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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	earth_n	hear_v	word_n	5,332	5	4.1933	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49248	The hearers duty a sermon preached at Anne Aldersgate, London at the finishing of the morning execise at that church / by Mr. Christopher Love ...	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.	1653 (1653)	Wing L3160; ESTC R234145	9,410	23

and keep the Word thou shalt not only be a blessed man when thou comest to heaven but thou art a blessed man whilest thou art here upon earth thou hast thy fruit unto holinesse and the end everlasting life Rom. 6.22 5 Observe further it is not said Blessed are they that hear and keep it but Blessed are they that hear the Word of God and keep it For you may hear errours and blasphemies and keep them and be accursed for so doing but blessed are they that hear the Word of God and keep it And this should teach men to take heed how they hear and what they hear and whom they hear and that they hear nothing but that which is the Word of God We read of some that should follow teachers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that bring in damnable heresies 2 Pet. 2.3 many shall follow their pernicious wayes Now such as these are not blessed that hear men that bring in errors and heresies but they are cursed rather 6 Observe further Christ does not say Rather blessed are they that hear my sayings and keep them but that hear Gods Word for had Christ said rather blessed are they that hear my Word the people might have been ready to think that Christ did intail blessednesse only to his own Preaching and to them that did hear Christ personally teach here upon earth but sayes he Blessed are they that hear the Word of God be it either by Paul or Apollos or Timothy or Titus or any Minister of Christ to the worlds end Who ever shall hear the Word of God contained in the Scriptures Preached out of their mouths and shall keep and obey it they are rather blessed then my Mother that bare me is for that only reason of bringing me into the world There is in this very expression a secret glory put upon the Ministers of the Word and this is the reason of that saying in Scripture He that believes shall do greater works then Christ did that is a faithfull Minister should convert more soules then ever Christ did it is true Christ might if he had so pleased have converted every man that heard him but he would not lest men should thereby have undervalued his Ministers and have thought that none could convert souls but Christ and therefore there were more converted by Peter and other Apostles then there were by Christ himself because he might hereby encourage men to the hearing of ordinary Ministers There were some in the Church of Corinth 1 Cor. 1.12 that said some of them We are for Paul others we are for Apollo others we are for Cephas and others we are for Christ Now the Apostle blames them that any of them should say I am of Christ there were some among them that said I care not for hearing of Paul or Apollo or Cophas I will hear Jesus Christ it was a vanity in them to undervalue the Ministry of Paul and Apollo and to cry up Christ it is a sinfull crying up of Christ to cry down Paul and Apollo And so in these times for men to cry up Christ and yet to cry down the Ministry is as sinfull now as it was in the Apostles time and therefore Christ himself was carefull to preserve the honour of the Ministry that was to succeed him to the end of the world Blessed are they that hear the Word of God and keep it 7 It is not said Rather blessed are they for hearing and for keeping the Word but Blessed are they that hear and that keep it Blessed doers never come in with a for but only with an if or a that the Lord does not blesse thee for thy hearing though thou shouldest hear as many Sermons as there are dayes but he blesseth them that hear and that practise what they hear hearing the Word and practising and obeying of it are the qualifications or characteristicall notes of such persons as shall be blessed by Christ but not the causes of their blessednesse And thus I have given you these seven notes from the form of speech Christ here useth I shall now explain the words a little more to you Blessed are they that hear the Word of God and keep it What is ●●●nt here by keeping the Word you hear Ans● You must know there is a double keeping of the Word the one in your memories the other in your practise 1. In our memories this you have mentioned in Luke 2.19 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 conservabat it is said there that Mary kept ad these things and pondered them in her heart Our memories should be like the Arke wherein the pot of Manna was kept the Word of God should be treasured up in our memories as the pot of Manna was in the Arke but this is not the keeping here spoken of for there are many men that keep the Word in their memories and yet never practise it in their lives 2. There is a keeping of the Word in your practise When you have a conscionable care to sway your practise answerable to what you hear and know and this is the keeping that is here meant Blessed are they that hear the Word of God and keep it that is keep it in their practise and make conscience to do what they hear and know The words being thus opened the observation from them will be this That they are rather blessed that hear the Word of God and practise what they hear doct then the mother of Jesus Christ was for bringing him into the world Beloved it is a point that I confesse had it not been in the Bible it had been incredible that those that hear the Word and keep it should be rather blessed then she that bare Christ in her womb That Christ should put a rather blessed upon thee oh man or woman that hearest the Word of God and keepest it then upon the Virgin Mary for bearing Christ into the World what a great priviledge is this Beloved it is worth your noting what a different dialect is used between this woman here in the text and Elizabeth that was cousen german to the Virgin Mary this woman in the text she cries out Blessed is the womb that bare thee and the paps that gave thee suck But Elizabeth she sayes Blessed is she that beleeves if the Virgin Mary had not bore Christ in her heart as well as in her womb she had not been a blessed woman Before I give you the reasons of the point I shall only draw this inference from it to confut the dotage of the Church of Rome that do so much dote upon the Virgin Mary where they have one service for the glory of Christ they have twenty for the glory of the Virgin Mary They would make the world beleeve that she was without sin and if so why should Christ pronounce others rather blessed then she This then is a confutation of the Church of Rome that hold that the Virgin Mary had no originall sin and if so then she should