Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	command_v	faith_n	gospel_n	6,285	5	7.3074	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48382	Stephanos pistou, or, The true Christians character & crown described in a sermon at the parish church of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, July 15, 1669 at the funeral of Mr. William Cade, deputy of that ward / by John Lake.	Lake, John, 1624-1689.	1671 (1671)	Wing L198; ESTC R26150	20,722	50

them Thus the duty of the Text looks on every man alike and is his faithful Monitor He may hear this as a voice behind him Is 30.21 saying This is the way walk in it when he turneth to the right hand and when he turneth to the left One man cannot be as enlarged in his piety as diffusive in his charity as useful in his place as another of greater abilities and opportunities but he may and must be as faithful in his measure Some other duties have their peculiar objects and appropriations to times persons places with the like but faithfulness is an ingredient to all and gives them acceptance Our Saviour putteth wise and faithful servant together Matth. 24.45 good and faithful servant together Mat. 25.21 and as he is not a wise who is not a good so he is neither wise nor good who is not a faithful servant also St. Paul recounts this as a special mercy from God to be found faithful 1 Cor. 7.25 and it is the Crown of Antipas his Cross that he was Christs faithful Martyr Revel 2.13 He that without this giveth his body to the fire only taketh Hell by violence and the first death consigneth him only to the second We call Christ Lord and Master and we say well for so he is but it is not enough to treat him with this easie formality and to pass such cheap complements upon him unless we pay him that fidelity which is due from servants to their Master and that humble and loyal alliegeance which is due from subjects to their sovereign Lord. God is faithful for his part 1 Thes 5.24 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Faithful is he that hath called you who also will do it The Gospel is faithful for its part 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Tim. 2.11 12. This is a faithful saying that if we suffer with him we shall also reign with him Christ is faithful for his part 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The faithful and true witness Rev. 3.14 or as he is also stiled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he that saith Amen to both And accordingly those that are or expect to be with Christ must be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rev. 17.14 called and chosen and faithful not called and chosen only for this every one will arrogate and assume and in the want of other evidence vote himself so but faithful also and herein they approve themselves called and chosen because they have obtained mercy to be Faithful Yet men are not with more ease called and chosen than admitting their own conceits they are faithful too And in their sense of it they are faithful more than enough So faithful that they can at once provoke Gods justice and trust in his mercy and rely upon Christs merits without doing any thing that he commands So faithful that they can at once sin and saint themselves and securely expect to be saved by him whom they daily crucifie So faithful that their faith removeth mountains Mount Sinai and Mount Zion at once the Law both of Moses and Christ So faithful in short that they can reconcile the most unchristian practices with the faith and affiance of a Christian the confutation and contradiction of the whole Gospel with hopes and comforts of it i. e. faithfulness with the greatest unfaithfulness in the world and whilst they take Hell by violence of endeavour take Heaven by violence of usurpation Such faithful ones as these the world is full of who have such a plerophory or fulness of faith that none of the other virtues or duties of Christianity can find room with them so faithful that they do onely believe But this is Infidelis fiducia an Infidel faith faith without fidelity Which kind of unfaithful unfruitful faith hath damned more than a true faith in Christ his name hath saved and the more any man believeth with it the more he may tremble This faith when Christ cometh he shall find upon the earth and scarce then be able to beat men out of it Many shall say to him even in that day Domine Domine Lord Lord we are they that have eaten and drunk in thy presence and thou hast taught in our streets and if such as we find not admittance and acceptance with thee who shall But in all this true faith will be hard to be found and it is neither slander nor solaecism to say that the greater part of the Christian world in this sense is Infidel True faith is that which maketh a man faithful to Christ Lib. 3. de Guberis Dei p. 70. l. 4. p. 100. and to keep all his commands faithfully as Salvian defined it long since which maketh us Christi fideles Christ his liege-men in the same sense that they are called Regis fideles the Kings liege-subjects and servants who yield that homage and fealty to him which they owe. This was Abraham's faith Heb. 11.17 24 26. by which he offered up his onely son Isaac and himself a whole burnt-offering with him This was Moses his faith which made him esteem the very reproach of Christ greater riches than all the treasures of Egypt This was the faith of the glorious company of the Apostles of the goodly fellowship of the Prophets of the noble army of Martyrs and Confessours which exerted it self in the sanctimony of their lives their strict observation of the divine laws their persevering in holy actions with patience and hope their despising earthly their prizing and pressing after heavenly things their contempt of death their courage for Christ and all the other instanees of an excellent piety and virtue From this active faith faith commensurate to fidelity they and all good Christians are not onely called but constituted faithful not from that unactive easie faith which maketh men rest wholly upon what Christ hath done for them without doing any thing either for him or for themselves which leaneth hard upon his Cross but doth not take it up and believeth in not obeyeth him This maketh faith a very accountable thing and well worthy of that wisdom and holiness which hath attributed so much to it in the Gospel as that by faith we are justified by faith we live by faith we are saved i. e. by a faith which so believeth in Christ as by believing to love him by loving to adhere to him and by adhering to him to live and dye in his embraces which sacrificeth a man's whole honour and interest to the service of Christ and his own salvation and thinketh nothing too much that he can do or suffer for Christ who hath wrought such wonders of mercy for him To be faithful then in the notion of my Text consists not in giving a naked assent to the Doctrins of Christianity not in arrogating and appropriating to our selves the promises of the Gospel or rather promising to our selves that which the Gospel promiseth us not nor yet in the most stedfast recumbency upon Christ or the strongest application of