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glory_n	jesus_n	light_n	shine_v	6,139	5	9.4807	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12814	Three sermons tvvo of them appointed for the Spittle, preached in St. Pauls Church, by John Squier, vicar of St. Leonards Shoredich in Middlesex: and John Lynch, parson of Herietsham in Kent.	Squire, John, ca. 1588-1653.; Lynch, John, 1590 or 91-1680. aut	1637 (1637)	STC 23120; ESTC S117834	61,921	114

gift wee shall bring him without the heart it will but prove ominous at length prodigious as did that heartlesse sacrifice sometimes of King Pyrrhus so because the intentions of the heart are seldome reall wee may be sure where they doe not expresse themselves when time serves by the outward act even by the word of the mouth when it hath meanes and opportunity so to doe yea and when it hath meanes and opportunity so to doe by the hand too for for mine owne part I have ever held I must tell you their reasons to be as brainlesse as their religion is heartlesse I feare who in excuse of their unbended knees and unbared heads in Divine Service doe alledge Gods acceptance onely of the heart for this cause therefore I say together with the incense of our hearts let us bring hither the calves also of our lips lauding and praising Gods name in this great celebrity of ours as for that we do yet live here to assemble our selves when so many you see on either hand of us have this yeere bin swept away so for that we can assemble our selves here to magnifie him for his infinite mercies towards us in Christ Jesus slaine of purpose that hee might be a Paschal sacrifice you see for Us who never had one before even for Us. This unvalued mercy of his let us never cease to set forth never at any time forget to speake of especially not at this time when to this very purpose you see we are to keep the holy-day that as the word feriae imports wee might fari here speake of these things unto God his praise Yea but what then Will it serve the turne will some say if we doe bring hither unto God our lips only or may we put God off may we thinke with a bare lip-gift alone as the King of Cowlam they say doth his Pagod Beloved Nequam verbum est as hee in Plautus saith well bene vult nisi qui bene facit and therefore because hee that accepts the will for the deed when nought but the will can be had doth yet expect the hand with the lips when men may give the hand for this cause therefore I say let as many of you as God hath given hands unto as well as lips present God now as with the calves of your lips so with the very best choicest fruits also of your hands imparting liberally 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and according every man unto what hath been lent you by God somewhat Aris Dei unto the repairing and beautifying I meane of decayed Churches Christ his mansions somewhat Charis Dei unto the reliefe and succour I meane of distressed Christians Christ his members and that as for his sake by whose onely merit it is that we are already passed from wrath to grace so for his service too by whose only power it will be that wee shall hereafter passe from death to glory there 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that I may speake in Damascens phrase 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there to keep with Christ an everlasting holy-day throughout all eternitie in the heavens whither he bring us all who hath dearly bought us all even Jesus Christ the righteous to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be ascribed as most due is all honour and glory and praise and power and dominion from this time forth and for evermore Amen Amen A SERMON PREACHED IN S. PAULS CHURCH IN LONDON BY JOHN SQUIER PRIEST Vicar of Saint Leonard Shordich in MIDDLESEX LONDON Printed by ROBERT YOUNG for Humfrey Blunden 1637. To the most worthy paire of most religious persons Sir Alexander Saint-John and his vertuous Lady THis Text and Sermon doth exhort to good workes It is my riches that even in my poore Parish there are some who preach this exhortation better by their practice than I enforce it by my preaching of whom be it spoken without either disparaging them or flattering you yee are the chiefe This hath been long printed in my thought and now my thought is printed I account it a maine branch of my happy content that I have two such chosen people so zealous of good works living under my ministery And that you may long live So and There by the increase of Gods Grace and to the increase of Gods Glory is the perpetuall prayer of him who is Yours in our Jesus JOHN SQUIER A SERMON PREACHED IN St. PAULS CHURCH IN LONDON MATTH 5.16 Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good workes and glorifie your Father which is in heaven THat Citie of Antioch Acts. 11.26 doth in some sort resemble this Text from this place are the servants of our Saviour first and principally called Christians For howsoever as there was in Logicke although there bee in Theologicke a continuall contention betwixt the Realls and Nominalls yet doe I really side with and ex animo subscribe to the former Our talkative Christians who are like the Nightingale Vox praeterea nihil nothing but voice I deeme them and doome them fitter for the cage than the Church sing they never so melodiously But I hope and pray that we may learne Christ otherwise from this text This text is Christ his Institution of a Christian which consisteth in doing the deeds of Christianity The deeds of Christianity are here described by the Matter and Forme thereof The Matter of Christianity is here called 1. literally Good workes 2. metaphorically Light The Forme of Christianity followeth in following the metaphor and that in three particulars Good workes must shine they must be seene and they must be showne 1. Good workes being termed light wee know that light lucerna is of light esteeme if it be not lighted my Text saith therefore that good workes must shine 2. a light that is lighted and doth shine yet it may bee kept in a closet or put under a bushell the Ubi or proper place of the candle is a candlesticke it followeth therefore our good workes must shine before men that they may see them 3. Though a candle doe shine before men and men doe see it yet if it bee so placed that a man cannot see to write or read or worke that which doth principally concerne him he is deprived of the principall benefit thereof wherefore the remnant of my Text sheweth that a Christian must apply this Candle of his soule to the eye of his soule that he may see to doe the grand worke of his soule to Honour his God that they may glorifie his Father which is in heaven Thus doth Christ instruct every one to be a Christian how to doe Bonum and that benè thereby to become bonus Our light must so shine before men that they may see our good workes and glorifie our Father which is in heaven Now that God give us His grace that wee may give him That glory Undertaking this heavenly worke of heavenly edification consider wee first the Materials thereof 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉