Selected quad for the lemma: earth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	glory_n	heaven_n	world_n	9,798	5	4.4975	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92016	A warning to the inhabitants of Barbadoes	Rous, John, d. 1695.	1656 (1656)	Wing R2045; ESTC R42609	9,109	8

God and have crucified the Lord of Life hearkning unto that which checks and reproves for swcaring and lying scoffing and scorning and speaking evil of the things you know not you will come to see that which leads out of it and leads into the way of God and that those who are out of the way of God have no right to the Promises that are made to the righteous and look not at those that are elder then you as examples to do wickedly but wherein that which is unclean and contrary to God is discovered and manifested unto you forsake it least you walking in the pathes of the wicked and forsaking the way of the just with the wicked be condemned do not do wickedly because your Elders do so but in the time of your youth seek after the Lord that you may be hid when he shall rent in pieces and destroy those that despise his commands and will none of his reproofs though you be young yet is there something that testifies against sin in you which doth condemn you when you act that which is unjust and do to others that which you would not be done to your selves living and abiding in this you shall be examples to thofe that be old and keeping to that which is just in moderation and sobriety you shall exceed those who have lived many yeers and have spent their time in vanity better is it to forsake the vanity and pleasures of your youth then spending your time in vanity to come to repent when it is too late O be not vain in your minds nelther be exalted in that which will not frand but seek after the Lord that in his will you may come to delight and in his presence you may come to rejoice And you whose Parents are great in the Earth and do seek to make you great in the Earth also take heed to your selves seek not the pleasures of this world for they will indure but for a time I have seen the pleasures of this world and I know what it is to rejoice in the world and what it is to delight in vanity and have seen the end of all this That it is but vanity and folly and madness for if one should enjoy what heart can defire yet an end of that would come and a time when that joy shall be left when the beauty of earthly things shall fade away then will sorrow and trouble take hold of all those that delight in earthly things and have not delighted in the Lord. I have delighted in vanity and set my heart upon folly but blessed be the Lord I have forsaken it and now do know I have a reward though not in the earth yet in that which will endure for ever if I had lived in pleasure and spent my time therein wo would have been the end of my pleasures and lamentation the end of my delight but now is my joy in the denial of that which formerly I delighted in and peace and joy and delight I finde in forsaking that which formerly I lived in which naturally all youth do eagerly desire after And so I desire That in the same in which I live ye also who are young may come to live that so no longer you may delight in the earth and earthly things but seek after the Lord and the things that belong to your peace seek not after riches in the earth for riches make them wings and flye away but lay up treasures in heaven which will never decay Seek not after the horror of the world for that honor must be laid in the dust but seek that honor which is of God which will endure for ever Glory not in any thing which is below for the Lord is coming to stain the glory of all flesh but seek ye the glory of God Delight not your selves in youthful pleasures but delight in walking in that which will lead you to uprightness and a godly couversation if you walk in it this will shew you what is contrary to God and will lead you to God who are faithful to it but will be your eternal condemnation who despise it And all you Enemies of God who have made your bands strong in wickedness who have made a Covenant with Hell and Death who because the Judgments of the Lord are not speedily executed have set your hearts to do wickednesse wo is me for you ye hard-hearted ones who have not hearkned to the Lord but have been as deaf Adders which have not heard though the charmer charmed never so wisely you have made a mock of the Servants of the Lord and have despised those that have been sent unto you but have rejoyced in your own corrupt Teachers whom ye have heaped up according to your own ungodly lusts your Teachers will not stand in the day of the Lord for they are in the steps of the false Prophets which the Lord ever sent his Prophets to cry against they are greedy dumb dogs who lye down and love to slumber who make a prey upon the people their desires are after the Earth they seek the fleece and not the good of the flock they are such as go in the way of Cain and their desires after the earth are large long have they been teaching among you and are you not still as wicked as ever you were They are not sent of the Lord therefore shall they not profit the people at all though they be drunkards and live in filthiness yet will you hold them 〈◊〉 the Lord abhors such Teachers for they strengthen you in your wickedness by crying peace unto you when destruction is neer at hand and when these Teachers are made manifest unto you by the children of the Light and they are moved in love to your souls to declare against your deceit that is held up by you under the pretence of worshipping God these you take hold of as Transgressors and as your Enemies though you have nothing to say against what they declare How can you stand before the Lord How will you stand in the day when he shall appear when his Wrath shall burn as an Oven Think you that God is not the same God against wickedness as ever he was ye cannot serve God and the Devil be not deceived God will be avenged of you who despise the day of your visitation and turn the grace of God into wantonness You that now laugh shall mourn and you that still go on in wickedness shall howl and lament when sorrow shall take hold on you and misery which shall have no end O that you were wise to consider O that you would consider and forsake your wicked actions that so in the day of the Lords wrath you may be hid for truly great is the abominations wherewith you have provoked the Lord to anger Ye have multiplied your iniquities beyond many Nations you have gone beyond the heathen who have not heard of God in your wicked cursed sinful practises have you provoked the holy