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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	brethren_n	know_v	life_n	4,656	5	5.3920	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43818	An olive branch of peace and accommodation budding in a sermon preached at Basingshaw Church, to the Lord Mayor Alderman Atkin, together with the representative city, Anno Dom. 1645, on a day of humiliation, appointed on purpose to seek the Lord for the repairing of breaches, and the preventing of further differences growing in the city / by Thomas Hill ...	Hill, Thomas, d. 1653.	1648 (1648)	Wing H2025; ESTC R25713	39,441	50

truth that men might speak their hearts and act their hearts and express their hearts in the love they do pretend this is Christian love indeed Three Arguments the Apostle now here uses to engage this reality of their affection one to another 1. Hereby we know that we are of the truth All Gods children are such children as do indeed love one another they have an instinct that carries them to it and this will be a clear discovery that you are of the truth true children indeed no hastards truly begotten again by the Spirit of God Hereby we know that we are passed from death to life because we love the brethren saith John Eph. 1. 3 14. yea Christ goes higher Joh. 13. 35. Hereby shall all men know that ye are my Disciples if ye have love one to another that is one very strong argument that might bespeak your mutual affection To have a clear evidence that you are Gods children whatsoever sad news you should hear upon earth if you had but a demonstration from heaven of that this day it would be worth more prayers and tears then I doubt you or I shall pour out before the Lord A second Argument is this And shall assure our hearts before him Have a sweet confidence a stability of Spirit though there be a sea of trouble without yet here will be a bosom-ark something within that will fix and settle the soul there thou mayest cast anchor and lie safe having a perswasion having an assurance before God however unsettled before men and ebbing and flowing and rising and falling now good news and then bad news that damps that dashes all yet do but love one another in deed and in truth as you ought to do and you shall have assurance before God A third Argument he uses in the 22. Verse And whatsoever we ask we receive of him This would be an admirable hint this day if you and I could gather such an evidence out of the Word of God that we may be assured That whatsoever we ask we shall receive We come to ask great matters and to beg great things of God this day and now to have an earnest-peny from Heaven that as sure as you make prayers so sure your prayers shall be answered would not this be an excellent advantage He tells you upon what terms If you do but love one another in deed and in truth These are the three Arguments to demonstrate this truth and quicken to this duty But now for the 2. Argument as the Apostle amplifies it and indeed those are the words that I shall insist upon What a very great advantage now is it to have this assurance before God saith he in the 21. Verse Beloved if our heart condemn us not then have we confidence towards God If you have clear hearts before God if you have not a self-condemning heart but upon the examination of your selves and weighing your own spiritual condition in the ballance of the Sanctuary you can finde your love is weight it is not counterfeit copper love when you bring it to the touchstone but you are indeed taught of God to love one another you may have confidence towards God But on the other side if our heart condemn us God is greater then our heart and knoweth all things But when you come to examine your hearts your hearts cry guilty and have a self-condemning heart Oh! woful is your condition If your heart that is dark and ignorant and knows but a little of your selves if it condemn you and fly in your face you must know you have to deal with the great God of heaven and earth he knows all things and if your own heart condemn you you will be condemned with a witness with a vengeance indeed if not onely your own hearts but God himself should condemn you And so you have some short and general resolution of the words out of these two Verses I have four short Propositions and I will name them and upon every one of them very briefly speak something as near as I can as God shall direct suitable to this day The first Proposition is this That the heart of man hath a self-condemning and a self-absolving power Secondly That God knows our own very hearts yea and more by us then we know by our selves Thirdly If our own heart do condemn us it is an evidence of greater condemnation from the All-searching God Fourthly If our own heart do absolve us it is an evidence of acceptation before God These four Points lie obviously above ground in the words And we will begin with the first I have but a very little to say on that onely to use it as a Key to open the door to what follows The heart or conscience of man hath a self-condemning and self-absolving Power If our heart condemn us not that is excuse us absolve us the heart of man or conscience for they are doubtless the same here Conscience that is a practical power of the soul bearing witness of our selves and actions according to the knowledge of Gods Law God hath given to man not onely a power of knowing but likewise a conscience a power of knowing together with God a recoyling and reflecting upon our own actions and upon our estates the judgement of man reflecting upon himself as he is under and subject to the judgement of God this is that conscience here the heart The Lord gives us a practical understanding a practical knowledge and principles does enable us to make an application of those practical principles to our own particular case And hereupon it is that every man though never bred up to be a Logician in the Schools yet knows how to make Syllogisms either pro or con for or against himself Every body will be able to say this He that walks uprightly he that lives the life of faith he shall be saved there 's a general principle laid down in the word of God then the heart does assume but I through the grace of God desire to walk uprightly I am taught to believe on Christ In the first proposition there the heart is as it were a book a volumn full of Principles Here in the second proposition there it is a witness it bears witness together with God knows with him what its own condition is or what its actions are and therefore in the conclusion it is a Judge I shall be saved and I shall be accepted by him Every one that is unrighteous and so lives and so dyes against him God is thus provok'd but I am so and so therefore against me No unrighteous person shall inherit the Kingdom of God but I am unrighteous therefore I cannot come there Every man or woman be they never so ignorant in this or in any other Assembly hath such a power within them God hath implanted in their mindes such a power set up such a light in thy soul as that thus far thou mayest be Judge