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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49248	The hearers duty a sermon preached at Anne Aldersgate, London at the finishing of the morning execise at that church / by Mr. Christopher Love ...	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.	1653 (1653)	Wing L3160; ESTC R234145	9,410	23

have been rather blessed then any one else in the world and if that be true then this text must needs be false for Christ sayes here that rather blessed are they that hear the Word of God and keep it then she 2 This confutes them because they do so crie up the righteousnesse and holinesse and dignity of the Virgin Mary that they do undervalue the righteousnesse of Jesus Christ her Son they so dote upon the Virgin Mary that they make her the great Mediator for us to the Father whereas we say and maintain that Christ is the only mediator for there is but one mediator between God and Man the man Christ Jesus Ministers had never more need to confute Popish doctrines and opinions then now For never was Popery more like to increase and flourish in this Land then now it is and therefore I do the rather give these glances concerning them because there is a great deal of danger lest people be infected with these Popish fooleries I speak this upon my own experience I have been a preacher these 10. years and in all that time I never perceived so many inclining towards Popery as I have done within these two months since these late strange actions that have been done amongst us I have seen many to stagger about our Religion and have been strongly tempted to imbrace and fall to Popery which is the reason that induced me to make this digression We come now to the Reasons of the point 1 Because that Christ does count such in neer relation to himself reas 1 nay in a neerer relation to him then his own naturall friends as in Mark 3.33 34 35. when they told Christ that his mother and his brethren were without seeking for him sayes he Who is my mother or my brethren Whosoever shall hear the Word of God and keep it the same is my brother my sister and mother 2 Because if you hear the Word of God and keep what you hear reas 2 you shall persever and have the end of your faith in Mat. 7.24 sayes Christ there Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine and doth them I will liken him unto a wise man which built his house upon a rock and the rain descended and the floods came and the windes blew and beat upon that house and it sell not for it was founded upon a rock So those only that hear the Word of God and practise it shall have the end of their faith and have their soules built upon that rock Christ Jesus that shall never be removed 3 You ar blessed in practising what you hear reas 3 because thereby you may bring many others to blessednesse in 1 Pet. 3.1 sayes the Apostle there Wives be in subjection to your own husband that if any obey not the word they may without the word be won by the conversation of their wives And those men that have been won to Christ by your good example when they come to appear before God in judgment by seeing you they shal glorifie God in the day of their visitation and shall blesse God that by your means they were brought to heaven 4 They that practise what they hear are blessed reas 4 Because though they may not bring others to heaven yet they are sure to come to heaven themselves in Rev. 14.12 13. Here is the patience of the Saints and here are they that keep the commandements of God and the faith of Jesus Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord they rest from their labour and their works follow them those that keep the Commandements of God and the faith of Jesus they shall come themselves to heaven though they bring no body else thither Where a Gospell life goes before an Angels life shall follow after You that lead Gospell lives here assure your selves that you shall lead Angels lives hereafter and therefore make conscience to do and practise what you hear and know We come now to the Application and the Use that I shall make of it shall be threefold for Lamentation Consolation and Exhortation 1 For Lamentation Vse of Lament is it so that they are rather blessed that hear and practis● what they hear in the word then the Virgin Mary Oh then how should this consideration provoke you to Lamentation that when you may have blessing upon such tearms as these Hear my Word and make conscience to practise it and you shall be blessed yet you do reject your own mercie Oh thou perverse and hard he arted man or woman that wilt not practise what thou hearest thou dost reject thy own mercy The Devill could not damn thee if thou wouldest not damn thy self Thou Oh man that let the Word say what it will thou wilt do what thou list doest thou not stand in the way of thy own blessednesse and reject thy own mercy And to set home this particular upon your hearts give me leave to presse it with these 3 or 4 Considerations 1 Consider consid 1 that thou that doest not make conscience to practise what thou hearest thou dost provoke the Lord to take away the Word from thee that thou shalt not hear it at all in Amos 8.9 because that Israel was weary of the Word of God and of his Sabbaths saying When will the new moon be gone that we may sell Corn and the Sabbath that we may set forth Wheat Therefore sayes God I will cause the Sun to go down at noon and I will darken the earth in the clear day and I will send a famine in the Land not a famine of bread or a thirst for water but of hearing the Words of the Lord. God may take away the Word from you for your not profiting under it in Mat. 21.43 The Kingdome of God shall be taken from you and given to a Nation bringing forth the fruits thereof 2 Consider consid 2 that thy hearing if thou dost not practise what thou hearest will aggravate thy damnation an other way in Joh. 15.22 sayes Christ If I had not come and spoken unto them they had not had sin but now they have no cloak for their sin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So in Luke 12.47 That servant that knew his Lords will and prepared not himself neither did according to his will shall be beaten with many stripes It is an observation that one hath upon the Prophesie of Esay from the 13. to the 24. Chapter of that Prophesie you shall read there of many dismall denuntiations of judgment the burden of Babylon the burden of Tyre the burden of Damascus and of Moah and of Egypt and the burden of the desert of the Sea many nations and people did the Lord command the Prophet to pronounce a burdensome Prophesie against but amongst them all there is the burden of the valley of vision in the 22. Chapter and it is observed that this is the most burdensome of them all and the reason is because that was a place of vision and knowledge where