Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	able_a	angel_n	apostle_n	197	3	4.6499	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05679	The portraiture of hypocrisie, liuely and pithilie pictured in her colours wherein you may view the vgliest and most prodigious monster that England hath bredde.; Portraiture of hypocrisie, lively and pithilie pictured in her colours	Bate, John, M.A.	1589 (1589)	STC 1579; ESTC S101572	70,120	198

which with the Prophet Dauid maketh the commaundements of God his daily meditation neither this onely in the day time but in the night also Who is hee that can say Thy iudgementes Oh Lorde are sweeter vnto mee then hony Who is it that can truely say hee hath desired them more then golde and precious stones Nay who is it almost to whom they séeme not as bitter as gall Because they require repentance and mortification who is he but estéemeth that which the Apostle calleth drosse and dung more delectable and pleasant than the iudgementes of the Lord. If a man loueth mee sayth Christ hee will keepe my Commandementes If this were well marked of you it woulde not séeme so easie a matter to be a good Christian as you account it As the children of God are knowne by two markes so are also the bondslaues of Sathan The markes of Gods children are sometimes internall sometimes externall the inward are repentance faith godlines and a sounde conscience the outward hearing of Gods word and godly conuersation So likewise on the contrary side Sathans impes are knowne by their inward and outward notes inwardly in that they are without faith deuoyde of all godlines of an ill conscience of no good affection towardes the Ministery outwardly by contempt of the word and a leude life Ponder these things Autophilus and throughly examine them and sée whether you carry about with you the cognisance of Gods childe or the badge of the diuels bondslaues and after due examination if you finde your selfe rather a limme of Sathan then beloued of the Lord recoyle plucke backe your foote in time lest that the curse of eternall damnation fall vpon you sooner then you looke for it And whereas you saide that to eschue euill and doe good is all that the Preachers can teach you or require at your hands I graunt it so and more then you goe about to performe To sinne of your selfe you are apt inough and the diuell is ready to teach you but if a man should demaund of you how you shall resist sin or doe good I doe not doubt but he shall finde you mum-budget If we had to make warre against any forreigne Prince about to inuade the Countrie wherein we liue and neuerthelesse sit at home in the chimney corner saying amongest our selues we knowe well how to preuent the enimie it is but to muster such Souldiers as are méete for warre to gather an Armie and couragiously to bid them battaile woulde we accompt our selues salfely defensed or destruction further from vs if this were once saide might not rather our ouerthrowe moue laughter to all such as heare of it This proportiō Autophilus would be diligently pondered there is no Christian but hath a continuall combating against the world the flesh and the deuill for which cause our life is called a warfare vpon the earth and euery good Christian a souldier for as souldiers doe lye in wait to beat backe and resist the enemy so ought we to be vigilant in resisting sinne and the temptations thereof and as to know the meanes how to resist the enemies and not put it in practise can profit vs nothing at all so if we say to resist sinne and doe good is the perfect duety of a Christian neither learne how to resist sinne or to doe good it doth nothing at all preuaile If we say to loue God aboue all thinges and our neighbour as our selues is the perfect duety of a Christian and yet neither learne howe to loue God nor exercise charity towardes our brethren we are as neare the perfection of Christianity as he that can say that the chiefest point of a Tailours trade is to to shape and to sewe is neare to the excellencie of a perfect workeman Autoph Well we are deceiued if we loue not God aboue all things you shall hardly make vs confesse the contrary Philox. Doe you remember what you said vnto me when we began to enter into communication Autoph What is that Philox. If you bée not forgetfull you said that if a greater occasion had not vrged you then hearing of the word wée had not met here to day and moreouer that you more estéemed of two hundreth pounds then of thrée hundreth sermons Autoph What prooue you of this Phil. That you loue God nothing at al. Autoph Then it were pity I did liue Philox. You loue the world more then his word Autoph I said not so yet Philox. No what meane your former speaches Autoph Whatsoeuer I said there be no fewe that will confirme it Philox. The more the worse Autoph Should we let all runne at randome and followe the Preachers must we loue God and nothing else Philox. I say not so for all the creatures of God are excéeding good and to be beloued but nothing ought to be made equall in loue with God or to be preferred before his loue Wee must loue God with all our heartes with all our soules and with all our might In regard of which loue we must both loath and treade vnder foote all thinges that séemeth good in all the worlde Yea this loue ouercommeth all mischiefes whatso euer which otherwise séeme inuincible The Apostle Paul proclaimeth this with a zealous and vehement motion Who shall seperate vs from the loue of God Shall tribulation or anguish or persecution or hunger or nakednes or perill or sword as it is written for thy sake are wee killed all day long and are counted as sheepe to the slaughter neuerthelesse in all these thinges we ouercome through him that loued vs. For I am sure that neither death nor life nor Angell nor rule nor power nor thinges present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall bee able to separate vs from the loue of God which is in Christ Iesu our Lorde Hitherto the Apostle The nature of a faithfull friende is not to offende but to reuerence him whom he loueth he is the better when his eye is vpon him his delight is to talke with him his heart is to doe for him his great pleasure to be present with him he willingly will not sée him iniuried nor patiently heare him slandered no crosse nor calamity shall vnlose the long contracted knotte of friendship Indéede we all say we loue God but fewe of vs feare to offend him we can say we like well of his word but we doe not reuerence it as we ought We will talke of him but how in swearing staring cursing and banning but to talke of him or with him as though we loued him that is to giue him thanks praise him or pray vnto him or meditate vpon his worde we vse it but a little And I doubt wee haue many Christians which scarce once in foure and twenty houres make mention of him after this manner The desire we haue to sée our friende is an Argument we loue him dearly the slender desire we haue to sée God that is out