Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	bring_v	sin_n	wage_n	4,080	5	11.1858	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77299	Principiis obsta. The readie vvay to prevent sin By William Bagshaw.	Bagshawe, William, 1628-1702.	1671 (1671)	Wing B433A; ESTC R232407	29,171	94

of the Lord is most seen there is not one wrong thought and certainly the more the heart is under the ●●we and affecting apprehensions of his Presence and Excelency here on earth the less 〈◊〉 evil thoughts get admittance in●● it God is not in all a wick● mans thoughts and therefore sin ● so much in them Shall the thing framed entertain thoughts dishonourable to him that framed it Shall the mind work wickedness whilest its Maker standeth by observing it Shall you before whom his goodness in his Son hath so eminently and evidently passed no more fear the Lord and his Goodness than to give way to thoughts that wander from and war against him Jo●●1 1 2 3. Joh would not think unchastly of a Maid for God saw all his wayes even th● inward wayes of his heart 2. Second Help Take a true measure of th● exceeding evil and sinfulness o● sin It is said of learning that if i● could be beheld with bodily eyes all men would love it surely if sin were seen with spiritual eyes all the beholders would loath it How can you find in your hearts to think evil and so sin Judge of the cause by the effects The burning of Sodom the drowning of the World the torments of Hell yea the sufferings of the Son of God are all the fruits of sin Judge of the Malady by the Remedy The stain of one evil thought is so deep that nothing short of blood no blood short of that which is called the Blood of God being the blood of that Person who was and is God can fetch it out There is no such thing as a sin that is absolutely little 3 Abandon and abhor that false but frequently recited Principle That thoughts are free The Commandment of God is exceeding broad Psal 119.96 binding the mind and inward There is so much more evil in evil thoughts because they are less bewailed and resisted And without controversie one reason why men so easily perswade themselves that their thoughts do not displease God is because they so highly please them Facile credimus quod volumus They soon believe what they would have to be true 4. Bear still in mind the corruption of your natures whence evil thoughts have their rise This impure spring will not run less it is likely to run more when you lose the sight of it This root of bitterness is still ready to send forth its branches The more you trust your own deceived and deceitful hearts Prov. 28.2.6 the more you incur the black brand of folly This should keep yo● humble watchful and dependan● on Divine Grace for healing Th● lust which is in you is still apt to conceiv● and bring forth tha● which is dishonourable to God 〈◊〉 your hearts are not only infected James 1.13 14. but withall infectious 5. Consider the dreadfulness of Divine displeasure which for your former evil thoughts might in justice have been executed on you The wages of sin is death Rom. 6. last even that death which is opposed to eternal life That which is due to sin as sin is due to every sin even to thought-sins Have you not already too too often laid your selves in the mouth of ruine If Gods Patience and Grace had not interposed you had long ago been where the Worm never dieth but ever gnaweth Dare you still give way to those thoughts against which the wrath of God is revealed 6. Keep a strict and constant guard over your senses Evil communications corrupt good manners and draw forth the seeds of evil which are in the hearts of those who hear them If you cannot stop others mouths from vain and vile speeches yet stop your own ears from giving audience to them Learn at holy Job Job 31.1 to make a covenant with your eyes Pray with holy David Psal 119. that God would turn away your eyes from beholding vanity What troops of evil did enter in by his eyes when he suffered them to gaze on a Woman that was washing her self 2 Sam. 11. 7. Above all keeping keep your hearts At the door of every room or faculty set a careful Porter See that the light that is in your understandings be clear representing to you the gloriousness of God the loveliness of heart-purity the hatefulness of filthine● of spirit See that your memories set before you your holy profession and high obligations tha● your Consciences are truly tender rising against the first risings o● sin that your wills stand fully ben● towards conformity to God tha● your affections be pitched Gol. 3.1 and fixed on things above 8. Get an addition to and increase of your stock of habitual Grace The more strong and vigorous the new Man is the less can thoughts which are contrary thereunto get admittance Mat. 12.35 When there is a good treasure in the heart good things will be brought forth most plentifully and evil things be stifled most successfully Covet earnest as the best gifts so the highest degree of graces attainable The more you love fear and delight in the Lord the less can vain thoughts lodge within you 9. Inure and accustom your selves to holy Meditation Your thoughts will be at work Find them still fit edifying subjects to dwell upon Have you not a large field to walk in Let the Attributes Works and Word of God be much in your minds Psal 104.34 So shall your meditation be sweet and you will neither be at leisure for nor yet have an allowance of evil musings 10. Maintain communion with and dependance on the Holy Ghost Though you are not sufficient as of your selves to think well or to prevent evil thinking 2 Cor. 3. ● yet he who proceedeth from the Father and the Son to be a Sanctifier of the very thoughts of the heart is Alsufficient You may do all things and in particular resist evil thoughts Phil. 4.13 so as to find favour with God through the Spirit strengthening you I am apprehensive that learned and diligent Readers are furnished with excellent and enlarged Treatises about the ordering of their thoughts yet I living near to thousands into whose hands these elaborat pieces are not likely to come and believing that small vessels have their use and that the way of the plain is fittest for dim-sighted ones to travel in have communicated these slender thoughts which I shall follow with my prayers that the Lord who seeth mens thoughts would help men to see the evil which hath already been in them and the absolute necessity their Souls stand in of being washed from that wickedness of being supplied from the free full Grace of God in Christ Jesus that their thoughts may carry a sutableness to their profession of Christianity and to their expectation of glory A BRIDLE FOR THE TONGUE Matthew 12.36 But I say unto you that every idle word that men shall speak they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment SEntences and Sayings