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truth_n	deed_n	light_n	manifest_a	2,272	5	9.7572	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26955	The mischiefs of self-ignorance and the benefits of self-acquaintance opened in divers sermons at Dunstan's-West and published in answer to the accusations of some and the desires of others / by Richard Baxter.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1662 (1662)	Wing B1309; ESTC R5644	245,302	606

fruits of sin and of the wrath of God and endless misery How few such true and faithful friends have they and what wonder when it is a carnal inducement that draweth men to follow them It it is their wealth and honour and their power to do men good or hurt in outward things that makes their friends They are attended by these flies and wasps because they carry the honeypot which they love And God saith to his followers Love not the world nor the things that are in the world If any man Love the world the Love of the Father is not in him 1 Joh. 2.15 And it is for Love of worldly things even the lust of the flesh the lust of the eye and pride of life c. which are not of the Father but of the world 1 Joh. 2.16 it is for these that great men have their friends and followers for the most part And therefore it is plain that the worst sort of men are ordinaril● their friends For those are the wor●● men that have not the Love of the Fathe● in them but are the friends of the world and therefore the enemies of God Jam● 4.4 And the best though fit to be thei● truest friends are seldom their followers as knowing that the attractive of th● sensual world is a shaddow unfit to deceiv● those that are acquainted with its vanity● and a snare unfit to take those that hav● observed how Satan laies and baits the trap● and how they have sped that have been taken in it A despised Christ that hath the words of eternal life is much more followed by men that have the heavenly relish Such gracious souls whose appetites are not corrupted by the creature and their sicknesses have more mind to flock after a spiritual and powerful messenger of Christ that talkes to them of his Kingdom and the Righteousness thereof which they first seek then to gape after the preferment and vain glory of prosperity Christ that despised the offer of all the Kingdoms and Glory of the world Mat 4.8 9. doth teach his followers to despise them Seeing then the ordinary attendants of 〈◊〉 prosperous are the worst of men that 〈◊〉 themselves and are purveying for the ●●sh what wonder if they be flatterers ●hat have neither skill nor will to speak ●●at unpleasing language of reproof that ●●ould make the prosperous know themselves Oh how seldom or never do they hear ●hat the poor can hear from every mouth ●f a man of low degree be wicked or offend its enemy dare tell him of it and his friend dare tell him of it and his angry neighbour ● companion will be sure to tell him of it and they dare tell him frequently till he amend and tell him plainly and set it home But if great ones be as bad and ●●ed more help as having more temptation yet alas they may sin and sin again and perish for any body that will deal faithfully with their souls except some faithful Minister of Christ whose plainess is taken but for a thing of course And usually even Ministers themselves are some of them so unfaithful and some so fearful and some so prudently cautelous that such persons have no such help from them to know themselves as the poorer sort of people have If we deal freely with them and set it home it will be well taken if it offend yet offence may easily be born as bringing no ill consequents to our Ministery but if we deal so with the great one● of the world what outcries would it raise and by what names should we and ou● preaching be called If it were not for fea● lest some malicious hearers would misunderstand me and misapply my words a● spoken of those that we are bound to honour and as tending to diminish the reputation of any of our superiors which 〈◊〉 detest I should have shewed you all this in Scripture instances When Haman could not bear the omission one mans obeysance what wonder if such cannot bear to be spoken to as indeed they are Not only an Ahab hateth one faithful plain Michaiah because he prophesieth not good of him but evil 1 King 22.8 but Asa that destroyed Idolatry can imprison the Prophet that reproveth him for his sin 2 Chron. 16.10 I will not tell you of the words that were spoken to Amos by the Priest of Bethel Amos 7.10 11 12 13. or to the Prophet 2 Chron. 25.15 16. lest malice mis-interpret and mis-report me For it is none of my intent to fix on any particular persons but to tell you in general the lamentable disadvantage that the great and prosperous have as to the knowledge of themselves how little plain dealing they have and how hardly most of them can bear it though yet I doubt not but it is born and loved by those that have true grace and that if David sin he can endure to hear from Nathan Thou art the man and this shall befall thee and an Eli can bear the prophesie of Samuel and say It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good 1 Sam. 2.27 3.17 18. and an Hezekiah can say Good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken 2 King 20.19 and Josiah can bear the threatnings of Huldah 2 Chron. 34. 2 King 22. And it is a double honour in persons that have so great temptations to love the plain discoveries of their sin But a Joash will slay even Zechariah the son of Jehoiadah that set him up and a Herod that hath so much religion as to fear John as knowing that he was a just man and an holy and to observe or save him and when he heard him to do many things and hear him gladly had yet so much love to his fleshly lust and so little power to resist a flatterer as that he could sell both the head of John and his own soul for so pittiful a price as this Mar. 6.20 25 27 28. So true is that of Christ himself Joh. 3.20 21. For every one that doth evil hateth the light neither cometh to the light lest his deeds should be reproved or discovered But he that doth truth cometh to the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God And indeed there is none that more opposeth Micaiah then Zedekiah as being concerned for the honour of his flattering prophesie to bring plain dealing into disgrace It is he that smiteth him and saith which way went the spirit of the Lord from me to speak unto thee 1 King 22.24 As Plutarch compareth the flaterer to a painter that having made a picture of Cocks which was very bad he bid his boyes be sure to keep the living Cocks out of sight lest their appearance should shew the faultiness of his picture so saith Plutarch doth the flatterer do what he can to keep away plain-dealing faithful friends lest his fraud and falshood should be detected by them But saith Solomon Prov. 28.23 He that rebuketh a man afterward