Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	drink_v	eat_v	supper_n	10,350	5	9.1429	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26816	The way to the highest honour a funeral sermon, on John XII, 26, preach'd upon the decease of the Rnd Tho. Jacomb ... April 3, 1687 / by William Bates ...	Bates, William, 1625-1699.	1687 (1687)	Wing B1131; ESTC R14324	38,983	138

Liberty of the Sons of God By dying he destroyed him that had the Power of Death and triumphed over Principalities and Powers on the Cross. We have Freedom of Pardon and of Grace and the natural and necessary Consequence is that we cheerfully serve him that set us free This is expressed by Zacharias in his divine Thansgiving that being delivered from the Hands of our Enemies we might serve him withour Fear in Holiness and Righteousness all the Days of our Lives In what a holy Extasy does the Psalmist break forth O Lord truly I am thy Servant I am thy Servant and the Son of thy Handmaid thou hast broken my Bonds Yet this was but the rescuing of him from some temporal imminent Danger How much dearer and stronger Ingagements bind us to serve our Redeemer who has freed us from the Power as well as Punishment of Sin Love should correspond with Love As Love descends in Favours and Benefits it should ascend in Thankfulness and Duty St. Paul had such a lively apprehension of our Saviour's Love that it had an absolute Empire in his Heart and Life he expresses it in the most significant manner The Love of Christ constrains us because we thus judge that if one dyed for all then were all dead and that he dyed for all that they which live should not henceforth live to themselves but unto him which dyed for them and rose again The Word constraineth signifies properly to be intirely under the Power of another As the Prophets inspired by the Spirit of God only spake and acted according to his extraordinary Motions in them Thus the Love of Christ had such an absolute Empire in his Heart that his whole Life was spent as a vowed Oblation to his Service and Glory And whoever does not live a spiritual Life as the Servant of Christ never yet felt the Misery of this Bondage of Sin nor the sweetness of that Liberty which the Son of God has purchased for his People Lastly We are the Servants of Christ by solemn Covenant and the most sacred Ingagement In the Covenant of Grace God and Man are the Parties And such was his condescending Love that he came down from Heaven and assumed our Nature on purpose to seal his part in his own Blood the Promise of his pardoning Mercy of his sanctifying Spirit and his rewarding Goodness to all that with unfeigned Consent and firm Resolution will seal the Counterpart of their Duty and Obedience to him We are entred into his Family and the Relation of his Servants in Baptism and vowed universal Obedience to our new Master in defiance of all Temptations whether inviting or terrifying in the World For this reason Baptism is called the Answer of a good Conscience towards God We wear his Colours are distinguished from the Heathens by the Title of Christians We ratify in a most solemn manner our Covenant by the Seal of the Lord's Supper wherein we sacramentally eat and drink the Body and Blood of our Saviour Now from hence arises a new Obligation to serve Christ He had a Soveraign Right in us antecedently to our dedicating our selves to his Service but from our voluntary Consent accrues another Title whereby he claims our perpetual Service The Law of God binds us without our Consent but our Consent increases the Obligation and if we are careless of our Duty and desert his Service we break double Bonds and are guilty not only of Disobedience to the Law but of perfidious Violation of our Covenant 'T is observable in the Parable of the Talents they were committed to Servants from whence a double Obligation springs to employ them with intire Fidelity for the Master's Profit A Merchant sends Goods to his Correspondent who is bound to make faithful returns upon the account of commutative Justice that reaches all but a Servant is under a special Obligation and if he wasts or neglects the improving his Master's Goods he does not only break this Trust reposed in him but violates the Duty of a Servant that obliges him to manage them according to his Master's Will and for his Profit The Account will be particular and exact for all our Talents at the last None so high that shall be excused none so mean that shall escape that strict Inquiry For he that knows all things shall be our Judg. The Servant that had but one Talent was called to account for it and condemned for neglecting to improve it He pretended that he hid it out of caution lest it should be lost knowing his Master's Severity but his vain excuse was retorted upon him to aggravate his Sin and Sentence Cast the unprofitable Servant into outer Darkness there shall be weeping and gnashing of Teeth A Judgment as righteous as terrible For the Guilt of his Rebellion in not using his Talent according to his Master's Order and Unthankfulness in despising his Gifts and an unrighteous depriving of others of that Benefit that was by the Master's Will due to them 3. We are to consider the final Reward of Christ's Servants under two Heads 1. The Order of the Reward 2. The Excellency of it 1. The Order in giving it after the Service of Christ faithfully and constantly performed 'T is the revealed Will of God that all Men should honour the Son as they honour the Father The Son is the Heir of his Love and Glory and in serving him the Father is honoured and obeyed And as our Saviour reigns eternally in Heaven after the finishing his Work injoyned him by the Father so according to his Example we receive the Crown of Life after the course of our Obedience This is the Tenor of the Promise To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my Throne even as I also overcame and am sat down with my Father in his Throne The Order in dispensing the blessed Reward does not in the least eclipse the Honour of God's Grace or afford the least shadow of presuming upon any Merit in our best Services The Wages of Sin is Death 't is the just Desert of it but the Gift of God is eternal Life in Jesus Christ our Lord. The eternal Election of Persons to Life the preparing of them by sanctifying Grace for Glory and the actual possession of it is from the most free Favour of God Election is the first Fountain of Water springing up to eternal Life For what could induce God when all Mankind was equally involved in Guilt and Misery to choose some to be Vessels of Grace and of Glory but his soveraign Pleasure and pure Grace The Elect were in the Eye and Heart of God from Eternity appointed to supernatural Happiness but that free and insuperable Decree is accomplished according to the Law of Faith the unchangeable Order of the Gospel and that is that Heaven shall be the Reward of the faithful Servants of Christ not for the true Desert of their Service but the most gracious and rich Bounty of God The