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

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49240	The Christians combat: or, His true spiritual warfare wherein is laid down the nature, power, and cunning deceit of Satan, the great enemy of our salvation. With the means whereby every good Christian may withstand his dreadful assaults. By C. L. late preacher of Gods word in the City of London.	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.	1664 (1664)	Wing L3144; ESTC R216615	19,118	53

and strangers should serve as an effectual reason to wean our hearts from the love of the world and worldly vanities and to place them in heaven and onely in heavenly joys which is our country and place of residence therefore if we be pilgrims on earth we must follow their practice and not set our hearts on worldly things because the time we have to enjoy them is very short let him that hath enjoyed worldly prosperity the longest time look back and he shall sée that all that is past is but as a dream or shadow and as the twinkling of an eye in respect of eternity but all our love and longing must be placed on our heavenly inheritance where we are for ever to enjoy an eternal weight of glory and happiness without end Now if we would thus estéem of the world and worldly vanities learn then of the Apostle to use them as though we used them not not as places to rest in or things wherein we take our chief repose but as a way to travel in and as necessaries to further us in our journey who would seat his heart and affections on those delights which he séeth as he passeth by who in his right wits will so doat on these things in which he hath not any interest as that he should neglect far better and permanent delights in his own country Let us then like travellers refresh our selves with the things of this life and so again go forward on our journy cast away every thing that presseth down and the sin that hangeth fast on and let us run with patience the race that is set before us let us learn to imitate the Eagle which seldome lighteth on the earth but when constrain'd with hunger she stoopeth to her prey and when she hath fed mounteth again aloft above the clouds so let us not suffer our hearts and affections any longer to rest upon the earth then we are compel'd with our present necessities but like the Eaglets of Iesus Christ let us resort thither where the dead carcase is and being fed herewith let us amount high in divine contemplations having our conversation in heaven and let us like strangers and pilgrims abstain from carnal lusts which fight against our souls Again the world is not simply a place of pilgrimage alone but a place of warfare wherein we are assaulted on all sides and by all possible means hindred in our spiritual voyage and therefore séeing our time is but short and so full of trouble let us seat our affections and our hearts on the main business which tends to our spiritual warfare as Jacob saith the daies of his pilgrimage were not onely few but evil also Gen. 47 9. and Job affirmeth that man who is born of a woman is but of short continuance and full of trouble Job 14.1 And therefore while we are here we had néed to be always in the compleat armour of a Christian● because we fight not onely against flesh and blood but against Principalities Powers and worldly Governours the Prince of the darkness of the world which are in high places let us then with the Apostle so run that we may obtain 1 Cor. 9. 24 25. Let us being to wrestle with such mighty enemies like him that proveth masteries abstain from all things which might hinder us to obtain a crown is incorruptible let us come into the field against our spiritual enemies not loaded and incumbred with the burden of worldly trash tyed fast unto us the bounds of carnal love which shall but betray us into the hands of those foes which séek our overthrow but let us run armed with Gods spiritual graces and assisted with the power of his might whereby we shall be inabled to obtain the victory that so we may say with the Apostle I have fought a good fight I have finished my course and have kept the faith from henceforth is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous judge shall give me at that day 2 Tim. 4. 7 8. Séeing this is promised as he affirmeth not to him alone but to all them who obtain the victory in this spiritual warfare according to that gracious promise in Revel 3.27 to him that overcometh will I gran● 〈◊〉 with me in my Throne even as I overcame and sit with my Father in his Throne I come now to a second motive to stir us up to look after heavenly treasure and not immoderately to love the world and worldly vanities because we are pilgrims here and therefore must leave them in our passage so we are Citizens of heaven the new Jerusalem the Apostle saith we having through Christ an entrance unto the father by one spirit are now no more strangers and forreigners but Citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God and speaking of Abraham the father of the faithful he saith That he abode in the land of promise as in a strange country and as one that dwelt in tents because he looked for a City not made with hands having a foundation whose builder and maker is God neither was this peculiar to him alone but general to all his Children who followed him in the saith of whom it is said that they have here no continuing City but seek one to come Heb. 11. 6 9 10. And the reason is apparent for we are Citizens and subjects of that Kingdom whereof our Lord Iesus Christ is King but he himself hath plainly told us that his kingdom is not of this world but that he reigneth and ruleth in that kingdom of eternal glory and therefore whosoever are subjects unto him they cannot be frée denizons of the world but Citizens of heaven It is no marvel that heretofore we living in ignorance did not estéem of those divine excellencies but preferred before them these worldly vanities because they are subject to our selves for there is no desire of that which is not known and that bright sun-shine day is all alike to him who is stark-blind unto the darkest night But now after that the grace of God which bringeth salvation unto all men hath appeared and taught us that we should deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and that we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the mighty God and of our Saviour Iesus Christ Titus 2. 11 12 13. It were more then madness if we should suffer our selves still to be transported with worldly concupiscence and prefer the present satisfying of our carnal desires before the eternal fruition of our heavenly joys we should not be alwayes children wanting wit and experience in heavenly affairs it is time now to put away childish things Whilst we remain'd in the state of slaves and were the devoted vassals of sin and Satan our base desires did well agree with our base condition whilst we were Citizens of the world and children of the earth it might sute with our calling