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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	believe_v	faith_n	see_v	5,205	5	3.8267	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79883	Ministers dues and peoples duty; or A bill of accounts between ministers and people: shewing vvhat people owe unto their ministers; which may also serve to mind ministers, what they are to expect from their people. By Sam. Clark M.A. sometimes fellow of Pembroke-Hall in Cambridg, and now minister of Grendon Under-wood in Buckinghamshire.	Clark, Samuel, 1626-1701.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1661 (1661)	Wing C4494; Thomason E1057_4; ESTC R204352	37,580	60

water it in you For thus much those emphaticall questions of the Apostle amount unto Gal. 3.2 This only would I learn of you Receaved ye the Spirit by the workes of the Law or by the hearing of faith and Rom. 10.14 How shall they beleive in him of whom they have not heard and how shall they heare with out a Preacher So that you see all we have or are is yours i. e. for your good as a candle is made to give light unto others and nurses are stock't with milke for their nurslings sakes now every one uses to be carefull of their own Sic vos non vobis c. and make much of that which is their own and not be wanting in any due concernment thereof Vse 2 Take heed of whatsoever is contrary to that duty you owe to your Ministers and do not please your selves in the neglect of your duty with such a foolish conceit as this That we speake only for our own ends when we tell you of these things No! when we acquaint you with your duty to our selves 't is not as the Apostle speakes concerning the contribution sent unto him by the Church of Philippi because we desire these things principally and with respect only to our selves but we desire fruit that may abound to your account Phil. 4.17 And yet if it were so who refuses good counsell from a Lawyer or wholsome directions from a Phisician out of a conceit that they speake only for their fee but I say that is not the reason but for your own sakes for alas what is it to us comparatively and farther than as we sympathize with you in your weale or woe if you will not heare and obey and be saved Do we desire any thing but what makes for your owne good and turns to your own account and by performance whereof you will be the greatest gainers your selves O therefore be not so mad and spitefull as to prejudice and wrong your own Soules for the doing us a little displeasure As it is in matter of tithes would not you count that man brutishly and senselesly wilfull and malicious who should let his ground ly fallow and thereby loose his own nine parts on purpose to hinder his Minister of his tenth why so is it in any other duty by the neglect thereof you prejudice your selves nine parts at least to our tenth i. e. You do infinitely more wrong your selves thereby than you do us But I shall speake a little more particulary concerning each of the forementioned duties 1. Despise not their Calling 2 Be not disaffected to their Persons 3. Neglect not their Instructions 4. Disobey not their Commands 5. Be not unsubmissive to their Censurs 6. Fret not at their Reproof 7. Slight not their Example 8. Wrong them not in their good names 9. Grudge not their maintenance 10. Cease not to Pray for them Lastly Forget them not 1. Take heed of slighting and lightly esteeming much more of vilifying and contemning your Ministers count them not indifferencies conveniencies superfluities which may very well be spared much lesse do not groane under them as your burdens and epidemicall grievances whose roome you had rather have than their company esteeme them not the scum and refuse of the world the filth and offscourng of all things nor like Jereboams Priests the meanest of the people so as to a Precedency any mans rather than the Ministers every mammonist ' every yonger Brother every upstart of the first head must have the place of us To the gay cloathing every one saith sit here in the best roome but unto us stand thou there or sit here under my foot-stoole Thus Children behave themselves proudly against the ancient and the base against the h●nor●ble Esa 3.4 Downs Treat An Amulet p. 16. post-pose them to every Thing that lookes like a Gentleman or hath got but a few fine clothes O Sirs would you dare to carry your selves so towards Christ if he were personally here on earth why 't is all one in effect if you will believe his own word Luk. 10.16 He that despiseth you despiseth me The dirt that is cast in the Ministers face besmears and bespatters Christ And they that slight his Ministers would serve him so too they that misused the Servants dealt no better with the Son Mat. 21.35 39. compared And cerainly such a sin as this shall not go unpunished Princes and States have alwayes been very tender of their Embassadors deeply resenting and severely punishing to their power any affront put upon them Thus did David 1 Sam. 10.6 and 12.31 And the Romans extinguisht Corinth for violating their Embassadors though the violation were so small that Florus could not tell whether it were Voce or manu Do you think then that Christ will take it well at your hands and put up patiently those wrongs and affronts you put upon his Embassadors Ps 105.15 1. No he that reproved Kings for their sakes will not take it at your hands nor let you scape scot-free You may see what to expect and learn wisdom too from thence if you are not hardned to your sin by what God hath threatned against and inflicted upon others for this sin Christ tells the Jewes the vineyard should be let out to other husbandmen Mat. 21.41 and the Kingdom of God i. e. the means of grace whereby they should be brought to happinesse taken from them v. 43. and bestow'd upon others sc the Gentiles for their misusing his messengers and servants v. 35. There is a spirituall judgement and in the next Chapter but one he threatens them with temporall judgments viz the desolation of the Temple and as an attendant thereon the destruction of their Ceremoniall Worship for the same sin c. 23.37 38. Which did shortly after come to passe And so long before that their Babylonish Captivity is charged upon the score of this sin 2 Chron. 36.16 17. They mocked the messengers of God and despised his words and misused his prophets untill the wrath of the Lord rose up against his people till there was no remedy therefore he brought upon them the King of the Chaldees c And if God hath punisht this sin so severely in this world O what severity then may they expect from Christ in the day of retribution the greatest part of whose religion is to heape indignities and disgraces upon his Ministers and Messengers Rom. 3.8 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and to belch out blasphemies for that is the term Paul uses concerning disgracefull speeches of them against them 2. Take heed of entertaining any malice or hatred yea of giving way to the least grudge illwill animosity or disaffection to them It 's a signe of a wretched miscreant such an one as Ahab who sold himselfe to worke wickednesse to hate a Messenger of God 1 Kin. 22.8 O therefore do not requite all their love and kindnesse and paines to your precious soules so ill Yet Alas this is