Selected quad for the lemma: world_n
Text snippets containing the quad
|
ID |
Title |
Author |
Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) |
STC |
Words |
Pages |
|
A54653
|
A caveat against drunkenness, especially in evil times being a consideration of Eph. 5. 18. / by C.P.
|
Phelpes, Charles.
|
1676
(1676)
|
Wing P1975; ESTC R20541
|
88,768
|
184
|
from the consideration of their nighness to and mercy they have received from God he thus speaks This I say therefore and testify in the Lord that Ye walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind Eph. 4. 17-20 So the Apostle Peter saith Dearly beloved I beseech you as Strangers and Pilgrims abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the Soul having your conversation honest c. 1 Pet. 2. 9-12 And this will appear if we consider 1. They are called out of darkness out of ignorance and blindness into Gods marvellous light 1 Pet. 2. 9. And therefore it more abundantly behoves them to put off and flee from this work of darkness Ye were sometimes darkness saith the Apostle to these believing Ephesians and then ye walked according to the course of this world c. but now are ye light in the Lord walk as children of light walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their minds having the understanding darkned being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart Eph. 5. 8 with chap. 2. 1 2 and 4. 17 18. Indeed this is the condemnation as to men generally this is their condemning-sin and the cause of their condemnation that light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil Joh. 3. 19 20. But now as to these not only light is come into the world but they are turned from Darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God as to their state they have believed in the light and are the children of it born of it and called into it indued with the light of the knowledg of God which shines in the face of Christ and therefore it behoves them especially to avoid and abstain from all evil and from this of Intemperance particularly or else they will more highly sin and rebel against the light than others Christ hath given them light let such see then that they walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise Let them not be drunk with Wine Eph. 5. 15-18 Certainly men act as and render themselves to be fools at an high rate especially the Children of Light who are Drunk with Wine and such deeds are directly and openly opposite to the Light they have received and to that Wisdom they are indued with As on the other hand it is an high point of Wisdom and the way to be more wise still for those who are of the light to avoid Wine wherein is excess and such as are Bibbers thereof Hence the Holy Ghost saith My Son if thine heart be wise mine heart shall rejoyce even mine yea my reins shall rejoyce c. But how may the heart of such an one be wise Wherein consists and what is the way to Wisdom The Wisdom of God informs us of this as one thing contained in it and needful to it Hear thou my Son and be wise and guide thine heart in the Way Be not amongst wine-bibbers amongst riotous eaters of flesh Prov. 23. 15-21 This Argument the Apostle also propounds to the Thessalonians to move them to be and abide Sober Ye are all the children of light and the children of the day We are not of the night nor of darkness Therefore let us not sleep as do others but let us watch and be sober For they that sleep sleep in the night and they that are drunken are drunken in the night But let us who are of the day be sober 1 Thes 5. 5-8 And if they be not so who are Children of light but become the servants of corruption as their sin is more sinful than others so their judgment will be much more severe and intollerable For such as these The blackness of darkness is reserved for ever Jude 12 13. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ they are again intangled therein and overcome the latter end is worse with them than the beginning For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than after they have known it to turn from the holy Commandment delivered to them 2 Pet. 2. 19-22 The Apostle gives us to understand that the Iniquity of Intemperance in those who are Children of Light is greater than that of other men and answerably their judgement and punishment will be heavier and more terrible if they be not seasonably washed therefrom in that he saith I wrote unto you in an Epistle not to keep company with fornicators yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world or with the covetous c. For then must ye needs go out of the world But now I have written unto you not to keep company If any that is called a Brother be a fornicator or a Drunkard with such an one no not to eat not familiarly to converse or not to eat at the Table of the Lord with such an one as this is 1 Cor. 5. 9-11 Because such sin so greatly against the Light and act so very uusutably unto those principles which they have received of God in walking according whereto they would certainly be preserved from such a brutish and beastly Iniquity as is this of Drunkenness and Intemperance 2. These are Saints by calling and profession washed and sanctified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God and so are brought nigh unto God They are no more strangers and forreiners but fellow-Citizens with the Saints and of the household of God And in Christ they are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit And so are made nigh unto him by the Blood of Christ Eph. 2. 13-19-22 They are brought into and made of his House And holiness becometh thy house O Lord for ever Psal 93. 5. And therefore it doth behove these especially to escape and flee from the corruptions of the world and this also particularly of Insobriety or otherwise they will more abundantly provoke the eyes of his Glory unto whom they are made so nigh Be not unequally yoaked together with unbelievers For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness and what communion hath light with darkness And what concord hath Christ with Belial whose Children Drunkards are as we have seen Or what part hath he that believeth with an Infidel And what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols For ye are the Temple of the living God as God hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them c. And if any man defile the Temple of God him shall God destroy For the Temple of God is holy which Temple ye are 2 Cor. 6. 14-16 with 1 Cor. 3. 16 17. The Lord will be sanctified in them that come nigh him Lev. 10. 3 though he hateth sin with a perfect and everlasting hatred in all God is of purer eyes than to behold Iniquity yet
A CAVEAT Against Drunkenness Especially in EVIL TIMES BEING A Consideration of Eph. 5. 18. By C. P. The Crown of Pride the Drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under feet And the glorious beauty which is on the head of the fat valley shall be a fading flower and as the hasty fruit before the Summer which when he that looketh upon it seeth it while it is yet in his hand he eats it up In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of Glory and for a Diadem of beauty unto the residue of his people Isa 28. 3-5 They that be drunken are drunken in the night But let us who are of the day be sober 1 Thes 5. 7 8. LONDON Printed and are to be Sold by Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers Chappel 1676. To my Brethren and Companions in the Faith of our Lord Jesus Christ the Lord of Glory Grace and Peace be multiplied Beloved THe Grace of God that bringeth Salvation to all men hath appeared Teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ that we may adorn the Doctrine of God our Saviour in all things Tit. 2 10-13 How this Doctrine according to Godliness is blasphemed and evil-spoken of by many persons we cannot be ignorant As if it were a Doctrine of Loosness and Licentiousness a Doctrine of Libertinism and Profaness as if it opened a Gap to all wickedness and impiety whatsoever And though men herein be-ly it yet certainly we shall give occasion to them that are of no judgment concerning the Faith thus to speak reproachfully of it if while we seek to be justified by Christ we our selves are found sinners and walk not uprightly according to the truth of the Gospel Gal. 2. 14-18 And Wo to the world because of offences But wo especially to that man by whom the offence cometh Wherefore saith our Saviour If thy hand or thy foot offend thee or cause thee to offend cut them off and cast them from thee it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire Matth. 18. 7 8. You know in your hearts and in your souls that he that died for all therefore died for them that they which live should not henceforth live to themselves or the luses of men but unto the will of God even to him that died for them and rose again 2 Cor. 5. 14 15. with 1 Pet. 4. 1-3 You know that the good creatures men abuse in their intemperance are the Lord's And that by Grace we are made partakers of them and have a comfortable enjoyment of them through the Sufferings Sacrifice and Mediation of Christ And that these things are not given us to consume upon our Lusts or prepare for Baal Shall ye then continue in sin because grace hath abounded or that it may abound God forbid He that knows his Masters will and doth it not shall be beaten with many stripes Luk. 12. 47 48. You know there is an eternal judgment in which we shall all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ That every one of us may receive according to the things done in his body whether good or bad For God shall bring every work into judgment with every secret thing whether it be good or whether it be evil Oh therefore knowing the terrour of the Lord abstain and flee from all intemperance whatsoever While Paul in declaring the faith in Christ reasoned of righteousness temperance and judgment to come Foelix trembled perceiving it would go hardly with intemperate and incontinent ones hereafter Act. 24. 24 25. And can we hear and think thereof and not tremble so as to depart from iniquity Surely then Felix hereafter shall rise up in the judgment with us and condemn us when Drunkards shall be excluded and shut out of the Kingdom of Christ and of God Nay by your own personal sinning you not only expose your selves to the Wrath of God both present and eternal But you cause many to stumble at the Law and Doctrine of Christ and teach and strengthen the wicked ones in their evil wayes and are guilty of the Blood of the Souls of others And what will you do in the end thereof How shall we escape if we neglect so great Salvation If you were entertainers of such ungodly Doctrines as are too generally received amongst zealous ones now in our dayes That the greatest part of men were reprobated before they were born and must necessarily perish for ever hereafter then your evil would not be so great concerning them for you would but help to destroy them that God would not have saved But for you to be instruments of evil and perdition to others who profess to believe that Christ died for all and rose again and that God would have all men to be saved How unsutably and contrary to your principles do you act while you lay stumbling-blocks in their way to cause them to fall and perish for whom you know Christ died Oh! As your hearts are purified in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto the unfeigned love of the Brethren and of all men see to it that ye love them with such a love as you are taught and principled unto of God Object 1. If any one should say we have such a trade employment or way of livelyhood to walk in and follow as that thereby we are necessitated sometimes to keep company and to drink more than otherwise we would do or else we had as good wholly leave off all and then we shall presently fail into poverty To such an one I would say 1. There is nothing said or however intended in any expression made use of to take men off from any lawful or laudable employment or way of living or from having fellowship with the men of the world in and about the affairs of this life in a lawful way For then as the Apostle saith ye must needs go out of the world 1 Cor. 5. 9 10. 2. But though we must have company with evil persons while we are here in this world at some times and may trade with evil workers yet by no means should we have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather reprove them Eph. 5. 11. And if we cannot trade or converse with them unless we put forth our hand to iniquity it 's better to lose their custom than to grieve the good Spirit of God dishonour the Gospel and get a snare and wound to our Souls And be we confident that in first seeking the kingdom of God and his righteousness all other things shall be added to us Oh Were we so filled with the Spirit as to live the life we live in the flesh by the faith of the Son of God who