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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	believe_v	die_v	live_v	4,475	5	5.3700	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91813	King Solomons directory: or, The reformed Catholicks rubricke: shewing a Christian how to demeane and behave himselfe both in prosperity and adversity: / as it was set forth in a sermon at St. Peters Pauls-wharfe, London, July the 8. 1649. By Fran: Riddington, a loyall subject, and long sufferer for fearing God, and honouring the King.	Riddington, Francis.	1649 (1649)	Wing R1438; Thomason E565_16; ESTC R206142	14,454	20

beleeve him As I live saith the Lord God I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from his way and live turn ye turn ye from your evill wayes for why will ye die O ye house of Israel Ezek. 33.11 O beatos nos quorum causa Deus jurat O miserrimos fi●nec juranti Domino credimus as the Father beforenamed hath it in the place before cited O happy and blessed are we for whose sake God swears O most miserable and wretched if we will not believe him swearing and if we doe believe him then let us repent our selves of our sinnes and returne unto him Every sinne is an errour Nonne errant omnes Prov. 14.22 Do they not erre that devise evill We fall and stray peceardo by sinning we must rise and return poenitend● by repenting It is not the falling but the not rising not our sinning but our not repenting that undoes us Perpetuity and impenitency in sinne makes sin out of measure sinful and renders the actors uncapable of a pardon As all Gods promises pass sub conditione obedientiae on condition of obedience so all his threatnings Sub condititione impenitentia under the condition of impenitency If a righteous man revolt he shall die for it notwithstanding all Gods promises and if a wicked man repent he shall live notwithstanding all Gods menaces You may see this clearly evidenced in that 33. Chapter of the Prophesie of Ezekiel at the 13. and following Verses When I shall say to the righteous that he shall surely live if be trust to his own righteousnesse and cōmit iniquity all his righteousnesse shall not be remembred but for his iniquity that he hath committed he shall die for it Againe when I say unto the wicked thou shalt surely die if he turne from his sinne and doe that which is lawfull and right be shall surely live he shall not die What can be said more fully more plainly or more punctually wherefore if we desire rather to live then to dye to prosper then to perish let us repent our selves of our iniquities and returne unto the Lord our God who is ready to receive and embrace us in the armes of his mercie Esa 55.7 Let the wicked c. Repentance is nothing else but redire ad principia to return to him whom we have left by sinne And the practice of this duty consisteth in these two things Humiliation and reformation humiliation under the mighty hand of God reformation of our evil lives and corrupt conversations which are the cure of the great and many distempers that make us thus miserable as we are Humiliation and reformation are the onely meanes to pacifie Gods indignation and to remove our afflictions and this is the thing which we are in this day of adversity to consider and my last observation which I shall dispatch in a word Humiliation and Reformation have for these eight yeares and upward beene the common talke of the times But what hath beene done in them why indeed si verbis audacia detur such things as never were done before That hath been done Quod nulla posteritas probet quod nulla taceat Which posterity can neither approve nor conceale no nor all Antiquity parallel I le give you cases as near as I can to ours we have had daies of Humiliation wherein many men have fasted but as we reade Isa 58.4 For strife and debate and to smite with the fist of wickednesse c. and humbled themselves but as it is Psal 10.10 That the poore might fall by their strong ones And such a Reformation we have as Nebuzaradan Captaine of the guard to Nebuchadnezer made at Jerusalem 2 Kings 25. When he threw downe the walls both of City and Temple and tooke away all the vessels of Gold and Silver c. And how should it be better when the Devill of Rebellion hath turned himselfe into this Angell of Reformation and the old Serpent held out new lights to lead his followers into outer Darknesse But to have done with these who have undone us All. The Humiliation which I am to speake to and of is a true selfe dejection joyned with the confession of sinne contrition for sinne and an earnest desire of pardon And as for Reformation it is a conversion from sinne a change of all bad actions into good The former duty is thus performed A man touched with the sense of his misery humbly casteth himselfe downe before the mercy seate of Gods offended Majesty confesseth from a sorrowfull heart his forepast sins condemneth himselfe for the same and earnestly entreateth pardon and forgivenesse of them at the hands of God for the merits of Christ The latter thus A man perceiving his errour and folly corrects and amends what ever is amisse in him sets himself in the right way and proceeds and goes on in all vertue of godlinesse of living And let every one of us but thus humble and thus reforme himselfe and surely then the controversie which God hath with us all is ended and a peace concluded for confirmation of which assertion the whole current of Scripture is so clear and the Character so obvious that he that runs may read I shall therefore quote but two to avoide prolixity and what need I more when In Scripturis non saepius dicta sed tantum dicta sufficiant Any one materiall Text will serve to prove any one tenet to them that believe the Scripture 1. Then for Humiliation take that of Saint James at his 4. Chapter and 10. Verse Humble your selves in the fight of the Lord and he shall life you up doe you but performe the duty of Humiliation and God will conferre upon you the dignity of exaltation And as for Reformation see thee 1. of Esay at the 16. Verse where we have this document no lesse consolatory then consonant Wash ye make ye clean put away the evill of your doings from before mine eyes cease to do evill learn to do well c. and then come and let us reason together saith the Lord though your sinnes be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow though they be red like crimson they shall be as wool If ye be willing and obedient ye shall eat the good of the Land If ye will reforme your selves you shall be received to mercy no question to the contrary but if ye will not if ye refuse and rebell ye may read your destiny in the next Verse the 20. of that 1. of Esay ye shall be devoured with the sword for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it And if the mouth of the Lord hath said it the hand of the Lord wil do it For nec verbum ab intentione quia veritas nec factum à verbo quia virtus saith Saint Bernard With God neither doth his Word disagree c. Let then so many of us as believe in God as believe his Word obey him and doe as we are commanded Humble and Reforme our selves