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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	body_n	glorious_a	vile_a	2,633	5	9.7400	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25204	Decus & tutamen, or, Practical godliness the ornament and muniment of all religion being the subject of several sermons preached at Westminster upon Titus ii, 10 / by V. Alsop ...	Alsop, Vincent, 1629 or 30-1703.	1696 (1696)	Wing A2907; ESTC R16042	63,995	144

's Good and Profitable to Men. It is calculated expresly according to the Image of him that is good and doth good Psal. cxix 68. Such is this Holy Doctrine it 's a sanctifying and a saving Doctrine Prov. iv 1 2. Hear ye children attend to know understanding for I give you good doctrine forsake ye not my law This Doctrine reveals Eternal Life and the only way to it it discovers what we must know that we perish not in Ignorance what we must believe that we perish not in Infidelity what we must do that we perish not by Disobedience what we must avoid that we perish not in our Rashness It reveals the end of Creation Redemption and how to reach the end of our Faith Hope Prayers in the Enjoyment of God blessed for ever to Eternity But if you would have the Particulars in which 't is good and profitable laid before you at once read that place 2 Tim. iii. 16 17. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousness that the man of God may be perfect thorowly furnisht unto all good works And upon this Account if our Eyes were Rivers and our Heads a Fountain of Tears we could not enough mourn that Men have turned God's glory into shame Psal. iv 2. The Divine Glory has displayed it self gloriously in the Gospel the Glory of his Mercy manifested to lost self-lost Sinners the Glory of his Justice manifested and satisfied in his Son the Glory of his Holiness shining out in the Precepts the Glory of his Truth shining out in the Promises the Glory of his Wisdom manifested in adjusting all Interests and answering all the Pretensions of the Holy Law and yet all these impiously turned into Shame § 2. To shew the Zeal of the Primitive Christians to Adorn their Religion In those Purest Times Religion had another Face than now it wears it was delivered Pure to them by Christ and his Apostles and they represented it suitably to the worst of their Enemies and these things were their Glory 1. First There was nothing more eminently sound amongst them than Love without Dissimulation The Heathen among whom they dwelt could not but say O how these Christians love one another Act. ii 1. They were all together with one accord in one house as if one Soul animated so many Bodies They were of one Heart one Lip and one Shoulder that they might bear one anothers burdens and so fulfil the law of Christ. Gal. vi 2. 2. A second Excellency in them was their fervent Zeal for the Honour of their Redeemer a Zeal so hot that it quench'd the Flames and the heat of the Fires which devoured their Bodies This they copied out from Christ the Grand Exemplar of Holy Zeal for his Father's Glory Joh. ii 17. The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up Christ's time for Sleep Food Rest was all eaten up by his Holy Zeal to do his Father's Will and finish his Work Such was the Original which they propounded to themselves for Imitation and they wrote after it with great Exactness they minded pursued more the concerns of their Lord than their own the publick Interest of the Church drowned th●…ir own private little Interests as the Sun sh●…ing upon our culinary Fires extinguishes them so did their Zeal for Christ burn up all those petty Animosities which when peace and rest from Persecution indulged them broke out into dividing and consuming Flames Thirdly It was their Glory that they lived in a continual waiting for and exp●…ctation of the coming of their Lord which glorious Day tho' they could not hasten yet their longing praying Souls hastened unto that Day 2 Pet. iii. 12. Looking for and hastning unto the coming of the day of God How did they patiently wait and yet passionately pray come Lord Jesus come quickly Rev. xxii 20. They longed to see their Lord upon his Throne to see all the Kingdoms of the World brought into subjection to the King of Saints and their preparations were answerable to their expectations making ready for the blessed Appearance of their blessed Saviour Fourthly Their Discourses their Lives savoured of Heaven their Business their Conversation was above whence they looked for their Saviour their Persecutors when they stript them of all the accommodations of their Pilgrimage would say with scorn We do but ease you of what you say is your burden and impediment in running your Race and others when they dragged them to the Stake and Fire would scoff We do but send you whither you long and pray to go How wretchedly we have copied out those Excellencies all the World sees better than they who have most cause to be ashamed If we had holy Paul s Heart we should shed his Tears Phil. iii. 19. Many w●…lk of whom I have told you often and now tell you weeping that th●…y are enemies of th●… cross of Christ who mind earthly things An earthly Conversation bears the clearest Contradiction to a heavenly Revelation And now what would dry up the Apostles Tears or what would wipe off this filth from the face of Religion but that gracious Temper of his v●…r 20. Our conversation is in heaven from whence we look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ who shall change our vile bodies and make them like to his glorious body And let us from thence draw this Inference If we look that Christ should once at last vindicate our Bodies from the Dust let us be ambitious to vindicate his Gospel from the Dirt Do we look and hope that he will redeem our vile Bodies from the Grave let us labour to recover his precious Gospel from its Tomb and pray that at length it may have a glorious Resurrection § 3. Let us in the last place consider how Unworthily this Glorious Gospel has been defaced in our Generation and from thence furnish our Souls with Matter for Humiliation and Lamentation The Primitive Christians are remarkable for All Love we may be justly reproached for All Hatred they were united we divided and subdivided and crumbled into Parties when they were All one Bread Love and Affection is now confined to some discriminating mode of Profession and the Enquiry is not now whether a Man bears the Image and Superscription of Christ but whether he bears ours The old Heat of Primitive Zeal is turned into a feavourish preternatural Heat against each other It would be difficult to touch this Point and not to break out into Satyr but that we cannot Reprove another but we must Reproach our selves We have been so fiercely biting one another that it 's a Miracle of Divine Mercy that we are not devoured by one another Sheep whose Character has been Meekness and Mildness are become Roaring and Ravenous Lions How little do we express the likeness of Christ who was meek and lowly in heart The Gospel would have taught us another Spirit Col. iii. 13. Forbearing one another