Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	angel_n	good_a	will_n	3,100	5	6.2939	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67484	A still and soft voice from the scripture vvitnessing them to be the vvord of God.	Walwyn, William, 1600-1681.	1647 (1647)	Wing W692; ESTC R38023	8,703	18

hold them to a due pace in the persute of necessary knowledge or to keepe them to a propper Method or to obtaine this of them that they receive nothing as a truth which they see admiteth of an obsurdity But having broke loose from the bands of educated and customary religion through necessity of conscience and being anew to begin they are apt hastily to take in that which is first offered with any resemblance of truth and so in an instant fall into new entanglements For if hast make wast in any thing it is in pursute after knowledge and though every considerate mans experience findeth this a truth though it be confest by all that there is nothing of greater concernment to man then the truth of his Divine knowledge though nothing doth more disturb the minde of man then error and mistakeing in religion Yet is there not any thing wherein men proceed more irregularly or more impatiently either they are over rash and sudden or over fearfull and irresolute they approach all discourse with prejudice and a mind distempered searching nothing throughly or orderly but content themselves with an overly examination and in my apprehention are not so difingenious in any thing as in religion willingly resigning and forfeiting their understandings and Judgments at a cheap rate then Esau did his Birth-right and so continue very long not truly religious 〈…〉 but superstitious men alwayes amazed neither remembring what themselves or others speake he that once opposeth them hath a Wolfe by the eares hee can neither speake nor hold his peace without damage they take allthings in the worst sence sigh lament pitty or censure all that sutes not with their opinion or practice and talk or report of any man any thing that comes in their imaginations those that come behind them in knowledge are carnall those before them desperate And therefore it may be very profitable that the differences betwene true Religion and superstition be made knowne to these times more fully than it is the one being commonly taken for the other Now both are best knowne by their effects for true Religion setleth a man in peace and rest makes him like unto the Angels alwayes praising God and saying Glory to God on High in earth peace Good will towards men it is ever provided with good intentions and good desires maketh the best construction in doubtfull cases see how true Christian love is described by the Apostle in the 13. to the Corinths and that is the true Religious mans Character On the contrary superstition troubleth and makes a man wilde a superstitious man suffereth neither God nor man to live in peace as one well observeth from experience he aprehendeth God as one anxious spitefull hardly contented easily moved with difficulty appeased examining our actions after the human fashion of a severe Judge that watcheth our steps which hee prooveth true by his manner of serving him hee trembleth for feare is never secure fearing he never doth well and that he hath left some thing undone by omission whereof all is worth nothing that he hath done But generally now a dayes contrary to former tymes the superstitious mans devotion costs him litle he hath somuch worldly wit in his zeale as to save his purse hot and fiery against heresie and blasphemy which are titles he freely bestowes on all opinions contrary to his own true or false he will course his poor neighbour out of all he hath yea out of the Nation if he can not course him into his opinion and all upon pretence of doing God service and for the good of his soule As for his body or estate that 's no part of his care hee is not so hasty to runn into his poore neighbours house to see what is wanting there hee may ly upon a bed or no bed covering or no covering be starved through cold and hunger over burthened with labour be sick lame or diseased and all this troubles not the superstitious mans nor the morall Christians Conscience he may through want and necessity goe into what prison he will and ly and rott and starve there and these kind of Religious people are not halfe so much moved at it as if he goe to another Church or congregation then what they approove if hee doe so upstarts their zeale and after him watch spy accuse and informe and all for the good of his soule and for the Glory of God One would not think it were possible man could be so blind or so inconsiderate as to immagin that God would be thus mocked thus madly served contrary to the whole tenor of the Scriptures but such are the effects of educated customary or superstitious Religion Whist the effects of pure and undefiled Religion are another thing as Feeding the hungry Cloathing the naked Visiting the sick the Fatherlesse the Widdowes and Prisoners and in all things walking as becometh the Gospell of Christ it will empty the fullest Baggs and pluck downe the highest plumes And who ever serveth God sincerely in this Religion shall be knowne by his fruites his light shall so shine before men that they seeing his good Workes shall Glorify our Father which is in heaven But of these there are few to bee found and as few that truly labour to reclaime those many thousands of miserable people that are drencht all their life long in grosse ignorance and notorious loathsome wickednesse Yet there is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth more then for ninety nine just persons that need no repentance Why talke wee so much of Christianity holinesse and saintship whilst wee neglect the lost sheep or the recovery of our brethren from those Errors of their wayes The plain truth is this grosse neglect of known duty herein and the generall eagernesse in the lesse necessary parts of zeale and devotion manifesteth the world is not subdued that there is little selfe-deniall little of pure and undefiled Religion as yet in the world men content themselves with forms of godlinesse but are regardlesse of the power thereof And therefore I have been the lesse troubled in my selfe for the hard measure I have found amidst so great a mixture of worldlinesse ignorance and superstitious zeale why should one looke for much ingenuity these times have but cast an eye towards the materiall parts of true Christianity It is not yet knowne what it is in its excellency the end and issue thereof is too good to bee deserved or discerned by a people that are not yet broad awake they strike him that brings them more light then they can well endure All the evill and reproach I have suffered hath beene by occasion of my forwardnesse to do others good my freenesse in discourse though harmelesse in it selfe and intended for good hath been perverted misconstrued and made use of to my prejudice I accompt nothing more vain then to discourse meerly for discourse sake nay it is painfull and ircksome to me to heare a discourse that is not really