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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	affection_n	heart_n	love_n	6,065	5	5.2645	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02547	An holy panegyrick a sermon preached at Paules Crosse vpon the anniuersarie solemnitie of the happie inauguration of our dread soueraigne Lord King James, Mar. 24, 1613 / by J.H.D.D.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1613 (1613)	STC 12673; ESTC S122954	24,489	120

before seruice for that vnlesse our seruice proceede from feare it is hollow and worthlesse One saies well that these inward dispositions are as the kernell outward acts are as the shell he is but a deafe nut therfore that hath outward seruice without inward feare Feare God saith Salomon first and then keepe his commandements Behold the same tongue that bad them not feare vers 20. now bids them feare and the same spirit that tels vs they feared exceedingly vers 18. now enioynes them to feare more What shall we make of this Their other feare was at the best Initiall for now they began to repent and as one saies of this kinde of feare that it hath two eyes fixed on two diuers obiects so had this of theirs One eye looked vpon the raine and thunder the other looked vp to the God that sent it The one of these it borrowed of the slauish or hostile feare as Basil calls it the other of the filiall for the slauish feare casts both eyes vpon the punishment the filiall lookes with both eyes on the partie offended Now then Samuel would rectifie and perfect this affection and would bring them from the feare of slaues through the feare of penitents to the feare of sons and indeed one of these makes way for another It is true that perfect loue thrusts out feare but it is as true that feare brings in that perfect loue which is ioined with the reuerence of sonnes Like as the needle or bristle so one compares it drawes in the thred after it or as the potion brings health The compunction of feare saith Gregorie fits the minde for the compunction of loue Wee shall neuer reioyce truely in God except it bee with trembling Except we haue quaked at his thunder we shall neuer ioy in his sunne shine How seasonably therefore doth Samuel when hee saw them smitten with that guiltie and seruile feare call them to the reuerentiall feare of God Therefore feare yee the Lord It is good striking when God hath striken there is no fishing so good as in troubled waters The conscience of man is a nice and sullen thing and if it be not taken at fit times there is no medling with it Tell one of our gallants in the midst of all his iollity and reuells of deuotion of piety of iudgements he hath the Athenian question ready What will his babler say Let that man alone till God haue touch't his soule with some terrour till hee haue cast his body on the bed of sicknesse when his fether is turned to a kerchiefe when his face is pale his eyes sunke his hands shaking his breath short his flesh consumed now hee may bee talk't with now he hath learned of Eli to say speake Lord for thy seruant heareth The conuexe or out-bowed side of a vessell will hold nothing it must be the hollow and depressed part that is capable of any liquor Oh if wee were so humbled with the varieties of Gods iudgements as wee might how sauoury should his counsels be how precious welcome would his feare bee to our trembling hearts whereas now our stubborne sencelesnesse frustrates in respect of our successe though not of his decree all the threatnings and executions of God There are two maine affections Loue and Feare which as they take vp the soule where they are and as they neuer go a sunder for euery loue hath in it a feare of offending and forgoing and euery feare implyes a loue of that which we suspect may mis-carry so ech of them fulfils the whole law of God That loue is the abridgement of the Decalogue both our Sauiour and his blessed Apostle haue taught vs It is as plaine of Feare The title of Iob is A iust man and one that feared God iustice is expressed by Feare For what is iustice but a freedome from sinne And the feare of the Lord hates euil saith Salomon Hence Moses his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thou shalt feare is turned by our Sauiour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thou shalt worship or adore And that which Esay saith In vaine they feare me our Sauiour renders In vaine they worship mee as if all worship consisted in Feare Hence it is probable that God hath his name in two languages from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Feare and the same word in the Greeke signifies both Feare Religion And Salomon when he saies The feare of the Lord is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the beginning as we turne it of wisedome saies more then we are a ware of for the word signifies as well Caput or Principatum the head or top of wisedome yea saith Siracides it is the crown vpon the head it is the roote of the same wisedome whereof it is the top-branch saith the same Author And surely this is the most proper disposition of men towards God for though God stoope down so low as to vouchsafe to bee loued of men yet that infinite inequalitie which there is betweene him and vs may seeme not to allow so perfect a fitnesse of that affection as of this other which suites so well betwixt our vilenesse and his glory that the more disproportion there is betwixt vs the more due proper is our feare Neither is it lesse necessarie then proper for wee can be no Christians without it whether it be as Hemingius distinguishes it well timor cultus or culpae either our feare in worshipping or our feare of offending the one is a deuout feare the other a carefull feare The latter was the Corinthians feare whose godly sorrow when the Apostle had mentioned he addes Yea what indignation yea what feare yea what desire The former is that of the Angels who hide their faces with their wings yea of the Son of God as man who fell on his face to his father And this is due to God as a father as a maister as a benefactor as a God infinite in all that he is Let me be bold to speake to you with the Psalmist Come ye children hearken to mee and I will teach you the feare of the Lord. What is it therefore to feare God but to acknowledge the glorious the inuisible presence of God in all our wayes with Moses his eyes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to bee awefully affected at his presence with Jacob quàm tremendus to make an humble resignation of our selues to the holy will of God with Eli It is the Lord and to attend reuerently vpon his disposing with Dauid Here I am let him doe to me as seemeth good in his eyes This is the feare of the Lord. There is nothing more talk't of nothing lesse felt I appeale from the tongues of men to their hands the wise heathen taught me to doe so Uerbarebus proba The voice of wickednesse is actuall saith the Psalmist wickednesse saith there is no feare of God before his eyes Behold wheresoeuer is wickednesse there can be no

feare of God these two cannot lodge vnder one roofe for the feare of God driues out euill saith Ecclesiasticus As therefore Abraham argues well from the cause to the effect Because the feare of God is not in this place therfore they will kill me So Dauid argues back from the effect to the cause They imagine wickednesse on their bed c. therefore the feare of God is not before them I would to God this argument were not too demonstratiue Brethren our liues shame vs. If wee fear'd the Lord durst we dally with his name durst wee teare it in pieces Surely we contemn his person whose name we contemne The Iewes haue a conceit that the sinne of that Israelite which was stoned for blasphemie was onely this that hee named that ineffable name of foure letters Iehouah Shall their feare keepe them from once mentioning the dreadfull name of God and shall not our feare keepe vs from abusing it Durst we so boldly sinne God in the face if wee feared him Durst wee mocke God with a formall flourish of that which our heart tels vs wee are not if wee feared him Durst wee be Christians at Church Mammonists at home if we feared him Pardon mee if in a day of gratulation I hardly temper my tongue from reproof for as the Iewes had euer some malefactour brought forth to them in their great feast so it shall bee the happiest peece of our triumph and solemnitie if wee can bring forth that wicked profanenesse wherewith wee haue dishonor'd God blemisht his Gospell to bee scourged and dismissed with all holy indignitie From this feare let vs passe as briefly through that which we must dwel in all our liues the seruice of God This is the subiect of all sermons mine shall but touch at it You shall see how I hasten to that discourse which this day your expectation calls me to Diuine Philosophy teaches vs to referre not onely our speculations but our affections to action As therefore our seruice must be grounded vpon feare so our feare must be reduced to seruice What strength can these Masculine dispositions of the soule yeild vs if with the Israelites brood they bee smoothered in the birth Indeed the worst kinde of feare is that we call seruile but the best feare is the feare of seruants For there is no seruant of God but feares filially And againe God hath no sonne but he serues Euen the natural sonne of God was so in the forme of a seruant that hee serued indeed and so did hee serue that he indured all sorrow and fulfilled all righteousnesse So euery Christian is a sonne and heyre to the King of heauen and his word must be I serue Wee all know what seruice meanes For wee all are or were I imagine either seruants of maisters or seruants of the publique or maisters of seruants or all these Wee cannot therefore be ignorant either what we require of ours or what our superiors require of vs. If seruice consisted onely in wearing of liueries in taking of wages in making of curtesies and kissing of hands there were nothing more easie or more common Al of vs weare the cognizance of our christianity in our baptisme all liue vpon Gods trencher in our maintenance all giue him the complements of a fashionable profession But be not deceiued the life of seruice is worke the worke of a Christian is obedience to the Law of God The Centurion when hee would describe his good seruant in the Gospell needed say no more but this I bid him doe this and he doth it Seruice then briefely is nothing but a readinesse to doe as wee are bidden and therefore both Salomon and he that was greater then Salomon describes it by keeping the commandements and the chosen vessell giues an euerlasting rule His seruants ye are to whom yee obey Now I might distinguish this seruice into habituall and actuall Habituall for as the seruant while hee eates or sleepes is in seruice still so are wee to God Actuall whether vniuersal in the whole carriage of our liues which Zacharie tels vs is in holinesse and righteousnesse holinesse to God righteousnesse to men or particular either in the duties which are proper to GOD Inuocation and Attendance on his ordinance which by an excellence is termed his seruice or in those which are proper to vs as wee are peeces of a Family Church common-wealth the stations whereof GOD hath so disposed that wee may serue him in seruing one another And thus you see I might make way for an endlesse discourse but it shal content me passing ouer this world of matter to glance onely at the generalitie of this infinite theme As euery obedience serues God so euery sin makes God serue vs. One said wittily that the angry man made himselfe the iudge and God the executioner There is no sin that doth not the like The glutton makes God his cator and himselfe the guest and his belly his god especially in the new-found feasts of this age wherin profusenesse and profanenesse striue for the tables end The lasciuious man makes himselfe the louer and as Viues saies of Mahumet God the Pandar The couetous man makes himselfe the Vsurer and God the broker The ambitious makes God his state and Honor his God Of euery sinner doth God say iustly seruire me fecisti Thou hast made mee to serue with thy sinnes There cannot be a greater honor for vs then to serue such a maister as commands heauen earth hell Whom it is both dishonour and basenesse not to serue The hyest stile that King Dauid could deuise to giue himselfe not in the phrase of a friuolous French complement but in the plaine speech of a true Israelite was Behold I am thy seruant and he that is Lord of many seruants of the Diuell delights to call himselfe the seruant of the seruants of God The Angels of heauen reioyce to be our fellowes in this seruice But there cannot be a greater shame then to see seruants ride on horsebacke and Princes walking as seruants on the ground I meane to see the GOD of heauen made a lacquey to our vile affections and in the liues of men to see God attend vpon the world Brethren there is seruice enough in the world but it is to a wrong maister In mea patria Deus venter as Hierome said Euery worldling is a Papist in this that he giues 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seruice to the creature which is the lowest respect that can bee Yea so much more humble then latria as it is more absolute and without respect of recompence Yea I would it were vncharitable to say that many besides the sauages of Calecut place Satan in the throne and God on the footestoole For as Witches and Sorcerers conuerse with euill spirits in plausible and familiar formes which in vgly shapes they would abhorre so many a man serues Satan vnder the formes of gold