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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	life_n	love_n	love_v	2,826	5	6.6025	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58346	Lazarus his rest preached in a sermon at the funerall of Mr. Ephraim Udall, that famous divine in London / by Tho. Reeve ...	Reeve, Thomas, 1594-1672.	1647 (1647)	Wing R691A; ESTC R10612	28,351	34

ordered Vse The use of this serves to reprove the inconsiderate charity of these times for how many are bountifull yea perhaps prodigall but how little droppeth to heaven-wards Christs want his Friend his members look lanke his little ones are not battened for all the large expences that are amongst us yet religion tasteth little of the delicacies of the times grace finds not the age much charged with her But whatsoever she spends upon others it is but for her fame Quicquid pro anima tua feceris hoc tuum est Chris in Mat. 6. but whatsoever she spends upon the Saints is for your consciences and that which thou dost for thy soule is onely thine Let them then be thy sable fellows which thou lookest to have to be thy coheirs that thou maist have some living Saint to pray for thee upon earth that thou maist have some dying Saint to carry newes of thy charity into heaven endear thy self to God and ingratiate thy self chiefly to Christ Jesus that there may be Amicus Amicus noster A Friend and Our Friend because a Friend to Christs person Secondly a friend to his cause from hence observe that religion ought to have a portion in our affections Doct. 2. Thes 2.10 Luke 19.27 Acts 5.39 Mat. 12.30 for the love of Christ is the love of his truth the rest are accounted enemies and fighters against God For he that is not with me is against me We ought therefore to be printed Christs as Ignatius was said to have the name of Christ written in his heart in golden Letters Aurcis literis Stricto ense Plut. yea as Scipio sware all his souldiers upon the edge of a naked sword to the State of Rome so we should all be sworn to profession Can any man endure to have his cause forsaken no he that will not insist in that his love is suspected and he will never be owned as a friend Christ liketh a feast well and will accept of a feast but it is not a feast that will perfect friendship no the Pharisees often feasted Christ and they were but Charger-friends therefore the main thing is to close with Christ in profession and to stand firm to him in point of honour they are said to receive Christ who receive his testimony Acts 22.18 that is those that subscribe to Christs cause and enter plea for him Heb. 2.10 Christ is called the Prince of our salvation and wherefore to signifie that there is some allegeance to be taken of us and what greater then to maintain Christs crown and dignity those are Christs loyall subjects which seek to enlarge Christs territorie and will draw their swords for their Prince to fight the good fight of faith 1 Tim. 6.11 which endeavour to make Christ great and even walk with his princely robe upon his back and to sit in his imperiall throne these are those which are true to Christ which are his fast friends The use of this serves to examine whether we have a●y of this love glowing in our bosomes no Christ Jesus is even friendlesse we are not much taken with our Prince his scepter-point the Kingdome of heaven suffers little violence we do not gather parties and draw adherents to Christ Christ is little the better for us his friend do not pleasure him much we do not furnish his banquet nor enter fellows into his service to weare his livery not bring men to repentance out of the snare of the Devill 2 Tim. 2.26 We plant no colonies nor procure our Masters feet to tread upon new territories no an outward league we are contented to maintain with Christ a civill combination to uphold correspondencies but for Religion to prosper or decay to flourish or languish to keep life or to draw home it is all one to us But oh beloved as Valerius was called Publicola for his love to the common-wealth so we should be called Christicolae for our faithfullnesse to the common cause Plutarch 1 Cor. 16.22 For if any man love not the Lord Jesus and what greater love then in seeking to preserve the purity of the faith and endeavouring to propagate the faith let him be Anathema Maranatha accursed that is bitterly accursed pitty it is that thou shouldst bear the name of Christ if thou wilt not be a helper in Christ Rom. 16.9 Col. 4.11 a work-fellow to the Kingdom of Christ Oh therefore be inward with Religion deare to Christ sick of love to thy well beloved justify his cause vindicate it from reproaches every way endeavour to have soules added to the church to have numbers of beleevers turned unto the Lord Act. 2.41 Act. 11.21 for this is the cause of Christ and they which love Christ love his cause look therefore to the disposition look to the relation to be a friend and Christs friend a friend to his cause that it may be said Amicus Noster Our Friend But why doth Christ say Amicus noster Our friend and not Amicus meus my Friend because Christ was not contented to esteem him a Friend himself but he would have his disciples to own him he would draw them into the bands and have a joynt respect shewed to him Doct. From hence observe that whom Christ loveth we should love also He which doth service to Christ the whole profession is engaged to him A righteous man honours them that feare the Lord Psal 15.5 not onely honour the Lord but honour them that feare the Lord not onely honour the Master but honour the servants for as Alexander said of Hephestion This is also Alexander Et hic Alexander est Plut. Deifici Cypr. 1 Ioh. 5.1 so this is also Gods for godly men are particles of God and God will be honoured in his particles He that loveth him that begat loveth him that is begotten also Gods Friends must not walk up and down as if they had none but their master to take them by the hand but the whole fraternity must acknowledge them for all my delight is in the Saints Psal 16.3 and such as excell in vertue we should blesse their expressions and desire their acquaintance if they be Christs they should be ours The use of this serves to reprove them Vse which leave Christs friends to himself for generally none are acknowledged but upon particular respects if they have pleasured us then are we bounden to them we are at their dispose we are their servants but religion carries no such strict obligation with it Christs relation is none of ours for let a man be never so rarely gifted and singularly endowed the very reflex of Gods face the print of his purity yet for his meere sanctity he is lightly respected precious he may be in Gods eye but man hath no eye for him or it is a very supercilious one but oh true friendship is for Gods sake for a good man will love in man nothing but God that is the evidence of his