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
A61380	Jacob, the plain man, wrestling with God until the break of the day and prevailing in the light thereof for perfect victory and dominign [sic] over Esau, the rough and cunning man ... / [by] Laurence Steel.	Steel, Laurence, d. 1684.	1677 (1677)	Wing S5378; ESTC R32673	16,540	30

and Deliverance as I do the Sacrifice of Praise and of Thanksgiving for evermore And now I shall shut up all with the Testimony of the Pastor of that Independant Congregation of which I was a Member and walkt with for several years who best among them knew the bent of my Heart who in his Letter to my Mother soon after my Convincement of the Truth gives this Testimony of the Grounds of my leaving them to come to this People in which he hath confirmed what I have before-mentioned his words are these The great Stumbling-block to him hath been our Loose Low and Earthly Conversation And is not Loosness Lowness and Earthliness Stumbling block enough especially in them that profess to be Members of Christ Jesus and look for Salvation by him and to be gathered out of the World He may well call it Great What can lay a greater Stumbling-block in the Way of the Upright then to make so high a Profession a Cloak and Covering for so much Sin and Iniquity Would it not be far better and more Honour to Christ to cease professing of him which doth but make them the greater Stumbling-blocks until they have departed from these Iniquities And is not this enough to acquit me from separating from such Assemblies and Congregations that are thus poluted Further he saith He is earnest to get up to More Spiritualness then he sees among us And must I be represented in so many places as a deluded deceived Person and one that is fallen from the Faith and apostatized to Error and a Saddener of the Hearts of the Upright and prayed and fasted for as such and all for leaving of such People as are Loose Low and Earthly to get up to more Spiritualness Or can I look upon such as true Friends to my Soul as would hinder me from so good an Exchange Further he saith Which he apprehends is to be found among this People Yea I do more then apprehend it for I have felt and experienced for some years that Spiritualness to be among them which keeps them that walk in it from Loosness Lowness and Earthliness so that I have no Desire to return to them whose Conversations are so loose c. as he confesseth Further he saith I am perswaded this is that which hath carried him among them more then any Respect that he hath to their odd Opinions Here he hath bound all with his Perswasion from that certain Knowledge he had of me for many years in which he knew my Bent was after Spiritualness and Heavenly-mindedness and herein he hath spoken the Truth of me viz. That it was Loosness Lowness and Earthliness that stumbled and drew me off from them and that it was with desire of more Spiritualness that I came among this People and my Desire hath been therein largely answered to the Joy and Satisfaction of my Soul Further he continueth to say If we gain this by his Fall to be provoked to more Heavenliness and Spiritualness and to savour less of this Earth we shall be Gainers by his Loss Here he should have minded his former Expression and Perswasion and have considered whether the Lord doth suffer such to fall whose great Stumbling is at Loosness Lowness and Earthliness and who are earnest to get up to more Spiritualness which is more according to the Will of God Or are they not fallen and lost who according to his Confession are still where they were many years ago after all his Preaching and Praying are not got up above their Looseness Lowness Earthliness whom he presseth and indeed it is high time for them all to manifest better Fruits of their profiting and to savour less of this Earth which hath been the Cause of my leaving of them and to get up to that Spiritualness and Heavenliness where they will find me and so in this Spiritualness we shall be united again But has not the cause of this unprofitableness or standing at a stay bin for want of coming to that Grace which is sufficient to teach all that learn of it to deny All mark All Ungodliness and All worldly Lusts which makes them Stumbling-blocks in the Way of others that so through the denying of these they might come to live soberly righteously and godly not only hereafter but in this present Evil World and so not stumble but gain others by their Conversation without which all Verbal Confession and Acknowledgments are vain and fruitless and leaves them no better then they were before THE END