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
A30674	England's bane, or, The deadly danger of drunkenness described in a letter to a friend wherein are many convincing arguments against it and many aggravations of it in professors of religion, and many other things tending to a reformation of that beastly sin / by Edward Bury.	Bury, Edward, 1616-1700.	1677 (1677)	Wing B6205; ESTC R23888	45,031	92

difference The Family you live in hath been a House of Prayer and will you now make it a Cage of unclean Birds You have been warn'd of the Devils Temptations and the Worlds Allurements you have seen the difference between those that have resisted them and those that yielded to them Consider in whether of their cases you would rather be when death calls you and whether a day spen in Prayer or a day spent in an Ale-house wil then bring most comfort you have lived under the powerful means of Grace all your days and heard thousands of Sermons besides other Ordinances and are all those lost Remember what Christ saith of Chorazin and Bethsaida and Capernaum It shall be more tollerable for Tire and Sidon or Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of Judgment than for them A fruitless Tree in the Vineyard is more in danger than if it grew in the Desert Others may say I never knew the danger of such a course my Parents rather incouraged me then otherwise but what can you say or what excuse can you make Aggra 2. The many Convictions which you had upon your Spirit will witness against you that yours is not a sin of ignorance but against knowledge and conscience and those sins as they make the greatest gashes in the Soul so they will make the greatest noise in the Conscience those that sin ignorantly are to be pittied but those that sin wilfully deserve to be punished He that know not his Masters will and doth things worthy of stripes shall be beaten with few stripes but he that knows his Masters will and doth it not shall be beaten with many Some ignorant Souls may perswade themselves that Drinking and Swilling is the chiefest happiness but I dare appeal to your Consciences in cool blood whether you do not know to the contrary you have been better instructed and and doubtless have felt a better rellish in something else God hath sent you into his Vineyard to work and will you leave your work before the evening when the time of receiving your wages comes you have been planted in the Vineyard hedg'd about with Gods providence watered with the Dew of Heaven and he hath expected fruit year by year and will you still be barren or worse than barren will you bring forth wild Grapes Grapes of Sodom whose clusters are bitter what could he have done for his Vineyard that he hath not done for us Well ere long he will pluck up his hedg and take away his fence he will lay by his Basket and take up his Axe he will bid cut him down why cumbreth he the ground Lucifers punishment shall be greater because he was an Angel and Julians because he was a Christian and Judas because he was a Disciple and Capernaum Corazin and Bethsaida because they enjoyed the means which others wanted If you have knowledge in the head and not grace in the heart you will carry your own Mittimus to prison with you or like Vriah Letters to cut your own Throat you sin with a Candle in your hand when others ignorance may excuse them a tanto though not a toto your knowledge will encrease your guilt and heighten your torments Aggra 3. Nay you your self have made a profession of Religion and owned your Baptismal Vow you have held out a Lamp in your hand but 't is to be feared have no Oyl in your Vessel the want of which now makes your Lamp shine so dim and you to walk in darkness you performed many duties and put up many prayers and made many promises to God and Man of your Reformation Oh let it not be to tell the World how far a Hipocrite may go and fall short of Heaven and let them know whatever you said you meant nothing less With what face can you ever call God Father or ever beg for mercy at his hands thus to use him or beg power against sin when you mind nothing less than a Reformation Are you inded willing to lose all the pains that ere you have taken in Heavens way now you have born the burthen and heat of the day and for ought you know the time of your receiving reward is at hand Many a day and many an hour you have spent in Prayer Humiliation Hearing Reading Christian Conference Meditation and such like Duties and will you now out-run and lose them all Shall all your Petitions be lost as foolish Boys lose their Arrows shoot them and then mind them no more If a Righteous Man turn from his Righteousness he shall die in his sin Ezek. 3. 20. all his Righteousness shall not be remembred Is the way of Holiness too severe or will heaven be had upon easier terms or were the Godly from the beginning of the world all deceived which took Holiness to be the only way to Happiness and is there a nearer way found out than they dreamed of and was Christ himself deceived that told us the way was narrow and the gate strait that led to Life and few there be that find it or was the Holy Ghost mistaken when he said Drunkards Whoremasters Swearers c. should never enter Heaven Or can you imagine you may dance with the Devil all day and sup with Christ at night or do the Devils work and receive Christs wages or are you willing to take up with the Hypocrites a portion or do you love your company so well that you will go to Hell for company you carry your own condemnation with you If Religion be not good why did you profess it if it be why do you not practice it Or doth Religion teach you such courses I know some will be apt to charge Religion with it from your practice and say see what your professors are they will be drunk as well as others but the Apostle tells us Titus 2. 12. That the grace of God that bringeth Salvation teacheth us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present world Have you found out a better master better work and better wages 't is well but praise in the parting The world hates you because of your profession and will you make God hate you for your Hypocrisie Would you reconcile God and the World it will never be or would you have your good things both here and hereafter You will find the mistake you must renounce the one or the other Heaven will not be had in a Vicious Course of Life Aggra 4. This course of life in you that have been a professor of Religion is exceeding injurious both to God and man if you never had pretended better none would have expected better at your hands but to be wounded in the house of our friend to have one with whom we took sweet counsel together and walked to the house of God in company he lift up the heel against us this would trouble a David himself The former hopes you gave us the noise you made in the world of