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	lord_n	sin_n	8,006	5	4.5115	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05259	The mothers blessing. Or The godly counsaile of a gentle-woman not long since deceased, left behind her for her children containing many good exhortations, and godly admonitions, profitable for all parents to leaue as a legacy to their children, but especially for those, who by reason of their young yeeres stand most in need of instruction. By Mris. Dorothy Leigh.	Leigh, Dorothy.	1616 (1616)	STC 15402; ESTC S113606	65,870	296

follow nature and the Diuell helpeth them forward and the world is a friend to them both and they like laden asses follow the Diuell with his treasure and make him their Lord and Master and yet some of them will not sticke to say they hope I will saue them though I haue often told them I will saue none by my seruants and I will not meddle with them for if they will serue mee they must cleane forsake mine enemy the diuell for hee is an enemy to me all mine and doth all the despight against vs that hee can and I will not saue him that will serue mine enemy therefore let them neuer presume vpon my mercy for I haue told them that the hope of the vngodly shall perish Hee that is an vngodly person a swearer a drunkard a prophaner of the Sabbaoth false in religion carelesse in life and yet hopes to be saued by me his hope is in vaine and grounded vpon no foundation for I neuer made promise to saue any such and therefore they haue no reason to say they hope I will saue them except they speedily returne from the diuell and his wayes and follow mee and my waies for I haue plainely told them He that will be my Disciple must for sake himselfe take vp his crosse and follow mee and assuredly I will saue him Now tell mee how would a man like one that should serue his vtter enemy and doe what his enemy could deuise to hurt and grieue him and then when hee had done all the hurt that hee could against him when he could do no more then hee would come to him and thinke to haue a great blessing and a great benefit of him hee should surely bee deceiued Then with what face can a sinner goe to Christ to saue him when hee dieth who would neuer serue Christ while he liued Though God had commanded him to cast all his care vpon him for hee would care for him yet hee hath spent almost all his time in seruing the world the flesh and the diuell Chap. 38. Reasons of casting our care vpon God I Wil tell you great reason why you ought to cast all your care vpon God and none vpon the world for God is our Father our Maker and gouernour and our feeder Christ is our Sauiour Now the father and gouernour knoweth what is fit for the childe better then the childe for the childe would surfet if hee might haue his owne will therefore let him be content with that which his gouernour will giue him Another great reason why wee should cast all our care vp-God is because when the diuell maketh all his poysonous baits wherewith hee draweth an innumerable company of soules to hell hee couereth them all with some worldly thing or other that they may not see the hooke some hee couereth with gold some with siluer some with earth some with clay some with honour some with beautie some with one thing and some with another Hee will not lay all his baits alike for hee is cunninger then a fisher hee knoweth a little bait will serue for a little fish and a great bait for a great fish for a great bait will not serue to catch a little fish nor a little bait will not serue to catch a great fish And besides this hee must haue the alteration of baits as the cunning fisher well knoweth but with these baits hee must haue a sharpe hooke to take them and a long line to draw them to himselfe So soone as hee seeth they haue swallowed the sweet bait hee lets them play a while with it but before it belong hee draweth them out of the sweete streame the water of life and throweth them into a panne of boyling liquor and as sometime the fisher is faine to intangle the fishes vvith his nets and so take them euen so Sathan findeth the humour of euery man and then he searcheth in the world to finde a bait fit for him hauing found the bait he presently poysoneth it then hee puts in a hooke and a line to draw him from the pure sweete streame the vvater of Life the Word of God and then hee lets them play a vvhile vvith the poysoned baits of the vvorld and so drawes them to him and throwes them into a furnace of boyling brimstone vvhose boyling shall neuer end Now there is none that can keepe vs from the baits of the diuell but onely God our Faher our gouernour our Sauiour our sanctifier and had wee not neede then cast all our care vpon God since vve are in so great a danger and none can keepe vs from the diuell but hee We cannot keepe our selues from the baits of the diuell no more then children can guide themselues in all their vvayes to feed learne gouerne clothe themselues vvithout the helpe of their father and gouernour Shall the children depend onely vppon their father and gouernour and shall not wee depend only vpon our God that is our Maker our Father and our gouernour and vvho vvhen vvee fell from him and followed the counsel of the diuel sent his onely Sonne to die for vs and to indure the paines of hell for vs the holy Ghost saith If hee hath giuen his sonne for vs will hee not with him give vs all things also And yet shal vve not dare to depend vpon him Is he not able to dry vp the waters of the red Sea that thou mightest goe on foot dry-shodde thorow Cannot hee raine thee Manna that thou needst not starue Cannot our God giue thee vvater out of the rocke He giueth thee vvater out of the rocke Christ euery day Oh that thou wouldest receiue it But I know what thou wouldest haue thou vvouldest haue Quailes to fulfill thy lusts for lust when it conceiueth bringeth forth sinne and sinne when it is finished bringeth forth death Then maist thou cry Oh wretched man that I am who shall deliuer me from the body of this death I thanke God through Iesus Christ our Lord it is hee that must deliuer me from this body of death And yet thou wilt not follow him nor depend vpon him Another reason why thou shouldest follow Christ and depend vpon him is because if the diuell finde thee at any time alone thou canst not escape his hands and therfore my greatest desire is that I might perswade you to cast all your care vppon God and none vpon the vvorld nay I pray God that Christ may preuaile with you for hee hath gone about to perswade you already and told you a reason for hee careth for you and if hee careth for you you need no more care for you shall bee well prouided for therefore obey him cast all your care vpon him and care not for this world liue as hee hath appointed you labour in your vocation sixe dayes and keepe the seuenth holy to the Lord and in all your labour vse no kinde of deceit nor desire to bee rich Doe you labour