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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	world_n	worship_n	worship_v	48	3	7.9857	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85953	Gospel-revelation in three treatises, viz, 1 The nature of God. 2 The excellencies of Christ. And, 3 The Excellency of mans immortal soul. By Jeremiah Burroughs, late preacher of the gospel at Stepney, and Giles-Cripple-gate, London. Published by William Greenhill. William Bridge. Philip Nye. John Yates. Matthew Mead. William Adderly.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.	1660 (1660)	Wing G6083; Thomason E1029_1; ESTC R208881	280,310	387

a surfeit of good meat though the meat bee good yet hee may surfeit upon it so though the things of this world the cares and the pleasures may bee as some things are in themselves lawful yet by an inordinate and immoderate letting out thy heart to lawful things thou mayest surfeit thy soul and it may die of that surfeit Many men think themselves out of danger if the things that their hearts are upon bee in themselves lawful they are not swearers and whoremasters and drunkards and theeves as others are and therefore they think their souls may bee saved I say thou mayest busie thy heart onely about that which is in its self lawful and yet thy soul may take a surfeit and perish eternally Tenthly and lastly Many lose their souls by forfeiting them and that by these two waies First A man forfeits his soul as men do their Coppy-holds by not tendering that homage to their Lord that is due by which they hold their Lands and so their Lands come to bee forfeit so dost thou God hath given thee thy precious soul more worth than all the world and thou holdest it of God but so as thou must tender up to this Lord that homage that is due to him that is thou must worship God When wee come to worship God this is that wee do wee come to tender up that homage that wee acknowledge to bee due to God for these souls of ours that hee hath given unto us that is our worship that is the nature of worship The tendering up something by way of homage to acknowledge that due respect wee owe unto God as that Lord that hath the absolute dispose of us now by neglect of worshipping of God of tendering up his homage thou forfeitest thy soul and indangerest thy self to perish eternally and oh how few people regard any such worship of God! and though they do the thing that God requires as praying and coming to hear the Word yet do they not do it as in a way of tendering up homage to that God upon whom they do onely depend but now this is that which God requires of us or otherwise our souls are forfeited Secondly Men forfeit their souls by breaking covenant with God however there may bee some that God will not take the forfeiture of yet certainly upon thy breach of covenant with God thy soul is forfeited Thou dost ingage thy soul to God every time thou dost enter into covenant with him It may bee said of any man or woman that enters into covenant with God who is this that hath ingaged his soul to God now thou ingaging and binding thy soul to God in thy covenant upon thy breach of it dealing falsely thou dost forfeit thy soul And by these several waies souls are lost and oh how many thousand souls perish with such waies and manners as these are and therefore seeing there are such several waies of the loss of souls let not people think themselves safe though they do not go in some waies whereby they may come to lose their souls for there are very many waies whereby thou mayest lose thy soul and so miscarry to eternity Use The other Use that remains is this If the loss of our souls bee so dreadful a thing and there bee so many waies for the losing of them then it concerns us neerly to examine whether wee bee not in such a condition for the present that if our souls should depart out of our bodies they would certainly bee lost this is a needful scrutiny and a most necessary inquiry Many men have these thoughts what if I should now die I have not made my Will and my estate would go such and such waies as I would not have it it would bee squandered away it would bee spent in Sutes of Law I but rather let thy thoughts run out thus what if I should now die would not my soul bee lost and perish for ever Now though I have said wee cannot set forth such a man or woman and conclude that their souls shall certainly bee lost because wee know not what God may do hereafter but wee may say this that such a man or womans soul in the condition it is If God do no more for it than hee hath yet done that then it will certainly bee lost Indeed a man or woman may come to know and certainly to conclude that they are elected but none can come to such a conclusion to know certainly that they are Reprobates the vilest wretch that is upon the face of the earth hee hath not ground sufficient to conclude against himself that hee is a Reprobate and that his soul shall for ever bee lost and therefore surely wee cannot conclude against another if not against our selves Well but who are they that if God should work no otherwise upon them than hee hath done that then their souls would bee lost First In the first place That soul to whom God hath not made known and convinc'd it of the dangerous natural condition in which it is if such a soul should depart from the body it would bee lost Onely let mee premise these two cautions I do not speak of Infants but of those that are come to years and that live under means And I speak of Gods ordinary way wee will not limit God what hee may do in extraordinary waies but in an ordinary course and way of Gods dealings with the children of men that hee lets live to come to years and bee under means these following rules will discover who they are that at the present are in a lost condition I say such to whom God hath never revealed and convinced them of the evil of their natural condition in which they were born in which they are if God should let them so die and make known no more to them than hee hath such a soul would bee lost and that upon this ground because that without Faith it must bee lost that is acknowledged by all hee that beleeves not shall bee damned is condemned already Now there cannot bee Faith in a Saviour to save the soul but it must needs imply that I know what a dangerous condition I am in by sin For there is even a contradiction implied in my beleeving in Christ as a Saviour and yet I not convinced of the damnable condition that I am in without this Christ Secondly That soul that yet hath not made it to bee its great care above all outward things in this world to save its self that soul if it should now depart from the body would bee lost I say if God hath not first convinc'd thee and made thee sensible of that damnable condition in which thou art in thy self and secondly if hee hath not taken off thy heart from the creature from the things that are here below and made it to bee the great care of thy soul for to get it to bee saved hath not made thee to bee solicitous about the work of saving of

Hee feedeth on Ashes a deceived heart hath turned him aside that hee cannot deliver his soul nor say is there not a lye in my right hand Hee feedeth of Ashes A deceived heart hath turned him aside that hee cannot deliver his soul there lies the sore evil of it A deceived heart hee needs not cast it upon the Devil but it is his own bare filthy corrupt heart that dares not trust God for his soul for eternity hee will have present things come of it what will come hee knows what the meaning of present things are but what those are that are to come hee knows not a deceived heart hath seduced him and hee cannot deliver his soul nor say Is there not a lie in my right hand that is is not the strength of my indeavour set upon falshoods the chief of my strength and indeavours is it not set upon a lie Chrysostome saith If hee were to preach to all the world hee would chuse that Text as soon as any Oh yee children of men why do yee love vanity and follow after leasing And it were happy if it were alwaies sounding in the ears of every one whose hearts are after present things so that such a one may hear a voice behinde him saying This is not the way but this is the way walk in it Thou hast deceived thy soul all this while and wearied thy self and that through the curse of God upon thy heart as Hab. 2.13 Behold is it not of the Lord of Hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity Is not this of the Lord of Hosts So when wee see men and women why they have understanding in the things of the world yet for the matter of God they have none at all They are very industrious and laborious to get outward things and outward comforts of this world and tire themselves can sit up late and rise early Oh is it not of the Lord of Hosts that people should thus weary and tire themselves by way of similitude wee may apply it to the spirits of men that are wearying and tyring of themselves after vanity it is the Lords curse that is upon their hearts It is said I remember of Dionysius that when hee was upon his sick-bed hee hears Thales the Philosopher discoursing excellently about divers excellent moralities and hee curses those pleasures and delights that had taken off his heart from attending to such things When thou comest upon thy sick-bed what will comfort thee then it cannot bee thy silver nor gold therefore oh that the Lord would make thee now for the present to see thy vanity and folly before it be too late and thou curse thy self and there bee no hopes for thee But it is this point shews the folly and madness of those that seek after never such great things in the world with the hazard of their souls but then what shall wee say to those that will hazard their souls for every trifle Wee spoke of that in the aggravation of the dreadfulness of the loss of the soul onely a word or two more of it here In Amos 2.6 God complains there that the righteous were sold for silver and the poor for a pair of shooes That they put such a poor price upon righteous men and upon poor men as if God should say Know I put a greater price upon my righteous servants than all the silver in the world Oh now the complaint may bee against many people that sell their souls for silver yea even for a pair of shooes for a trifle for a toy for nothing not for all the world but for every little pittance what is that that thou hast or art like to have why very poor things in comparison of the world I remember it is reported of Alcibiades a young Gallant that Socrates comes in a jeering way unto him for his pride and brings him a Map of the world and saith hee to him Shew mee I pray thee where lies thy Land here Now if I were to speak to Princes and Emperours yet this Text would speak dreadfully to them that they should venture their souls for Kingdomes and Empires but now for you that are never like to have any such things for you to set your hearts upon such trifles and so to damn your souls what can you get look upon a Map and see what all England is Europe is but a fourth part of the world that is known I but then what is England to Europe and then to all the world and then what is one County in England and one City or one House I have a great many Tenements saith one in a Parish but what is all this to the world and all this world unto Heaven and Heaven and the world unto God but now to think that thou art blessed because thou hast but a few rotten Tenements Oh what a seduced heart hath deceived thee that thou canst bee satisfied with such things as these are this one meditation mee thinks might sink into the hearts of those that will venture their souls for every trifle If ever thy soul bee saved God must set such a price upon it that hee must give more than a thousand worlds are worth to save it hee must give no less than the blood of his Son and canst thou think that the infinite God should prize thy soul at such a high rate when thou thy self dost prize it at such a low rate If so bee that a man had lost any thing of his estate and it could not bee redeemed without some great summe of mony If his friends come to know that hee doth not prize what hee hath lost will any friend bee so mad as to lay down five hundred pound to redeem that for his friend which hee knows aforehand that hee doth no● prize at twelve pence So canst thou think that that soul of thine that thou prizest at nothing that the Infinite God should lay down such a price to redeem it Thirdly From the consideration of the comparison of the gain of the world to the loss of the soul It is a Use of exhortation To teach us to answer all temptations or to work this upon our hearts the answering of all temptations to any way of sin To answer all with this you offer mee too little whatsoever you can offer mee to draw mee to think well of sin certainly it is too little for it indangers my soul the thorow understanding of this point and the working of it upon the heart is a very great help against whatsoever temptation should come to draw thee to sin Surely If these things bee so then this can bee no Argument for mee to neglect any duty that God calls for at my hands or to venture upon any way that my conscience tells mee is sin Oh but if I do thus it will indanger my estate but if I do such a thing I shall get so much by it