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	life_n	separation_n	4,198	5	9.8832	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89716	Gods great care of his good people in bad times discovered in several sermons / preached by Mr. James Nalton (late minister of St. Leonards Foster-Lane) immediately upon his return from Holland, about twelve years since ; published by J.F., teacher of short- writing, who took them in characters from the said Mr. J. Nalton.	Nalton, James, 1600-1662.	1655 (1655)	Wing N122A; ESTC R42508	60,551	169

many a fiery dart Sathan seeks to wound us with at one time or other I but God is our help God will not cast us off for all that True indeed we are troubled on every side yet not distressed 2 Cor. 4.9 we are perplexed but not in despair It is an elegant expression in the Greek tongue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. perplexed but not in despair persecuted but not forsaken cast down but not destroyed Cast down I but not cast off we may be cast into adversity and be cast off by men and yet not be cast off by God for all that O what a consolation may this be to every one of Gods children That is an excellent Scripture Isa 54.10 For the mountains shall depart and the hills be removed but my kindness shall not depart from thee neither shall the Covenaxt of my peace be removed saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee O comfort your selves with that Text of Scripture therefore as the Apostle saith triumphingly Rom. 8.35 to the end Who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword nay saith he in all these things we are more than conquerers We conquer when kil'd kil'd and not destroyed death may make a separation between body and soul but it can never make a separation between the soul and Christ Neither things present nor things to come nor bonds nor imprisonment nor sickness nor banishment nor fiery Furnace nor Lionsden nor Principalities nor powers nor life nor death nor Devils nor any thing shall ever make a separation between God and his people he will never cast them off in any of these conditions O that we could but suck the sweetness of this consolation and lay it up as a Cordiall for a fainting day And thus I have done with the first Point of Doctrine gathered from the first branch of the Text the Author of this comfortable message it is the Lord the God of Israel he is Israels God when Israel is carried captive therefore though God may cast off his people seemingly yet he doth not cast them off when he seems to cast them off It remains I should come to the second branch of the Text and that is the message it self I will own them and acknowledge them saith God like these good figgs But of that I shall speak something by Gods assistance in the further prosecution of the Text. SERMON II. Jeremiah Chap. 24. Verse 5. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel Like these good Figs so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah whom I have sent out of this place into the Land of the Caldeans for their good YOu know what entrance I made into this Text two parts I shewed are considerable in it The Author of a comfortable Message and the Message self The Author of the comfortable Message is the Lord described here by his relation to his people the God of Israel and this first branch I have dispatched I come now to the second branch of the Text and that is the Message it self Wherein we have first the explication of a Type and then the application of it The explication of a Type in these words Like these good Figs where the Lord informs the Prophet Jeremiah what is the meaning of the Vision of the two baskets of Figs the one of good Figs the other of bad Figs Like these good Figs saith God so are all those good or godly persons whom I have sent away captive into Babylon so that God here compares the small number of godly ones that were yet carried captive to Babylon to Figs and he compares them to good Figs. But here it may be demanded first Why are these godly persons compared to Figs I answer For these three Reasons briefly First Because all the goodness they had in them was of Gods own planning Isa 60.21 The branch of my planting the work of my hands that I may be glorified Secondly They are compared to Figs because as Figs you know ever grow more and more till they come to a ripeness and maturity that they may be fit for the Gardiner that planted them so did these godly persons grow more and more in grace till they came to some ripeness and maturity that they might be fit for the service of that God who had bestowed this grace upon them fit to glorifie him here and fit to be glorified of him hereafter And then thirdly As Figs when they are ripe they are very pleasant and delightfull they were much esteemed and desired among the Jews as appears by Hosea 9.10 I saw your fathers saith God as the first ripe in the Fig tree so likewise these godly persons that had the Image of God stampt upon them and were now trees of rightēousness that brought forth fruit unto God they were very delightfull unto God God was well pleased with them Psal 147.11 The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him in those that hope in his mercy And by the way you may observe there a very sweet conjunction between fearing God and putting our trust in his mercy we must so fear the Lord that we still put our trust in his mercy lest we should despair and so put our trust in his mercy that we fear him lest we should presume but that I quote the Scripture for is this the Lord delights in them tha● fear him and it is very much that God should take delight in such poor despicable creatures as we are 〈◊〉 and we have a very strange expression 1 Chron. 29.17 I know also my God that thou takest pleasure in uprightness a wonderfull condescension that the great God of Heaven and earth should take pleasure in any service that such poor worthless worms as we are can perform●● that the Lord should take pleasur● in us or in any thing that is in us but we must know that uprightnes● is the work of Gods own Spirit i● our hearts and therefore God fi●●● bestowes the graces of his Spirit up on his servants which are call'● the fruits of his Spirit and then h● delights in his own fruits according to that of the Psalmist Psal 104.31 The Lord rejoyceth in his own works that is in the works of his own Spirit that he hath wrought And St Austin hath a sweet Meditation upon it Lord saith he do not thou look upon my own works but look upon thy own works in my heart for if thou lookest upon my works I shall be cursed but if thou lookest upon thy own works I shall be crowned God takes delight in his own works he crowns his own gifts not our merits in us Thus you see why they are called Figs. But then secondly it may be demanded How these could be called good Figs when our blessed Saviour saith expresly Matth. 19.17 There is none good but One that is God To this I answer It is true