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	love_n	temperance_n	1,495	5	11.3666	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02192	Tormenting Tophet: or A terrible description of Hel able to breake the hardest heart, and cause it quake and tremble. Preached at Paules Crosse the 14. of Iune 1614. By Henry Greenvvood, Master of Arts, and preacher of the word of God.	Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5.	1615 (1615)	STC 12336; ESTC S120478	32,344	94

eyes to sléepe nor our eye-liddes to slumber nor the temples of our head to take any rest till wee haue found the saluation of our God our soules sealed to the day of redemption and freed from the damnation of Tophet But where is this religious care and godly resolution O the dissolute and desperate course of this our sinnefull age men put their saluation to a hazard with Ludouike Si saluabor saluabor Si damnabor damnabor that is If I be saued I bee saued If I bee damned I bee damned there is the care that I take In the feare of God I earnestly beséech you aboue al things to make sure your Election and that by your Vocation your Vocation by your Iustification your Iustification by your Sanctification the reward whereof will be eternall glorification Ioyne Vertue with your Faith with Vertue Knowledge with knowledge Temperance with Temperance Patience with Patience Godlinesse with Godlinesse brotherly Kindnesse and with brotherly Kindnesse Loue Labour hereby to make your calling and election sure for if yée doe these things yee shall neuer fall into the vengeance of Tophet The second part of this Text are the parties for whom Tophet is prepared and that is for al vngodly people of the world of what estate or condition soeuer they be It is euen prepared for the King These words in particular haue reference to blasphemous Senacherib who was slaine of his two sonnes in a temple of Nineueh worshipping his god Nisrosh and in general it extēdeth to all idolatrous Kings Emperours and Superiours whatsoeuer Here then first we see that no person in what dignity soeuer he be by his eminent place is exempted from hell Diues a great personage yet tormented in those flames Quid profuit sibi superbia quid diuitiarum copia What hath pride profited him or what hath the pompe of riches done him good Alas these could not saue his Soule For as sayth the Psalmist a man by his riches cannot redéeme his brother he cannot giue his ransome to God so precious is the redemptiō of soules and their continuance for euer And in Samuel wee rea●e That Kings are not exempted from the iudgements of God If yee doe wickedly yee shall perish and your King In the first Epistle to the Corinths we may read who they are that are threatned with Tophet neyther fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor wantons nor theeues nor couetous nor drunkards nor extortioners shall inherite the Kingdome of God This is spoken of Kings as well as of others And in the Reu. wee finde that the fearefull and vnbelieuing the abominable murtherers and whooremongers and sorcerers idolaters and all lyers shall haue their part in the Lake that burneth with fire and brimstone And this is spoken of the King as well as of the Begger for the Lord in iudgement fréeth frō hell not according to place but grace not outward conditiō but inward disposition Nay moreouer great men Noble men and mighty Princes are not onely lyable to Tophet but the greatest part of them shall to the deuill Not many wise men not many mighty not many noble are called for as God would haue all men saued and come to the knowledge of the truth .i. some of all sorts some Iewes some Gentiles some Kings some Nobles some Preachers some Rich some Poore so of all these the greatest summe goe downe to Tophet Yet for all this great men must not bee reproued forsooth the trueth that maketh against them must not be imbraced of them Abner could not abide to heare Isbosheth tell him of his going into Rizpah his father Sauls Concubine Ahab hated Micaiah the sonne of Imlah for not prophesying as he sayd good vnto him The people cryed out in Esayes time Dicite nobis placentia placentia that is speak pleasing things vnto vs. The Priests and people of Anathoth threatned Ieremy to take away his life if he prophesied to them in the name of the Lord. Amaziah sayd to Amos the Prophet Goe bee gone prophesie in Iudah but prophe●ie no more in Bethel for it is the Kings Chappell it is the Kings Court. They hated him that rebuked in the gat●●nd abhorred him that spake vprightly The people in the time of Micah liked them well that prophesied to them of Wine and strong Drinke I pray God that the great ones of this land be not tainted with this corruption Well for mine owne part I had rather bee stormed against for preaching Tophet to you here then yee should curse me in Tophet hereafter for smoothing and flattering you Yet this reprehension of great men I would wish it might be done in wisdome and humility with I beseech you O King by the tender mercies of God reforme these and these things for some in this case are indiscreet and too too sawcy and rather exasperate the hearts of their hearers against them then winne them to the Lord by their exhortation If then Kings and great men be not exempted from Tophet what should this worke in them but obedience to that counsell of the Psalmist Bee wise now therefore O yee Kings serue the Lord in feare Looke vp to heauen acknowledge your selues subiects to a greater As the Lord hath honoured Kings aboue others so hee looketh for a greater returne of honour from them than from others for where the Lord giueth much there the Lord requireth the more Kings and Princes are the kéepers of the two Tables of the Law of God and to them is committed from God the gouernement both of Church and Commonwealth they must therefore be carefull that the Word may runne very swiftly throughout euery Angle of their realmes So shall God gaine an vniuersall glory and Kings themselues a more stable subiection Kings and Queenes are called nursing Fathers and nursing Mothers and all to commend vnto them the care they should haue of Gods glory and the good of their people Iosua was such a Ruler that remained resolute and constant in the worship of God to his liues end Dauid prepared a place for the Arke of God and was careful for the church of the Lord. Iehosaphat Ezechias and Iosias were reformers of their Kingdoms enemies to idolatry and graciously defended the word of God And blessed be God for our Kings most excellent Maiesty who is maiesticall in his place in religion zealous in life vertuous and in mercy aboundantly gracious The Lord increase his graces in him the Lord annoint him with the oyle of Holynesse aboue his fellow princes and the Lord keepe him from this terrible Tophet and let all people that beare good will to this our English Sion to this my Prayer say Amen It is euen prepared for the King Secondly we may here perceyue with Peter that verily there is no respect of persons with God in iudgement he iudgeth the