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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60630	The faithful witness, or, A hand of love reached forth, that the blind may be guided, and the scattered gathered also, mans sinne and rebellion declared and the long-suffering of the Lord shewed: with a true call unto all people to meet the Lord by speedy repentance ..., also the state of professors plainly manifested ..., with a warning unto all the tender hearted amongst them to arise, and receive the hand of love ... : also, truth defended and cleared from the lyes and slanders declared by Ionathan Iohnson of Lincoln, a Baptist in profession / from one who bears no evil will to any man, but wisheth well to all men, and am known to many by the name of William Smith.	Smith, William.	1659 (1659)	Wing S4300; ESTC R38932	32,830	41

by Christ Some men are not common Drunkards as the World calls them yet secretly hath a love to be in the excess some in neither of these yet hath another lover So some in pride some in covetousness some in foolish jesting and idle talking some in vain sports and pleasures of the World that so you are all found to have some secret lover vvhich you vvould not have tried in the light novv there is nothing so secret vvhich shall not come to light though long you may hide it and smothe● the Witness of God in your ovvn conscience that testifies against it yet to the light must every secret thing come vvhether it be good or evil and in the light be tried and judged in righteous judgement Therefore all unto the light give up your selves and yeild obedience to every motion thereof in your own consciences that you may become followers of it in love to it for if you stand in the enmity against it and be more in love vvith your evil deeds then you are vvith the light there vvill be no escaping the condemnation of it therefore let this be a Warning unto you all who live in pleasures upon the Earth that you may cease to do evil and depart from your iniquities and break off from your sins before the time come in which you will say There is no pleasure in them O hearken hearken for this is the day of your visitation now is the accepted time now is Gods Witness striving with you now is the Hand of Love reached forth unto you therefore whilst it is called to day harden not your hearts but turn unto the Lord who stands ready to have mercy upon you for therein doth he delight Now let not your hearts be hardened to outstand this day of Visitation left the day of Vengeance and Indignation come upon you and overtake you because mercy you have refused Consider this all you who have your life in pride covetousness drunkenness swearing lying envy and malice and vanities of the World if these things be not shewed you to be evil by something in your own conscience that doth convince you of them and reprove you for them and brings you to an understanding that you ought not to do them this is the light of Christ which is pure and hath no communion with darkness nor the unfruitful Works thereof but is seperated from the unclean neither joining with it nor consenting to it but hath a life in it self which is holy and undefiled and doth pursue the evil-doer in judgement who is at enmity with it and in disobedience to it O sink down in Gods fear and consider what a day of patience and forbearance he hath continued unto you how long hath he spared you And what a time of repentance hath he given you And how many years hath he striven vvith you that with the Cords of Love he might have drawn you and with the Hand of Love have led you But you have rejected it and casts love behind your backs and likes to retain your evil deeds better and to love darkness rather What Visitations of Gods pure love have you set at nought that you might walk after the way of your own hearts the lust of your own eyes rising up in rebellion against the pure Witness of God in your own conscience and ●laying it that you might live in pleasures and walk at liberty in the flesh without reproof And thus is the just condemned and killed by you and he resists not he is rejected and despised by you wounding him by your transgressions and bruising him with your iniquities yet doth not he open his mouth but as a Lamb is he led to the slaughter O look up unto him whom you pierce and mourn let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into heaviness for he doth not so deal with you but suffers and bears in patience and in the bowels of pitty is yet striving with you that his goodness might lead you to repentance and thus doth he love his enemies and doth good to those that hates him Therefore all bow your ears and hearken and be diligent to obey the light before it cease striving with you and the long-suffering of the Lord come to an end concerning you and his tender love be shut up from you who have gain-sayed and outstood the day of your Visitation and then you begin to knock like foolish Virgins when the doors is shut and all things quiet and to seek a place of repentance when it cannot be found though you seek it with tears O prize the day of your Visitation and let all vain Disputers of this World lay their hands upon their mouths and confess they have done foolishly in contending and striving in their own wills against that which hath so long striven with them that they might be turned from the darkness unto the light and from the power of Satan unto God tha● the hand of Love might guide them to receive the Grace of God which so freely he hath made manifest unto them Read you Priests Professors and all people who hates the light and will not ●bide to hear of it so near you as in your own conscience but are filled with rage and fury against it speaking scornfully proudly and disdainfully of it and ast that are guided by it in this you are all friends and joins together fear and tremble before the living God for his wrath is revealed from heaven against all unrighteousness and ungodliness of men and a day of sad lamentation is kindling from the breath of the Almighty and wil fall upon the heads of the ungodly● who in their stout-heartedness outstand the day of Gods loving kindness this testimony wil reach you all and that of God in your conscience answers to it give all diligence thereunto for it is a sure Word and teacheth right things it will not deceive you if you incline your m●●ds unto it that you may be doers of what it teacheth for it is Gods Grace that appeareth and if you yeild obedience to it you will know it brings salvation with it and will teach you to deny the ungodliness and worldly lusts in which the Prince of darkness leads you and deceives you and brings forth his Work by you in all manner of sin and wickedness in which you are serving him and in which your minds are captivated by him and the light of Christ in your conscience hath no communion with such Works of darkness but stands a Witness against them and reproves you for them as you join unto them And this is the Word of his Grace that would have you to deny them and forsake them and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present evil World for the fashions of this World passeth away and all your vanities will wither and your beauty consume and the later end wil come upon you when the Lord will have no pleasure in you but will give