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judgement_n	brother_n	danger_n	fool_n	1,488	5	9.9269	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65571	Eight sermons preached on several occasions by Nathanael Whaley ...; Sermons. Selections	Whaley, Nathanael, 1637?-1709.	1675 (1675)	Wing W1532; ESTC R8028	120,489	326

but a solid and expereienc'd Truth And how should this animate our Endeavours and enliven us in our spiritual course that the better speed we make the less weary we shall be with our Journey And that having past the first stages of it if we do not loiter by the way we shall gather strength all along as we go and be less tired than we should have been by sitting still the while Every step will yield us a New Refreshment as it brings us nearer the glorious End of our Hope and shortens the Distance betwixt us and Heaven 7. Lastly Let us consider that the better we grow the fitter we shall be to die and the riper for Eternity Every degree of Grace will help to support and comfort us in our Last Agonies when of all the hours we have to live we would chuse to have our minds easie and chearful to be well assured of our Future state and to have nothing upon our spirits that may occasion any bitter Reflections upon the Lives we have led or any misgiving Thoughts of our approaching Eternity When our Last and Determining Hour comes we shall need all the succours which a strong Faith a vigorous Hope and a perefect Patience a good Conscience and a Holy Life can afford us to vanquish the Fears and support us under the Pangs and Strugglings of Death to make our Passage easie and our Dissolution desirable We are generally apt when we perceive our selves upon the Brink of Immortality to stand shivering at the amazing Prospect of the boundless Ocean before us being Naturally very loth to put off from this Beloved World and commonly very fearful of our landing upon the next And there is nothing that can perfectly cure us of this Fear but the lively Hopes of a better Life after this through the Mercy of God and the Merits of Jesus Christ upon the Terms of the Gospel-Covenant i. e. our Improvement of the Grace of God and the Talents he hath intrusted us with Such a Hope as this will charm our Natural Fears Disarm Death of its Terrors and make us even glad to die and desirous to see that happy World we have so long entertained our selves with the expectation of We shall not be afraid to give up our Accounts if we have been Good Stewards of the manifold Grace of God but rejoice that our Audit is at hand being conscious to our selves that we have been doing the pleasure of our Lord and that in simplicity and godly sincerity we have had our Conversation in the world When we are going to God it will be an unexpressible comfort to us to be able to say that vve have vvalkt before him in truth and with a perfect heart and done that which is right in his sight Isa 38.3 And vvhat greater happiness can vve imagine or chuse for our selves than to sail vvith a due preparation of Mind and a full Tide of Joy into a blessed Eternity If there are different degrees of happiness in Heaven as I think the Scripture plainly intimates to us the best men in this World vvill certainly be the happiest in the next And since there is glory enough there to crovvn all our Endeavours and Improvements vvhy should vve not aim at as great a share of it and to rise as high in the grace and Favour of God as we can possibly attain unto 'T is certain we cannot bestow our time better than in laying up all the Treasure that we can in Heaven where we are sure it will be safe and will be always in a thriving and growing state and where we shall find it after a few days improv'd into an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that fadeth not away Let us therefore having these mighty reasons to quicken our spiritual growth aspire every day to exceed our selves and to mend our progress in Religion They that are but in an Infant-state of Grace have many stages and degrees to pass through before they can arrive at any great perfection and so have reason to be pressing on lest Time and Death should be too hasty for them and not allow them space to finish their Course with Joy And for those that are grown up to greater strength and maturity as better Fruit will be expected from them than others so it would be a real shame and prejudice to them to come behind themsleves and that their last Works should be worse than their first When all is said to satisfie men concerning the goodness of their spiritual state assuredly the most comfortable and infallible Evidence of the Truth of Grace is the growth and flourishing of it I shall conclude all with the Words of the Apostle Wherefore beloved seeing ye know these things before beware lest ye fall from your own stedfastness but grow in grace and in the knowledg of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ To him be Glory both now and for ever Amen SERMON VII OF Murther particularly Duelling and Self-Murther Matth. 5.21 Ye have heard that it was said by them of Old time Thou shalt not Kill THe Precept in the Text was no Modern saying no positive command of Christ but one of the Ancient and standing Rules of Natural Religion It was at first engraven in the deepest Characters upon the Heart of Man by the hand of his Creator the written Law being only a Transcript or Copy of that Original But even this as it was no less Authentick was very Ancient too Ye have heard saith our Saviour to the Jews 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that it was said to the Ancients or to them of Old time for so the words are most naturally rendred thou shalt not Kill That is this Precept was delivered to their Fathers at Mount Sinai under the hand-writing of God himself and was often repeated in after Ages by his Priests and Prophets But it seems it was not throughly Understood in our Saviours time the Jews apprehending themselves clear of this Commandment if they did not Kill and Murther one another To rectify this great mistake our Saviour being about to give them a larger and more perfect exposition of the Law than the Scribes and Pharisees the famous Expositors of the Age generally did expresly tells them that causeless and reproachful Anger is forbidden under the greatest Penalties of this Commandment v. 22. But I say unto you that whoseover is Angry with his Brother without a cause shall be in danger of the Judgment and whosoever shall say to his Brother Racha shall be in danger of the Counsel but whosoever shall say Thou Fool shall be in danger of Hell Fire viz. Because this quarrelsome and provoking Passion of Anger is as Aristotle observes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the ordinary Principle and Cause of Murthers and therefore very Sinful in it self 'T is not my design at this time to insist upon our Saviour's Improvement of the sence of this Law otherwise than the stating of particular cases may lead me to it