Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	bulwark_n	tell_v	zion_n	72	3	9.3760	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54509	Gods doings, and mans duty opened in a sermon preached before both Houses of Parliament, the Lord Major and aldermen of the city of London, and the assembly of divines at the last thanksgiving day, April 2, for the recovering of the West, and disbanding 5000 of the Kings horse, &c., 1645 /1645 / by Hugh Peters ...	Peters, Hugh, 1598-1660.	1646 (1646)	Wing P1704; ESTC R6885	39,929	55

drie unlesse the spring be full Even the youths shall faint and be weary and the young men shall utterly fall But they that waite upon the Lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings at Eagles they shall run and not beweary and they shall walke and not be faint 1. Though meanes gaine strength yet they can act no further then he quickens them It was he that withered Jerobo 〈…〉 hand and knockt off Pharaoh's wheeles and laid six hundred Iron Chariots under the Cataracts of his displeasure He overthrew Pharaoh and his hoast in the Red sea son his mercy endureth for ever 2. Meanes though quickned yet they succeed not nor reach their purposed ends without him The Madianits shall sheath their swords in their own bowels their Webbs shall not become Garments neither shall they cover themselves with their works 3. The Spirit of the Lord can doe what it will without meanes he creates a shadow for thou hast been a strength to the poore a strength to the needy in his distresse a r●fuge from the storme a shadow from the heate when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storme against the wall and that appeares thus 1. Sometimes against all meanes the waters shall be a wall to Israel and they shall passe through the great deep with dry feet and Jonab shall be kept from drowning in the sea by being thrown into the Sea 2. Sometimes beyond all Meanes else how should one chase a thousand and a fancy put many thousands to flight else how should the shaking of a few leaves and the blowing of Rams-horns do such terrible executions 3. It is the Lord that doth all that is done by meanes walk about Sion and go round about Her tell the Towers thereof mark yee well her Bulwarks consider her Palaces that ye may tell it to the generation following for this God is our God for ever and ever he will be our guide even unto death If you say that money answers all things yet you must heare the Lord say the gold is mine your silver is mine It is not the drug nor the bread that doth the work but the spirit of them both And for the second which is his manner of preserving in order to men yea destroying men his working shews it selfe usually in these four particulars 1. God oftentimes over-awes and overbears them that Laban shall have little to say to Jacob when he overtakes him Balaam had an opportunity and spleen enough against Israel but durst not vent it intreats Balacks Messengers to stay all night would faine be taking money but there was no Incantation against Jacob nor divination against Israel for the Lord was with them and the shout of a King was amongst them Esau shall rather kisse then kill for Jacob was a Prince and had prevailed with God and with man sc. had wrestled through all his fears that his brother must be his Servant the Lord putting a bit into his mouth 2. The Lord often takes away the occasion that the Sons of Belial cannot attempt what they intend If they in the Acts which swore Pauls death had kept their oaths they had never kept their lives but he never came within their reach Ahab sends to all places under Heaven to take Elias but the Lord sends him away before they came He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty 3. Oftentimes the Lord stops them in their practises Jeroboam will needs be striking the Prophet The Lord strikes him who is very sensible of the least touch of his anointed ones or any harme that befalls his Prophets 4. Lastly The Lord works by diversion When Saul thought he had made sure of David the Philistims brake in upon his Countrey and probably had spoyled him in the reare And that I take to be the meaning of the cloud Isaiah 25. 5. Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers as the heat in a drie place even the heat with the shadow of a cloud the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low The shadow of a cloud intervening betwixt the scorching Sun and the weary Traveller in a hot Countrey how doth it refresh God finds his enemies work abroad that his Saints may not be destroyed at home and since the whole world and all the Princes of it are but the servants of a few Saints he can put all into severall postures for his preserving ends To the third Quere Why God thus preserves the Saints I answer in these three particulars 1. Because of his righteousnesse and holinesse in the very dispensations of his judgements which occasioned this large offer to the men of Sodom and caused him to descend so low as ten righteous persons yea though they were but as righteous as Lot who was not without strong corruptions Who can say his hands are clean Yet such are called righteous and faithfull They are called in my Text even such as have candor upon their spirits such as take up and own right principles such as are contented in the main and in the Cause they have in hand to have glasse-windows made to their hearts even such as Heathens named Homines simplices apertos To such he sends his Angels to shew his tender affection which is better then his protection To be faithfull doth intitle us to preservation in the deluge of the greatest judgements that our work will be onely to look to duty which is ours and leave events to God which are his 2. God doth it for the glory of his mercy and therefore sends his Angels to draw forth Lingerers and such is his tendernesse that the righteousnesse of one Lot binds his hands that he can do nothing till the faithfull be preserved Come my people enter thou into thy chambers and shut thy door about thee hide thy selfe as it were for a little moment ●ntill the i●dignation be o●●rpast When the birds of prey are abroad the Hen calls her Chickens under her wings When tumults are in the streets the tender Mother gets her Children into the upper chambers 3. Through his wise faithfulnesse or faithfull wisdom the Lord doth thus by his Saints and therefore hee saves every crum Nothing must be lost the Lord knows what to doe with crums and fragments and the saving of what was left must make the miracle If there be but a cluster the branch must not be cut down The Prophet is elegant Thus ●aith the Lord As the new wine is found in the chester and one sayth destroy it not for a blessing is in it so will I do for my servants sake that I may not destroy them all I beleeve a few clusters in the world have preserved such new wine in them that this day we taste the blessing Do not destroy the poore cluster therefore much lesse destroy it because there 's new