Selected quad for the lemma: world_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	deed_n	light_n	reprove_v	2,736	5	10.3625	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60634	Gospel-tydings wherein is shewed what the Gospel administration was, the apostacy from it, and the restauration into it again : being a message of true and unfeigned love ... / [by] W.S.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1663 (1663)	Wing S4306; ESTC R42733	15,605	20

with and joyn into the love which God makes manifest in the Light and so mans destruction is of himself because he loves not the Light but loves his evil deeds better and follows the devices of his own heart which with the Light is reproved and such obeys not the Gospel in which the love of God is tendered but sollows the God of this World and cherishes their own hearts lusts and this is mans own way in which the god of this World blindes him and keeps him in the apostacy where he is alienated from the life of God therefore let all people consider whilst they have a day for with whom was the Lord grieved was it not with those that had sinned whose carcasses fell in the wilderness and unto whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest was it not those that believed not therefore all people take heed least you out-stand the Lord in the hardness of your hearts and let the day of your visitation slip over your heads without regarding for unto which of you hath he not manifested his love and who amongst you can truly say the Lord hath not visited have you not had many convictions in your Consciences and many convincements for your sins have you not been reproved for the Evil of your doings and have you not been secretly judged for secret faults have you done any thing so privately that hath not been manifest or could you ever hide any thing so closely that hath not been made known who amongst you can excuse your selves before the most High or which of you can say in truth the Lord hath not shewed me evil or that I am ignorant of my sin who amongst you can stand to plead with God in these things Oh surely the day of account is very great and unto it you must all come and the Lord will be clear when he judges for all his Judgments are true and do you not draw his judgments upon your selves because you regard not his law how will you stand to account for all your idle words and ungodly deeds in which you run at liberty as if all should end without account look over your lives and with the Light of Christ in your Consciences view your selves and behold the fruit of your doings and consider whether you can stand approved unto God in secret for your lives demonstrate your nature and the fruit of your doings declares your root the old man is yet alive in you and the god of this World hath dominion over you and with his deceivable working he blindes you and in the apostacy you are lost when the Gospel is hid from you and so you remain in your fins which the Gospel casteth out and expelleth where it is believed and received and if you will but view your selves with the Light of Christ which is in you though you be not in it you will see that you are under the Law and approved by it and not under the Gospel and the Law saith Thou shalt not Covet now view your selves and behold whether you keep this one commandment and if you do not then you are yet under the Law and the Law condemnes you for it is Spiritual holy just and good and was added because of transgression and whilst you are in transgression and doth not keep the Law you are under the curse and not in the blessing which is a Gospel state Now if you will view your hearts with the Light it will shew you that you are coveting an evil covetousness and both the riches of this World and the riches of Knowledg your hearts are set upon and these are two great evils which the holy Law condemneth and though you may talk of the Gospel and a Gospel-administration and apprehend your selves to be Gospel-worshippers yet you are under the first Covenant with its curse and condemnation being yet in the transgression and you have not received the love in the Light in which the Law and Prophets is fulfilled so it is not what you profess that makes you to be the same you profess neither is it what you apprehend your souls to be that makes you so to be for the new man doth not live the life of the old therefore let this consideration enter into all your hearts and ponder it in secret that it is not such as onely profess the Gospel that are approved but such as obey the Gospel and therefore you that talk so much of a Gospel dispensation and the free grace of God in it and thereby would exclude perfect obedience as a duty onely belonging to the first Covenant and say it is not now of works but of grace and run from good works and so are reproved by St. James you are in the apostacy covered with imaginations for all the children of Light are children of obedience and you that are not so are foolish and disobedient and whilst you talke of salvation by the free grace of God without works your selves are found in the works of sin and yeilding your selves to obey the God of this world and so you would hold two Kingdomes at once but do you not know that unto whom you yeild your selves servants to obey his servants you are to whom you obey and is not here obedience to somthing and doth the free grace of God save the disobedient who yeild themselves to obey the God of this world and denies the teachings of the grace when it appeareth for the grace of God appeareth unto all men and the appearance of it doth discover ungodliness and worldly lusts in all but who are they that are taught to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts are not they such as obey the grace in its appearance or can any be taught by the grace and not obey it you may as truly say that all men shall be saved because the grace unto all men appeareth but this is known and witnessed by the children of Light who are the children of obedience that as the grace appeareth against ungodliness and worldly lusts so the grace is to be obeyed in its appearance and being obeyed it then teaches to deny that which it appears against and not onely so but it also teaches to live the life of godliness and so the grace being obeyed it brings salvation for it overcomes sin and gives victory over the God of this World who leadeth in sin such servants as obeys him and hereby it may be understood that salvation is by grace and not by works and so it is believed and vvitnessed by all the children of Light vvho knovves that obedience to the grace doth not set up the first Covenant but establishes the second in vvhich the Gospel is ministred according to the riches of his grace vvho is the fulness of all things therefore it is manifest that you are yet under Moses though you have Christ to talk of and the vail is yet over your hearts not being redeemed from under the Lavv and its