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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	faith_n	reason_n	true_a	3,392	5	5.0227	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35044	The hard way to heaven explained and applyed in a sermon intended to be preached at Peters-Cornhill, but by reason of the disorderly concourse preached at St. Katherines Creed-Church London, the 27th of July 1662, being the third day after his release / by Z. Crofton.	Crofton, Zachary, 1625 or 6-1672.	1662 (1662)	Wing C6995; ESTC R29659	37,927	47

discern the truth that you may embrace it in the love of it and you shall easily believe lyes the Cautions in Scripture are to no purpose to men who cast off distinction take heed what you hear beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the like are insignificant directions to men of no distinction the neglect of distinction will make Peter a sinfull Conformist as well as those pointed at in Heb. 10 25. were sinfull non-communicants there is no estate in which we are in the world which is not on both hands bounded with sin are we Prosperous it is a narrow point to receive the Creatures of God with thanksgiving to use them humbly and with sobriety not unto pride and tyranny security and carnall confidence in the casting off God or contempt of our brethren with discretion to esteem enjoy and use them as Gods good blessings and yet not to abuse them to the satisfaction of our sensual lust and the entangling of our souls in sin How Hard do we find it in the day of affliction and distresse to shun sinfull senselesse Apathie Stoicall stupidity and impatient anxiety peircing grief or fear heart-perplexing God-provoking Cares and Complaints not to lay aside nor let our naturall passions break out beyond the bounds of sobriety reason or Religion to fear without fretting discerne danger without diffidence to be angry without envy to grieve without grudging to mourn without murmuring to be stricken and smitten of God afflicted all the day long and lye in si●ence without repining or charging God foolishly or charging piety to be perplexing folly but to lay our Mouthes in the dust under our opressed innocency because the Lord hath done it to be reviled of men and not to revile again to be oppressed and persecuted yet free from revenge to blesse them that curse us and pray for them who despitefully use us is a lesson not easily learned truly friends my experience hath found it a strait Gate a narrow way to retain quick and lively sences under the restraint of a lively faith to fear and grieve and yet not fly in the face of men or forget God I cannot but observe Apathy in afflictions is manifest prophanesse Isa 42.25 and impatiency is no lesse then impiou● God aggravateth Israel prophanesse by their Stupidity and shamefull Apathy Ier. 5.3 when he set them on fire round about they knew it n●t It burned them and they layed it not to heart Isa 22.12 13 14. he observeth as an argument of insensibility under his hand He complaineth of them as impudently impious because when they were striken they did not grieve He chargeth it as an inniquity indelible to be merry and joviall in Feasts and full expressions of joy when his providence and their perplexing state doth call for weeping and mourning and on the other hand he rebuketh excesse of passion as no lesse prophane Isa 15.12 13. Who Art thou that art affraid of the fury of the oppressor and forgetest the Lord thy maker not to fear is inhumane to fear without faith is Vnchristian not to care is contrary to reason to care unto vexations diffidence concerning future events is contrary to true Religion not to mourn in misery is incongruous to men Subjects of sence and reason to mourn as without hope is incongruous to Christans in whom reason is rectifyed and directed to expectation of a better change The nature of patience doth charge sin on both extreams it presupposeth it preserveth passions existent whilst it aboundeth restraineth regulateth the same we have heard of the passions of Job I could never understand the patience and meekness of Malefactors who suffered the utmost sorrows under the greatest most manifest Guilt without the least of grief or fear commotion of mind or perplexing apprehension Yea under the greatest ostentation of joy peace being cannonized by their friends for Martyrs on the only ground of their confidence which to the Blasphemy of Christianity and its Martyrs they call Christian courage sure I am that they who rejoyced with joy unspeakable and full of Glory beleiving in whom they had not seen were in heavinese under all kind of grief through manifold temptations and they who trusted in the living God who had delivered and would deliver were by the power of their passions pressed out of measure and above their Strength a due deportment in every condition as men and Christians is a narrow strait an estate of great difficulty and danger the same bounds and strait Limitts attend our relation and the dutyes thereof How hard for Subjects as sincere David to retain Loyalty and affection towards oppressing persecuteing Princes How hard for Servants to be subject to their Masters not onely the meek and gentle but also to the froward to do well and suffer for it patiently is an hard saying who can bear it This Straitness attends our whole Conversation and the course of our lives in common as Christians to continue Communion with Christs Church under many and great Corrupcions and not to comply with and conforme unto sinfull impositions not to leave Gods Ordinances when made grievious to the Soul by humane Appendants and disorder not to cease the offerings of the Lord when the prophaness and violent disorder of the Sons of Elie make them loath the same to hear them who say but do not onely because they are in Moses chair to beware of the leaven of the Pharises being bound to hear them who ordinarily teach for doctrines the traditions of men and make the word of God of none effect to retain Church unity under its impurity and attend Gospel-ministry in prophane subjects to be zealous for reformation without running into or striking hands with separation is hic labor hoc opus to religious hearts who walk uprightly according to the truth of the Gospel a strait gate a narrow way a narrow Crisis and point of duty which cannot be declined without danger sin lying on both hands by defect or excess to destroy us the way to heaven is apparently strait and narrow because thus bounded and terminated and for this reason our Saviour doth declare it so to be In this Sermon our Saviour doth direct exact obedience into a narrow Crisis and place perfection in a strait punctilio The scope and drift of the Sermon is to shew the bounds and limits of the way of life the restraints of Religion which the error and superstition of the Jews had broken down to the facilitating of their passage to Heaven His most pleasing Preface propoundeth poverty of Spirit mourning meekness purity and pe●se●ution and the like perplexing properties as Conditions of the Beatitudes he doth declare His directions unto duty begin with a determination of dread He that breaketh the least of these Commandements shall be least in the kingdome of Heaven and so proceeding to terminate duty by a clear exposition of the Law he placeth the breach of the Law in a little narrow