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
A19504	A preparatiue for the new Passeouer very profitable to be perused and read of all those who are called to the holy table of our Lord / by Maister William Cowper ...	Cowper, William, 1568-1619.	1607 (1607)	STC 5933.3; ESTC S2563	54,238	126

shal we carry no reuerence to our immortall husbād the Lord Iesus shall we take no paines to purifie our heart that we may be presented as a chaste spouse vnto him Let vs not deceiue our selues except we forsake our fathers house our own people y ● is except we be deuorced from our old sins wherin we were born brought vp it is not possible that the king shal haue ●leasure in our beau●ie Let vs call our deeds to examination before the tribunall of our cōscience let vs cast out the Canaanites not pitty thē that the peace of God may dwel with vs let vs deliuer Barrabas to be crucified y ● christ Iesus may liue in vs why shall these Serpents I meane our crooked affections be nourished any longer in our bosome which liue vpon our blood cannot liue except we die Oh that wee could make this day a day of new diuision betweene vs and our old sinnes Neither must we here thinke it enough to fight against our sins but we must euery one of our selues make a particular inquisition of these domestique sins and predominate euil affectiōs y t hath moste of all oppressed vs for there is none of vs al but we haue in vs our own Idol wherunto many times we doe seruice to the great offence of God And albeit this narrow tryall of our sins shall discouer to vs a wonderful discordance between our nature and the most holy law of the Lord yet let vs not be discouraged considering that wee are best in the eyes of God whē we are worst in our own eies most acceptable to him when we are moste displeased with our selues The Lord was mooued euen with Achab his temporall humiliation seest thou not said he to Eliah how Achab is humbled before me because he submiteth himself before mee I will not bring that euill which thou hast spoken in his daies and will not then the Lord much more be mooued with the true humiliation of his owne Seruants No doubt if we cast downe our selues before the Lord hee shall lift vs vp if we humble ourselues he shall exalt vs. If we iudge of ourselues wee shall not be iudged of the Lorde for the Lord is neare to them that are contrite and will saue such as are afflicted in spirit But if we come before the Lord in the presumption of our minds not touched with the sence of our sins then shal he execute that feareful threatning vpō vs I will enter into iudgement with thee because thou sayest I haue not sinned though thou wert high exalted like the Caedars of Bebanon the Oakes of Bashan proud and hautie in thy conceit the Lord shall abase thee and bring thee lowe for he is the Lord that resisteth the proud and giueth grace to the humble The other point of our tryall and preparation stands in putting on that three fold Christian disposition that towards our God we be holy and heauenly minded towards our neighbour louing righteous and mercifull and as concerning our selues that we be sober and lowelie for so the grace of God which hath appeared teacheth vs that we shold deny vngodlinesse and worldly lusts and should li●e godly righteously and soberlie in this present world This is our wedding Garment euen that pure fine and shining linnen which is the righte●usnesse of the Saints A garmment not partiecoloured like Iosephs but compact ofmanie vertues and graces of Christ Iesus These be his badges and cognisances wherby we are knowne to be his the putting on of these is the putting on of Christ for his grace translateth vs out of nature and transformeth vs into his image by his owne spirit And first as concerning our disposition towards God it should not onely bee holy as I haue saide but also heauenly for since we call him our Father which is in heauen we must see what heauenly disposition we haue to goe after him and whether we be weary of our absence from the Lord like Dauid wearie of his dwelling in the Tents of Kedar and desire with the Apostle to remoue out of the body that wee may dwell with the Lord for here is not the place of our rest The best of our life vpon earth except it be the little taste of that hid Manna where with the Lord now and then comforteth our soules in this barrē wildernesse it is but like the life of that forlorne sonne who hauing banished himselfe from his fathers house was driuen to fill his belly with the huskes that was giuen to the Swine and often times could not get them We haue experience enough of the vanitie of worldlie comforts wherein there is no contentment would to God we could also learne with that prodigall sonne to bethinke our selues and conclude to make home againe to our fa●hers house I● whose face ●s the fulnesse of ●oy surely the least of them that dwelles in our fathers house hath bread enough they are filled with the ●atnesse of his house and receiue drink out of the riuers of his pleasures what pleasure then should it be to vs to liue here in this strange land where our soules are almost dead for hunger There is no greater thankefulnesse that man can shew to the Lord then to declare in his affection that he cannot liue without the Lord nor rest content so long as he is absent from him The Lord in the worke of creation neuer rested till he had made man and man can doe no lesse of dutie then passing by all Gods creatures to resolue with himselfe I will neuer rest till I enioy the Lord. The soule of man should be like that Doue of Noah which being sent forth from the arke found no rest to the sole of her foote vntill she returned againe to him that sent her and indeed without the Lord where can we rest Goe thy way with Salomon and proue all the goodnesse of the children ofmen which they enioy vnder the Sunne thou shalt find it is but vanitie and vexation of Spirit whatsoeuer man cleaueth to beside Iehouah the true subsisting Lord it is but a lying vanitie which hath not in it that substance and certaintie which man imagineth yea mā without God in his best estate is altogether vanitie his wisest actions are but a disquieting of himse●fe in vaine It is a godlie saying of August●ne which the word of God and experiēce taught him Fecist● nos domine ad te et semperinquietum est cor nostrū don●● requiescat in te thou madest vs o lord vnto thy selfe and our heart is euer vnquiet till it rest in thee The wicked who are strangers from the wombe pretend in their countenan●e what they wil yet euen in laughter their heart is sade for there is no ioy nor peace to the wicked saieth my God their heart is moued as the trees of the Forrest