Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	charity_n	patience_n	temperance_n	2,284	5	11.1077	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34946	The new paradise of God, or, The regenerate and his fruit set forth in a sermon to the Hertfordshire-citizens at Bow-Church in Cheapside, London, July 2, 1657, being the day of their publick festival / by Isaac Craven ...	Craven, Isaac, d. 1660.	1658 (1658)	Wing C6862; ESTC R7152	19,959	32

earth they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness l Ezek. 14. 14. Well may the good m Non possunt in die judicii aliorum virtutes aliorum vitia sublevare Hier. lives and deeds of others be matter for thy imitation or a relief to thy necessities they cannot answer for thy sinful security Though born of Religious Parents disposed in a Religious Familie seated under a Religious Pastor of acquaintance with religious People all this wil not serve to excuse thy barren profession No the righteousnesse of the righteous shall be upon him and the wickednesse of the wicked shall be upon him n Ezek. 18. 20. and the righteous Judge give every man according to the fruit of his own doings o Jer. 17. 10. Presume not then with those foolish Virgins upon the oyl in others vessels p Mat. 25. 8. Think not saith the Baptist to say within your selves We have Abraham to our Father q Mat. 3. 9. It was but a sorry commendation of Lewis the Eighth of France that he was son to an excellent Father and Father to an excellent son r Isaacsons Chron. ad an 1223. Nam quae non fecimus ipsi vix ea nostra voco s Ovid. Those things which ye have heard and seen in me do saith the Apostle Phil. 4. 9. So the laudable things of others do in your own persons and call them not yours till ye exemplifie them in your practise For that 's the first importment of Fructum suum a personal fructification He brings forth his own fruit 2. It imports a genuine correspondencie his fruit that is secundum speciem suam according to his kinde That as the Earth was appointed to bring forth the Fruit-tree yielding fruit after his kinde t Gen. 1. 11. So a good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth good things saith our Saviour u Mat. 12. 35. And the wisedom that is from above is full of mercy and good fruits w Jam. 3. 17. 'T is true the choisest Saints upon Earth have their aylings their failings In many things we offend all x Jam. 3. 2. Not a just man upon Earth that doth good and sinneth not y Eccl. 7. 20. Nor from the first transgression of the first man can it be said of any save Him who is God and Man non nvoit pecatum he knew no sin Howbeit the sincere Believer is in a different habitude to the products of Corruption and the proper fruits of Regeneration Consider him according to the New Creature or as he is born of God 't is plain upon the Tables 1 John 2. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin Non facit peccatum quia patitur potiùs saith Bernard z De nat dignit Divin amoris cap. 6. He is rather passive then active in the businesse of sin He acknowledgeth to his grief peccatum inhabitans the sin that dwelleth in him a Rom. 7. 17. 24 but he cannot own the works thereof as his genuine and proper fruit b Rom 7. 15. 17. No that 's of another nature Rom. 7. 25. I my self saith the Apostle serve the Law of God That 's Repentance and Mortification and Newnesse of life Rom. 6. That 's vertue and temperance and patience and godlinesse and brotherly-kindnesse and charity 2 Pet. 1. And these not after the rigour of the Law in the perfect performance of duty but in the truth and sincerity of a Christians desires in the uprightnesse and integrity of his will and purpose in his careful pursuances and daily endeavors after all goodnesse and righteousnesse and truth For in these consists the fruit of the Spirit Eph. 5. 9. And in the practice of a sound Believer these only appertain to Fructum suum to his suitable and proper fruit He is born of the Spirit and to answer his spiritual birth is careful to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit Now the due consideration hereof as it should humble the holiest in the consciousnesse of whatsoever unkindlike and unanswerable fruit work them to a self-confusion for the surreptitious inordinancies of the Old Man continue them in a stedfast reliance upon the righteousnesse of the Tree of Life So it may serve to arm them against the proposals of the World and provoke them to an Examination and Trial of their fruit For 1. Whereas the World would alienate us from the vertues and life of God and would gain our consent to bring forth heterogeneous fruit c Qui genitoris opera non facit negat genus Chrysol Ser. 123. lust of the eye alledging It will be for your Profit lust of the flesh suggesting It will be for your Pleasure pride of life pretending It will be for your Advancement the truly regenerate Soul may hence be sufficiently furnished and prompted to answer That great God whose I am by his grace and whom I serve with my Spirit hath not been as a Wilderdesse or barren heath unto me but having mercifully chosen me out of the Commons of the World he hath planted me in his inclosed Garden ingraffed me into a Noble Stock supplied me with Rivers of Living Water And is it equitable after all this to yield him no better fruit Is this correspondent to the nature of so high a Calling Is it Fructus meus a kindlike fruit consentaneous to a spiritual state As Nehomiah d Neh. 6. 11. Should such a man as I flee No the time past of my life may suffice me to have wrought the will of the Gentiles e 1 Pet. 4. 3. to have brought forth la●ruscas four grapes those wilde fruits of the Old Man Haec vita aelios mores postulat It must be otherwise now that I am planted in the house of the Lord In the words of Leo f Serm. 1. in Nativ Dom. Agnosce O Christiane dignitatem tuam c. Acknowledge O Christian thine own dignity and being made partaker of the Divine Nature return not into thy former vilenesse by a degenerate conversation But then In the second place whereas there may be much mistaking in the account of kindlike fruit a way that may seem right unto a man when the end is the wayes of death g Pro. 16. 25. It therefore neerly concernes us to search and try our wayes h Lam. 3. 40. and every man to prove his own work i Gal. 6. 40. For the fruit which thou mayst think to be right say it be of likely appearance yet if destitute of divine allowance either expresse or by derivation what can it be deemed but either the fruit of an ignorant phantasie or an arrogant superstitious vanity And thy greatest diligence in bringing it forth only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a laborious losse of time Again admit it be of Gods commanding yet if it arise not from a Supernatural root from a Principle of special grace from faith working by love