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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	deny_v	present_a	ungodliness_n	1,811	5	10.9823	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70901	The pillar and ground of truth a treatise shewing that the Roman Chvrch falsly claims to be that church, and the pillar of that truth, mentioned by S. Paul in his First epistle to Timothy, Chap. III. vers. 15, which is explained in three parts.	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.; Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.	1687 (1687)	Wing P833; ESTC R12795	90,521	140

saved though we live ungodly which is the great drift of too many Doctrines wherewith the World is troubled but a wonderful contrivance of the Wisdom of Heaven effectually to root out all Impiety to plant all manner of Vertue in our Hearts and to take all kind of excuse from us if we do not become truly good Whence it is that the Apostle describes Christian Women in this Epistle to Timothy II. 10. by this Character that they profess godliness Let them be adorned saith he as becomes women professing godliness with good works Not meerly professing the Truth or the Faith but Godliness which comprehends all Christian Vertue though if he had said professing the Truth it had been of the same import because that truth is godliness Hence all the Truths I have mentioned are called Fundamental not only because the Church is built upon them but because they are the Foundation of all Christian practice which ought to be superstructed upon them And therefore let us neither be i●norant of this nor let our knowledge of it be empty and idle without effect That is First Let us not be so foolish as to imagine we shall obtain Salvation meerly by being of a right Belief and holding the right Faith. Which is not an unnecessary caution for this seems to be the very business of a great many Men in the World to put Men in hope of life eternal if they do but quit that which they call Heresie and embrace the Faith they propound unto them though their hearts and lives remain just as they were before without any real amendment This is certainly not a Mystery of Godliness but the very Mystery of Iniquity not the Wisdom of God but the Witchcraft of the Flesh the World and the Devil to lead them securely into destruction But we have not thus learned Christ as the same Apostle speaks elsewhere IV. Ephes 20 21. if so be we have heard and have been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus that we put off concerning the former conversation the old man which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts and that we be renewed in the spirit of our minds and put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and holiness of truth Mark here what the Truth is as it is in Jesus that we may not be deceived by our own or others lusts that is in the Christian Religion it is that which teaches us to abandon all wickedness and not to think of throwing a covering over it to hide it but to put it off that which renews us in the very spirit of our minds which makes us new Creatures and really restores the Divine Image in us in Rightousness and sincere Holiness Thus we have learned Christ thus we are constantly taught in this Church And therefore Secondly If the Truth hath not this effect upon us in vain do we pride our selves in the name of Orthodox believers Upon such S. John hath passed this censure 1 I. 6. If we say we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness we lye and do not the truth Where you may observe by the way there is a doing of the truth expected from us and not meerly believing it It was expected from the very Heathen proportionable to what they knew for they are accused by S. Paul upon this score that they held the Truth of God in unrighteousness I. Rom. 18. Some Truth they knew and it taught them to do better than they did and their not doing so was their condemnation And if natural Truth taught them righteousness of life much more doth this Divine Revelation which God hath made in Christ Jesus instruct us therein and if they were found guilty for holding that Truth in unrighteousness much more shall we be found so for holding in the like wickedness these supernatural Truths which we know only by a special Grace of God which hath revealed them unto us for this very purpose to teach us that denying ungodliness and all worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world 2 Tit. II. 12. Which if we do not mark the consequence either we shall not hold the Truth or if we do the Truth will not save us but only serve to condemn us Sometimes by living wickedly Men lose the very Truth either in whole or in part as the Heathen S. Paul there shows did I. Rom. 21 22 23. Read the words and you will not wonder if the same sad fate attend Mens Impiety now which the Truths of the Gospel so directly oppose that if they cannot prevail with Men to leave their wickedness their wickedness will prevail with them to leave the Truth This belief for instance that Jesus Christ the Eternal Son of God who died for us and rose again will come to judge us which is the summ of Christianity is so manifestly against those sins which Men commit against his Laws that if they be perswaded they shall be judged according to his Gospel it must needs make them very uneasie in their sins Which therefore if they will not quit their sins will tempt them to be rid of this belief which disquiets and disturbs them in the enjoyment of those Lusts on which they have set their Heart Or if it have not this effect to make them wholly disbelieve the life and judgment to come yet it tempts them to adulterate the Christian Faith as too many Christians have done and to devise easier terms of happiness than the Gospel propounds inventing such a Religion as will favour them in their sins and comply with their inclinations to follow their foul Lusts and yet not perish eternally And it is not hard to show if this were a proper place for it that abundance of false notions if not all which Men have about Faith have sprung from this cause But suppose Men do still hold the Truth though in unrighteousness what will they get by it since it will not save them but only serve to condemn them For this is a part of the Evangelical Truth as you read in the place now named I. Rom. 18. that the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness And again we read in the next Chapter of the righteous judgment of God who will render to every man according to his deeds to them who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory and honour and immortality eternal life But unto them that are contentious or will not yield to evident convictions and obey not the truth but obey unrighteousness indignation and wrath tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doth evil c. v. 6 7 8 c. Where you see there is an obedience to the truth expected from us unto which if we will not submit but obey unrighteousness then that very Truth tells us we must expect nothing but the inexpressible displeasure of the