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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	world_n	worth_n	worthy_a	35	3	6.4995	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67782	The whole duty of a Christian, or, The character of a true beleever, that walks in some measure answerable to the Gospel, his Christian profession, and the millions of mercies he hath received ... by R.Y. of Roxwell in Essex.	Younge, Richard.	1653 (1653)	Wing Y195; ESTC R6055	69,319	64

of money and their hearts to be riveted to the earth to be so inslaved to their lust to make gold their god and commodity the stern of their consciences For else the one would fly from present sinful pleasures with as great zeal as now they seek after them Neither would the other like Iudas sell Christ for thirty pence who is not to be valued with many millions of worlds did they but seriously think of those treasures of wisdom and riches Col. 2. 3. that will never fade those comforts that are everlasting They would not be such fooles as to better their estates by making themselves worse nor impoverish their soules to inrich their bodies Much lesse would they sell both soul and body to purchase a great estate which when gotten they have not power to partake of For such is their sottishnesse they never think that dear which stands them in no lesse price then their own soules For in them is that fulfilled Nihil cuique se vilius the vilest basest and cheapest thing we have we hold our selves 15. Yet no wonder for this is the misery that notwithstanding God hath set life and death Heaven and Hell before us and given us our choyce Offering Heaven to all that will confide in serve and obey him threatned Hell in case we forsake him to serve sin and Satan few men have faith to believe either Yea being fleshly not having the spirit they can believe nothing but that they are led to by sense Otherwise did men but really believe either of these they would not instead of obeying Christs Gospel make the World only their god and pleasure or profit alone their Religion Men fear a Iayl more then they fear Hell and stand more upon their silver or sides smarting then upon their soules and regard more the blasts of mens breath then the fire of Gods wrath and tremble more at the thought of a Sergeant or Baily then of Satan and everlasting perdition Else they would not be hired with all the worlds wealth multiplyed as many times as there be sands on the Sea shore to hazard in the least the losse of those everlasting joyes before spoken of Or to purchase and plunge themselves into those caselesse and everlasting flames of fire and brimstone in Hell there to try body and soul where shall be an inumerable company of devils and damned spirits to affright and torment them but not one to comfort or pity them 16. But O the madnesse of these men that cannot be hired to hold their finger for one minute in the weak flame of a farthing Candle and yet for trifles will plunge themselves body and soul into those endlesse and infinitely scorching flames of Hell fire If a King but threatens a Malefactour to the Dungeon to the Rack to the wheel his bones tremble a terrible palsie runs through all his joynts but let God threaten the unsufferable tortures of burning Topheth we stand unmoved undaunted And what makes the difference the one we believe as present the other is as they think uncertain and long before it comes if ever it do come Otherwise it could not be since the soul of all sufferings are the sufferings of the soul Since as painted fire is to material such is material to Hell fire And yet if fire be but cryed in the streets we run and bestir our selves how to quench it or at least how to avoid it O that men would believe the God of truth that cannot lye touching spiritual and eternal things but as they do these temporary and transitory O that thou who art the sacred Monarch of this mighty frame wouldest give them hearts to believe at least thus much That things themselves are in the invisible World in the World visible but their shadowes onely And that whatsoever wicked men injoy here it is but as in a dream their plenty is but like a drop of pleasure before a River of sorrow and displeasure And whatsoever the godly feel but as a drop of misery before a River of mercy and glory That though thou the great and just Iudge of all the world comest slowly to Judgment yet thou wilt come surely As the Clock comes slowly and by minutes to the s●r●ak yet it strikes at last That those are onely true riches which being once had can never be lost That Heaven is a Treasure worthy our hearts a purchase worth our lives That when all is done how to be saved is the best plot That there is not mention of one in the whole Bible that ever sinned without repentance but he was punished without mercy For then there would not be a Fornicator or Prophane person as Esau who for a portion of meat sold his inheritance Heb. 12. 16. Then they would not be of the number of those that so doted upon purchases and Farmes and Oxen that they made light of going to the Lords Supper Luke 14. 18 19 20. Nor of the Gadarens mind who preferred their Hogs before Christ Then would they know it better to want all things then that one needful thing whereas now they desire all other things and neglect that one thing which is so needful They would hold it far better and in good sadnesse to be saved with a few as Noah war in the Ark then in good fellowship with the multitude to be drowned in sin and damned for company Nor would they think it any disparagement to their wisdomes to change their minds and be of another judgment to what they are 17. Wherefore my Brethren let me beseech you not to be such Atheists and fooles as to fall into hell before you will fear it when by fearing it you may avoid it and by neglecting it you cannot but fall into it What though it be usual with men to have no sense of their souls till they must leave their bodies yet do not you therefore leap into Hell to keep them company But be perswaded to bethink your selves now rather then when it will be too late when the Draw-Bridge will be taken up and when it will vex every vein of your hearts that you had no more care of your soules CHAP. XXII 1. FOurthly and lastly these things being so how doth it concern all to see that they are Believers Wouldest thou then have it fare so with thee Wouldest thou have thy very poysons turned into cordials thy terrours changed into pleasures and thy greatest evils made beneficial unto thee Wouldest thou be loosed from the chains of thy sins and delivered from the chains of plagues Wouldest thou have the same Christ with his precious Blood to free thee that shall with his Word sentence others As who would not except Satan hath strangely bewitcht him If thou wouldest I say then learn of this Believer imitate him in what hath been declared and what I shall further rehearse touching his knowledge belief and life for I have onely brake the thred of my Discourse to let in this use in way of

Spirit in him poured out in the Name of Christ and according to his will for being truly sensible of his sins and wants ●e chiefly prayes for the pardon of sinne the effusion of grace and for the assistance of Gods Spirit that he may more firmly beleeve more soundly repent more zealously do more patiently suffer and more constantly persevere in the practice and profession of every duty Nor does he for the most part fall into prayer without meditation and preparation nor utter words without dev●●on and affection nor without some assurance and perswasion that God will hear and grant his requests yea he mostly takes no●ice of his enlargements in prayer and of the successe afterwards and is accordingly thankfull or humbled not that he measureth Gods hearing his suit by his present answer or his present answer by his own sense he will pray at least in some poor measure at all times striving against deadnesse of spirit and distractions as an heavy burthen 2. He hears the Word with attention mindes observes and remembers it carefully receives and applies whatsoever precept or promise is spoken out of the Word as spoken by God to himself in particular is astonished at the ●eepnesse of Gods wisedom power and goodnesse seriously meditating upon the the Nature Attributes Word and Works of God he layes it up in his heart ponders on it in his mind and practiseth it in his life neither will he approach unto the Lords Table without due examination and preparation 3. He is enligtned with the saving knowledge and hid things of the Gospel and to see truth from error good from evil together with his own wretched nesle by sinne and the riches of Gods free grace and mercy in Christ towards his own soul he is not ignorant of the Principles of Religion as most aged people are but is able and ready to give a reason of the hope that is in him 4. He loves and longs after a powerfull and searching Ministry above all earthly treasures as finding a greater necessity of spirituall then corporall food and therefore will take any pains or be at any cost or suffer any disgrace to injoy it 5. He is never offended at any wholsome truth be it never so untoothsome but affects that Ministry most which most layes open and rebukes his own sinne even therefore coming to the light that his deeds may be made manifest When he hears his own sins spoken against he does not apply the same unto others as is the manner of too many nor is he wise to defend the evil he does but loves to be admonished nor will he after warning and conviction from the Word go on in an evil way because his principall care is to be saved 6. He will not mock his admonisher scoff at the means to be saved nor make himself merry with his own damnation as the desperately wicked do He turns not his back upon any truth nor flies from any instruction he hateth not the light yea he loves that Minister best that most makes manifest the secrets of his heart as knowing that God is in him of a truth He will not refuse a Pardon because he dislikes the Messenger Indeed he least regards those Ministers that the world admires as well weighing what St Iohn saith 1 Ioh. 4. They are of the world therefore speak they of the world and the world heareth them we are of God he that knoweth God heareth us he that is not of God heareth not us hereby know we the Spirit of truth and the spirit of errour ver. 5 6. 7. He will not plead against God nor ask a reason of his actions if he meets with hard Scriptures he runs not into errour not is offended but suspends his judgement and blames his own blindnes you may know him from an unbeleever by this he is wise to defend the truth when he hears it spoken against but never argues against it whereas the unbeleever being prompted by Satan can most subtilly argue against the truth though he hath not a word to speak for it yea he thinks it religion enough if he can but dispute against the religious which is a manifest signe of a wicked man Briefly he neither carps nor frets against a faithfull Minister nor seeks to intrap him or pervert what he delivers but prayes for him and is ready to speak in his defence 8. He hath an high estimation of the Ministers and means by which he was converted and findes more sweetnesse in the Gospel then in any thing else in the world 9. Spirituall judgements as a famine of the Word the blindnesse of mens mindes hardnesse of their hearts c. he accounts more wofull then any judgement the world can be sensible of 10. He is not of a reprobate judgement in thinking good evil and evil good neither hath he a base esteem of Gods people and their wayes as it fares with our scoffing adversaries who look upon zeal and holinesse with the devils spectacles nor so farre from being holy himself that he hates holinesse in others or so stupidly sottish as the rude rabble who will profes●e that they love Christ yet hate all such as any way resemble him He will take heed of persecuting the godly either with hand or tongue and as he will not condemn the j●st so he will not justifie the wicked nor favour them 11. He is so farre from taking offence when none is given that he will not be offended when offences come as at the scandalous lives of professors or at the multitude of heresies that are daily broached though they grieve his very soul but when strange things happen he makes a wholsome construction thereof CHAP. V. 1. HE prayes for the enlargement and rejoyces at the progresse of the Gospel and in the common good of the Church and so at the graces or good successe of any member in particular and will be some way instrumentall for Christ praying for and earnestly desiring the salvation of others and likewise endeavouring to win all he can to Christ rejoycing no lesse when any good thing is done by others then if himself did it He highly respects all such as any way promote the Gospel and is thankfull to them 2. He is willing to be at cost to serve the Lord will freely administer carnall things where he partaketh of spirituall things and counts the same as a due not as a benevolence yea he thinks it most just that they who preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel and that as freely as men of other Callings which signe or character shews a world of men that professe themselves Christians to be but counterfeits 3. He beleeves impartially the whole Word of God threats and precepts as well as promises and things above the reach of reason as well as what experience hath made plain to him he feels the power and efficacy of Gods Word and Spirit perswading his conscience that his sins are pardoned in Christ and he in