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love_n	commandment_n	keep_v	obedience_n	4,378	5	7.6220	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03308	Three sermons 1. The good fight. Preached at the funerall of Henry Sommaster of Pens-ford in the country of Deuon, Esquire. Ian. 1606. 2. The worth of the water of life. 3. Dauids longing, and Dauids loue. By Sam. Hieron.	Hieron, Samuel, 1576?-1617.	1607 (1607)	STC 13426; ESTC S116031	56,277	76

Psal 26.8 Ps 27.4 that the Habitation of the Lords House is his delight and protesting that to dwell there and to behold the Beautie thereof is his cheife desire And why thinke we were the Tabernacles of the Lord so deare vnto him was accesse thither desired by him as an idle complement or went he like a Time-seruer to escape lawe or like an Athenian t Act. 17.21 to heare newes Or why went he Sure his loue to the Lawe drewe him to the place where they were which could teach him the Lawe It was with him as it was with those whome himselfe speaketh of who going to the Temple had the u Ps 84.5 Waies of the Lord in their Heart and as with those * Is 2.3 which prouoke one another Come let vs goe vp to the mountaine of the Lord he will teach vs his waies So then thou which saist thou louest Gods word let me trie thee by this rule when I looke vpon thy profession thou art prety and strait without let me see now whether thou be also sound within thou liuest in a place where the word of God is diligently and soundly taught God hath blessed the Congregation of which thou art a member with a wise steward x Luc. 12.12 who knoweth how to giue euery one his portion of meate in season How dost thou like this doth it content thee or doth it burthē thee dost thou thank for it or will not thy froward Heart suffer thee to repute it as a benefite Is this Manna as grosse vnto thy Tast as Horse-bread or y Ps 119.103 is it more sweete then Hony to thy Mouth If thou take no comfort in it if like the Gaderens z Math. 8. ●4 thou wouldst account it a commodity if Christ were departed thy coastes thou must giue me leaue to tell thee thou neither louest the word nor louest God no nor yet truly louest thy owne soule A gaine dost thou liue in Iericho where a 2. Kin. 2.19 the situation is pleasant but the water naught that is where there are good outward commodities but the true Treasure cannot be had where when thou commest to Church thou beholdest one who hath got on Elias mantle but thou maist say to him where is the spirit of Elias who is able to say nothing to thee to rouze thee vp nothing to admonish thee nothing to cōfort thee How doth this please thee Art thou well inough satisfied herewith doth thy Heart neuer mourne within thee to consider this Art thou not afraid of Salomons Rule b Pro. 29.18 Where there is no vision there the people decay or dost thou groane vnder this heauie burden and doth thy soule pant after a better blessing Looke vnto it count not thy selfe a Freind to the Word a Freind to God a Freind to thy owne soule if thou art not affected with this Miserie This is the first signe The second signe of loue to the word is the priuate vse of it c Ps 119.97 O how I loue thy Lawe it is my Meditation continually The 2. marke There is the Triall of his Loue. The reason is manifest where we loue thither doth loue drawe our affections The Rich man meditateth of gathering goods naturall Louers of their loue ambitious men of their preforments so the man of God hauing no greater riches nor glorie then in the word cannot chuse but meditate in the word It is but small pleasure so long as we are in a gardē to be delighted with the smell of Hearbs vnlesse we carie of euery kinde some that so we may haue some benefite of the garden when we be farre from it So it is but a flattering Ioy no longer to be affected with the word then we are in the Church therefore something must be gathered here which may worke on our affections when we be gone He which heareth and ioyneth not this with his hearing is but like a man coloured in the sunne so he getteth some superficiall knowledge but it is such as can afford him no cōfort And this is the cause why there is so much preached and so little practised euen because there is so little priuate exercise I know there are other priuate duties as Prayer and conference but I do specially stand vpon this because this is the most generall and the most effectuall All cannot read all cannot haue opportunity to conferre but euery man is or ought to be master of his thoughts to apply to himselfe that which he heareth and to vowe the obedience of it to the Lord. This is a needefull point to be stood vpon either because it is not known or it is not practised Many may be said to be sermon-sicke as there are some said to bee sea-sicke They which are sea-sicke as long as they are vpon the water are of a very feeble stomacke faint and euen as it were readie to die but comming once a land and hauing paused some litle time they beginne to forget the trouble and to recouer their former strength After the same maner many there are who being at the sermon are tossed to and fro by the power of the word their hearts are sicke their consciences melt and they are much troubled but when they are gone and haue a little acquainted themselues with the Aire of the world they forget what they heard and wherewith they were moued and returne backe againe to their ill courses as before Remember this therefore if thou wilt be thought to loue the word to bestowe some priuate exercising of thine owne thoughts in and about the word If a man should be stinted to one meale a weeke he would haue a pined body at the weekes end what shall then become of our soules if we thinke it inough that they once a weeke be fedde with the word of God and doe not giue them some other priuate refreshing The third marke The third signe of loue to the word is loue to the obedience of the word d Ioh. 14.25 If yee loue me saith Christ keepe my commaundements so if we loue the word we cannot but make conscience to doe that which is commaunded by the word The reason is this He which truly loueth the word must needes tender the credit of it and labour by all meanes to maintaine it Now it is the greatest honour to the word of God that may be when men which professe it are ruled by it and walke according to it e Phil. 1.27 Paul commendeth to the Philippians a conuersation which may become the Gospell He vrgeth the like three times in one chapter f Tit. 2.5 sobriety in elder men and women and subiection and chastity in younger women that the word of God be not euil spoken of g ver 8. againe grauity and integrity in yoūg men chiefely in young ministers that he which with standeth may be ashamed hauing nothing to speake euill of h ver 10. Thirdly truth in seruants that