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grace_n	deny_v	teach_v	ungodliness_n	4,302	5	11.7286	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18429	Hallelu-jah: or, King David's shrill trumpet, sounding a loude summons to the whole world, to praise God Delivered by way of commentarie and plaine exposition vpon the CXVII. Psalme. By Richard Chapman, minister of the Word of God at Hunmanbie in Yorkshire.	Chapman, Richard, d. 1634.	1635 (1635)	STC 4998; ESTC S122563	120,049	228

the honours of Egypt could not buy of the guilt of one sinne a good heart will rather lie in the dust then rise by wickednesse in offending a mercifull God and thus it is grounded 2 Cor. 7. 1. Vpon Gods mercifull promises Having therefore these promises dearely beloved let us cleanse our selves from all filthinesse of the flesh and spirit perfecting holinesse in the feare of God The same Apostle by the same Apostolicall spirit exhorts to renovation of life by the same reason Rom. 12. 1. I beseech you Brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice holy and acceptable unto God which is your reasonable seruice Then beloved let the mercifull kindnesse of God which every houre thou triest upon thee and thine even in thy food raiment liberty friends breathing c. besides those inestimable treasures of his love in thy daily preservation c. draw thee to repentance in newnesse of life to stampe upon thee a new creature Turne not the grace of God into wantonnesse Iude 4. but know that the grace of God hath appeared to teach us to deny ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and to walke honestly soberly and righteously in this present world Tit. 2. 12. Wee are delivered from the feare of our enemies to make our obedience without feare Luke 1. 74. being under grace then let us give up our members weapons of righteousnesse Rom. 6. 19. Seeing all the mercies of God like so many remembrancers cry unto us for this dutie let us not despise undervaluing and vilipending the mercies of God in living after our owne hearts and following our owne crooked wayes as those Heretiques of old which sprung up from the malicious seed of the Serpent immediately after the Apostles have wickedly taught else yee heape up wrath against the day of wrath and make the holy Gospell of CHRIST IESVS no better then the Turkes licentious Alcoran which is fraught with nothing but the merchandize of the corrupted flesh large promises of Epicurisme in Paradise But Christians must not so learne CHRIST backe againe by repentance is the better way loosing the Herculian gordian knot and unweaving with Penelope the webbe of thy sins else can we not hope for peace For there is no peace to the wicked Isa 48. 22. Our iniquities have made a division betwixt God and us Isa 59. 2. which must be broken downe by repentance if thou aske being in the Gibeonitish rags of thy sinnes as Iehoram asked Iehu Is it peace is it peace 2 Kings 9. 18. Shall there be peace betwixt God and thy soule the answer retorts it selfe vpon thee What hast thou to doe with peace so long as thou wantest Grace and lyest polluted prostituting thy Soule and Body to all prophanenesse What wicked man ever had peace Let Caine Achitophell Antiochus Epiphanes Nero c. With the whole garison of Scorners be brought vpon the stage and they will answer they never had peace because they never had renovation by Repentance Come then while the Lord is neere and seeke him while he may be found Isa 55. 6. Seeing the mercifull kindnesse of God is so largely extended to all Creatures but more and most especially to Man it teacheth us to be his followers and imitators in this and as he hath propounded himselfe an exampler and patterne in other things to be followed as in his Holines Levit. 9. 2. Cap. 20. 7. Be holy for I am holy Every of his morall actions being our instructors so he would be imitated in this act of Mercy Mat. 5. 45. Doe good to them that hate you that you may bee the Children of your Father which is in heaven who causeth his Sunne to shine both vpon the bad and the good and this our duty of mercy consists in two things 1. In giving 2. In forgiving First in Giving that is compassionately and pittying administring to the necessity of our brethren taught vnto vs in the Communion of Saints As citizens of one Corporation branches of one Vine members of one body all vnder one Head the body of CHRIST Colos 2. 17. so to sympathise in affections as to have a sensible feeling of our mutuall wants like Peters new converts Acts 2. 44. which is not Anabaptisticall denying all propriety of Goods or Lands to any Man nor all to be meum tuum Common but as a Christian tendering one anothers good and a supportation of their wants as Act. 11. 28. when Agabus signified by the spirit that their should be Dearth throughout the World the Disciples every man according to his ability determined to send reliefe to the brethren which dwelt in Iudea Heb. 13. 3. Remember them which are in prison as bound with them and them that suffer adversity as your selves being in the body for if one member suffer all the members suffer with it 1. Cor. 12. 26. And a Righteous man even pittyeth inferiour creatures hee regardeth the life of his Beast Prov. 12. 10. Like Xenocrates an Heathen Philosopher whose pittyfull heart succoured in his bosome the poore Sparrow eagerly pursued of her Enemie the Hawke Be then exhorted to this duty there are great numbers of poore Lazarusses which lye at thy Gates bearing the image of CHRIST in their naked bodies give vnto them not sparingly that thou mayest reape liberally for thy harvest must answer thy Seede-time an Almoner is like an Archer which aimeth at the marke in the middest of the white the White he seeth the Marke he seeth not the marke he cannot hit which he seeth not vnlesse he hit the white which he seeth so we cannot hit God the marke which we ayme at vnlesse we hit the white which is Man 1. Iohn 4. 20. If wee love not our Brother whom wee have seene how can wee love God whom wee have not seene those that abound with Gods blessings must be like the full end of an houre-glasse-emptying themselves into the needy Gregory Nazianzen regestring the life of great Basill commends a Zenodochium or house of Harbour which he built for strangers above the Egyptian Pyramides the famous Sepulcher of Mansolus or the famous Collossus of Rhodes or any other wonder in the world so thy mercy shewed to the poore shall make thy name like an odoriserous perfume made by the art of the Apothecarie smell after thee to blesse thine increase in all things the plow-man shall touch the Mower and the treader of grapes him that soweth seede Amos 9. 13. Thy mountaines shall drop sweete wine and all thy hills shall melt cast then thy bread upon the waters Eccles 11. 1. And when thou makest a Feast call in the lame and the blind Luke 14. 13. and like Elisha powre thy oyle into emptie not full vessels 2. King 4. 4. The seede of almes growes better thrives and multiplies more aboundantly in a poore then fat Earth let the feeble hearts of the Saints b●e comforted by thee Philemon 7.