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	knowledge_n	temperance_n	6,959	5	12.3060	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03949	Bromelion A discourse of the most substantial points of diuinitie, handled by diuers common places: vvith great studie, sinceritie, and perspicuitie. Whose titles you haue in the next page following.	S. I., fl. 1595.; Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605. Summa totius Christianismi. English.	1595 (1595)	STC 14057; ESTC S107410	412,250	588

God hath raised vs vp togither and made vs sit togither in the heauenly places in Christ Iesus Philip. 1. 23. For I am greatly in doubt on both sides destring to be loosed and to be with Christ which is best of all Luke 23. 43. Iesus said to the théefe that repented Verily I say vnto thée To day shalt thou be with me in Paradice And chapter 16. 22. And it was so that the begger died and was carried by the Angels into Abrahams bosome Wis● 3. 1. But the soules of the righteous are in the hands of God and no torment shall touch them Eccle. 12. 7. And dust return to the earth as it was and the spirit returne to God that gaue it Then shall they enioy fully that vnspeakeable comfort prepared Rom. 8. 18. For I account that the affictions of this present time are not worthie of the glory which shall be shewed vnto vs. Mat. 25. 34. Then shall the king say to them on his right hand Come ye blessed of my father inherit ye the kingdome prepared for you from the foundations of the world 1. Cor. 15. 42. 43. 53. The bodie is sowne in corruption and is raised in corruption It is sowne in dishonour and is raised in glory it is sowne in weakenesse and is raised in power For this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortall must put on immortalitie 1. Cor. 2. 9. The things which eye hath not séene neither eare hath heard neither came into mans heart are which God hath prepared for them that loue him By whose vertue and spirit they haue proceeded and gone forward from faith to faith as shall manifestly appeare by the whole course of their life and good workes Rom. 1. 17. The righteousnesse of God is reuealed from faith to faith ●● 2. Re● 1. 2●1 2. Grace and peace be multiplied to you by the knowledge of God of Iesns our Lord. According as his godly power hath giuen vnto vs all things that pertaine vnto life and godlinesse through the knowkledge of him that hath called vs vnto glory and vertue Whereby most great and precious promises are giuen vnto vs that by them ye should be partakers of the godly nature in that ye flie the corruption which is in the world through lust Therefore giue euen all diligence thereunto Ioine moreoner vertue with your faith and with vertue knowledge and with knowledge temperaunce and with temperaunce patience and with patience godlinesse and with godlinesse brotherly kindenesse and with brotherly kindnesse loue For if these things be among you and abound they wil make you that ye neither shal be idle nor vnfruitfull in the knowledge of our Lord Iesus Christ For he that hath not these things is blinde and cannot sée farre off and hath forgotten that hee was purged frōm his olde sinnes Wherefore brethren giue rather diligence to make your calling and election sure For if ye do these things ye shall neuer fall For by these meanes an entering shall be ministred vnto you aboundantly into the cuerlasting kingdom of out Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ Whereas altogither contrary the Reprobate conceiued borne and brought vp in sin death and the wrath of God when they depart out of this world they fall into another gulfe of destruction and their soules are plunged in that endlesse paine vntill the day come that their bodies and solues being ioined again they shall enter into euerlasting fire which is prepared for the diuel and his angels 〈◊〉 Psal 5 ●●●5 Behold I was borne in iniquitle and in sinne hath my mother conceaued me Ephe. 2. 3. And were by nature the children of wrath as well as others Rom. 7. 14. sold vnder sinne Rom. 5. 14. Wherefore as by one man sinne entred into the world and death by sinne and so death went ouer all men forasmuch as all men haue sinned Dani. 12. 2. And many of them that sléepe in the dust of the earth shall awake some to euerlasting life and some to shame and perpetuall contempt Iohn 5. 28 29. Maruell not at this for the houre shall come in the which all that are in the graues shall heare his voyce And they shall come forth that haue done good vnto the resurrection of life but they that haue done cuill to the resurrection of condemnation Luke 16. 22. 23. 24. The rich man also died and was buried and being in hell torments he lift vp his yes and sawe Abraham a farre off and Lazarus in his hosome Then he cried and said Father Abraham haue merry on me and send Lazarus that he may dippe the tippe of his singer in water and coole my tongue for I am tormented in this flame But Abraham said Sonne remember that thou in thy life time receiuedst thy pleasures and likewise Lazarus paines now therefore is he comforted and thou art tormented Mat. 25. 41. Then shall he say to them on the left hand Depart from me ye cursed into euerlasting fire which is prepared for the diuel and his angels The seuenth Chapter After what sort this doctrine may be preached with most profit SInte wee haue nowe declared the effect of this doctrine VVhat discretion the matter requireth it remaineth also that wee shewe what order we thinke best to be obseru●● in preaching and applying the same to euery particular man Whereas many find this matter so sharp and strange that they flie from it as from a dangerous rocke it is partly to be attributed to the malice and arrogancy of men And partly to the rashnesse and lacke of discretion of them that teach it and thirdly it is to be imputed to their ignoraunce which cannot orderly apply the same to themselues which faithfully and truly hath bin taught of others Concerning them which sinne of malice it onely appertaineth to GOD to amend them Which surely he hath done alwaies in his reason and likewise will do from time to time to whom he hath appointed to shewe mercy But for others which remain● obstinate in their sinne and wickednesse there is no cause why we should be moued either for their number or authority to dissemble Gods truth And as touching the second sorte I haue thought these things principally to be obserued in preaching this misterie First as in all other things so chiefly in this matter of predestination they ought to take diligent héede that in stéede of Gods pure and simple truth they bring not soorth vaine and curious speculations or dreames Which thing they cannot choose but do which goe about to compasse and accord these secret iudgments of God with mans wisdome so do not onely put difference betwirt predstinatiō and the purpose of god which thing they must néedes do but seperate the one frō the other For they either imagine a certaine naked and idle permition or else make a double purpose and counsell in God From the which errors they must néeds fall into many and greate absurdities For sometimes they are constrained to diuide

the roote of vnrighteous dealing is not touched For why we haue taken so large a measure of port and countenance being void of sobrietie that the cloth of righteous dealing must néedes be cut thereafter The sobrietie that pleased our fathers in attire in faire port and moderate couutenance will not serue our turne their measure will not serue vs who are growne out of measure This makes rentes to bee raised reuenewes to be increased the prices of wares augmented our paines dearer our gifts greater our pleasuring of men better considered and more rewarded our liberalitie to the poore or to any good purpose lessened our compassion abated and so our fathers good report altered in vs and altogither decaied Let euerie man taste more of temperance and sobrietie and so shall he be able to affoord a better penniworth of righteous and vpright dealing in his calling It shal be in vaine to make lawes against iniurious and vnrighteons practises if before this great excesse and intemperancie that ruleth in all estates be not repressed For if that in no case may bee abated howe can it be but that the old ordinarie dealings in righteousnesse and equity must be racked set vpon the tainters and excessiuely stretched The great want of sobrietie that is eueriwhere speaketh and telleth that there is much vnrighteousnesse in the land and so consequently doth plainely and euidently prophecie vnto vs that the righteous God hath a quarrell with the inhabitants of this our country for the vnrighteousnesse thereof which increaseth in euerie kingdome as moderation and sobrietie abafeth Now how sobrietie deca●eth and intemperancie is daily agmented it is too manifest and cannot bee denied And this greate intemperancie telleth vs that the burthen of vnrighteonsnesse which this land beareth is growne to such a waight as cannot long be sustained if our reformation herein be not spéedilie attempted and taken in hand Which the Lord in mercie graunt may be throughly thought vpon especially of them in whose hands it lieth to redresse it To liue righteously is the request of our God The graces of God offer themselues to take vp their consideration in our righteous conuersation They craue that our vpright dealing may speake what regarde wee haue to them how we thinke our selues beholden vuto them they haue set ouer the pleasuring of them to vpright liuing there they would haue it séene how they are valued prized and estéemed of vs. Let vs then behold a Christian meditation for all men of all callings and trades when they deale in the worke of their callings to mooue them to equitie conscience and regard of those with whom they deale Behold my God calleth me to witnesse to the world my thankfulnesse for his benefites he calleth me now foorth to value his deseruings and to leaue a record behinde how highly or basely I estéeme of his goodnesse Who for the recompence of his kindnesse hath turned and set ouer the same to bee answered in obedience to his will and vpright dealing one with another And now I am to signifie vnto the worlde howe I thinke my selfe indebted vnto God for the benefit of redemption for the benefit of his word for honor for wealth health frends wife and children and quietnesse As the Apostle saith Let all things be done honestly and in good order so may I exhort you that all things may be done soberly and righteously and so shall we be sure to come neare vnto God and to be accounted godly Which Godly qualities be good meanes to further godlinesse and to make vs liue godly Which is the third effect vertue of the grace of God mentioned in my text Godlinesse is necessarily ioyned to righteousnesse For it were but a vaine thing to be precise in giuing man his right and then to withhold from the Lord that which of right we owe vnto him And seeing God hath created vs especially for his glorie and that we should serue him what part of our time can better be spent then in frequenting the seruice of God Vnto the which Frequenting diuine seruice euen the custome of idolatrous people and their example may greatly perswade vs to sée how carefull and diligent they were from time to time from day to day yea in the night at morning and at euening and at all times to come to church to offer themselues to God Their meaning say they was well though indéed they tooke not a right course because they serued God otherwise then God had commaunded in his word Créeping and bowing themselues to images praying vnto them going a pilgrimage to the reliques of Saintes and besides all this making an idole of Gods blessed Sacrament which was ordained to put vs in remembrance of his death and ho●● after a spirituall and heauenly sort we are made the members of his bodie and not to knéele downe to a piece of bread falsly imagining that our Sauiour Christ is there in bodie flesh and blood For his bodily presence is in heauen neither shall we haue sight therof vntil the day of iudgement when he shall shewe himselfe with thousands of Angels All their godlinesse all their seruing of God which they thought foolishly did tend to their comfort to their saluation was the way to their confusion and to their destruction For God hath said Thou shalt not make any grauen Image nor reuerence them and hath added a curse and a punishment and how can we thinke we please God in so doing As God is a spirit so he will be worshipped in spirit and truth If we go the right way we go a safe way he that goeth a byway may wander farre and bee deceiued What if wee trauell neuer so hard in going out of the way what may it preuaile vs And if we worship God neuer so earnestly and neuer so deuoutly if it bee not in such order and manner as God would haue it and as he hath set it downe in his word howe it shall be howe can we thinke that gods fauour is towards vs or how can we warrant our conscience in so doing And how can we hope for heauen vnlesse we performe that and nothing else but that whiche the God of heauen hath appointed Yet neuerthelesse in this were they highly to be commended and to be preferred before vs nay I feare me they shall rise in iudgement and condemne vs because they were carefull to come to church and that with most willing mindes and glad hearts But who are they among vs that can so testifie of themselues nay rather may wee not iustly condemne our selues for our negligence and slacknesse herein and for our grudging hearts and vnwilling Hearing and reading of Gods word minds The reading hearing of Gods word is the meane to draw vs vnto godlinesse howsoeuer we thinke we haue no such néed of it Certainly we ought to submit our selues to the often and earnest vse of Gods word and with conscience care to reforme our waies by the