Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	adulterer_n	adultery_n	answer_v	17	3	5.1655	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17936	Tentations their nature, danger, cure. By Richard Capel. Sometimes fellow of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford. To which is added a briefe dispute, as touching restitution in the case of usury.; Tentations. Part 1-2	Capel, Richard, 1586-1656.; Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.	1633 (1633)	STC 4595; ESTC S119212	168,622	502

her and put her off from that and so she fell perhaps she halted in adding to the Lords words for IEHOVAH had forbid them to eate it but hee did no where forbid them to touch it yet this shewes that therein she was strict and more strict than the words wil beare but for the theatning where God said yee shall dye she falters and hath it thus least yee dye and for certaine when we doe not keep to the threatning wee shall not hold our selves to the commandement it goes with us as it did with our first fathers a want of holding the threatning fast did cast them downe and if we be short there and doe not oppose the threatning wee cannot stand as soone as ever Satan is at us to yeeld to our lust say no it is forbidden by God let it be to Adultery answer it is written thou shalt not commit adultery then adde to the prohibition the commination Adulterers and Fornicators God will judge I must not I am forbidden I dare not yeeld if I do I shall dye the death I shall damne and so Satan hath his answer The last generall Rule wee propose is to aske helpe of other men and the directions which come in here to bee set downe are these 1. Never to let any man know what the matter is if by any meanes we can have comfort from GOD acquaint no man with it if we can get him to doe the cure in ordinary matters see what the use of ordinary prayer will doe in cases extraordinary stretch our strength to the most that our prayers may bee strong and long let us wing them with faith and with a fast that they must up to the bosome of the father to say I have prayed and can finde no ease and therefore I will make use of a friend is well enough but I have prayed fasted and waited too as long as ever I can and yet it will not come then we must but til then till we have tried the utmost I could wish men to secret their tentations from the world God will not take himselfe to be wel used for us to goe to others when wee may have it for the comming at his hands with comfort and encouragement A father loves not a child shold run to neighbours for physick when hee may have it of him besides it is sweetest when we have it immediately from the hands of God our father when a child is sick the same cordiall or sweet meat sent by a servant is not so accepted when father or mother brings it and gives it with their owne hands we see many must have mother give it else they will not take it so it is with us it cannot but be best welcome when God doth give us our comforts with his owne hands and tell us good tydings of peace and mercy with his owne mouth and then againe we do not conceive how it wil wound out hearts that we have let any man know our state and case when wee are to come to our selves againe if so be then wee finde and conceive that all might have beene well and the cure done betwixt God and our selves without the knowledge of any man the trouble that way many times wounds more than ever the tentation did and some have even wished them dead and fairely buried to whom in times of their heavinesse they have broken their mindes and therefore the counsell I give is first to try all meanes to use all patience to watch to pray to fast to waite and if God at any time will come in with comfort let him doe all and have all the praise we hiding our grifes from all the world in great inward sorrowes wee are too apt to open our selves more than needs therefore this counsell is in season 2. See whether we can cure our selves as thus what would I say to or think of another should he come to me with my sore complaint the same say wee to our selves and see what that will do 3. When all will not doe and we finde that GOD doth look straying yet and wee can hold no longer then wee must know that GOD doth call us to vent and open our griefe to some one or other now the griefe must be opened God doth call us to a free discovery of our selves to another and without wee doe breake open the matter the end is not like to be good So Iames Confesse your sinnes one to another and pray one for another and there shall bee an healing and in this case without this mutuall and reciprocall confession there shall not be an healing I know God could make all well without this but he will not there is a naturall reason why we find ease by this venting because it doth open the sore and make it as it were runne and so there comes some ease but the spirituall cause is it which carries it and it is because God will have acommunion of Saints amongst us he will not have us straying one to another and hee knowes that by curing another we cure our selves upon that it is that the pain of the foule in this case doth not nor shall not stake till we have acquainted one or other with our case so wee see that tho the party to whom we confesse say no more to us than wee knew before yet the very venting brings some ease Satan I know cannot abide this for few ever open all but there is a remedy and his tentation is at an end and therefore hee urgeth hard upon the point to hinder us by all meanes from telling any body What saith he it will all the Country over hee will tell his friend and that friend another friend and out it will and thou art either shamed or undone for ever Indeed when God doth not call us to this it is dangerous to tell our veriest friend for though he be our friend yet commonly we are not his confident friend but he bath some other and hee must know it under benedicite and then he is sick til his friend knowes it too who is commonly some third man and so there is great danger that it will abroad wherefore if wee can doe up our matters by telling God alone let no man know but now when wee have tried and it will not be then say God hath called mee to out with it and out with it I must and will live by faith that God will make them keepe my counsell or if they doe not yet shame mee no shames I will follow God and confesse I will what ever comes of it and here we must know that when we find a great disposition in us to keep it from all the world that then Satan meanes us some great danger and therefore hee will fill our heads with a thousand proclamations of shames and dangers and all to make us keepe all close to our owne undoing and ruine say then I know by this that great hurt comes