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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
glory_n	let_v	lord_n	riches_n	4,751	5	9.0528	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81218	The present duty and endeavour of the saints. Opened in a sermon at Pauls upon the Lords day December, 14th. 1645. / By Joseph Caryl, minister of the Gospell at Magnus neere London-Bridge.	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.	1646 (1646)	Wing C786; Thomason E323_1; ESTC R200589	24,220	46

Or if it should be sayd that much counterfeit and base Money is coyned and that so skilfully that it may passe for currant not only with simple Country-men but almost with the Goldsmith or the Master of the Mint would not all be weighing and trying their money before they receive it in payments Such a sence is in this warning given by Christ They shall deceive if it were possible the very Elect. I beleeve deceiving is growne to this height amongst us have we not need then every one to be Proving Wicked Doctrines are damnable as well as wicked Practises Woe be to those who love Errour though love may be maintained towards those who Erre The Apostle Iude speakes of some who turned the Grace of God into lasciviousnesse If any which is to be feared though it cannot be denied them shall turne that grace of favour which God in the Scripture allowes an erring Brother into lasciviousnesse let them tremble at what the same Apostle speaks of the former They were of old ordained to this condemnation It is bewaileable with teares of blood that many are in danger to loose all Religion by seeking it and that they even let goe what they had while they are inquiring after what they have not and perhaps what is not to be had The Lord discover to us all the great and necessary duty of seeking together with the extreame danger of wandering and teach us to know the method of Satan in bringing poore souls to such confusion That Satan is abroad acting these devices should make us very dilligent in proving what we do and in doing what we have proved acceptable to the Lord. Secondly unlesse we prove what we doe we shall meerly depend upon others for what we do Let every man saith the Apostle prove his owne worke and then shall he have rejoycing in himselfe alone and not in others Gal. 6. 4. But may a man rejoyce in himselfe The Prophet cautions us Let not the wise man glory in his wisdome nor the strong man in his strength nor the rich rich man in his riches Ier. 9. 23. 'T is true we must not glory in our selves in opposition to Christ such glorying is no glory He that gloryeth must glory in the Lord But we may glory or rejoyce in our selves in opposition to men The other in the text alleadged is another man some man of greater learning and wisdome then our selves some man whom we greatly reverence and esteem and therefore rejoyce in what we hold or practice not because we our selves see the ground of it but because such a man holds and practises it Thus the misled Papists cry out Augustine Hierome Gregorie Chrysostome c. The most learned names in the severall ages of the Church held thus practised this though that 's denyed them yet thus they cry and rejoyce in one another This is to rejoyce in another and not in our selves alone Now then let every man Prove his owne worke that is study to be able to give a reason as of the hope that is in him so of the worke or practise that is held forth by him and then we shall not rejoyce in others that is boast that we doe what such holy and learned men doe They are on our side But we shall rejoyce in our selves that is in beholding with our own eyes the beauty and finding with our own understanding the grounds of those things in the word of God which wee hold forth in opinion or in practice Thirdly till we do what is acceptable to the Lord we cannot expect the Lord should doe what is acceptable to us We know he hath done many things very grievous unto us Is warre acceptable to us or are the effects of it Slaying of men firing of houses spoyling of estates acceptable to us Had we proved what is acceptable to the Lord wee had not tasted what is so unacceptable to our selves When Israel walked contrary to God then God walked contrary to them Lev. 26. 40. 41. If they shall confesse that they have walked contrary unto me and that I also have walked contrary unto them With the froward God shewes himselfe froward Psal 18. 26. He can displease us as easily as we displease him The speediest way then to obtaine what is good in our eyes is to be doing what is good in his O that my people had hearkned unto me and Israel had walked in my wayes Psal 81. 3. What then I should soone have subdued their Enemies and turned my hand against their adversaries He should have sed them also with the finest of the wheat and with honey out of the stony rocke should I have satisfied thee vers 14. 16. When we hearken to God hee quickly heares us and when we walke in his wayes mercy encompasses ours Our enemies who have begun to fall shall fall more by the command of CHRIST if we shew our selves friends to Christ by doing whatsoever he hath commanded us Joh. 15. 14. Many places which fed on Gall and wormwood have now blessed be God Bread to eate but he will feed us all with the finest of the Wheat and the sweetest of the Honey he will give us not only what is acceptable but delightfull if we walke before him with refined lives and draw neere to him in purified ordinances daily proving approving and practising what is acceptable to the Lord. FINIS