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	hand_n	soul_n	5,920	5	4.8872	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64977	The best gift, or God's call upon young men for their hearts Delivered in a sermon to young men. By Thomas Vincent, minister sometime of Maudlins Milkstreet, London.	Vincent, Thomas, 1634-1678.	1672 (1672)	Wing V427; ESTC R222561	16,894	33

the highest honour and esteem of men Honor est in honorante Honour is not in him that is honoured but in him that honoureth and is that so amiable which is not in your selves but in anothers breast or if you do desire honour is worldly honour the most desirable which is of all things the most uncertain and most inconstant Is any honour so sure and so great as the honour which the Great Jehovah hath for all that truly love and fear him And what sweetness can you really find in others good esteem of you when you have so much reason to dis-esteem your selves Must not their esteem of you be for low and inferiour things which are not praise-worthy or else must not their esteem be built upon a mistake and can you take any great comfort in others mistake Can this be a happiness and chief good for a rational Soul Suppose that your ambition were gratified and you advanced not only in esteem but also in a high place of dignity are not all high places very slippery And by how much your place is the higher would not your fall be the lower If you were Kings or Emperours Death would quickly turn off your Crowns and pluck your robes off your backs and your Scepters out of your right hands And what honour do the worms give to the bodies of Great ones when they are brought down to the dust What honour will God give to the Souls of wicked Great ones when they are out of the body What honour will the Lord Jesus give to such at the last day when he appeareth with his glorious train of Angels to Judge the world in righteousness Will not all the honour of wicked men be then turned into shame disgrace everlasting contempt and confusion of face And is it good then to set your heart upon Honour instead of God Or it may be young ones your hearts are not upon the wing to carry you either to the mountains of pleasures or the mountains of honour but they are groveling upon the earth you are got under it and are digging for Mines and Treasures there I mean that possibly your Hearts are most addicted to the gain of earthly riches and are they more worthy of your Hearts than God Can they yield more satisfaction unto you or abide more surely by you than those pleasures or honours of the world which I have been endeavouring to disgrace If you had Gold like the dust and Silver like the sand and Jewels like the stones of the field if you had as much wealth as your hearts could wish could you find the contentment your hearts do desire in any of these things Besides if riches in great abundance could give contentment which they cannot are you certain to get such abundance Hath the world Treasures enough to enrich all that so dearly love and desire it Are not the times hard Is not trading low Is it not with great difficulty that any do get an estate Do not such as will be rich run themselves into temptations and snares which entangle them and enslave themselves to many foolish and hurtful Lusts which at length undo them and drown them in perdition and destruction 1 Tim. 6.9 Read and consider what the Wise man speaketh Prov. 23.5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not for riches cerainly make themselves wings they flee away like an Eagle towards Heaven Will you set your hearts upon that which is not that is which is not what it seemeth to be or which is of so short continuance as if it had no being Riches certainly make themselves wings like Eagles and are flying away from you and will you make your selves wings like Eagles and fly after them Are you like to overtake them when they are upon the wing to be gone and when they are gone upon the wing will they return again or if they should abide so long as you abide will not death make wings for you e're long upon which willing or unwilling you must flee away and leave all your riches behind you Think how death will strip you of all your wealth and bereave you of all your riches Naked you came into the world and naked you must return and think how grievous it will be for you to part with those things unto which you have given your heart Will it not be a tearing to your hearts to be disjoyned from that unto which they are now so glewed And when withall you think that you must not only leave all that you so much love but also that you must go to a place of most exquisite and eternal torments in Hell which you so much fear Let me then perswade all of you especially you that are young men to call off your hearts from all these things which the Devil makes use of as baits to catch hearts withall as snares to entangle and captivate affections look to the hook through the bait look to the prison whither the Devil in such chains which he hath laid upon your affections is leading you withdraw your hearts from the world and every thing therein and now present it unto the Lord The Lord hath sent me this day to woe your Hearts O that I could win your Hearts for him You are young men and most of you if not all single men Suppose that the most lovely young woman that ever your eyes beheld of such stature feature and exact mixture of colours as you never before saw one so beautiful Suppose her birth and dowry to be far above you Suppose her humble like the ground and of the sweetest disposition that she had none like her and this person should make tender of particular and most ardent Love unto any of you and be willing to give her self and all that she hath unto you only did expect a return of Love on your part I suppose there is not any of you who would refuse and with-hold your Love But what is any creature in comparison with God not so much as the dust upon the ballance his excellencies are infinitely beyond compare and comprehension too I have set forth the Loveliness of the Lord as infinitely exceeding all creature loveliness I have set forth his Sutableness unto your Souls and withall his infinite Love and by me he maketh tender of himself and his Love unto you unto the meanest and most unworthy amongst you but he looketh for a return of Love on your part By me he calleth for your Heart think what an indignity it will be to the Lord what a folly and injury to your selves should you refuse and withhold your hearts from him God doth by me call for your hearts they are his due if any else can claim such right to them let them have them if any else do so much desire or deserve them let them have them if any else will so well use them let them have them if any else can so advance beautifie enrich satisfie and fill them with