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judgement_n	according_a	heart_n	lord_n	1,440	5	3.6316	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51605	Saving faith and pride of life inconsisent delivered in a sermon, preached before the then commissioners of the Common-wealth of England for the affairs of Ireland, at Christ-Church in Dublin / by John Murcot ...	Murcot, John, 1625-1654.	1656 (1656)	Wing M3082; ESTC R32107	17,348	32

hath it and is great in the eyes of men and they lift him up and he is lifted up in his own heart then he goes on with a full saile in the wayes of God and his calling he is called to but alas let that cease from him and his spirit is down and flags And what 's the reason of this Alas poore creature he was ready to think it was the breathings of the Spirit of God that fill'd his sails and it was nothing but a little popular breath Take it away and the sailes fall flat there is no motion any more When the affections of a people toward a man are the chariot wheels take them but off he drives sadly and heavily as Pharaohs chariots did Ah poor soul This is their penny they will not serve the Lord cannot walk nor work his works except they have their penny except they be so and so thought of have so much and so much the hearts of his people Well such they have their penny Mat. 20.9 But it is their all and a poore reward it is as our Saviour speaks it will not serve at the last day when they cast up their reckonings they will finde it to be a poore thing Saith Luther Haud velim gloriâ aut nomine vehi majus enim gaudium in maledictis blasphemiis Well this is our condition the Lord make us sensible of this deceit of our hearts I doubt if we were well searched many of us would be found guilty before the Lord to be such as seek the honour that is of man and therefore our faith must be of necessity hindred How can ye believe c Tenthly a man that careth not what becometh of him so he have honour from men So Saul 1 Sam. 30 Honour me now before the people Use 3 The third Use shall be of exhortation then to stir us up every one Brethren this day in the fear of God and for the bowels of Jesus Christ as we would ever be saved by believing in the Lord Jesus or live by faith to look to it that we mind not so much the praises which are of men as the praise of God Oh that we were all of us perswaded this day but to study our hearts better to mind with what ends we are carried out to every thing Ask your hearts the question why do I this or that Is it to be seen of men is it to please men is it to have the honour and the praise of men and be humbled for it and not rejoyce in your sincerity uprightness before the Lord. Wherwithal shal I perswade you brethren To use a few arguments Arg. 1 It is the example of the Lord Jesus I receive not glory of men that is to say I do not gape for it I am not earnest for the good opinion of men it neither addeth to me nor diminisheth from me How oft did he silence the people when he had wrought great works as the Leper that was cleansed Mat. 9.30 Mat. 8.4 See thou go and tell no man And two blind men whose eyes he opened Jesus straightly charged them saying let no man know it Alas when our Saviour perceived they would come and take him by force and make him King dreaming of an earthly kingdom the Messiah should have he withdrew himself he had no mind of such things he came not to seek his own glory but the glory of him that sent him Which of us should have kept such Revelations as the Apostle Paul had 1 Cor. 12.2 so long a time together even fourteen years as he did Arg. 2 Heb. 11.24 The examples of other Saints that have gone before us Moses cared not to be accounted the sonne of Pharaohs daughter her adopted son he accounted the reproach of Christ greater gain then the pleasures of sinful delights 1 Thes 2.6 and their honours We sought not glory of men saith the Apostle neither of you neither of others Alas however you account of me whether as a Minister of Christ or no or as not approved as some would exclude us out of your affections It is a small thing for me to be judged of you or of mans judgement 1 Cor 4.3 Arg. 3 It is the Lord who must judge Brethren who knoweth the heart and will not judge as man judgeth according to mens parts and abilities and gifts of grace but according to that which is within Many a poore trembling soule that breatheth after the Lord Jesus is able to say little to make out little Oh how much dearer may he be in the eyes of the Lord then we with our honours with our great titles with our raised parts and learning as that learned man said when he saw the poore shepheard weeping over the toad that God had not made him such a creature and he had not been sufficiently thankful Oh saith he Surgunt indecti rapiunt coelum Oh! the Lord knoweth where is the circumcision of the heart Brethren where is the beleeving soul the humble soule indeed where is the fruitful soul full of love and of good fruits this is the soul that shall be accepted with him and he knoweth the ambition of the heart that would faine rise higher upon the wings of fame and renown Oh brethren remember this when we are any of us cried up what will this avail us if the Lord cry us down That which is of high esteem with men may be abomination in the eyes of God Oh therefore above all brethren Luk. 6.15 Phil. 4.8 let me beg of you that we may mind the things that are praise-worthy indeed If there be any vertue if there be any praise think on these things that is to say such things as will rather approve us unto God then unto men Arg. 4 Minde it Brethren What ever parts or abilities or gifts the Lord hath given any of us they are not our own but for the good of his people only the sincerity of our heart in the managing of them is our own Now while we have hearts lifted up in us Hab. 2.4 because of them where is the sincerity for so saith the Spirit of God whose heart is lifted up is not right within him so that alas poor creatures when we seek our own glory by our parts or gifts or whatsoever setteth us off in the eyes of men and not the glory of the Lord Jesus we boast of that which is not our own are proud of that which we have received and spend it upon our own lusts upon our own pride and ambition This is the reason wherefore the Lord denieth such parts to many that desire them to their own hurt not knowing the basenesse of their own hearts Oh therefore let us study our own hearts Brethren in this particular and what ever men speak of us look to it that it be found within us that it be good built not upon their sayings upon their charitable thoughts but upon what we