vnus est Christus per quem omnis gens omnisque lingua fide confessione unita est saith Ignatius r Apud Amand Polan there is but one Christ and one Church by whom and in whom all nations and tongues are knit together Quid enim est Ecclesia aliud quam congregatio fidelium in unitate fidei advnita saith Oecolampadius ſ Annotat in Chrysit What else is the Church of God but the congregation of faithfull people spread through the World knit together in the vnity of faith the Church is spread every where through the World and admits any persons in the World into her bosome And therefore the Church is not to bee tyed to Rome or any one particuler place Rome may with no better reason be sayd to bee the Catholique Church then the head may bee sayd to be the whole body for if it bee a true Church yet it is but a part of the Church Catholique and not the whole And to say the Catholique Church of Rome is all one as if I should say the catholique Church of Canterbury or of London or a particular universall Church which how harsh it sounds the most simple may easily understand After this I beheld saith S. Iohn t Rev. 7.9 and loe a great multitude which no man could number of all nations and kindred and people and tongues stood before the Throne and before the Lambe cloathed with white Robes and palmes in their hands The Church is collected out of all nations Accipit Ecclesia omni tempore volentes credere nemini prorsus occludit se huc festinanti sed liberum licitum est volentibus quolibet tempore nullo impediente ad lucem veritatis adduci saith S. Cyrill u In El. lib. 5 cap. 60. The Church receaveth all that will beleeve at all times shee is shut to none that come unto her but it is free and lawfull to all that will there is none to hinder them to come to the knowledge of the truth And therefore if thou hast no benefit by this Rose if thou art no member of the Church blame thy selfe for shee is not the inclosed Rose of the Garden but the Rose of the common Field Thirdly the Rose of the Field is for profit as well as pleasure and is healthfull in many medicines so