Selected quad for the lemma: christian_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
christian_n	church_n	faith_n	holy_a	3,820	5	4.8736	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28911	A sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and aldermen of the city of London, at Guild-Hall chappel, on Sunday, Novemb. 13, 1692 by Richard Bowchier ...	Bowchier, Richard, 1660 or 61-1723.	1692 (1692)	Wing B3867; ESTC R19525	13,626	34

and do we order our Lives with that circumspection and care as we may not bring the least reproach or dishonour on the other Have we God always in our thoughts and do we daily offer up unto him our Sacrifices of Prayers and Thanksgivings Do we in our Addresses to him heartily bewail our own Sins and the many occasions we may have given others of offending him Do we intercede with God for others as well as for our selves and does the sense of the Miseries and Wants to which Mankind is subject kindle in us that universal and Christian Charity as to beg his blessing on all Men of what Nation Country Religion Sect Principle or Opinion they may be Are we thankful to God for the least Mercy we receive and are we resigned and easie in the meanest condition we may be in Do we study to glorifie God by all means and do we employ our whole time for the Salvation of our Souls Do we live and act as becomes those who really think there are Rewards and Punishments for Men in the next Life and that we must all be for ever happy or for ever miserable in another World as we behave our selves here in this Do the Thoughts and Consideration of this work in us that serious care and concern as to be always earnest about our own happiness and not to do any thing by which we may miss that Glory which we hope to possess Do we mind that great and excellent Rule of Christianity Mat. 7.12 of doing to others as we would they should do unto us and do we make a Conscience of not promoting our Honour Riches Reputation or Interest by any other means than what Religion prescribes and justifies Do we make the Commands of the Gospel the Rule of our Lives and in all our Actions have we a respect to the Precepts and Example of Christ Phil. 2.5 Is that mind in us which was also in Christ Jesus and do we imitate that Humility of which he made himself such a wonderful Pattern and Example to the World Is that Love by which all Men shall know that we are his Disciples so firm and universal in us that it goes much beyond that of the Publicans by being extended to Enemies as well as Friends Does that Joy Peace Long-suffering that Gentleness Goodness Faith that Meekness and Temperance which are all the Fruits of the Spirit do they I say appear as eminently in our Lives as they are all really necessary to our happiness Are we Merciful and are we Forgiving and do we chearfully relieve the necessities of those who stand in need of our Charity considering That we our selves are also in the Body Are we moderate in our Desires Modest in our Behaviours Peaceful in our Tempers Just to our Promises and exemplary in our Lives These are the general Duties of Christians and it will be well if our Hearts condemn us not when with a severe and searching care we examine our selves how conformable our Lives have been to these Rules Let us now pass on from that general notion of our being Christians to see how we live and act as we are Members of this particular Church We all value our selves I suppose upon our being of the Church of England and it is a blessing for which next to the Redemption of the World we stand most indebted to Heaven but are we as Holy in our Lives as we are Orthodox in our Faith And are we as like the Primitive Christians for Piety and Zeal as much as our Religion and Worship of any other in the World comes the nearest to theirs We come once a Week at least into this or some other House of God and we do well in it but do not many of us by our heedlesness and unconcernedness too often Offer up the Sacrifices of Fools not considering that they do Evil Do we mind the business we are here about and the greatness of that Majesty before which we are now in a more particular manner present Do we think that God is in this place and do we bring with us such thoughts as suit with the Holiness of his House Do we draw near to God with our Hearts as well as with our Lips And have we upon our Minds and Consciences that true sense of his Goodness Justice Power and Mercy as may at the same time raise in us both a Love and a Fear of his Name We fall down formally here upon our Knees and in our Confession we tell God roundly to his Face That we have erred and strayed from his ways like lost Sheep That we have left undone the things which we ought to have done and that we have done the things which we ought not to have done and that there is no health in us nay we go higher yet Communion Service and tell him that we earnestly repent and are heartily sorry for our misdoings that the remembrance of them is grievous unto us and that the burthen of them is intolerable But have we now all this while that hearty contrition and inward sorrow that uneasiness and dissatisfaction in our selves which becomes those who are truly Penitent for their Offences After these large Confessions of our Follies and Sins do we shew a hatred of them by the Reformation of our Lives And are we as careful to amend as we are always ready to confess our Misdoings Do we consider that God is not to be mocked and that when we come here into his presence and pretend to confess our Sins to him without any thoughts of amending them that then we offer up the highest Affront to Heaven and justly provoke God's Vengeance against us for adding Hypocrisie to our other Transgressions As for Baptism and the Supper of the Lord how little do we mind the Vows and Promises which we have made in the one and with what a coldness and unconcernedness do too many of us come to the other we promise in our Baptism to Renounce the Devil and all his Works the vain Pomp and Glory of the World weth all Covetous desires of the same But now where are the Men amongst us who are not lead away Captive by them all Where is that resignation we pretended when we were admitted Members of Christs Flock and to whom does the Humility of the Cross appear more glorious than all the Vanities of the World Where is the dying to Sin and the living to Righteousness And how few are there notwithstanding all their Promises who Manfully fight under Christ's Banner and continue his faithful Soldiers and Servants to their lives end As for the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper this Church invites us to it by its Ministers in the name of God calls us in Christ's behalf Communion Service exhorts us as we love our own Salvation that we will be Partakers of this Holy Communion Now we who pretend to be of this Church do we mind the earnest and godly desires of it