Selected quad for the lemma: world_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	lust_n	teach_v	ungodliness_n	1,893	5	11.3554	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47283	Ichabod: or, Five groans of the church: Prudently foreseeing, and passionately bewailing her second fall: Threatened by these five dangerous, though undiscerned, miscarriages that caused her first: Viz. [bracket] 1. Undue ordination, 2. Loose prophaness, 3. Unconscionable symony, 4. Careless non-residence, 5. Encroaching pluralities. Humbly presented to her supreme head and governour, the kings most excellent majesty, and his great council, the Parliament of England.; Ichabod.	Ken, Thomas, 1637-1711.	1663 (1663)	Wing K264A; ESTC R22531	49,473	66

hand to be Stewards of the misteries of God to watch for precious souls as they that must give an account How can you govern others who cannot govern your selves What power have you ov●● others who have hardly any power over your selves What esteem can you find among them who will naturally dispise your youth Did not Philosophy think you fit O young men to ●ear Morals and shall Divinity admit you to read divine Lectures How can you in the heat of youth in the vigour of your lusts appear in the world perswading men to mortifie their lusts to crucifie the flesh with the affections and lusts With what hope can you endeavour to compase the world to that great Rule to which you cannot compose your selves How will you behave your selves as Guides among persons whose years and experience are so much beyond yours How impertinently will you converse how weakly will you discourse how imprudently will you deal how contemptibly will you live among a staid and discreet people wiser then you in their Generations The goodness of God having furnished man with two chief Instruments saith an incomparable man both necessary for this life hands to exercise and a mind to devise great things the one is not profitable longer then the vigour of youth doth strengthen it nor the other greatly t●ll age and experience have brought it to perfection SECT 2. Of Dibauched Men ordained 1500. OH am I as Iulian blasphemed the sanctuary of all prophaneness Am I a re●uge for all licentiousness Whom a strict Colledge expels whom the severe University discountenanceth whom civil men note with a mark of hatred and abhorrence must I admit to my sacred Order and honour with my most solemne Ministrations My care is that each Minister should be of an holy and unblameable conversation What have these poor creatures to doe to take Gods Word held forth by me in their mouths seeing they hate to be reformed O my reverend Sons what do you bring a man to ●each the world a God and his service Who is without God in the world What do you send them to speak of that God who is not in all their thoughts Why are they employed to propagate the knowledge of God who desire that the knowledge of the holy One may cease from them To what purpose do they preach an holy Life who never intend to live it Why do they put those poor souls to pray for those things of God which they doe not desire to read that Bible which they do not believe to bind thosa heavy burthens upon the people which they themselves do not intend to bear to teach that on the Sabbath demurely which they will con●radict throughout the Week profanely Is there any need of authorizing publick patterns of impiety Do you intend to destroy what ye have built I know you not Why then do you send lewd Ministers to teach men by an evil example that prophanenesse which I have endeavoured to reform by my good instruction Wo is me that I ●ee those within me running to all excess of riot who are employed to teach a pure Religion and undefiled before God You O reverend Fathers taught men to deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts and live soberly justly and godly in this present world and will you suffer men to go from among you to reach all ungodlinesse and worldlie lusts O ala● one man a Divine and a Beast What consecrated to God and devoted to sin An abomination in the holie place Behold thou are called a Minister and re●test in the Law and makest thy boast of God and knowest his will and approvest the things that are more excellent being instructed out of the Law and art confident that thou thy selfe art a Guide to the blind a light of them which are in darknesse an Instructor of the foolish a Teacher of babes which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth of the Law thou therefore 〈…〉 another reachest thou not thy self thou that preachest a man should not steal dost thou steal thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery dost thou commit adulterio thou that abhorres●●dols dost thou com●it Sac●iledge thou that makest thy boast of the law through breaking the La● dishonourest thou God for the Name of God is blasphemed among the people through you SECT 3. Of Vnlearned Men Ordained I Am ashamed that than ignorance which formerlie found preforment should now find orders too and that I should settle them legally in that calling whereunto I alwaies said they had illegallie intruded themselves It was too much to suffer that daring ignorance to Vsurp the sacred Office much more to consecrate it to it The late Miscarriages want nothing to compleat them but to be hallowed The Catholick Church never enter●ained a Ministry but what was qualified either with extraordinarie gifts from above or with humane lea●ning from below by which the mind being instructed and improved in all the riches of wisdome and knowledge which are part of the glorie and image of God in man by this learning all truths are clearlie unfolded How do you think poor souls can clear divine truths lying hid in the depth darknesse and ambiguity of Original words without skill in Languages How can the attain the genuine and emphatick sense of the Word of God without skill in the Original words and phrases How can they maintain the truths I have established and con●ute the errours● I have condemned How can they detect the fallacies with which my poor people are deluded and convince the gain-sayers with which I am ●roubled and discover those sophisms in which poor souls wrap themselves darkning wisdome with words without understanding without the art of sound reasoning How can they convey the holy truths they are furnished with to others without an holy Eloquence a sacred Perswasion and Rhetorick which may commend them to mens minds and enforce them upon their hearts how can they satisfie themselves and others in the Controversies of this Age without the Observations Histories and Customs of former Ages and standing in the wa●es and asking for the old which is the good way and walk therein so find rest for their souls How is it possible for those poor creatures to understand sundry passages of Scripture depending upon propriety of words ●dioms or upon the Cu●toms Rites Proverbs Forms Usages Laws Offices and Antiquitie o● the Assyrian Persian Gre●k and Roman Governments without a competent portion of humane Learning My Religion was as the Kings Daughter all glorious within attended on by Arts and Sciences those Handmaids who cloathed her with garments wrought with needle-work of divers colours embroidering her with pathetick 〈◊〉 ●ith solid Eloquence and Orations with Sublimity and Gravity with Method and Acu●eness with excellent Morals and useful Observations of a very sober sense But now alas it 's exposed to a prophane world with the ridiculous impertinencies and foolish adventures of men zealous but not according to knowled●e