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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
power_n	let_v	lord_n	praise_v	3,254	5	9.4067	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72210	The race celestiall, or, A direct path to heauen by Henry Greenvvood, maister of arts and preacher of the word of God.	Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5.	1609 (1609)	STC 12335.3; ESTC S5239	32,701	98

liuing man but yet hath no life at all within it so hypocrites séeme to liue by the life of grace yet are they dead in sinne and rotted in corruption They are new vpstart Gyants hauing two faces vnder one hood they come neere vnto God with their mouthes honor the Lord with their lips but their hearts are farre remoued from him Deum laudant in tympano sed non in choro i. They praise the Lord in the Tabor but not in the dance they serue God in shew but not in truth they beare with the figge trée great store of leaues but no fruite at all But alas alas these hypocrites that thus deceiue themselues hauing their reward on earth which they through vaineglory gréedily looke for at the hands of men shall neuer obtaine a crowne of righteousnesse being altogether vnrighteous but they shall haue their portion with hypocrites where shall be weeping wailing and gnashing of teeth For the Lord abhorreth all hollow hearts and double tongues all outward oblations and burnt sacrifices all outward shew and hypocriticall worship he is a Spirit and he will spue all such out of his mouth as worship him not in spirit and truth Simulata sanctitas duplex iniquitas i. Counterfeit godlinesse is so farre from holinesse as it is double vngodlinesse I say therefore vnto thée with S. Chrysostome Aut esto quod appares aut appare quodes i. Either be as thou séemest or séeme as thou art It is not séeming but being that shal go for pay Non auditores sed factores legis iustificabuntur i. Not the hearers but the doers of the Law shall be iustified Nec candem profitentes sed eidem obedientes glorificabuntur i. Not professors but performers shall be glorified Woe therefore to all hypocriticall mock-gods that runne not in the race of Christianity as they boast themselues by profession they shall roare at the gates of heauen and say Lord Lord haue we not by thy name prophecied and by thy name cast out diuels and by thy name done many great workes haue we not professed thy Gospell and borne the name of thine But because they did not the will of our heauenly father our Sauiour shall send them packing to hell with a Nescio vos professing on this manner vnto them I neuer knew you depart from me yee workers of iniquity O ye viperous serpents ô yee generation of vipers how shall ye escape the damnation of hell Let euery Christian therefore beware of the leauen of the Pharisées which is hypocrisie Beware of false Prophets which come vnto you in sheepes cloathing but inwardly are rauening wolues ye shall know them by their fruits do men gather grapes of thornes of figs of thistles Walke wisely towards them that are without redeeming the time for the dayes are very euill That you may therefore preuent the damned traditions of this diuellish brood I say vnto you as our Sauiour sayd vnto his Apostles a little before his passion Behold I haue told you before Let euery Christian therefore auoiding all counterfeit and hypocriticall profession runne in the race of godlinesse seruing the Lord with all his heart with all his soule with all his strength in holinesse and righteousnesse all the dayes of his life God calleth for our hearts My son giue me thy heart The Lord as saith S. Augustine Quia totum fecit totum exigit i. Because he made all he will haue all not a péece of the heart nor a roome in thy heart but the whole hart for the Lord is a iealous God and as a iealous husband cannot endure that his wife should giue her heart or any part thereof to any other man so the Lord cannot abide that we should giue any part of our hart from him He calleth not for a stony heart nor for a double heart but for a fleshly heart a hart purged by faith in Christ Iesus bathed in the bloud of the Lambe and throughly clensed by the fire of the spirit not an old heart neither a corrupted heart but a new hart and a new spirit for which the Prophet Dauid begged create in me a new hart ô god and renew a right spirit within me Let vs therefore I beseech you brethren by the mercies of God giue vp our bodies a liuing sacrifice holy acceptable vnto God which is our reasonable seruing of God and let vs not fashion our selues like to this world but let vs be changed by the renewing of our minde In stead of dead beasts let vs giue vp our bodies which are liuely sacrifices and in stead of the bloud of beasts which was but a shadow and pleased not God of it selfe let vs giue vp the acceptable sacrifice of the spirituall man framed by faith to godlinesse of life Let vs sanctifie the Lord God in our harts who daily calleth for our harts let vs say with Dauid My soule praise thou the Lord and all that is within me praise his holy name Let vs praise him in his sanctuary and in the firmament of his power let vs praise him in his mighty acts and according to his excellent greatnesse let vs praise him in the sound of a trumpet vpon the viole and harpe yea let euery thing that hath breath praise the Lord And that not onely in word and in tongue but in déede and in truth not in outward shew and profession only but in our pure liues and holy conuersations that so running in the race of godlines to the ende of our liues wée may bée blessed for euer and glorifying the Lord God by our holy conuersations in this world we may be eternally glorified of the Lord our God in the world to come So runne that ye may obtaine The last thing to be obserued in this heauenly race is praemium promissum The promised reward to all those that runne lawfully So great a reward it is as should stirre vp euery Christian to runne in the race of godlinesse If the king of his princely bounty would offer a 100000. pounds to him that should first come at a miles end would not thousands hazard their liues and aduenture a surfeit willingly that they may obtaine the same But the Lord hath offered vs a kingdome yea it is the pleasure of our heauenly father to giue vs a kingdome an habitation not made with hands nor purchased with gold and siluer but with the bloud of the immaculate Lambe And shall not we labour and streine our selues with might and maine to runne the race that is appointed for vs How will men toyle and moyle for a little worldly trash how will men vse all their wits and bend all their studies to be worldly rich Alas these are as doung in respect of this reward shal we not therfore much more labour for the meate y t shall neuer perish and for this glorious reward y t shall neuer be taken frō vs The greatnesse