Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	exceed_v	righteousness_n	scribe_n	2,764	5	11.0489	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26967	Now or never the holy, serious, diligent believer justified, encouraged, excited and directed, and the opposers and neglecters convinced by the light of Scripture and reason / by Richard Baxter ...	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1662 (1662)	Wing B1320; ESTC R11592	92,411	266

and power to build men up in holiness and obedience and when thou hast done this wilt thou disgrace and hinder it Dost thou take on thee to go on the message of Christ and then speak against him We do not find that Judas dealt thus with him when he sent him as he did other Preachers we read not that he preacht against him O let not my soul be numbered with such men in the day of the Lord It will be easier for Sodom and Gomorah then for the refusers of the Word and Grace of Christ What then will be the doom of the opposers And above all of those treacherous opposers that pretend themselves to propagate and promote them If the wit and malice of Satans instruments were sharpened against the wayes and servants of the Lord it belongs to you to plead Christs cause and shame these absur'd unreasonable gainsayers and stop the mouth of impious contradiction And will you joyne with the gainsayers and secretly or openly say as they Who should confound the d●●ders of a holy life but you Who should lay open the excellencies of Christ the Glory of Heaven the terrours of the Lord and all other obligations to the most serious Religiousness but you that have undertaken it as your calling and employment If any man in the Parish were so Atheistical and brutish as to think God unworthy of our dearest Love our most exact obedience and most laborious service who should display this Atheists folly but you that are doubly as Christians and as Ministers obliged to defend the honour of your Lord● If any of the people should fall into such a dream or dotage as to question the necessity of our utmost diligence in our preparations for eternal life who should awake them by lifting up their voices as a trumpet and help to recover their understandings but you that are the watchmen and know their blood will be required at your hands if you give them not loud and timely warning if any subtile malicious servant of the Devil should plead against the Necessity of Holyness and disswade the people from serving God with all their might who should be ready to confirm the weak and strenghten and encourage them that are thus assaulted and help to keep up their zeal and forwardness but you that are leaders in the Army of the Lord is it not a Holy God that you are engaged to serve And a Holy Church in which you have your station And a Communion of Saints in which you have undertaken to administer the Holy things of God Have you not read what was done to Nadab and Abihu when Moses told Aaron This is it that the Lord spake saying I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me and before the people I will be glorified Lev. 10. 3. Is it not a Holy Law and Gospel which you publish You have undertaken to warn the sloathful the sensual the worldly and the prophane that they strive to enter in at the straight gate and seek first the Kingdom of God and his Righteousness Luke 13. 24. Matth. 6. 33. and to give diligence to make sure their calling and election 2 Pet. 1. 10. and to give all diligence in adding vertue to their faith c. 2 Pet. 1. 5. and with all diligence to keep their hearts Prov. 4. 23. And are you the men that would quench their zeal and destroy the holy diligence which you should Preach The Lord touch your hearts and recover you in time or how woful will it be with such hardened Hypocrites that in the Light and in his Family and Livery and under his Standard and Colours dare prove Traitors and Enemies to the Lord 4. And what an addition is it to your guilt that you speak against God in his own Name By Office you are to deliver his Message and speak to the people in his Name and in his stead 2 Cor. 5. 19 20. And dare you before the Sun and under the Heavens of God and in his Hearing perswade men that the most Holy God is against Holiness and the King of Saints is an adversary to sanctity and that he that made his holy Law is against the most exact obeying of it Dare you prefix a Thus saith the Lord to so impious a speech as It is in vain to serve the Lord what needs there so much ado for your salvation dare you go to men as from the Lord say You are too careful diligent in his service Less ado may serve the turn What needs this fervour and redeeming time This is but Puritanism or Preciseness It s better do as the most and venture your souls without so much ado Who could at last hold up his face or stand before the dreadful Tribunal that should be found in the guilt of such a Crime What to put God into the similitude of Satan and describe the most Holy as the enemy of Holiness and make him plead against himself and disgrace his own Image and disswade men from that which he himself hath made of necessity to their Salvation What viler Blasphemy can be uttered 5. And it aggravateth your sin that your Relation obligeth you to the most tender affections to your people And yet that you should seduce them to damnation For the Nurse to poison them for the parents to cut the childrens throats is worse then for an enemy to do it If the Devil our professed enemy should himself appear to us and say Prepare not so seriously for death Be not so strict and diligent and holy it were not in many respects so bad as for you to do it that should help to save us from his snares You that profess your selves their Fathers that should travail in birth till Christ be formed in your peoples hearts that should love your people as your own bowels and tender the weak and pitty the wicked and stick at no labour suffering or cost that might advance their holiness and further their Salvation For you to tempt men into a careless life and turn them out of the holy way is an aggravated cruelty It s worse for the Shepherd to destroy us then the Wolf Read Ezek. 34. 33. 6. Are you not ashamed thus to contradict your selves What can you find to Preach from the Word of God that tendeth not to this holy diligence which you are against How can you make shift to Preach an hour and not acquaint men with the Duty and Necessity of seeking God with all their Might Do you not tell them that except they be converted and new born they shall not enter into the Kingdom of God John 3. 3 5. Mat. 18. 3. And that without holiness none shall see the Lord Heb. 12. 14. And that if they live after the flesh they shall die Rom. 8. 13. And that except their righteousness exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees they shall in no case enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Mat. 5. 20. And will you in