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spirit_n	life_n	live_v	sin_n	7,486	5	4.8306	4	false

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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

preferre the peruersnes of our owne wils before the Law of God which is the pleasure of his will lest hee make the law I say his reuealed will to be a trayne to the frowardnes of our owne will to bring vs by the consent of our froward will vnto destruction according to the iust purpose of his vvill And thus haue ye heard both the foulenesse of the cause and of the crime NOw followeth to bee expressed The greatnesse of the payne which is no lesse then to be vomited out of the Lords mouth Whereby if this were only meant that all Neuters for their hypocrisy and dissimulation should be cast out of fauor with the Sonne of God it were a most wofull and importable chastisement if we consider of his diuine nature rightly what the Sonne of God is that is the same God that is vnto vs the cause of all our being the fountayne of all life the founder of all ioy the mirrour of all goodnes for he is the Word eternall that is God almighty by whom all things are made in whō is life and of whose fulnesse we receyue whatsoeuer good we haue Whereby it must of necessity follovv that vvithout the fauour of this vniuersall cause vvhich is all in all vvee must needs be annihilated to nothing and being nothing yet remayne such a thing notvvithstāding as is vvithout him in death vvithout life subsisting without being desisting vvithout dying in life neuer ioying in death euer dying But now by this vomiting is meant more then a bare eiecting out of fauour for herein is expressed a fearefull and violent casting out in anger For in this Simile the Church is compared to the stomacke the luke-warme Neuter to the luke-warm water and their grieuous disturbance to noysome vomitings The Church is cōpared to the stomacke because as the stomacke by altering and concocting the nourishment receyued feedeth preserueth the parts of the body so the Church by concocting disgesting the food of life doth nourish and preserue the body of Christ euen in such sort as frō out of food in the stomack the liuer draweth bloud the hart spirit the brayn sence the sinewes strength the veynes nourishmēt the body life so out of the food of immortality which is the word of God that is in the Church to euery mēber of Christ doth the hart draw faith the wil obediēce the vnderstanding knowledge the conscience comfort the body immortality and the soule all felicity and that also after so rare and stupendious an order that euen as the stomake so doeth it quicken by killing reuiue by destroying grow wise by foolishnes obey by rebelling against its owne flesh obtayne life through death felicity through misery and eternity out of mortality The Neuters are compared vnto luke-warme water which to a tasting stomack being receiued is hurtfull whiles it remaineth is grief-ful being eiected is shamefull because all Neuters are euen such in the Church of God not only by hindring the worke of Gods Spirit in the Church but also by the vnquieting and disturbing of the same Their great and grieuous disturbings are compared to noysome vomitings because as that which breedeth vomiting is cast out with hatred for that it is enemy to nature with violence because it oppresseth the stomacke with shamefulnesse because the defilings thereof are laid open to the eye and finally so eiected as neuer agayne to be receyued So all incorrigible Neuters shall by the LORD himselfe be throwne out of the Church as filthy vomitings out of the stomacke that with hatred because they are enemies vnto Christ and with violence because they hurt and oppresse the Church and vvith shame because their hypocrisy shal be made knowne finally cast out of the Church neuer againe to be receyued because that while they were in the Church they could neuer bee amended where the hatred of eiection doeth shew the detestation of the crime the violence the mightinesse of the payne the shame the horror of confusion and the neuer receyuing the eternity of destruction Then if it be such a wofull thing as it hath bene declared for Neuters to be cast out of fauour with the Sonne of God what is it I pray you thus to endure the fiercenesse of his anger If it be so miserable to be depriued of the comfort of his goodnesse how importable to beare the heauy wrath of his greatnes who is to the wicked in terrour the God of vengeance in nature consuming fire in wrath burning ielousie his face lightning his voyce thunder his displeasure death his breath a riuer of brimstone his lippes a floud of indignation his tongue a deuouring flame as the Lord doeth witnesse of himselfe Deut. 4. 32. Es 30. where the mighty terrour of Gods eternall Maiesty is described to make it knowne that as the peruersnes of sinners is incorrigible so his wrath towards them is implacable and as Neuters faults are intolerable so their punishments are vnmeasureable that so there may be a proportion of iustice betweene their crime and his doome that euen as in this world they would neuer want sin so in the world to come they should neuer want payne Wherefore to conclude seeing that the wrath of God is in this fearefull maner reueyled from heauen against all vngodlines and vnrighteousnes of men how carefully are we here to consider of our selues how neere this reprehēsion may touch vs. All men by the censure of Christ are either hote in Religiō or of necessity cold or else only luke-warm so either Saints in piety miscreants in iniquity or Neuters for hypocrisy What may herein iustly be deemed of vs are we Saints I would to God we all were as no doubt but the Lord hath his Let euery man iudge himselfe if wee be Saints where is then our workes if miscreants where is then our comfort if Neuters where is then our conscience when the Sonne of God shall come in flaming fire rendring recompēce vnto them that doe not know God and which obey not the Gospell of our Lord Iesus Christ Are wee baptized with the spirit and with fire are we feruent in spirit lucent in life ardent in zeale shining in works burning in loue or in the middest of light remayning in darknes in the time of truth abiding in errour in these dayes of grace liue still in sinne nay are we not cold rather which euery where preferre pleasure before piety that we will take no payne no not to purchase ioy which esteeme of gayne so much aboue godlines that we wil take no losse no not to win heauen in whō all affections grow so cold in respect of Lady Money that for her loue men are brought euen vniuersally to be vniust to their owne neighbours vnfaithfull to their owne friends vnkinde to their owne kinne vnnaturall to their owne parents vntrusty to their owne Country vntrue to their owne Prince impious to their owne God mercilesse to all others most miserable