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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77711	Six dreadfull alarms in order to the right improving of the gospel ro [sic] the substance of a sermon / preached by Mr. Michael Bruce, Minister of the Gospel.	Bruce, Michael, 1634 or 5-1693.	1700 (1700)	Wing B5220B; ESTC R173194	14,574	23

with his Preaching to tell us this much that every preaching we hear we may not have our acquaintance to make with JESUS CHRIST when we appear there Well then these are the six Alarms upon the one hand and six Instructions on the other hand for right improving of preaching The Second Thing to be spoken to is Wherefore doth our Master take so much Pains to School us His Hearers in the right improving of preaching It is upon two Accounts First Upon this Account That all that he doth and saith is lost Labour except it be improven And do ye think that ever our Master will take it well off a Peoples Hand to have all His Preachings lost and all His Pains lost Will He take it off your hand well think ye to have all His Ordinances and Preachings on Sabbath-days lost Will He take it well off your hand to have Fast-days-preachings and Communion days-preachings lost And will He take it well off your hand to have many a stolen nights preaching that we have gone far for and ventured your Life for lost But alas we have lost all What will come of us Secondly He is serious For it is upon this Account that he may testifie to all His Friends and Followers that the right Guiders of Preaching is ay bulksom in His Bosom but all the Pains thou takes upon hearing of preaching without doing will never make thee bulksom in CHRISTs bosom The Vse I would have you to make of it is this Will ye tell me Sirs Have ye been at CHRISTs School yet Have ye heard all these six Alarms and taken them home for your misimproving of Preaching And have ye made use of all the six Instructions for that same end and travelled through them all But if ye will take a view of my Text more particularly ye will find two things very remarkable First That a Christian must be reasoned into the right improvement of Preaching ere ever he fall on it Ye must reason your selves into that Exercise So CHRIST here He begins this Verse with a Therefore Holding out a Reason for that Conclusion of doing at the back of hearing Secondly Ye will see this in my Text That ye must evermore keep the Lovesomness of doing or the Lovesom side of doing in your Eye or ye will grow ill-improvers of Preaching And therefore here He casts up the Beautifull-side of that Exercise to them The Man that hears and does he is like a Man that builds his House upon a Rock and what ever storm comes his House stands c. Telling us this much that and we keep not the Beautifull-side of doing in our Eye we are fair to be shaken in a day of the Cross But we come to the Words more particularly And First from the Duty imposed or rather proposed and that is Hearing and Doing by the People of GOD And the Observation is this That it is a Duty that the LORD layes at all your Doors that hears the Gospel to be doing as well as hearing Ye must do His Sayings as well as ye must hear them John 13.17 If ye know these things happy are ye if ye do them The Observation imports two things First The Observation imports this That Blessed JESUS has knit Hearing and Doing together and since He has knit them together GODs Vengeance will be upon that Man that will loose that Knot since He has knit Hearing and Doing together Therefore upon your Immortal Souls peril do not ye break that Knot For He has knit Hearing and Doing together and upon your Peril be it i. ye undoe what He hath done Secondly It imports this much That it is a Doing-Christian or the Christian that does best is ay bulksome in CHRISTS Bosom Well now that I may speak a little to this for I think it is the Plague of Scotland whatever hearing we hear there is no doing among us And therefore I say that I may speak a little to this I 'll First Let you see what doing is that ye must be at if so be ye would be approven of GOD For there is meikle doing among many Folk that I lle no give meikle Silver for Secondly I shall speak a word to this Wherein lyes the Commendableness of this to be doing CHRISTs Sayings Thirdly I shall give you a word of Caution And Lastly A word of Vse and go forward The First Thing then to be spoken to What is this doing that they should be at It is a doing of the Sayings of CHRIST with these seven O ken ye the doing of the Sayings of CHRIST that hath these seven with it First It is a Doing upon the back of Hearing of CHRISTs Sayings whereby the Christian in all his Doings labours ay to be Conformed to the Rock CHRIST and brought near Him and if ye be not Labouring by your Doing to be brought near the Rock and conformed to Him I lle not give a gray Groat for your Doing I lle no give meikle Silver for many Folks Doing For they never win to Conformity to CHRIST by their Doing Secondly It is such a Doing upon the back of Hearing of CHRISTs Sayings whereby not only a Good Foundation is laid but the fulness of the measure of the stature of a perfect man in CHRIST is aimed at by the Christian as well as the laying of a Good Foundation For my part Sirs I think it is a poor Bussiness we say ay we are Doing Christians and yet a Good Foundation is never laid by us and we say that we are Doing Christians and yet the Sydwall of a Buiding gangs never up with us We say ay that we are Doing Christians and yet the fulness of the measure of the statures of CHRIST is not the End that we aim at in our Doing Thirdly It is such a Doing upon the back of Hearing of CHRISTs Sayings whereby at the back of thy Doing thou Erects a New Walk with these four cleaving to it O have ye all these four cleaving to your Doing First Such a Walk as hath Spiritual-mindedness in the midst of it Romams 8.1 Who Walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit Therefore every word of a Preaching that I get I make Use of it for keeping me Spiritually-minded in my Generation Philip. 3.20 Our Conversation is in Heaven from whence we look for a Saviour Why is thy Conversation in Heaven poor Body Even because my Master is there and where should I be but where my Master is A Second Thing that this Doer Erects ye may take it out of Acts 9.31 Walking in the fear of the LORD and the comfort of the Holy Ghost Therefore my Walk hath ay two Flowers strawed over it the fear of the LORD and the comforts of the Holy Ghost and every one of them plays to others hands in my Walk A Third Piece of Walk that this Doer Erects at the back of my Hearing and that is in Micah 6.8 He Walks humbly with his GOD And therefore ye shall