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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	apostle_n	faith_n	scripture_n	2,207	5	5.6206	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65304	The one thing necessary Preached in a sermon at Pauls, before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, and the aldermen of the City of London, Aug. 31. 1656. By Thomas Watson, minister of Stephens Walbrook, London.	Watson, Thomas, d. 1686.	1658 (1658)	Wing W1134A; ESTC R220893	27,086	82

this diligence into creatures void of reason The Bee is a most industrious creature all of them have their several work to do in the Hive Some of the Bees do trim the honey some work the wax some frame the comb and others lye sentinel at the doore of the Hive to keep out the drone Is the Bee so industrious by the instinct of nature in the working of honey Oh how industrious ought we to be in the working out salvation Use 2. Reproof out of this text as out of a spiritual quiver I may draw several arrows of reproof 1. It reproves them that prefer other things before salvation who labour more for the bread that perisheth than for salvation Their chief care is how to live in the world and get a present subsistence All the labour of a man is for his mouth Eccles. 6. 7. The body shall be tended and looked after which is but the brutish part but the poore soul is kept to hard commons This is for Christians to turne Heathens Matth. 6. for after all these things the Gentiles seek * We must altiora sapere God never sent us hither only to weare fine clothes * or fare sumptuously every day but that we should drive a trade for salvation If this be not done we have shot beside the mark all this while We have but trim'd the Scabbard but let the soul that blade of admirable mettle rust and canker 2. Branch it reproves such as in stead of working stand all the day idle in the vineyard * They have some faint velleities they wish for salvation but do not work The idle Christian is like a Souldier that hath a good mind to the spoile and treasure of a Castle but is loth to put himself to any trouble or hazard men could be content to have salvation if it would like those ripe figs Nahum 3. 12. fall into the mouth of the eater The sluggard puts his hand in his bosome Prov. 19. 24. and is loth to pluck it out though it be to lay hold of a Crown They stretch themselves saith the Prophet upon the beds of Ivory Amos 6. 4. men had rather lye upon a soft bed than go to heaven in a fiery Chariot of zeal * Chrysostom cals idlenesse the root of despaire an idle Christian ravels out his time unprofitably He stands in the world for a cipher be assured God writes down no ciphers in the book of life An idle person is a fit subject for the Devil to work upon We do not use to sow seed in fallow ground but the Devil sows most of his seed of tentation in hearts that ly fallow Hierom observes of the crabfish that when the oister opens her self the Crabfish flings into her mouth a little stone that the oister cannot shut her self again and so the Crab devoures her The Devil like this Crab when he takes men gaping as t is usual for them that are idle then he throwes in his stones of tentation and so devoures them 3 Branch it reproves such as instead of making Religion a work they make it a play these are they that have found out a new way to Heaven who make the way easier than ever Christ made it Such as tell us that there is no Law to a believer and if there be no Law then no Transgression and if no Transgression then there needs no repentance Between the Arminian and the Antinomian it is a very short cut to heaven The Arminian saith we have power of our selves to believe and the Antinomian saith that a believer is not under any Law he is bound to no duty Christ hath done al for him So that by taking this stride he is presently in heaven If this Doctrine be true then every day is a play-day and the Apostle mistook himself when he said work out your salvation 4. Branch It reproves them that instead of working out their salvation do dispute away their salvation 1. Such as dispute against the authority of Scripture and would make our faith a fable 2. Such as dispute against the immortality of the soul and so at once would pull down the court of conscience 3. Such as dispute against the divinity of Christ This may be called indeed the doctrine of Devils * T is a doctrine diametrally opposite to that Scripture 1 John 5. 20. We are in him that is true even in his son Jesus Christ This is the true God Which Text is a Bulwark against the Socinian O! the patience of God that those who open their mouthes blasphemously against Christ the earth doth not open her mouth and swallow them up That such should have any connivance if not more who dare impugne the divinity of the Sonne of God is a lamentation and shall be for a lamentation Some of the best Heathen Writers * affirm that there were Edicts and punishments enacted by Heathen Princes and States in matters of Religion An Heathen would not suffer his god to be blasphemed and shall Christians suffer it Branch 5. It reproves them who instead of pursuing their own salvation pursue their own destruction These are profane persons who go to Hell in the sweat of their browes * 1. Drunkards what they get in the Temple they lose in the Taverne they steep the Sermons they hear in wine Woe to the drunkards in Ephraim Esay 28. 1. I may change the word and say the drunkards of England * There is a kind of wine you call lacrymae which signifies tears Such a wine the damned drink of which is burn'd with the wrath of God and this shall be the drunkards cup 2. Swearers these swear away their salvation The Swearer it seemes hath but bad credit he must stake down an oath or none will trust him but let him remember he runnes his soul into a Praemunire Swear not at all * If we must give an account for idle words shall not idle oaths be put in the count-book When the scab breaketh forth in the lip that man is to be pronounced unclean Every oath is a wound given to the soul and every wound hath a mouth to cry to Heaven for vengeance Some are boil'd up to that height of wickednesse that like mad dogs they flie in the face of Heaven by cursing and let a Minister tell them of their sinne let him but go about to bring them home again as the Law did provide one should bring home his neighbours Asse when he went astray * and they will kick against the reproof Like lime by pouring on the water of a reprehension they are the more enflamed These are upon the spur to damnation but I will not touch this pitch any longer 3. Adulterers the adulterers heart like the swearers tongue is set on fire of hell Creatures void of reason will rise up in judgement against such 'T is reported of the Stork that chaste creature that it confines