Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	add_v	grace_n	temperance_n	1,517	5	11.5641	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34880	Gospel-holinesse, or, The saving sight of God laid open from Isa. 6.5 together with the glorious priviledge of the saints, from Rom. 8.4, 5 : both worthily opened and applied / by ... Walter Cradock ...	Cradock, Walter, 1606?-1659.	1651 (1651)	Wing C6760; ESTC R23430	256,626	448

them no good In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not least the light of the glorious Gospell of Christ who is the image of God should shine upon them How came it to passe that the Gospell that Paul preached did the Soules of the People no more good Paul saith the fault was not in the Gospell the Gospell was pleasing to God however but the God of this world that is the Devill the Devill of Why the Devil is called the God of this world Hell as you call him God calls him the God of this world not because he is absolute and may doe what he will but he is under Gods power and God gives him such a stroake and power as if he were a God in the world he hath so many Subjects and such pollicie and spirits The God of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not that is they were blind before but he hath made them more blind O consider this thou wert blind before thou didst heare the Gospell but when a man heares the Gospell that Prince of darknesse that is the Devill the God of the world he blinds thy minde more and more he draws a new vaile over thy eyes Why so That the light of the glorious Gospell of Christ who is the image of God should not shine on them He drawes the Curtaine that the Sun may not come on them that the light of the knowledge of God in Christ may not come on them Therefore consider what a Monarch the Devill is and how great the Kingdom of the Devill is in thee And if ever thou come to the light desire God to translate thee into the Kingdome of his deare sonne that Kingdome is all light As far as there is a cleare light in my Soule so far Christ hath his Kingdome in me Then if thou wilt see God thou must labour 4 Purity of heart to be pure in heart as I told you for without holinesse no man shall see God Let a prophane man use all the meanes in the world as long as he is so he shall never see God Lastly thou must looke for the shining of this glorious Sun through the Word and by the spirit It must come through the VVord and expect the Spirit to bring it or else it will never shine upon thy Soule This in few words is the series or order in which God manifests himselfe to his people I will now conclude only with this word It may be thou wilt say I hope I have seene God and I remember the Lord did manifest himself to me but truly it is but a little I will speake but a word to you that have seene Use Those that have seen God should walke holily God I beseech you walk like People that are before God Gods eye is upon you and you have seene him walke uprightly walk not like the people of the world for ye are lyars if you doe if you say that you have seene God and walke in darknesse and walke in sinne you are lyars and there is no truth in you O! walke holily and labour more and more to see God as Paul did he forgate that which was behind and would see more of God more of his glory that is the meaning of that word in Joh. 14. saith Christ to his Disciples for he spake not to wicked People at that time He that hath my Commandements and keepeth them loveth me and he shall be loved of my Father and I will love him and manifest my selfe to him Without doubt God had manifested himselfe to these before they were Saints before but he meanes I will manifest my selfe more and more but they must love him and keepe his commandements The meaning is not that you shall finde the Commandements of God and the things of God are as a bottome of Thred that is all shufled together that you can finde no end of it you thinke to have an end and yet you cannot and you thinke to finde a place where to get all grace whereas notwithstanding if you had all the gifts in this world you cannot keepe the Commandements but the meaning is you shall finde in the things of God that God hath made one thing the condition of another if you love God you will keepe his Commandements and if you keepe his Commandements you love God I say God hath made one thing the condition of another to whet us on if you keep my Commandements you love me and if you love me I will manifest my selfe to you So I know by experience though all be by free grace yet the People of God by making one thing the condition of another it hath made their Journey that they have not been weary Though Heaven be the reward of all yet God hath made little baits for us The great reward is He that holds out to the end shall be saved but that is a great way off and we are weake and cannot see a farre off therefore God hath made little baits and little rewards He that loves me I will manifest my selfe to him A weake Saint may doe that so that is the meaning though God doth all by his free grace yet God doth use meanes to get us on Therefore that God may manifest himselfe more and more to thee labour to keepe his commandements labour to be more holy this weeke then the last Add to faith virtue to virtue patience to patience temperance c. God teacheth us as we teach our Children one letter after another add such a grace and such a grace If these things be in you and abound ye shall not be barren and unfruitfull but shall be able to see a farre off What a farre off Things that are farre off are hardly seene and of all things the glory of God in Christ is the hardest Now if you add one grace to another by the assistance of God and endeavouring to keepe his Commandements and to walke in your callings as you are Husband or VVife or Master or Servant or Tradesman c. if you endeavour to do that which is pleasing in Gods eye God will reveale himselfe more and more clearly and fully to your soules SERMON 4. Isaiah 6. 5. For mine eyes have seen the King the Lord of Hosts TWo lessons I observed from these words The first was that Every true Saint hath a peculiar sight of God even in this VVorld Secondly that A true saving sight of God is the way to true Humiliation Concerning the first I opened it and proved it to you and have already made severall uses of it The last use was to examine your selves whether God have bestowed this priviledge upon you or no. And that I shewed you is to be known By your apprehensions of it By the impressions it hath on you By the expressions of it as it shewes it selfe in your lives I have but two words of uses farther of that Doctrine and so I