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cause_n	body_n	cause_v	part_n	1,774	5	4.3230	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64228	A funeral sermon occasioned by the sudden death of the Reverend Mr. Nathanael Vincent, late minister of the gospel in Southwark by Nathanael Taylor.	Taylor, Nathanael, d. 1702.	1697 (1697)	Wing T542; ESTC R23457	25,051	32

such Sins For tho Repentance be a good thing yet Innocence is better Some men walk in a round and a circle of sinning and repenting repenting and sinning again Their hearts seeming to be much divided between God and their Lusts According as Conviction on the one hand or Corruption awaken'd by Temptation on the other hand doth work in them they sometimes forbear their Sins and at other times yield to them As the tops of Corn that waver and incline this way or that according as the force of the Wind doth bend and carry them Now the Hearts of these men rise or fall with the change of their Condition as the Quicksilver in a Weather-glass doth according as the surrounding Air is either bright and clear or thick and foggy A threatning Sickness doth as much alarm them as the furious march of a powerful invading Army doth the weak and defenceless Inhabitants of any Country Indeed as the aking of one small part of our Bodies causeth more sensible grief and pain than the sound and healthy state of all the rest doth of ease and pleasure so a few wilful Sins do cause more of terror in the Conscience than a great many good Actions are able to convey of support and comfort to it And I dare appeal to the Experience of all sober men when they are any thing serious whether these are not the things that do shake their confidence and make them jealous of themselves So many wilful Sins as a man hath of late especially been guilty of even after he hath repented of them so many Arguments hath he to make him doubt of his own Sincerity so many weights there are in the other Scale that make the Balance at least to hang even so that he hardly knows what to think of himself and in a dying-hour his misgiving-Heart will be apt to say the worst and reproach him that he hath not been right with God nor sound in his Statutes And as all wilful sins must be diligently watcht against so In particular Cruelty and Oppression must be avoided Jam. 2.13 He shall have judgment without mercy that sheweth no mercy A rigid exacting those Debts which our poor Brother is not able to pay Matth. 18.33 34. The Lord was wrath with that wicked servant that would not forgive his fellow-servant a few pence and commanded him to be delivered to the tormenters Drunkenness and Smiting of our Brethren Luke 12.41 If that servant shall say in his heart My Lord delayeth his coming and shall begin to beat the men-servants and maidens and to eat and drink with the drunken the Lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him and in an hour when he is not aware And it holds not only as to these particular Sins but as to all other wilful ones as appears from what our Saviour adds And that Servant that knew his Master's Will Vers 47. and prepared not himself neither did according to his Will and much more if he knowingly went against it shall be beaten with many stripes 2. In great diligence and readiness for the doing of every good work in its proper season every Duty respecting either God or our Selves or our Neighbour For a Christian is like a Clock or Watch that hath several distinct Motions and as to every one of these will the Judge examine us when he shall appear This is what our Saviour means when he tells us Luke 12.35 our loyns should be girt about in a posture ready for any Service that our Master calls us to And blessed is that Servant whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so doing 2 Pet. 3.11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved what manner of Persons ought ye to be in all Holy Conversation and Godliness 3. In the lively exercise of every grace as we have occesion for it whether active or passive Some Graces are to be exercised every day be our circumstances what they will such as Faith in Christ Love to God and the like Others are to be exercised under some peculiar circumstances as the Providence of God gives us occasion and a call thereunto such as Patience Submission to God Faith in his Promises c. If need be ye are in heaviness through manifold tribulations 1 Pet. 1.7 that the trial of your faith being much more precious than that of gold which perisheth though it be tried with fire might be sound unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ That is either that you may be praised and honoured and glorified as having given such evident proofs of the Sincerity of your Faith under very trying Providences or else that Christ in that day may be glorified when your so noble Behaviour shall be displayed in the view of all the World as the Fruit of his Death and Grace and men shall see what excellent persons his Followers have shown themselves to be through his strengthening of them which will reflect an Honour upon him as well as upon them The Skill of the Artificer and the Beauty of the Vessel will be both admired together 4. In the diligent improving of every Talent for his Service Life Health Strength Reputation Interest Power Authority c. These are Talents which he hath committed to our Charge and when he comes he will strictly enquire what use we have made of them And we know what became of the Unprofitable Servant Those Feet which carried him to the place where he buried his Lord's Money instead of walking with it to the Exchangers and those Hands which were employed in concealing of it instead of trading with it were bound and for hiding it in the Earth he himself was cast into Hell What then will be the case of him who abuseth many of them contrary to the intent for which they were given 5. In perseverance in Faith and Holiness to the last Heb. 10.38 For if we draw back his Soul will have no Pleasure in us And how then shall we be able to look him in the Face Deserters are wont to be more severely treated than those who were always open and professed Enemies A sense of this hath come with so great a weight on some Backsliders in Judgment and Practice as to break their Spirits and sink them down into the Depths of Despair in the close of their Days Their awaken'd Consciences have lasht them with Whips of Steel and with siery Scorpions And therefore Little children abide in him that when he shall appear 1 Joh 2.23 we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming If Christ when he was a Frisoner by one Look did so dash Peter out of Countenance when in Words he disowned him as to make him go forth immediately and weep bitterly what overwhelming-Sorrow and Confusion will his Majestick and angry Countenance strike all those into who deny him in their Works when he shall appear in