Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	darkness_n	light_n	sit_v	4,096	5	7.9251	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77115	Urbs deplorata. A sermon preached in course in the cathedral church of St. Mary Lincoln on the tenth Sunday after Trinity, Aug. 19. 1666. Happening at the time of the general assize. By Edward Boteler, prebendary of that church, rector of Wintringham in that county, and one of his Majesties chaplains.	Boteler, Edward, d. 1670.	1669 (1669)	Wing B3803B; ESTC R223809	21,876	69

Marcel To tum mysterium istius nostrum urbis vernaculuus est what ever rarity sojourned in therest of the World was at home in that City Had it been Dan or Bethel that had not known him it had been less wonder the infection of Jeroboam might still stick by them they were his nurseries of Idolatry and Rebellion He durst not let them know the worship of the true God for fear they should honour the King and return to the house of David Nor had it been so much for Beersheba they were naught by prescript corrupted to a custom The manner of Beersheba liveth as it is in Amos Secundum usum Beershebae Cha. 8 14. And Samaria may go in the same rank with them The Statutes of Omri are kept there Mic. 6.6 they were devoted to the follies of Ahab their founder But Thou the City of God of which such excellent things are spoken the City of his holiness Coeleste in terris Sacrarium the Repository of all that 's mysterious and sacred Thou to carry an Inscription like that Altar at Athens Act. 17.23 To the unknown God Thou to be confuted by the Oxe that knows his owner and be like the Beasts that perish Thou thus to unhallow thy name Hier. Ep ad Eustoch Palma vitiorum est honesta polluere This heightens thy sin and hastens thy ruine If Thou hadst known even Thou It was Vrbs Sancta The holy City be that the last I shall pass this particular by applying only as Nathan did his parable to David 2 Sam. 12.7 Thou art the Man This is ours too We are an Emphatical Thou Thou the Church and people of England Psa 72.12 14. delivered when thou wert poor and hadst no helper Redeemed from deceit and violence Am. 4.11 A Firebrand pluckt out of the burning Hos 6.1 2. torne and healed smitten and bound up killed and revived and thou livest in his sight Deut. 33.29 Happy art thou O people who is like unto thee saved by the Lord the shield of thy strength and the sword of thine excellency thine enemies are found liers unto thee and thou treadest upon their high places The Lord hath saved thee to a miracle by Land and shewed many wonders for thee in the deep The eternal God is thy refuge ver 27. and underneath are the everlasting Armes and he shall thrust out the Enemy before thee and shall say destroy Thy mercies are Talleys to Hierusalem's more then second to them O do not overmatch her in sin and sottishness be not the transcript of her unworthiness let it never be said of thee If thou hadst known even thou And that for the first part of the charge against this people their Ignorance hinted in Si cognovisses and aggravated in Et Tu If thou hadst known even thou The first part of our Text hath had a large portion of our time the rest must be put off with less briefly then of the 2. Their Improvidence which is manifest 1. Because of their opportunity it was In Die they had a day for it Day and so it must needs be the Sun was up Mal. 4.2 Malachi's Sun of Righteousness was now risen with healing in his wings Day it was for all was little better then night before Tenebrae or Vmbrae natural darkness or legal shaddows were till now in every Quarter of the World And therefore the estate of the World before this day is described by night and darkness The night is far spent Rom. 13.22 Mat. 4.16 the day is at hand The people which sate in darkness saw great light and to them who sate in the Region and shadow of death light is sprung up Illuxerunt quaedam Coruscationes Orbi terrarum saith St. Prosper of all that little light which the quickest eyes could hitherto discover there were some little glimmerings only broke out and now and then appeared Abraham saw this day and was glad but it was E longinquo afarre off and through the perspective of an extraordinary faith Balaam when his eyes were opened to see the Vision of the Almighty could discover a Star coming out of Jacob. Job saw through those dark times and the darker chambers chambers of the grave St. Hier. Et nec dum natus erat Dominus Redemptorem suum vidit a mortuis resurgentem Saw him rising from the dead before he was seen conversing among the living Act. 3.24 And not onely Moses but all the Prophets from Samuel and those that follow after as many as have spoken have likewise foretold of these days says St. Isa 60.3 Peter in his Sermon at the Temple-Gate Esai saw the Gentiles coming to this light and Kings to the brightness of this rising John Baptist who stood betwixt the Law and the Gospel and is therefore by the Fathers called Fibula utriusque legis brought in some more light yet he was not that light but was sent to bear witness of that light Joh. 1.8 He was onely Day-star to the Sun and it was as yet but Sicut mane expansum super montes 't is Joel's expression Joel 2.21 As the morning spread upon the Mountains It was never till the air was inlightened with that brisking Hodie issuing from the mouth of an Angel This day is born to you a Saviour which is Christ the Lord. It was that I may borrow several tongues to speak withal at once Crepusculum legis The Law 's Twilight Gallicinium Prophetarum The Cock-crowing of the Prophets but now 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 through the tender mercies of our God the Day-spring from on high hath visited us It was never perfect day till those Beams of light began to gild the World The Sun till then was under the Horizon now he is come to his Zenith and shines from the heights of Heaven And now none can be blind but Vespertiliones fidei post occasum Solis evigilantes in the words of Parisiensis They are Bats and Owles that withdraw and will have no Sun Joh. 3.19 This is the condemnation that light is come into the World and men loved darkness rather then light This was their case it was In die fair day-light with them and yet they would not see they abused their Opportunity The first piece of their Improvidence 2. They had a propriety in this day too it was In dietua In thy day Dies Hebraeorum more dicitur say the Glosses The Hebrews call day that alotment of time in which Overtures for Heaven are made to them in the tenders of the Gospel Which were now so made to this people as never the like to any The Sun shined upon others Radio obliquo upon them Radio directo primarily upon them and directly but obliquely upon the rest of the World Luk. 2.32 He was a light to lighten the Gentiles but the glory of his people Israel They were within the Tropick where the Sun had all his motion his