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	lust_n	ungodliness_n	2,308	5	11.2023	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25421	The right government of thoughts, or, A discovery of all vain, unprofitable, idle, and wicked thoughts with directions for the getting, keeping, and governing of good thoughts, digested into chapters for the ease of the reader : whereunto are added four sermons / by ... John Angel ...	Angel, John, d. 1655.; T. B.	1659 (1659)	Wing A3162A; ESTC R13149	89,280	271

be offered to God for the better direction of us in the ordering of our conversation all the whole day afterwards and that thereby we may fetch in the help of heaven to enable us through our several duties 3dly after our commending our ways and conversations unto God and interresting him with them our prime care must be to begin at the right end as I may so speak and the direction of the word therein Is first to eschew evill then to do good first to cease to do evill then learn to do well Esay 1. ch 16 17. This is the order of the Scripture first to deny ungodlinesse and worldly lusts then to live righteously soberly and godly in this present world Titus 2. 11 12. otherwise no ordering aright of our wayes but either our confusion or a jumbling of things together promiscuously the race of a Christian in this life Is a passage from sin and corruption to grace and holinesse from mortification to vivification We must not make the first last nor the last first Adam in his innocency had but one task to wit to live holily but we have two First to awake from sin and then to live righteously yea one thing more I will adde we must not only cease from evill and then learn to do well but we must begin to adhorre that which is evill and cleave to that which is good Rom. 12. 9. We must not only leave sinne in outward action but abhorre it in the inward affection not onely do that which is good but cleave to it and affect it otherwise we shall never be constant and cheerful in the doing of good and also we shall quickly return with the dogge to his vomit in the falling upon that which is evill thus a man walking in his calling must first loath the sins incident to his calling and then love to put in exercise the practical duties of the same otherwise his faults will marre his duties but his duties will not mend his faults when men make conscience to avoyd sin that will facilitate and more easily introduce the service of God and here also it must be your wisdom to pitch your resolutions not to give way to harbour any sin be it never so small for whosoever breaketh one keepeth none of the commandements Jam. 2. 10. some think that though they allow themselves in one thing that is evill yet they may order their conversation aright in other matters but what saith Salomon Eccles 10. 1. dead flyes cause the oyntment of the Apothecary to send forth a stinking savour so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour so then as we must make conscience to refrain our feet with David from every evill way Psal 119. 101. that so we may keep Gods word so especially from our darling bosome and predominant corruptions such as our natural inclination or custome our profit or pleasure have made as dear to us as our right eye or right hand Matth. 5. 29. Secondly from secret sins the very shame of men may keep us from open sins but it must be the fear of God that keeps and preserves from secret ones to which none are privie but our own soules Thirdly we must shun not only foul and scandalous sins but even lesser ones as petty oaths foolish jesting merry talking as the world stiles it wherein sometimes there is a great deal of evil mispence of precious time c. Fourthly we must by all means take heed of the sins of the times wherein we live and the sins of our particular callings or else we shall be ensnared before we be aware And as without reservation we must leave all sin so without exception we must make conscience of every duty wittingly and willingly not living in the neglect of any one of them then shall we not be confounded when we have respect unto all Gods commandements Psal 119. 6. some men make conscience to be just in their words and deeds but little care of the duties of piety to God or mercy to wards the poor but the fruit of the spirit is in all goodnesse and righteousnesse so saith the blessed Apostle 2 Pet. 1. ch 5 6. 9. Yea further we must make conscience of the most uncouth and harshest duties such as by nature we are most averse from as loving our enemies blessing of those that curse us praying for those persecute us Matth. 5. 44. so likewise of secret duties Matth. 6. as of private prayer liberality to the poor which give the soundest testimonies to our own soules of our sincerity towards God Luke 14. 13. now that we may do all this Fourthly a great measure of knowledge and skill is required in the Scriptures that we may be able to put a difference betwixt good and evil we must therefore prove what that perfect good and acceptable will of God is Rom. 12. 2. and be much verst in Scripture where the rules and directions for ordering our conversations aright are delivered we must have a care that the word of God dwell plenteously and richly in us Col. 3. 16. else we shall never be able to order our steps in the word which is only the directing of them aright I remember the similitude of Peter Martyr in a Sermon of his which was the means of the conversion of that noble Italian Galeacius Caracciolus Suppose saith Peter Martyr a man were upon the top of an hill and casting his eyes down to the valley should there behold a company of persons frisking and skipping would he not think they were mad and out of their wits but afterwards descending and coming nearer and nearer unto them and hearing the musick and marking how they danced according thereunto and kept their measures and proportions he is much taken therewith and esteemeth that admirable which before he counted folly even so doth the conversation of Gods people looked upon at a distance and and by it self considered seem to many madness and folly and they think it strange that you run not with them into the same excesse of riot and therefore they speak evill of you 1 Pet. 4. 4. but viewing their conversations more closely and exactly and comparing the several steps thereof how sutably it is carried to the word of God and how men dance according to the harmony of that musick then they begin to be much taken with that which before they disliked and do verily think that this is the most glorious life and conversation in the world It pleased God so to affect the heart of that Noble Marquesse forementioned herewith that he resolved to study the Scriptures and to order his conversation thereunto and so was converted from Popery to the true Religion and left his own Countrey and came to Geneva in Calvins daies where he lived holily and ended his daies happily So much for the general directions I come now to the spicial ones and will give you some of the principal of them as they are