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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	believe_v	faith_n	work_n	4,530	5	5.8487	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67899	Six sermons preached by ... Seth, Lord Bishop of Sarum.; Sermons. Selections	Ward, Seth, 1617-1689.	1679 (1679)	Wing W831; ESTC R5947	121,746	478

be we may perhaps hear of that which may meet with and remove the prejudice and imposture that is upon us It is neither our Negligence nor Infidelity that will make void the Truth of God Whether we will hear or Whether we will forbear the Words which I have read remain firm and unalterable and they clearly contain these Propositions 1. There is a Judgment to come 2. Thou shall be brought to Judgment 3. God will bring thee to Judgment 4. God will bring thee to Judgment for these things the ways of thy heart c. 5. God will bring thee to Judgment for All these things 6. All this is certain and evident for it is not think or believe but Know that for all these things God will bring thee to Iudgment I. First then There is a Iudgment to come This is no Politick invention found out to fright thee from thy pleasures this is no Engine of State devised to keep you in a subordination to your Brethren this is no vain Thunder or foolish fire to affright you in to a blind obedience but it is the Tenor of the Scripture of the voyce of God King Agrippa believest thou the the Prophets I know that thou believest saith St. Paul Brethren do we believe the Scriptures I hope we do believe them This we do all profess to believe so often as we repeat our Creed and I hope the dissolution of our times has not yet shatter'd that foundation of our faith the ground work of our hopes even the Salvation of our souls Surely there are rewards for men doubtless there is a God which judgeth the earth What though the foundations of the world be out of course the pillar of Faith remains unshaken the Rod of the ungodly shall not for ever rest upon the back of the righteous I desire to make a little use of your faith for that which anon will be obtained from your reason There is a Judgment to come it 's as sure as death nay far surer they shall be judged which shall not dy they have been judged which could not dy the one at the end the other at the beginning of the world There is a Particular and a General Judgment the one at the dissolution of the lesser the other of the greater world the one at the hour of death the other at the day of Judgment A Judgment I say a strict examination an exact account a severe sentence words which make no thundring noise or tragical sound and so they may pass our hardned hearts without any motion wherefore let us judge of the tenor and moment of them by their antecedent signs Before one of them the evil days come The other is called the evil day Before one Solomon tells us that the Sun and the Moon and the Light and the Stars shall be darkned Before the other a greater than Solomon tells us that the Sun shall be turned into Darkness and the Moon into Bloud and the Stars shall fall from Heaven Before one the Keepers of the House shall tremble and the Strong men bow themselves Before the other the Mountains shall quake and the Powers of Heaven shall be shaken Before one we shall rise at the voyce of the Bird Before the other at the sound of the Trumpet Before one the silver Cord shall be loosed and the golden Bowl broken and the Pitcher broken at the Fountain and the wheel broken at the Cistern Before the other the silver Zone of the ecliptick and the golden Globe of the Sun the Orbs and the Vortices shall be confounded the wheel within a wheel the Heavens shall be rivel'd as a scrowl of Parchment and the Earth and the Elements shall melt away with fervant heat In the one the dust shall return to the earth as it was and and the spirit to God that gave it At the other the dust shall return from the earth to be as it was and the spirit from God that gave it Come now and let us reason together Are all these the fore-runners and symptomes of approaching Judgment then why art thou so drows●e O my careless soul and why are thou so secure within me What strange Lethargy hath seised on thee Awake thou that sleepest and Christ shall give the light The time of thy dissolution is coming and after death the Judgment Retire therefore a while into thy self and commune with thy heart Enter thou into thy Closet and shut thy Door upon thee Let us examine our selves before we come to that strict Examen Let us make a Judgment of our expectation before we come to Judgment Do we believe a Judgment will come Then how are we provided against that Day Are our accounts ready Art thou able to stand in Judgment Shalt thou be clear when thou art judged When Paul reasoned before Felix concerning the Iudgment to come Felix trembled and because it was an unpleasant argument he put him off to an●ther time There is no doubt but our treacherous hearts would gladly put off these Considerations and deferr them to a more convenient season Nay but there is no time so convenient as the present when we are wrought into some apprehension of Judgment if we stay till our present thoughts are over we shall again be brought to lose the apprehension to forget the import and moment of the Judgment we shall come again to hear the Name thereof and to neglect it as an idle Noise and empty Sound Let us therefore not neglect this opportunity Let us search our seleves to the bottom Let us make a discovery of our final Resolution and secret Reserves in reference to Judgment We profess openly to believe that Christ shall come with Glory to judge both the Quick and Dead What are our inward thoughts in that particular and how are we provided against the Day of Judgment There is a Judgment to come that Judgment terrible the Examination strict the Condemnation insupportable and most of us utterly unprovided yet for all this it 's possible it may be avoyded All these things are true in Judgments here below and we see the proof of them at every Assizes yet all Offenders are not brought to Judgment but many Thieves and Murderers escape it It may be thus in the Judgment to come it 's possible it may be avoidable A miserable hope if this be all for Thon shalt be brought to Iudgment That 's the second Proposition And it contains the Universality or Particularity of the Judgment which you please thou and every man singuli generum genera singulorum all sorts of men and every man of every sort from Him that sitteth on the Throne to Her that grindeth in the Mill For we must all appear before the Iudgment-seat of Christ. It is appointed for all men once to dy and after death the Iudgment Death shall deliver up our Souls to the first and death shall deliver up our Bodies to the second Judgment The Grave shall deliver up her

What fear what horror what agony will possess thee O sinful soul when thou shalt be brought into a perfect apprehension of thy Judge and of thy self and he shall begin to order out before thee the things which he hath done when the whole Trinity shall begin to unfold its common work and that sacred Person blessed for ever upon whose shoulders the Iudgment is laid shall unfold to thee his peculiar and thou must render a severe account of thy returns When the mystery of thy Creation shall be unveiled to thee When thou shalt apprehend throughly what it is to have been fetcht out of the dark and barren shade of an eternal privation to be put in a capacity of glory When he shall recount to thee the proceedings of his handy work the method of thy making the several articles and gradations of his Providence in the formation and information of thee How at first he poured thee out like milk and crudled thee cheese How he spun out thine arteries and veins and whilst thou wert yet in thy blood he said unto thee live How he guarded thee with muscles and strengthened thee with sinews and propt thee with bones and covered thee with skin furnished thee with organs endowed them with senses invested thee with reason crowned thee with freedom enlightned thee with principles of Science and Conscience bounded thee by his Precepts encouraged thee by his Promises restrained thee by his threatnings When he shall run over the benefits of thy daily preservation and rigorously examine what thou hast done for him When God the Son shall display to thee what he hath done and suffered for thee and shall set before thine eyes the great mystery of thy Redemption When he shall bring thee to apprehend the price that he has paid that ransom which thou hast not regarded When it will not be in thy power to pass over these considerations as now thou dost but they shall be forced into the essential center of thy Soul When thou shalt have a clear sight of the abasement of a God incarnate When thou shalt know how to be moved at the sight of a despised and an abused Godhead When he shall charge thee with the blewness of those stripes and the ghastliness of those wounds which thou hast made When he shall rehearse to thee the miseries of his life and the circumstances of his death When he shall recount to thee the woundings of the taunts and reproaches the smart of the whips the terrour of the agony which made him sweat great drops of blood the pricks of the thorns the piercing of the nails the launcing of the spear and the ineflable horror of the dereliction when he cried out in the bitterness of his soul My God my God why hast thou forsaken me And when he shall fiercely call upon thee to answer for the wounds that thou hast made to render him his blood that thou hast spilt to account to him for that life which thou hast bereft to shew him the fruit of all his pains and sufferings to present him thy returns for all these benefits and favours then tell me what thou wilt answer O stupid soul● How art thou provided to reply Wilt thou deny that he has done these things for thee or canst thou shew as much for him Hast thou returned him that being which he hath given thee and so been even with him in a form of words though that come infinitely short indeed Hast thou sacrificed thy self for his benefit or abased thy self for his commodity What wilt thou plead when thou art called The time is coming thy Judgment hastning thine account is unavoidable thy Judge inexorable Alas what could I have done for him what profit could I have brought him if I should have pined away in the exercise of Devotion and been eaten up with zeal If I should have spent my substance in Burnt-Offerings or Calves of a year old If I should have presented him with thousands of Rams or ten thousand Rivers of Oil To what purpose then should I endeavour that which I could not have performed Why should I trouble my self with vain attempts and spend my strength about that which I never could accomplish neither if I be righteous is he the better nor if I be wicked is he the worse our goodness extends not to him if thou sinnest what dost thou against him if thou be righteous what receiveth he at thine hand Is this then the evasion I need not stand to unfold the disingenuity the stupor and madness of this evasion However though these things shall be urged upon us they are not all these offer themselves in the consideration of the person of the Judge but are not all the matter of thy Judgment For Thou shall be brought to Iudgment for these things there is the matter of thy Judgment For All these things there is the extent Because this latter adds only a Modality to the former and I desire not to be over tedious we will put these two together And now we are descended from those less familiar Considerations to which we were forced to strein our understandings in the contemplation of our Judge into the compass of our own sphere to the survey of our own operations we are come from the incomprehensible ways of God to the ways of our own hearts Walk in the ways of thy heart c. and But know c. In the judgment of this life men are tryed by the works of their hands or the words of their mouths for theft or murder for slander or Treason men may be brought to Judgment but thought is free he has lived well that has carried his crimes close the crafty Politician and the concealed Hypocrite escape There the case is quite contrary the Judgment takes in primarily the ways of the heart and the words and actions as they proceed from them Wherefore let us withdraw a space into our selves and endeavour to mete out the extent of that Proposition For all the ways of the hearts of men God will bring them to Judgment How would it trouble us to recount and bring to memory every thought but of one only day and how many disorders and irregularities should we find in such a reflection How do our thoughts flote upon our brains and we know neither whence they come nor what becomes of them When they are broken in upon our minds we cannot hold them and when they are gone from us as it was with N●buchadn●zzar's ●ream it is not in our power to recover them How many roving fancies present themselves unto us in a moment and how many sudden and imperfect Complacencies and distastes are raised by them Leave but thy self unbound unfixed by hearing or reading or business c. for an hour and then tell me what suppositions and consequences and resolutions thou hast made And how thou hast felt thy self to strein upon the borders of Lust or Envy of Pride or Anger of Discontent