Selected quad for the lemma: saint_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	catholic_a	church_n	creed_n	1,395	5	10.7130	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27065	The vain religion of the formal hypocrite, and the mischief of an unbridled tongue (as against religion, rulers, or dissenters) described, in several sermons, preached at the Abby in Westminster, before many members of the Honourable House of Commons, 1660 ; and The fools prosperity, the occasion of his destruction : a sermon preached at Covent-Garden / by Richard Baxter.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. Fools prosperity.	1660 (1660)	Wing B1448; ESTC R13757	102,825	412

world that are sanctified by his Spirit and made a holy peculiar people whom he loveth as his Spouse and as his own Body of which number you must be if you will be saved And yet at the same time the members of this Church you contemn the holiness of it you secretly hate and the faithfull Pastors in it you despise and disobey Is not this Hypocrisie 5. You all profess to Believe the Communion of Saints that is that the true members of the Catholike Church are all Saints that have one and the same Spirit and walk by the same holy Law or Rule and in holiness must converse together and joyn in Church order for the publick worshipping of God according to his own institution and must purely and fervently love each other with such a charity as shall make one as ready to relieve another when God calls for it as if our riches did belong in Common to the Saints This is the meaning of this Article of your Creed And do I then need to ask you Whether those that profess this are not Hypocrites if they hate the Saints and their inward spiritual Communion and if they love them but with that lifeless charity that James describeth Jam. 2. 14 15 c. Or if they despise or hate the Discipline Ordinances and Holy Communion of the Church And if they live in Communion with drunkards with harlots with worldlings or sensual vain or ambitious men and fly from the Communion of Saints what dost thou when thou sayst I believe the Communion of Saints but say I am a dissembling Hypocrite if it he thus with thee 6. You all profess to Believe the forgiveness of sins that is that through the blood of Christ all true repenting and believing sinners shall be forgiven and are not shut up under remediless despair And also I think you all profess that you do Repent your selves that Forgiveness may be yours And yet you love your sin you love not to be told of it you will not believe it to be sin as long as you can strive against conviction and when you must needs confess it you will not forsake it but while you seem to reform by parting with so much as you can spare your dearer sins which pleasure and honour and profit are much engaged in you will not forsake though repentance do consist in turning from sin to God and Christ hath assured you that except you repent you shall all perish Luk. 13. 3 5. Is not this therefore palpable hypocrisie to profess repentance for remission of sin and still keep the sin which you say you repent of as if you thought to mock God with names and shews 7. You all profess to Believe the Resurrection of the body and that Christ shall come again to judge the quick and dead But do you live as men that believe indeed that they are passing unto such a judgement If you seriously expected to be judged for your lives for the words you speak the deeds you do the time you spend the means of grace which you neglect or use and for all that you receive and do is it possible you could so waste your time and neglect the means of your salvation and sin so boldly and obstinately as you do 8. You all profess that you Believe the life everlasting that the Righteous shall go into their masters joy and the rest into everlasting punishment in hell Matth. 25. and 13. But do you not play the Hypocrites Can you heartily believe that you stand so near to heaven or hell to everlasting joy or torments and make no greater a matter of it nor make no better preparation for it nor bestir your selves no more in a case of such unspeakable weight If you believe sincerely the glory of heaven you set your hearts on it more then upon earth and take it for your portion and most desireable felicity But do I need to tell the worldly fleshly Hypocrite how far he is from this 9. You profess as the summ of the ten Commandements that you Love God above all and your neighbours as your selves But doth not your selfishness and quarreling with your neighbours when they do but stand in the way of your honour or commodity convince you of hypocrisie in this profession 10. In the use of the Lords prayer what word do you speak that is not in hypocrisie Do you first and principally desire the hallowing of Gods name the coming of his Kingdom and the doing of his will when you are far more tender of your own names then of Gods and more regardful of your own honour And when you care more for your own prosperity then for the prosperity of the Church and Gospel and do your selves become the hinderers of his Kingdom and Government in the Church and in the souls of men And when you cannot abide to do his Will when it crosseth the interest of your flesh but dislike it as too strict and had rather the Word and Will of God were agreeable to yours then you will conform your own to his Do you only desire Your daily bread and that in subordination to the honour and Kingdom and will of God Or rather do you not play the Hypocrites in saying so when it is not daily bread that will content you but plenty and prosperity is sweeter to you then holiness When you pray for The forgiveness of your sins as you forgive others you intimate that you are weary of your sins and hate them and would forsake them and that you forgive all that have wronged you out of the sense of your own transgressions and of the love of Christ but is all this so or is it meer dissembling when you forsake not your sin nor are willing to forsake it and when your consciences know that there be some that you forgive not You pray against being led into temptation and yet you love it and cast your selves into it Into tempting company and tempting talk and tempting employments And for recreation meat drink apparel houses attendants estate reputation and almost all things else you love and choose that which is most tempting You pray to be delivered from evil when the evil of your pride flesh pleasing and worldliness you so love that indeed you would not be delivered from them What can you say to excuse all this from palpable Hypocrisie To conclude you pretend to all that necessary to salvation but have you that in reality which you pretend to 1. You think your selves wise enough to be saved But is it not folly that goes under the name of wisedom When you should be converted and lead a holy life you are wise enough to give reasons for the contrary and wise enough to confute the Preacher and prove him a fool instead of obeying the call of God You are wise enough to prove the Physician to be ignorant and to cast away the medicine that should heale you And what if no body could deal with you