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world_n	soul_n	whole_a	worth_a	1,913	5	9.2236	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17575	An exhortation of the particular kirks of Christ in Scotland to their sister kirk in Edinburgh	Calderwood, David, 1575-1650.	1624 (1624)	STC 4358; ESTC S116199	9,860	24

their owne cunning to colour the matter and pulled forth their eyes least they should see that God against whom they fought as men deale now with Christ and the puritie of religion The more knowledge and the lesse conscience we finde in anie age we may look for the fouler errors and the fairer covers Oppose also to that the Christians text Matth. 16. 26. and with elevation of heart think seriously what hath a man profited if he should gaine the whole world and lose his owne soule or what can a man giue in exchange for his soule 1. the immortal soule of man may be losed 2. the gaining of the world is the ordinarie cause of the losse of the soule 3. it is extreame follie to loose the soule for gaining of the world for first it is an unprofitable gaine what hath a man profited and next it is an unreparable losse what can a man giue in exchange for his soule so that the losse of one soule is the eternall losse of that which is more worth then the whole world 4. he maketh themselues judges and demandeth them for their farther conviction But in this lieth the deceit that while men to their own conviction acknowledge it to be madnesse to loose their soules for the world they obserue not or will not suffer themselues to obserue the secret but sure conjunction betwixt the sinful courses they betake them selues to for gaining the world and betwixt the losse of their soules Purge your affections of this particular feare and quit your selues of such things as woe your flesh and court your carnal senses Covetousnes is the roote of all evil ease savoureth not the things that be of God but those that be of men and whosoever shall be ashamed of Christ and his words in this adulterous and sinfull generation of him also shall the Sonne of man be ashamed when he cometh in the glorie of his father with his holie angels Thirdly when yee haue happilie removed the world and all worldlie tentations from betwixt your eye the cause in hand for your resolution yee neede not to search after curiosities of learning nor wander after uncertainties of opinions but limitting and directing your sight 1 Looke first upward to the glorious majestie of God who is present at his owne worship neither accepteth nor blesseth a worship that is not directed by his own word thinke as in his sight whether yee may looke for a more sensible testification of his comfortable presence in your soules at the celebration of the Lords supper when ye draw neerest to Christs institution or when Christs gesture of sitting is abolished as common profane the Antichrists gesture of kneeling is enforced as more humble and holy the table of the Lord either taken away or turned into a cupboord our eating drinking into a minsed and pinched tasting our conjunct communicating into a confused disputation our sacramental breaking in the time of the action into a formal carving before the action our kindly and christian distribution into a steward like dispensation the enunciatiue words of the institution into an idle petition and repetition and our spirituall exhortations according to Christs example into a comfortlesse deadnes silence Such Churches as never saw better may haue some comfort in this but for you who haue seene the glorie of the first temple in this land and who call to minde with what heauenly meditation liuelie affection large consolation and with what spirituall resolution yee were wonte to be filled It is a wonder when yee see this new ministration with your eyes that your hearts melt not within you that your flesh crieth not out for the living God that yee weepe not with a louder voice then the voice of their joy who shoute now having gotten the arke of the Lord upon a cart that ye prefer not the poorest parish in the land with the libertie of Christs institution to your owne tabernacles and courts that of late were so amiable that your soules longed and fainted for them 2 Looke back and see how the house of God was builded and the headstone put upon it by Gods owne hand to the admiration of the christian world about us what unitie of ministers authoritie of assemblies order of ministrie puritie of external power of internall worship what zeale and indignation against all impietie and iniquitie And againe by what methods and machinations haue succeeded for unitie division for authority anarchie for order hierarchy for puritie of worship antichristian ceremonies for power of godlines superstition profanitie and for zeale and indignation nothing but lukewarmnes and toleration In all these considerations as this nationall kirk was eminent aboue other nations so were yee aboue us all as farre as in civill dignitie And shall we liue to see the day when for the confused feare of an uncertaine losse our Ierusalem shall become Romish our Philadelphia become Laodicea our fountain be turned into a puddle our glorie become our shame our Najoth our beautie turn to be our blemish our lothing our deformitie Looke back also to the course of his blessings upon our reformation the perpetual course of his judgments upō our defection We know the power of the Lords particular providence in al the works under the sunne should haue learned against the atheisme of the times to haue referred notable judgments to their own procuring causes The darknes lightning thunder haile rain at the ratificatiō of these rites that now molest us the inundations the hunger and cold the sicknesses and death since can not yet be worn out of our senses shal be kept in memory by the generations after us Looke again back compare the many reverend assemblies which we haue kept with that one new meeting at Perth trie the spirits The place of the 95 Psal. is impertinent neither can it be a commandement for at sometimes it is not lawfull to kneele before him no man wil say that we are commanded so oft as we worship to kneel The second and third reasons in the act beside other absurdities do charge the Lord Iesus Christ with his disciples al the kirks that haue used Christs gesture after him with an unreverent behaviour in a holy action And whether the memorie of by past or the multiplicatiō of present superstition which is the fourth pretence in the act might not haue giuen a better narratiue for the contrarie conclusion the times haue given verdict 3 Looke inwards into your owne heart that you may finde the testimonie of a good conscience one sure note whereof is this that in cases cōtroverted a good conscience taketh ever the surest and safest side Perjurie is a hainous sin odious to the world Idolatrie is against the first commandements of the first table is no lesse abominable in the sight of the alseeing jealous God then is adulterie to a jealous husband whē it is committed