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
A86659	Sermo secularis. Or, A sermon to bring to remembrance the dealings of Jehovah with this kingdom of England, and our ingratitude and dis-loyalty to him, in this last century of years. Ab anno nativitatis Christi, 1547. usque ad præsentem annum, 1647. The time of the ruine of Rome, is herein according to Gods Word modestly pointed at. With sundry uses seasonable and sutable for all degrees and sorts of people. / Preached at Belstead, neer Ipswich, July 4, 1647. By Benjamin Hubbard, preacher of the Word of God at Copdock in Suffolke.	Hubbard, Benjamin.	1648 (1648)	Wing H3207; Thomason E422_15; ESTC R202479	43,832	60

and therefore they are carelesse in their conversations These are not of Pauls spirit who as earnestly and truly longed for Christ as any Phil. 3.7 8. as appeares by his counting all things to be losse and dung in comparison of the excellencie of the knowledge of Christ and that he might win Christ and be found in him not having his own righteousness but that which is through the faith of Christ And that is not all he desireth Verse 9. for he yet adds That I might know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable unto his death For wheresoever there is a true application of Christ his righteousnesse to the poore soule unto justification there also is the necessary concomitant thereof the efficacie and power of the spirit of Christ working true sanctification in some measure And therefore the same Apostle tels us plainly Titus 2.11 12. That the grace of God that brings or accompanieth salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us that denying ungodlinesse and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world Those therefore that onely talke of grace shall misse the salvation And the Apostle John is cleare in this Truth 1 John 3.1 2. saying Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the Sons of God! Beloved now are we the sons of God and it doth not yet appear what we shall be but we know that when he shall appeare we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is And to the end no man should be deluded with a vain hope of this great and inestimable favour of God he gives this rule of cry all to be distributed to each one severally saying And every man that hath this hope in him Verse 3. purifieth himselfe even as he is pure Use 2 The second Use shall be of Examination seeing God will weigh search and try every man woman and childe let us examine our selves as a wise man will tell his money when he goes to make a payment Psal 44. that he may be sure to know whether he hath sufficient or no. Let us search and try our wayes Lam. 3.39 sayth the Church of God and the Apostle sayth Examine your selves whether you be in the faith prove your own selves 2 Cor. 13 5. know you not your own selves how that Jesus Christ is in you except ye be reprobates or as the Greeke word signifieth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not approved for without the privative letter Alpha it signifieth approved ver 7. of that Chapter 2 Cor. 10.18 And it is nothing to our question what men approve but what God approveth Therefore let us measure our selves by Gods bushel or standard if I may so say weigh we our selves in the ballance of the Sanctuary Quest But how shall one know that he or she is weighty in the sense we speake now of or that he wants weight in Gods account Answ I will follow the Metaphor of the weight of things naturall Now there are two evident demonstrative signes of the weight gravity and ponderosity or of the levity and lightnesse of naturall things which are known generally of all men A ponderous thing must have a proportionable strength to uphold the same It is true in naturall Philosophy and every man knows it A weighty stone laid on a weake shelfe breaks it down and the same stone being laid in a soft muddie quagmire sinks in Therefore I say it is well known that a thing of gravity must have a foundation of solidity to support it because weight or * Gravitas est qualitas ad centrum vergeus movens Mag. Phys l. 3. c. 7. S. 8. Psal 38.4 gravity is a quality tending to the center And therefore David being sensible of the weight of his sin and of his own weaknesse sayth Mine iniquities are gone over my head as a heavie burthen they are too heavie for me to beare But on the other side a thing that is light a weak thing will support it and bear it up A ponderous and weighty thing is not easily removed Gen. 29.8 We cannot water the sheep till they roll the stone from the wells mouth say they So the women going to the Sepulchre of our Saviour said among themselves Mark 16.3 Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the Sepulchre They knew it would require strength to remove a weighty stone For heavie things are not removed by a puffe of winde But things which are not heavie but light they are easily removed chaffe is blown away with every puffe of wind Psal 1.4 Now to apply onely these two Rules to spirituall self-tryall I say then that the soule that is of spirituall gravity is founded upon Christ onely 1 Cor. 3.11 For other foundation can no man lay then that is laid which is Jesus Christ He Mat. 1.24.25 and onely He is the Rock of solidity upon which you may safely build the whole weight of eternall salvation Heb. 5.9 Acts Mon. Vol. 2. p. 427. Therefore that gracious Martyr and our Countrey man Lambert cryed out in the very flames None but Christ none but Christ I say that the soule that is of spirituall gravity is so fixed and setled upon Christ that it cannot be removed from him neither by deceiving sleights nor plain strength of men or devills Mat. 16.16 18. For Christ whom Peter made confession of is the Rock upon which the Church of Christ is built and neither the person of Peter himselfe 1 Cor. 3.11 as Papists nor his Confession or his faith professed as some others would have it understood For the Apostle Paul being not onely * Rom. 8.14 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Pet. 1.21 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 3.11 Psal 19.14 led but carried by the holy Ghost saith other foundation then Christ can no man lay And every gracious soule speaks thus O Jehovah my rock and my redeemer From which place of holy Writ we may safely thus argue The Redeemer of the Church of God is the Rock upon which the same Church is built But Christ onely is the Redeemer of the Church of God Ergo. Christ onely is the Rock upon which the Church of God is built The Major or first proposition is cleare from the place alledged Psal 19.14 Jehovah my rock and my redeemer therefore one and the same person is the Rock and Redeemer of the true Church and consequently of every gracious soule which is a member thereof Gal. 3.13 Acts 4.12 10. 1 Pet. 1.18 19. The Minor or second proposition is as cleer for Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law Neither is there salvation in any other We are redeemed by the precious bloud of Christ and no other way The Conclusion doth undeniably follow upon the