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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	believe_v	faith_n	word_n	11,191	5	4.5836	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01030	A preparatiue sermon, to the Lords table, preached by the Reuerend Mr. Iohn Forbes, pastour to the Companie of Marchant Aduentureres residing in Delff	Forbes, John, 1568?-1634.	1632 (1632)	STC 11133; ESTC S120856	19,249	70

at their doores and looke to be fed vvith the food of Angels and yet vvill not stir hand nor foote to labour for it I say such men can neuer expect to haue it from God VVe knovv it sufficiently rhat it is Gods vvill and ordinance that touching this temporall life a man should eate his bread in the svveat of his brovves vve doe vvillingly vndergoe paine labour for it But here is all our fault that hovvsoeuer vve be busied and pained for temporall things belonging to this life yet vve haue neither heart nor mind to take any paines for spirituall things And this is one of the greatest sinnes of this miserable age vvhere in men are so diligent laborious for the things of this life and yet so careles miserablie negligent in things concerning eternall life VVell this vve say that truly the greater diligence men vse the more paines they take about vvorldly businesses the greater shal be there conviction and their iudgment the more terrible in the daie of Christ his appearing If they haue not beene much more painfull about spirituall things vvhich do concerne eternall life VVe shall heare here after vvhat need vve haue to vveane our selues from the cares of this vvorld and of earthly things because it is the maine hinderance and let of our care and solicitude for heauenly things and therefore it must be first rooted out of the heart before the heart can be set as it ought vpon spirituall things But novv let vs consider vvhat is cōprehended vnder this word Labour and vvhat are the things that the Son of God requires of vs to be done for the attaining to this bread of life Christ himself here after in the same chapter shevves this in ansvvering the Ievves question vvhen they asked him vvhat shall vve doe that vve maye worke the vvorkes of God Iesus ansvvered and said vnto them this is the vvorke of God that you beleeue in him vvhom he hath sent heere in steed of all vvorkes Christ places but one and that is the vvorke of beleeuing a vvorke not of the hand nor of the body but a vvorke of the heart For as a man must haue a mouing hand a stirring body in the busines that belōgs to this world so for obtaying of spiritual blessings he must haue a stirring and a beleeuing heart his heart must vvorke by faith if euer he thinke to haue any spirituall blessing from God for it is by faith alone that vve draw all good things from God in heauen and by faith alone it is that vve render to God any thing that can be acceptable vnto him for all though in the Scriptures our actions are attributed to loue yet they are in this life more properlie attributed to faith seing that faith vvorks by loue and so loue being but the instrument of faith and that by vvhich faith vvorketh and this is the reason vvhy all the doings and suffrings of the children of God are attributed vnto faith as you may see in the 11. of the Lev. for the vvhole operation of a spirituall man consists maynly in the vvork of beleeuing vvithout which vve shall neuer receiue ought from God that is able to saue our soules neither shall vve be able to doe so much as to send vp one sound desire or petition vnto God To conclud in a vvord there is no abillitie either to speake or to doe ought acceptablie to God vvithout faith This point is of great moment vve are to Labour aboue all things to attaine vnto this vvorke of beleeuing and to this end vve are care fully to vse all meanes by vvhich it pleaseth God to vvorke faith in our hearts as namely the hearing of the vvord of God preached the participation of the Lords supper instant praier to God vvith dayly meditations in the blessed vvord of God dayly conference talking of the holy things of God That faith by these meanes be both vvrought and nourished and dayly increased in our hearts vvithout vvhich it is impossible that euer vve can come to haue any feeling or sence either of the life or loue of God in our soules much lesse to shevve forth any euidences of them in our practise to the eies of men this is that vvork vvhich must haue place in all our vvorkes season them all before God therefore are vve commanded that vvhatsoeuer vve doe vvhether vve eate or vvhether vvee drinke that vve doe all in the name of the Lord Iesus which is as much as to say that vve doe all in faith for nothing can be done in the name of the Lord Iesus but it must of necessitie be done in faith this is then that which Christ means vvhen he vvills vs to labour Novv let vs goe forvvard here it follovveth that vve should next speake of that for vvhich vve should labour but before vve come vnto it VVe vvill speake first of the preparition vvhich Christ requires in vs for the fitting vs to this labour vvhich stands in the remouing of the lets impediments that hinder vs from labouring for that meat vvhich indures vnto euerlasting life And this is set dovvne in these vvords labour not for the meat vvhich perishes Heere vve see that vvhen Christ wils vs to labour for heauenly things he first restraines vs from the labour for earthly things The reason is because that if the loue and care of earthly things be not rooted out of our mindes the loue and care of heauenly things can take no place in them this is manifest by that speach of Iohn his 1. Epist 2. cap. 15. vers Loue not the vvorld nor the things of the vvorld if any man loue the vvorld the loue of the Father is not in him It is a most certaine truth that man vvhose heart affections is set vpon things belonging to his body must be a senceles man concerning the vvellfare of his soule It is expedient therefore and also necessarie that the care and solicitude of earthly things bee moderated and borne dovvne in our minds if euer vve vvill embrace this ●abour commanded by Christ for spirituall things for no man can serue ●vvo Masters it is impossible to serue God and the vvorld both and it is for this cause that Christ vvills his Disciples Not to care vvhat they should eate nor vvhat they should drinke nor vvhat they should put on put that first they should seeke the kingdome of God and his righteousnes vvith a promise that all these things shall be cast vnto them And to moue them vnto this among manie other reasons he brings this for one to vvit that it is the disposition and custome of the hea●hen and men vvithout God to seek after things concerning this life namely vvhat they should eate and vvhat they should drinke and vvhat they should put on and therefore cōcludes that they that knovv God and professe God to be their Father should not set their hearts vpō these Temporall thing for it