Selected quad for the lemma: fire_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	jesus_n	lord_n	obey_v	2,390	4	8.2259	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45497	Teleiosis, or, An exercitation upon confirmation the ancient way of completeing church-members ... : to which are annexed some directions for the putting of it into practice ... / by Jonathan Hanmer ...	Hanmer, Jonathan, 1606-1687.	1657 (1657)	Wing H653; ESTC R19567	114,268	234

ignorance or negligence of those that should have done otherwise unlesse upon due trial you have approved your selves meet Had they eyed as they ought and kept close to the rule that should have guided them herein you might haply have come to see your condition to be otherwise then you deemed it to be and have entertained other thoughts of your selves then you did which might have proved of no small advantage unto you So that if things be duly weighed and considered you will say That they did you an injury rather then a courtesie in dealing with you as they did and be so far from liking and allowing of such a course whereby you were occasioned to sooth your selves in a state that was neither good nor safe that you will see cause of blaming them for their unfaithfulness in a matter of great concernment and to blesse God for those that shall endeavour the rectifying of your mistakes and to let you know that the case is far otherwise with you then you imagined it to be And as for the priviledges that you injoyed viz. the Ordinances belonging unto compleat members only alas what could more indanger your precious souls you being not rightly qualified for them For instance 'T is true that nothing is more sweet and refreshing then the Lords Supper to a gracious soul drawing nigh to the Lord therein as he ought for therein he feeds and feasts upon the Lord Jesus and all his fulnesse unto eternal life But now the unworthy person presuming to approach unto and partake of that Ordinance in stead of Blisse 1 Cor. 11.29 meets with his Bane eating and drinking Judgment to himself and becoming guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. And so according to the Prophet Davids imprecation the Table of the Lord proves a snare before him Psal 69.23 and that which sbould have been for his Welfare a trap and ruine to him And now tell me Is this a priviledge worth the pleading and contending for Object 4. You conceive it will be a disparagement and disgrace unto you to submit unto such a course whereby you should discover your ignorance in the very principles of Religion having lived so many years under the Gospel Solut. And will you to avoid this seeming inconvenience expose your selves to inevitable perdition You have hitherto been estranged from the life of God through the ignorance that is in you and can you be contented to live and die so and lose the fruition of the Lord for ever rather then men should know your condition to be such as indeed it is If the fear of a little supposed disgrace from men and those but a few that you live and converse withall of such force as to cause you to your Eternal hazard to neglect a necessary duty Should not a destre to avoid utter shame and confusion of face before all men and angels be much more prevalent with you to neglect no lo ger but speedily to set about it Do but seriously weigh the words of the Apostle Paul and then say whether you can brook to continue in your grosse ignorance and blindness to avoid any thing that may possibly betide you here below 2. Thes 17 8 9 The Lord fesus saith he shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the glorious Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ the inseparable concomitant of such ignorance Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the Glory ef his power See here ignorance of God is as dangerous and destructive as disobedience to the Gospel which is the consequent of it and goeth accompanied with it Prov. 1912 For without knowledg the heart is not cannot be good and if that be naught which is the spring and root of all your actions surely your lives must needs be so whatever your fancies and pretences may be to the contrary You would account it and iustly so a great discovery of weakness and folly in any one that should chuse to conceal a grief or disease in the body though mortal least it should be commonly known from the Chirurgeon or Physician and refuse to put himself into their hands for the cure of it and to prevent the mischief that else would certainly insue upon it And are not they much more blame-worthy that shall do so by their spiritual maladies which threaten the life of their far more precious souls the Eternal ruine whereof must needs inevitably follow unlesse some effectual course be taken for the healing of them You plainly see and will readily confesse the great folly of the one Oh! be not guilty of greater in the other The longer you have continued in such a condition under the Gospel the more haste ought you to make in the use of all good means to get out of it And seeing the Lord hath spared you all this while and winked as it were at the time of your former ignorance Let the consideration of this his goodnesse and forbearance now at lenth lead you to repentance Account the long-suffering of the Lord Salvation Rom 2.5 2 Pet. 3.15 Piscator i.e. Ad salutem vobis conducere to conduce to your Salvation the gracious end of God herein and the use that you ought to make of it being this that men should not perish 2 Pet. 3.9 1 Tim. 2.4 but be saved by coming to repentance and the knowledge of the truth 2. Another duty incumbent upon the people is this Diligently to labour after knowledge in the principal doctrines of religion especially for without your own industry added there unto the pains of the Ministry will but little profit you You have seen the absolute necessity of it in order both to your own eternal good and also to the Churches satisfaction for your admission to full membership Wisdom in this regard is the principal Pro. 4.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or first thing to be looked after therefore get wisdom and with all your getting get understanding and if accordingly you cry after knowledge and lift your voice for understanding if you seek her as silver and search for her as for hid treasures then shall you understand the fear of the Lord Prov. 2.3 4 5 Prove 3. ●3 and find the knowledg of God And happy is he that finds it Which that you may do your duty is 1. To attend and watch diligently at Wisdoms gate Prov. 8.34 Lavater in loc Wilcoxe and daily i. e. often to wait at the posts of her door Postes sunt Sapientiae doctores These Posts are the teachers of Wisdom As painful Scholars watching the School doors that they may be first in upon the opening of them that you may hear her voice by her Messengers speaking unto you whose instructions you ought readily to receive and carefully to lay up making your hearts the store-houses of the word