Selected quad for the lemma: day_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
day_n	eclipse_n	hour_n	moon_n	18,191	5	12.7500	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73905	Three sermons preached by that learned and reuerend diuine, Doctor Eedes, sometimes dean of Worcester, for their fitnesse vnto the present time, now published by Robert Horn ...	Eedes, Richard, 1555-1604.	1627 (1627)	STC 7527; ESTC S100344	78,692	109

that called them endeuour to walke more worthy of it For although health bee welcome to all men yet to them it is euer most welcome that haue beene most sicke and though peace be euer seasonable yet neuer more then after Warre so the grace of God though it cannot come amisse to any yet where sinne hath abounded there it aboundeth much more Rom. 5.20 And therefore not without good cause the Apostle in this place describing the vocation of the Gentiles doeth as also in the beginning of the Chapter put them first in minde of that estate from which they were called not to looke backe as Lots wife to Sodom Gen. 19. and some Israelites to the flesh-pots of Egypt but that by looking into the miserie of their first soule condition they might be brought the sooner to a loathing of it and in the basenesse of their old man might more perfitly see and admire the excellent worthinesse of their new estate in Christ Further if it pleased God when hee had brought his people out of Egypt was about to bring them into Canaan to make that their deliuery out of Egypt so great a benefit as that at the giuing of the Law hee tooke it for a peece of his stile saying I the Lord that brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt and if afterward hauing brought them out of Babylon he would bee remembred by the name of that God that deliuered them from the land of the North that is from the Babylonian yoake as being a worke of so great saluation Ier. 16.15 How can it be but that he would haue vs who are called to a better inheritance and from greater dangers to bee so much the more mindfull of our old estate by how much wee are deliuered from a blacker darkenesse then that of Egypt and a more terrible prison then that of Babylon For besides the naturall infection of our first parents whereby with all mankinde our soules and bodies were made the vessels of corruption and our persons the bond-slaues of sinne and besides that by them the image of God was defaced in vs and we depriued of all good thereby it was added in the secret but iust iudgement of God to this misery of our lost estate that our father should bee an Amorite and our mother an Hittite that in our natiuitie when wee were borne our nauell should not be cut that no eye should pitie vs and that we should be cast out in the open field to the contempt of our person in the day that we were borne Ezech. 16.3 4 5. Also that wee should bee as the Mountaines of Gilboa vpon which must neither come deaw nor raine 2 Sam. 1.21 that is neither deaw of grace nor raine of righteousnesse For almost for foure thousand yeeres none of the fatnesse of Heauen fell vpon the soile of the Gentiles a little sprinkling there was vpon Melchisedech Iethro Iob the people of Niniue and some others but the fruitfull raine fell vpon the fields of Israel and God watered his own garden onely not voutchsafing any of his influences to the common fields of the Heathen And they generally sate in darkenesse saue that here and there God opened the eyes now of one and then of another who saw the light though more darkely then the children of the light did The table was for Israelites and not for Canaanites yet some crummes fell from the table of the children at one time to a Canaanite a woman of singular faith at another time to a woman conuerted at Iacobs well and otherwhiles to sundry others both men and women strangers from the knowledge and loue of the true God neuerthelesse there were not many such till the wall of partition was broken downe and men might as easily haue numbred them as a man may a poore mans sheepe All the rest of the Heathen were in palpable darkenesse and ignorance giuen vp to strange lusts and alienes from the promise of life Which though they did least feele that had most cause because as euery man is furthest from the knowledge of that happinesse which is in Christ the further hee is from the acknowledging of his owne great misery without him yet there was no man giuen vp to so reprobate a minde but that by the Diuine light of his darke nature he might perceiue and see that hee wanted figge leaues to couer his nakednesse knowledge to direct him in his blind way ability to strengthen him in his weake apprehensions and that in himselfe as of himselfe it were an endlesse labour to seeke for and finde true happinesse And those wants of nature as they made them by nature fearefull so did their feare ingender in them a kinde of reuerence to worship whatsoeuer they thought was able to helpe them as not onely the Sunne and Moone which they made their Gods but whatsoeuer was more vnworthy the name of God Wee read of Columbus a trauailer that when in the West Indyes he could not obtaine victuals for his army of a certaine people that worshipped the Moone he vsed this stratageme Fore-seeing by Astronomie that an eclipse would shortly be he threatned them that vnlesse they did releeue his army by such a day and houre hee would remooue their god out of Heauen Which though they made light of when they heard it yet because euen light things in so great a matter were not to be neglected they waited both for the day and houre that he had spoken of and finding the face of the Moone then to bee darkened thought that he had power as hee said to remooue their God and therefore besides that they made almost a god of him they yealded not their victuals onely to his army but themselues to his gouernement That which Columbus found in the god of those Indians may be thought of the other gods of the Heathen what affiance soeuer they put in them there is a time when they will bee eclipsed To this opinion of false gods that was ioyned ordinarily great wickednesse of life and so as there was nothing so vile and wicked that at one time or other by some one or other of that blind world of Gentiles was not made lawfull But to bury them specially the prophaner sort of them in their owne mire and not to speake more of them among Christians let vs examine whether the light of reason which the more ciuill people among them did liue in bee not meere darkenesse For which of them did euer goe so farre with the sharpnesse of their wit and reach so high or wade so deepe with the ripenesse of their iudgement as to come I doe not say to the knowledge of the true and great God whom as it is written of Simonides the more they sought the lesse they found but that euen in those things which they most studied might not iustly say that the greatest part of that they knew was the least of that they knew not And as for honesty and vertue whereof