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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	earth_n	eye_n	lord_n	5,154	5	3.6240	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44864	David's labour and rest, or, A discourse on Acts XIII, v. 36 preached at the funeral of Mr. Richard Shute, the late Most Reverend Pastor of the congregation of Stow-Market in Suffolk : together with some memorable remarques upon the deceased, for the benefit and use of that parish / by Samuel Hudson ...	Hudson, Samuel, 17th cent.	1689 (1689)	Wing H3264; ESTC R4246	15,092	32

God's Laws And Lastly consider him in his carriage between God and his own Soul He was a good Man and after God's own Heart He preserved a holy aw and regard upon his Spirit Psal 4. so as not presumptuously to sin and offend his Glorious Majesty Id. He lived not at random but communed with his own heart living under a daily sence of his Duty and obligations to God. Psal 90. And so numbering his dayes as to apply his heart to true wisdom These I pass over with all brevity that in the next place I may evidence to you Reasonable The reasonableness of this his Agency for God in his Generation and that upon a twofold account First Upon the Account that serviceableness to God is the end and design of God's bestowing upon us those Talents Abilities and Opportunities we enjoy Doubtless God did never intend them to be laid out in Riot or laid up in a Napkin Neither to wast them or to rust 1 Cor. 12.7 The Candle is not to be put under a Bushel The manifestation of the Spirit so all other good gifts of Health Riches Honour c. are given to every man to profit withal to be useful in our places to God's Glory our own and others good He frustrates God's aim that doth not employ them whatsoever we receive from God we are not to take as Proprietors but as Stewards or as Executors not to embezzle as we please but to employ the bequests according to the will of the Donor Secondly Considering the Account we must expect to give to our great Lord of our Stewardship when he shall summon us to appear which will be a just and strict account Rom. 2.7 who will render to every man according to his works As there is a reward to them who by patient continuance in well-doing seek honour glory and immortal life so there 's indignation and wrath to every Soul who commits evil If we acknowledge our selves Creatures that receive all from God we must expect an appearance If we be more let us shew it in warding off that account if we can But certain it is 2 Cor. 5. We must all appear at the judgment Seat of Christ Therefore it is reasonable we should serve God in our Generation What hath hitherto been insisted upon may be matter of Admonition to us all First Applyed To you my Reverend Brethren of the Clergy to whom God hath committed Curam animarum The charge of Souls that we study this of serviceableness in our places may we be careful to employ our Talents for the designs of God's Glory and others good in our several Stations not sparing our pains for fear of hastening our end Our Lamps can never be better spent or burnt out than in lighting others to Heaven 2 Tim. 4.2 Be we then instant in season and out of season both in Prayers and Preaching rebuking and exhorting with all long-suffering and doctrine If God peradventure will give Grace not only to the acknowledgment but also to the Love of the Truth May we be willing to spend and be spent in the service of so dear a Lord Not forgetting the injunction given us at our Ordination when we had the Holy Bible put into our hands with charge to preach the Gospel And indeed can we be negligent when besides the Precepts to industry we have also the excellent Patterns set before us The holy Angels who are ministring Spirits for the good of the Elect. Such a Cloud of Witnesses before us for the good of others God himself who doth good continually and excerciseth a watchful eye of Providence over his Church Christ who whilst on Earth went up and down doing good and now in Heaven maketh continual intercession for us Or can we give up a better account of our Time and Talents to God What we do for his Glory and the Churches good we may expect God will put upon the file Nor can we serve a better Lord and Master who hath an observant Eye to regard us and hath assured us 1 Cor. 15. ult That if we be stedfast unmoveable and aboanding in the work of the Lord our labour shall not be in vain in the Lord. Secondly Nor are you in your more private Spheres and Capacities to be negligent of this but to be serviceable to God in your Relations In your Families by prudent management of those under your charge preventing as much as in you lies those extravagancies times and places too much abound withal by private admonitions by a holy peaceable and obedient behaviour Walking worthy of the Lord unto all well pleasing And hereby you may give great encouragement and assistance to God's Faithful Ministers not discouraging those who watch for your Souls This is the way to leave our Countrey better to Posterity as the Orator speaks We have all but a little time to work in The time is short John 9.4 we shall soon be at our Journeys end The night approacheth c. And hereby we shall bring comfort to our selves in the way and have hopes in our Death But may we not take up a bitter Lamentation for so great a neglect of this Duty Lament How many prove unserviceable in their Generation or disserviceable either by fomenting needless divisions or a disorderly Conversation who regard more their private Cabins than the publick good who are as Wenns upon the Natural Body draw away the nourishment and cumbersome to be born or like corrupt Stomachs turn all to putrefaction I might here take occasion to rebuke and lament such who serve not God but their own bellies Or serve God no further than will serve their own turns who live as if the great God had sent them hither upon no other Errand than to pamper the Carkass and feed the Brute But I hope better things of many of you and that you are careful not only to be serviceable to God in your Generation but withal to take the true best Canon for your Agency The Will of God which is my next thing to consider The Second General is the Canon of Davids activity The Will of God. I am not unsensible there are who prefix this and make it an Antecedent to what follows reading them thus By the Will of God he fell asleep Beza But besides that this pointing of them is said not to be found in the Ancient Copies It may be considered that thô it be true that all who fall asleep do so by the Will of God yet all do not serve out their Generation by the Will of God which is by way of Eminency recommended to us in Davids Pattern that he eyed his Rule Note the Will of God So that all our serviceableness to God in our generation must be regulated by the Will of God. The Will of God is the only and highest Rule for created Beings to act by But not the Will of God as concealed but as