Selected quad for the lemma: hand_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	jesus_n	lord_n	soul_n	6,013	5	5.0438	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76168	Englands warning-piece. To all sleepy secure sinners, Or, The true Christians subjection to Christ as their King and Saviour. Plainly and powerfully setting forth to the heart and conscience, of all careless secure sinners, their great folly and madness in refusing to submit to Jesus Christ as he is tendered in the Gospel. : With many cogent arguments and reasons to perswade all persons to come into Christ for salvation, now in the day of their visitation, before the fire of his wrath be kindled upon them, and the gates of Heaven be shut against them, and they perish for ever. : With some rules and directions how we may attain true happiness. / Gathered from the painful labours of Mr. Richard Baxter, being the substance of a sermon ; Lycensed and entred according to order.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1678 (1678)	Wing B1258A; ESTC R172645	9,382	24

perish for ever do thou therefore cast thy self into his Arms and venter thy everlasting state upon him and trust him with thy Soul and fetch all thy help and healing from him dost thou so build upon his promise of an happiness hereafter that thou canst let all go here and drink of His cap and be Baptised with his Baptism and lose thy life upon his promise that thou shalt save it why this is kissing the hand of Christ Beloved I profess to you all in the name of the Lord that it is not your bold and confident affirming that you love Christ which will serve your turn when Christ shall judge he will search deep and judge according to truth in the inward parts How many thousand will perish then as his utter Enemies that verily thought themselves his friends How easily might they now find their mistake would they now examine themselves Oh try try Sirs before God try you judge your selves before Christ jugeth you it would grieve a mans heart that knows what it is to love Christ to beleive and be subject to him to see how rare these are in the world Vse the 2d It is time to turn my speech to Exhortation and oh that you would encourage me with a Resolution to obey my business is as a Herauld to proclaim the Lord Jesus your King and Saviour and to know whether you will acknowledge and take him to be so or not and to perswade you to kiss the Son least his wrath be kindled against you you will say this is a common Errand I know the name of Christ is common the Swearer doth swear by it the Begger begs by it the Charmer puts it into his Charms and the Jester in his Jests and many Papists and ignorant Protestants do mutter it oft-times over their Prayers but who trembleth at or triumpheth in it who maketh it his fear and joy and give up their souls to be governed by Christ I do hear solemnly proclaim to you that the Lord Jesus will not be put off with complements he cares not for your meer name of Christianity your Cap or Knee if your Heart be not set upon him thou art none of his you must depend on him alone for Soul and Body or never look for mercy at his hands He is the Author of Eternal salvation to them only that obey him Hebrews 5 chap. 9 ver What say you sirs in answer to my message what do you resolve upon shall Christ be your love and your Lord or not will you kiss the Son or will you slight him still methinks you should easily be resolved and say Away with Credit Plcasure Profits away with these bewitching Delights and vanities Christ has bought my heart and he shall have it he is my Lord and I will be ruled by him I perswade you not to Opinions or Factions but to be with all your heart for Christ as ever you look Christ should be for you to love him as he that hath bought you from everlasting wrath and dyed to save you from Eternal Burnings to lay hold of him with most earnest affectionate Apprehension as a man that is ready to be drowned would do upon a bough or the hand of his friend that would pull him to the shore to do nothing till thou hast asked counsel at his word these are the things I exhort you to these are things that Christ expects from you Think of what I say and weigh it if I speak not Truth and Reason reject it and spare not but if it be and thy Conscience tell thee so take heed then how thou dost neglect it or reject it least thou be found a fighter against the Spirit of God I will draw these considerations only from the Text. 1. Thou art else a Rebel against thy Soveraign Lord this I gather from the command in my Text and the whole Psalm God hath given thee into the hands of his Son and made him Lord and King of all and commanded all to submit to him and accept of him who can shew such right to rule thee as Christ can do he is thy maker and so is not Satan he dearly bought thee so did not the world 1 Pet. 1 ch v. 18. Thou wast not Redeemed with Silver and Gold and corruptible things from your vain conversations I make this challenge in the behalf of Christ let any thing in the world step forth and shew a better Title to thee to thy heart and to thy life than Christ can shew then let them take thy heart but I know thou canst not but confess it yet will thou not yield him thy Love and chiefest Obedience out of thy own mouth then art thou condemned as a wilful Rebel 2. To deny thy Love and Subjection to Christ is a most barbarous unkindness a sinner can be guilty of did he pitty thee in thy lost Estate and take thee up when thou wast wounded in the way and make thee a Plaister of the blood of his heart and is this thy requital did he come down from Heaven to Earth to seek thee when thou wast lost and take upon him all thy Debt and put himself into the Prison of the world and flesh and paid for thy folly born the wrath of God which thou must have suffered for ever and doth he not deserve to be entertained with most affectionate respect but with a few cold thoughts instead of hearty love and a few formal words instead of Worship Oh let the Heavens blush at such ingratitude Me thinks you should rather wonder with your selves that ever Christ should give you leave to love him and say Will the Lord eudure such a wretch to kiss him will he suffer himself to be embraced by those arms which hath been so often defiled by the imbracements of sin will he honour me so highly as to be his Subject and Servant to be guided by such a blessed and perfect Law and doth require no harder conditions then these for my Salvation Take then my Heart O Lord it is only thine and oh that it were better take it and make it better the Spear hath made a passage to thy heart O let thy spirit upon me make a passage to mine I dare challenge Earth and Hell and all the Enemies of Christ in both to shew the least hurt that ever he caused to the Soul of a beleiver or wrong to the soul of any and must he have such a stir to do thee good must he beseech thee to be happy and follow thee with intreaties and yet art thou like a stock that neither hears nor feels nay dost not thou murmur against him as if he would do thee a mischief Ah foolish Sinner it is sin would hurt thee and not thy Saviour why dost not thou strive against that it is the Divel that would destroy thee yet dost not grudge thy obedience to him be judge thy self whether this be equal dealing Sinner I beseech thee in behalf of thy poor Soul