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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	father_n	love_n	love_v	5,814	5	7.1381	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95657	Pseudeleutheria. Or Lawlesse liberty. Set forth in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Major of London, &c. in Pauls, Aug. 16. 1646. / By Edvvard Terry, Minister of the Word, and pastor of the church at Great-Greenford in the country of Middlesex. Sept. 11. 1646. Imprimatur. John Downame.	Terry, Edward, 1590-1660.	1646 (1646)	Wing T781; Thomason E356_11; ESTC R201136	37,931	42

Christians should come short of them that come short of Heaven The morality of millions of Heathens may shame us their lives condemne ours The Nations which call not upon the name of God are more righteous then we who have justified the Jewes and Turkes and Heathens Our idolatrous and ignorant fore-fathers shal rise up in judgement and condemne as for they followed what they knew but we know the will of God and follow it not Considerare pudet quantus ferver quae cura c. was the complaint sometimes of Jerom that he was ashamed to consider how solicitous many were in temporall and how sluggish we in spirituall things He was ashamed to thinke how that so many thousands should drive like Jehu furiously in the waies of evill Superstition Error Idolatry Profanenesse and the like and we in the waies of God goe a snayles pace like the Egyptians in the sea when their Chariot wheels were off Exod. 14. 25. That evill men of all sorts should have their tonguet bent like bowes for lies as the Prophet speakes Jer. 9. 3. and we not valiant for the truth shewing no courage for it as if we durst not owne the cause of God Dormis tu Petre Was an heavy check our blessed Saviour gave St. Peter Marke 14. 37. sleepest thou Peter Are the high Preists consulting Are the Souldiers ●anding themselves Is the Son of God neere his betraying And sleepest thou Peter And is there an ayming at the head of Authority now an endeavour by some to lay all even and levell Is there a striking at Religion in an endeavour after liberty therein which liberty threatens us which liberty hath already extreamly hurt us saevior armis Libertas nocuit Which liberty if it be permitted continued will undoubtedly undoe us And shall any disciple of Christ that hath beene taught of him bee now so sleepy slothfull sluggish as if the matter in hand concerned him not Let us not beleeve that any would be ever contented to die for Christ that will not speake for him that they would ever bee willing to affoord Christ their blood who will not doe so much as lend him their breath Now for a corollary or conclusion It was an excellent commendation that Quintilian sometime gave of Vespasian the Emperour that he was patientissimus veri most patient in hearing truth Let his commendation be ours The life of Preaching is application and the life of Application is the applying of truths unto our particular selves And therefore that we may be now yet more particular in bringing home the truths we have heard into our severall bosomes First do rebellious spirits cast off the Yoke aime at nothing so much as destructive liberty Let us be exhorted to submit unto it to yeeld obedience unto all the holy equall righteous just commands of Almighty God and say with the Apostle howsoever they may seeme crosse and contradictory unto us that the Law is holy and the commandement is holy and just and good Rom. 7. 12. And let us write this truth amongst those things we would most remember that Jesus Christ never was never wil be a Saviour to any unto whom he is not a Lord Further Let us submit our selves unto every ordinance of man for the Lords sake c. as before it was urged from that in the 1. Pet. 2. 13. Secondly is there such an unity an agreeing a love a liking amongst many we have named to compasse their evill ends Let us take up heere in the first place a further sad and a very just complaint of the dis-union mis-agreement censoriousnesse uncharitablenesse rash judging and condemning that so swells up the breasts of many amongst us who professe themselves Christians yet they want charity for them for whom Christ had blood who because we cannot assent unto them in all their mis-grounded opinions therefore they cast us off away as filthy ragges Oh love I thou duty and ornament of Christians thou glory of Saints thou delight of God where art thou how art thou gone how art thou departed from us where shall we seeke thee where shall we finde thee Surely in owne hearts or else woe be to us And secondly though difference in opinion hath so banished love from many amongst us that they cannot afford us a good word yet we may not deale with them as they deale with us but learne to know that if love be of God as S. John speakes 1. Jo. 4. 7. And every one that loveth is borne of God and knoweth God so he that loves not knoweth not God as it followeth in the next verse And if love be the fulfilling of the Law as the Apostle tels us Ro. 13. 10. If the whole Law be abridged in that duty of love then the want of love must needs be the violating the breaking of all the commandements of God Thirdly let us learne hence what the Prophet David exhorts us to in a like case Ps. 109. 28. Though they curse yet blesse we And though they hate yet love we Let us love their persons and any thing beside we see of God that is lovely in them whatsoever they may thinke of us though we may not we must not by any meanes close with them in their opinions In all our demeanour towards them carrying our selves as Joshua did to Achan Josh. 7. who retayned the affections of a Father while he was executing the office of a Judge Fourthly let us be exhorted to make much of that most excellent grace of the spirit Love love to God love to one another Le ts make much of love for t is love which conveyes all mercies to us Let us lay hold on it as the Patriarchs did apprehend the promises most elegantly set out by the Apostle Heb. 11. 13. by a Metaphor of saluting {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} They saluted them they kissed them they hug'd them they embraced them So let us doe this grace that findes such little such cold entertainment from many from most This grace of love which God himselfe so liketh that he calls himselfe by the name of Love 1. Ioh. 4. 8. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Fellow after charity saith the Apostle 1. Cor. 4. 1. The originall word is very emphaticall for it signifies to pursue or follow a thing eagerly it implies in it a singular love to the thing we follow which makes us take any paines about it to follow a thing as having it in chase the Metaphor being taken from Hunters who will not leave what they pursue till they have taken it Thus must we follow after love and charity that we may Have it and Harbour it and Exercise And lastly let us labour after unity as first unity and agreement amongst our selves Secondly unity in the profession of the true Religion we professe as unity in doctrine and unity in discipline which would marvellously unite our hearts together There is but one Lord one Faith oxe Baptisme one God and