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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	holy_a	mercy_n	miserable_a	4,748	5	11.1845	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86499	God, a rich supply of all good Setting forth, I. The beleevers interest in it. II. The riches of it in quantity. III. The gloriousnesse of it in quality. IV. The meanes of sealing up all: namely, Christ. All illustrated, with many wonderfull and remarkable spirituall experiences, not onely of former, but of later Christians. By Doctor Nathanael Homes.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1650 (1650)	Wing H2565; Thomason E1341_3; ESTC R209144	14,400	31

worse then nothing to poison and pain us to all degrees of misery They wil supply they say but according to what even quite contrary to the text viz. they wil supply according to the abundance and basenesse of evil that is in sin and the Devil But the voice of the text is life the voice of God indeed He will supply all your need according to the riches of his glory by Christ Jesus Second Use is for improvement of God in Christ Jesus unto all consolation to them that can closely close with and own God in Christ to say My God by the blood of Christ My God by the spirit of faith These men shall be able to say My God shall supply all my wants yea mine and others that are beleivers as Paul speaks in the text for himselfe and other Saints God shal supply all Widdows Orphans Prisoners and with all of which we have absolute need without all faile of what is also convenient for us when it is convenient First We have absolute need of grace without faith it is impossible to please God Heb. 11. And God tells us we have need of patience Heb. 10.36 Therefore that God must needs supply according to his promise he will poure out his Spirit Act. 2. And according to his insurance having filled Christ that of his fulnesse we might receive Ioh. 1. Secondly There is an absolute necessity of what is altogether necessary to gracious actings in all conditions Heb. 4.16 Let us come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and finde grace in the time of NEED And my grace shall be sufficient for thee even in thy wraftling with Satan 2 Cor. 12. Compare diligently 1 Cor. 10.13 Therefore this also God must needs supply Thirdly That is of absolute necessity that concurrs to our natural being and life whiles God wil have us to be on earth for his service In this respect Christ saith of outward things Your heavenly Father knows you have NEED of these things Therefore so much of food of clothes of liberty of peace c. as whereby we may be able to be and act according to Gods minde God must needs supply Fourthly There is an absolute need that God should be glorified by us He must attaine his end All things was made for his glory Revel 4. Therefore whatsoever is needful for us to further Gods glory that God must needs supply All these are but absolute necessary supplyes But God supplyes somtimes ex superabundanti good measure pressed down and running over not onely for necessity but for delight And he wil so supply us at present need in some things that we shall be able out of experience to speake with confidence of futures My God shall supply all needs As Paul speaks 1 Cor. 1.10 Who delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver in whom we trust he will yet deliver And Rom. 5. Tribulation worketh patience patience experience experience hope Past mercyes are the first fruits of future As the Apostle argues Rom. 11. That God hath more mercy for the Jews whom he calls the lump because the first-fruits of the fathers afore the floud and the Patriarks after the floud were holy by mercy received from God And as God supplyes all with all as we have sayd so also sutably to the Saints condition in this world wil he supply For Hel and the world indeavour to put the Saints into need and all manner of wants But saith the text God will supply all your need Hel and the world labour to make them poor and scanty and miserable but saith the text God wil supply all your need according to his riches Hel and the world do nothing but render them contemptible and ignominious But saith the text God wil supply according to his riches in glory Hel and the world labour if it were possible to divide them from Christ But saith the text God wil supply them by Christ Jesus Object But how wil God supply us Answ Either ordinarily or extraordinarily God is pleased when he sees good to use means but he is not tyed to means method or manner of acting When Moses was much with God on the mount he could fast forty dayes when Peter had a vision Act. 10. he forgate his hunger When Paul was in a rapture he knew not whether he was in the body or no and therefore minded not bodily wants When we consider our clothing with Christs righteousnesse and eternal glory we shall more minde our clothing upon with them then moth-eatable garments 2 Cor. 5. Whiles Adam injoyed God he minded not his nakednesse There are no perplexities can enwrap and hamper and seize upon Pauls spirit whiles he considers Christs fulnesse through whom he can do all things Phil. 4. A word from Christs mouth stils him in a great fight of temptations 2 Cor. 12. Distractions there may be in States and upon Churches and every one enquires what wil things come to But the consideration of these Christ must reign Psal 2. Heb. 2. The four mettalled Image of all humane power opposing him must be broken before him Dan. 2. And Antichrist must down as sure as if down already Revel 18. Christs Church must be set up in glory Revel 21. The Saints must rule chap. 20 these I say will quiet our mindes Object But my heart hath many doubtings in it Answ Dost thou call him my God and hast had some former experiences what he hath done for thee then mayest thou boldly as Paul say in the text My God shall supply all my wants Yea the same God that makes any promise wil give to thee lying under the serious consideration of that promise assurance through that promise that he wil performe it and make thee wait till thine eyes see it done In waiting with hope upon God a soule oft times hath much communion with God And in this communion God doth make admirable impressions on Saints spirits touching assurance Psal 130.5 6 7. So that if all the world should perswade them it were in vaine to waite they could not be taken off Yea some Saints waiting upon God unto and in great sufferings have little lesse then an impression of Prophesie made upon their spirits Hus a Bohemian signifying a Goose in his language sayd that if they costed him in the fire within an hundred years should rise a Swan that should carry the cause on for which he suffered And accordingly Luther signifying a Swan rose up and did so most successefully The Martyr that last was burnt in Smithfield told the people they should be of a good comfort for he was perswaded he was the last that should suffer under Queen Mary And so he was The world doth not consider this of secret impressions And therefore they plot sometimes great plots thinking to have the people to side with them But God makes contrary impressions and so all falls to nothing Quest When wil God supply Answ When his time