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
A45276	A Christian legacy consisting of two parts: I. A preparation for death. II. A consolation against death. By Edward Hyde, Dr. of Divinity, and late rector resident of Brightwell in Berks.	Hyde, Edward, 1607-1659.	1657 (1657)	Wing H3863; ESTC R216954	160,798	388

him to break off without making the Inference but our own consciences will thus make it up for him for if God spared not the Angels that sinned much less will he spare men the more ignoble creatures that would not repent them of their sins and if he cast the Angels down from heaven into hell then surely he will not admit wicked men from hell into heaven and if he delivered the Angels into chains of darkness to be reserved unto Judgement then much more will he deliver those wicked men whom he hath brought to Judgement to be cast into that daarkness where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth For there was before an inner darkness in their sin and it is but just there should be an outer darkness in their punishment They that before would not see the light then shall not see it for though they shall dwell in everlasting burnings yet shall they have such fire as shall only afford Heat to scorch them not Light to comfort them For then shall the fire that is prepared for the Execution of Gods Judgements upon sinners be divided by the Word of the Lord saith Saint Basil All the light that is in it shall be for the comfort of the Saints that is shall return back to heaven again from whence it came down as was said before but all the Heat that is in it shall be for the torment of the sinners So that in heaven shall be all the Light and none of the Heat in hell shall be all the Heat and none of the Light Saint Basil in his Sermon upon the Judgement to come 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 There will Pashur that injuriously smote Jeremiah the Prophet not be Pashur noble and excellent but Magor-missabib fear round about Jer. 20. 3 4. Est enim Pashur idem quod excrescens Princeps vel scindens seu aperiens locum Magor vero Pavor saith Zegedine Then shall those who now only make way for their own Greatness only give way to their own Fears They that now think they have not room enough to live shall then think they have too much room to Die This is so certain a truth that it is set down by way of History as if it were already done not of Prophesie as if it were to do Rev. 6. 15 16. And the Kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men the chief Captains the mighty men and every bond-man every free-man hid themselves in the Dens and in the Rocks of the Mountains and said to the Mountains and Rocks Fall on us and hide us from the Face of him that sitteth on the Throne and from the wrath of the Lamb For the great day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to stand We may answer They who now are most likely to fall for it is evident that they who now are a terrour unto others shall then be a terrour to themselves the great men the mighty men that now engross all will then think they have too much for they will wish the Rocks and the Mountains to fall on them and think that weight nothing to the burden of their sins They will desire to be hid from the face of him in whose presence is the fulness of joy and from the wrath of that Lamb which alone delivereth from the wrath of God They will be afraid to see their Redeemer how much more to see their Judge They will not know how to look upon him as a Lamb such as he is in himself much less will they know how to look upon him as a Lyon such as their sins have made him They will be terrified at the thought of their neglected Deliverance and much more at the voice of their denounced Damnation But I dare not proceed further in these terrours for fear they should prove greater then the greatest of our comforts as we are able to receive them though not so great as the least of our sins as we have despitefully committed them For it is not proper to bring a soul laden with sin to a servile but to a godly sorrow not to a sorrow that worketh fear to confusion but that worketh repentance to salvation A sorrow that is not without hope as well as not without fear and hath hopes as far greater then its fears as it hath fears lesser then its sins For a sorrow that is without hope is but the beginning of Hell-torments And it is not safe bringing our souls too near hell-gate for fear the Devil should lay fast hold of us when we are there and pluck us quite in Nay indeed it is not necessary for we are bound to believe that our blessed Saviour Descended into he●… that he might keep us from Descending thither All our labour then must be to enquire which is the best way to prevent these terrours that they may not seize upon our souls and if they have seized us which is the readiest way to expell them SECT II. The best way to prevent the terrours of the Day of Judgement THE best way to prevent these terrours is to practise what we have been taught to pray even to lead a godly a righteous and a sober life A godly life according to Gods Eternal Order the Order of Religion a Righteous life according to mans external Order the Order of Government and a sober life according to our own internal Order the Order of Reason But because some will the less regard this or any other sound Divinity if it be taught them by the Church thereby shewing themselves in one and the same act no less unthankful to Gods mercy which gave them a Church to teach them the true way of godliness then undutiful to Gods Authority that they will not be taught it is necessary to shew how God taught it the Church before the Church taught it us for so saith Saint Paul Tit. 2. 11 12. For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly and righteously and godly or religiously in this present world denying ungodliness and worldly lusts Not Gods Ordinances Gods Sacraments Gods Authority not the undoubted exercise of godliness making all these by our denyals to be thought ungodliness Such a denyal as this must needs be Antichristian and will justifie Hyppolitus his gloss who in the Greek word of denying ' 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hath according to its numeral letters found out the number of the Beast 666. We cannot deny the exercise of godliness as if it were ungodliness Heavenly practises as if they were earthly and worldly lusts but our denyal will help make up the number of the Beast If we will needs be denying let us deny our selves for that denyal will make us live soberly and righteously and religiously in this present world soberly in regard of our selves by subduing our Affections to Reason righteously in regard of our Brethren by subduing our