Selected quad for the lemma: grace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
grace_n	deny_v	live_v	ungodliness_n	2,449	5	11.2335	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11077	The onely remedy that can cure a people, when all other remedies faile. By F. Rous.	Rous, Francis, 1579-1659.	1627 (1627)	STC 21346; ESTC S106124	62,668	256

world haue not the loue of the Father Yea though the world shall passe away the lusts thereof and they onely that doe the will of the Father shall abide for euer For meates cannot make men Euerlasting but there must be an end and perchance the sooner for abusing them and then there must come an account euen for the abuse of them But as these offend in an excesse of quantity so others offend in an excesse of quality and put as much sinne into a little roome as others doe into a great A great summe of money is contracted into a single dish and there is an ambition to make vp a great excesse in as little a forme as they may Thus the shapes of vices are altered but vices are retained and there must bee new fashions in sinnes as in clothes Surely the Nature of these times doth not call for these studies and without study this Art of Excesse cannot mount to this Height When God calleth for pouerty wee should not meete him with prodigalitie when hee calls for humilitie wee should not meete him with pride and when he calls for fasting we should not meete him with excesse of Riot But let vs feare the Consequences of such incongruities and let this feare teach vs to auoide them Surely the Iudgement which God himself hath denounced against them is fearful there wants nothing but faith to beleeue it and then it will appeare as fearefull as it is In that day did the Lord of Hosts call to weeping and to mourning Esay 22. 12. and to baldnesse and to girding with sack-cloth And behold ioy and gladnesse slaying oxen and killing sheepe eating flesh and drinking wine Let vs eate and drinke for to morrow wee shall dye And it was reuealed in mine eares by the Lord of Hosts Surely this iniquitie shall not bee purged from you till yee dye But to those that tremble at the word of God and conforme themselues to his will as in all things so in the right vse of his Creatures the Scripture offereth more grace For the Grace of God which bringeth saluation Tit. 2. 11. hath appeared and teacheth vs That those who deny vngodliness and worldly lusts liuing godly righteously and soberly in this present world they may comfortably looke for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of the great God and our Sauiour Iesus Christ. For verily there is a reward for the righteous Psal. 58. 11 verily there is a God that iudgeth the earth 17 But to what purpose Not onely particular sins but a generall roote of wickednes is among vs. doe I seeke to cut off the branches of particular sinnes by the sword of the Spirit as long as there remaineth among vs a Roote of gall and wormewood that can bring forth all sinnes at once For if we cure sinnes one by one and while one is curing many spring forth the disease ouergroweth the cure Yea euen that very sinne which we seeke to cure after a little while will breake forth againe because the Roote of it is still aliue This Roote of Bitternesse is a naturall prophanenesse euen a contempt of God and the Truth of Religion I say the truth of Religion for there may bee an eye cast toward Religion out of custome or for company or for some remaining impressions of the first Creation that may make men to feare there is a God But to loue Religion in the true shape of it and because it is true this is it that I find farre banished by this Roote of Prophanenesse And though I much lament it yet I doe not greatly wonder at it for I see a Cause of it and therein I see that while men are nothing but men this will be their fashion For Religion in the Truth of it must needs be Spirituall Ioh. 4. for it is the worship of him who is a Spirit and therefore cannot bee pleased by any worship but of Spirit and Truth Now if Religion bee Spirituall how can it bee but it must needs be contemned yea hated by men that are carnall For the carnall minde is enmity against God Rom. 8. 7. and the flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh and these are contrary the one to the other And from this Contrariety ariseth that Enmity and from that Enmity ariseth Persecution euen from the beginning vnto the end of the world For this two fold seed of the flesh and the spirit hauing the foundations of it laid in Paradise the Enmity then also was enacted between them And as then Cal. 4. 29. I meane as soon as men were borne he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was borne after the spirit so is it now Now doth the flesh despise and oppose spirituall worship and spirituall worshippers which opposition so farre as it doth preuaile so farre doth the generall roote of sinne preuaile and the sins springing from that roote And because the Diuell is the Prince of this Enmity hee fitteth weapons for this warre wherwith the sonnes of the flesh may fight his battells against the sons of the spirit And of all the weapons which he hath prouided in these last Ages I thinke he neuer inuented any Engine made of words more seruiceable to him than one which of late hee hath brought into fashion For it is a sharpe-pointed word directed to runne into the very eye of true Religion it is a Canon mounted to batter the very Kingedome of Christ to lay wast all holinesse of life the fruite and effect of that Kingedome and this word is then shot off when a Saint is called a Puritane K. Iames in his Preface to Ba●● Doron And though King IAMES a King higher than the Kings of the earth in Learning and Iudgement tied the propertie of this word to Anabaptists their Sectaries it is now diuerted to Saints euen to those that doe not walke in the broad way of common and sociable vices and especially if they goe somewhat higher than ciuil and naturall Righteousnesse If the spirit doe but shew it selfe in some expression of a clearer light or more heauenly vertue than the darkenesse of the flesh comprehendeth it is to bee beaten down and quenched with the Title of Puritaisme Yet Christ plainely calleth his Disciples to excellent things Mat. 5. 20. 〈◊〉 16 3. New Tran and Dauid calleth the Saints by the Title of Excellent yea and for this very Reason in them is all his delight because they are Excellent and for this very Reason doth the man of flesh hate and persecute them And indeed in this very Excellence wherin the spiritual man exceedes the carnall and naturall man stands the glory of Gods Kingdome of Grace For when men doe those workes which the carnall and naturall men doe not sauour and therfore doe them not then are mens eies turned away from the men that doe them to God the Author of them and so seeing their good workes to shine