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	soul_n	torment_n	4,875	5	9.1881	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60385	Ergon pseudous kai misthos alētheias, or, The wicked mans sad disappointment and the righteous mans sure recompence being a sermon preached the 17th day of October, 1661, at the solemn funerals of the Right Worshipful Sir Abraham Raynardson, Knight, late alderman of London / by George Smalwood.	Smalwood, George, 1604-1679.	1661 (1661)	Wing S4006; ESTC R10143	27,597	40

deceit or deceitful lusts by a familiar Hebraism Ephes 4. 22. 3 The work of the wicked is deceitful because at last it always meets with frustration and disappointment Psal 7. 14. Behold he travaileth with iniquity and hath conceived mischief and brought forth falshood There was never any wicked worker yet that did not befool and deceive himself in the conclusion and self deceit is the worst deceit 1 The wicked worker promiseth himself joy and comfort but God on a sodain turneth all his joy into mourning he feedeth him with wormwood and giveth him waters of gall to drink In the midst of his mirth there appeareth a hand-writing against him which strikes him with trembling and filleth him with horror and amazement as it did Belshazzar 2 He promiseth himself peace safety and security he saith in his heart I shall be a Lady for ever I am and none else besides me I shall not sit as a widow neither shall I know the loss of children this was the vain confidence of Babylon Isa 47. 8. And so it is of the carnal man he trusts in his own heart his own wisdom and policy and makes flesh his arm but departs from the living God and thinks his mountain stands so strong that it shall never be moved But God saith There is no peace to the wicked nay when he saith peace and safety then sodain destruction cometh upon him as pain upon a woman in travail and he shall not escape 1 Thes 5. 3. In an hour when he thinks not the Lord cometh and bringeth upon him that which he least feared saying unto him as he did to Babylon These two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day the loss of children widowhood they shall come upon thee in their perfection Isa 47 9. Wicked men like Saul whilest they think by carnal means to make their peace plunge themselves deeper into misery and when they are in the very height of their prosperity they are sodainly cast down into an abyss of adversity never to rise again Psal 73. 19 20. How are they brought into desolation as in a moment they are utterly consumed with terrors As a dream when one awaketh so O Lord when thou awakest thou shalt despise their image 3 The wicked worker if perhaps at any time he think upon death dares promise himself comfort in that also and eternal happiness after death but he deceiveth himself he shall find death to him the king of terrors and shall meet with nothing after it but torment and misery the worm that never dyeth and the fire that is never quenched It is said of the hypocrite that his hope shall perish Whose hope shall be cut off and whose trust shall be a spiders web Job 8. 13. 14. All that an hypocrite hopes for at his death shall come to nothing he shall find that all this while he hath been in a golden dream that he hath been as one that is hungry who dreams he is eating but when he awakes his soul is empty He shall find that all his lifetime he hath been weaving Spiders webs which is a work of curiosity but not fit for clothing or any other use Therefore as the Spider eviscerates her self and weaveth her web out of her own bowels and when she hath spent her pains her work is fit for no use but to catch Flies and when the house is cleansed it is sodainly swept away and perisheth So wicked men toil and labor and consume their very bowels for the enjoyment of these outward things and their hope and trust is in their own duties gifts strength and wealth but when death cometh all these are swept away from them yea they themselves are swept away with the besome of destruction like so many useless cobwebs and their hope proveth no better then a Spiders web Nay which is worse then death the sequel of death is unspeakable misery he is loth to dye but he cannot Mors prima pellit animam nolentem de corpore mors secunda detinet animam nol●●tem in corpore August escape it the first death driveth his soul whether it will or no out of the body and the second death will keep his soul whether it will or no in the body as Saint Augustine expresseth it for his body which hath been a companion with his soul in sin shall be a sharer with it in torment and so his hope perisheth for ever Use Thus the wicked worketh a deceitful work indeed Malicia maximam partem veneni sui bibit wickedness drinketh up the greatest part of its own poison and the wicked man is like the Wasp for with his sting he offends others but much more himself for he leaveth behinde him and that for ever both his sting and his strength and brings himself at last by his wicked works to the ruine of body and soul to eternity O take heed of adventuring upon any wicked work whatsoever with hope of security or impunity meddle not with that which will so grosly deceive you You have seen in these unhappy times what the end of wickedness hath been how much they deluded themselves how sodainly and sadly to themselves they were disappointed of their hopes God miraculously turned the wheel upon them and their mischief returned upon their own head and their violent dealing came down upon their own pate This hath been always Gods method He hath left us examples of his vindicative justice upon unrighteous men to be for our admonition What did Achitophels wicked policy who was esteemed as an oracle of God come to at last when he saw that his counsel was undervalued he went home in a discontent and hanged himself God suffered him to be his own executioner So Absoloms rebellion against holy David Hamans malicious devices against the people of God to destroy them and Judas his treason against his blessed Master the Lord Jesus Christ the insurrection of Corah and his Complices against Moses and Aaron all these met with nothing in the conclusion but violent and accursed deaths they were disappointed of their hope and cast themselves into the bottomless pit of remediless misery Saint Bernard saith of Judas he thirsted for gain and found Dum sitit lucrum tendit ad laqucum Bern. an halter to choak him Corah and his company went down alive into the pit the earth opening her mouth and swallowing them up Read this History and tremble to attempt the like lest God make you examples to others Lege historium ne sias historia of his severe vengeance O take heed of presuming to do any ungodly unjust or unlawful action shun it as you would do a savage wilde beast or the sword of an enraged R●pet in authorem scelus Sen. Trag. Raro antecedent●m scelestum deseruit pana pede claudo Horat. enemy for in the end it will bring nothing but disappointment and destruction and as Moses saith their sin will most certainly finde them