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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	day_n	lord_n	see_v	3,711	5	3.5921	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12177	The Christians end. Or, The sweet soveraignty of Christ, over his members in life and death VVherein is contained the whole scope of the godly mans life, with divers rules, motives and incouragements, to live and die to Iesus Christ. Being the substance of five sermons preached to the honorable society of Grayes Inne, by that learned and faithfull minister of Gods Word, Richard Sibbes, D.D. and sometimes preacher to that honorable societie.	Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.	1639 (1639)	STC 22485; ESTC S117259	45,936	138

for they bee ingaged another away Againe if we live to Christ we are sure wee are his if wee ●oe not live to Christ we are not his If Christ be ours as the life which we live is his so our course of living will bee to him wee shall direct all our courses to him making him our last end and therefore if we will know whether we be Christs what is the scope of our lives what is our aim if so be that Christ may be glorified by me I am content to part with any thing with life it selfe I may know that I am Christs He that will not deny all that hateth not father and mother for my sake is not worthy of mee sayth Christ. Self-deniall and ha●red of all things in cōparison of Christ argueth an interest in him Therfore it is a great deale of grace and the soule is much subdued before it can say I am Christs and Christ is mine For when sin and other withdrawings from Christ are to be di●●erted first there is much adoe in the understanding with reason Have I reason to doe this well if my judgement say it is good yet my wil saith it is better to have my will than to yeeld to God though I hazard the ruine of my selfe Oh this is a fatall naughty disposition and a signe of ruine yet the reputed happinesse of many men consisteth in their chiefe misery Again good things first coming to the judgement are there repulsed But if they come to the will there they be more opposed And then the affections make a stirre and bu●sle love and hatred and ingagements to worldly things and all to hinder our claime and interest to C●rist But hee must bee set up in place of selfe-love before hee can say Christ is mine and I am Christs and that is an hard matter Therefore let us consider what our aime and scope is In a word if we be Christs undoubtedly we will side with Christ Who is on my side who sayth Iehu In ill and doubtfull times Christs calls are for a partie and calleth our where is my party who standeth for me who owneth Christ and his truth and doctrine and good wayes honesty and religion who is on my side sayth Christ Why I am for the Lord as in the Prophet Isaia● sayth the soule that can owne Christ. It Christ will owne us we shall own him if we be ashamed of him he will bee ashamed of us at the day of judgement They that for hope of preferment and to be some body in the world can crosse their own consciences Christ in their consciences by doing that which by his spirit he telleth them is naught are they Christs when they set up selfe as an Idoll above Christ and side with the world and the flesh against Christ Againe he that can say in truth of heart Christ is his and he is Christs he will solace himselfe delight himself and live upon this comfort it is a rich claime and there will bee spirituall wisedome where there is this interest to implead and improve it it is not given to lye dormant but grace is given with it to improve it and live upon it All that is Christs will please him that hath Christ his truth is sweet to him the Lords day the Lords work the Lords servants the Lords ordinances whatsoever hath the stampe of the Lord it is sweet to him because he is the Lords and the Lord is his This is contrary to the disposition of that generation that can cunningly despi●e persons and causes if they see any thing in them opposite to their own base courses and lusts But above all where Christ is any mans in truth the Spirit of Christ is in that mans heart a witnessing Spirit and a sancti●ying Spirit The Spirit will witnesse an interest and fit and sanctifie the soule as a gracious vessell for Christs service here and for glory hereafter And though the Spirit witnesse not so lowd that hee is Christs yet he may know by the worke of the Spirit that Christ is his for the spirit frameth him 〈◊〉 a connaturall disposition to Christ and all that is Christs They love his wayes and government A gracious man would not bee under another government than Christs if hee were to choose He hath made his choyce indecd but if hee were to choose hee would have Christs government because he findeth a sweetnes in it and a suitablenesse to the dignitie of it A man never findeth himsel●e more himselfe than when he is most gracious Carnall men though they submit to ourward meanes yet they cast away the bond of Christ they cannot endure the yoke but they that are Christs have a connaturall disposition to the government of Christ. And they complaine to Christ of other Lords Other Lords rule me this lust reignes in me Lord subdue it claime thine owne interest let nothing rule in me but thy Spirit I am weary of my inclinations to this and that lust And so there is a conflict ever maintained To stirre us up in a word to labour to be more under the government of Christ and to get assurance of it let us consider if we be not Christs who●e are we There is but two kingdomes if Christ rules us not the Divel and the world must rule us And what kinde of subjection is it to bee subject to our owne lusts to a damned world and to Satan is it not to bee ruled by our enemies and base enemies Our lusts are baser than the divel himsel● For the Divel is a substance and ruleth by them Now who would bee willing to serve an enemy nay to bee aservant of servants to bee under these tyrannicall enemies restlesse enemies that do incroach upon us more and more and all the fruits wee have by their service is shame and griefe at the best and shall wee serve those that will pay no better wages yet this is the condition of all that have not Christ for their Lord they serve some base lust and Satan a tyrannicall Lord that in stead of better rewards punisheth them with eternall destruction so that they serve him with the price of their owne soules I beseech you seriously consider of it and put this qu●re to your soules I have lived in such and such a sin but what is the fruit of it The best is shame if I am not ashamed here it will end in eternall shame So that it is a sweet thing to be under the government of Christ. It is utile dominium a dominion for our good And lest we should be discouraged take heed of all temp●ations that withdraw us from the love of Christs government because our nature is opposite to this yoke If they seaze upon us wee shall be great losers by them in our reputation and in much of that comfort which otherwise we might have gotten Beloved you shall lose nothing by Christ. What we