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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
A40073	The design of Christianity, or, A plain demonstration and improvement of this proposition viz. that the enduing men with inward real righteousness or true holiness was the ultimate end of our Saviour's coming into the world and is the great intendment of his blessed Gospel / by Edward Fowler ...	Fowler, Edward, 1632-1714.	1671 (1671)	Wing F1698; ESTC R35681	136,795	332

explained by Turning from the power of Satan unto God And the following clause viz. And the Glory of thy people Israel signifieth the same thing Namely that in the place of their outward and Ceremonial observances called by the Apostle Beggarly Elements He should bring in among them a far more Noble viz. an inward substantial and Everlasting Righteousness and by abrogating that and establishing only this Righteousness He should enlarge their Church an accession of the Gentiles being by that means made unto it Fifthly This is expressed by S. Iohn the Baptist immediately before our Saviour's solemn entrance upon his office as the business he was undertaking Matth. 3. 11 12. I indeed baptize you with Water unto repentance that is especially from the more plain and confessed exorbitances but he that cometh after me is mightier than I whose shoes I am not worthy to bear he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire which will take away those stains and pollutions that Water cannot whose fan is in his hand and he will throughly purge his floor Sixthly Again after our Saviour's entrance upon his office he himself declared that He came to call sinners to Repentance And that he was so far from coming to destroy the Law and the Prophets that he came 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to fulfil or perfect them that is by giving more and higher instances of Moral Duties than were before expresly given And he tells the Jews presently after that Except their Righteousness shall exceed the Righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees that is unless it be above their Practical and meerly External Righteousness they shall in no case enter into the Kingdom of Heaven And he abundantly made it appear as will be quickly shewn that the Reformation of mens lives and Purification of their Natures were the Great Business that he designed Lastly This was frequently asserted after he forsook the World by the Apostles he left behind him S. Peter told his Countrey-men Acts 3. 26. That as God sent Christ to bless them so the Blessing designed them by him consisted in turning them from their iniquities To you first saith he God having raised up his Son Iesus sent him to bless you by turning every one of you from his iniquities Again Acts 5. 31. The same Apostle with others saith that Him hath God exalted with his Right Hand to be a Prince and a Saviour to give Repentance to Israel and forgiveness of Sins Repentance first and then Forgiveness S. Iohn tells us 1 Epist. ●… 8. that for this purpose the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the Devil And S. Paul calleth the Gospel of Christ The Mystery of Godliness 1 Tim. 3. 16. The Doctrine that is according to Godliness And gives us to understand that that which the Grace of God which brings Salvation teacheth is that denying Vngodliness and all worldly Lusts we should live Soberly Righteously and Godlily in this Present World Tit. 2. 12. CHAP. III. A Particular Demonstration that Holiness is the only Design of the Precepts of the Gospel And that they require 1. The Most Extensive Holiness 2. The most Intensive An Objection answered BUT to give a more particular proof of what we have undertaken First It is most apparent That Holiness is the Design the only Design of the Christian Precepts and that this is the Mark which they are wholly levelled at What the Apostle spake of the Iewish may be much more said of the Christian Law that It is Holy just and Good For as Clemens Alexandrinus in his Paedagogus saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Even Infant-Christianity is perfection compared with the Law or the Mosaical Dispensation There is no Affirmative Precept in the Gospel but it either Commands Holiness in the general or one or more Particular Vertue or Habit of Holiness or some Essential Act or Acts of it or Means and Helps to the Acquiring Maintaining or Encrease of it Such as Hearing and Reading the Word Prayer Meditation Good Conference Watchfulness against Temptations Avoiding occasions of evil c. And there is no Negative Precept but doth forbid the Contrary to some one or more of those Duties but doth forbid some thing or other that doth tend either directly or indirectly immediately or mediately in its own nature or by reason of some Circumstance to the depraving of Humane Nature and rendring us Perfectly Wicked or in some degree or other less holy To make this appear by going over the Several Precepts contained in the Gospel would be a work of too much time but whosoever as he reads them shall duly consider each of them cannot be to seek for Satisfaction concerning the truth of what I have now said and I dare undertake he will readily acknowledge That there is nothing that is not upon its own or some one or other account greatly Becoming us and Perfective of Humane Nature in the whole Gospel Commanded And that there is not any thing in it self and in all respects innocent there forbidden This can be by no means said concerning the Precepts of the Law of Moses but that it may concerning those of the Gospel is absolutely Certain But my whole Discourse upon this present Argument shall be confined to these two Heads Namely to shew That the Christian Precepts require the most Extensive and most Intensive Holiness that is exactly such a Holiness as hath been described First They require the most Extensive Holiness Not onely towards God but also towards our Neighbour and our selves In the forecited place Tit. 2. 12. S. Paul puts all these together under the Phrases of Living Soberly Righteously and Godlily as making up that Holiness which the Grace of God that brings Salvation teacheth The Precepts of our Saviour command us not onely to give unto God the things that are God's but also to Caesar the things that are Caesar's Not only to obey God in all things but to be subject likewise to every Ordinance of Man for the Lords Sake that is to every Ordinance of Man that doth not Contradict the Law of God Not only to fear God but also to honor the King and to obey our spiritual Governors likewise which watch for our Souls c. and to behave our selves towards all persons sutably to the Relations we stand in to them Wives to submit themselves to their own Husbands as unto the Lord Husbands to love their Wives even as Christ loved the Church Children to obey their Parents in the Lord and Fathers not to provoke their Children to wrath but to bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord Servants to be obedient to their Masters with singleness of heart as unto Christ c. and Masters to do the same things unto them forbearing threatning or a harsh behaviour towards them knowing that they have a Master in Heaven with whom is no respect of persons We are commanded to love