Selected quad for the lemma: world_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	fear_n	love_n	perfect_a	2,336	5	9.5198	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28152	A word of reproof and advice to my late fellow-souldiers and officers of the English, Irish, and Scotish army with some inrhoad made upon the hireling and his mass-house, university, orders, degrees, vestments, poperies, heathenism, &c. : with a short catalogue of some of the fighting priests and ... have given them a blow in one of their eyes (pickt out of the whores head) which they call a fountain of religion but is a sink of iniquity ... / by E.B.	Billing, Edward, 1623-1686.	1659 (1659)	Wing B2903; ESTC R23695	86,580	98

whilst ye seemingly live thus doth many of you consume yourselves substance and precious time And do ye think to live Dives his live and not dye his death Can ye think to sow to the flesh all manner of corruption all the dayes of your lives and not reap the same in the day of the Lord And do ye think as the tree falls it will not lye and as death leaves Judgement will not find and from Hell there is no Redemption Oh friends I can truly say my bowels ernes for ye who are called Nobles and are great in the earth above any sort of people that are without Also I know and feel that the witness of God lyeth near in very many of ye although the lofty and surly nature is not willing to bow nor sink down and become one with the witness which is meek and ●owly and calls upon ye in secret for purity in your inner parts Oh! let the consideration of Eternal Life constrain and even necessitate ye to turn in the eye of your mind to within and consider what ye shall do to be saved for verily the eye of the Lord is pure and runs to and fro thorow the whole earth and all that 's earthly and cannot behold your present iniquities Wherefore in the fear of the Lord cease to do evil and learn to do well and let the time past be sufficient least the Lord forthwith dash ye in pieces and sweep ye from the face of the earth and your memories utterly rot Therefore seek the Lord with all your hearts whilst he may be found for this is the day of your visitation but your day passeth away and the night swiftly cometh wherein no man can work yet a little while and the Light is with ye I say commune with your own hearts and be still and in the cool of the day when your lusts boil● not sink down willingly joyn and adhere to the measure of God in your consciences which is given to man to profit withall Oh take it for a leader for it is the true Light which doth enlighten every man that cometh into the World that all men through Him might believe the same is a swift witnesse for the Lord against all the evil of your doings and cannot nor ever did consent to sin the same is truth leads into all truth was before the man of sin the house of Ham the stock of Nimrod the cunning hunter Ishmael the scoffer Lord Esau of the Mount bloody Cain or the Dukes of Edom were and is before all invention or the ridiculous Tythes about which many of you fight kill boast and rend many a bloody oath and when ye have all done it may be prove your ancester an ancient murtherer come into England with William of Normandy killed an English man and took his possession and as your selves sprang from blood rage and cruelty so in the same many of ye continue but beware that your latter end be not worse then your beginning great quantities of earth ye have and the Lords hand is in no wayes shortened towards ye But verily very many of ye spend it wholly upon your lusts and that 's not the end for which it was given but ye are to honour God with your substance and whatsoever he hath given ye he that defiles his body defiles the Temple of the Lord and him will God destroy Therefore whether ye eat or drink or whatsoever ye do learn to do all to the praise and glory of God and do not Lord it over Gods heritage in the General nor in your own particulars for Christ is in ye except ye are reprobates and this know that no man was or ever shall be heir of two Kingdoms and God and Mammon ye cannot please and if ye truly serve the one the other with all his lusts ye must deny Mark all his lusts ye must deny and a death ye must feel upon your present lives that ye may come to know the birth which is immortal seek to know the Lord if it be but as a consuming fire to burn up and consume your lusts which separates between ye and your maker for he that envies is a murtherer ‖ For love is of God and every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God If we love one another God dwelleth in us and his love is perfected in us God is love and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him Herein is our love made perfect that we may have boldness in the day of Judgment because as he is so are we in this present world there is no fear in love but perfect love casteth out fear because fear hath torment he that feareth is not made perfect in love If any man say I love God and hate his Brother he is a lvar For he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen And this Commandment have we from him that he who loveth God loves his Brother also 1 John 4. 7 12 16 18 20. and he that lusts after a woman hath committed adultery and I say unto ye all above men and all things swear not And to see a great man a good man is a rare thing even an ornament in his Countrey a strength to the righteous a sinew to the feeble a nerve to the oppressed a help to the helpless and of all men if ye could but see and trust in the truth as it is in Jesus how transcendently happy might ye be even in this life beloved of God and good men and all evil men māde to fear ye And I do believe many of ye cannot but see the hireling and his covetousness deficiency and deceipt and in some measure see the truth and the vessel to be good but to sea in it ye dare not go for if the greatest of ye deny the hireling his ungodly gain a war he will prepare and the waves will beat the billows boil and the stormes arise But help us Lord and we cannot perish although the greedy man may toss us from one Goal and Dungeon to another and if there in faithfulness to the Lord we lay down or lives yet we live for ever and have life Eternal And that 's much better then the airy title of Duke Lords Knights c. which put them all together will not buy a morsel of bread in this very life and in the life to come the Beggar as the King and his Nobles and Tophet is not prepared in vain and it is well if some of yee who are called Noble-men and cals your selves Christians be not found in the day of the Lord more ignoble to the now despised Christians then Festus Agrippa or Claudius Lycias were to Paul who were called heathens but were truely Noble to Paul and such Nobility I own who puts no man to death nor hurts no man tell the accuser and the accused comes face to face

and forsaketh his sins coming to see the exc●eding sinfulness of ●●n and confesseth and forsaketh with repentance never to be repented of That is it which is ever in Christ and shall find mercy and as many as are led by the Spirit of God are now and ever the sons of God Such are new Creatures and onely they So he who is proud heady high minded covetous envious voluptious seditious a r●●ler brawler striker lyar persecutor c. is not in but out of Christ Jesus is no new creature is not led by the Spirit of God For that which is in of Christ Jesus is equal doth not hurt the creature the handy work of God the Creator but strikes at the power which captivates the creature and turns men from darkness to light and from the power of Sathan to the Power of God and that weapon which convinceth and coverts men and women in any measure to God-ward is not carnal but Spiritual but the outward sword in its place I own which only is to be laid upon the evil-doer let it be exactly done but to touch no man for his Conscience or principle in Religion provided it be not bloody so let the bloody hearted Priest look into himself who murthers men for his belly How much better is that then the Romish Jesuit who kills a Protestant for a Heritck and I am sure those who do so are not in Christ Jesus nor new creatures nor in the Spiri● but of the flesh of old Cain and in the condemnation For the Son came not to destroy but to save mens lives And he and his Ministers struck at at this day do strike at the power only which captivates the creature to wit the spiritual wickedness which lodgeth within Which the carnal weapon cannot reach and they struck onely at the Herisie and the errour and that which lead into the errour and Heresie and not at the creature neither strove they with flesh and blood nor for earthly benefit Nay they were full of patience gentleness long-suffering forbearing forgiving all and suffered all things Yea themselves to be defrauded and laboured with their own hands and were burthensom to no man But there is no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus note that are in him and who are in him Those that walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit for those who walk after the flesh cannot please God and to be but so so much as carnally minded is death and the death is not in the Life which Life is the Light of men But some there were who did taste of the power of an endless life yet fell away and some there were who were grafted into the Vine and yet became degenerate plants and the the righteous man may forsake his righteousness for some were washed others cleansed or emptied and yet returned like the sow to the mire and the dog to the vomit so that it is plain that a man may fall away as Lucifer did and to the same place for although they once knew God and have tasted indeed of the power of God the endless Life yet if they turn that grace of God into wantonness oppression pride and excess live above the witness of God which is a forgetting of God they shall with the wicked at last be turned into Hell Then it will not be a saying Once in Christ and ever in Christ but dying in pride oppression persecution and covetousness which is the root of all evil I say to such Once in Hell and ever i● Hell Therefore on this side time and the grave whilst ye have time prize it for the time present is all that is yours and the dayes past ye cannot recal and who knows what one day may bring to pass Wherefore in the fear of the Lord lay aside your empty drowzy and onely professing his Name and being in him whose Life ye are out of And turn into him the Light the Life who doth enlighten every man that comeeth into the World and that Life and no other is the Light of men him it is by whom the World was made before it was made which is which was and is to come and is already come who is the Word of God the Original and first born of every creature the Everlasting Gospel which hath been preached to every creature who shews reproves checks in secret for all your evil deeds done openly and secretly and is as secret as your most beloved secrets Oh! wait upon him and believe in him for he that knows obeys and abides in the Life is a cohire and hath Life and shall live for ever but if ye know him and obey him not he is your condemnation wherefore let him that knows the Lord fear him stand in awe and sin not And that is once in Christ and ever in Christ. So blessed is that servant whom his Lord when he cometh shall find doing his Will he shall make him Ruler over all his goods but if that evil servant shall say in his heart My Lord deferreth his coming and in the mean space be a companion with drunkards the Lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him and in an hour that he is not aware of and shall cut him asunder and appoint him his portion with hypocrites where there is weeping wailing and knashing of teeth Therefore watch continually and pray without ceasing for you know not what hour the Lord cometh and he that is not upon his guard will be taken and made a perpetual prisoner But it may be alledged and to me it hath been by the highest professor that I yet ever met with either preacher or hea●er hath affirmed it come as his doctrine and belief that the be●t of men Saints do will sin and have their failings whilest they are in the body the best of men that ever were had their failings to their dying day to which I p●ssitively answer that which is in the least faileable cannot be sanctified for that which sanctifieth is infallible and it is impossible that sin and fallibility can be joyned to or with him who is infallible and hath not union with any manner of sin though but a sinful thought for all manner of sin is evil and cometh of evil and is of the evil one who is as faileable as the faileable accursed doctrine of imperfection and it as him for he is in it and it in him and he is the onely Minister and Father of it but every gift of God is perfect So that imperfection is the Devils gift but every good and perfect gift cometh from and is of God Mark but imperfections sin and failings and all that fails whatsoever though but an evil thought commeth from and is of the imperfect and faileable Divel who abode not in the infallibility Wherefore he fails to be s●ved but is a Divel although he believe and they are but poor or rather