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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	note_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	33	3	10.5313	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96519	The gainefull cost. As it was delivered in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Lords, in the Abbey Church of Westminster, on VVednesday the 27. of November, being the day appointed for solemn and publike humiliation. By Henry Wilkinson, B.D. Pastor of Faiths under Pauls.	Wilkinson, Henry, 1610-1675.	1644 (1644)	Wing W2222; Thomason E23_2; ESTC R20564	35,536	37

whence followed his cost ver 9. there was great rejoycing not at the offering but the willing offering and that it was with a perfect heart ver 9. repeated againe ver 14. with thanks for a willing heart and spoken of with humble acknowledgment ver 17. whence we may learne that it is the heart that makes the sacrifice and service a costly one to the purpose and that which is accepted of the Lord. He serves God at an an ease and a cheap rate and indeed he offers sleight stuffe to the Lord which offers a heartlesse negligent carelesse service 4. What we offer to God it must be offered wholly to him 4. It must bee offered to God alone without sharing betwixt God and any other as it must be integrè in respect of the heart so it must be integrum in respect of God We must not joyne any other with the Lord in our offering for if we come to divide in our services though they be never so costly yet God hath no share at all if he hath not all he that puts his own Interests or names his own ends with Gods offers nothing to God but all to himselfe He that thus divides makes sure of all for God having right to all as the true mother of the childe 1 King 3. 26. will not endure a sharing and parting of his own peculiar A divided offering betwixt God and our selves or sins or the world or men is not a costly one to God for it is none at all The Pharisees did give almes and fast and pray c. to be seen of men though they were services pretended to be offered to God and such as cost them paines and money yet they offered that which cost them nought to God A man builds an Hospitall or Temple or the like at very great expences yet if his own name and honour be inscribed on the work if a mans own honour be twisted with Gods glory this is not to offer cost to God but to a mans own selfe He that gives to God with respect to himselfe he doth not so much give or offer a gift as drive a bargaine he offers to himselfe and not to God 5 There be some speciall ingredients which are required in him 〈◊〉 person most bee 〈…〉 that offers 1. He that offers any thing to God must doe it in faith without which it is impossible to please God Heb. 11. 6. It is said also That by faith Abel offered a more excellent sacrifice then Cain v. 4. It may be Cain might offer as good for substance as his brother did but faith put an excellencie into it or if this be not the meaning then we may understand it thus That by faith ●bel took more paines then Cain and sought out the best he had to offer to God whereas Cain took that which came next to hand Faith receives all from God and offers all to God againe it sticks at nothing Abraham had rather I doubt not have offered his whole estate then his sonne but Faith offers him Heb. 11. 17. by Faith the godly offered themselves to the greatest tortures in the world vers 35 36 37. and he that offers up himselfe to God to be a holy and a lively and an acceptable sacrifice he offers the greatest and most costly sacrifice that he can doe 2. Love is a second ingredient this is a costly grace It was Gods love that made him so expensive towards us God so loved the world Iohn 3 16. that he gave his only begotten Son c. according as a man loves so he spends He that loves his sports spends his estate on them we are most costly on that vanity that we love Love will be at labour and cost Iacob served a hard apprentiship but Love sweetned it so that-the time seemed but a few dayes Gen. 29. 18 19 20. Love is even prodigall Ioh. 12. 3. Mary took a pound of ●yntment very costly and spent it on Christ though Iudas could say Why is all this waste yet she I doubt not would be as ready to say Oh that I had more I can never doe too much for Christ Love ●very laborious and sedulous as well as expensive Men we see take any paines for gaine and that which makes the wheels run merrily is the oyle of love This the Apostle takes notice of 1 Thess 1. 3. the work of faith and labour of love 3. Zeale is required in our cost and that costs very little that 3. Zeale doth not cost us zeale this will lay out what a man hath and what a man is his substance and himselfe Psal 69. 9. and Ioh. 2. 17. wee may see how David the type and Christ the Antitype were eaten up by zeale of Gods house this is it which heightens the affections that drawes out all the treasures of the soule that transports the affections and sets an edge on them and is like Elijahs fiery Chariot in which the soule rides and is carried in the service of God The zeale of the affections is the expence of them they are set on broach by zeale and they will all run out and be exhausted for God Zeale is the flames of the soule which wastes and consumes all in the soule for God it puts a note and stamp of eminencie and singularity on every thing Love if zealous is strong as death it is a transportment and ravishment that is the high note of it Thy faith if edged with zeale riseth up with confidence and full assurance thy selfe-denyall if zealous is a kind of selfe-cruelty thou wilt out with thy lustfull eyes and off with thy offending hands Thy patience if zealous is hardnesse and long-suffering and great suffering and extream suffering and all suffering The riches of the heart lye in Zeale and are laid out by Zeale It is the strength of the soule As it was said of Sampson that his strength did lye in 4. Prudence Nota● dignunt est Deum voluisse omnia oblationes sale condi●i mandato ter repetito Lov. 2. 13 ut designaretur symbolice omne sacrificium sapientiae prudentiae sale int●gritatu incorruptionis innocentiae condo 〈◊〉 ●rid Sphano Dub. Evang. o● his haire and when that was cut off he was as an ordinary man so I may say of zeale the strength lyes there take away that and a man becomes an ordinary man There cannot be a costly sacrifice without the fire of Zeale 4. Prudence is required It is the sacrifice of a foole without prudence Under the Law there was a speciall command that every sacrifice should be seasoned with salt which is the * symbole of prudence what we offer to God must cost us the expence travell of the brain as well as the sweat of our browes and the best of our substance We must cast about and contrive the best way wee can to lay out our selvs in that we offer to God Christ puts us upon that course