Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	good_a	great_a	life_n	4,422	5	4.2306	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54278	The way to peace and happiness proposed in some instructions, given formerly by a parent to his children. Which being of concern to all, (tho of riper years) are recommended to the perusal of all sorts of people, without respect of persons or parties, age or sex.	Pennyman, John, 1628-1706.	1690 (1690)	Wing P1427; ESTC R221425	7,001	18

Advice or Counsel from Me touching the Way to Rest Peace and endless Happiness 2. Let a diligent Search be made in each of your Hearts and there you may see by that Heavenly and Divine Principle which GOD hath given You to be your JUDGE and LAW-GIVER whether you have not been more Remiss Disregardful and Negligent therein than you might or ought to have been However whilst my Life is spared amongst you I cannot but have a true Love Care and Concern for you All that you may not so much seek your Selves your own Honour Pleasure or Preferment or whatsoever this Life can afford as that you may be Patterns of Vertue exemplary in Goodness and Preachers of Righteousness in all your Lives and Conversations 3. This This is That will make you happy in all Conditions This is That will give you true Peace Quietness and Contentedness in the midst of all the Hurries Heats Disorders Distractions and Confusions that are at this Day I say who are come hither to this Holy Heavenly and Divine Life and feel it powerfully reigning in them Such cannot be afraid of any evil Tidings and thô they may be made to oppose and reprove Others and suffer much Abuse and Reproach for so doing yet they cannot but love and have compassion on their worst and greatest Enemies but may not love nor join to Iniquity in their Nearest and Dearest Friends Such cannot but prize and highly esteem true Nobility Vertue and Goodness in whomsoever without respect of Persons or Parties 4. Now my dear Children the occasion of my Writing at this time is not only and alone for Your sakes but for the sake of Many OTHERS who I believe are hungring and thirsting after Righteousness and who in secret are crying and saying in their Hearts Who will shew us any Good And seeing the LORD hath put it into my Heart to write both to You and Them these few Lines and to reprint my former INSTRUCTIONS I hope They will be well weighed and deeply considered of by you All for they are of Moment being not writ from the wise prying fathoming comprehending Part in Man but from the same Good Spirit that the Holy Men of Old writ and spake by 5. Wherefore upon Your and their receiving or rejecting the Counsel herein given you depends your Blessing or your Curse your Weal or Wo your Happiness or Vnhappiness your Peace and Quietness or your Trouble and Discontent for such as you sow such will you reap 6. So that it is with Me to let You and Them know as the Servant of the LORD once said to the Israelites that LIFE and Death Good and Evil is here set before You And thô the Way that leads to Life be strait and narrow yet know and that for a Truth that 't is both easy plain pleasant and exceeding yea beyond all utterance delightful to those Sincere Souls who are resigned and resolved to walk in it Such who know the Virtue and Excellency thereof have been willing to part with All that hath been near or dear unto them that they might be preserved Faithful therein neither can They leave it nor forsake it for all the Treasures Pleasures and Advantages that this World can give 7. For this Path was the Path of the Just in all Ages and which all the Holy Men did chearfully embrace and walk in and that You and I may be Followers of their Steps is the hearty desire of Your well-wishing and truly loving Father J.P. Dec. 14. 1683. CHAP. VI. This following is here inserted for the sake of some People whom it nearly concerns 1. WHen They cast up the Accounts of their Sins they shall come with Fear and their own Iniquities shall convince them to their Face 2. Then shall the Righteous Man stand in great Boldness before the Face of such as afflicted him and made no account of his Labours 3. When they see it they shall be troubled with terrible Fear and shall be amazed at the strangeness of his Salvation so far beyond all that they looked for 4. And They Repenting and Groaning for anguish of Spirit shall say within themselves This was He whom we had sometime in Derision and a Proverb of Reproach 5. We Fools counted his Life Madness and his End to be without Honour How is he numbred among the Children of GOD and his Let among the Saints 6. If a Man say I love GOD and hateth his Brother he is a Liar for he who loveth not his Brother whom he hath seen how can he love GOD whom he hath not seen 7. And this Commandment have we from Him That he who loveth GOD love his Brother also CHAP. VII THere is a Spirit which I feel and am a Witness of that cannot delight in doing any Evil nor in revenging any Wrong but delights in the Will of its Heavenly Father It willingly endures all things in hopes to meet with its own in the End its hope is to outlive all Strife and Contention and to weary out all Exaltation and Cruelty or whatsoever is of a Nature contrary to it self It is conceived in Sorrow and brought forth through Suffering for with the World's Joy it is murdered I found It being Alone and have Fellowship therein with Those who lived in Dens and Desolate Places of the Earth of whom this World was not worthy who through Faith Vertue and a good Life obtained this BLESSED and HAPPY STATE SHine forth Great GLORY shine that I may see Both how to loath my Self and honour THEE O give me Grace to mind and use Time so That I may do THY Work before I go And help and pardon me when I transgress Through Humane Frailty or Forgetfulness Mark the Perfect Man and behold the Vpright for the End of that Man is Peace THE END