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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	heart_n	lord_n	sincerity_n	1,662	5	9.7763	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32047	The noble-mans patterne of true and reall thankfulnesse presented in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Lords, at their late solemne day of Thanksgiving, June 15, 1643 : for the discovery of a dangerous, desperate and bloody designe tending to the utter subversion of the Parliament and of the famous city of London / by Edmund Calamy ...	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1643 (1643)	Wing C260; ESTC R20268	43,210	65

inventions as the phrase is Psalm 106. 37. For indeed it is spirituall whoredome and it is an exalting of our wisedome above Gods It is vaine-service and therefore cannot please God It is will-worship and of no account with God It is a service that is so farre from bringing us to Heaven that it will beguile us of Heaven This then is to serve God to serve him according to his own way both for matter and manner Now if you aske me What is that way wherein God would have us to serve him I answer briefly He that would serve God so as to please him must mingle 10. Ingredients in his service And indeed this very act of Ioshuah in choosing such a master as Iehovah and in choosing to stand under such a relation as a servant unto Iehovah doth necessarily imply First That Ioshuah did not onely choose to serve God but to serve him undividedly to serve God and none but God For in all Elections those whom we do not choose we refuse And therefore Ioshua's choosing to serve the Lord doth imply that he did refuse all other Lords and masters This is plaine in the beginning of this verse And if it seeme evill to you to serve the Lord choose ye this day whom ye will serve whether the gods c. As if he should have said Ye cannot serve the God of the Israelites and the god of the Amorites together Ye cannot serve God and Idols No man saith Christ can serve two Masters c. 2. Ioshua did not only choose to serve God undividedly but also Everlustingly This appeares because he chose an everlasting Master And for this purpose he tells the Israelites verses 19. 20. You cannot serve the Lord for he is a holy God and a jealous God c. If ye forsake him he will consume you c. As if he should have said If you intend to serve God you must never reuolt but keep your selves constant for ever to his service for else he will turne and doe you hurt and consume you after he hath done you good 3. Ioshua did not only choose to serve God undividedly and Everlastingly but also Faithfully and sincerely And this appeares because he chose such a Master that is the heart maker and the heart searcher This is the difference betweene the serving of God and the serving of man Man can but see the outside and punish the outside and judgeth of the inside by the outside But God is a Spirit and will be worshipped in spirit and in truth and judgeth of the outside by the inside And therefore Ioshua tells the children of Israel vers. 14. Now therefore feare the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in truth As if he should have said If you intend to serve him you must serve him in uprightnesse or else ye doe not serve him at all For God requires good aimes as well as good actions and he abhorres that service though never so good if the aime of him that serves him be not good If a Wife should dresse her selfe in fine apparell to please an Adulterer this aime of hers makes her action most abominable Even so all those that serve God though never so exactly in outward shew if their aime be to please men or to get their own ends the Lord abhorres them and their services God abhorres an hypocrite more then a Sodomite and therefore Hell is provided on purpose for hypocrites 4. Ioshua chose to serve God zealously And this appeares because he chose to serve the living God he did not choose to serve Idols but to turne from dead Idols to serve the living God Now the living God expects not only living but lively service 1 Pet. 2. 5. A man may be a living man and yet not lively but God expects lively service and such as are active and lively in his service such as are fervent in spirit as serving the Lord Rom. 12. 11. As if he should say You are not fit to serve the Lord unlesse you be fervent in spirit boiling hot in spirit as the word signifies 5. Ioshua chose to serve God Reverently and respectfully And this appeares because he calls himselfe a servant of God not a sonne not a friend Now you know it is a necessary ingredient in a servant to keep his distance and to carry himselfe respectfull of his Master to serve him with reverence and godly feare Heb. 12. 28. 6. Ioshua chose to serve God Chearfully and freely For this is another property of a good servant Psalm 100. 1. Serve the Lord with gladnesse Deut. 28. 47 48. We must make it our meate and drinke our Heaven upon Earth to serve God Seventhly To serve him diligently and laboriously This is another property of a good servant It is said of the 12. Tribes That they served God instantly day and night The word in the Greeke is They served God with an outstretched neck Eighthly To serve God Vniversally in all things At all times and in all places and with all our faculties First In all things though never so irrationall to flesh and blood though never so dangerous though never so costly Such a servant was David that fulfilled all the wills of God 2. As in all things so at all times In time of prosperity as well as adversitie and in time of adversitie as well as prosperity For the God whom we serve is the same in all times he alters not no more must his servants 3. In all places in private as well as publike For God is a Master that filles all places If thou canst find out a place where God doth not see thee there it shall be lawfull for thee to serve the Devill 4. With all the faculties of thy soule and body This note of universality though it be a plaine one yet is of marvellous consequence and it is both {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} It is the best divisive difference to divide a Sheepe from a Goate And constitutive to constitute a faithfull servant of God who is one that in all things at all times and in all places with all his faculties gives up himselfe to Gods service That can say as that Dutch Minister Baldazzar did to Oecolampadius Veniat verbum Domini submittemus ei sexcenta si nobis essent colla Let God speake and though we had six hundred necks yet we will make them all stoope to the obedience of him Ioshua chose to serve God Absolutely and Inconditionally For God is a Master that cannot erre in his commands and therefore he must be obeyed without examining of what he commands with blind obedience Sufficit pro universis rationibus Deus vult This is reason sufficient the unerring God will have it so This is the best sighted obedience Man may erre in his commands and therefore is to be served with limitations and examinations They doe