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
A09970	The golden scepter held forth to the humble VVith the Churches dignitie by her marriage. And the Churches dutie in her carriage. In three treatises. The former delivered in sundry sermons in Cambridge, for the weekely fasts, 1625. The two latter in Lincolnes Inne. By the late learned and reverend divine, Iohn Preston, Dr. in Divinity, chaplaine in ordinary to His Maiesty, Mr. of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and somtime preacher at Lincolnes Inne.	Preston, John, 1587-1628.; Glover, George, b. ca. 1618, engraver.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; Ball, Thomas, 1589 or 90-1659.	1638 (1638)	STC 20227; ESTC S112474	187,142	312

THE GOLDEN SCEPTER with The Churches Marriage And THE CHURCHES CARRIAGE In three Treatissis BY The late Learned Divine IOHN PRESTON D r. in D. Chap in Ordinary to his Ma tie M r. of Emmanuell Colledge in Cambridge And sometime Preacher of Lincolnes Inne London Printed by R. Badger for N. Bourne A. Boler R. Harford sould at y e Royall Exchange at y e Marigold in Paules Chu yard at y e Bible in Queens head Alley in Pater Noster Row 1639 THE GOLDEN SCEPTER held forth to the humble VVITH THE CHVRCHES DIGNITIE by her Marriage AND THE CHVRCHES DVTIE in her Carriage In three Treatises The former delivered in sundry Sermons in Cambridge for the weekely Fasts 1625. The two latter in Lincolnes Inne By the late learned and reverend Divine IOHN PRESTON D r. in Divinity Chaplaine in Ordinary to His Majesty M r. of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge and somtime Preacher at Lincolnes Inne PSALM 45 6. Thy throne O GOD is for ever and ever the scepter of thy kingdome is a right scepter IER 3. 14. Returne O back-sliding children for I am married unto you HOS 2. 7. I will goe and returne unto my first husband for then it was better with me than now LON●ON Printed by R. Badger for N Bourne at the Royall Exchange and R. Harford at the gilt BIBLE in Queenes-head Alley in Pater-noster Row and by F. Eglesfield at the MARIGOLD in PAULS Church-yard 1638. TO THE TRVLY VERTVOVS AND RELIGIOVS Gentleman RICHARD KNIGHTLEY Esquire SIR IT hath beene our custome hitherto who were deputed by the Author to this service to inscribe or dedicate the severall tractates wee have put forth to some or other of his speciall friends as proofs of our fidelity in discharging of the trust reposed in us and speciall emblemes of the Authours great abilities For if in every triviall and small Epistle a man do exarare animam imprint upon the paper some peeces of his soule he doth it much more doubtlesse in his studied exercises wherein he cannot but conceive his memory may live and some part of himselfe be kept alive and sweet to all posterity If he could say non omnis moriar because he was a Poet and think his Poem perennius aere a monument that time it selfe would not be able to divoure how much more may he say it that drawes himselfe unto the life in an immortall Dye and writes such characters as are not subject to decay and perish For all flesh is grasse and all the glory of man as the flower of grasse the grasse withereth and the flower falleth away but the word of the Lord endureth for ever and this is the word which by the Gospell is preached unto you 1 Pet. 1. 24 25. Seeing therefore it hath pleased God to preserve these peeces yet alive and after long deferring and desiring to produce and bring them forth to publike view we have thought good in a prime and speciall manner to entitle you unto them and to send them out unto the world under the covert and shadow of your name For seeing it pleased the Authour to choose your habitation wherein to put off and lay up his then decaying and declining body why should it not bee proper and convenient to send these living and surviving peeces of his soule for to attend it considering especially how much his body heretofore had waited on his soule which otherwise in humane probabilitie might still have beene alive Neither is there any doubt but these vigorous and usefull breathings of his spirit wil find accesse and entertainment where his languid and at last his breathlesse body did Especially these which may more properly be counted his than any thing that hitherto hath seene the light and this wee dare be bold to say for these that none of them did more expresse the Authour to the life Those that did either know him in his life time or since have much and frequently perused his writings shall find these three things every where occurring The foulenesse of sinne the freenesse of grace and the fulnesse of duty which in other peeces onely scattered and sparkling here and there are here collected under proper heads and handled so professedly and clearely as nothing more concerning them can be desired In the first are the danger and deformity of sin driving the spouse to sad and low expressions of her selfe as those virgins were commanded Deut. 21. 11 12 13. Even to shave her head and pare her nailes and bewaile her father and her mother that is her naturall and inbred evils and corruptions In the second is the glorious freenesse of the grace of Christ receiving this dejected and humbled captive unto favour and with that great King Hest. 5. 2. reaching forth the Golden Scepter of his love and mercy to her not onely to the pardon and forgivenesse of all her sin but intitling also of her unto all things for all things are hers whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things prosent or things to come all are hers because she is Christs 1 Cor. 3. 21 22. In the third the fulnesse of her duty is prest upon her for the grace of God that bringeth salvation doth no sooner appeare to any man but it teacheth to deny ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present world Tit. 2. 11 12. that as before Ahasuerus had the virgins purified that were to approach his bed with various and costly powders and perfumes Hest. 2. 12 c. so Christ when once the soule is faithfully espoused unto him perfumes and washes her in his most precious bloud and beautifies her with variety of graces that he may present her to himselfe a glorious Spouse not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that she should be holy and without blame Eph. 5. 27. And now what rests but that these Treatises crave shadow protection from you nay owne you for their Patron Doth not the low and humble posture of your mind intitle you unto the first your high opinion of free grace unto the second and your holy and spotlesse carriage to the third Having so just a title besides other ingagements by this threefold clayme 't is but justice to call your name upon it and by your acceptance of it you shall shew friendship to this Posthume and especially oblige Your already much obliged and ingaged THOMAS GOODVVIN THOMAS BALL The Contents of the first Treatise Doct. 1. GOd afflicts his owne people 3 Reas. 1. Because he loves them 4 2. That his name be not blasphemed Ibid. 3. He will be sanctified in those that draw neare him Ibid. 4. He walks among them 5 Vse 1. To feare the Lord. 6 2. Want of feare provoketh God 13 3. Gods severity to wicked men 18 4. Not to think strange that God afflicts his 19 Doct. 2. God pities his people in affliction 20 Reas. 1. He is