Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	order_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	10	3	8.5287	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44490	The brazen serpent, or, God's grand design viz., Christ's exaltation for man's salvation, in believing on Him, or, The right way to regeneration ... / by J. Horn ...	Horn, John, 1614-1676.	1673 (1673)	Wing H2794; ESTC R5935	306,005	472

is able to Succour us because one with God the Son of God one in whom God and his Fulness gives forth himself to us Should we neglect and flight him and look to any other thing or person from him As that in Psal 121.1 may be read and is read in the Margin Should I look to the Hills and Mountains From whence then cometh my help My help cometh from the Lord who made the Heaven and the Earth Not from the Hills and Mountains but from the Lord Jehovah the Lord who made the Heavens and the Earth Should not a man look to his God Should a man seek for the Living to the Dead Isa 8.19 Is it not better to search and try our ways and turn to the Lord lifting up our heart with our hands yea our souls and our eyes to him in the Heavens Lam. 3.40 41. Psal 25.1.15 and 123.1 2. But Oh! How apt are we to look for help from trouble but not to consider that our sins are the causes of our troubles and so neglect to seek to be delivered from them Or if we seek deliverance from them then yet how many Thirdly Look to false ways for deliverance from sin and trouble too Running like the Heathens to false Gods or as some Jews to the true God by false ways not by Jesus Christ the Son of man and his Death and Sacrifice in and through which our way lies to God and access to and acceptance with him may be had of us But we men are apt either 1. With Israel of old to look to the Altars and Groves the works of their hands as in Isa 17.7 8. Where he saith in That day a man shall have respect to his Maker and his eyes shall have respect to the holy One of Israel and he shall not look to the Altars the works of his hands neither shall he respect that which his Fingers have made either the Groves or the Images Implying that that was now their way of sinning that they looked in a Religious way by Idolatrous and Superstitious sacrifices and observancies to pacifie Gods anger appease his wrath and obtain his favour as in all Nations generally the Heathen did by their Idolatrous Sacrifices and Ceremonies seek to please their gods and divert their anger and by such superstitious and heathenish ways too many yet conceit they may do it with the true God doing that to the Lord which the Heathen use to do to their gods contrary to the express Command of God Deut. 12.30 31. Or else 2. With Israel in latter times after that being punished for their gross Idolatries they were reformed from them For then they looked to the works of their own hands in another sense which they in those former times under any Reformation in their better Kings days were apt also to do they used to look to the Temple and to cry The Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord are these And to their Sacrifices Oblations Burnt-offerings solemn Meetings many Prayers Sabbaths and the like And to hope for Deliverance from Sin and Judgments upon such accounts as these as in Isa 28.14 15. and 66.1 3. Jer. 7.4 5 6 c. Rom. 9.31 32. and 10.1 2 3 Luke 18.9 11 12. And are there not many now that look either to things as bad as the Idolatrous Sacrifices and superstitious Groves and Altars of the Gentiles and Gentilizing Jews Some that look for help pardon and deliverance from wrath from the Pope and his Ministers their Masses Dirges Pilgrimages Invocation of Saints and such like Fopperies And by things too much of Kindred to them where the Pope is rejected as by their saying their Prayers getting the Priests Absolution observing church-Church-orders c. And those who are reformed yet more from those things do they not come up too much to the zealous Jews and Pharisees in looking to their Orders Covenants Zeal Profession Ordinances Duties and many the like things never Crucified for them but to him who died for them and into whose Name they were Baptized they look not or look too little 3. So also they who look to one another but not to Jesus who think this or that Religious man or these or those good People shall help and succour them Like the foolish Virgins who neglecting Christ and the getting Oyl in their Vessels from him while they had opportunity looked that the wise Virgins in their defects should supply them Mat. 25.8 but their hope and expectation failed them verse 9. To such it may be said as old Jacob said to his Sons when they were like to famish for want of Bread corn Why look ye one upon another Behold I have heard that there is Corn in Egypt get ye up thither and buy that ye may live and not die Gen. 42.1 So may we say Behold we have heard that there is Grace in Christ Jesus there is Salvation in him Redemption in him Forgiveness of sins and Eternal life in him all things that we need in him c. Let us arise therefore and go up to him or look up to him and Buy of him Gold tried in the fire that we may be inriched and White Raiment that we may be clothed and our Nakedness may be covered and our Shame may not appear If we look to other things they will fail us and be like those deceiful Brooks whereof Job speaks and like to his Brethren compared to them Job 6.15 16 19 20 21. Streams which pass away what time they wax warm they vanish or are cut off in the heat they are extinguished out of their place the Troops of Teman looked the Companies of Sheba waited for them they were confounded because they had hoped they came thither they were ashamed Whereas Christ is the Fountain of living Waters and that Spring of Waters whose Waters fail not Jer. 2.13 John 4.14 The remedy of Gods providing for and commending to us the sure Foundation of Gods Laying on whom whosoever believeth shall not be ashamed Isa 28.16 4. They also who trust in themselves that they are Christs who trust in or look to their making mention of Christ their Preaching or Prophecying in his Name and having success therein so as to do many wonderful works and to have the Spirits subject to them thinking thence to find safety and deliverance from their sins and sorrows from wrath and judgment but look not to the Son of man so as to be healed of their sins by him It 's not any mans Acts about Christian Profession or Religion but Christ himself delivered up of God for our Sins raised again for our Justification and Exalted and Glorified of him and so that Grace in him that is to be Eyed Looked and Depended on by us for all Grace and Blessing yielding up to be Saved and Healed thereby as in believingly minded it worketh in us and so He that looketh into the perfect Law of Liberty and continues therein being not a

happinesse as without whom the best are too bad to be saved from wrath and admitted into the Kingdom of God There being no other name given under heaven either of thing or person whereby we must be saved but only his Act 4.11.12 and in and by whom the poorest and meanest sinfulnesse and unworthi●est may and shall be saved believing on him And indeed this Phrase That whosoever believeth on him may or should not perish c. Shews both a necessity for the best to believe on him as implying that none is sufficient to keep himself from hell and destruction or to climb and ascend up to heaven and happinesse but need to be saved from the one and advanced to the other by him in taking heed to leaving and relying on him and so only and no other way the wisest strongest and most righteous even by his wisdom righteousness mercy and grace may be saved and also that by him the worst and unworthiest believing on him may be saved and live such the sufficiency and perfection of grace that is in him through his sufferings sacrifice mediation Therefore I say neither are we to lift up our selves in our selves or in any thing of or after the flesh to the neglecting him as if we were therein or therfore Lords and need not come or be beholden unto him or as if we had lesse need of living in or depending on him nor yet so to grieve over or discourage our selves by our unworthiness or any poverty or sinfulness in or of our selves as if the grace in him was too scant●y to help or save us But knowing his sufficiency for all and freeness and openness to all cleave we with purpose of heart to him believing on him and not fearing But again 2. From the description given in the former Observation of this believing on the Son of man we may further admonish and be admonished To take heed of resting in a false and pretended believing on him which is not indeed and in truth the believing on him here signified A man may think himself to be something therein when he is nothing and so deceive himself And many so deceive themselves the heart being deceitfull above all things 1. By taking an external profession of the faith or of believing in God and on Jesus Christ his Son for a real and hearty believing on him Many professe themselves to know God who yet indeed deny him And many professe to believe on Jesus Christ who yet in their lives proclaim that they neither know him nor regard him much lesse have their faith in and dependance on him Tit. 1.16 Not every one that saith to or of Christ Lord Lord is such a one as believes on him so as to be saved from perishing and to have or obtain eternal life or enter into Gods Kingdome But they that do the will of God that sent him that so believe the Testimony of God concerning him as indeed to receive him for their Lord and depend on and obey him Matth. 7.21 22. Many this way deceive themselves indeed no evill liver no fornicator no blasphemer no drunkard no coveteous person or the like believe on Jesus Christ however they may say They believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord for if they did they might have eternal life and so enter Gods Kingdom whereas the Scripture saith and often assures us that no such ill liver shall do so 1 Cor. 6.9 10. Gal. 5.19 20 21. Ephes 5.3 4 5 6. Rev. 21.8 22.15 2. By taking every such profession of the faith of him and of believing on him as in which men preach and professe him and find some good effects follow thereupon among men to be the believing on him here spoken of Whereas many shall say in that day when Christ comes Have we not preached in thy name and in thy name cast out devils and done many wonderful works To whom yet Christ shall say and professe I never knew you depart from me ye workers of iniquity Matth. 7.22 23. Many may see and say many excellent things of him as Balaam did of Israel and do many things in his name as Judas did and yet not be believers on him because not obeyers and followers of his heavenly Counsels and instructions 3. By taking any zealous way of profession of Religion and care to perform and practice duties for a believing on Christ whereas there may be much zeal and strictness in profession and for performing duties when yet Christ is not known or understood and his grace not perceived or received but opposed much lesse lived and depended on but the life of mens own hands found and lived upon As it 's said Isai 57.10 As the Jews who were Zealous for the Ordinances of Moses and the external and and lighter matters of the law were yet ignorant of and neglected faith judgement mercy and the love of God and such like greater and weightier matters of the Law Matth. 23.23 Luk. 11.42 So may it be and is with many Christians by profession Many of them that are strict and zealous for outward Observations Ordinances Fastings Prayers Walkings Sabbaths Yea as Paul in his Pharaisisme was blamelesness of conversation in things commanded for matter of practice among men and in Religious exercises yet are void of the true knowledge and faith of Christ and the great things of his grace so as not to live thereupon Many in whom their zeal and frames and works spring not from faith in Christ but from other principles as a desire to be saved with a thought that they must be so upon the merit or account of their own good works as is to be seen among many Papists and others and such may be said to be of works rather then of faith and so far from being heirs of eternal life that they are under the curse Gal. 3.10 11 12. Rom. 4.4 4. By taking a faith or dependance partly on Christ and partly on other things or objects joyned with Christ as grounds of their hope and confidence to be this believing on him to which the promise is made as Christ and the Law Christ and the Pope or other men Christ and riches Christ and our own wisdome and policy c. Thus was it with the Galathians in their perverted state they joyned Moses and Christ together law and faith together as the ground of their hope and expectation Gal. 1.6.7 and 3.2 3. and 4.9 10 11. And such is the evil of men when they make their own righteousness good frames and doings a ground of their confidence with Christ and not Christ only the root and spring of all their goodness and ground of their confidence And so it 's an evil of like nature to trust in uncertain riches the friendship of this World the authority and power of man or our own policies yea it s a sin when but for a comfortable livelihood or