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world_n	deny_v	live_v	ungodliness_n	2,303	5	11.2667	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85853	Funerals made cordials: in a sermon prepared and (in part) preached at the solemn interment of the corps of the Right Honorable Robert Rich, heire apparent to the Earldom of Warwick. (Who aged 23. died Febr. 16. at Whitehall, and was honorably buried March 5. 1657. at Felsted in Essex.) By John Gauden, D.D. of Bocking in Essex.	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.	1658 (1658)	Wing G356; Thomason E946_1; ESTC R202275	99,437	136

any man or woman but either fear or shame or sense of honour or love or ingenuity or gratitude or hope of reward will restrain and resist even in the greatest paroxy sins of lust and temptations of the Devil If a man ascend not at first to the highest pitch of repentance namely the love of God and goodness or perfect hatred of sin to which special grace must conduct him yet he may come to the first steps and porch of it to deny the ontward acts of ungodliness and the fulfilling of worldly lusts Let a man by this negative part of repentance ceasing to doe evil first make trial in his health to leave any sin to which he hath been addicted and long captivated Let him prepare his heart thus to seek the Lord though with fear and difficulty yet the Lord will meet with such a soul and bring him beyond his feares terrours and conflicts as he did St. Austin to the confines of love through the wilderness of fiery serpents and thirst and weariness to the Land of Canaan to the state of rest in which the soul shall not only enjoy the comfort of Gods love in its delight to doe well and being enamoured with the beauty of holiness but he shall rejoyce to see the blessings of Gods grace following his first weak endeavors and dubious industry in contesting with and conquering temptations and resisting such sins as lay within the power and reach of his soule as he is a reasonable creature and an instructed baptized and inlightned Christian who furnished with such potent and moral means to do his part must not only attend the meanes but apply to doe his duty Nor shall any man have cause to complain of Gods defect as to the completion of his grace who takes care not to turn that grace into wantonness which hath appeared to him and is manifested on purpose to lead us to repentance to teach us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live soberly in this present world Labour to pull up the evil weeds of thy inordinate lusts at least keep them from being rank and luxuriant Tit. 2.11 12. attend also those meanes which are appointed of God in his Church to sow plant and water the good seeds of grace and vertue thou wilt in a short time find those wholsome and lively plants grow in thee to thy great comfort and pleasure Jucundissima est vita in dies sentire se fieri meliorem which consists not only in finding a mans self daily less vain and vicious but more serious and vertuous As it is to covetous men an infinite content to see themselves daily grow richer and to the ambitious man to be daily advancing so to a mind impatient of being poor and base in his sin it is an unspeakable joy to see himself every day mending in his judgment prayers desires designs and hearty endeavours The misery is health and life and liberty and strength and estate and pleasure and pride embase our souls toward God even to far lower degrees of ingratitude and unworthiness then we can in honour or will for shame shew toward men that have any power to punish or oblige us we abhor to seem uncivil uningenuous unthankful insolent presumptuous affrontive to such as are our betters and especially if they have merited many ways well of us only to God we offer such rude and unkind unholy and unthankful measure as we would not to a Prince to a Parent to any Superiour no nor to an equal and inferiour nor a noble enemy being so far from any thing of Christian and true Divinity which is the approportioning of our duty love respect and service to God that we forget all humanity which becoms our selves sinning not only most shamefully impudently against God but also against our own consciences and principles against our soules and bodies too even that honour and decency which we owe to our selves The first step to be a good Christian is to be a good man Right reason is the fair suburbs of Religion once cease to live as a beast without fear or understanding and thou wilt begin to delight in the dignity which becomes a man and a Christian God waits for thy essayes of repentance Isa 30.18 that he may be gracious to thee not only in pardoning thy sins but in speaking peace to thee which is far better to be perceived by thee when thou seest it was not meer slavish fear and the bastinado that compelled thee to look from sin toward God and goodness but something of a rational and religious principle becoming a man and a Christian God never failes there to apply by his special hand the sweet cordials of his love and comforts of his mercies in Christ where we apply the corrasives proper to repress our sins and those bitter pills which work to the purgative part of repentance They that cease to doe evil will so learn to doe good Maxima pars impotentiae fluit ex voluntate Aquinas Isa 1.16 It is not impotencie but unwillingnesse that holds us so long tame captives to grosse sins The least Sympathies of a sinner with his Redeemer as suffering death and agonies inexpressible upon the Cross out of love to his soul and upon the account of his sin to purchase pardon and work his redemption from hell to heaven These reflections will work more kindly upon a mans heart to repentance then all the sicknesses crosses and consternations in the world For there is no compare between a mans sin and his Saviour to those that are not wholly blind dead and buried in sin And can any rational man that takes with patience all those bitter potions those nauseous and painful applications of Physick which are prescribed by Physicians in order to remove dangerous obstructions to purge out noxious humours and correct malignant spirits thereby to prepare the way for recovering of the health of the body Can these severe disciplines for the short and uncertain good of the outward man be endured nay desired yea with great charge be purchased and shall we be impatient of those restraining and healing methods of repentance which possibly are less for a time agreable to our corrupted palats and viciated appetites yet are the meanes prescribed and dispensed by God himself as proper to heal us of our deadly sins for so all are unrepented of and to prepare us for that health which our soules may enjoy by Christ When once they are rid of those scurvy habits or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which customary and prevailing sins bring upon us daily Quò diutius peccamus eò longinquius a Deo abscedimus Greg. disposing us to all evil and indisposing to all that is good However the operation or event may be this I am sure the duty and work of Ministers is not to dispute nor dispense the the secret workings of Gods grace or to search the hidden purpose of Gods will but to declare and