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heaven_n	get_v	zeal_n	zealous_a	26	3	8.7467	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63684	Christ's yoke an easy yoke, and yet the gate to heaven a strait gate in two excellent sermons, well worthy the serious perusal of the strictest professors / by a learned and reverend divine.	Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.; Hove, Frederick Hendrick van, 1628?-1698.	1675 (1675)	Wing T295; ESTC R38275	26,780	106

or support If a new Opinion be commenc'd and the Author would make a Sect and draw Disciples after him at least he must be thought to be Religious which is a demonsration how great an instrument of Reputation Piety and Religion is and if the pretence will do us good offices among Men the reality will do the same besides the advantages which we shall receive from the Divine benediction The Power of Godliness will certainly do more than the form alone And it is most notorious in the affairs of the Clergy whose lot it hath been to fall from great riches to poverty when their wealth made them less curious of their Duty but when Humility and Chastity and no exemplary Sanctity have been the enamel of their holy Order the people like the Galathians would pull out their own eyes to do them benefit And indeed God hath singularly blessed such instruments to the being the only remedies to repair the breaches made by Sacriledge and Irreligion But certain it is no Man was ever honoured for that which they esteemed vitious Vice hath got money and a curse many times and Vice hath adhered to the instruments and purchases of honour But among all Nations whatsoever they call'd Honourable put on the face and pretence of Vertue But I chuse to instance in the proper cognisance of a Christian Humility which seems contradictory to the purposes and reception of Honour and yet in the world nothing is a more certain means to purchase it Do not all the World hate a proud Man And therefore what is contrary to Humility is also contradictory to Honour and Reputation And when the Apostles had given command that in giving Honour we should one go before another he laid the foundation of Praises Panegyricks and Triumphs And as Humility is secure against affronts and tempests of despite because it is below them So when by employment or any other issue of Divine Providence it 's drawn from its sheath and secresie it shines clear and bright as the purest and most polish'd Metals Humility is like a Tree whose roots when it sets deepest in the Earth rises higher and spreads fairer and stands surer and lasts longer every step of its descent is like a rib of Iron combining its parts in unions indissoluble and placing it in the Chambers of security No wise Man ever lost any thing by cession but he receives the Hostility of violent persons into his imbraces like a stone into a lap of Wooll it rests and sets down soft and innocently but a stone falling upon a stone makes a collision and extracts Fire and finds no rest And just so are two proud persons despis'd by each other contemn'd by all living in perpetual dissonances alwayes fighting against affronts jealous of every person disturb'd by every accident a perpetual storm within and daily hissings from without The Gate to Heaven a Strait Gate Luke 13.23 24. Then said one unto him Lord are there few that shall be saved And he said unto them Strive to enter in at the Strait Gate for many I say unto you will seek to enter in but shall not be able THe life of a Christian is a perpetual contention for mastery a continual strife Indeed we usually strive too much and that for trifles and rewards inconsiderable Nay we strive for things that ruine us whereas if we would strive lawfully that is for that Crown that is laid up for us run that race which is set before us our strivings would be as good as peace and rest for they would bring us peace at the last Victory and Peace Security and Eternity Joy and infinite Satisfactions and these are things worth striving for But here plainly is our Duty I. We must strive to enter And this Duty enforc'd by a double Argument 1. From the order of the end and nature of the thing the Gate is strait and therefore we must strive 2. From the caution and example of them that have fallen short for want of due striving Many sought and fain would have entred but for want of striving they were not able 1. And first of the duty it self Contendite intrare strive to enter in at the strait Gate And here I consider That besides the extension of our Duty there being more Duties required of us than of any sort of men before the preaching of the Gospel the Jews themselves who reckon that Moses gave to them six hundred and thirteen Precepts having received no precept at all concerning Prayer Faith or Repentance besides this I say I consider that not only in respect of the extension but by reason of the intension of our Duty and the degrees of Holiness that the holy Laws of Christianity require of us it is necessary that we strive with great earnestness Qui enim Sanctitatem Sanctê custodiunt judicabuntur Sancti saith the Wisdom of Solomon cap. 6. v. 10. A Man may do holy things unholily There are some that preach Christ out of envy there are many that get Proselytes for gain there are some that are zealous to get Disciples that they may glory in their Flesh as some fase Apostles did to the Galatians there is some zeal in an evil matter and many times when a Man hath done good actions he is the further off from the Gates of Heaven not because he did the good actions but because he wanted those formalities circumstances those manners and degrees those principles and ends which make good actions in themselves be good in us which crown the actions and make us to be accepted It was well done in the Pharisees to Pray often and to Fast twice in the week and to give Alms and yet these very good actions were so far from being commended that they became the object of his anger and the matter of reproof and it was because they did it with a design to be accounted holy Indeed they blew a Trumpet but that was to call the poor together that was the external end But there was a little Ivy crept up on this goodly Oak till it suckt its heart out they themselves would be taken notice of and that spoil'd all their actions went no further than the end which they propounded to themselves For that which Men make their principal end that God will suffer shall be their end If they seek the praise of Men that being their purpose that shall be their reward but if they aim at the pleasure of God and the rewards of Heaven thither will God's Mercy and their own good deeds bear them A little leaven it is that sowrs the whole lump Who would have thought that our Blessed Saviour should have found fault with the Pharisees for giving God thanks for his Graces or not have been satisfied with the exactness of their Justice and Religion that they would give Tith even of Mint and Anise and Cummin seeds or have reprov'd Judas for having care of the poor or discountenanc'd the Jews for accusing the