Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	bread_n	lord_n	show_v	6,300	5	5.7772	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45566	The safest convoy, or, The strongest helper declared in a valedictory sermon before the Right Honourable Sr. Thomas Bendish, Baronet, His Majesties ambassadour ... / deliverd by Nathanaell Hardy.	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1653 (1653)	Wing H746; ESTC R28060	22,044	37

Every dart you throw against this wall will retort upon your selves and the fire will flash in your own faces tremble then oh tremble to think that those whom you are against God is with The waters saw thee G God the waters saw thee they were afraid Oh that you would take notice of Gods powerfull presence and abate your swelling waves but alas what do I spend my breath upon these waters which is likely to prove but as a contraty winde and make them rage the more I leave them therefore and betake my self in a word of comfort and counsell to the passengers through these waters And 1. See hence what a faithfull God ye have to stand by you one that will not fail in greatest need no such triall of a friend as in the time of trouble it is the too usual course of the world to deal with their friends as men do with Sun-Dials only look upon them while the Sunne of prosperity shines or as women do with flowers while they are flourishing they put them in their bosomes but when once withered cast them to the dunghill but the Almighty deals not so with his friends yea when our danger is greatest his help is nearest oft times the case is so desperate that friends society can only afford pity not succour they may look on they cannot take off but the presence of God is ever active and powerfull and whereas toe most faithfull friends part at death this friend will not then leave us David knew he would be with him in the shadew of death and Saint Paul assureth us neither death nor life shall separate his love not onely when we walk through the pleasant meadow of prosperity but when we go through the salt waters of affliction nay when we passe through mare mortuum the Sea of death he will be with us it is the deriding question which the Saints enemies put to them in affliction Vbi Deus where is now their God but they may return a confident answer hic Deus our God is here nigh to us round about us in the midst of us It was his promise to Joshua and is repeated by Saint Paul as belonging to all the faithfull I will never leave thee nor forsake thee a double negation among the Greeks denies more vehemently much more a five-fold negative and yet so emphatically doth the Originall expresse it to assure us that there is no time nor place nor want nor streight nor affliction wherein God will leave or forsake his people 2. Learn hence the blissefull state of a Saint who hath Gods presence ever with him nothing makes affliction truly uncomfortable but the want of Gods face indeed the most prosperous estate without God is a curse and the greatest affliction with God is a blessing the Saint when he wants most he wants nothing because he hath him that hath all things not the brightest star can make it day when the Sunne is set not the thickest clouds can make it night while the Sun shines Oh Divine presence thou turnest night into day stones into bread and drosse into gold thou makest the Wildernesse a Paradise the Cottage a Palace and the Prison a Mansion thou art riches in poverty wealth in want a cordiall in sicknesse an antidote against poyson light in darknesse and life in death Shew us the Father saith Philip and it sufficeth give us thy self Lord and it is enough hell would not be hell if God were there much lesse can these waters make the Saint miserable while God is with him 3. Say to thy self with David Oh thou distressed Saint Why art thou cast down O my Soul why art thou disquieted within me hope thou in God and that not only when the waters are low but when they rise to the height Thy way O God is in the Sea saith the Psalmist not onely in the shallow River but in the deep Sea not only in the lesser troubles but in the greatest exigences Saeviat mare conturbentur montes Deus in Ecclesia non dimovebitur if you please the Psalmist will English it Though the waters roar though the mountains shake God is in the midst of her she shall not be moved If God be with us all in God is for us favour ●ffecting power effecting wisedom directing providence protecting and faithfulnesse perfecting deliverance for us If God be with us all the creatures are for us what Jehoshaphat said to Ahab that God saith unto his Church I am as thou art my people as my people and my horses as thy horses 2 King 3.7 It was the comfort Saint Paul gave the Corinthians and in them all beleevers Whether Paul or Apollo or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come all are yours and ye are Christs and Christ is Gods 1 Cor. 3.22 23. The Angels are ours to guard us the Ministers to comfort us all creatures to serve us and surely he need not fear the waters that hath the winde and tide on his side what trouble should dismay a Christian that hath heaven and earth to support him no wonder then that we finde the Scripture so often disswading from carnall fear upon this ground of Gods spiritual presence Not to multiply instances view Isa. 10.15 14. where no lesse then four times God cals upon his Church not to fear upon this argument because he was with her and would help her Chear up then thou disconsolate soul doubt not of the Churches safety in generall The Lord in the middest of her is mighty he will save he will rejoyce over her with ioy Zeph. 3.17 Despair not of thine own preservation in particular Maior est Dominus ad protegendum quàm diabolus ad impugnandum God is more powerfull to protect then Satan and his instruments can be malicious to destroy So true is that of the Psalmist The Lord on high is mightier then the noise of many waters yea then the mighty waves of the Sea Psal. 93.4 In persecutionibus nemo cogitet quod periculum Diabolus importet sed consideret quod auxilium Deus praestat nec mentem labefactet humana infestatio sed corrohoret fidem divina protectio Consider not so much thy distresse as thy deliverer and when mens malicious combination may affright thee let divine association support thee the danger may exceed thy resistance but not Gods assistance the enemies power may surpasse thy strength their subtlety out-wit thy prudence but neither can excell the wisedom and might of God that is with thee Oh learn therefore to try God in his strength to trust him in difficulties and when the mercilesse waves are ready to swallow thee commit thy self to his custody Mos est naucleri coelum aspicere The Mariner in straights looks up to heaven do thou so and remember that when the waters are about thee the Sunne shines upon thee But now me thinks the despairing soul replies