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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	grace_n	work_n	7,426	5	6.4759	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30567	The difference between the spots of the godly and of the wicked preached by Mr. Jeremiah Burroughs at Cripple Gate.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.	1668 (1668)	Wing B6061; ESTC R20303	59,310	123

the other I hou thinkest it enough to plead this That the best have their faults I beseech you let me reason it a little with you about this The best say you have their faults So say I too but the worst have some good in them materially good Why may not this be as good a reason as thine There are some that are sav'd and yet committed sin as well as I so say I there are some in Hell and yet have done as much good perhaps as ever thou Why is not the reasoning of one side as good as the other Thou tellest me that thou sinnest sometimes and so did David and Peter I 'le tell thee of Saul I 'le tel thee of Ahab I 'le tell thee of Herod thou thinkest that David and Peter committed as great sins as thou-Why Saul and Ahab and Herod and it may be Judas hath done as much good as ever thou and yet they in Hell as Saul that I spake before of he sinn'd yet it was not greater than thine yet he did many good things I have obeyed the Commandment of the Lord And Ahab when the Prophet reproved him he went and humbled himself in sackcloth for his sin When hast thou ever done so for thy sin And Herod heard John Baptist gladly and reformed many things Surely the Argument wil hold as well That such as are in Hell have done as much good as I have as some that are in Heaven have committed as great sins as I have O! it 's not enough for thee that others do sin they may be sav'd and yet thou mayest eternally be destroyed This will not be a plea to a mans Conscience if it be inlightened when he comes upon his sick-bed death-bed Though now thou canst put off thy Conscience with this that every one hath their sin but when thou comest upon thy sick-bed and death-bed if God inlighten thy Conscience O it will not be answer enough for thee when thou feest thou art going before the great God to receive the sentence of thy eternal doom then thou wilt have such miss-givings in thy Conscience O! but what if it prove that my sins be of another nature different from the sins of the godly if it prove so I am undone I am cut off for ever Wherefore in the second place what you have heard from this point should teach you to be very careful in the examining of your sins and in labouring to find out of what nature your sins are As we read in the Law they were shut up when there was but a suspition that their disease was Lepotous They were to be shut up for seven dayes upon meer suspition O that God would but give thee a heart even to shut up thy self that is to be thinking in thy reured Meditations of what nature thy sin is It is usual with those that are godly with the Children of God to be afraid upon any sin they commit that their sin is not the sin of Gods Children you shall have them ready to say Lord did ever any of Gods Children do thus is this such an evil as can belong to a Child of God is it possible that one that hath so much ●●ears as I so many mercies as I such enlightnings as I such workings of the spirit as I is it possible that there can be true grace and yet that I should again fall into such and such a sin One that is a Child of God is afraid of every sin lest it be of that nature as cannot stand with the truth of grace Thou art ready to think that any thing may stand with the truth of grace and with the state of grace but one that knows what sin is will be afraid of every thing but most people are so confident that they give satisfaction to themselves in any way of wickedness We have all our infirmities and there 's an end as if there were no difference between one and another O that God would cause this point to ring in thine ears when thy Conscience tells thee of thy sin that there is a great deal of difference between tho one and the other and the truth is till thou hast upon examination found this out that thou canst with comfort as in the presence of God say that though I have infirmities and sins yet upon the examination of my heart and upon those rules that have been given out in thy word I see hope that my sin is no other but the spot of Gods Children and if it be so then the Third Use is a Use of consolation to all those that have many infirmities and are burdened with them Thou hast spots upon thee and dost thou find the behaviour of thy soul towards them as heretofore thou hast heard be of good comfort in this that there is no cause that thou should raze the foundation upon every failing that thou seest to be in thy self this is a wrong to Jesus Christ and to the Covenant of grace for one that hath approved himself to God upon examination and hath found the work of grace upon every failing to raze the very foundation and think Surely all that I have done is nought it 's all nothing it 's all but hypocrisie It 's fit indeed for thee upon thy sin to examine and to be humbled let thy sin be matter for thy humilation but not matter for thy discouragement not for the razing of the Foundation to say Well I shall at length one day perish by the hands of Saul God will cast me off at length such a wretched creature as I am Take heed of that Those that are acquainted with the way of the Gospel they know how to be deeply humbled for their sin and yet not to be discouraged by their sin And further As thou shouldest not raze the Foundation so thou shouldest not be afraid to come into Gods presence Thou hast failed indeed thou must come into Gods presence onely take heed of coming boldly and impudently as many there are that abuse the Grace of God and think because of Christ they may come with impudence no the grace of Christ doth not at all hinder humiliation but furthers humiliation makes it Evangellical indeed and so thou being humbled for thy sin thou mayest then come with an holy boldness into Gods presence do not think to fly the presence of God because thou hast sinned and offended ●im As a loving Father it were a dishonour ●o him if upon every failing of his Child his ●hild should shake and tremble so as not to ●are to come into the room where he were do ●ou think this were a commendation for a Fa●her If you inquire what this Child hath done ●t may be he hath fail'd in some petty thing ●e hath perhaps tarried half a quarter of an ●our longer than his Father would have him ●n such a business or not managed such or such 〈◊〉 business to the full as his Father required of ●im and upon this he