Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	foot_n	lord_n	wash_v	4,431	5	10.4086	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62053	The sinners last sentence to eternal punishment, for sins of omission wherein is discovered, the nature, causes, and cure of those sins / by Geo. Swinnock.	Swinnock, George, 1627-1673.; Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677.	1675 (1675)	Wing S6281; ESTC R21256	184,210	500

a bare forbearance of what is evil and be shamed by inanimate Creatures who according to their natures in their places do good Why dost thou call thy self a Christian if thou wilt not follow the pattern of Christ and how canst thou profess thy self Gods Servant if thou wilt not do him Service Know ye not saith the Apostle that to whom ye yield your selves Servants to obey his Servants ye are to whom ye obey Rom. 6.16 Either obey God as a Servant ought or disown him to be thy Master Can he be said to be thy Servant who neglects thy work though he do thee no mischief Another mans Servant in this respect may as properly be said to be thine for as he minds not thy business so he doth thee no prejudice I must speak plainly to thee if thou allowest thy self in these Omissions thy practices give the lye to thy profession and thou art the Devils Servant though thou wearest Gods Livery I shall end this Head with commending to thee the counsel of Christ You call me Lord and Master and thou sayest well for so I am If I then your Lord and Master have washed your feet and gone about doing good how much more should you my Servant 6. Consider all your Religion is nothing and will come to nothing if you live in the neglect of Gods positive Will And will you deny your self once and again in forbearing many things that would delight and gratifie your Flesh and possibly incur the anger of your prophane Neighbors for not running with them to the same excess of riot and then lose all for want of doing what is commanded thee Wouldst not thou think him a foolish Husbandman that should take care for the casting out the stones and plucking up the weeds out of his ground and then lose all his cost and pains for want of sowing it with good seed Would it not vex a Scrivener after he had taken much pains and spent much time about a large Deed or Conveyance after he had taken great care to write it fair without any blots to be forced to write all over again for his omission of some material passage in it The Apostle writes to the Elect Lady 2 Joh. 1.8 Look to your selves that we lose not those things which we have wrought but that we receive a full reward If he that doth not persevere in well-doing may deprive himself of all the benefit of his good deeds which he hath already done what benefit can they expect who never began to do good How can their good works follow them to their comfort into the other World who never did any Or how can God Register their Prayers and Watchings and Fastings and Weepings for Sin and acts of Devotion in his Book of Remembrance who never minded them Rev. 14.13 Mal. 3.7 Christ tells us Behold I come quickly and my reward is with me to give to every man according to his Works Rev. 22.12 Now Reader if thou contentest thy self in thine Omissions what Works hast thou for Christ to reward all the reward of a negative Holiness is but a cooler Hell and God knoweth that is small comfort Thou hast no work of Faith or labour of Love or patience of Hope or fervency in Prayer or breathings and longings after conformity to and communion with the blessed God for Christ to Record and Reward The Holy Ghost when he tells us That God will render to every man according to his deeds presently subjoyns To them who by patient continuance in well-doing i. e. positive Holiness seek for Glory and Honour and Immortality everlasting life Rom. 2.6 7. Virtutis est magis honesta agere quam non turpia as he said well It 's rather the property of Virtue to do things laudable than not to do things loathsome A negative Christian in Gods account is no Christian and though he may stand for somewhat among men that are no better than himself yet he is a meer Cypher in the account of God God seeth that as he is not outwardly bad so he is not inwardly good and that he is at a greater distance from Piety than from Prophaneness and he looking most to the heart and bent thereof Psal 51.7 1 Sam. 15. must needs loath a filthy unclean Conscience under a fair civil Conversation A Tree may be full of Vermine when the green leaves may hide them from the eyes of men So the vermine of Pride and Unbelief and Hypocrisie may crawl in thy Heart though thy civility may hide them from the sight or suspicion of thy fellow Creatures We say All is not Gold that glisters much less is shining-civility sincere sanctity The Jews who obeyed some of Gods Laws because they lived in the wilful breach of others are said to have done nothing of all his Commands Jer. 32.23 And they came in and possessed it i. e. the Land of Canaan but they obeyed not thy Voice nor walked in thy Law They have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do It seems strange that the Indictment should run so high as to accuse them of the breach of every Law and the neglect of every positive Precept surely the Jews offer'd Sacrifice circumcised their Children kept the Passover observed their new Moons and Sabbaths and did many things which God commanded them to do and yet here they are charged to do nothing that God commanded them to do Truly because they had not a consciencious eye to every known Duty but allowed themselves in the Omission of some God reckons that they obey'd him in none and deals with them as if they had done nothing of all that he commanded them Now Reader if they who perform some positive Duties are counted by God as performing none if they wilfully neglect any what a pitiful nothing will God reckon thy Religion if it be wholly negative without any positive Obedience at all Though brass Coin be not so bad as Leathern yet not being so good as Silver it 's little accounted Though thou art not as bad as the scandalous yet if thou art not as good as the truly pious God will not esteem thee For what is highly esteemed of men may be an abomination in the sight of God Reader weigh this Argument wouldst thou lose all the pains thou takest to forbear what is evil art thou contented to work all thy days at the Labour-in-vain Canst thou be satisfied that thy negative Religion should be counted at the Great Day a Nullity or no Religion at all Little dost thou think how deep it will cut thy heart to find thy civility judged by God himself to be but varnished Heathenism or glistering Impiety The young man who was more than a meer negative Christian thought his condition safe and sound but when Christ discover'd him insincere he went away as heavily as he came to him hastily Probably thy hopes are great but I must tell thee thy disappointment will be the more grievous when thou shalt