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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60440	Man driven out of the earth and darkness, by the light, life, and mighty hand of God where in plain and simple truths are brought to light, that so the cause of stumbling may be taken from before the eyes of the rulars ... / written ... from their friend ... called of men Humphery Smith.	Smith, Humphrey, d. 1663.	1658 (1658)	Wing S4068_VARIANT; ESTC R33842	15,846	16

and from their imployments to follow him who putteth forth his sheep and thrusteth fourth labourers into the harvest and Abraham of whose seed I now am went out of his countrey and from his fathers house Gen. 12. and him God blessed and increased mightily and the Lord also called and thrust forth me who at last was obedient to the command of the God of Abraham and ever since his presence hath been with me and his mighty hand of power hath preserved me and his blessings have I found and the increasings of God have I received praises to the Lord God of life for evermore who hath called me by his word of power through his grace which did teach me to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and to obey his blessed will which was and is my sanctification in Jesus Christ who did also call Matthew from the receit of custome to follow him and Peter and John from their imployment of fishing and made them fishers of men and Paul also being called left his imployment of rent-making after a time and was obedient to the heavenly vision and those then became a wonder and a gazing stock to many yet they continued on travelling through many countries as I since have done preaching the word of God with boldness And one of these men who were called from their outward imployments said every man wherein he is called there abide and whereunto they were called they did abide and so do I and when the Priests and Rulers would have stopt their mouthes by their commands they said whether it be lawful to hearken unto God or man judge ye but these called Ministers of Christ did not say he that is a husbandman there abide for Noah was a husbandman yet a preacher of righteousness and Elisha a plowman and Amos a herdman neither did they say he that is a fisherman let him so abide neither did Christ say he that will be my disciple must follow his outward imployment or trade but he said he that will not hate father and mother brethren and sisters wife and children yea and his own life too cannot be my Disciple Luk. 14.20 and if not a Disciple much less a Minister of his But hereby neither Christ nor them Ministers of his neither I did or do intend to draw or perswade people to idleness or open a door for any such evil neither is there many who are called out of the worlds worships and required to leave their families and called to the ministry but that hereby it may plainly appear that the command and call of Christ to his work and ministery is to be obeyed though it be to the forsaking of house goods or lands for a minister of his said we have forsaken all and have not I done so and unto them who had forsaken all and unto all such was promised a hundred fold Mat. 19.17 18 19. And Heaven and Earth shall pass away before one jot or tittle of his word shall fail and truely I have found his promise true for a hundred times hundred-fold have I already received blessed be the Lord for ever But how contrary it was to my own will to fulfil the will of the Lord in leaving my imployment and outward business in the world let all them judge with the light who knew my conversation therein and saw my eagerness in the things of the world and contrivances therein beyond many men my heart being set in the earthly things being very fierce in labouring therein for the getting and increasing of the fruits of the earth as though I would have laid up treasure for many years which might have been good in its place if my mind had been redeemed out of it and my heart from the covetousness thereof but I say again it was much contrary to my strong will to leave these things and the love of them and much more that might be named and be taken from it with a hundred fifty pound loss and exposed to want hardships revilings imprisonments whippings stonings and all manner of cruel tortour that the sons of men might have power to inflict upon my body and for me that ruled over many and was respected by many to become a servant unto all and counted the off-scouring of all and be abused by any boy or the vilest person I meet and it was much contrary to my will to refuse that glory honour and preferment of the world which was offered me by the rulers thereof when I was beloved of them and hundreds more and when I preached among them in the Pulpits dayly and was then called of men Master like the hirelings of England who being in the curse cannot cease from sin 2. Pet. 2.14 yet I still refused their unrighteous gain and denyed all their gifts and rewards for the Lord in his mercy kept me out of them temptations though sometimes some that were then neer friends unto me would have perswaded me to have taken something of what was offered as to live upon but I durst not if I had wanted food or rayment but answered one Justice who was proposing me a free gift toward maintenance which might have been worth 100. l. a year or more seeing I left my imployment freely to preach dayly but I say I answered I shall rather go in Sheep skins and Goat skins and eat bread drink water and that little honest meek principal in me which then kept me from that and such temptations in due time led me to be ruler over much which before I had not power over therefore I say unto all it is good to be faithful to the little measure of God in the conscience For when I was but young and voyd of the knowledge of God or his way of holiness my mind ran much in the earth with a covetous care how to gain the riches thereof and even then did the hand or the Lord follow me and his witness in me did so judge and condemne me night and day for my evil that at last I was scarce able to do any thing in the earth or go upon it and then waiting to see what the reason was after many houres I saw clearely if I would leave the wickedness of the world and follow the Lord and trust him I might have peace and if not I was like to be cut off and then I left some sinnes and resolved to live more holy and began to pray and read and then I went to follow the Priests not knowing that in me which I was to hear and follow yet it secretly led me out of some evil and so into some peace and then my heart was exalted in the earth though I increased in a profession And when I was in the height of the worlds way and worship and expecting riches to increase even then in an unexpected time did the dread of the Lord fall upon me and his wonderful mighty power wrought exceedingly in me to break me off from all my waies and seperate