Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	aaron_n	brother_n	moses_n	145	3	7.2867	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92710	Meanes to prevent perishing. Or, The usefulnesse of the saving knowledge of God. Discovered in these particulars; I. The blessed tendency the knowledg of God hath to bring men to salvation. II. The one-ness of the Father, Son, and Spirit. III. The excellency of Christs person. IV. The excellent nature of eternal life. By W.S. a servant of the Lord Jesus.	W. S.	1658 (1658)	Wing S198; Thomason E955_3; ESTC R207616	60,676	76

to me and hate not his father and mother wife and children brethren and sisters yea and his own life also he cannot be my disciple Mark it beloved here you see how far you must exceed in your love to God above the love that you ought to bear to any even the dearest thing in the whole world unto you our Saviour you see gives us to know that when Parents or Children wife or life the which nothing can be dearer comes in competition with Christ we must be so far from loving any of them above the Lord that we must in comparison of the love we bear to him indeed hate them lesse cannot be in the words then this much if so be as if Christ should say freinds when it comes to that that you cannot enjoy the neer and dearest thing that you have in the world upon which your hearts are most set without doing something that will be contrary to my will and glory rather than you should sin against me or dishonour my holy Name you ought to forsake them and cast them away as if you did not love them at all but rather hate them and all this is to be done through that exceeding love that I look you should bear to me beyond what you ought to have for all those things that are most dear unto you and may in a measure be beloved of you Thus it ought to be but I pray you examine how it is whether you do thus love him or no or whether there be not some relation or else which is worse some vanity or sin that hath stolen the greatest part of your affiections from God look to your hearts I beseech you and take heed that you be not found amongst those men that are lovers of pleasures more then lovers of God or in some other such like sin nay suppose it be a child or some other dear relation that thou preferrest before the glory of God take heed thou pay not as dear for this sin as Eli did his sin was this that he preferred the honour of his Sons before the honour of God and therefore must both his Sons fall by the Sword in one day beside what fell both upon himself and upon his house for ever Mark also what Moses saith to Aaron his brother Levit. 19.3 upon the occasion of the death of his two sons this is it that the Lord hath said I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me and before all the people I will be glorified Which is as much as if Moses should say thy sons have dishonour'd God and therefore for the glorifiying of his own Name he hath out them of and the text saith that Aaron held his place shewing thereby his great respect to the honour of God that if the dearest things he had were taken away if it did but make for the glory of God he had not then one word to say here is a very worthy example I pray you let us follow it and if we see at any time that any thing that is never so dear unto us must be taken away if it make for the honour and glory of God yeeld it up with all willingness and be sure that what ever you give him else give him the heart for with less then that he will not be pleased The next duty that I shall lay before you is the fear of God I pray you consider what a great deal of reason you have to fear this most glorious and only true God and to fear him only for he it is that can do you good or hurt he can do either and none in the World can hinder him if God undertake to be a mans defence all the world cannot hurt him although they put forth their utmost power for the Lord will find out a thousand wayes to deliver a man from the strongest Tyrant in the world likewise if the Lord set himself against a man there is no delivering of him forth of his hand all the power and wisdom in the world cannot do it therefore stand in awe of him and do not let the fear of man cause you to turn out of the way of the Lord it is much better for to make all the men in the world your enemies yea even your dearest Friends and all rather than God But I pray you fear him as God not slavishly but as it becomes Children let the fear and dread of his great Name awe your hearts continually and remember that it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God but withall consider his love and compassions to sinners his wisdom and faithfulness as well as his righteousness and power that your fear of him may be mixed with love to him and confidence in him that so a child-like reverence and an humble awe may be continually upon your hearts and take heed that the fear of man do not snare you remember what Isaiah saith to this Isai 51 12.13 Who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall dye and of the Son of man that shall be made as grass and forgettest the Lord thy Maker that hath stretched forth the Heavens and laid the foundations of the earth here you see how the Prophet reasons us out of this sin First he asketh Who he is that fears man intimating that it is some strange Creature some coward or fool one that hath strangely forgot himself and he shews the Reason First the man shall dye that is feared and therefore a foolish thing to fear him that shall neither live to reward him nor to punish him Secondly he shall be made as grass and what wise man would fear so vain a thing as grass a powerless creature that can neither help nor hurt a man Thirdly and that which makes the sin very great is this that while a man fears man he forgets God Now there be three Considerations more in this thirteenth verse that should keep up the fear of God in the heart and should likewise keep down the fear of man First he is our Maker Secondly He stretcheth out the Heavens Thirdly He layeth the foundations of the earth As if the Prophet should say if a man would consider the workmanship of God when he looks to the Heavens or when he looks to the earth and considers the glorious works that God hath done in both or if a man did but look upon himself and consideringly mind how he is made and who is his Maker he would never be so foolish as to suffer the fear of man so to prevail to the eating out of the fear of God out of the heart but would walk alwayes in the fear of him who is alone to be feared and meet to be had in special reverence of all that comes about him But I shall proceed to the third duty and that is dependance upon this only true God Beloved there is no other that you can trust in but in him you may trust safely a