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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	faith_n	patience_n	temperance_n	4,962	5	11.6128	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32860	A sermon preached preached before His Majesty at Reading by William Chillingworth.	Chillingworth, William, 1602-1644.	1644 (1644)	Wing C3895; ESTC R39211	21,847	36

God He dothnot saythey which have done such things shall not be saved but manifestly to the contrary Such were some of you but ye are washed but you are sanctified but he sayes they which do such things and without amendment of life shall continue doeing them shall not be excused by any pretence of sorrow and good purposes They shall not inherite the Kingdome of Heaven And againe in another Epistle know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdome of God be not deceived neither fornicators nor Idolaters nor Adulterers nor abusers of themselves with mankinde nor Theeves nor Covetous nor Drunkards nor revilers shall inherit the Kingdome of God In Christ Iesus saith the same Saint Paul in other places nothing availeth but faith nothing but a new creature nothing but keeping the Commandements of God it is not then a wishing but a working faith not wishing you were a new Creature nor sorrowing you are not but being a new creature not wishing you had kept nor sorrowing you have not kept nor purposeing vainly to keepe but keeping his Commandements must prevaile with him Follow peace with all men and holinesse saith the Divine Authour of the Epistle to the Heb. without which no man shall see the Lord Saint Peter in his 2d Epistle commends unto us a golden chaine of Christian perfections consisting of these linkes Faith vertue knowledge Temperance patience godlinesse brotherly kindnesse charity and then addes He that lacketh these things is blind and knoweth not that he was purged from his old sinnes Let his sorrow be never so great and his desires never so good yet if he lacke these things he is blind and was purged from his old sinnes but is not Lastly Saint Iohn he that hath this hope purifieth himselfe even as he is pure the meaning is not with the same degree of purity for that is impossible but with the same kind the same truth of purity he that doth not purify himselfe may nay doth flatter himselfe and without warrant presume upon Gods favour but this hope he hath not and againe Little Children let no man deceive you he that doth righteousnesse is righteous even as he is righteous And thus you see all the divine Writers of the New Testament with one consent and one mouth proclaime the necessity of reall holinesse and labour together to disinchant us from this vaine phansy that men may be saved by sorrowing for their sinne and intending to leave it without effectuall conversion and reformation of life which it may well be feared hath sent thousands of soules to hell in a golden dreame of heaven But is not this to preach workes as the Papists doe no certainely it is not but to preach workes as Christ and his Apostles doe it is to preach the necessity of them which no good Protestant no good Christian ever denied but it is not to preach the merit of them which is the error of the Papists But is it not to preach the Lawe in time of the Gospell no certainely it is not for the Law forgives no sinnes but requireth exact obedience curseth every one which from the beginning to the end of his life continueth not in all things which are written in the Law to doe them but the Gospell sayes and accordingly I have said unto you that there is mercy alwayes in store for those who know the day of their visitation and forsake their sinnes in time of mercy and that God will pardon their imperfections in the progresse of holinesse who miscall not presumptuous and deliberate Sinnes by the name of imperfections but seriously and truly endeavour to be perfect onely I forewarne you that you must never looke to be admitted to the wedding feast of the Kings Son either in the impure raggs of any customary sinne or without the wedding garment of Christian holinesse onely I forewarne you that whosoever lookes to be made partaker of the joyes of heaven must make it the cheife if not the onely businesse of his life to know the Will of God and to doe it that great violence is required by our Saviour for the taking of this Kingdome that the race we are to run is a long race the building we are to erect is a great building will hardly very hardly be finished in a day that the worke we have to doe of mortifying all vices and acquiring all Christian vertues is a long worke we may easily deferre it too long we cannot possibly begin it too soone Onely I would perswade you and I hope I have done that that repentance which is not effectuall to true and timely conversion will never be available unto eternall salvation And if I have proved unto you that this is indeed the nature of true repentance then certainely I have proved withall that that repentance wherewith the generality of Christians content themselves notwithstanding their great professions what they are and their glorious protestations of what they intend to be is not the power but the forme not the truth but the shadow of true repentance and that herein also we accomplish Saint Pauls prediction having a forme of godlinesse c. And now what remaines but that as I said in the beginning I should humbly intreat and earnestly exhort every man that hath heard mee this day to confute in his particular what I have proved true in the generall To take care that the sinne of formality though it be the sinne of our times may yet not be the sinne of our persons that we satisfy not our selves with the shadowes of Religion without the substance of it nor with the forme of godlinesse without the power of it To this purpose I shall beseech you to consider that though sacrificing burning incense celebrating of set festivalls praying fasting and such like were under the Law the service of God commanded by himselfe yet whensoever they proceeded not from nor were joyned with the sincerity of an honest heart he professeth frequently almost in all the Prophets not onely his scorne and contempt of them all as fond empty and ridiculous but also his hating loathing and detesting of them as abominable and impious The Sacrifice of the wicked is abomination to God Prov. 15. 8. What have I to doe with the multitude of your Sacrifices saith the Lord Esay the first I am full of the burnt offerings of Rammes and of the fat of fed heasts when ye come to appeare before mee who required this at your hands Bring no more vaine oblations Incense is an abomination to mee I cannot suffer your new moones nor sabbaths nor solemne dayes it is iniquity even your solemne assemblies My soule hateth your new moones and your appointed feasts they are a burthen to me I am weary to beare them and when you shall stretch out your hands I will hide mine eyes from you and though you make many prayers I will not beare for your hands are full of bloud And againe Isa. 66. 3.