Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	dead_a	see_v	4,406	5	3.5257	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17334	The schole of godly feare a sermon preached at the assises holden in Exeter, March 20, 1614.	Bury, John, 1580-1667.	1615 (1615)	STC 4180.5; ESTC S262	20,285	40

so keycold surely there is some defect and failing in the conditions Some hold the glasse too farre off and thinke of the mercies of God in Christ but slightly and confusedly some hold it too neere and being all vpon mercy mercy make remission of sinnes a plaister for presumption in sinning some hold it not still by steddy and fixed meditations but superficially glaunce vpon it by spurts and flashes and some others are not of combustible matter not so fit to be fired with the feare of his mercies as to be feared with the fire of his iudgements But we beloued as we desire with solide comfort of soule to call him Father that not onely our heads may imagine or our tongues discourse but also our consciences may feele that wee are his children Let the confluence of all his gracious beames of loue heat our chill hearts and our benummed hands with a deuout feare of his name Let euery naming of this sweet word Father bee as the sunne in his strength to warme and reuiue our filiall obedience so that as often as wee call him Father so often wee remember to passe the time of our dwelling here in feare Here is good being here I could build tabernacles and passe my time and dwelling on Gods fatherly goodnes for this is none other but the house of God and gate of heauen God is also a Iudge But me thinkes with Saint Iohn Reuel 4 1.2 a Trumpet calleth me away Come vp hither and see things which must be done hereafter a Throne is set out of which proceed lightnings and thundrings and voyces and a Iudge vpon the Throne which without respect of persons iudgeth according to euery mans worke What a sudden change is here Yet no change in the same verse and line but now a gracious Father clothed all in the white robes of mercy and presently a seuere Iudge attired in the searlet robes of iustice and is there indeed such change in the immutable God none at all with him is no variablenes In himselfe nor shaddow of change Iam. 1.17 A piece of taffata that is equally wrought of crosse threds greene red seemeth and is called changeable yet is not changed but one way as you look on it it beareth vpon the red another way it chiefly expresseth the greene euen so in God there is an equall temper of mercie and iustice whose threds doe seeme to crosse each other But in the Obiect and if you stand on the right hand among his sonnes the greene verdure of his goodnesse carrieth away the sight of his iudgements but if you cast your eye on the left side as one of his prisoners the red fiery hiew of his Iustice seemeth to drowne the sight of mercie Yea the same day of Iudgement Malac 4.1.2 proueth both a consuming furnace and a cheerefull sun-shine the obiect maketh the difference It shall burne like an Ouen and all that doe wickedly shall bee stubble to burne therein but verse 2. vnto you that feare my name shall the Sunne of righteousnesse arise and saluation shall be vnder his wings c. Wherefore as we before turned our faces to the Sunne to warme vs ye call him Father so let vs now turne about to the fire to heate vs he iudgeth without respect of persons c. The Thebans had amōg them the image of a Iudge sitting without eyes or hands The integritie of his iudgement no eyes that he might not diguish persons friend from foe no hands that he might not receiue gifts to corrupt Iustice But the iustest Iudge of all the World is deciphered open-eyed and open-handed his eyes open not to procure but to preuent respect of persons his hands open not to take vndue bribes but to giue due reward Ier. 32.19 His eyes are open vpon all the wayes of the sonnes of men to giue to euery one according to the fruit of his workes Propose we then to our serious meditatiō The circumstances the worlds generall Assises which will beginne and end in one day for the Lord will make a short count in the Earth the Iudge of this vniuersall Circuite is the Iudge of all Iudges the Lord chiefe Iustice the Sonne of God but visible in body as the Sonne of man Luk. 21.27 clothed as in scarlet robes with the power and maiesty of his Father Matth. 16.27 his Bench a tribunall or throne of State Rom. 14.10 the Iustices of the Bench his Assessours the twelue Peeres of Christendome his twelue Apostles Matth. 19.28 his Crier an Archangell with the sound of a shrill Trumpe that shall eccho ouer all the world and waken the bodies that are dead and rotten 1. Thes 4.16 the Prisoners all mankind 2. Cor. 5.10 our Cause to answere vpon Life and Death The Diuell comes forth for the Accuser that would also faine be the Executioner the Conscience is produced for an vntainted Witnesse and the allegations are proued by pregnant Records Reu. 20.12 The Bookes are opened and the dead are iudged of those things which are written in the Bookes according to their workes Two Bookes are to be opened The euidence most euident Libriscientiae Dei conscientiaenostrae the Lieger Booke of Gods knowledge and the Count Book of our own conscience which shall then be inlarged by a new Edition For in this present and former Edition of our consciences Booke some things wee cannot reade some wee doe not reade some wee will not reade and some wee will not suffer others to read Here many things are but dimmely and as it were but halfe printed in our conscience so that our dull eyes cannot read them whence Dauid Psa 19.12 Who knoweth how oft he offendeth Oh cleanse thou mee from my secret sins but then the print will be clearer our secret sinnes legible and the scales of mortal ignorance being fallen off We shal know our selues euen as we are known of God who is greater then our hart knoweth all things 1. Iohn 3.20 In this Edition are many things of a small print which because we wil not trouble our selues to put on the spectacles of Care and consideration we passe ouer and doe not read them but then they shall be set out in a larger print and the sins that now seeme too smal to be regarded wil then be seen too great to be indured Here many things being distastfull we blot out of our Booke and will not read them but then they shall reuiue and will wee nill wee wee shall remember them Here we finde in some passages such inky and vgly characters of sinnes that wee are loth any other should read with vs and therefore wee shew them onely a faire outside gilded with hypocriticall shew But then the Booke shall be laid open and lying open the faire couering shall lye couered and all that wee haue done spoken yea or thought shall be obuious to euery eye and as looking glasses set in a round doe each represent to other

worke Respect of persons issueth commonly eyther from affection or opinion affection being partiall willingly peruerteth opinion being preiudicate vnwittingly seduceth Now who can suspect partiality in Gods affection that heareth so often inculcated in the diuine Oracles that Rich or Poore Priest or People Iew or Gentile not their persons but their doings shall be regarded and rewarded Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur Tribulation and anguish vpon euery soule that doth euill the Iew first and also the Grecian but to euery man that doth good glory honour and peace to the Iew first and also to the Grecian for there is no respect of persons with God Rom. 2.9.10.11 On the other side who can imagine that a preiudicate opinion can blind those eyes of fire Reu. 1.14 that stay not vpon the vizour and outside of formall profession but pierce thorow the inside and heart of euery prisoner at his Barre All the world before his throne is a sea of glasse like vnto Chrystall Reu. 4.6 transparent and perspicuous to the supreme Iudge who will inlighten the hidden darkenesse 1. Cor. 4.5 and make the counsels of the heart manifest and is not onely an eye witnesse of all outward passages but also searcheth the heart and trieth the reines Iere. 17.10 euen to giue euery man according to his wayes and according to the fruit of his works which is the other supporter of Gods tribunall viz. a proportioning hand According to euery mans worke 2. Proportionable to works This word according implieth a double regard of workes in the finall iudgement 1. According to their quality whether they bee straight or crooked good or bad 2. According to their quantity whether they bee great or small many or few The quality of euery mans workes shall bee tried 1. According to their quality whether they be straight or crooked by laying them to that rule of righteousnesse which God hath giuen him viz. The Law of Nature to the Gentiles the Law written for the Iewes and the Gospell for vs Christians all which appeareth Rom. 2.12.15.16 The two Lawes being indeed one for the naturall Law is the morall infolded and the morall Law is the naturall vnfolded they haue both one iniunction Doe this and liue the Gospell another Beleeue and liue The Law exacteth the perfect righteousnees of works the Gospel accepteth for perfect the righteousnees of faith Ro. 3.20.21 4.13 But heere lieth a great blocke in the way For workes are regarded for if we be saued by faith and not by workes as that and other places of Scripture doe teach vs how then is this true that Euery man shall be iudged according to his workes at this blocke both Papists and Libertines haue so stumbled that they haue tumbled into errour the one vpon the right hand of Merite the other on the left hand of Licentiousnesse For the clearing of the way betweene them and the whole doctrine of faith and workes let vs conceiue of two Courts wherein God proceedeth in iudging vs. Of 1. Iustification in this life 2. Remuneration after death For the opening hereof Although not in Iustification wee may imagine how the penitent sinner commeth into the Court of Iustification desiring to be approued of God and accepted in his fight but seeing exact righteousnesse to bee there exacted and that none are receiued but such as are pure and perfect hee shrinketh backe and lamenteth his owne wretched plight that dares not appeare in iudgement being all ouergrowne with a sinfull leprousie and can but cry Opera non praecedunt iustificandum Enter not into iudgement with thy seruant O Lord. But anon perceiuing that Christ the Lord Iudge his Sonne hath plenary righteousnesse not for himselfe for being the naturall Sonne hee needeth not to buy his Fathers acceptation but for his retainers and hearing him call Reuel 3.18 I counsel thee to buy of me white raiment that thou maiest be clothed and that thy filthy nakednesse doe not appeare hee prostrateth himselfe at the feet of this heauenly Clothier and hauing no money nor merites to buy he falleth to begging in the humble supplicat of a liuely faith Lord if thou wilt thou canst make me cleane This suit being effectuall hath an answere as comfortable I will bee thou cleane Then washing away the leprous spottes of his sinnes with the bloud which hee shed and clothing his nakednesse with the merites which hee wrought for vs hee thus presenteth him to his Father and the Father accepteth him for righteous and registreth him among his Saints And this is the summe of our Iustification But before this blessed Sauiour Sed sequuntur iustificatum dismisse this healed sinner Cynthius aurem vellit admonuit Hee roundeth him in the eare and scholeth him for keeping a diet Behold thou art made whole sinne no more lest worse betide thee but goe and offer for thy clensing those things which Moses commanded Mark 1.44 Although I haue freed thee from the curse of the Law yet thou in thankfulnesse art still obliged to the duty of the Law that being thus deliuered thou maist serue God without feare in holinesse and righteousnesse before him all the dayes of thy life Thou canst not indeed doe so well as thou shouldest but be carefull to doe so well as thou canst What thou canst not doe so well as thou shouldest the white raiment of righteousnesse which I haue giuen thee shal couer and it shall not be punished and what thou doest so well as thou canst the same white garment shall make to shew more white and it shall be rewarded Thus we see The dispensation granted to the beleeuer how faith hauing procured a qualification of grace a dispensation is granted for workes that 1. Our euill deeds though perfectly euill shall be excepted as washed and drowned in the bloud of Christ 2. Our good deeds though imperfectly good shall be accepted as decked and beautified with the righteousnesse of Christ And comming vnto God henceforth in the fragrant raiment of our elder brother as Iacob in Esau Gen. 27. he smelleth a sweet sauour from vs is pleased to feed vpon and to relish that which wee bring him and so blesseth vs and we shall be blessed And as lame Mephibosheth was entertained at King Dauids Table for his father Ionathans sake 2. Sam. 9.7 so God admitteth our halting obedience for his Sonnes sake to make vs partakers of his heauenly Table Now as the Court of iustification regardeth onely faith Yet in remuneration workes are respected in making him righteous that is not such so the Court of remuneration will respect workes in declaring him righteous which hath beene made such For it standeth for a principle that whosoeuer truely beleeueth well endeuoureth duely to liue well and euery one that is graced of God by iustification doth striue to glorifie God by santification and with the healed Cripple Act. 3.8 followeth walking and leaping and praising God it is