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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	place_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	52	3	9.4097	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29118	Elijah's nunc dimittis, or, The authors own funerall sermons in his meditations upon I Kings 19:4 ... / by Thomas Bradley ...	Bradley, Thomas, 1597-1670.	1669 (1669)	Wing B4132; ESTC R7187	60,180	133

places where iniquity doth abound is to pious Souls and to such as fear God matter of great griefe and sorrow of heart even enough to make them weary not onely of those times and places but even of their Lives too St. Peter tells us of Lot dwelling in Sodom That his righteous Soule was vext from day to day with their unlawfull doings 2 Pet. 2.7.8 The holy Prophet David complains in this case and bewails his hard condition in this respect even in passionate expressions Woe is me that I am constrained to dwell in Mesech and to have my habitation among the Tents of Kedar And the Prophet Habakkuk as passionately as he in the same case Hab. 1.2 3 4. O Lord how long shall I cry and thou wilt not heare yea even cry out of violence and thou wilt not help Why dost thou shew me iniquity and cause me to behold sorrow for the Law is dissolved and judgment doth not goe forth the wicked doth compass about the righteous therefore unjust judgement doth proceed Thus we see how righteous souls are affected in these cases and afflicted with grief and sorrow under the sence of the wickednesses abominations that are committed under the Sunne in the times and places where they live Reasons 1. Because hereby God is dishonoured whose glory is dear unto them 2. The Church is scandalized holy Religion reproached the Gospel of Jesus Christ aspersed and the way of God evill spoken of especially if these things be done and suffered in a Christian Church or Common-wealth 3. It gives so great offence to many weak ones that it causes them to with-draw themselves from the society of the faithfull to abhorre the Sacrificer of the Lord to despise the standing Ordinances of the Church and for those evills which we see to forsake that which is good to throw up all and to make separation 4. Hereby they destroy their own souls of which others fearing God are more sensible then they themselves Christ beholding Jerusalem and fore-seeing the calamity that hung over it Wept for it they did not so for themselves 5. They provoke wrath and draw down judgements upon the place where they live both upon themselves and others for their sakes For these things sakes comes the wrath of God upon the Children of disobedience Ephes 5.6 Upon these Considerations pious souls men fearing God are sensible of the sins of others as well as of their own and of the iniquity of the times and places where they live and they are unto to them matter of great sorrow and greif of heart I beheld the transgressors and was greived Psal 119.158 1. It should teach men wisedom where they can and as farr as they can to use prudence in the choyce of the places of their habitation and when to make this one of their respects among all other that they may seat themselves in such a place where the fear of God is amongst them Lot made but an ill choyce though he lighted on the 〈◊〉 the Land when he chose the plain of Sodom to pitch his Tent in Abraham might well be afraid to sojourne in Gerar when he perceived the feare of God was not in that place Gen. 20.11 When we match our Sons or Daughters we enquire diligently what Portion what Parentage we enquire after the fatness of the Land fruitfulness of the Soyle convenience of situation and the like and all this with good discretion too but among all the rest we should not leave out this as a maine consideration whether we dispose of them to such a place where the fear of God is among the people the Inhabitants there whether they live under a good Ministery a good Majestracy a good Government where wickedness and vice is punished were Religion and godliness is set up countenanc't and encouraged whether the feare of God be in the place a very considerable blessing and a great part of their happiness 2. Try your zeale and love to God and his truth to holy Religion and the Gospel by this Touchstone by your hatred of sin as well in others as in your selves and by your grief and sorrow of heart when you see it reign and abound in the Land and in the times and places where you live Beloved we live in evill times and in places bad enough where you have occasion enough given you to exercise your zeale and to shew your love and grief and anger if you have any in this case you may see as our Prophet did the Law forsaken the Covenant broken the Worship of God neglected the Ordinances despised the Sabbath prophan'd the Sacraments slighted c. if we can see these things and not be sensible of them and sorry for them at least where we cannot help them surely our zeale is cold and our love but small Set a Marke saith the Lord upon the Foreheads of all those that Mourne for the aboninations that are done in the City Ezek. 9.4 'T is an Argument of a gracious heart to take to heart the iniquities of the times to sigh and mourn for them to be displeased with them and troubled at them 3. Here 's an object and opportunity for such as are in place and power to exercise their authority in suppressing sin in punishing the wickedness of the times and places where they live in stopping the course and current of iniquity prevailing If Magistrates they must be cloathed with zeale as with a cloak they must put on Justice as a Robe and Judgement as a Crown or Diadem they must be girt about with the Sword of vengeance and let proud and insolent offenders know they doe not beare that Sword in vain If Ministers they must cry aloud and not spare and never leave crying out against the prevailing and reigning sins of the times and places where they live till they have cryed them down and take heed they doe not by their silence and connivence make themselves partakers of other mens sins Parents of Children Masters of samilies they are in those lesser societies which they are set to Govern both Kings Priests and Prophets all which Offices they must execute in the Government of their little Common-wealth every one in the severall Sphere wherein he moves and Calling wherein he is set according to his place and power is to endeavour the suppressing of sin the punishment of wickedness and the maintenance and encouragement of true Relion and vertue 4. Here 's occasion and opportunity in such evill times as here we speak of for the Saints and servants of the most high the favourites of Heaven to stand up and to shew themselves to make intercession for the People and Places where they are for the diverting of those Judgements which these sins call for to use the Interest which they have in God to intreat for the rest that God would spare them to stand in the Gap as Moses did to make Atonement for the People and Places where they are as Aaron did to

suffering of God should leade to Repentance But thou out of thine hardness and heart that cannot repent treasurest up unto thy selfe wrath against the day of wrath and the declaration of the righteous judgement of God And what a miserable thing is this for a man to treasure up unto himself wrath against the day of wrath and all his dayes to be carrying fuell to that fire in which himselfe is eternally to burne Lastly From this truth let all men certainly conclude a Judge to come for he that is the Judge of all the world hath said it That he will render to every man according to his works Rom. 2.6 But we see that is not done in this life in this life here are cross dispensations of Providence by which it falls out oft times clean contrary Solomon observed this in his time Eccles 8.14 That there be righteous Men to whom it cometh according to the working of the wicked and there be wicked Men to whom it cometh according to the work of the righteous The royall Prophet David before him observed the same ●sal 73. and complineth of it That the wicked flourish when the righteous perish they live at ease and have all things that their hearts can wish When the righteous are under the Cross and under the Rod chastised every Morning and visited every moment Hic pietatis honos Is this the reward of piety Is this to render to every man according to his works surely no and if things should rest thus then well might Saint Paul complain That of all men the Saints and servants of God were most miserable If in this life onely we have hope then are we of all men most miserable But say not so and think not so but possesse your souls with patience for a time and mark the end and you shall finde it is not so Remember that of St. Paul Acts 17.31 That God hath appointed a day wherein to Judge the world in righteousness by his Sonne Jesus Christ when he will make all these crosse reckonings right and streight wherein he will render tribulation to them that have troubled his and to those that have been troubled rest with him when he will say to all those secure and sensuall sinners as to the rich Epicure in the Gospel Sonnes remember you in your life time received pleasure and these my servants received pain now they are comforted and you are tormented that 's the day wherein this word shall be made good That he will render to every Man according to his works therefore called The day of refreshing Acts 3.19 The day of restauration The day of the righteous judgement of God Rom. 2.5 Gods Judgements are alwayes righteous but they are not alwayes declared to be so but then they shall be declared to be so in the sight of all the world men and Angels and they shall all confesse and say as in the Psalme Verely there is a reward for the righteous doubtless there is a God that judgeth the earth And so we have done with the Prophets second Satis est the second of his enoughs spoken in reference to what he had suffered Satis Tuli I have suffered enough We now pass to the third spoken in reference to what he had done 3. Satis Feci I have done enough And this ariseth out of the first words of the 14. verse I have been very jealous or zealous for the Lord God of Hosts this word is very significant and comprehensive it containes in it much as the faithfull discharge of his duty in the Office of a Prophet whereunto he was called his care to maintaine the true Religion and Worship of God his courage in reproving the sinnes of the ten Tribes even in the greatest Ahab himselfe not excepted his zeale in convincing and silencing the Priests of Baall in those perillous times when they had the protection and countenance of Authority on their sides and much more and that he did not these things coldly negligently perfunctorily but with all earnestness and fervency as the word imports for it comes from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to hisse as Iron doth when being red hot it is dipt in Water such was his activity in the performance of these his duties and fervency of affection Quicquid egit valide egit as the Italians are said to doe The zeale of Gods House did even consume him as another Prophet speaks he did these duties with zeale as hot as fire neither in this testimony did he arrogate to himselfe any thing at all more then due nor commend himselfe above his measure the Story of his Life and Actions evidently declares the truth of what he here asserts That he had been very zealous for the Lord God of Hosts in doing his Will in seeking his Glory and in upholding and maintaining his true Worship against all opposers c. The Inferences from hence are these three The first Those that are for God must doe the will of God The second It is not enough to doe Oper● operato but they must doe it as they should be done in due manner with due affections and they must doe it home or els it will never reach to Elijah's Satis est It is enough The third It shall be their greatest comfort in the evill day that they have done so the illation of these is cleare out of Elijah's Satis est in the Text compar'd with the first words of the 14. v. First Those that are for God must doe the will of God in that Place Calling and Condition of Life wherein God hath set them They must doe his will whether it be Prophet or Apostle or a common Christian Magistrate or Minister or common Beleever every one must in his Place doe the will of God It is our dayly Prayer That his will may be done in Earth as it is in Heaven And in this Prayer Is it fit that we should over-look our selves No as it is our dayly Prayer so it should be our dayly practise to doe his will Not every one that saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven but he that doth the will of my Father which is in Heaven Not the hearers but the doers of the Law shall be justified If you know these things blessed are you if you doe them Christianity calls for Action it is not Logicall but Morall not speculative but practique it consists not in saying nor in knowing nor in professing but in working there must be a Feci in it Regnum Dei non datur otiosis as St. Bernard speaks the Kingdom of God is not given to idle professors and pretenders the Calling of a Christian is a laborious Calling a Building a Husbandry a Warfare all these call to work there is somthing to be done whereby we may bring glory to God good to men and comfort to our own souls The very Heathen were sensible of this That they were bound to doe some good in the Generation wherein