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
A27306	The work of sin (in the flesh) condemned and the power of the enemy (in and over the creature mankind) by spiritual weapons resisted, and warred against ... / R.B.	R. B.	1663 (1663)	Wing B175; ESTC R11933	18,524	26

escape the hand of his Judgement herein for your sins are ripe and ready for destruction And this day is your sin and offence against the spirit of God or God who is a Spirit aggravated against him in that it is now against his mercy the love of his pity free grace ye are thus found sinning and offending against him from the head to the foot and so throughout the whole body of nature in creation wherein the favour and forgiveness of God hath been much wronged and abused by their slighting the sa●●● which in dayes of old was only against the Judgement of God and that in a time of Ignorance Wherein the creature knew not God nor his Judgements the sin and offence was against which caused God the more to wink at their faults and to correct them lightly with rods for that they knew not him nor the mind and will of his spirit in judgement that the sin and offence was thus to and against though sufferance and afflictions followed such the creature for his evil but it was good from God thus to follow with judgement that the creature might thereby come to see his sin and him that he thus had sinned and offended against and learn good under the same to mourn for him he thus had sinned and offended against in a time of ignorance and this was a time of tryal of his patience though he suffered for evil doing where stooping under the Judgement or Judgements of God he thereby came to learn wisdom of him to know his spirits counsellings even the counsellings of his law which is light in the heart or conscience for before I was aflicted said David I went astray but now I have learned thy Law and thy Law is light c. And oh how I love thy Law and the judgements and statutes thereof that are sweeter to me then the hony and hony combe● Thus was Judgement the creatures teacher and instructer in a state under the Law whereby came up the prophecy or sight of a better and more acceptable day and state of the love of God and this hath been loved even the Judgements of God to and on a state as it was and is due to how hath the creature been kept low under judgement in a state of fear and trembling and the love of God hereby hath come to grow and increase in the heart and so that which first appeared in the judgement turned into mercy and love and is the free grace of God to and in his creature for the first discovery of God is in judgement to a state in the creature it is due to and as that is kept to at home and the creaturely will and strivings and struglings watched over a short work is made in the Earth in what stoopes to judgement in God and to be counselled by his spi●i● and that 's become the mercy love and free grace of God to such his creature i● the loving receiving thereof that first appeared in judgement in which anger and fury and wrath began to be kindled to and in his creature and accordingly is measured back in what is broke forth in and on the world but if the creature go on in sin and offence against this the judgement of G●● though in the execution thereof sufferance hath pursued him therein and a stop was put to his way and course so that he could not any longer go on therein but was forced to stoop thereto because his way was hedged up with thornes yet as sufferance under Iudgement any white stayed and rested hath taken occasion thereby to strengthen himself in sin and offence against the same oh this is against the mercy and favour and love of God! And it becomes much worse and the offence of greater thus to sin against the favour and grace of God in love mercy pity and compassion to his creature then the sin and offence meerly against the Judgement of God in the creatures ignorance that knew not him in the mind and will thereof that the sin and offence was against which as it is thus aggravated by what hath abounded strengtheneth the Judgement of God against his creature that was at first ordained against the sin the creature was overcome and overpowered by in which state God reckoned him not for the sinner but chastised him lightly and with a few stripes to bring and lead him to the sence he first departed from that now is chastised with scorpions and beaten with many stripes Yea my heart bleeds in the consideration of thy offence oh England in this particular and let it be read both by King and People Rulers and Subjects in that I am in good earnest with ye all that no longer shall your tryals be played and sported with for God will not be mocked any longer by ye Oh Consider consider your sin against his mercy and favour and gentle dealings is a great aggravation of your offence and makes it intolerable What shall I say to ye Or what shall I do for ye that weary out the patience and long sufferance of God I have taken up a complaint I mourn bitterly and sorely what grief is like my grief herein will ye provoke God as a man provoketh his enemy and adversary and is it possible he should always bear O weep repent and howle bitterly ye adulterors and adulteresses that have back-slided from God and his Iudgements Lawes and statutes for ye all are gone astray and are an adulterous generation will ye always offend his patience as a wicked man that tryes and straines the patience of his friend and is it possible God should always bear with ye will ye strive to strain the Patience of God beyond its bent because he hath been long suffering and forbearing and think ye he will not be too strong for ye For as a man should not streign the curtesie of his friend to the end of forbearance or beyond the freedom thereof to make him his enemy and as he should not provoke and stir up evil toward himself and cause his own hurt and destruction so will not the Lord alwaies hold him guiltless in the nature hereof oh is not and hath it not been the love of God in the time of thy ignorance and want of knowledge of him to put a stop to thy waies and course as a stop to the way and course of a menstrous Woman as a hedge to the path of a whore and adultress from her husband when the Prince of the power of darkness had blinded thy eye the god of this World that rules in the children of disobedience and the blind were leading the blind until both were ready to fall and tumble in the ditch was it not his large favour to thee his creature while in a state of enmity against his spirit and under the power and leading and guideance of the enemies to let thee see thy state and hath not the grace and favour and love and mercy of God appeared and brok forth in the World and doth it not shine in his forbearance to and of his creature Oh! lay down lay down stoop and give place cry in secret for God hath overtook thee oh perverse people And his grace is become their teacher of all them that live godly righteously and soberly in this present evil world that denying ungodliness and worldly lust they should so live and behave themselves as answer his witness in all hearts and not acquit God evil for his kindness and provoke his jealousy which is over them for good against them for evil but as becometh Christians should be armed with the same minde as was him they profess Therefore let the minde and heart of all that God hath overtaken be awakened see oh see against whom and what ye have wounded and pierced and greeved and return to him in that spirit that bears the weight and burthen of all on his shoulders That ye may come to the repentance not to be repented of in the godly sorrow of heart where sin goes before hand to Judgement and may no longer continue in the dayly and hourly repentings of the World nor worldly sorrow of men of corrupt mindes that sin wilfully after the knowledge of Gods truth hath been received in the heart and there hath been a tasting of the good gifts of God and the power of the world to come and there remaining nothing but a fearful looking for of Judgement for that day had not come if there had not been first a falling away and departing from the truth therefore must Judgement be stooped to and born and endured on that minde and nature in that the repentings of the world in the worldly minde and nature will not serve turn will not renew to go they are ever to be repented of and though it may not be wilfully and in dispite to the spirit of grace that all such sinnings are in and stands in the minde of yet they lead it to in whom ever sins after the knowledge of truth is received where the sin comes after to Judgement and men dyeth in their sin then whether he goeth that forgiveth sin they cannot come so to live in a state where is the after Judgement and after repentings of the world is to live in a fearful troubled state and condition there remaining nothing but a fearful looking for of Judgement and fiery indignation from Heaven Oh! I warn all people on the earth never for time to come to charge any hardness on God or that he is a hard master c. But keep that on self that the creature of God may feel his love whom his love is to and may grow up in and under the same for whatever is done from and in that hard and hardned spirit against the creature of God in the name of God is thereby the more aggravated against God THE END