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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	apostle_n	build_v	zion_n	26	3	8.9836	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02360	A yong mans inquisition, or triall VVhereby all young men (as of all ages) may know how to redresse and direct their waies, according to Gods word, and if they bee in the way of life to saluation, or in the way of death, to condemnation. Together with a godly and most comfortable meditation and praier ioyned thereunto. By William Guilde.	Guild, William, 1586-1657.	1608 (1608)	STC 12494; ESTC S103544	93,895	285

Thou therefore that teachest another teachest thou not thy selfe thou that preachest a man should not steale doest thou steale Thou that saiest a man should not commit adultery doest thou commit adulterie thou that abhorrest idols committest thou sacriledge And therefore in his charge to Timothy he saith But thou O man of God flee from these thinges meaning pride auarice c. and follow after righteousnesse godlines faith loue patience and meekenes c. Which many men preaching onely to others may and hath become notwithstāding reprobates thēselues but the Apostle hauing in his own life first practised his own doctrine to others and like a Cocke wakened and raised himselfe first by his voyce sheweth the like dutie to all other Pastours in a holy li●e to goe before their sheepe when he saith Be ye followers of mee and in another place adding as I am of Christ. For as Aaron had vpon his breast Vrim Thumim that is knowledge and holinesse so must euery true Minister haue the same in his breast and heart the one to preach well and goe before in voyce the other to liue well and goe before in good example For I will be sanctified saith God in them that beare mee And if they that should be the light of their flocke be darknes how great is that darknes For as Am●rose in Psalm 119. saith Vita bona sine doctrina ●abet gratiam sed doctrina sine vita integritatē non ●abet And as Christ sheweth if that seruāt that knoweth not his Masters will and doeth not the same shall bee beaten with fewe stripes what shall be to him who knoweth not his Masters will and yet in some measure doeth the same But he that knoweth it yea teacheth others to know it and persuadeth himselfe that hee is a guide to the blind a light of them that are in darkenes an instructer of them that lacke discretion a teacher of the vnlearned c. and yet doth not the same himself but wilfully runnes into the pit truely hee is worthie and shall be beaten with many grieuous stripes one day Lorde graunt many in this age may preuent them Iudas preached Christ yet sold him through couetousnesse and was a child of perdition Balam said All what the Lord shall command that will I speake yet was a false couetous Prophet and likewise perished Yea the Diuell himselfe could crie out that hee knew he was that Iesus the sonne of God and so gaue publike testimonie of Christ yet he persecuted him and now is condemned Many in that last day with their true preaching shall plead miracles also yet because they wrought iniquitie they shall heare that fearefull Away from mee I know you not Therefore let all true Pastors goe before the flocke in good and godly example also in life doctrine so shining as bright lampes and starres in Christs right hand or familie saying and doing according to the counsell of the same Ambrose ibid. Nec vita sit sine doctrina nec doctrina sine vita sed vna adstipuletu● alteri and this is the second marke whereby true Pastors are knowne by Matth. 7. 17. For by their f●u●tes saith Christ you shall know them for as from Vrim or knowledge must proceed the ringing of the bels of Gods word before the people to heare so from Thumim or holines must proceed the pomegranates pleasant sauory fruits of good works to be seene and imitated of Gods people that as they are followers of Christ so they may be followers of them againe as the Apostle saith of himselfe The Lorde of the haruest increase the number of such painefull godly labourers who may not onely bee diligent in preaching but beeing zealous of good works also may shine in a good life before the flocke concredit to their charge and by these two markes bee knowne so to bee true Pastours in his owne time remoue these rauening woolues clothed in lambes skinnes who vsurpe like lords ouer the Lords inheritance seeking to feede themselues and not the flocke no waies considering that if Labans sheepe were kept by Iacob so carefully in the frost of the night without sleepe and in the burning heate of the day that much more the sheepe of Iesus Christ bought by his owne heart-blood should bee with a carefull eye ouer-seene and fed tithing the mint cumming seed but omitting weightier matters stealing killing and deuouring Christs flocke beating out their fellow seruants their separation with hypocrites is at hand the Lord graunt they may speedily preuent it The two like markes of Christs true Sh●●pe and Sheepefolde are First they heare and know their Pastors voyce and Secondly as hee goeth before them in an holy life so they follow him then as hee is not dumbe to speake so they are not deafe to heare they heare then his voyce they know it and will not follow the voyce of a stranger so that God giueth them knowledge and discretion not ignorance to bee a mother of their deuotion no● fearefull simplicitie to be led euery where if the scriptures be hid they are not to them but to those that perish they search the Scriptures their chiefe Pastors voice which testifieth of himselfe they trie the spirits if they bee of God or no and if an Angell from heauen should lay any other foundation except that which is layd Iesus Christ the Lambe or should teach any other doctrine then that which the holy Apostles haue taught they should hold him accursed they are as liuely stones in Sion builded onely vpon the foundation and doctrine of the holy Apostles they doe follow precisely and onely the voyce and written word of Iesus Christ their chiefe Pastor and Shepheard of their soules which soundeth daily in the middest of his Church and family accounting all other voyces to bee of theeues hirelings and dissembling woolues they are in Christ who is the light of the world and in whom is no darknes and according to the Apostles commaund they striue to grow in grace● and in the knowledge of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ so true sheepe must heare the Pastors voyce receiuing the seed that is sowen they must know his voyce discerning if it be good seed or no wheate or popel that is sowed And thirdly which is the second marke also of the true sheepe they must bring forth good fruite thereby according to the measure of Gods grace in them The Pastor soundeth his voyce and they heare and know it and he goeth before them and this must be their following of him by hearing commeth their faith so by their faith and from the same as the fruit and effect if it bee liuely and true proceedeth and must proceed this imitation of good workes they must follow their Pastor as he is a follower of Christ but if hee bee not according to Christs counsell and command what he biddeth obserue that obserue and doe but after his workes doe not if hee say

and doe not then follow the chiefe Pastor Iesus Christ onely who hath gone before vs in a most perfect and holy example of life as for him hee riseth or falleth to his owne Master and is to be left to God whose seruant he is For that the hearing and knowledge onely of Gods voyce and word is improfitable to our saluation without the practising of the same in an holy life and conuersation by a true faith in Christ the Apostle Paul testifieth Rom. 2. 13. For the hearers of the law saith hee are not righteous before God but the doers of the law shall bee iustified And the Apostle Saint Iames 1. 22. giueth an expresse cōmandement to all Christians saying Be ye doers of the word and not hearers onely deceiuing your owne selues so that we deceiue our selues greatly when we thinke that we haue done our dutie when we haue heard and knowne Gods word no the diuell and reprobates doe so also but to vs who looke to bee saued by Christs blood passion the word of God must bee powerfull to saluation God working with it in our hearts begetting and increasing a liuely and true faith in vs which must shew it selfe by the fruite of charitie and good workes when God speaketh vnto vs vttereth his voyce by our ordinary Pastors we must take heed if we haue that inward feeling which the Apostles confessed they had at the hearing of Christ Luke 24. 32. for the same spirit which wrought in them then worketh so now also in the hearts of the Elect And they sayd betweene themselues did not our hearts burne within vs while hee talked with vs by the way and when hee opened to vs the Scriptures Let vs consider if we haue this fire of the mouing and quickning spirit of God who worketh together with his word in our hearts let vs examine if by this powerfull operation of hearing Gods word faith and repentance bee begotten or encreased in our hearts Let vs try againe if this repentance bee true by abstaining by Gods grace euer thereafter from sinne that it raigne not in vs and if our faith bee liuely by not onely abstaining and abhorring so from euil but also doing good and godly workes according to our power the measure of our faith and Gods grace in vs following the example of the poore widow albeit we haue but little yet thereof to impart somewhat to Christs members laying it vp so in his treasurie then we are the truesheep for the Pastour maye preach and we duely heare his voyce but except he goe before in a holy life and we follow after in a sanctified conuersation talke that wee haue faith as wee will yea that thereby wee could remooue mountaines cast out Diuells and worke many miracles as many reprobates shall pleade at that day in Christs name wee are notwithstanding but as tinckling cimballs if wee haue not charitie and good workes and shal receiue that fearefull Away from mee I know you not Christ is offered to vs in his word we must not onely take him in our mouth by hearing but by a liuely and true faith wee must chew and eate him by vnfained loue charitie digest him and by our good workes holy conuersation shew that we are renewed ingrafted and growne in him so that hee may be not onely ours but vs and wee not only his but him he is that fruitfull vine if we be then in him we must bee fruitfull branches the fig-tree was commanded to be cut downe because it did beare no fruit the naturall Oliues were reiected because they lost their fatnesse if they had beene the sonnes of Abraham they had done the workes of Abraham if we be the sonnes of God by adoption and true members of Christ wee must learne of him for hee was humble and meeke wee must be holy as he is holy else wee haue no parte in him It is not enough to heare the Kings seruants message but without excuse wee must come to his supper and eate of the fat killed calfe in the white wedding garment of holinesse and a godly life Hee that saith that hee loueth God and yet hateth his neighbour he is a lyar and he that saith that hee loueth God and keepeth not his Commandements is a lyar also the reason is giuen by the Apostle plainely 1. Iohn 5. 3. For this is the loue of God that we keepe his Commandements and his Command●ments are not greeuous And also In this wee know that wee loue the children of God when wee loue God and keepe his Commandements The thing that Iesus Christ the first the last sheweth that hee tooke notice and knowledge of in the seuen Churches to whom he writes in the Reuelation and vnder their name to his whole Church militant to the end is I know thy workes Reuel 2. 2 9 13. 19. and 3. 1 8 15. Also when that glorious Iudge of all flesh shall come and all his holy Angells with him and shall sit vpon the throne of his glorie there to iudge and reward all the Nations of the earth that shall be gathered before him hee shall iudge euery one according to his workes for in that great and last day he shall say vnto the sheep at his right hand Come yee blessed of my Father inherit y●e the kingdome prepared for you from the foundations of the world the reason For I was hungred and ye gaue me meate I thirsted and yee gaue me drinke I wa● a stranger and you lodged me I was naked and you clothed me I was sicke and you visited me I was in prison and you came to me And the contrary shall hee say to the reprobate goates at his left hand who did not the same and must depart into euerlasting paine For albeit it be most true that faith onely iustifieth before God whosoeuer beleeueth that Christ is the Sonne of God shall bee saued because God he seeth the heart and searcheth the most inward deepest cogitations thereof and many hath beleeued with the theefe at the last houre and in Gods mercy haue beene saued so onely by faith Yet as the Apostle saith Iam. 2. 24. Wee see that of workes a man is iustified and not of faith onely because wee cannot enter into the heart to perceiue and behold the inward faith but by the fruits wee see it onely and that a man by such a fruitfull true liuely faith is iustified for good workes which alas in these daies are rare as faith loue their roote is colde and almost none left vpon the earth are the way wherein wee must walke to iustification albeit not the matter or cause thereof they are not the euidence of our faith as saith the Apostle Iames 2. 18. Shew me thy faith out of thy workes and I will shew thee my faith by my workes There is their nature vse they are the assurance to vs of our election and the makers sure of the same and