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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	bad_a	business_n	great_a	27	3	2.0640	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61284	Christianity indeed, or, The well-disciplin'd Christian the delight of Christ shewing how believers in Christ ought to go in and out each before other in gospel-order, governing and being governed as the children of one Father / by Fr. Stanley.	Stanley, Fr. (Francis), d. 1696.	1667 (1667)	Wing S5234; ESTC R37591	67,935	176

eternall preferment 4. The necessity of it In the former buildings some laid the foundations other were overseers of the work and some to bear burdens There is a necessity the Gospell should be preached and the foundations of Gods spirituall house laid and overseers appointed and the work preserved and others to help to bear the burdens 1 Cor. 9.16 For if the Gospell be neglected there is a woe pronounced so that in this Gospell-work there are instruments and assistants Then let all ponder and seriously consider that are become concerned and are obliged in this weighty matter for some betake themselves to farming that are appointed to publick preaching and cannot go out upon the work of the Ministry because of the pressing cares of family-necessity when as the Apostle saith No man that warreth entangles himself with the affairs of this life 2 Tim. 2.4 And if the Apostles thought it not reason and meet to leave the Word and Prayer to serve tables an office in the Churches much more is it unreasonable for Gospel Preachers to leave the work to follow worldly occasions I may say some have robbed their own families to spend their time in the Churches services for much is already known and much more is feared and foreseen of the great inconveniencies that attend this business as naturall consequences 5. The bad and sad effects that accompany the neglect of it 'T is to be feared that some that have been eminent in the Ministry have declined the way of truth and verity being under temptations for want of supplyes necessary In the former dispensation when the people detained the Lords servants right the Lord charged them that they robbed him and for that he would come as a swift witness against them Mal. 8.3 If the Scripture saith 't is even so in the duty we may justly fear it may be even so in the penalty If the keeping back the labourers wages Jam. 5.4 cryes in the ears of the Lord of Sabbath shall not we fear if we neglect such as faithfully and painfully labour in the Word and Ministry My dearly beloved Brethren let these things be pondered I do not charge you but warn you and in discharge of my own duty and to give you notice to escape the danger of the penalty for there is a neglect and it will be charged somewhere let every man do his duty according to his measure This then is the great strait that either the work of the Lord must be neglected or that which properly belongs to wife and children must be wasted 'T is not the mind neither is it for Gods honour that one servant should be oppressed and another eased and whether the Lord may not reckon for estates decayed bodies wasted spirits and bloud spent and not regarded as well as consciences opprest and bodies destroyed This is the strait betwixt two either to neglect the worthy work of the Gospell or else to be in danger of being reputed worse than an Infidell Moreover besides all this 't is more than hard to obtain a succession of Ministers because 't is foreseen and known the Church makes no provisions And these things I have not only by intelligence but by sad and known experience 6. There are some circumstances to consider touching and relating to this matter Let none be mistaken or deceived as to think that I plead for particular persons Phil. 4.17 or private interest not that I desire a gift or that it should be so done to me For I thought I might speak the more freely because I have not been chargeable to any no otherwise than in common entertainments nay if need be I can give testimony that I have refused when it hath been tendred me But I can assign more publick and better ends as the preaching the Gospell the conversion of sinners Tit. 1.9 the constituting and confirming of Churches the convincing and improving gainsayers the uniting Christians the repairing breaches and the establishing and setting in order the Congregations and moreover that fruit might abound upon the Lords peoples account There may be times and occasions that a man may abate of his due and remit of his right Some circumstances may require it where the people have not ability and when the Lords people may be in distress and necessity whose conditions may call for more than ordinary supplyes Such circumstances ought to be observed notwithstanding it be a duty commanded I speak not this that the Lords people should be burdened nor any particular mans desire answered but that every mans duty and conscience may be discharged the Gospell preached Ministers encouraged and the work of God furthered and advanced 7. An Exhortation to discharge your duties in these weighty businesses God is not mocked what a man sowes that he shall reap Let not me be thought tedious neither let this work be counted weariness There is such great need the Gospell should be spread and such great complaints for instruments moves and presses me to be earnest to perswade to answer their expectations and the Lords requirements 1. Let the Lords Ministers see there be no default and neglect in them 2 Pet. 5.2 neither to have a covetous desire after gain and filthy lucre but freely to go out in the Lords name upon the Lords work and chearfully cast themselves upon the Lords promises and providences for their success and security And let the Churches see that they neglect not their duty as helps and assistants to them in the Ministry for coyn and treasure is the sinews of warfare Let every one help as he hath received not one eased and another over-burdened 2 Cor. 3.13 14. Let this law be the rule and order as you would have another do to you do you in like manner to another And whose heart the Lord hath enlarged towards this needfull work let it be done chearfully and in charity agreeable to principles of equallity answerable to ability and consonant to rules of equity for all receits must be accounted for we are but Stewards of that we are possest for the earth is the Lords and all things therein for we our selves are not our own neither is any of our substance or coyn bodies goods and spirits are to glorifie him for we are but tenants to the immortall and universall Lord when he calls for our selves or substance to serve him we ought to render up all to him for every Christian man the Lord hath made stewards of a worldly possession stands obliged with this Rent-charge by vertue of Religion besides those of his family to communicate to the poor saints and such as labour in the Ministry Beloved brethren I can do no less but caution you against covetousness Col. 3.5 which is so destructive to piety and which the Apostle calls Idolatry which especially consists of two generall parts either an unlawfull getting and possessing or an unjust with-holding and detaining that from another of which he is the