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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	moral_a	nature_n	positive_a	4,914	5	10.3383	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30579	Gospel-conversation: wherein is shewed, I. How the conversation of believers must be above what could be by the light of nature. II. Beyond those that lived under the law. III. And suitable to what truths the Gospel holds forth. By Jeremiah Burroughs, preacher of the Gospel to Stepney and Criplegate, London. Being the third book published by Thomas Goodwyn, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simpson, Philip Nye, William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1650 (1650)	Wing B6076A; ESTC R213106	221,498	277

bitterness that original corruption and this makes me cry out Oh wretched man Oh wretched woman who shall deliver me from this body of death and Oh that I could find this mortified in me this is that that is the strength and endeavor of my soul to get this bodie of sin to be mortified I this is as becomes the Gospel so to live in your Conversations as it may appear that you are not content meerly to keep from actual sins though in secret but it is your great care and endeavour to mortifie this verie bodie of death that is within you and by this a great manie of your Civil men and meer moral men will or at least may be convinced that their Conversations comes short of that that becomes the Gospel of Jesus Christ for they are not acquainted with this Lastly If you would have your Conversations such as becomes the Gospel of Christ you must not only think to make conscience of secret sins but that which you do you must manifest that it doth proceed out of Love not only that you do obey but that you love the Commandement that you do obey Now this neither any hypocrit or meer moral man doth if you take it universallie one Commandement as well as another Obj. You will say Love is a secret thing Ans But as you may know in your family the difference between your childrens obedience to you and your servants so there may appear a difference between the obedience of one that is meerly moral or doth it out of conscience and the other that doth it out of love therefore you must know that you do not rise beyond the light of Nature except that you do love the Command as well as obey the Command and so carrie things in your Conversations as you may make it appear that all those waie of God that you make conscience of that you likewise have a love unto them and do them out of a principle of love and thus you come beyond the light of Nature and in some measure it is as becomes the Gospel of Christ And that 's the first thing how we should walk in our Conversations as becomes the Gospel of Christ But now this is the lowest of all The second is That our Conversations must be such as is beyond such as live under the Law for the Law of God goes higher than the light of Nature for there 's more reveal'd there than in the light of Nature It 's true that that you call the moral Law the light of Nature if it be cleer it is sutable to it to the most part of it only there is some part that is positive but most part is but sutable to the principles of Nature if they were cleer and pure but now because since the fall of Man the light of Nature is darkned and the principles of Nature are much corrupted therefore God hath given His Law that is as it were a glass of His Will that is the cleer glass of what was written in the heart of man in Innocencie that 's the Law Only there is that of the limitation of the seventh Day particularly from the Creation that hath somewhat positive in it but take all the other and I say it is nothing but as a glass of what was written in the heart of man in the time of Innocency There was written in mans heart to keep some solemn time for the worship of God only the specification was by revelation but the substance of all those ten Commandements I say is the glass of what was written in the heart of man in Innocency And because God saw that this writing was so much blotted out almost all obliterated therefore God wrote it in Tables of stone whereas it was written in the Table of mans heart at first But now when He comes to bring men to the Gospel there He writes over that Law again in the Tables of their hearts At first it was written in the heart of Adam but he falling doth blot it out in a great measure then God writes it over fair again but how He writes it over in a fair Copie but it is in Tables of stone but when God receives any soul in the Gospel He writes it over again in the Tables of their hearts Now this gives you a little hint of the difference between the Law and the Gospel between the Conversations of men that were meerly Legal and the Conversation that is Evangelical but the opening of it to shew the difference between the Law and the Gospel in reference to this and to shew how low the Conversation was that was meerly Legal and how high raised the Conversation of a Christian ought to be if he would make it Evangelical such as becomes the Gospel of Christ would ask more time and therefore we must defer that to the next day SERMON III. PHIL. 1. 27. Only let your Conversation be as becomes the Gospel of Christ A Conversation becoming the Gospel of Christ it must be beyond what the Law can inable one to attain to or else it doth not become the Gospel I have shewed you already what the Gospel of Christ is But now we are upon the point of Conversation That it must be higher than can be by the Law those that live under the Gospel must live in a higher way of holiness than those that lived under the Law Now for this we are to consider of the Law under these two considerations First As it is a Covenant of works for life so it was made at first to Adam It was a Covenant of works for eternal life to Adam and so to man kind in him Secondly We are to consider the Law as in the Ministration of it by Moses Take it either of these two waies Those that live under the Gospel and profess the Gospel must live in a more holy Conversation or aim or endeavour at least after a more holy Conversation than that Conversation could be that was under the Law As now I say thus the Law as the Covenant of life to Adam But what was his Conversation First It was obedience to God meerly as Creator no further Adam in innocency he lookt upon God as Creator of al things as the First being of all and so Adam tendered up his service to God meerly as the Creator and First-being That was his obedience Secondly The Law to Adam had promise only of natural things of a natural life to be continued We do not reade of Gods promising Adam to live in Heaven if he had obeyed but Do this and live that was the Tenour of the Covenant with him that is he should have continued in Paradise and so have lived a natural life but yet continued eternally God would have upheld that natural life of his that 's all we reade of that ever God promised to Adam if he had stood by vertue of that Covenant of the Law That 's the second thing considerable in