Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	day_n	holy_a	keep_v	7,331	5	6.2245	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27065	The vain religion of the formal hypocrite, and the mischief of an unbridled tongue (as against religion, rulers, or dissenters) described, in several sermons, preached at the Abby in Westminster, before many members of the Honourable House of Commons, 1660 ; and The fools prosperity, the occasion of his destruction : a sermon preached at Covent-Garden / by Richard Baxter.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. Fools prosperity.	1660 (1660)	Wing B1448; ESTC R13757	102,825	412

themselves the more easily that they are as good as those opinions and that company doth import and that they are truely such as those they joyn with As men are taken by others for such as those they correspond with so hypocrites take themselves for such As if it would prove that a man is sound because he dwelleth with them that are so Or as if it would prove a man rich or honourable that he converseth with such As God will not save any Nations on earth because they are such Nations nor will he save men because they are of such or such a trade or because they are skilled in this or that art or science no more will he save men for being of this or that party or Sect in matters of Religion One thinks when he hath lived a fleshly life that he shall be saved for hearing or saying the Common-prayer or because he is for Prelacy and Ceremonies another thinks he shall be saved because he can pray without a book or form of words or because he frequenteth the private meetings of those that more diligently redeem their time for spiritual advantages then others do another thinks he shall be saved because he is mocked as a Puritan or as too strict as others are that are serious believers and diligent in the things of God and another thinks that he shall be saved because he is rebaptized or because he joyneth with some separating Congregation which pretendeth to be more strict then others But none shall be saved on any such account as these Cain could not be saved for being the first born in the family of Adam Cham could not be saved for being in the Ark and family of Noah Nor Esau for being in the house of Isaac Nor Absalom for being the son of David Nor Judas for being a Disciple in the family of Christ Even Mary that brought him forth could not have been saved by him if she had not had a better title and had not bore him in her heart Mark 3. 34 35. when they talk to him of his Mother and his brethren Christ looked upon those that sate about him and told them that Whosoever shall do the will of God the same is his Brother his Sister and his Mother It is no outward badge and livery but a heart-title that must prove you the heirs of heaven You may be snatcht out of the purest Church on earth and from the purest ordinances and out of the arms of the most upright Christians and cast into hell if you have no better evidences then such to shew for your salvation If ever you be saved it must not be because you are Papists or Protestants Lutherans or Calvinists Arminians Antinomians Anabaptists Independents Presbyterian or Prelatical formally and meerly as such But because you are true Christians that have the Spirit of Christ Rom. 8. 9. and are conformed to him in his sufferings death and resurrection and live in sincere obedience to his will But Hypocrites that want the inward life and power of Religion and are conscious of their willfull sins would fain borrow something from the parties which they joyn with or the opinions which they take up or the formal outward worship which they perform or the alms which they give to make up the want and cheat their souls with a self-created confidence that they shall be saved But more specially you may hence observe the reason that Popery hath so many followers and that it is so easie a thing to make an Infidel or whoremonger or drunkard to turn a Papist when yet it is not easie to bring them to faith and chastity and temperance much less to the unfeigned love of God and to a holy heavenly life Though I doubt not but there are many sincere-hearted Christians among the Papists yet Popery it self is of an hypocritical strain and is notably suited to the Hypocrites disposition It is revived Pharisaisme I marvel that they tremble not when they read themselves so lively characterized by Christ with the addition of so many terrible woes as in Matth. 23. and other places frequently they are Woe to you Scribes Pharisees Hypocrites They bind heavy burdens of external observances to lay upon the consciences of their Proselytes They make broad their Phylacteries and in variety of holy vestures they make ostentation of such a Religion as a Peacock may have when he spreads his tail They contend for superiority and titles to be called Rabbi Pope Cardinal Patriarck Primate Metropolitane Archbishop Diocesane Abbot Prior Father c. to the great disturbance of all the Nations of the Christian world They must needs be the Fathers and Masters of our faith They shut up the Kingdom of heaven against the people forbidding all to read the Scriptures in their vulgar tongue without a special license from their Ordinary and commanding them to worship God in a strange tongue which they do not understand By the numbers of their Masses and prayers for the dead they delude the souls and devour the Patrimony of the living In Temples and Altars and Images and Ornaments consisteth no small part of their Religion They make more of tything mint anise and cummin then of judgement mercy and faith the weightier matters of the Law The outside they make clean and appear as beautiful to men as ceremonies and outward pompe can make them They make it a part of their Religion to murder the living Saints and keep holy dayes for the dead They build the Tombs of the Prophets and garnish the Sepulchres of the righteous and say If we had lived in the dayes of our Fathers we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the Prophets Thus Matth. 23. is their description They have their Touch not ●aste not handle not after the commandements and doctrines of men their voluntary humility and worshipping of Angels and other rudiments of the world and things that have a shew of wisdom in will-worship and humility and neglecting of the body not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh Col. 2. 19 20 21 22 23. How easie a thing is it to bring an ungodly man to be of a Religion that consisteth in such things as these in eating fish on certain dayes in stead of flesh in saying over so many Pater Nosters and Ave Maries and naming so oft the name of Jesu in worshipping a piece of consecrated bread with divine worship in bowing and praying before an Image in praying to the souls of such as the Pope tells them are Saints in heaven in crossing themselves and being sprinkled with holy water and using agnus dei's and consecrated grains and amulets in dropping of beads in saying such words as a prayer at such a canonical hour and such words at the next canonical hour in hearing a Masse in Latine and saying a Latine prayer in being anointed with hallowed oyl burning hallowed candles on the Altars by day-light in going so many miles to