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virtue_n	add_v	grace_n	temperance_n	1,517	5	11.5641	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52727	The right way to promote reformation in a sermon preached at Warrington upon the 18th of Octob. 1698, at the appointment of the ministers there met, and at the request of some, published for the use of others / by James Naylor.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1699 (1699)	Wing N333; ESTC R31711	24,280	60

effected by Divine love It is love alone that is ashamed to mention difficulty Nay love welcomes difficulties and pleaseth it self in hard instances of obedience because by them it ●hews more of its real fervency 8 Would you reform your selves and be helpt forward in this so Necessary a Duty Then be often looking to those lively Patterns and examples Set before you in holy Scripture These are of Singular use ●nd advantage to be Seriously considered ●y you for they plainly Shew the work not to be impossible and Impracticable We have the example of some who lived ●n Prophane places have been compassed with all wickedness and yet they have taken care in great measure to keep them●elves unspotted from the Sins of the time and place wherein they lived you read of a Lot in Sodom of a Moses who chose rarher to suffer Affiction with the people of God then to enjoy the Pleasures of Sin which are but for a season esteeming the reproaches of Christ grater riches then the Treasures of Egypt and thereupon refused to be called the Son of Phaorohs daughter Nicodemus a Pharisee and a * Heb. 11 24. 25 26 great man in the Pharisees Councill yet this is a man that feared God and was drawn aside by their examples Could they do thus and cannot we by the same Divine Power and help do the like They were men Subject to like Passions with us they were Flesh and Blood as we are and Naturally weak and infirme as our selves and God is the same in Power and Goodness that he ever was Here we have examples added unto rules and paterns unto precepts How many precepts have we in Scripture to engage us to Chasity Purity Temperance and so briety meekness and patience Faith and Charity to an holy resolvedness of owning God and adhereing to his ways and unweariedness in doeing good and to every other Grace and Virtue And have we not besides others the examples of Joseph for Chastity Moses for Meekness Job for Patience Abraham for Faith Doroas and Cornelius out St. Paul for an unwearied zeal and Timothy for Temper●nce and Sobriety And above all that example of all examples for every thing that is holy pure and Lovely our Lord Jesus Christ Now whence is it that these holy examples are Recorded for us but that we should make it our Serious care and holy ambition to transcribe their virtues to write after these fair Copies they have set us and be followers of those blessed Souls who are now in a state of bliss and Glory 9 That you may go forward with this Blessed work of reformation ever when you begin to be weary or faint in your mindes then look unto Jesus Christ as Crucified for you † Heb. 12. 2. 3. Looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our Faith who for the Joy that was Set before him endured the Cross despised the Shame and is now Set down at the right hand of God in Glory For consider him that endured such Contradiction of Sinners lest ye be weary and faint in your mindes Who knows but our looking up to a Crucified Christ may have the same influence upon us That a look of Christ had upon Peter when he had thrice denied his Master The Apostle then called to mind what Jesus said unto him and he went out and wept Bitterly When we Consider how Christ was wounded for our Transgressions and Bruised for our Iniquities when we consider that we have Crucified the Lord of Life and Glory that our Sins Nail'd him to the Cross wonnded him the Heart and put him to all the Griefe and Paines he underwent how can we be dearly Affected to these vile Bodies or Solicitous for the Pleasing of our Appetites and studious about those things which may be gratefull to the Flesh And as to the impure Pleasures of this world no Consideration can be more Potent to extinguish our desires to them then the Consideration of Christ upon the Cross FINIS BOOKS Printed for Thomas Parkhurst at the Bible and Three-Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers-Chapel FOrty nine Sermons on the whole Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Colossians by Monsieur Daille Minister of the Reformed Church in Paris Folio Sermons and Discourses on several Divine Subjects by the late Reverend and Learned David Clarkson B. D. and sometime Fellow of Clare-Hall Cambridge Folio A Body of Practical Divinity consisting of above One hundred seventy six Sermons on the Catechism of the Assembly of Divisions at Westminster By Tho. Watson formerly Minister of Stephen Walbrook Folio The Support of the Faithfull in 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 or ● Sermon Preach●d in the Wilderness to the poor Protestants in France By M. Baousson an Eminent Minister who was broke upon the Wheel at Montpelier Novem. 6. 1698. Quarto The Fountain of Life opened or a Display of Christ in his Essential and Mediatorial Glory containing Forty two Sermons on various Texts Wherein the Impetration of our Redemption by Jesus Christ is orderly unfolded as it was begun carried on and finished by his Covenant Tranfaction mysterious Incarnation blessed Offices deep Abasements and Supereminent Advancement A Treatise of the Soul of Man wherein the Divine Original excellent and immortal Nature of the Soul are opened its Love and impoved The Existence Operations and States of separated Souls both in Heaven and Hell immediately after Death asserted discussed and variously applied Divers knotty and difficult Questions about departed Souls both Philosophical and Theological stated and determined Reformation of Manners Promoted by a Perfect Abstract of all the Canon and Statute-Laws in Force and Use from the Reformation to this Time Concerning the Observation of the Lord's-Day commonly called Sunday with the like Abstract of the Act made the last Sessions of Parliament Intituled An Act for the more Effectual Suppressing of Blasphemy and Prophaness