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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	end_n	faith_n	unfeigned_a	1,201	5	10.8215	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13850	A Christian amendment delivered in a sermon on New-yeares day 1631. in St Martines Church in Oxford, and now published: by H. Tozer Mr of Arts and Fellow of Exceter Colledge in Oxford	Tozer, Henry, 1602-1650.	1633 (1633)	STC 24158; ESTC S121019	18,018	94

nihil est superfluum there is nothing in nature superfluous which rule is here made vnquestionably true for in nature there is nothing but some good vse may bee made thereof wee hauing therein so many Arguments pressing vs to the Renewing of our Conversations For if God for Mans vse and profit cause all these things in their appointed seasons to be Renewed shall Man for whose benefit all these things Renewed are remaine Old still and haue nothing in him New except it be some new sinnes new Idolatries new prophanations new murthers new blasphemies or the old renewed to provoke God afresh Nature it selfe will teach you saith S. Paul that if a man weare long haire it is a shame vnto him 1 Cor. 11.14 Wee may vse the like argument and say that if any man grow Old in Sinne as he must in yeares Nature will accuse him of a shamefull neglect in not hauing better learned God and the necessity of a renewed conversation before Him even from his Workes of Nature which are made therefore manifest to him to guide and instruct him for Nature doth freely offer it selfe as a guide vnto vs and blind are they who see not how to follow it It is we know a common observation that God hath two bookes to instruct vs. The one is his booke of Scripture Wherein we may and happy are they which therein daily doe reade and consider the summe of their Duty and the mystery of their redemption The second is his booke of Nature written with his owne hand in the sixe daies of the Creation a volume as large as the world it selfe but every Page therein plainely teaching man the knowledge of God and the necessity of his owne becomming new in his sight And S. Chrysostome seemes to make this the very drift of our Apostle in this text S. Paul saith he draweth a new argument from nature it selfe to lift vp the mindes of these Corinthians from the things here below to God aboue the maker of them to teach them from these what they should be towards Him namely in Christ new creatures The necessity of which Renovation will farther appeare by a second reason drawne from the Expectation of God requiring it of vs. God expecteth and therefore t is necessary that wee should become new creatures Now that God expecteth from vs a renewing of our conversations a reforming of our liues wee may plainely reade in his other Booke before mentioned namely his booke of Scripture wherein we shall meete with Precepts and Threatnings and Judgements and promises and the Mercies of God all which are but as so many calls and warnings gratious invitations to an Amendment of life First a precept or Commande we haue recorded by S. Paul Ephes 4.24 where the Apostle telleth vs that wee are taught in Christ to put on the new man which after God is created in Righteousnesse true holinesse wherefore saith he putting away lying speake every man truth be angry and sinne not giue not place vnto the Divill c. in all which we are by the H. Ghost plainely commanded to renew our conversation in true Holinesse and righteousnesse before God And the same Apostle will farther tell vs 1. Tim. 1.5 that the end of the commandement is Charity out of a pure Heart and a good Conscience and faith vnfained So that where a Precept or Commande is there must bee Obedience especially when the commande proceedeth from God himselfe whom we cannot disobey but with the losse of our first loue and the hazard of our owne safety when God therefore requireth vs to become new men as here and elsewhere he often doth wee carefully should endeavour to be such for precipientium Authoritas preceptorum qualitas attendenda est faith Bernard the Authority of the commander and the condition of the commande it selfe are diligently to be regarded Now God who requireth this duty at our hands is that Greatnesse which knoweth no deniall and his commande is of that condition that as it tendeth to his owne glory so is it likewise for our good and salvation wherefore a God expecteth so it is necessary in regard of the Precept that wee should become new Secondly that God expecteth and requireth this of vs will farther appeare by his Threatnings against sinners his Iudgements vpon man for sinne Woe saith the Lord. Isai 5.18 there is his threatning A woe there is for Corazin and Bethsaida for Edom Moab Nebo A woe for the Idole sheaphards and blinde Guides for the Deceitfull Lawyer and hypocriticall Pharisee and generally a woe for all that sinne with greedynesse and still draw iniquity with coards of vanity Neither is there a bare pronouncing of woe but a misery inflicted too Iudgement as well as threatnings Sodome and Gomorrah with the citties about them set forth for an example suffering the vengeance of eternall fire Iude 7. all which woes and Iudgements with many more are written for our Admonition that wee should not lust as they lusted nor be Idolaters nor commit fornication nor tempt Christ nor murmure 1 Cor. 10.6 So that the threatnings and Iudgements of God vpon sinners recorded in the Scripture were not only for the Punishment and Destruction of those on whom they fell but also for warnings vnto vs to driue vs with Lot out of wicked Sodome to terrifie vs from delighting in sinne and to shew what we must be if wee will be accepted of Him New creatures Wherefore as God requireth so t is necessary in respect of his Threatnings and Judgements that wee should become New Thirdly As in the two former so doth he likewise manifest his expectation in his Promises and Mercies which are as so many gratious Invitations to become New creatures To reckon vp all the promises of God were farre to exceede Saint Paul hath recorded one which may serue for all the rest Come out bee yee separate and touch not the vncleane thing saith the Lord and I will receiue you and will be your father and yee shall be my Sonnes and Daughters saith the Lord Almighty 2. Cor 6.18 If God be once pleased to be our Father wee can then pray for no more then to become obedient children and to bee thankefull this hee hath promised to bee if wee become New creatures before him and his promises faile not for his Mercy will make them good and that lasteth to a thousand generations of them that loue and feare him Exod 20.6 Hence Eternall life is said to be the end of the Commandements Our obedience indeede is the first end thereof as I noted before but that is directed to a second namely our salvation and both vnto a third as the chiefe and principall which is Gods Glory In respect of our selues then the end of the commandement is salvation which God is pleased not only to Promise but also in mercy to make good vnto vs vpon our Newnes in conversation yea therefore are his promises and mercies made knowne