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
A57298	A brief and serious warning to such as are concerned in commerce and trading who go under the profession of truth, to keep within the bounds thereof, in righteousness, justice ad honesty towards all men.	Rigge, Ambrose, 1635?-1705.	1678 (1678)	Wing R1476; ESTC R31778	4,471	10

A BRIEF and SERIOUS WARNING TO SUCH As are concerned in Commerce and Trading who go under the Profession of TRUTH to keep within the Bounds thereof in Righteousness Justice and Honesty towards all Men. ANY Days and Months yea some Years hath my Life been oppressed and my Spirit grieved to see and hear of the uneven Walking of many who have a Name to live and profess the Knowledge of GOD in Words yea and also of some who have tasted of the good Word of GOD and have been made Partakers of the Power of the World to come and have received the heavenly Gift and Grace of GOD which teacheth all who walk in it to deny all Ungodliness and Worldly Lusts and to live soberly bonestly and righteously in this present World whose Faithfulness with great Reason hath been expected to GOD in Things of the highest Concern and to have walked as Lights in the World and in all Faithfulness both to GOD and Man to have stood as living Monuments of the Mercies of the LORD letting their Lights so shine before Men that they might see their good Works both in spiritual and temporal Concerns and so might have honoured and glorified GOD in their Day and Generation and have convinced or confounded Gain-sayers putting to Silence the Ignorance of foolish Men whereby the worthy Name of the LORD by which they have been called might have been renowned through the Earth and his precious Truth and Glory spread to the Ends of it that many thro' the beholding their good and exemplary Conversation in Christ coupled with the holy Fear of GOD might have desired to lay hold of the Skirt of a Christian indeed whose Praise is not of Men but of GOD. These are the Fruits which we have laboured and travelled for through many and great Tribulations that many might be turned to Righteousness and that the Knowledge of the Power and Glory of the LORD might cover the Earth even as the Waters do the Sea This was and is our only End and Design which blessed be the LORD many are Witnesses of and established in to our abundant Joy and Comfort But there are some amongst us who have not walked humbly with the LORD as he hath required nor kept in that low Estate neither inwardly nor outwardly which becometh such who are travelling up to Zion with their Faces thitherward but have launched from that Rock which is firm and sure into the great Sea of Troubles and Uncertainty where some have been drowned others hardly escaping and many yet labouring for the Shore with little Hopes of coming at it who have not only brought themselves in Danger of suffering Shipwreck but have drawn in others and have indangered them also which hath opened the Mouths of the Enemies of Sion's Welfare to blaspheme his great and glorious Name and hath eclipsed the Lustre of the glorious Sun of Righteousness both in City and in Country This is a crying Evil and ought not to go proved and that with a severe Countenance for GOD is angry with it and will assuredly punish it Many have got Credit upon the Account of TRUTH because at the Beginning it did and doth still lead all who were and are faithful to it to Faithfulness and Truth even in the unrighteous Mammon and to let their Yea be Yea and their Nay be Nay even between Man and Man in outward Things so that many would have credited one that was called a Quaker with much and many I believe did meerly upon that Account some whereof I doubt have just Cause to repent of it already But if Truth and Righteousness had been lived in by all who prosess it there had been no such Occasion given for they who still retain their Integrity to the Truth and Life of Righteousness manifested can live with a Cup of Water and a Morsel of Bread in a Cottage before they can hazard other Mens Estates to advance their own such are not forward to borrow nor to complain for Want for their Eye and Trust is to the LORD their Preserver and Upholder and he hath continued the little Meal in the Barrel and the Oil in the Cruse hath not failed to such 'till GOD hath sent further Help this is certainly known to a Remnant at this Day who have coveted no Man's Silver Gold or Apparel but have and do labour with their Hands Night and Day that the Gospel may be without Charge It is so far below the Nobility of Christianity that it is short of common Civility and honest Society amongst Men to twist into Mens Estates and borrow upon the TRUTH' 's Credit gained by the just and upright Dealing of the Faithful more than they certainly know their own Estates are like to answer and with what they borrow reach after great Things in the World appearing to Men to be what in the Sight of God and Truth they are not seeking to compass great Gain to themselves whereby to make themselves or Children rich or great in the World This I testify for the LORD GOD is Deceit and Hypocrisy and will be blasted with the Breath of his Mouth and we have seen it blasted already And that Estate that is got either with the rending or with the Hazard of rending another Man's is neither honestly got nor can be blessed in the Possession for he that borrows Money of another if the Money lent be either the Lender's proper Estate or Part of it 〈…〉 … hans Money that he is intrusted withal 〈…〉 … ws or some such who would not let 〈…〉 … on certain good Security and to have 〈…〉 … ble Consideration of its Improvement and the borrower though he hath little or no real or personal Estate of his own but hath got some Credit either as he is a Professor of the TRUTH or otherwise and hath it may be a little House and a small Trade it may be enough to a low and contented Mind but then the Enemy gets in and works in his Mind and he begins to think of an higher Trade and a siner House and to live more at Ease and Pleasure in the World and then contrives how he may borrow of this and the other and when accomplished according to his Desire then he begins to undertake great Things and gets into a fine House and gathers rich Furniture and Goods together launching presently into the strong Torrent of a great Trade and then makes a great Shew beyond what really he is which is Dishonesty and if he accomplishes his intended Purpose to raise himself in the World it is with the Hazard at least of other Mens Ruin which is unjust But if he falls short of his Expectation as commonly such do then he doth not only ruin others but himself also and brings a great Reproach upon the blessed TRUTH he professeth which is worse than all and this hath already been manifested in a great Measure and by sad Experience witnessed But the honest upright Heart and Mind knows