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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	die_v	let_v	life_n	14,740	5	4.9962	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26952	Making light of Christ and salvation too oft the issue of gospel invitations manifested in a sermon preached at Lawrence-dury, in London, by Rich. Baxter.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1691 (1691)	Wing B1306; ESTC R32552	28,762	38

dear to your selves than to make light of your own happiness or misery Why Sirs do you not care whether you be saved or damned Is Self-love lost Are you turned your own Enemies As he that slighteth his Meat doth slight his life so if you slight Christ whatsoever you may think you will find it was your own Salvation that you slighted Hear what he saith Prov. 1. 36. All they that hate me love Death 6. Your sin is greater in that you profess to believe the Gospel which you make so light of For a professed Infidel to do it that believes not that ever Christ died or rose again or doth not believe that there is a Heaven or Hell this were no such marvel but for you that make it your Creed and your very Religion and call your selves Christians and have been baptized into this Faith and seemed to stand to it this is the wonder and hath no excuse What! believe that you shall live in endless Joy or Torment and yet make no more of it to escape Torment and obtain that Joy What! believe that God will shortly judge you and yet make no more preparation for it Either say plainly I am no Christian I do not believe these wonderful things I will believe nothing but what I see or else let your hearts be affected with your Belief and live as you say you do believe What do you think when you repeat the Creed and mention Christ's Judgment and everlasting Life 7. What are these things you set so much by as to prefer them before Christ and the saving of your Souls Have you found a better friend a greater and surer happiness than this Good Lord What dung is it that men make so much of while they set so light by everlasting Glory What Toyes are they that they are daily taken up with while matters of life and death are neglected Why Sirs If you had every one a Kingdom in your hopes what were it in comparison of the everlasting Kingdom I cannot but look upon all the Glory and Dignity of this World Lands and Lordships Crowns and Kingdoms even as on some brainsick beggarly Fellow that borroweth fine Cloaths and plays the part of a King or a Lord for an hour on a stage and then comes down and the sport is ended and they are beggers again Were it not for God's interest in the Authority of Magistrates or for the service they might do him I should judge no better of them For as to their own Glory it is but a smoak what matter is it whether you live poor or rich unless it were a greater matter to dye rich than it is You know well enough that Death levels all What matter is it at Judgment whether you be to answer for the life of a rich man or a poor man Is Dives then any better than Lazarus Oh that men knew what a poor deceiving shadow they grasp at while they let go the everlasting Substance The strongest and richest and most voluptuous Sinners do but lay in fuel for their sorrows while they think they are gathering together a treasure Alas they are asleep and dream that they are happy but when they awake what a change will they find Their Crown is made of Thorns their pleasure hath such a sting as will stick in the heart through all Eternity except unfeigned Repentance do prevent it Oh how sadly will these wretches be convinced ere long what a foolish bargain they made in selling Christ and their Salvation for these Trifles Let your Farms and Merchandize then save you if they can and do that for you that Christ would have done Cry then to thy Baal to save thee Oh what thoughts have Drunkards and Adulterers c. of Christ that will not part with the basest lust for him For a piece of bread saith Solomon such men do transgress Prov. 28. 21. 8. To set so light by Christ and Salvation is a certain mark that thou hast no part in them and if thou so continue that Christ will set as light by thee Those that honour him he will honour and those that despise him shall be lightly esteemed 1 Sam. 2. 30. Thou wilt feel one day that thou canst not live without him Thou wilt confess then thy need of him and then thou mayst go look for a Saviour where thou wilt for he will be no Saviour for thee hereafter that wouldst not value him and submit to him here Then who will prove the loser by thy contempt Oh what a thing will it be for a poor miserable Soul to cry to Christ for help in the day of extremity and to hear so sad an Answer as this Thou didst set light by me and my Law in the day of thy Prosperity and I will now set as light by thee in thy Adversity Read Prov. 1. 24. to the end Thou that as Esau didst sell thy Birth-right for a Mess of Pottage shalt then find no place for repentance though thou seek it with tears Heb. 12. 17. Do you think that Christ shed his blood to save them that continue to make light of it and to save them that value a Cup of Drink or a Lust before his Salvation I tell you Sirs though you set light by Christ and Salvation God doth not so He will not give them on such Terms as these He valueth the Blood of his Son and the everlasting Glory and he will make you value them if ever you have them Nay this will be thy condemnation and leaveth no remedy All the World cannot save him that sets light by Christ Heb. 2. 3. Luke 14 24. None of them shall taste of his Supper Mat. 10. 37. Nor can you blame him to deny you what you made light of your selves Can you find fault if you miss of the Salvation which you slighted 9 The time is near when Christ and Salvation will not be made light of as now they are When God hath shaken those careless Souls out of their Bodies and you must answer for all your sins in your own Name O then what what would you give for a Saviour when a thousand Bills shall be brought in against you and none to relieve you then you will consider Oh Christ would now have stood between me and the wrath of God had I not despised him he would have answered all When you see the World hath left you and your companions in sin have deceived themselves and you and all your merry days are gone then what would you give for that Christ and Salvation that now you account not worth your labour Do you think when you see the Judgment set and you are doomed to everlasting Perdition for your Wickedness that you should then make as light of Christ as now Why will you not judge now as you know you shall judge then Will he then be worth ten thousand Worlds and is he not now worth your highest Estimation and dearest Affection 10. God will not only