Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	aaron_n	lord_n	moses_n	107	3	6.9482	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29699	Paradice opened, or, The secreets, mysteries, and rarities of divine love, of infinite wisdom, and of wonderful counsel laid open to publick view also, the covenant of grace, and the high and glorious transactions of the Father and the Son in the covenant of redemption opened and improved at large, with the resolution of divers important questions and cases concerning both covenants ... : being the second and last part of The golden key / by Thomas Brooks ...; Golden key to open hidden treasures. Part 2	Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.	1675 (1675)	Wing B4953; ESTC R11759	249,733	284

Enemy saith one whom it was lawful Latimer to wish evil unto I would chiefly wish him great store of riches for then he should never enjoy quiet The Historian observes that the riches of Cyprus invited Tacitus the Romans to hazard many dangerous fights for the conquering of it Earthly riches saith one are an evil Master a treacherous Augustine Servant Fathers of flattery Sons of grief a cause of fear to those that have them and a cause of sorrow to those that want them I have read a famous story of Zelimus Emperour of The Turkish History The Poets feigned Pluto to be the God of Riches and Hell as if they were inseparable Homer Constantinople that after he had taken Egypt he found a great deal of treasure there and the Souldiers coming to him and asking of him what they should do with the Citizens of Egypt for that they had found great Treasure among them and had taken their riches O saith the Emperour hang them all up for they are too rich to be made slaves and this was all the thanks they had for the riches they were spoiled off What more contemptible than a rich Fool a golden Beast as Caligula called his Father in law Syllanius Not but that some are great and gracious rich and righteous As Abraham Lot Job David Hezekiah c. It is said of Shusa in Persia that it was so rich that the Saith Cassiederus stones were joyned together with gold and that in it Alexander found seventy thousand Talents of gold If you can take this City saith Aristagorus to his Souldiers you may vie with Jove himself for riches the riches of Shufa did but make the Souldiers the more desperate in their attempt to take it By these short hints you may see the folly and vanity of those men who take up in their riches But Sixthly Many there are that take up in their own Isa 64. 6. righteousness which at best is but as filthy rags this Rom. 10. 2 3. Matth. 5. 20. was the damning sin of the Jews and of the Scribes and Pharisees and is the undoing sin of many of the Professors of this Age. Seventhly Many there are that take up in their external Church priviledges crying out the Temple of Jer. 7. 4 8 9 10 11. the Lord the Temple of the Lord when they have no union nor communion with the Lord of the Temple These forget that there will come a day when the Children Matth. 8. 12. of the Kingdom shall be cast out It would be very good for such Persons to make these five Scriptures their daily companions Matth. 22. 10 12 13 14. Luke 13. 25 26 27 28. Rom. 2. 28 29. Gal. 6. 15. Jer. 9. 25 26. That they may never dare to take up in their outward Church priviledges which can neither secure them from hell nor secure them of heaven But Eightly Many there be that take up in common convictions Judas had mighty convictions of his sin but Matth. 27. 4 5. Numb 23. and Numb 24. they issued in desperation Balaam was mightily enlightned and convinced in so much that he desired to dye the death of the righteous but under all his convictions he dyed Christless and graceless Nebuchadnezzar had great convictions yet we do not read that Dan. 4. 3 1 32 ever he was converted before he was driven from the society of men to be a companion with the beasts of the field he had strong convictions 1. by Daniels interpreting Dan. 4. 31 32. of his dream Dan. 2. 47. 2. He told Daniel That his God was the God of Gods and a Lord of Kings and a reveiler of secrets and yet presently he fell into gross Idolatry Dan. 3. and strictly commanded to worship the golden Image that he had set up and as if he had lost all his former convictions he was so swelled up with pride and impudence as to say to the three Children when they Divinely scorned to worship the Image he had set up What God is there that can deliver you out of my hand Verse 15. Saul had great convictions I have 1 Sam. 26. 21 25. sinned return my son David I will no more do thee harm c. And Saul lift up his voice and wept and he said unto David Thou art more righteous than I for thou hast 1 Sam. 24. 16 17 18 19. rewarded me good whereas I have rewarded thee evil But these convictions issued in no saving change for after these he lived and died in the heigth of his sins Pharaoh had great convictions And Pharaoh sent and called Exod. 9. 27. Cap. 10. 16. for Moses and Aaron and said unto them I have sinned this time the Lord is righteous and I and my people are wicked And again Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste and he said I have sinned against the Lord your God and against you But these convictions issued in no reformation in no sound conversion and therefore drowning and damning followed Cain was under convictions but went and built a City and lost Genes 4. his convictions in a crowd of worldly business Herod and Felix were under convictions but they went of Mark 6. 20. Acts 24. 25. and never issued in any saving work upon their souls O how many men and women have fallen under such deep convictions that they have day and night cryed out of their sins and of their lost and undone Estates and that they should certainly go to hell and be damned for ever so that many good People have hoped that these were the pangs of the new birth and yet either merry company or carnal pleasures and delights or much worldly business or else length of time have wrought off all their convictions and they have grown more prophane and wicked then ever they were before As water heated if taken off the fire will soon return to Arist●tle its natural coldness yea becomes colder after heating than before this hath been the case of many under convictions I shall forbear giving of particular instances But Ninthly Many take up in an outward change and reformation they have left some old courses and sinful practices which formerly they walked in c. and therefore they conclude and hope that their condition is good and that all is well and shall be for ever well with them they were wont to swear whore be drunk prophane Sabbaths reproach Saints c. but now they have left all these practices and therefore the main work is done and they are made for ever I confess sin is that abominable Jer. 41. 4. Matth. 1● 2● thing which God hates and therefore it is a very great mercy to turn from it to leave one sin is a greater mercy than to win the whole world and it is certain that he that doth not outwardly reform shall never go to heaven he that doth not leave his sins he Job 22.