Selected quad for the lemma: world_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	grace_n	live_v	ungodliness_n	2,081	5	11.6651	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97103	The povver of love.	Walwyn, William, 1600-1681.	1643 (1643)	Wing W690A; Thomason E1206_2; ESTC R208782	16,819	65

and perfect working and the issue will bee increase of beleevers let faith have her perfect working and the issue will bee increase of love and let love have her perfect working and the whole world will be so refined that God will be all in all for hee that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God in whom ever fare you well and bee cheerefull THE POVVER OF LOVE Tit. 2. 11 12. The grace or love of God that bringeth salvation unto all men hath appeared teaching us to deny ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and to live soberly righteously godly in this present world IT is evident though it be little regarded or considered the more is the pity that in naturall things all things whatsoever that are necessary for the use of mankinde the use of them is to be understood easily with out study or difficulty every Capacity is capable thereof and not only so but they are all likewise ready at hand or easily to be had a blessing that God hath afforded to every man insomuch that there is no part of the habitable world but yeeldes sufficient of usefull things for a comfortable and pleasant sustentation of the inhabitants as experience testifieth in all places and Saint Paul witnessed that God left himselfe not without witnesse in that he did good gave them raine from heaven and fruitfull seasons feeding their hearts with foode and gladnesse by all which it plainely appeares that God ever intendeth unto man a pleasant and comfortable life you know it is said that God made man righteous but he sought out many inventions that is he made him naturally a rationall creature judging rightly of all things and desiring only what was necessary and so being exempt from all labour and care of obtaining things superfluous he passed his dayes with aboundance of delight and contentment until he sought out unto himselfe many inventions inventions of superfiuous subtilities and artificiall things which have beene multiplied with the ages of the world every age still producing new so now in these latter times we see nothing but mens inventions in esteeme and the newer the more precious if I should instance in particulars I should or might be endlesse as in diet your selves know to your costs for it costs you not only your monyes but your healths and length of dayes that this fruitfull nation sufficeth not to furnish scarce the meanest meale you make but something must be had to please the luxurious palate from forraine and farre countryes and ever the farther the better and the dearer the more acceptable you know likewise the excessive provision that is made for entertainments and set meetings where all grosse meates you know my meaning must be banished and nothing admitted but what is rare and fine and full of invention in the dresses sauces and manner of service where all the senses must be pleased to the heighth of all possible conceipt If I should reckon up your new inventions for buildings and furniture for your houses and the common costlinesse of your apparell and should set before you the manifold vexations perplexities distractions cares and inconveniences that accrew unto you by these your vaine and ridiculous follies I might be endlesse therein also and lose my labour for there is no hope that I should prevaile for a reformation of these things when your daily experience scourges you continually therunto in one kind or other and all in vaine yet I shall take leave to tell you that in these things you walke not as becommeth the gospell of Christ but are carnall and walke as men as vaine fantasticall inconsiderate men such as very heathen and meere naturall men would be a shamed of their experience that a life according to nature to be content with little with what was ever ready and easy to be had was the most pleasant life and exempt from all vexations was instruction sufficient unto many of them to frame themselves thereunto and to abandon all kindes of superfluities without retaining the least thereby obtained a freedome to apply themselves to the consideration and practise of wisedome and vertue It is a wonderfull thing to my understanding that men should call themselves Christians and professe to be religious and to be diligent readers of Scripture and hearers of Sermons and yet content themselves to bee indeed in many things carnall and to walke as did the most indiscreete and inconsiderate Gentiles Doth the Scripture teach no more then nature teacheth though it doe infinitely yet your practise compared with wise considerate naturall men declares it doth not how extreamely then thinke you doe you cause the name of God to be blasphemed Doe you thinke it is sufficient that you are not drunkards nor adulterers nor usurers nor contentious persons nor covetous beloved if you will truely deserve the name of Christians it is not sufficient but you are to abandon all superfluities all poring after vaine superfluous things and thereby to exempt your selves from all unnecessary cares that choake the Word and bee at liberty to consider and to apply your selves freely to the continuall contemplation of the infinite love of God evidently and plainely set forth unto you in his blessed word as in the words that I have read un-you for as it is in naturall things so holds it in spirituall God hath dealt abundantly well with us there being nothing that is necessary either for the enlightning of our understandings or the peace of our mindes but what hee hath plainely declared and manifestly set forth in his Word so plainely that the meanest capacity is fully capable of a right understanding thereof and need not to doubt but that he is so I will not say that God is not more good unto us then we are hurtfull to our selves for his goodnesse is more availeable to our welfare then our evill can be to our misery but wee are as evill to our selves in all things as we can be possible and that not onely in naturall things but likewise in spirituall and divine things too for therein also we have our inventions the plaine and evident places of Scripture manifestly declaring our peace and reconciliation with God is become nauseous to us they make salvation too easie to be understood and tender it upon too easie tearmes and too generall this Manna that comes to us without our labour industry study and watching is two fulsome something that hath bones in it must bee found out and will become more acceptable every child or babe in Christs Schoole can understand these We are full growne men in Christ wee have spent our time in long and painefull studies and have full knowledge in all Arts and sciences there is no place of Scripture too hard for us shew us the mysteries we cannot reveale the Parables that wee cannot clearely open the Prophesies that wee cannot interpret a word or Syllable that wee cannot fitly apply or the most palpable seeming contradiction that we cannot reconcile nay it is to