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spirit_n	father_n	holy_a	jesus_n	13,652	5	5.8822	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00991	A nicke for neuters. A most godly and fruitfull sermon, begun and preached at Paules Crosse, the 30. day of October last, and continued & finished in Paules Church, on New-yeeres day at night. / By Thomas Burt, Preacher of the Word.	Burt, Thomas, preacher of the word.	1604 (1604)	STC 4132; ESTC S126041	28,214	88

to their own selues And yet we are not onely thus too cold but contrarywise as much too hote too cold because wee want zeale too hote because wee want patience too colde because wee want charity too hote because wee want modesty too cold because wee want fidelity too hote because wee want our willes If this bee true beloued whereof should I first complayne Of our vngratefulnesse or our vngodlinesse Our vngratefulnesse that whereas God hath made our Countrey especially this City a City of visions a Sanctuary of Nations a Crowne and Ioy of all Lands that after so many graces and kindnesses towards vs wee should bee towards him neither new nor old in profession hote nor cold in affection fish nor flesh in Religion light nor darknes in conuersation Our vngodlinesse to make the Church of God and house of Saints by our defilings an habitation for Dragons Reu. 19. If this be not true then what argue these daily contentions amongst vs this manifold cunning and couzenage in all sorts this generall deceyt in all trades this common lying in all contracts this priuy receyuing of all hands this shouldering and countenancing against all right this extorting oppressing on all parts this immoderate licenciousnes to all lust this defiling of our selues with all vice Hath the Lord therefore giuen vs the diuinenesse of his truth goodnes of peace greatnes of plenty sweetnes of health brightnes of honor that we liuing in tranquility in safety in security should misspend our liues in all licenciousnes and voluptuousnes of pleasure after so long preaching of the Gospel to be a great part counterfets of holinesse serpents of wilinesse Satans of wickednes monsters of vglinesse dung-hils of filthinesse Oh how often hath the Lord admonished vs of these monstrous and prodigious behauiours by monsters and prodigies of the land How often hath hee threatned by Commets signes from heauen And yet we still remayne more dead sencelesse then the earth nay the dead and sencelesse earth hath generally quaked yet we haue neuer bene abashed the great mighty waters haue started backe and changed the course of the streames yet haue not wee changed the course of our liues The enemies sword hath beene ready to cut our throats yet are not wee ready to cut off our sinnes The meat hath bin plucked for our vnworthinesse frō out of our iawes yet haue not wee repented our disobedience The Plague of Pestilence hath gone ouer our land and now the poyson rageth in this the head City of the same yet are not we cured of the botches wounds and sores of our impoysoned corruptions How hath the Land beene shaken by deepe and secret Treasons whilest wee haue remayned lesse moueable then the rockes Why if the Lord can neyther winne vs by his bounty nor allure vs by his mercies nor perswade vs by his trueth nor make vs heedfull by his warning nor fearefull by threatning what shall become of vs Are wee better then the Laodiceans or will God spare vs that hath so grieuously punished them Nay rather as God hath for their Neutrality cast out them so will hee likewise for our hypocrisy vomit out vs. All these Churches of Asia there mentioned the many and mighty kingdomes of Greece with the late noble Realmes of Hungary and Liuonia may at this day be spectacles of calamity to forewarne vs if wee bee wise who because they trode vnder foot the eternall verity of the Saints of God by their filthy life are now trodden themselues vnder foot by the filthy Turke euery man of them by so much the more abused as he is the more enriched with the ornaments of grace In like maner assure your selues if we liue profanely vnder the protection of Gods holy Name he will take away the Gospell of the Kingdome from vs and giue it to a Nation that shall bring forth the fruites of it And the more that his loue hath beene towards vs the more will his wrath bee to recompence the greatnesse of benefits with the greatnes of punishments if by our coldnes we prouoke him thereunto Which plagues that GOD may turne away from vs let vs humbly pray him to turne our hearts towards him that we may withall our hearts serue him and hee with all his goodnesse blesse vs that wee passing the tyme of this our pilgrimage in his feare may passe the rest of the time in his ioy to the prayse of the glory and rich grace which hee hath towards vs in IESVS CHRIST To whome with the Father and the holy Spirit three Persons and one God bee ascribed all honour and glory prayse and thanksgiuing for euer and euer Amen FINIS

through fayth Acts 15. as fire doth purify gold to bee zealous and feruent in spirit as the fire makes men feruent in heat Ro. 12. to consume our corrupt affections as drosse with flame Ro. 8. to fill vs as full with the fruits of righteousnes as fruit trees are filled with the fruit of the Sunne Phil. 1.11 So that by means of this sacred fire the Saints are made with zeale like S. Ioh. Bap. burning fyrebrands through loue like the Apostles shining lights through faith like the wise virgins shining lamps through grace like the righteous in heauens kingdome euer-shining starres And no maruel for these haue not only cast off the works of darknes by mortifying their own flesh denying their owne selues subduing their owne wils forgoing their owne delights by contemning the glory of the world the flatterings of prosperity the despites of aduersity but are made infatigable against all labours intrepidable against all dangers inuincible against all pleasures and inexpugnable against all power and haue moreouer after a most diuine and heauenly maner put on the armour of light Rom. 13.12 and walke in the light vsing as Cyprian sayth Tanta humilitate in conuersatione stabilitate in fide veritate in verbis in factis iustitia such gouernment in maners and iustice in workes as that their whole liues are nothing else but spectacles of piety their bodies tabernacles of sanctity their mouthes oracles of verity their hearts habitacles of charity and themselues mirrours miracles of all integrity And they that are such may rightly be sayd to be hote in Religion Behold beloued how greatly ought we to be inflamed with the loue of this Excellency as also confounded with the shame of our indignity that the more farre wee are off from the worthinesse of the Saints the more we ought to endeuour to come neere vnto the same Now by the contrary to those that are hote wee may easily discerne what these are that are cold that is such as haue no sparke of this heauenly fire no heate nor comfort of the holy Spirit being without light in darkenesse cold without loue and impure without goodnes therfore such as the holy Ghost noteth 1. Cor. 6.11 as are not washed as are not sanctified as are not iustified in the Name of the Lord Iesus and by the Spirit of our God such as Ephe. 2.12 are sayd to bee without Christ such as hee denounceth in the first to the Corinthians the sixt Chapter to be Idolaters and adulterers c. Whereby we may gather three sorts of these Psukroi key-cold in religiō Atheists naturall men and Epicures The Atheist the Apostle describeth to be without God the naturall man without Christ the Epicure without any sparke of the blessed Spirit because the Atheist wants the light of nature Ro. 1.20 21. the naturall man the light of grace 1. Cor. 2.14 the Epicure the light of the law Gal. 3. For the Atheist because his hart is darkned saith the Apost Ro. 1.21 When they knew God glorified him not as God The naturall man 1. Cor. 2.11 because he wanteth the spirit of grace cannot know the things that are of God for as no man knoweth the things of man but the spirit of man that is in him so the things of God knoweth no man but the spirit of God And the Epicure because he regardeth not to know God according to the law of God God giueth him vp to a reprobate mind to do the things that are not cōuenient Whereby it comes to passe that the Atheist becomes irreligious without hope the naturall man erronious without truth and the Epicure impious without conscience The Atheist in middest of light remayneth still in darknes the naturall man in time of trueth in errour and the Epicure in time of grace liueth still in sinne The Atheist in stead of God honoreth his owne will the naturall man the Idols of his owne heart the Epicure his paunch and his owne pleasure And thus the Atheist because he is without light and without hope is cold in Religion the naturall man because hee is without Christ without grace without truth the Epicure because he is carelesse without feare shameles without honesty and senceles without conscience which are men to vse the words of Peter Iude for all inanity of goodnes as wels without water for instability lightnes as winds without rayne for defilings and filthinesse spots without clensing for fruitles barrennes trees without fruite Starres without light for darknes flesh without spirit for sensualnesse beastes without reason for brutishnes and men without God for prophanenesse Then woe be to vs if wee be without Religion liue as miscreants in the midst of Saints and to the corruption of nature doe adde the contempt of grace But now to come to our Neuters the thing we seeke after we may easily gather by the negation of these two that are in such wise hote and in such wise cold as beforespoken what he is that in religiō is neither hote nor cold and partly how by partaking of both he is neyther of both for he that neither hath the comfort of the holy Ghost in such degree as a Saint nor is so chill with the coldnesse of iniquity as an Infidell is Neuter that is neither Saint nor Infidell but as betwixt a Horse and an Asse is procreated a Mule betwixt a Lion and a Woolfe an Hyena so betwixt this heat and that coldnes is ingendred a Nullifidian of prophanesse which is neither hote nor cold not cold because hee doth professe to know God not hote because hee doth in workes deny God Tit. 1.16 not cold because hee doth appeare righteous before men not hote because he is full of iniquity before God Mat. 23.13 not cold because hee doth worship God with his lips not hote because he is farre from him with his heart Mat. 15.8 not cold because he loueth in word in tongue not hote because hee doth not loue in deed and in truth 1. Ioh. 3.18 so that he is holy in profession but hollow in conuersation of a good opinion touching truth but of an ill exāple touching life such a one indeed as doth hold Religion but yet without zeale as will say he is of the true Religion but is not truly religious as hath knowledge but without loue as professeth the fayth but without workes Iam. 2.14 This is the crue of that surlike company that pretend cōscience but without feeling 1. Tim. 4.2 they are come to that poynt of insensibility of sinne that they shame not to sin with delight such as haue a desire but without all performing And as by the negation the luke-warme Christian is a Neuter so is he by participation an Ambodexter These mē haue their coats made of Linsy wolsey these are they that plowe with an Oxe an Asse these doe sow their land with diuers kind of seeds these are like the Griffin in the war between the birds the