Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	commandment_n	keep_v	liar_n	1,680	5	11.3944	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49248	The hearers duty a sermon preached at Anne Aldersgate, London at the finishing of the morning execise at that church / by Mr. Christopher Love ...	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.	1653 (1653)	Wing L3160; ESTC R234145	9,410	23

the Word of God was dispensed and because of their sinfulnesse and unprofitablenesse their burden is heavier then all the rest because it is the burden of the valley of vision Though other men may goe to hell that live in those parts of the World where the Word was never taught and where they never heard the voice of the glad tidings of salvation sounding in their ears yet those that live where the Gospell is preached and know and yet do not walk answerably shall go to hell with a heavier burden then the other shall doe 3 An other consideration is this consid 3 that thou art void of the love of God thou lovest not him nor he thee if thou dost not make conscience to practise what thou doest hear in 1 Joh. 2.5 Who so keepeth his Word in him verily is the love of God perfected and he that sayes he loveth him and keepeth not his Commandements is a lyer and the truth is not in him I shall now speak something by way of Exhortation Vse of Exhorta to provoke you all in the fear of God to make conscience to practise what you hear and know and to this end consider that God doth look upon all your knowledge and profession to be nothing worth unlesse you practise what you know and professe God looks upon all your hearing and praying c. as nothing unlesse your conversation be answerable to it and is it not pity that for want of practise you should lose the blessing of all your hearing and make it of no worth or esteem in Gods account that though thou hast a great deal of notion all knowledge yet he looks upon thee as an ignorant for and thou that hast heard so many Sermons as if thou hadst never heard one all thy life time It is said of the Sons of Eli that they knew not the Lord why they surely they did know him but because they were Sons of Belial and unholy and profane in their lives therefore God did not account their knowledge and gifts to be any thing because they did not practise what they did know Oh then beloved shall God account thy hearing as nothing and thy praying as nothing because thou doest not make conscience to practise what thou doest hear and know 2 You can have no perswasion in your own soul of the love of God towards you unlesse you make conscience to practise what you hear in Joh. 14.15 sayes Christ If you love me keep my Commandements and therefore often in Scripture these two are put together Loving of God and keeping his Commandements But now by way of Consolation Vse of Consolati methinks I hear a poor soul say Are they only blessed that hear the Word of God and keep what they hear who then shall shall be blessed for who is able to keep what he hears I many times hear a duty commanded but I am not able to performe it and such and such things required but I am not able to keep them and such and such graces pressed to obtain but I am not able to get them Answ For thy comfort know that didst thou live under a Covenant of works thou couldest never be a blessed man for thou art not able to perform the conditions of it for that requires thee to keep and fulfill the whole law of God perfectly and personally But now being under a Covenant of grace God accepts of thy keeping of the Law if it be done sincerely though it be but imperfectly and though it be not done in thy own person yet if it be done in the person of an other the Lord accepts of it God sayes to us under a Covenant of grace believe and live if you make conscience to keep the Word though you cannot keep it yet I will pardon thee and accept of thee and though thou canst not keep the Law in thy own person yet if my Son keeps it for thee I will accept of his obedience as if it were done by thee And therefore you must not lie down under despondency of mind because you are not under a Covenant of works but under a Covenant of grace wherein Christ accepts of sincere obedience though it be not perfect 2 Know for thy comfort that if thou hast a full purpose of heart to keep that which thou hearest it is lookt upon by God as if thou didst keep it in Heb. 11.17 it is said there that by faith Abraham when he was tried did offer up his son Isaac because Abraham did in the resolution and purpose of his heart determine to obey God in offering up his Son therefore the Scripture looks upon it as done though it were only in purpose not actually Why so thou that art the Son of Abraham and hast the faith of Abraham those holy duties which thou doest desire to perform better as to pray better and to hear better and practise and live better then thou dost in divine account this is lookt upon as if it were really done FINIS