Selected quad for the lemma: grace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
grace_n	lust_n	teach_v	ungodliness_n	3,273	5	11.6124	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47465	The display of glorious grace, or, The covenant of peace opened in fourteen sermons lately preached, in which the errors of the present day about reconciliation and justification are detected / by Benjamin Keach.	Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.	1698 (1698)	Wing K58; ESTC R19782	172,719	330

Trading because his House lay waste They minded not this Trade Also know the more you venture the greater Returns you will have the more you do or suffer for Christ the greater your Reward of Grace will be They that turn many to Righteousness shall shine as the Stars for evermore There are no doubt degrees of Glory in Heaven Quest. Who are Rich Traders Rich Christians Answ. All Believers are rich yet some are richer than others richer in Faith Love and Holiness than others 1. They that can Trust most are rich Dealers the Poor you know can't Trust they live upon their Labour so some too much fetch their Comforts from their liveliness in Duties and lively Frames or from their own Labour but this is not to live by Faith but such are rich that can Trust or Believe tho they with Thomas see and feel not 2. Such that are rich live high they keep a Noble Table I mean eat the fat and drink the sweet of the Ordinances and of the Promises and also they dwell above they dwell on high or enjoy Blessed Communion with the Father and the Son 3. They that are Spiritually poor poor in their own Eyes are rich I know thy Poverty but thou art Rich. 4. Such that are more Heavenly than others are the richest Saints 5. Such that are most rich in good Works 6. Such that can best bear Burdens when Taxes or Burdens are laid on poor Men they can't bear them but the Rich can 7. Commonly the Rich are envied so Satan and wicked Men envy such Christians that are most rich Thieves seldom beset a poor Man's House the more thou art tempted O Soul the greater sign it is that thou art rich 8. Rich Men feed others they feed the Poor so such that are rich in Grace and Experiences feed other Christians The Lips of the Righteous feed many 9. The Rich are better cloathed and adorned than others so rich Believers are more Holy more Humble Meek and Lowly than others are But I cannot enlarge on these Things but must leave what I have said to the Blessing of God SERMON XIV Opening the Nature of the Peace made by vertue of this Covenant ISA. Liv. x. Neither shall the Covenant of my Peace be removed saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee I AM this Day to conclude with this great Subject The last Thing I told you that I should do was to open the Nature of that Peace which is made by vertue of this Covenant The Method I shall take in speaking unto this shall be First To give you a short Summary Account of what we have said as to what is requisite to this Peace with God c. Secondly Shew you the Nature of this Peace Thirdly Apply the whole we have said on this Subject First I have shewed you that Jesus Christ alone is the great Peace-maker between God and Man I. You have heard that we can have no Peace with God until he is Reconciled and this Christ has done God in Christ is Reconciled his Justice is satisfied and his Wrath by Christ's Obedience and Sacrifice is appeased II. Sinners must also we have shewed you be Reconciled to God We pray you in Christ's stead be ye Reconciled to God Tho Sinners Peace may be made with God by Jesus Christ yet that Peace may not be accepted of by them or they may not be reconciled to him true we have proved that Jesus Christ undertook to do both these for all God's Elect as hath again and again been hinted 1. You have heard that Christ died on the Cross so making Peace by satisfying Divine Justice 2. He also as our Blessed High-Priest sprinkles that Blood upon our Consciences I mean applies the vertue of it to our Souls By the first Act he removes all Obstacles out of God's way and by the second he removes all Obstacles out of the Sinner's way so that the Reconciliation becomes Mutual Now that which is requisite on the Sinner's part in order to Peace and Reconciliation to God 1. Is that his Eyes be opened to see his wretched State and Condition by Nature i. e. that he is a Sinner an Enemy to God a Rebel yea a Cursed and Condemned Creature in the first Adam Yet 2. That God in Christ is well pleased or as I have shewn is reconciled by his Wrath-appeasing Sacrifice as the Way Means or Meritorious Cause thereof and that that Enmity which is naturally in the Sinner's Heart must be removed also 3. He must believe or come to Christ resting alone upon him for Justification Pardon Peace and Eternal Life being convinced there is no other way to obtain these Blessings but by him only 4. And the Grace of God being thus poured forth upon the Soul by the Spirit Faith is wrought in him to look to Jesus Christ and so seeing and admiring the rich Bounty Pardon and Unwordable Clemency of his offended and provoked Soveraign this works Repentance or Godly Sorrow for Sin in every such Person by which means he mourns and is more or less in great bitterness of Spirit in beholding how hateful Sin is to God and also what Sorrows his Sins brought upon his Blessed Saviour Hence it is called A mourning for him Zech. 12.10 For saith the Soul now I see that my Sins Crucified my dear Lord and let out his Hearts Blood and thus was my Peace made 5. Upon this the Believing and Sin-loathing Sinner resolves to lay down his Arms and never any more to fight against God Shall I saith he thus receive a Free Pardon of all my by-past Treasons Sins and Rebellion against my most Gracious Sovereign refuse to lay down my Arms Shall I continue in Sin because Grace has abounded God forbid Brethren if Grace be infused into the Sinner's Heart it will Teach him to deny all Vngodliness and Worldly Lusts And not only to deny it to leave it but also to loath it it changes the Mind yet Repentance is not the Condition of Peace with God but an effect of it or of Christ's Merit a Broken Heart being one Promise in the Covenant 6. A Sinner hath not cannot have actual interest in the Blessings of this Covenant or have Peace in his own Soul without Union with Christ which is accomplished by the Holy Spirit and Faith of the Operation of God first of all whereby it is that the Soul is transplanted out of the first Adam that dead stock into the second Adam that quickning Spirit Moreover know that the Real and Relative Change is at one and the same time and certainly all that deny that there is a Change of State as well as a Change of Heart err exceedingly 1. Because the Word of God positively declares That by Nature the Elect are Children of Wrath as well as others therefore more than under Wrath in their own Conscience for in their own Consciences they may not apprehend they are the