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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	ghost_n	holy_a	receive_v	18,187	5	5.7163	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30285	Rules for hearing the Word of God with certain and saving benefit The second edition. By Daniel Burgess, minister of the gospel. Published by an hearer of them, at the request of many others.	Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713.	1693 (1693)	Wing B5714; ESTC R215210	7,490	26

at Sermon-time they be not deaf Adders yet they be dumb Dogs whose Hearts do not to this Purpose speak while their Ears hear I do not well hearken to the Ambassador when I pray not much to the King Direct IV. Apply to your own Souls what the Preacher saith to all To know for one's good the Hebrews call to know for one's self And do not all the World so do Ministers be Nurses Sermons be Breasts God's Word is Milk Hearers be the Children and right Hearing is their sucking the Milk into each one's own Soul What another sucks and applies will not nourish thee Say thou then of every Doctrine This is my Lesson I will learn it Of every Command This is my Duty I will do it Of every Promise This is my Encouragement and I will make Meat and Drink of it my Soul shall rely and feed hereon Who ever missed of Life by the Word of Life that so took it to themselves Who did ever thus suck and not grow by the Gospel's Milk Blessed are they that thus monopolize a Sermon While to be sure all are starved that do not thus feed whatever Dainties are set before them And they are the most miserable of all the Damned who starve themselves where they might have feasted Direct V. Express your Reverence of God in a Sermon unto all the Congregation God is specially present in Heaven and at a Sermon Do you believe it Then show that Faith of yours Shew it to your God and to your Conscience by holy Thoughts and holy Affections Yea and shew it to all the Church by your well-composed Countenances and becoming Gestures Your Bodies are God's as well as your Souls If you do not glorify him with both you glorify him with neither God lays no hard Impositions on Aged Sickly Weak Bodies But he requites others to give him reverent Postures Heads unnecessarily covered in Hearing are sinfully covered and scandalously Gadding Eyes are impudent Publishers of profane rambling Hearts and of those Fools whereof one makes many Put off your Shoes and keep them off while you are on holy Ground That is be Reverent in Soul and Body So honour God before all the People and then he shall make it seen before all the People how he honoureth and blesseth you Irreverence at a Sermon is a publick Call to God for Damnation A constructive bidding God to damn you where Hundreds may be VVitnesses to it and without God's great Grace be poisoned by it There are who say that all Dissenters are irreverent in Worship See you that they slander us not with a matter of Truth Direct VI. Honour the Preacher as a Man of God and no more God stiles a Minister by that Name and God's Names be the most proper and instructive A Minister is but a Man do not therefore adore him as a God Let him be so thy Minister that Christ may still be thy only supreme Shepherd and Bishop He is but a Man expect therefore and bear with his Infirmities and pray God for his Assistances to him He is but a Man therefore pin not thy Faith on his Sleeve but exercise thy own Sense and beg the Guidance of God's holy Spirit Yet nevertheless he is a Man of God remember If not do not hear him If so consider while thou art hearing he is one that hath received the Holy Ghost he is one that Christ hath qualified and commissioned under himself to be a Saviour of thee and of all that hear him Wherefore do not despise him as not adore him Thou shalt profit by him if thou hearest him as he is an Embassador of God a Messenger of Christ an Overseer made by the Holy Ghost But wo is thine if thou followest him either as a God or as a common Man The Gospel pronounceth no Blessing upon the Superstitious or upon the Profane Direct VII Project to retain as much as may be of what you hear All along your hearing design and do what you can for remembring Say over to your selves the Doctrine many times and if you can repeat to your selves all the Heads of the Discourse But lay fast hold of the main Drift of every Sermon However Nature Sickness or Age may have incurably wounded your Memories God is gracious remember He will accept an unfeigned Good-will for the very Deed. His Spirit shall be a never-failing Remembrancer to such as against their VVills and against their Endeavours be forgetful He will not call them forgetful Hearers that strain and strive and do their best to be tenacious ones But he will so call and will curse those who like not and list not to retain his Word as well as to receive it Hearers so wilfully dull must look to remain among the Dead As they are slothful they are wicked Servants And let them expect Christ's foretold Word Depart ye Cursed Heaven is no Hive for Drones Ignorance is a Curse and if it be your Choice it will as surely be your Destruction as your Option AFTER Hearing God's Word DIrection I. Take the most earnest heed that you do not let slip what you have received Your Memories be the great Servants of your Faith Hope and Obedience and they are but imperfectly sanctified they be too much like the Grates that let go clean Water and hold filthy Mud. If you take little Pains about them you will have but sorry Service from them The best Ground will never hold the good Seed if no care be had to drive off the Fowls that will be coming and catching it away and if Labour be not bestown to harrow it in This Labour for the VVord is Labour in the Lord and it shall not be in vain Thus do you shall surely prosper and do well But if this be too much in your Conceits if you are lame and will not use Crutches if you cannot otherwise remember and you will not talk with your selves and Families of a Sermon nor go forth unto a Repetition nor ask the holy Spirit to be your Remembrancer you must take to your Sorrow what you get by your Sloth The Devil cannot rob you of a Sermon against your VVill and God will not keep a Sermon in your Mind without your VVill. Direct II. Let your Thanks be returned after every Sermon heard Thanks and Praise are God's dearly beloved the End of all his VVorks of your Beings your Redemption your Gospel-Calls all Ordinances and Providences It is Hell where no Praise and Thanks are and it is Heaven where there is nothing besides Nothing delighteth God so much as these and for nothing on this Earth doth God expect these more than for his Gospel preached When it is said He giveth his VVord 't is presently added Praise ye the Lord. And this Praise we are told shall please the Lord better than an Ox or Bullock than any external Sacrifice If Vnprofitableness by the Word do not drive away Thankfulness Thankfulness for the Word shall be sure to drive away