Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	godliness_n	grace_n	temperance_n	1,735	5	11.8003	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81235	Correction, instruction or, a treatise of afflictions: first conceived by way of private meditations: afterward digested into certain sermons, preach'd at Aldermanbury. And now published for the help and comfort of humble suffering Christians. By Tho. Case, M.A. sometimes student of Ch. Ch. Oxon. now preacher of the Gospel in London.	Case, Thomas, 1598-1682.	1652 (1652)	Wing C824; Thomason E1329_1; ESTC R209098	113,561	301

single them out to encounter with unparalleld affliction so on the other side it is an incentive to compassion to them that are free to consider that they are liable to the same temptations therfore should measure out the same compassions to their suffering brethren that they would expect in the same tryals not knowing how soon the cup of trembling may be put into their own hand to be sure insensibleness of other mens miseries will hasten it They put far away the evil day Amos 6.3 4 5 6 they lie upon beds of Ivory c. eat Lambs out of he flock and Calves out of the stall c. drink wine in bowls c. i. e. they give themselves up to all maoner of sensuality and thereby drown the sense of their brethrens miseries they are not grieved for the afflictions of Joseph they lay not the affliction of the Church to heart it never cost them an hours sleep they abated nothing of all their sensual excesses they never turn aside to shed one tear over bleeding Sion in secret what follows why saith God therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive Verse 7. and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed as if God should have said As I live because you have not pityed your brethren in captivity you your selves shall be led away captive and the next turn shall be yours and there you shall learn by experience what it is to be plundred and what it is to lie in chains what it is to have cruel Taskmasters set over you what it is to want bread you shall banquet it no more you shall feel by sense what you would not feel by sympathy And therefore Christians set your hearts to the afflictions of the Church and people of God it is the great duty which the times call for and I am afraid God is now visiting England and London for the neglect of this duty We are verily guilty concerning our brethren in Germany in Ireland in England and Scotland c. in that we saw the anguish of their souls when they besought us and we would not hear therefore is this distress come upon us We have not grieved their sorrows nor wept their tears nor sigh'd their groans nor bled their blood and therefore may fear lest God should say unto us also even unto us With the next that go into captivity they shall go into captivity with the next that are plundered and spoyled London shall be plunder'd and spoyl'd with the next that shall be imprison'd you shall be taken prisoners with the next that shall be slain with the sword you shall be slain with the sword you wives shall be made widows and your children shall be made fatherless and your dwellings shall cast you out and be left desolate And therefore let us look to it and know in this our day the things of our peace before they be hid from our eyes Shew compassion that you may not need compassion or if you need it you may finde it In like manner set your hearts to the other Lessons which God teacheth by his chastisements Prize Creature-comforts more and surfeit upon them less be more thankful and less sensual especially prize a Gospel while ye have a Gospel prize it by its worth Amos 8. ● that you may not prize it by the want prize it that you may keep it lest you prize it one day when you cannot recover it that 's a dreadful word They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the Lord Hosea 5.6 but they shall not FIND Him Amos 8.11 And I wil send a famine not of bread nor a thirst of water but of hearing the Word of the Lord c. and they shall run to and fro Verse 12 to seek the Word of the Lord and Shall not FIND IT Study self-denyal meekness of spirit labor to discover the hidden corruptions of your own hearts be still digging in that dunghill you will finde it a bottomless pit The heart is deceitful above all things Jer. 17.9 and desperately wicked who can know it I the Lord search the heart Oh entreat the Lord to discover your hearts to you Study Scripture-evidence for your interest in Christ rest not in any evidence which you will not venture your souls upon if you were to dye this moment Labor to maintain sweet communion with God to be able to say with the Apostle and to say truly Our communion is with the Father 1 Joh. 1.3 and with his Son Jesus Christ Make God your choyce and not your necessity and labor to maintain such constant converse with him that when you dye you may change your place onely but not your company Live up in the exercise of your grace add to your faith vertue to vertue knowledg and to knowledg temperance 2 Pet. 1.5 6 and to temperance godliness and to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity Be adding one grace to another and one degree of grace to another and one exercise of grace to another exercise of grace that you may not put God to add affliction to affliction and sorrow to sorrow while others are adding sin to sin drunkenness to thirst do you add grace to grace Be stedfast and unmovable always abounding in the work of the Lord c. Acquaint your selves with God Iob 22.21 and good shall come thereby Study to know God more and love him better This is Life eternal c. Joh. 17.3 Then shall we know if we follow on to know the Lord. Hosea 6.3 Minde I beseech you while you are in your strength and peace that one thing necessary there is but one thing necessary Hoc age there be many may-be's but one must-be O take heed of industrious folly and dis-spirit not your selves in the pursuit of trifles minde your work Redeem the time the days are evil O that Christians would study the worth of time value a day say of every HOUR yea of every moment This is TIME Redeem time while you have it redeem time while time may do you good Evil days are coming wherein you will say I have no pleasure in them Yea the days are evil evil with sin evil with sorrow redeem the time to do good to receive good that neither you may be the worse for the times nor the times for you Happy shall that man be call'd who contributeth not to the heap of the God-provoking abominations nor receiveth impressions from the hypocrisie and prevarication of the present generation Study the sufferings of Jesus Christ Resolve with Paul to know nothing but Jesus Christ and him crucified A due contemplation of the Cross wil heighten Christs Love and lessen your own suffrings And labor to get your conversation in Heaven Looking for and hastening to or as the word signifies * 2 Pet. 3 12 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. hasting the