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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	fruit_n	good_a	tree_n	12,773	5	9.6998	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02698	Gods goodnes and mercy Layd open in a sermon, preached at Pauls-Crosse on the last of Iune. 1622. By Mr Robert Harris, pastour of the church of God in Hanvvell in Oxfordshire.	Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.	1622 (1622)	STC 12831; ESTC S116602	18,118	38

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arist Rhet. li 1. c. ● inde of these God is the cheife nay all these in one like an absolute pearle that containes all beauties in it selfe no Marcion will denie goodnesse where he yeelds a Godhead wee haue therefore sayd enough for proofe when we haue once sayd what goodnes is and how it is affirmed of God For the first Goodnesse is the perfection of things for which they are desireable perfection imports freedome from all defects and fulnes of all excellencies and is cheifely seene in the being working end of things that which hath the noblest being and therefore ende and therefore operations is ever best and most desireable Desire is the reaching of the Soule after that that likes vs because it is like vs Now the All-sufficient God is his owne Being his owne Act or rule in Action Bonum onmis boni Aug. de Trinit li. 8. yea he is the Author of all good and ende desire in naturall respects and therefore the perfection of all and all perfection and goodnesse For the second God is first essentially good good without goodnesse saith Austin Creatures be good but not goodnesse their nature is good but goodnesse is not their nature but the nature and substance of God sayth the Christian Phylosopher is goodnesse nature and goodnesse differ not in him but onely in a respect Secondly causally good v. Aqui. quast de bon● not as the forme of particular goods but as the worker of all the ende that terminates and perfects all Thirdly which followes vpon the former eminently good first in Order Nature Worth and lastly originally and absolutely the onely good This Doctrine cals more for practise then proofe because as in nature so here the sweetest things are most abused and being abused proue most dangerous God is good let vs put it to a good vse Vse first for Humbling see what we were once good for of goodnes can come nothing but goodnes secondly What we are now by nature bad for first we are sunke as farre from God as Hell is from heaven hee is holy we profane he wise we foolish he true wee false he good we naught Secondly from this disproportion growes hatred of Gods holinesse in his word worship people presence every way Thirdly from this hatred springs loue to his Enemies the World Flesh Satan Fourthly from this loue a listning to what flesh shal propound and Satan suggest and thence a capacitie and possibilitie of being monstrous in life and blasphemous to the death Oh what a peece of ground is mans heart nowe become wherein no spiritualnes thrives vnlesse Power it selfe plant it wherin Pride Murther Whoredome Sodomy Blasphemie Atheisme eyther doth or soone may seede this cursed nature this renders vs as odious as goodnes doth amiable and this must be seene if ever we will be saved Now the glasse that detects badnes is Gods goodnesse by his nature and workes we see ours as by the sunne wee see motes and filth by light but God is a light too strong for our sence Strato apud Iustin lib. 18. True therefore we must with him in the story looke for the Sunne in the West not in the East behold the Lord as he is reflected and refracted first in the glasse of his creatures and his workes Secondly in the face of his dearest Son so wee shall see at one view vnspeakeable beautie and deformitie that in God this in vs so way and overture will be made for that first second and third of Christianitie true humilitie Aug. Epist so Gods goodnesse will be admired mans wickednes abhorred all the errours of the times and incongruities of action will be soone resolved into their first principle estrangement from and distrust in this goodnes of God Secondly see what we should be good goodnes is even admirable Plut. and therefore sayth the Philosopher imitable Now the 119. Psal vers 68. tels vs that God is good and duth good and he is our Coppy and rule First therefore wee must bee good and then doe good first the sap must be good and then the fruit for as things be so they worke the effusion of the sap the first act of our conversion is Gods act our will prevents it not but followes it The second act of fructifying is ours vnder God for when God hath tuned and doth touch vs we doe moue and whilest the spirit imbreathes vs we turne about like the Mill in neither wee must bee wanting to our selues but concurre in this as agents in that as patients and as our liberty in externall acts is still some so must our endevours be answerable Quoad externā disciplinam as to come to Church to heare c. First we must haue the patience to heare what soever wanton wits may talke of the wills virginitie or other exemptions of the higher faculties that in our flesh dwels no spirituall goodnes all our goodnesse dwels out of our selues in Christ Secondly that it is Gods owne hand that slends vs from the first and sets vs in the second Adam And thirdly that he doth this by his owne meanes therfore we must tender our selues to his meanes waiting till hee who speakes in working and workes in speaking shall please to speake life into the Soule by the eare Thus are we made trees Esay 55.3 being such wee must in the second place beare and heere lies our busines our errand hither is not to please or preach man but to call for fruite Mat. 21.34 you are trees in Gods vineyard well planted fenced husbanded what is your fruite your Land is good your Law is good your Cittie good your Sermons good what be you Is your truite none Heare our blessed Saviour every Tree every Man House Citty Nation Math. 7.19 that beares not fruite is for the fire Is 18. your fruite bad Heare againe a good Tree can not bring foorth bad fruite and the ground that brings forth briers after showers must be burnt Heb. 6.8 You haue received the raine of Heaven and must be as the raine and dewe Mic. 5.7 els the curse is neare Is your goodnesse onely Morall heare your Saviour Every branch that beares not fruite in me he takes away Ioh. 15.2 Your workes must be the workes of God wrought from God for God in God according to God else they are but shining sins Is your goodnes spirituall heare againe vnlesse a man abide in me he is cast out cast into the fire and burnt Iohn 15.6 Behold if an other should crie fire fire fire thus in your streetes you woulde be all awakened our blessed Saviour cries fire if your fruite be none fire if bad fire if not spirituall fire if not lasting Oh be afraid of this consuming fire and as you heare the words so doe the workes of God Religion we must know is not a name goodnesse a word it is actiue like fire communicatiue like light as the life of