Selected quad for the lemma: world_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	choose_v	hate_v	persecute_v	1,861	5	9.5088	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66682	The great evil of procrastination, or, The sinfulness and danger of defering repentance in several discourses / by Anthony Walker ...	Walker, Anthony, d. 1692.	1682 (1682)	Wing W304; ESTC R39412	176,678	430

discouraged therefore but take Heart Remember He that said In the World you shall have Trouble said in the same Breath Be ye of good Cheer I have Over-come the World John 16.33 Marvail not Brethren that the World hates you 'T is a good Sign that you belong to God If you were of the World the World would love its own But because Christ hath chosen you out of the World therefore the World hateth you Joh. 15.19 'T is the same World which hated Christ before it hated You and kill'd him too and The Servant is not greater than his Lord. And He fore-told If they have persecuted Me they will persecute you If you be Reproached for the Name of CHRIST or stigmatiz'd with Nick-names for your Care in serious following His Work care not for it it shall in due time turn both to your Honour and Advantage Garments which were thought Uncomely and judg'd Ridiculous on vulgar Backs have become Modish been esteem'd Decent yea Adorning and have led the Fashion when Persons of Honour have thought good to wear them The Cress which was so Infamous and the greatest Scandal in and to the World became the most Honourable Ensign when the Great Constantine had plac't it in his Banners to lead his Victorious Legions A Deforming Scar adds Beauty to a Souldier and is a Mark of Honour and Trophee of his Valour though received from an Enemy's Hand Most ignominious Names which were impos'd as Brands to make Men hateful have chang'd their Nature and so the Design hath been spoyl'd by applying them to Vertuous and Excellent Persons 'T is confessedly a vile and hateful Thing to be an Heretick indeed yet What wise Man will blush to hear himself so called by a Pagan Jew or Papist nay will not rather glory in 't As St. Paul did Act. 24.14 This I confess unto thee that after the way which they call Heresy so worship I the God of my Fathers believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets I have enlarged on this beyond my first Intentions to remove a base Stumbling-block and a most dirty nay most devilish Scandal out of your Way which whosoever first kindled hath run like Fire in the Stubble God in Mercy quench it that is That if a Man be zealous in Religion live as if he did believe indeed there is an Heaven and Hell and that the Way to either is such as the Word of God describes that thinks it is Duty and his Wisdome to work out his own Salvation with fear and trembling That ownes he hath a work appointed him of God which requires the whole Man to perform it and therefore applyes himself to it accordingly In a word That dares not venture his Eternal Estate upon a few easy Ritual Observances without the Life Power of Godlyness thinks Judgment Mercy and Faith to be of equal or rather more Concernment than Tything of Annise Mynt and Cummin though he neither despise nor neglect the latter in their Place Such a Man must have sinister Reflections made upon him be he Minister or be he private Christian there is a secret Inquisition to inquire into him and they return him suspected of some kind of Heretical Pravity He is not Right He is at least half a Phanatick He is not through Pac'd not a True Son of the Church and what not that Sloath and Formality can invent to hide its own Shame by loading Holy Diligence in the Work of God with opprobrious and sinister Suspitions This is a dreadful Stumbling-Block the Good Lord remove it for His Mercy sake I cannot see what the Devil can do more dangerous than this To perswade Men 't is their Interest to be Wicked to force them to be cold and negligent in Religion in their own Defence and to fright them from keeping Pace with God in His Wayes or being imployed in His Work with all their Might for fear of being thought and called what would render them more Obnoxious than the deepest Prophaness or foulest Debauchery And their Zeal would be as dangerous to them as Paul's Learning was to him in Festus's Judgment quite beside themselves Too much Zeal hath made them Mad. Good Lord What do such Men think of the Holy Bible of our Blessed Saviour's Example and Holy Doctrine of the Primitive Christians and Holy Martyrs Were all these stark mad That all must be esteemed so who endeavour to follow them though Alas at too great a Distance And What do such Men think of the Tremendous Day of Judgment Or Do they indeed believe there shall be such a Day I fear if these Obscure Papers chance to fall into the Hands of some of these Hot Men they may be ready to act the Part of Demetrius and my self be in danger to suffer that of St. Paul Recorded Act. 19. For Guilt is a very Teachy and a very Vindictive thing But I appeal to the Searcher of Hearts I designe not the Reproach of Our Church but its Vindication In which Blessed be God for it are Thousands that Preach and Ten Thousands that Learn and Obey the Truth as it is Jesus and Have not so Learned Christ as to render their Profession or the Church in which they were taught it Unsavory 〈◊〉 but Sweet as Oyntment poured forth And if this notwithstanding any be found who to Compensate for their Want of the Power of Godilness and Good Morality in Sobriety and Righteousness by a furious Zeal and mighty Noise for the little disputable Things which all confess to be but the List of our Cloath and Hem of our Garment to keep the One from Rending and the Other from Raveling shall appeal to the Church as it s only true and genuine Sons I sincerely expect the Justice from my Mother that she will declare such Sons to be Esteemed by Her no better than Augustus call'd his Niece and Daughter his Sores and Vlcers But my Business in this Place is not to Reclaim the Guilty but to Defend and Encourage the Innocent in the sincere Endeavours and serious Practice of that faithful industry which Christ expects from them in His Work while the Day to work in lasts and which the Church in His Name by the Voyce of Her Ministers and by Mine amongst the rest tho the Meanest amongst many calls and excites them to Take Courage therefore Christians ply your Work He th●● gave you this Rule and set before you His own Example looks on and is greatly pleas'd to see you follow it And if any be so hardy as to Discourage or Reproach you it matters not as long as He will own and Crown you And if Christ Justify you what need ye care who shall Condemn you The Second Vse is to Condemn those who neglect these Engagements or act contrary to them What meanest thou O Sleeper Arise Is it not more than time thou hadst began thy Work when 't is high time thy Work were finish't when many Younger than thy self