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
A61076	Reason against rage being some animadversions upon a late scurrilous libel, prefix'd to a sermon preach'd nine and thirty years ago; and dedicated in these words, (viz.) to Mr. Serj. Powlett, recorder of the City of Bristol, and Mr. Robert Yate, mercht. Together with an occasional discussion of some particulars relating to persecution, and liberty of conscience. To which is subjoyn'd, a brief application, made by way of advice, humbly offered to all the inhabitants of the City aforesaid. By Thomas Speed.	Speed, Thomas, b. 1622 or 3.	1691 (1691)	Wing S4906; ESTC R220758	23,658	33

he shall come to lay his head upon his Death-Pillow shall be able in Truth to make his appeal to Heaven with good Hezekiah * 2 Kings 20.3 and say Remember now I beseech thee O Lord how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart and have not only said not only Profess'd but done that which is good in thy sight And now for a close of what I have to say to you my nameless Adversaries let me advise you to the study of Peace and to forbear troubling an otherwise quiet City by your unquiet Spirits which is evidently seen by your stigmatizing your Fellow-Citizens with Terms of distinction and reproach and thereby sowing the seeds of discord among Protestants at this juncture of time when Unity in affection is so necessary and by all true Protestants so much desired Be content that having your own liberty of worship to the full they that live quietly by you may share therein also Be not uneasie in your minds because your Neighbours have gotten a little ease Shew your selves good Christians and good Citizens by doing unto others as you would they should do unto you Strive not to be Lords Paramount over other Men's Consciences for you would not that other men should be Lords over yours And remember always that Sovereignty over Conscience is the alone Prerogative of Almighty God so that whoever do seek for Dominion there do but justle with their Maker What more concerns my self is to tell you that I owe you yet one Christian Duty which is not revenge but forgiveness And I do freely forgive you all the Evil that ye have done or had or now have in your hearts to do to me and do wish you true repentance that ye may be forgiven of God also Believe it whatever ye may fancy to your selves by what you have done in the management of this business you have not so much wounded me as harm'd your selves In shooting at me ye have shot your Darts against a brass Wall my Innocency being my Breast-plate Your reproaches I wear as an ornament and your malice is as the dust under my Feet And not knowing whether ever I may have the like opportunity of making so publick an application to them as now I shall close all with a few words of advice to all my Fellow Citizens in the City of Bristol 1. Be frequent and serious in the meditating upon the end of your being brought forth into the World which was to serve the Lord in Righteousness and Holiness and thereby bring Glory to his Name Sin dishonours him To prevent which let his fear bear rule in your hearts and as David did * Psal 16.8 Psal 119.11 set him always before your eyes and hide his word in your hearts that you may not sin against him Take good heed to the Dictates of his Grace and good Spirit which do inwardly prompt you to Holiness and will teach you if hearkened unto as it did the holy men of old to deny ungodliness and worldly Lusts and † Tit. 2.12 to live soberly righteously and godly in this present world Let your Conversations be adorned with love towards God and love towards your Neighbour Banish envy from out of your hearts and out of your Houses Be not offended with your Neighbour because his Eye sight is either clearer or dimmer than your own Bear not evil will against him because his Faith in every particular Squares not with yours If through Temptation he happen to slip and fall to his own hurt rejoyce not over him nor lay violent hands upon him because he is fallen but lend him the hand of love to help him up again ‖ Gal. 6.1 considering your selves lest you also should be tempted and fall 2. You that are Parents of Children it greatly behoves you to be unto them Patterns of Piety Patterns of Humility Moderation Temperance and of every other Vertue That as they grow in years they may increase in Holiness and as they are yours they may become also the Children of the most high God Let your savoury Communication season theirs and the Light of your good Conversations direct their steps into the just man's path Their beholding your good Works may strongly provoke them to do the same * Plus valent exempla quam praecepta Examples are much more cogent to Piety or Prophaness than Precepts The most wholsom Precepts contradicted by the Example of the Givers are but as Water spilt upon the Rock Children through the proneness of corrupt Nature to that which is evil are easily brought over to vicious Practices Of which we have too many notorious Instances among those that are but newly come out of their Infancy who frequently grate many modest Ears as they pass the Streets either with Oaths or Obscenity What is it less than cause of lamentation to hear such who by reason of their tender Years can but newly speak plain English can yet not only lispe out but accent an Oath And such as are not come to so much understanding as to offer up a sensibe Petition unto Heaven can yet call to their Maker to damn them I would not uncharitably judge or condemn any Parents in particular but whether it is not much to be doubted that they that are of younger Years have learn'd such Immoralities from the Example of their Elders I leave to every Parent 's serious consideration They that are Innocent in this matter I know will not take offence at what I say And for those who on Examination find themselves guilty I heartily entreat them for God's for their own and for their Children's sake to amend and sin no more in that kind 3. To all young Persons in the City my hearty advice is that you would † Eccles 12.1 Remember your Creator in the days of your Youth while the evil days come not nor the years draw nigh when you shall say we have no pleasure in them Let the time of your Youth be adorn'd with the Practice of Virtue as with a beautiful Garment As you now begin to live as Men and Women live also to the Praise of him that gave you Life Breath and Being Conclude it to be more your Happiness to be good than great and to be holy than high in this World Let me desire you to have a constant regard to the guide of your Youth the measure of God's holy Spirit which he hath placed in your hearts as a Witness for himself and against that which is evil Hearken to its rebukes for it is the Friend of your Bosom This is that which reproves you in secret for those Evils to which no Eye nor no Ear was ever privy besides your own This is that which doth accompany you to your Shops to your Counting-Houses to your several Imployments to your Beds and will also to the Period of your Lives It was this that inwardly smote David and made him confess himself guilty of