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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
christian_n	day_n	observation_n	sabbath_n	1,995	5	9.7332	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64979	Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment by Thomas Vincent ...	Vincent, Thomas, 1634-1678.	1667 (1667)	Wing V429; ESTC R19997	176,576	295

undergone could you eat and drink and sleep and not pray to God which was more necessary than any thing which is m●st necessary for your bodies and if there was no worship of God at home could not you have looked alroad were there none lived neer you who would have been glad of your company in the worship of God and way to Heaven could y●u finde out no religious young men or women suittble to your degree who would have quickned you and heartned you against discouragements Did not you devote your selves rather to the service of some lusts and were glad of any excuse when conscience would have minded you of your duty towards God Take them Devils binde them hand and foot 4. Come forth all ye Sabbath-breakers you that have spent the day in sleeping in eating and drinking to excess who instead of holy meditations have been thinking and contriving your worldly business instead of religious conferences have discoursed only of earthly matters instead of going to Church to worship God have walked into the Fields and spent the time in recreations or if you have seemed to give God a half-day service by your presence at Church one part of the day yet have worshipped him only with your bodies when your hearts were removed far from him had not you an express command for the Sabbaths observation and if the day of first institution were changed was the day and worship thereof laid aside and ceased to be a duty If the Iews were obliged to keep a day holy were not the Christians much more Was not the Sabbath made for man was it not his Priviledge to take that time for holy rest and worship and did the Gospel straiten mens Priviledges Did not the morral Law of which Sabbath observation was one precept bind throughout all generations could you call other daies holy which the Scripture gave no warrant for and not observe that holy day which you were enjoined Did not God allow you six daies for labour in your Callings and was it unequal for him to take one day for his own worship had he eased you of the burdensome Ceremonies under the Law and was the Sabbath so burdensome to you could you reasonably hope to enter into eternal rest and keep a Sabbath in Heaven if you would not celebrate the appointed Sabbaths on Earth Were not the works of the Creation and Redemption worthy your memorial was not communion with God in Ordinances desirable had you no need of those spiritual provisions which God did use to deal forth on the Sabbath daies to them that waited upon him for them What! not worship God either in your own houses nor in his house neither on the week-day nor Sabbath-day could your sometimes could and formal services be counted worship Did you think that lip-prayers would ever be heard by God that searcheth and requireth the heart Did you think that Sermons un-minded un-remembred which you did neither believe nor were affected with would be effectual to save you Take them Devils binde them hand and foot 5. Come forth all ye swearers and profaners of the Name of God Did you never read nor hear the third Commandement which forbad this sin Did you never hear of my strict Injunction that you should not swear at all in your discourses but that your communication should be yea and nay Were you never told that swearers would fall into condemnation Was the Great and dreadful Name of God of so little regard that you could not only use it irreverently so frequently but also even tear it in pieces by your oaths What profit did you get by your swearing and are you like to sustain no loss what pleasure did you find in your swearing and are you like to reap no litterness was it for your honour to swear by the Name of God or rather was it not for your dishonour but how did you dishonour God What an affront did you offer to him hereby you call'd upon him sometimes to damn and sinke you can you speake in that language now now damnation is so near you Worms could not God have trodden you under his feet or crusht you as easily as you could do a flie every time you profaned his Name and because he was patient would you presume because he did not presentlie punish did you dare him and flie in his face to provoke his fury You have sworn in your solly and have not repented and God hath sworn in his wrath and will not repent that you shall never enter into his rest Take them Devils binde them hand and foot 6. Come forth all yee scoffers at Religion and the zealous Professors thereof who thought and spake of Religion as if it had been a fancie and cunningly devised Fable and of the most holy humble and self-denying Christians as if they were the most mean-spirited foolish and contemptible People upon Earth and have used the name of a Saint in derision and Proverb of reproach Have you the same minde now that Religion was but a fancy Is your Resurrection and my appearance but a fancie Is your punishment eternallie in Hell like to be bus a fancie Had you not a sure ground and bottome for your faith in the Scriptures Could you have desired more reasonable evidence of things done before your age Could you laugh at Scripture-threatnings And can you laugh now you are come to Execution Could you contemn Gospel-promises And are they so contemptible now in your eies when now you see the accomplishment of them before you Against whom was it that you opened so wide a mouth Whom was it that you did flout and scorn What my Disciples because they were meek and humble and did not take the pleasures of sin with you and were strict in their profession and conversation What think you of them now Were they so mean-spirited and contemptible Were they so foolish which made so wise a choice Did they well or ill in staying till this time for their happiness Look upon the Persons now whom once you scorned and thought unworthie of your companie Was it so rid●culous a thing to be a Saint as you imagined Was not shining with them in glory at all desirable Would not you be glad to be numbred amongst them now Why do you not laugh and fleer at the Saints now Yee fooles and blinde sots do you know what you s●oft at Could you see no excellencie in Holiness and the Divine Nature in my Image which was engraven upon them Did ever any Man of understanding laugh at the light of the Sun They were lights in the dark World where they lived what mock at Holiness hereby you mocked at God himself who is so infinitelie glorious in this attribute and hereby distinguished from all his Creatures vile Wretches Take them Devils binde them hand and foot 7. Come forth all yee Persecutors of my Disciples Was it not enough for you to mock them but you must persecute them too Was it

thousands with a few Loaves of bread the calming of the Sea the raising of the dead afte● burial and the like all which did exceed the power of nature and however wonderful things might be wrought by Men in a praestigiatory way which God may permit some to be deluded with●all yet all true Miracles as these were could b● wrought by none without his immediate power which he would never put forth for the confirm●●tion of lies and deceits therefore we may strong●ly argue from hence that the Scriptures whic● have been confirmed by these Miracles are indee● the Word of God I know the great questio● then will be whether there were ever such Mira●cles wrought which the Scriptures makes mentio● of whether the historical relation both of Prophe●sies and Miracles be not a forgery for the introd●●ction of the worship which the Scriptures cals fo● therefore 3. I might show at large the rationally unquesti●●nable certainty of Scripture-History as hand● to posterity But in brief when these things we● so notable and remarked in their times when the● were not done in corners when they were the o●●ject of sense when they were so many whe● they had so many spectators and witnesses wh●● there are divers records of the same things an● all in the main agreeing when the way they 〈◊〉 declared in speaketh so much simplicity in the relators when there were so many Copies of the Records dispersed into so many divers places when Enemies could not deny the truth of things recorded only imputed them to other causes when mention is made of these things in profane Histories when we have the Writings of the ancient Fathers by us who lived in all the Centuries between us and the time of Christ and with one consent acknowledge these things who might easily have found out the deceit had there been any when they lived some of them so neer to the days wherein the chief of these things were done when we cannot rationally assign an end which should move Christians to deceive themselves and posterity since they exposed themselves to such losses persecutions reproaches and afflictions by their profession of Christianity neither can we rationally imagine how all the Christians in the World could meet together from so many Coun●ries for the forging of things which were never done much less how they should agree together ●bout it and least of all how they should keep his secret but their adversaries would have found ●t out and made it known some hint of it would ●ave been given in History all these things being ●aid together we may rationally conclude that ●he History of the Scripture is as certain yea more ●ertain than any profane History which we ●ave the least doubt of and if the Histories of ●rophesies fulfilled and Miracles wrought be ●●ue it is a strong Argument that the Scriptures which hereby are confirmed are indeed the word ●f God These Arguments for the Divine Autho●●ty of the Scriptures may be sufficient to stop the mouths of gain-sayers but without the testimony of the spirit in and by them none will be sufficient to effect a saving faith Thus it is evident from the truth and divine Authority of the Scriptures which do so clearly reveal and foretel it that the Lord Jesus Christ will certainly appear to Judgment The second Argument to prove the certainty of Christs appearance may be drawn from the certainty of the Resurrection 2. Arg. If all the dead shall certainly le raised at the last day and the Lord Iesus Christ shall raise them then the appearance of the Lord Iesus Christ to do it is certain but all the dead shall certainly be raised at the last day and the Lord Iesus Christ shall raise them therefore the appearance of the Lord Iesus Christ is certain 1. That all the dead which are or shall be brought into that state shall be raised at the last day is a truth so clear in the Scripture that nothing is more clear The general Resurrection of the dead is one great Article of our Christian Faith one Principle of the Doctrine of Christ made mention of by the Apostle Heb. 6. 1 2. The dead sm●●l and great shall be raised and stand before God Rev. 20. 12. We read of the Resurrection of the I●st Luke 14. 14. Of the Resurrection of the Iust and Vnjust Acts 24. 15. I might multiply many Scriptures to prove this Doctrine of the Resurrection but I shall further speak but of two places which purposely treat thereof and being so full of Arguments I shall make use of no other than there I finde for the evidencing of this truth 1. The former Scripture is in Matth. 22. from vers 23. to the 34. The same day came the Sadduces to him which say there is no Resurrection and asked him saying Master Moses said If a Man die having no Children his Brother shall marry his Wife and raise up Seed to his Brother Now there were with us seven brethren and the first when he had married a Wife deceased and having no issue left his Wife unto his Brother Likewise the second also and the third unto the seventh And last of all the Woman died also Therefore in the Resurrection whose Wife shall she be of the seven for they all had her Iesus answered and said unto them Yee do erre not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God For in the Resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the Angels of God in Heaven But as touching the Resurrection of the dead have yee not read that which was spoken unto you by God saying I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Iacob God is not the God of the dead but of the living And when the multitude heard this they were astonished at his Doctrine And vers 34. it is said He put the Sadduces to silence Here we have a Disputation concerning the Doctrine of the Resurrection wherein we may take notice of 1. The opponents and they were the Sadduces who denied the Resurrection they denyed the immortality of the Soul for they said there was no Angel nor Spirit Acts 23. 8. And they denyed the Resurrection of the body 2. The Respondent and that was the Lord Iesus Christ the wisdome of the Father he that when he was but twelve years old did dispute with the Doctors in the Temple and filled all that heard him with astonishment at his understanding and answers Luke 2. 46 47. And much more now when he was so much encreased in wisdome was he able to deal with the Sadduces and answer them about this truth of which he coming out of the bosome of the Father and being acquainted with his secrets he had so perfect knowledge he had answered the Herodians before most wisely to their ensnaring question whether it were lawful to pay tribute to Caesar and he was able to give answer to the Sadduces about the Resurrection 3. The Objection