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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
doctrine_n	scripture_n	word_n	write_a	2,223	5	10.7210	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30285	Rules for hearing the Word of God with certain and saving benefit The second edition. By Daniel Burgess, minister of the gospel. Published by an hearer of them, at the request of many others.	Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713.	1693 (1693)	Wing B5714; ESTC R215210	7,490	26

Vnprofitableness Let your Thanks be more than verbal your Profit shall be real It shall appear to all Men. But as long as you hear unthankfully you must be and appear unholy Ingratitude doth of any Sin to be named turn Honey into Gall and Physick to Poison It is the same thing to call a Man unthankful and to say he is a Samaritan and hath a Devil Direct III. Lament your Sins in hearing and go act Faith on Christ for your Pardon Abundance of Dross is in all our Gold Iniquity abounds in our holy Things The holiest of them all need a thousand Pardons and deserve our deepest Blushes And let us not flatter our selves Repenting and Believing be not Things indifferent or Acts of meer Christian Liberty but indispensable Duty They must go before the Seal of our Pardon in our Conscience or in Heaven And believe it God is incensed with Sin whoever it be that sinneth and in whatever He delighteth to be kind but he hateth to be fond As ever you would profit by a Sermon follow it with the Tears of Repentance and with the Prayers of Faith Then will God give you Profit with Measure pressed down and running over If you are too proud for this in God's Name I tell you that Pride of yours shall have a shameful Fall The best thing proud is worse than the worst that is truly humble Direct IV. Examine with humble Diligence what in hearing appeared to you as doubtful Suspect your own Vnderstandings more than your Minister's But lean not rashly on your own or idolatrously on his If Error be in his Doctrine it turns to Poison in thy Soul Wherefore do not swallow what thou dost suspect The most noble Hearers try all Doctrine by the holy Scriptures Good Children ask their Parents Advice wise Women ask their Husbands the Wise of all Sorts go ask their Ministers and intreat them to clear up by God's written Word the Truth of their preached Word Thus do and whoever be barren Hearers you shall be fruitful ones God never fails to teach Souls so careful to imbibe nothing but Truth O happy Church where Mal. 2.7 is wisely and duly observed where Ministers Lips preserve Knowledg and People seek it at their Mouths But it is no more than is to be expected if stupid Drones and contentious Cavillers live Idiots and die without saving Wisdom God's Curse rests on the Idle and he resisteth the Proud Direct V. Prove your State and Condition by every Gospel-Sermon You cannot try too often things whereof you can never be sufficiently certain I mean so much certain but that you will still need to be more certain You are true Believers and alive to God or Vnbelievers and dead in Sin and Misery You are strong in the Grace that is in Christ or Babes weak in the same It is a sorry Sermon by which no Help is given you to form a Judgment of your selves touching these things God's Blessing upon your conscientious Care to make use of the Help you need not to distrust His Command on you to prove your selves is not without a Promise of Blessing made to it He ever enricheth those Hearers who use Sermons as Scales to weigh and Touchstones to try their Souls But as for the Presumptuous who dream themselves to be as good as they need to be and the Despairing who conclude that they shall remedilesly abide as bad as they are and therefore never put the Word of God so close unto them What Hope of these God will condemn those by his Word who will not judg themselves by it If you will not make it a Light unto you he will make it Fire to you Direct VI. Carry on your Knowledg Memory and every good Purpose unto Practice Christian Divinity is an Art of doing more than knowing God's Will remembring it and temporarily purposing to do it It teacheth living unto God Word and Sacraments yea Faith and Repentance all are for Obedience God gave his Son and sent down his Spirit to get him a People zealous of good Works as well as Words Much Fruit it is and not your fair Leaves that glorifieth God And it is the Hearer rich in good VVorks that God will glorify The Hearer to whose Feet the Word is a Light to walk by it as well as a Light to his Head to talk by it I have Warrant from our Saviour to tell you If you hear his Word and so keep it you shall have greater Honour than the Virgin Mary had in being his Mother And do you but still do the Word of his that you know you shall never fail to be made know the Word that he would have you to do Use well your Hands and Feet and he will make every Sermon a Royal Salve to your Eyes But from him that practiseth not what he knows from him shall be taken the Light that he hath To him is promised no more Light unto him is threatned the darkest Fire Luke 28.29 Heathen Moralists hold no Man to be so very bad as he who acts Evil and no more than talks of Good Christian ones must needs pronounce them the worst Monsters that speak as with cloven Tongues and yet as Negroes are no where white but in the Mouth Direct VII Teach your Relations what God teacheth you at Sermons God will never forfeit his Name of Love nor fail to reward Charity and specially Soul-Charity It is the Devil's Proverb The Free shall not be fat God's Proverb is The liberal Soul shall be made fat and he that waters others shall be watered God will hide nothing from an Abraham for this very reason because he will instruct all his Family with it Go you now and instruct yours so shall you be taught of God as you have never been in past Days Drop Divine Truths on them and God shall make Sermons rain down rich Showers on you But vain are your idle Moans while you are uncharitable to your Relations If I know the Mind of God He will starve you if you will not feed them God is a great lover of Children and our Children are his more than ours Nor can you easily incense God more than by neglect of these his Children I wonder not that many hear and understand not because what they understand they teach not You may be ever learning but you shall never come to the saving Knowledg of the Truth until you make conscience of communicating the Truth you know Thus spend and God will send Teach others and God shall teach you comfort them and God shall increase and multiply Comfort to you When these Rules shall be observed Ministers shall be joyful both Fathers and Nurses The Bed of Christ shall be green in our Assemblies It shall be no more querulously said that our Sermons have miscarrying Wombs and dry Breasts Joy shall be made in Heaven and in the midst of us Fear shall come on every Soul of our Scorners We shall praise God as the Primitive Christians and have Favour with all the People The Word of God shall so run and be glorified and God even our own God shall so bless us Amen FINIS