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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	church_n	good_a	great_a	1,778	5	2.6268	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02740	The difference of hearers. Or An exposition of the parable of the sower Deliuered in certaine sermons at Hyton in Lancashire By William Harrison, his Maiesties preacher there. Together with a post-script to the Papists in Lancashire, containing an apologie for the points of controuersie touched in the sermons.	Harrison, William, d. 1625.	1614 (1614)	STC 12870; ESTC S116906	179,719	423

they heare it and learne it and keep it in their hearts that they may order their liues by it and practise it when occasion is offered Happy are all those which thus heare For as Iames saith Iam. 1.25 Who so looketh into the perfect law of libertie and continueth therein hee not being a forgetfull hearer but a doer of the worke shal be blessed in his deede If therefore you would haue your hearing to be acceptable to God and comfortable to your owne soules let it end in obedience Ground that is sowne with good seede though it shoot forth a broad and rancke blade will not content the owner vnlesse it bring forth a good croppe No more can you please the Lord by hearing vnderstanding and professing the word vnlesse therewithall you bring forth fruite of obedidience in your liues All the knowledge and learning that men can possibly haue in any A●te or Science is nothing worth without practise And can you thinke that your knowledge in matters of Religion will profite you any whitte without practise And indeede wee learne no more then wee practise As that Pa●●●● acknowledged who hearing the first Verse of the 39. So●rat hist. lib. 4.18 Psalme I said I will take heede to my wayes least I offend with my tongue confessed that he had not learned it in many yeeres because he had not in many yeres attained to the right practise of it We should be carefull to bring forth these fruits both in respect of God and also in respect of our selues First in respect of God because they serue for his glorie Therefore sayde CHRIST to his Disciples Ioh. 15.8 Herein is my Father glorified that yee beare much fruite And therefore Paul prayed that the Philippians might be filled with the fruites of righteousnesse Phil. 1.11 which are by Iesus Christ vnto the glorie and prayse of God Rom 2.23 Those which glorie in the Lawe and breake it doe dishonour God but they which ●eare it and obey it do honour him If then you hau● any zeale of Gods glorie bring forth these fruites Againe in respect of our selues because wee shall receiue the reward of them These that haue their fruit in holinesse Rom 6.22 shall haue their end in eterna●l life The workes of darkenesse are vnfruitfull workes I●●es 5.11 they bring no good to the authou●s but the works of right●ousnes are fruitfull and procure a great reward to the doers The fruites of grace are the seedes of the fruites of glorie Hee that soweth to the Spirit Gal. 6.8 shall of the Spirit reape eternall life 1. Cor. 15.38 Let vs therefore as the Apostle exhorteth vs not bee wearie of well doing for in due season wee shall reape if wee faint not Let vs be stedf●st and vnmoueable abundant alway in the worke of the LORD forasmuch as wee knowe that our l●bour is not in vaine in the LORD Yea let vs be fruitfull in all good duties as well in those that abridge vs of our flesh he delights and worldly gaine as in other seeing the losse and want of those here shall bee recompenced with greater pleasures and profits in the Kingdome of heauen But take heede least you bee deceiued in iudgeing amisse of these fruites for some haue erred in taking those to be good fruites which are none and those to be none which are 1. These fruites come of the seed and bee of the same kinde and nature with the seede As nothing is good seede but the worde of God so nothing is to bee taken for good fruit but the practise and obedience of the worde And therefore the actes of will-worshippe the obseruations of vnwritten traditions and the practise of mens precepts are not the fruits here spoken of The Lord may say to them that bring foorth such fruite Who required these thinges at your handes These things as the Apostle saith Col. 2.23 may haue a shew of wisedome in voluntarie Religion and humblenesse of minde and in not sparing the bodie nor hauing it in estimation to satisfie the flesh yet they perish with the vse they are after the comandements and doctrines of men and therefore cannot please the Lord. God requires that you who haue beene taught the worde should bring forth the fruites of it and not the fruites of humane traditions If a man sow his fielde with corne and it bring forth more grasse then corne it will not content him the grasse would haue growne there though it neuer had beene sowne with corne In like sort if you be taught the word of God and be more carefull to obserue mans traditions thē Gods truth you shall not please the Lord therby but rather offend him 2. Againe as some haue erred in taking those to be fruits which are not so on the other hand some haue erred in taking those to be no fruits which indeed are good fruits Know you that the practise of euery dutie comanded in the word is good fruit Notwithstanding as there be diuers kinds of seede some of one graine some of another also diuers kindes of fruits some of one graine some of another So there be diners kinds of doctrines diuers kinds of duties And as al fields are not sowne with the same graine but some with one kinde some with another as they will best beare So all doctrines and duties are not imposed and enioyned to all persons but some to one some to another according to their calling place and estate And therefore as all fields doe not bring forth the same graine but euery one that kind wherewith it was sowne So all persons cannot performe the same duties but some one kinde some another according to their estate and calling The Magistrate therefore bringeth forth one kind of fruite the minister another the people another The father one kind the child another the Maister one kind the seruant another The rich one kind the poore another Yet as that is accounted a fruitfull field which bringeth forth a plentiful encrease of that graine wherewith it was sowne though it be not the least graine of all So those persons are fruitfull hearers who carefully performe all such duties as belong to their place state and calling though they be not able to performe such good workes as are accounted the greatest and most profitable Some haue imagined that the founding of Colledges and Schooles erecting of Hospitals building of Churches bountifull almes giuen to the poore and such great good workes which can be performed by a fewe are the onely or chiefest good fruites Though we will not denie but that these be excellent fruits in their kinde if they proceede from a good roote and be directed to a right end yet are there many other good fruites that may be as acceptable to God and as comfortable to the doers Not onely the common duties of all Christians but likewise the particular duties of euery mans speciall calling and estate though it be neuer