Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	bondage_n	deliver_v	fear_n	4,056	5	6.5580	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02139	Meditations and disquisitions, upon the seven psalmes of David, commonly called the penitentiall Psalmes Namely, The 6. The 32. The 38. The 51. The 102. The 130. The 143. By Sir Richard Baker knight.; Meditations and disquisitions upon the seven penitentiall psalmes	Baker, Richard, Sir, 1568-1645.	1640 (1640)	STC 1228; ESTC S113582	52,410	110

relation of symptomes though the Physitian come not where the patient is and of this sort it seemes was the healing of his bones but to deliver his soule is of another nature and requires perhaps a feeling the pulse perhaps an inspection of the patient and therefore no remedie here but the Physition must himselfe bee present But is it enough to make suite to God in generall terms to pray him to deliver my soule and not tell from what it is hee must deliver it Can any man thinke that God will returne upon so uncertaine an occasion Alas O Lord it is not unknown to thee that my soule wants no clothes and therefore it is not to deliver it from nakednesse my soule needs no meat and therefore it is not to deliver it from hunger my soule is never old and therefore it is not to deliver it from the wrackes of time but it is indeed to deliver it from trouble and what it is that can trouble my soule thou knowest for my soule is thy servant depending wholy upon thy favour and having offended thee desires to bee delivered from all feare of thine anger My soule was at first a free spirit but is now become a bondslave to sinne and therfore desires to bee delivered from this bondage My soule is it selfe immortall but is troubled here with a mortall body and therefore desires to bee delivered from this bodie of death and in effect it is all but sinne and the traine that sinne drawes after it from which I desire my soule should bee delivered And therefore returne O Lord and deliver my soule save mee for thy mercies sake But O my soule with what reason canst thou expect that God should ever returne to thee for who would bee willing to come to one in trouble as thou art lest hee pay for his comming with drawing a trouble upon himselfe and if hee should returne and come unto thee wouldst thou bee so satisfied wouldst thou not presently bee importuning him for further favours Hee must helpe thee in thy troubles He must helpe thee out of thy troubles or thou wouldst never bee at quiet And is it a small matter to deliver a soule out of trouble Do soules use to bee troubled for trifles and were he not better then to endure thy importunity for his returning then being returned to bee troubled with importunitie for thy deliverance But O my soule be not frighted with these vaine objections for is God like man that hee should bee afraid of being troubled Is he not the God of mercy and can it bee a trouble to his mercie to doe the workes of mercie Is it not his delight to bee Is it not his title to bee called Is not his glory to bee counted a deliverer and is any deliverance so fit for his mercie so worthy of his mercie as deliverance of soules Alas O Lord it is a small worke for thee to return but thou shalt doe an infinite worke by thy returning for thou shalt deliver my soule out of trouble my grieved soule out of grievous troubles and wilt thou not afford me so much kindnesse to doe so small a matter for effecting of so great a matter Oh returne O God and deliver my soule that as thou art called a deliverer so I may call thee my deliverer and may sing with Moses Thou O God art my strength and my song for thou hast been my deliverance But why should this be made so great a matter For though in saying returne O Lord and deliver my soule I seeme to require of God two severall workes one to return and another to deliver mee yet they are in truth but both as one at least no more differing then the cause and the effect seeing his very returning is it selfe a deliverance The onely turning his face towards mee makes mee to see the light of his countenance and no sooner doth that light shine upon my soule but all the clouds that darkened it are presently dispelled all the troubles that vexed my bones are instantly healed But though deliverance bee an effect of Gods returning yet it must bee when hee returnes in a good moode and not in a rebuking or in a chastening disposition for if his anger continue still were it not better for mee hee should tarry away and why then am I so importunate with him to returne before I know in what termes I stand with him and whether hee bee angry still or no but it is even for this that I importune his returning that I may bee assured his anger is past for as long as hee is angry hee never comes where I am to doe that were a greater favour then his anger can afford but as soone as his anger is a little over hee is apt of himselfe to returne unto mee for his delight is with the children of men and specially with those that call upon him and when he returns his anger being over hee useth to doe as the Dove did that when the waters were a little abated returned into the Arke and brought the Olive branch with her in her mouth so God returning when the waters of his displeasure are a little abated brings the Olive branch of peace and deliverance along with him But say my soule that God should returne and should deliver thee wouldst thou then be quiet and not trouble him with any more suits should this bee the last request thou wouldst make Alas no I have one suit more to make and Thou O God that gavest Abraham leave to importune thee with one suite after another vouchsafe mee this favour to make this suite also and this indeed shall bee the last I will ever make Save mee for thy mercies sake For as thy returning would bee to small purpose if thou didst not deliver me so thy deliverance will bee to small purpose if thou doe not also save me To deliver mee and then leave me to bee seized upon againe would make thee but Author imperfecti operis leave thy worke imperfect which cannot agree with the perfection of thy most perfect workmanship And now O God if thou take pleasure in conjunctions be pleased to take pleasure in this conjunction not to joyne thy rebuking and thy anger together not to joyne thy chastening and thy indignation together but to joyne thy deliverance and salvation together for those conjunctions seperate us from thee this conjunction unites us to thee those bring us to shipracke this brings us into the Haven Deliverance avoids the rocks salvation sets safe on shore And is not this that which David meanes when in another place hee saith With thee O God there is plenteous redemption It is redemption indeed if thou but onely deliver my soule but it is not plenteous redemption unlesse besides delivering thou also save mee O then bee pleased in thy plenteous redemption to grant mee this conjunction of deliverance and salvation that I may returne thee the conjunction of praise and thanksgiving and may sing

nothing so much vexed as with thraldome and in thraldome alas in miserable thraldome is my soule detained and therefore O Lord How long How long shall my soule bee restrained of her liberty How long shall I lye groaning in the dungeon of captivity How long shall no date bee set to give a period to my thraldome My soule I may say is all heart and therefore every trouble it feeles must needs go to the heart yet none so deepe as this that I am forced to cry to thee out of the deepe and cannot yet ascend out of this vale of misery And therefore O Lord how long How long shall I live in the death of this feare the feare of death How long shall I desire to bee dissolved that being reunited againe I may never more be dissolved How long shall my immortall soule bee kept from the possession of her immortality from the immortality of her possession If the Saints in heaven who now tread time under their feet doe yet continue this question still to ask How long How long O Lord holy and true wilt thou not avenge our blood on them that live in the earth Is it mervaile that I who live under the tyrannie of time should beginne this question to aske how long How long O Lord mercifull and just wilt thou not avenge me on the world and sathan for the wrongs they have done mee How long shall I bee kept from saying O Death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victorie How long shall the Angell with the flaming sword keepe mee from entring againe into Paradise Where is the morning of joy I promised to my selfe when I said sorrow may bee in the evening but joy commeth in the morning For how many evenings how many tedious nights of sorrow have I endured and yet can see no morning of joy no dawning of morning toward Where is the truth of that Aphorisme Dolor si gravis Brevis for what dolour so grievous as this of my soule and yet O Lord how long How long shall I stand complaining and say my soule is troubled Is it not that I shall never cease to say my soule is troubled till he return again who once said for me that his soule was troubled For alas his soule should never have beene troubled but to take away amongst others the trouble of mine seeing hee is the sacrifice for all our sinnes and with his stripes we are healed And now therefore O Lord how long How long wilt thou turne away thy face and not shew me again the light of thy countenance How long wilt thou absent thy self from me and not afford me the joy of thy presence How long wilt thou bee going still farther from mee and not so much as once offer to returne Verse 4 Oh returne at last and deliver my soule save mee for thy mercies sake for alas O Lord all my troubles are come upon mee because thou wentst from mee all my grievance is long of thine absence for as long as thou wert with mee and that I had thy presence my soule was at quiet my bones were at rest and I enjoyed then a sweete and pleasing calme over all my parts but as soone as thou departedst from mee and didst but turn away thy face my calme was presently turned into a tempest a violent tempest of thunder and lightening Thunder of thy rebuking and lightening of thine anger that if thou stay not thy hand from chastening and return the sooner I shall never bee able to hold out living to taste of thy mercie Saint Peter was never so neere drowning when hee cried out to Christ Lord save mee or else I perish as David is now neere sinking in the pit of perdition if God returne not speedily and deliver his soule But what speake I of David as though it were not my owne case and if my danger bee as great shall not my prayer be as earnest or can I finde a better way of saving then thy returning No O Lord for if thou returne I am sure thou wilt not I know thou canst not leave thy mercy behind and mercie when it comes I know it cannot I am sure it will not ever suffer it to bee perdition For though my soul were at the pits brink and readie to fall in yet even then would mercie put forth her hand and save mee Thou requirest mee to returne to thee and alas O Lord how can I if thou returne not to mee first can I come to thee unlesse thou draw mee and canst thou draw mee to thee if thou withdraw thy selfe from mee I know thou returnest continually to dispose and order the Oeconomie of thy creatures but this returning is in thy providence and is not that which I desire I know thou returnest often to visit and judge the sinnes of the world as thou didst at Sodome but this returning is in thy justice and therefore neither is this returning for my turn but thou hast a returning in Grace and favour when thou returnest to mee to make mee returne to thee a returning from thine anger to thy patience from thine indignation to thy loving kindnesse and this is the returning which I so earnestly desire and sue for But O my soule before God returne in this manner to thee thou must looke to heare him expostulate with thee in this manner Alas my Creature what hast thou done to bring these troubles upon thy selfe Did I not make thee at first a sound bodie and did I not give it a strong constitution and how happens it now that thy bones should bee troubled Did I not breathe into it a perfect soule and gave it endowments after mine owne image and how comes it now to bee so quite out of order and so cleane bereft of all my graces Thou wilt perhaps answer It is true O Lord my bones are troubled and how can they chuse seeing thou tookest one of them away from mee which thou gavest mee at first My soule also is troubled and how can it chuse seeing thou didst suffer the Serpent in Paradise to disturb and trouble it But may not God then justly reply I took one of thy bones from thee indeed but it was to make thee an helper I let in the Serpent into Paradise indeed but it was to try thee for thy better perfecting and when I saw thee so foolishly hurt thy selfe with thy helper and so easily wonne from mee by a Tempter had I not just cause to leave thee to them for whom thou leftest me and now forlorne wretch what hast thou to say unlesse thou have leave to say Return O Lord and deliver my soule save mee for thy mercies sake But what more necessity is there of Gods returning to deliver his soule then there was before to heale his bones and in that case he spake not a word of returning and why should hee more importune it now Is it not that many diseases may be well enough cured onely by