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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	hate_v	zeal_n	zealous_a	25	3	8.5458	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09997	Remaines of that reverend and learned divine, Iohn Preston, Dr. in Divinity, chaplaine in ordinary to his Majesty, master of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolnes-Inne Containing three excellent treatises, namely, Iudas's repentance. The saints spirituall strength. Pauls conversion.	Preston, John, 1587-1628.	1634 (1634)	STC 20249; ESTC S115107	168,230	405

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Now that a man may know this the better I will make it cleere by this example Take a bottle that is full of water and another that is full of Aqua-vitae looke upon them outwardly and they are all one in colour but if you taste the one is hote and lively but the other is cold and rawe so if you looke unto the outward formall actions of wicked men they have the same colour that the actions of the holy men have but if you taste them examine their lives and search into their hearts you shall finde a great difference the one of them it may be may seeme to have life and heate in them but they want the Spirit for they have neither a loathing of sinne nor power to resist sinne they may put a false colour upon their actions but it will not hold they may restraine some lusts for some ends but such cannot master and subdue them and it may heat a part of his heart but it cannot heat all his heart but where the sanctifying Spirit comes it heats all the soule kindles a holy fire in all the faculties to burne up sinne which is there And this was the difference betweene Iohn Baptists Baptisme and the Baptisme of Christ. Iohn would baptize them with water but Christ in the spirit and with fire therefore examine what heat there is in you against evill and what zeale there is in you to good are you cold in prayer in conference in the Communion of Saints it is a signe that you have not the spirit it may be you heare and reade and pray and conferre but see with what heat you doe them Is it with you in these things as the Apostle would have you to be in earthly 1 Cor. 7. 30. 31. To sorrow as if yee sorrowed not to use the world as if you used it not doe you performe holy duties with that coldnesse as if you cared not whether you did them or did them not doe you heare as if you heard not and doe you receive the Sacrament as if you received it not and doe you pray as if you prayed not and doe you love as if you loved it not then surely you have not the Spirit And on the contrary if you finde spirituall heat and zeale in you a nimblenesse and quicknesse to good it is a signe that you have the Spirit for it is the propertie of the Spirit to heate the soule therefore the Prophet saith That the zeale of thine House hath even eaten mee up Intimating I have such a measure of zeale wrought in mee by thy Spirit that I cannot see thee in the least measure dishonoured but I must burne with zeale Therefore examine what zeale you have for God and godlinesse are you hot for the things of the world and cold for grace and holinesse whatsoever you thinke of your selves yet you have not the sanctifying Spirit There is not a holy man or woman that belongs unto Christ but they have this holy fire in them and yet I would not have you to mistake mee as if every Christian did attaine unto the like heate and zeale as others doe For you must know that some have more some have lesse according unto the measure of the sanctifying Spirit that they have but this you must know that you must be full of heate full in some measure answerable unto the measure of the sanctifying Spirit but if you finde no heate at all in you then you have not a graine of the Spirit not to be hot is to bee luke-warme and luke-warmenesse is that which God hates it is a temper mixt which is both loathsome to nature and odious to God Revel 3. 15. the Laodiceans were neither hotte nor cold but luke-warme that is they had neither heate to good nor so cold as to forsake the truth Sinne and holinesse stood in aequilibrio together and they had as good a minde unto the one as unto the other now because it was thus with them therefore saith God I will spue them cut and then in the next verse hee exhorts them to be zealous and amend except you labour to bee hot in the Spirit you cannot be saved Titus 2. 14. the Apostle saith That Christ dyed that hee might purchase unto himselfe a people zealous of good workes this zeale must not bee a constrained zeale but a willing zeale and if there were no other motive to move men to bee zealous but this because Christ came to redeeme them for this end that they might be zealous for his glory if there bee any sparke of the fire of the Spirit in him it will burne at Christs dishonour and if Christ came unto this end to make men zealous then surely Christ will not loose his end but they that Christ will save shall be zealous therefore I beseech you labour to be strong in the inward man and labour to get the Spirit that you may be zealous but alas men have drunke too much of this Cup of giddinesse they thinke they need not be so zealous as they are but I say if you be not it is a signe that you have not the Spirit especially it stands men now upon if they have any holy zeale in them to show it I say it is time you should show it when you see such halting betweene two opinions show your zeale by hating and abhorring popery and by labouring to draw men from it especially now when we see men so desirous to goe into Egypt againe which is to be lamented in these dayes for which the Lord hath stretcht out his hand against us but where is our zeale what spirituall heate is there in us where are these men that at such a time would have beene hot and zealous nay where are the generation of these men surely they are all gone for there is no heate and zeale left it is true we abound in knowledge we have the same knowledge that they had but we want their zeale and spirit and we have the same gifts but we want their Spirit but let us now at length shew our selves to be in the spirit to have the Spirit in vs by our zeale against evill But you will say that many holy men that have the Spirit yet are not so hot and zealous against evill but are marvellous milde and patient therefore a man may have the Spirit and yet not bee zealous First to this I answer that holy men may have pits wherein they may be falne They may have drosse aswell as Gold and hence they may bee drawne by a strong passion and lust not justly to weigh sinnes aright whence ariseth remissenesse and neglect both in doing good and resisting evill but this in a regenerate man I call but a passion because it continues not for prayer and the preaching of the pure Word will recover this againe that is will recover his strength and make him zealous against sinnes but if you see a man whatsoever

sinne is called foolishnesse hence then it is extreame folly to commit the least sinne it is good to oppose this conclusion against all the reasons of Satan That wee will not sinne because it will bee our folly and if wee cannot answer in particulers let us answer him in the generall that we will not yeild to any It may bee hee will tell you that you shall gaine some profit or pleasure or sweetnesse or commodity by sinning but if you can bring your hearts not to beleeve this you will never doe it and say the Scripture tels us that it is extreame folly to doe so and we shall find it to be so therefore we will not Let this move you to hare sinne The sixteenth motive to move you to hate sinne is because sinne will take you away from God and God from you and therefore that must needs bee an evill thing and worthy to bee hated of you that will deprive you of God it is the terriblest thing in the world to have God taken away from a man that which makes a man to loose any thing that he loves is hated of him as for example a man that loves and respects his credit he had rather loose any thing then that it is a great griefe unto him to be disgraced to a rich man that loves his riches it is a griefe to part with them and therefore he doth hate a theife so it is the slaying of the soule to part with God a holy man had rather part with wife and children riches pleasures and friends and life it selfe then part with God and therefore it is that in every regenerate man there is bred by the spirit a loathing of all sinne if you would not then part with God hate sinne God and Mammon cannot abide together no more then light and darkenesse Now if these will not move you to hate sinne then consider some motives to move you to hate it in regard of God First consider that God doth take notice of all that you doe he sees into the secret corners of your hearts and makes a diligent search I know thy thoughts a farre off saith God and hee knowes the intent of your hearts Revel 3. 8. I know your workes and patience and so forth I take notice of them I knew them before you did act them therefore in every action that thou goest about say now God sees me what I am doing and hee knowes what I intend to doe it stands me upon to carry my selfe uprightly in this action least he meete with me for he is a God of pure eyes and cannot beare with evill in his owne You know what hee said unto Nathaniel Iohn 1. 48. I knew thee before I saw thee that is thou marvailest how I came to know thee but marvell not for I did not onely know thee but I also know thy heart therefore consider this that God sees you and takes notice of your actions and thoughts Againe consider that so much sinne so much seed and the more seed the greater harvest the more sinne the more punishment therefore labour to hate sinne Secondly consider that when God doth strike for sinne his wrath is exceeding bitter and terrible for if it were not for the wrath of God that followeth sinne afflictions would not bee so bitter and therefore the Lord saith unto the Church Rev. 2. 10. Feare none of those things which thou shalt suffer that is feare them not for that which makes them terrible shall not be mingled with them which is my wrath for it is not afflictions that are bitter but sinne in the afflictions that makes them bitter therefore let this make you to hate sinne that you may escape the wrath and vengeance of God Thirdly consider that the longer God stayes from afflicting of sinners the greater and terribler shall the stroke be when it comes and therefore it were better for thee that hast no interest in Christ that hee would strike presently then deferre it longer that so thy punishment may bee the lesser in Amos 5. saith God I will strike at once and I will not strike the second time that is when I doe strike I will strike so that I shall not need to strike the second time and thus the Lord said unto Eli in 1. Sam. 3. vers 12. When I begin I will make an end and this is the greatest punishment that the Lord can inflict against any sinner it is as if he should have said I will not begin to afflict them and then cease and give them space of repentance but I will make an end that is I will doe it in a moment on a sudden I will but make one worke of it I will begin and I will finish it in an instant and this we see the Lord did upon Hephni and Phineas therefore let this moove you to hate sinne Thus much for this point And hee said Arise and goe into the Citie and it shall bee told thee what thou shalt doe The point is this that Christ is exceeding mercifull and exceeding ready to speake mercy unto those that are truly humbled I gather it thus Paul was here strucken downe with an apprehension of sinne and being thus exceedingly humbled in the sight of his sinnes Christ meets him upon the plyablenesse of his will with a word of comfort Arise this word is full of comfort for it is as if hee should have said Paul bee not too much dejected and cast downe at the apprehension of thy sinnes as if there were not aboundant mercie in mee to pardon it but arise that is goe and I will shew thee what thou shalt doe to save thine owne soule and it shall be told thee what thou shalt doe for mee but feare not bee of good comfort now that Christ is full of mercy we will proove it by Scripture Matth. 11. 28. Come unto mee all that are weary and heavy laden and I will ease you in these words there are three things First the conditions of the persons that must come and those are such as are weary and heavy laden The second thing is the qualification of the persons that are truly weary and heavy laden first they must bee meeke secondly they must be lowly the third thing is the patterne or teacher of them and that is Christ the best the holiest and wisest Teacher in the world learne of Mee I am ready to teach all and to upbraid no man and then in the last place the thing that they must doe they must take Christs yoke and so they shall be rid of their burthen the summe of it is this if you bee weary and heavy laden with your sinnes and have a desire to be eased it is no more but come unto Christ and hee will ease you that is if you bee heavy laden with sinne Christ is ready to take off your burthen and to put upon them the easie yoke of obedience and holinesse