Selected quad for the lemma: world_n

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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35129	An epistle to young people professing the truth	Crook, John, 1617-1699.	1686 (1686)	Wing C7210; ESTC R29663	4,926	8

serious and tenderness of heart sooner procured in them then in many who have frequented our Assemblies from their Childhood unto Men and Womens Estates so evil and catching are the bad Examples of others to them whose hearts are not kept tender to God Be serious therefore all you that make profession of the Truth in your tender years and examine your selves how you came to make profession of it was it for some by-ends and sinister respects or was it by Education from your Parents or others only not regarding the good intention and end thereof so as to come to the root of the matter in your selves nor heeding to be guided by the Light in your own Consciences but from time to time feeding only upon good words from others c. as it s to be feared too too many do at at this day I say unto all such careless ones I pity your Condition for all your Goodness will prove like the morning dew that soon vanisheth when heat ariseth and all your Profession will wither like the Corn upon the house top therefore let the time past suffice that you have spent your precious time to no purpose and rest no longer in an easeful mind above the Cross but sink down in deep Humility to the oppressed Seed of God in you which he hath left as a Witness for himself that you might not be as Sodom and like unto Gomorrah if you diligently hearken to it in your own particulars Parents and others that fear the Lord are bound in duty to God to use all means they can to impress the tender minds of their Children and Youth with the sence of Gods Power and in so doing they shall not loose their reward from God although their Children when grown up turn their backs upon it for Parents at the beginning looked upon the Truth as the best Portion for their Children not so much heeding their preferment in this World if by any means they might have an interest in that which is to come and in order thereunto they councelled their Children to mind the inward and spiritual Grace that so they might not relie upon any outward and visible thing for Preservation and Defence because that inward and spiritual Grace was commended to us at the beginning as the best Teacher to deny Vngodliness and Worldly Lusts and to live Godly Righteously and Soberly in this present Evil Werld but if Young People will reject the good advice of their Parents and others and degenerate from their Education their Destruction will be of themselues and their poor grieving Parents and others can but mourn in secret for them Children and others ought to know that there is no standing at a stay or stop in Religion for not to go forward therein is to go backward hence it is is that the Scripture saith Heb. 6. It is impossible for those who were once enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and were partakers of the holy Ghost and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the World to come if they shall fall away to renew them again unto Repentance seeing they crucifie to themselves the Son of God afresh and put him to open shame And being a business of greatest Importance the Apostle urgeth it from the Similitude following For saith he the Earth which drinketh in the Rain that cometh oft upon it and bringeth forth Hearbs meet for them for whom it is Dressed receiveth Blessings from God but that which beareth Thorns and Bryars is rejected and is nigh unto Cursing whose end is to be Burnt If there be therefore any Consolation in Christ the Truth if any Comfort of Love if any Fellowship of the Spirit if any Bowels of Mercies you that live carelessly and want only upon the Earth consider your Conditions and examine your selves how far the fore-mentioned Scripture affects you for I have a deep concern upon my heart for you all that have forsaken your first Love and bear another Image then those young People I have mentioned bore at the beginning Suppose by your Conformity to the Vanities of this presen● World you should gain a large share therein which but few obtain what will it avail when terrifying Death looks you in the Face have you forgotten Moses's Choice who esteemed it greater Riches to suffer Afflictions with the People of God then to be related to the Court of a great Monarch what shall I say to prevail with you is it not great pity that any who in years past bore the frowns of the great ones of the Earth Patiently went through Reproaches Cheerfully and many Hardships Constantly for some time and doubtless such felt a Reward from God for their encouragement why then should you loose your Crown at last Come let us reason together and let God Witness speak Wanted you any thing while you kept your Integrity did you not witness one day in Gods presence better then all the delights that ever you had since your minds by Looseness and Vanities hath been estranged from him did your Pleasure and Companions in Folly ever afford you that Comfort and inward Contentment and Peace which sometimes you have felt amongst Gods People why then do you deprive your selves by your negligence of that Sweetness and Comfort which no created Enjoyment can recompence the loss of besides that farther hope of Glory that is layd up for those that walk uprightly Many of the youthful People and others amongst us need not say What is Truth because I know it hath often proved it self to their Consciences beyond all outward demonstration and they cannot be ignorant how divers that have backsliden have been followed with a secret hand against them in all they have gone about Come away therefore and tarry no longer in Lying Vanities and let none say they cannot leave them for that is the Language of your Souls Enemy to discourage you wherefore resist him stedfastly in the Faith and he will fly from you for he hath no power but in Darkness and Unbelief watch therefore to the Light of Christ Jesus that discovers all the twistings of that croked Serpent and take up the daily Cross to those Evils that so easely ●eset you and you will find as you have often heard the Armour of Light at hand to defend you against all your youthful Lusts as blessed be God there are yet a Cloud of Witnesses alive that can from good Experience testifie the same Postscript LEt none despise these Lines for their Plainness for we were a plain People at the beginning I know some of the younger sort are apt to be taken with fine Words and fashionable Language as with other things in Fashion but Experience shews that that which tickles the outward Ear commonly stops there very seldom coming so low as to the Truth in the inward parts therefore this Epistle is sent abroad in so plain a dress on purpose answerable to a plain Seed in them that are puft up but ought rather to have mourned which Seed being reached and their Souls relieved my end is answered Laton the 18th of the 6th Month 1686. John Crook THE END