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	teach_v	ungodliness_n	4,302	5	11.7286	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04159	An helpe to the best bargaine a sermon on Mat. 13-16. Preached on Sunday, the 20. of Octob. 1623. in the Cathedrall Church of Christ, Canterbury. By Thomas Iackson, doctor of divinitie, and one of the prebends, and lecturer there.	Jackson, Thomas, d. 1646.	1624 (1624)	STC 14300; ESTC S101360	15,596	66

may be kept blamelesse vnto the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ S. Iames also biddeth all Christians Cleanse their hands and purge their hearts Yea euery page in holy writ is ful of such precepts though not such full precepts As Let your light shine before men Let not sin raigne in your mortall bodies Let your conuersation be such as becommeth the Gospell The Grace of God which bringeth saluation to all men hath appeared and teacheth vs to denye all vngodlinesse and worldly Lusts and to liue righteously godly and soberly in this present world Be yee holy in all manner of conuersation Yea what is true Repentance but the conuersion of the whole man from all sinne vnto GOD He felleth all his sinnes Such a sale holy Dauid made who had respect to all God's commandements restrained his feet from euery euill way and vtterly abhorred all false waies And Iosiah turned to the Lord with all his heart all his soule according to all the commandements of God And Zacharie and Elizabeth walked in all the commandements and ordinances of God without rebuke Zacheus hauing found the Pearl sold all his sinnes hee stood and said Lord the halfe of my goods I giue to the poore and if I haue taken anything from any man by false accusation I restore it foure-fold Marie who had beene a notorious and infamous sinner hauing found this Pearle shee sold all her sinnes both for delight and practise vtterly forsooke and detested her former sinful vnchast life her eies which had beene full of adultery became as riuers of teares to wash Christs feete her haire which doubtless had beene plaited and laide abroad an entisement to sin was made a to well to wipe his feete her face which had beene impudent was filled with shamefastnesse and modesty she came behinde Christ The poore Theefe finding this Pearl on the Crosse how did he sell all What a change was there wrought that little time he had to liue how well and godly did hee spend it in rebukes confessions and praiers The Iaylor who doubtlesse had beene the instrument of cruelty in punishing the Apostles hauing found this Pearle hee sold all his sinnes brought them forth of prison washed their stripes set meat before them and reioyced that hee his houshould beleeued in God Yea such as had vsed curious arts finding this pearl sold all their sins and in detestation thereof burnt their bookes though worth fifty thousand peeces of siluer Oh these were Merchants and made an happie market indeede Yea true repentance worketh such shame and confusion such zeale indignation and reuenge such beating on the breast with the Publican such smiting on the thigh with the Prophet such a change that their old companions take notice thereof that they will no longer run into the same excesse of riot with them But no maruell for they haue sold all their sinnes are become new Creatures So must all doe that will buy the Pearle But now alas how fearefull will the condition of many bee found if we make application Many seek for this goodly Pearl seeme very desirous to haue it commend it and the sellers of it but will not sell all they haue They come to the Church heare the word diligently respect the Ministers of the Gospel reuerently cheapen faire and stand at offer and proffer but they would haue the Pearle and their sinnes too they will by no meanes bee drawne to sell all them If you doe remember there were foure things laid downe in the Doctrine First they doe sell Secondly all sinnes Thirdly in regard of inward delight and outward practise Fourthly for euer Against which foure sorts of Chapmen doe offend who if they reforme not shall neuer enioy the Pearle First are such as leaue one sin and take vp another and commonly that they take is worse then that they left so some leaue prodigality and become couetous luke-warme Protestants become Idolatrous Papists some superstitious become prophain and many Atheists turne Heretikes In a word a great many thinke they haue made a faire market when they consider what they haue beene but neuer consider what they are what they haue lost but not what they haue taken vp wheras in truth they haue only made an exchang and that for the worse whereas my Text saith They must sell and deliuer seison Another sort there is that would sell some yea many but not all their sinnes such a Chapman was Herod hee did many things but not all his heart was still on Herodias he had not gone so far as Dauid to haue respect to all Gods commandements Thou shalt not commit adultery was cast behind his backe hee could not abide to heare of that the young man such another hee offer'd faire left but one thing but would not part with that but fell off and mist the happie bargaine Alas this is the wofull condition of many they will part with some sinnes yea not sticke to part with many but retaine some one singular and beloued sinne they will pare fingers and toes to the quicke yea launce some part till the blood gush out but the right eie will not out the right hand will not off Such Customers the Deuill liketh well enough he careth not how many sins we part with so hee hold vs fast but by one hee knoweth well that one raigning sinne ouerthroweth all religion One would thinke it but a smal sinne the sinne of the tongue yet S. Iames saith If any man seeme religious and refraine not his tongue this mans religion is vaine Oh remember this Text hee that will haue this Pearle must make a full sale of all To retaine a part is not to sell but with Ananias to dissemble He that keepeth sinne in any part looseth Grace in whole To loath some sinne and loue other is but halting One Colloquintida spilt the whole messe of pottage Is not a ship suncke by one leake a besiedged Citie lost by one breach a bird caught in the snare by one foot as well as the whole body a man killed by one disease Hee is no good Chapman in God's shop that doth not with Dauid Vtterly abhorre all false waies yea those especially wherein hee hath sometime walked with greatest delight Oh let vs remember the Preface which Moses setteth before the Law God spake All these words and saide Hee spake not the first and second no nor all the commandements of the first Table onely and there left but he spake All gaue as great a charge to keep euery one as any one And S. Iames saith He that breaketh one is guiltie of all He that wittingly and willingly transgresseth any one will if occasion serue breake euery one wee see that in Herod though he did many things yet he made no