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religion_n	good_a	king_n	subject_n	3,003	5	6.4581	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77608	Heaven on earth or a serious discourse touching a wel-grounded assurance of mens everlasting happiness and blessedness. Discovering the nature of assurance, the possibility of attaining it, the causes, springs, and degrees of it, with the resolution of several weighty questions. By Thomas Brooks, preacher of the Gospel at Margarets Fishstreet-Hill.	Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.	1654 (1654)	Wing B4943; Thomason E1446_1; ESTC R209539	332,772	663

your walkings and actings you are lights upon a Hill you are Sea-marks and therefore every eye will be upon you Those that can finde no ears to hear what you say will finde many eyes to see what you do Scripture and Experience do abundantly evidence that good mens examples have done a world of good in the world and verily the evil examples of great men especially are very dangerous Charls the fift was wont to say That as the Eclipse of the Sun is a token of great commotions so the errors and evils of great men bring with them great perturbations and evils to the places and persons where they live O therefore be exemplary in lip and life in word and work that others seeing your good works may glorifie Matth. 5. 16. Plutarch said of Demosthenes that he was excellent at praising the worthy acts of his Ancestors but not so at imitating them You may easily apply it your Father which is in Heaven O look that your lives be as a Commentary upon Christs life Tace lingua loquere vita Talk not of a good life but let thy life speak said the Philosopher Alexander willed that the Grecians and the Barbarians should no longer be distinguished by their Garments but by their Manners so should Christians be distinguished from all others by their lives and by their examples 2 Sam. 23. 3. The God of Israel said The Rock of Israel spake to me he that ruleth over men must be just ruling in the fear of the Lord. An excellent Lord is always better then an excellent Law let your Laws be never so good if the Law makers are bad all will come to nothing The peoples eyes are much John 7. 48. It was a good Law that the Ephesians made That men should propound to themselves the best patterns and ever bear in minde some eminent man upon that Scripture Have any of the Rulers believed on him c. Abraham was an example of Righteousness in Chaldaea Lot was just in Sodom Daniel was an example of Holiness in Babylon Job was an example of Uprightness in the Land of Huss which was a Land of much Prophaneness and Superstition Nehemiah was an example of Zeal in Damasco and Moses was an example of Meekness among the muttering and murmuring Israelites Above all examples Christ was exemplary in all Piety and Sanctity in all Righteousness and Holiness in the midst of a crooked and perverse Generation And why then should not you be ex mplary The Arabian● if their King be sick or lame they all feign themselves so among those poor Creatures ethose black Angels I had almost said among whom you walk It was the saying of Trajanus a Spaniard the first stranger that reigned among the Italians Qualis Rex tali● grex Subjects prove good by a good Kings example so do Souldiers so do Sailers by the good examples of their Superior Commanders Such Commanders as are examples of Righteousness and Holiness to others are certainly high in worth and humble in heart they are the glory of Christ and the honor of Religion Fifthly As you are in publick places I have read of one that had rather beautifie Italy then his own house there is very little of this spirit abroad in the world so lay out your selves impartially for the common good of all that have interest in you or dependence upon you So did Abraham Moses Joshua Nehemiah Ezra Daniel but above all Christ himself You are more for the peoples sake then the people are for yours Magistrates are Rulers over the persons of the people but they are servants to the good of the people As it is the duty of all to serve them so it is their office to serve all It is no Paradox to affirm That Rulers are the greatest Servants The Ancients were wont to place the Statues of their Princes by their Fountains intimating that they were or at least should be Fountains of the Publick good The Counsellor saith That a man in publick place should give his will to God his love to his Master his heart to his Countrey his secrets to his Friends his time to Business It is a base and unworthy spirit for a man to make himself the Centre of all his actions The very Heathen man could say A Mans Countrey and his Friends and others challenge a great part of him The Sun that is the Prince of lights So doth the Sea feed and refresh the smalest fish as wel as the greatest Leviathan the Trees do shade and shelter from heat the least Bird as well as the greatest Beast doth impartially serve all the Peasant as well as the Prince the poor as well as the rich the weak as well as the strong you must be like the Sun The Sun of Righteousness was of a brave Publick Spirit he healed others but was hurt himself he filled others but was hungry himself he laid out himself and he laid down himself for a Publick good That Pilot dies nobly saith Seneca who perisheth in the storm with the Helm in his hand It is really your praise among the Saints that you have ventured killing burning drowning and all to save the Ship of the Commonwealth from sinking Sirs Be not weary of Publick Work it is honor enough that God will make any use of you to carry on his design in the world he is a faithful Pay-master Heaven at last will make amends for all you shall reap if you faint not I do verily believe God will make use of you to do greater things on the Sea then yet have been done The Lord hath now begun to set a foot upon the Sea let his enemies tremble God will not suffer his glory to be buried in the deeps he is a shaking the Nations and will not leave shaking them till he that is the desire of all Nations come The Lord hath said That he will overturn overturn overturn until he comes whose right it is to wear the Crown and the Diadem and he will give it him Ezek. 21. 25 26 27. Till then there will be little else but plucking up and breaking down Jere. 45. 4. Therefore be couragious and follow the Lamb wheresoever he goes You need fear no enemies that have Christ the Conqueror on your sides Sixthly and lastly Make it more O anim● Dei insig●●ta imagine desponsata fidie donata spiritu c. Bern. O divine Soul invested with the Image of God espoused to him by Faith and more your chiefest work to make plentiful provisions for the eternal welfare of your Souls Your Souls are more worth then ten thousand worlds All is well if the Soul be well if that be safe all is safe if that be lost all is lost God Christ and Glory is lost if the Soul be lost Worthy Sirs Though others play the Courtiers with their Souls yet do not you The Courtier doth all things late he rises late and dines late and sups late and repents late