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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	deny_v	live_v	ungodliness_n	2,303	5	11.2667	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12197	The saints safetie in evill times Delivered at St Maries in Cambridge the fift of November, upon occasion of the Povvder-Plot. Whereunto is annexed a passion-sermon, preached at Mercers Chappel London upon Good-Friday. As also the happinesse of enjoying Christ laid open at the funerall of Mr Sherland late recorder of Northampton. Together with the most vertuous life and heavenly end of that religious gentleman. By R. Sibbes D.D. master of Katherine-Hall in Cambridge, and preacher at Grayes-Inne London.	Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.	1634 (1634)	STC 22507; ESTC S102406	165,121	608

but their happinesse is determined in this life here that ends but their misery is infinite and hath no end at all Looke what degree of excellency any creature hath if it bee good the same degree of misery it hath if it be evill What made the Angells worse then other creatures when they sinned but only this they were most excellent creatures and therefore when they became evill their excellencie did but help them to subsist be more capable of punishmēt A wise mā under ādeth his misstry Now the Angells when they fell became more miserable because they were more capac●ous and sensible of it being Spirits So man being sinfull and evill his end will be more miserable then any inferiour creature because he was more happie his happinesse helps him to mo●e misery How should this stirre up every one to looke about him not to prize himselfe by any outward excellency whatsoever The more excellent thou art the more miserable if thou sin against God It is of all unhappinesses the most unhappie thing for a man to live happyly here a while be eternally miserable afterwards for our former happinesse tends to nothing els but to make us more sensible of future miseries what is all the felicity of great persons when they die and leave this world alas it soone comes to nothing and serves but to make them apprehensive of more misery then meaner persons are capable of What shall the end of such be c. From this that the Apostle leaves the punishment of all sinfull wretches to admiration and wonderment rather then to expression for indeed it is above expression wee may learne when wee are tempted to any sin or unalwfull course to cōsider thus with our selves Shall I for a pleasure that will end have a judgement that shall never end For the favour of men that will faile shall I lose the perpetuall favour of God whose wrath is a cōsuming fire burnes to hell shall I for a little profit lose my soule eternally Beloved as the good things of a Christian even in this life are admirable beyōd expressiō peace that passeth all understanding and joy unspeakable and glorio●s c. So when God awakens our consciences those gripes and pangs terrors o● foule which follow after sinne cōmitted are unutterable unconceivable I beseech you therefore when ever you are sollicited to sinne for profit or pleasure c. set before your eies the fading and perishing condition of these things and the everlastingnesse of that judgment which attends upon them Oh that we were wise this way I come now to the third particular Those that obey not the Gospell where in wee have 1. A description of the thing 2. And then of the Persons The thing is the Gospell of God the Persons are wicked men God is the authour of the Gospell it comes out his brest sealed with authority Whence learne this by the way That in refusing the blessed Gospell ●ee have to deale with god himselfe It is Gods word and Gospel therefore when you reject it you reject God in receiving it you receive God you deale with God himselfe when you deale with the Ministers of his word therfore when ever you partake of the Ordinaces say with good Cornelius We are now in the presēce of God to heare what hee will say But what is it to obey the Gospell To obey the Gospell is to entertaine the offers of it for indeed though the Gospell co●●and us to beleeve in the Sonne of God yet withall it offers the very command unto us To beleeve in Christ being in effect a commaund to receive him which supposeth an act of giving and tendering somthing to us Now when wee doe not receive and intertaine with our whole heart Christ and his benefits freely offered wee disobey the Gospell and so procure danger to our selves But more particularly he obeies the Gospell that is sensible of his owne miserable and sinnefull condition and from a sense thereof hungereth after the grace and favour offered in Jesus Christ to pardon sinne which when hee hath once obteined walkes answerable to that great mercy receved Hee that receives whole Christ to justifie him and sanctifie him too that receives Christ as a king to rule him as well as a Preist to save him such a one receives the Gospell but those that are not sensible of their misery or if they be will not goe to Christ but as desperate persons fling a way the potion that should cure them these are farre frō obeying the Gospel of God Such likewise as pretend Oh Christ is welcome with the pardon of sinne but yet live in grosse wickednesse against ●●owledge and conscience and suffer him not to beare sway in their hearts as if Christ came by blo●d alone not by water whereas indeed he came as well by water to sanctifie us as by bloud to die for us Many there are that thinke they obey the Gospell who are indeed very rebels and enenies unto it they welcom● the Gospell they hate popery c. but notwithstanding they will bee their own Rulers live as they list they wil not denie thēselves in their beloved sinnes they are full of Reveng● notwithstanding the Gospell saith This is my Commandement that you love one another That bidds them deny ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and live soberly Yet they will riot and follow their base courses still The Gospell teacheth a man to acknowledge God in all his waies to deale with Go● in all thing● he goes about now when a man lives without God in the world saying God is mercifull and Christ is a Saviour and yet persists in those waies which seeme good in his owne eies never looking to God to guide him or his law to rule him How can such a one bee said to obey the Gospell But some others there are amongst us that regard not Christ and his satisfaction alone but joyne faith and workes together in justification they will have other Preists and other intercessors then Christ. Alas beloved how are these men falne from Christ to another Gospell as if Christ were not an all-sufficient Saviour and able to deliver to the uttermost What is the Gospell but salvation and redemption by Christ alone Therefore Romes Church is an Apostate Church and may well be stiled an Adulteresse and a Whore because shee is fallen from her Husband Christ Jesus And what may wee thinke of those that would bring light darknesse Christ and Antichrist the Arke and Dagon together that would reconcile us as if it were no such great matter Beloved they that joyne works with Christ in matter of j●stification erre in the foundation the very life and soule of Religion consists in this What was the reason the Iewes stumbled at this st●●bling block and were never benefited by Christ why they set up a righteousnesse of their ●wne which could not stand but soone