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soul_n	able_a	body_n	hell_n	5,281	5	8.2873	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33098	A sermon preached at Edinburgh, in the East-Church of St. Giles, upon the 30th of January, 1689 being the anniversary of the martyrdome of King Charles the first / by James Canaries ...	Canaries, James.	1689 (1689)	Wing C423; ESTC R20246	68,911	94

and ye shall be hated of all men for my Names sake but he that endureth to the end shall be saved but when they persecute you in this city flee ye into another the disciple is not above his master nor the servant above his lord it is enough for the disciple that he be as his master and the servant as his lord if they have called the master of the house Beelzebub how much more shall they call them of his houshold Fear them not therefore and fear not them which kill the body but are not able to kill the soul but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell whosoever therefore shall confess me before men him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven but whosoever shall deny me before men him will I also deny before my father which is in heaven from vers 17. to 33. Whosoever will come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me for whosoever will save his life shall lose it but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the Gospels the same shall save it for what shall it profite a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul Mark 8. vers 34 35 36. If any man come to me and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters yea and his own life also he cannot be my disciple whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath he cannot be my disciple Luke 14. from vers 26. to 33. And in consequence of this Doctrine he severely rebuked the two Disciples James and John when they would have had him command fire to come down from heaven to consume the greatest Hereticks and Schismaticks that were then in the Jewish Church and who denyed him enterance in their Village and would not receive him because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem Luke 9. vers 51. to 54. Telling those Apostles vers 55. Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of for the son of man is not come to destroy mens lives but to save them Therefore also did he use the gentlest method of enforcing his Religion upon his Followers If any man will be my disciple If any man will come after me And when the Jews did persecute him and sought to slay him John 5. vers 16. and forward He took no other course to oppose them but only to justifie himself by the most convincing Arguments and Demonstrations from the Power of working Miracles that was so visibly lodged in him from the excellency of his Doctrine and from his having accomplished the Prophesies that the Scriptures of the Old Testament contain'd of the Messias to come Thus the Apostle St. Paul recommendeth to the Galatians Chap. 6. vers 1. To restore those that have been overtaken in a fault in the spirit of meekness considering themselves lest they also be tempted But we shall hardly cast up any place of the New Testament even at random but we shall find something to this purpose there being nothing that goeth more universally through the whole Doctrine of Christianity as a Gold Vein doth through the Ore than that Christians should suffer any thing for their Religion before they should take up Arms in defence of it Yet lest Precept and Teaching had not been enough to have born in this Christian Duty upon us we have the most uncontrovertible Pattern set before our eyes that can possibly take with those who are not resolved in spight of all the methods of Conviction to stand out in behalf of their own Opinion and Humour And whatever has been said hitherto of our Saviours Example does in an eminent manner speak to the purpose in this place And here the only proper and true gloss can be given of those words which were before cited from St. Peter For even hereunto were ye called because Christ also suffered for us leaving us an example that ye should follow his steps who did no sin neither was guile found in his mouth who when he was reviled reviled not again when he suffered he threatned not but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously St. Peter 1 Epist Chap. 2. vers 21 22 23 Neither can any tollerable Sense be put upon that Rebuke this Apostle got for offering to defend his Master by the Sword nor upon that Answer our Lord gave Pilat My kingdom is not of this world Unless besides all the respective Circumstances our Saviour stood in it shall further be granted that he was bound up by the very tenor of his own Religion neither to call for Legions of Angels nor yet to command Troups of his Servants to fight in his defence For it is quite unaccountable how one that can rescue himself by a proportionable force can with any justice yield up himself to a cruel and barbarous Execution tho inflicted by the Magistrat if there were not some other more sacred tye upon him to do so than what can flow from the Civil Constitution of any Nation And there is as little ground to think that the Son of God would merely to undergo a Death for Mankind have choos'd to do it in a way that had made it look so much like a Self-Murder that the most ingenious Wit of this World could not have even plausibly excus'd it from being one without his Sufferings had at once been in conformity to his Religion and to set a Copy to his Followers too Wherefore as he submitted to an unjust Sentence because he would not step out of the Circle of his Private Condition and as at that time he did this to fulfil the Scriptures So that which then rendered this to be lawful in him was only the Doctrine which himself had taught the suffering for Righteousness sake And tho the great Errand for which he came into the World was to redeem the Inhabitants of it and so to die for them Yet all things relating to his Crucifixion were so brought about by the Providence of God that the King of Kings died as a single Subject and the Author of our Faith as a Christian And thus his not resisting the most violent Oppression and Tyranny that ever was acted upon the Earth when it was in his Power to have done it became to be lawful in him or rather to be agreeable to that Holiness which was essential to his Person tho otherwise we had been left either to search out an Apology for it but in vain or else profoundly to adore those hidden Counsels which Angels could never have pryed into And certainly either of these seems not well to quadrate with those Scriptures that have been Cited and many others also which are obvious to every Body that is but moderatly conversant in the Volumn of them Nothing then can be more contradictory to the true Spirit of our Christian Religion than is that fierce that virulent that