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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	know_v	love_n	1,929	5	5.1685	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44512	The blessed advantages of peace and peace-makers In a sermon preach'd at the Savoy in London upon the fifth of St. Matthew; Ver. IX. Blessed are the peace-makers, for they shall be called the children of God. By Anthony Horneck, D.D. late preacher at the Savoy.	Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.	1697 (1697)	Wing H2820; ESTC R215358	19,312	50

spectacle to see so many of us at war with God This I know will hardly be believed by the guilty and because they do not blaspheme God or do not trouble their heads much about God or Religion they know nothing to the contrary but that they are at peace with God and that they and God are very good Friends This is true stupidity and were the stupidity invincible as it is in Beasts such Men would be safe safe as the wild Ass or the Dromedary in the Wilderness safe I say from the Danger of God's Wrath. But this cannot be the case of any of you that live in a Country where the Gospel is preach'd where you are told that not to love God is to hate him and that not to delight in his ways is to incurr his displeasure that to live in those sins which exclude from the Kingdom of Heaven is to bid defiance to him that to be neglectfull of his Will is to wage war with him that to slight the admonitions and entreaties of his Messengers is to be at enmity with him and that to mind the World more than his Service or to seek to please Men more than him is to provoke him to anger And hath not this been the temper and is not this the complexion of many of you How many years have some of you born Arms against God Your wilfull sins are the Weapons whereby you fight against him and though like the Giants in the Fable you do not heap Mountain upon Mountain to pull him out of his Throne yet by espousing that life which is odious to him you affront his Sovereignty and by living contrary to the Gospel you despise and dishonour him who hath the greatest right to command you And is it not high time to make peace with him If God be not at peace with you here he will never be at peace with you hereafter What peace while the Whoredoms of thy Mother Jezabel and her Witchcrafts are so many said Jehu 2 Kings IX 22. So here what peace can there be betwixt God and you while you continue in that pride and vanity and intemperance and other sins against which the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven Do you think you are at peace with God because you thrive and prosper in the World Do not the wickedest of Men do so and is that an Argument that God is their Friend Will you make his patience a sign of his being reconciled to you when it is only a motive to a reconciliation There is no peace saith my God unto the wicked Isa. LVII 20. Let them be never so potent never so rich never so wealthy their impiety takes away all peace betwixt God and them He hath declared so much and will not you believe him Will you give no credit to his word till with Dives you lift up your Eyes in Hell and see that God is not your friend If you do thrive and prosper in the World cannot those Blessings move you to be at peace with him Do you believe he is kind to you and shall his kindness provoke you to be his Enemies Nothing can settle a peace betwixt God and you till you change your lives and make conscience of your ways and abhorr that which is evil and cleave to that which is good Then indeed were your sins as crimson they shall be as wool were they of a scarlet Dye they shall be as white as snow but till then your sin like that of Judah is written with a pen of Iron and with the point of a Diamond as it is said Jer. XVII 1. and you do as good as say to God with those Desperadoes in Job Chap. XXI 14. Depart from us we desire not the knowledge of thy ways Till then you can never be at peace with your own consciences carnal security you may have but peace of conscience is another thing for this can never be at rest while it hath reason to believe God frowns upon it but being sure of the light of his loving kindness a Man walks in Paradise and dwells in the Garden of God But III. When Christ in the Text professes and declares how pleasing and acceptable a peaceable and peace-making Temper is to God would not one think that every one that believes the Gospel should be ambitious of those qualifications which God not only approves of but promises to reward with the highest Honour and Dignity Yes did Men love God indeed and in truth they would not only be glad to know what is pleasing to him but even run to do it as good natured Children that observe their Father's temper and endeavour to gain his love by a deportment and behaviour they know he delights in Peace among men God delights in peace among Christians especially to whom he hath vouchsafed a higher dispensation Among these no noise no clamour no railing no quarrelling no Swords no Cannon should be heard these profess themselves Disciples of Christ Jesus the Prince of Peace and there is no command that is more strictly or more frequently injoin'd than that of Peace This they are to pursue to follow and to endeavour after by all possible lawfull means This is their livery and the very mark whereby they are to be distinguish'd even their peaceable Behaviour This is the Salt which is to keep them sweet as Christ calls it Mark IX 10. But you all know how contrary to this character the generality of Men live upon the least provocation they break the Peace and all friendship is renounced especially where they have a Purse to maintain the dispute many a Man that was humble and peaceable before when poor no sooner doth he find his Purse swell but his Temper alters and now if his Neighbour doth displease him though there be no malice in the case presently he talks high and big and he cares as little for his Neighbour as his Neighbour doth for him This is the humour of the Age and instead of repenting of their heats and divisions they justify their contentions and oppose the reasons of flesh and blood and the circumstances of their birth and quality of their honour and grandeur to the laws of that Saviour by whose Blood they say they are redeemed Strange Christians these that will be so in despight of Christ though they have nothing of the character in them And let us but consider what trifles they are Men quarrel about and how frivolous the things for which they break forth into flame and fury and break the Peace which they should maintain and keep things which a Philosopher would put by with a smile and a wise Man think below himself to take notice of But what shall we say Till men come to stand in awe of the Gospel more than of the laws of the Land and the threatnings and punishments of the Magistrate thus it will be and when opportunity serves will be carried away with the stream of their passions and sinfull