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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	due_a	fear_v	tribute_n	3,178	5	10.8957	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45548	The first general epistle of St. John the Apostle, unfolded and applied the first part in two and twenty lectures on the first chapter, and two verses of the second : delivered in St. Dyonis. Back-Church, An. Dom. 1654 / by Nath. Hardy ...	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1656 (1656)	Wing H722; ESTC R31526	315,886	434

distinguish of three kind of lyes according to the several ends at which they aim to wit jeasting for mirth and pleasure officious for profit and advantage pernitious tending to injurie and hurt all of these are condemned but the latter is justly accounted the most abominable and of this sort is this lye my text speaketh of a pernitious hurtfull lye That you may see the injury which commeth by it consider it in reference to God and his Gospell to others and to our selves 1. To say we have fellowship with God and w●lk in darknesse is such a lye as tendeth much to the dishonour of God and disgrace of Religion St. Paul speaking to the hypocritical Iews tells them the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you the like may be said to licentious Christians the name of God is blasphemed among Turks and Pagans through you when the Indians were so barbarously used by the Spaniards who called themselves Christians they cryed out quis malum Deus iste what God doth these men serve when the enemies of the reformed Church hear what perjury oppression bloodshed they who would pretend to the strictest profession of it commit are they not ready to say what a Religion is it these men profess that can dispence with such wickedness It was no small though a just disgrace to the Pope when the King of Hungary having taken a Bishop prisoner in battel sent his armour to him and onely this in writing Vide num haec sit vestis filii tui Is this your Sons coat And it is a sad though unjust reproach which the bad lives of Christians cause to fall on God himself whilest profane wretches are apt to say These are your Saints and thus by our wicked conversation our being called Christians brings a reproach to Christ and Christianity 2. Besides this which is the highest injury to Religion it is hurtfull to others when they who pretend to have communion with God lead wicked lives how are strong Christians grieved the weak staggared and they that are without kept back from embracing Religion yea encouraged in their licentious actions nay if these that say they have fellowship with God do such abhominable things what need we trouble our selves are profane wretches ready to say our lives are little worse than theirs why should not our condition be as good 3. This lye will prove no less pernitious to our selves he who is the eternall truth cannot endure lying lips vident rident demones Devils see and rejoyce God seeth and is incensed against such dissembling wretches every such hypocrite may well think God bespeaketh him in the Psalmists words What hast thou to do to take my name into thy mouth seeing thou hatest to be reformed and refusest to receive instruction and must expect no other answer at that day when they may plead their outside devotion and large profession but depart from me ye workers of iniquity I know you not Brethren you may for a time cozen men but you cannot deceive God and as St. Cyprian excellently it is a meer madness not to think and know that lyars will at last be found out Diogenes seeing a vitious young man clad in a Phylosophers habit plucked it off as conceiving that it was defiled by him and God will one day pluck off the hypocrites vizor of piety that he may appear in his colours and in that day how far more tollerable will it be for professed enemies of God and religion than for such persons It is very observable that other sinners are doomed to have their portion with hypocrites as if hypocrites were the tenants and the rest as it were inmates of hell certain it is the fornace of torment shall be seven times hotter for a carnall Gospeller loose professor then for licentious Pagans since their condemnation shall be so much the greater by how much their profession hath been the holier and the higher they have lifted themselves up to heaven in their religious pretences the lower they shall be cast down to hell for their impious practices Let then every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity it was St. Cyprians advice to those who took on them the name of Confessors that they would keep up the honour of their name it is mine to all who take upon them the name of Professors For shame let us not so palpably give our selves the lye quid verba audiam cum facta videam what avail good words when our works are bad tace linguâ loquere vitâ either say less or do more In one word let our actions speak what our expressions pretend to and our conversation be answerable to our profession so shall we be found true men and not lyars and not onely knowers and professors but doers of the truth and so be blessed in our deed THE FIRST EPISTLE OF St. IOHN CHAP. I. Ver. 7. But if we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Iesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin RIghtly to divide the word of truth is the charge St. Paul gave to Timothy and a special part of every Ministers office To give every Auditor his due and proper portion as a Master of a feast doth to every guest is according to some expositors the right dividing the word of truth for which reason no doubt it is that among other similitudes Ministers are compared to Stewards whose work is to provide for and distribute to every one in the family their convenient food What St. Paul requireth of all Christians in respect of their neighbours and Superious Render to all men their due Tribute to whome Tribute custome to whome custome fear to whom fear honour to whom honour belongeth That by way of analogy is required of all Ministers in regard of their people to give to every one their due reproof to whom reproof threatning to whom threatning instruction to whom instruction and comfort to whom comfort appertaineth A manifest example hereof we have given by this holy Apostle in this place expressely reproving and implicitly threatning in the former verse those to whom it belongs such as walk in darkness and here sweetly comforting those to whom promises belong such as walk in the light in this verse But if we walk in the light c. This is that room on the right hand into which we are now to enter wherein if you please you may take notice of three Partitions here is the Christians Practise to walk in the light Pattern as he is in the light Priviledge we have fellowship c. Or if you please to reduce the three to two here is considerable The duty required and the mercy assured Or The qualification premised walking in the light as he is in the light The Collation promised of Communion with God we have fellowship one with another Iustification by Christ