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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	commandment_n	know_v	liar_n	1,903	5	11.5902	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95855	The way to true happinesse, or, the way to heaven open'd. In a sermon before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London, Jan. 28. 1654/5 / By Ralph Venning.	Venning, Ralph, 1621?-1674.	1655 (1655)	Wing V232; Thomason E830_8; ESTC R207438	31,836	56

of whom it s said Gen. 5.24 that he walked with God which is all one as if it had been said he did the Will of God and was not was no more on earth for God took him up to Heaven This is all that 's said of Enoch in the Old Testament and not one word mentioned of faith but that his believing was therein comprehended is clear from Hebr. 11.5 where we are told the former story more at large By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death and was not found because God had translated him for before his Translation he had this testimony that he pleased God or as 't is in Genesis that he walked with God now that he could not walk with or please God but by faith is fully asserted v. 6. for without faith it is impossible to please him and that that faith there spoken of relates to Christ is clear because none can so seek him as to finde the reward but by Christ For none cometh to the Father but by him Yea that Enochs had special respect to Christ may be gathered from his own Prophecie Jude 14. where he saith Behold the Lord viz. the Lord Christ as appeares by comparing this with 2 Thess 1.7 8 c. the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his Saints so that Euoch was a believing walker or a walking believer and as such translated The second instance is David of him it s said Acts 13.22 that God rais'd him up and gave testimony to him saying I have found David the son of Jesse a man after mine own heart who shall fulfil all my Wills and v. 26. 't is said of him that after he had served his own generation by the Will of God or as it may be more properly read after he had served the Will of God in his generation he as to his body fell asleep Many men serve their generations by the Will of God that serve not the Will of God in their generations but David served the Will of God Now that David also in serving the Will of God acted as a believer is evident from Hebr. 11.32 33. What shall I what need is there that I should say more for the time would faile me to speak of Gideon c. and of David also who by faith wrought righteousnesse c. so that David also as a believer doing the Will of God went to Heaven 2. As it appears by the testimony that God hath borne to the persons gone to Heaven so also by the testimony God bears against the persons that are gone and are to go to hell as in the verse following the text Depart from me ye Workers of iniquity And so again Luke 13.27 Depart from me all ye that work iniquity yea yet again Mat. 25.41 Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire Why For I was an hungred and ye gave me no meat c. that is ye did not mine or my Fathers Will. Now how comes this to passe that men are Workers of iniquity but from unbeliefe as by comparing a few texts will eafily appear Eph. 2.2 You were dead in trespasses and sins wherein ye walked according to the Prince of the power of the aire that is according to his Will who still worketh in the children of disobedience the word is of unbelief * As good works spring from saith so bad workes spring from unbeliefe their disobedience was of unbelief and indeed unbeliever is as comprehensive a word as workers of iniquity therefore it s said of them that do not Gods Will Luke 12.46 He will appoint them their portion with unbelievers and who were they that entred not into rest but them that believed not so we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief Heb. 3.18 19. by reason of which unbelief they were workers of iniquity Hence we have these solemn cautions given us Hebr. 3.12 Take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief to depart from the living God and again Heb. 4.1 2. let us therefore fear lest a promise being left of entring in any of you should come short viz. through unbeliefe as 't is ver 11. Let us labour therefore to enter into rest lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief So then you see beloved that they that were admitted did believingly do the Will of God and they that are to be shut out are such as do from unbelief work iniquity or not do the Will of God 3. It further appears by this that there can be no acts of grace proved powerful and saving but by doing the Will of God For of knowledge it s said 1 John 2.4 He that saith I know him and keepeth not his Commandments is a liar and the truth is not in him viz. the truth of that knowledge which he pretends to for the saving of his soul And as for love the Apostle is no lesse expresse in 1 John 5.3 This is the love of God that we keep his Commandments and his Commandments are not grievous The like might be said of the rest as of faith c. above mentioned in the opening of the Point Well then you see that no man hath any ground to expect entrance into the Kingdome of Heaven that doth not do the Will of God that doth not walk with God in faith and obedience or in the obedience of faith If therefore any should suppose that they may marry the Rachel of Heaven without their serving the Will of the Father and before they have married the Leah of obedience let them know for God will tell them as Laban did Jacob Non est mos loci 'T is not the custome of the countrey to marry the younger before the elder But if this that hath been said should not be thought sufficient but you will needs yet have further witnesse proof and evidence of this truth I will give you six Scripture-demonstrations of it 1. No man can enter into the Kingdome of Heaven but he for whom it is prepared Now it s prepared for none but them that do the Will of God Therefore none but they can enter Both these Propositions are asserted by Christ himself The major is laid down in Mat. 20.23 saith he To sit at my right hand and on my left hand in the Kingdome as she prayed before is not mine to give to any but for whom it is prepared of my Father The Kingdome of Heaven is no common Inne 't is not a receptacle for all but a peculiar place for a peculiar people and who they are the minor or second Proposition tells us none but they that do the Will of God and this Christ himself tells us also Matth. 25.34 Then shall the King say to them on his right hand Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdome prepared for you viz. you who did my Fathers Will who fed me when I was hungry clothed me when I was naked c. which as