Selected quad for the lemma: grace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
grace_n	salvation_n	teach_v	ungodliness_n	2,577	5	11.7800	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61655	A warning to drunkards delivered in several sermons to a congregation in Colchester, upon the occasion of a sad providence towards a young man dying in the act of drunkenness / by ... Owen Stockton ...	Stockton, Owen, 1630-1680.; Fairfax, John, 1623-1700.	1682 (1682)	Wing S5702; ESTC R37594	103,537	210

off some persons that are addicted to company keeping when they do but begin to follow after vain persons and to eat and drink with the drunken Mat. 24.48.49 50 51. If that evil servant shall begin to smite his sellow-servants and to eat and drink with the drunken the Lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him and in an hour that he is not aware of and shall cut him asunder and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth 3. If you should live till you are old if you spend your young time in sin who can tell whether God will give you Repentance in your old age It is a rare thing to see a sinner converted in his old age It is as hard for one that hath been accustomed to do evil to do good as it is for a Blackamore to become white or a Leopard to change his spots Jer. 13.23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the Leopard his spots then may ye also do good that are accustomed to do evil 4. If the Lord should give you Repentance the sins of youth will lye heavy upon you in your old age and will cause much bitterness in your soul Job 13.26 Thou writest bitter things against me and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth § The plea of such drunkards as make a profession of Religion answered Plea 18. If I were a prophane drunkard that would curse and swear I should look upon my self as in a very sad condition but though I am now and then overcome with drink I am a Religious person I hear and write Sermons I pray in my Family I will lay down my life for Christ I will rather burn than turn from the true Religion And therefore I hope God will not take any notice of my sin though I do sometimes drink to excess A. 1. To be a drunkard and yet to be a Religious person are inconsistent each with other as inconsistent as light and darkness as Heaven and Hell The grace of God teacheth a man to live soberly Tit. 2.11 12. The grace of God that bringeth Salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us the denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live righteously soberly and godly in this present World And therefore such as live intemperately and have not learned sobriety are destitute of the grace of God That man that maketh profession of Religion and yet is a drunkard his Religion is a vain Religion 2. Our making a profession of Religion and performing Holy duties will be so far from causing God to take no notice of our sins that he will visit us sooner and punish us more severely than other men if we live in drunkenness or such like sins Amos 3.2 You only have I known of all the Families of the Earth therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities Such of the Jews as made a profession of Religion and yet lived sinfull lives the Lord tells them he would punish them for their iniquities even for all of them 3. The prayers and other Religious services of drunkards are an abomination to God Prov 15.8 The Sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord. Sacrifice was part of God's worship under the Law and when offered up in a right manner was very acceptable to God yet when performed by a wicked man it was an abomination to the Lord. The services of impenitent sinners are a burden and a weariness to the Lord. Isa 1.13 14. Incense is an abomination to me the new Moons and Sabbaths and calling of Assemblies I cannot away with it is iniquity even the solemn meeting your new moons and your appointed feasts my Soul hateth they are a trouble to me I am weary to bear them Incense did cast forth a sweet and delightful smell yet when offered by impenitent sinner it was an abomination to the Lord If impenitent sinners should have such gifts in prayer as that their prayers should be pleasing and delightfull to those that joyn with them yet their prayers are an abomination to the Lord. 4. Such as make a profession of Religion and yet live in drunkenness are worse and in a more woful condition than ignorant and prophane drunkards Isa 28.1 Wo to the drunkards of Ephraim Ephraim was a Tribe of Israel and a drunken Israelite is in a more wofull condition than a drunken Egyptian or a drunken Philistine The sins of such as make a profession of Religion do bring more dishonour to God and scandal to Religion then the sins of other men Rom. 2.17 23 24. Behold thou art called a Jew and restest in the Law and makest thy boast of God Thou that makest thy boast of the Law through breaking the Law dishonourest thou God For the name of God is blasphemed through you among the Gentiles 5. They deceive their own hearts that think they could lay down their lives for Christ who will not who cannot lay down a swinish and sottish lust for Christ which is prejudicial both to their Bodies and Souls § The plea of such as drink to excess to avoid envy and hatred of their neighbours and for fear of having ill offices done them answered Plea 19. I live in a drunken sottish place where my neighbours are generally given to drinking and if I should not do as my neighbours do I shall be envied and hated and they will put troublesome offices upon me or raise me in the rates or do me some ill turn and therefore though I approve not of drinking and tipling yet I am necessitated to do as they do else I should not live a quiet life amongst them I do this only to avoid trouble and therefore I hope I may be excused A. 1. If you will not live soberly and temperately and righteously in this present evil world for fear of hatred and envy and trouble then it is not possible that you should be a true Christian and lead a holy and righteous life or do any good works for no man can be a Christian indeed but wicked men will hate him Luk. 21.19 Ye shall be hated of all men for my names sake No man can lead a Godly Life but he shall meet with trouble 2 Tim 3.12 Yea and all that will live Godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution No man can do any good work but some or other will envy him Eccl. 4.4 I considered all navel and every right work that for this a man is envied of his neighbour 2. If you live righteously and soberly God will love you Psal 146.8 The Lord loveth the righteous But if you be a worker of iniquity the Lord will hate you Psal 5.5 Thou hatest all workers of iniquity And if the Lord love you you need not be troubled though all your neighbours and all the men in the World hate you And if the Lord hate you it is not the love of your neighbours will comfort you