Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	day_n	die_v	judgement_n	4,265	5	6.1046	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93663	Christophilos. The true Christian subiect decyphered in a sermon preached at Saint Pauls London, on the seventh of August, Anno 1642. By Benjamin Spencer, Minister of St. Thomas Parish in Southwarke.	Spencer, Benjamin, b. 1595?	1642 (1642)	Wing S4943; Thomason E123_7	16,848	32

manner of it destruction and ruine Thirdly The quicknesse or unexpectednes of it suddenly it comes sudden Fourthly The inexplicablenesse of it who knowes it First Certainty Of the certainty it shall come Judgement hath feete of Wooll but hands of iron Psalme 50. God saith Psalme 50. I winked and thou thoughtest I was like thy selfe but I will set before thee in order the things that thou hast done for sure our God will come and not keepe silence He bends his bow and makes it ready Psalme 7.12 Hee loves to wait that he may be gracious to us and forbeare that hee may have mercy upon us although mans sinnes are such as that the very Poet could say Non sinunt Iovem ponere fulmina Hor. So then if the sinner turne not hee will whet his sword He is yet but whetting I would wee would take counsell and meet him by repentance while he is a farre off Luke 14.32 Greg. in Evang. and crave conditions of peace Ne justitiam destrictiorem in judicio exigit quanto longiorem ante judicium patientiam provocavit least judgement be the larger by how much it stayeth the longer Oh save God a labour Aug. peccatum puniatur a te ne tu pro illo puniaris Punish thy sinne least thou bee punished for it Et peccatum tuum judicem te habeat non patronum be not a Patron to thy sinne but a judge and then I hope Nay I am sure this destruction will not come or if it do we shall laugh at destruction when it comes Job 5.22 For when the Net shall be spread upon all yet some fish shall bee but transported out of these muddy waters into the sweet streames of Paradise and some birds to sing among the quire of Angels For though it is certaine come it will yet as God is loath it should come Hosea 11.8 Hosea 11.8 How shall I give thee up Oh Ephraim how shall I deliver thee up Oh Israel how shall I make thee like Admah how shall I set thee like Zeboijm my heart is turned within mee my repentings are kindled together Yet his resolves are certaine being pressed under as a Cart is pressed with sheaves so that we must put him to the Quaere what could Jsaiah 5.4 I have done more than I have done to my Vineyard and Oh my people what have I done to thee Micah 5. or wherein have I wearied thee testifie against me So I know in that day he will distinguish betweene the precious and the vile though it bee to others a destruction and a ruine The manner of this judgement is such M●nner Destruction implyeth some violence as if such as feare not God and the King should not die a naturall death which indeed is never called destruction but a dissolution rather for violence doth destroy before the time and destruction is a kind of pulling down not repaire again or to build but to lye waste like old Troy which became Corpus sine nomine a body without a name Nay not so much for destruction extendeth to all manner of being so that a man shall not say this was Iezabel 2 Kings 9.37 except to their infamy for destruction pulls downe house body name and fame And therefore most justly is this judgement called a ruine Ruine because such men pereunt funditus they perish as it were by the mothers curse which rootes out the foundation So that such men like old ruinated houses shall drop in peeces Jsaiah 24.1 as faire houses wanting inhabitants doe which for sin they must want saith the Prophet though it may be some think as Cicero saith Piscinas suas fore salvas amissâ Republicâ Cicero ad Attic. that though the Common-wealth be ruined their houses shall stand But let them not deceive themselves for the sword of destruction knoweth no difference as that Commander said in 88. betweene an English Papist and an English Protestant when things are once in confusion But the worst of all is this shall come suddenly It shall rise suddenly Suddenly as the Hebrew word sheweth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth a vapour as well as destruction shewing First That it shall rise like a vapour suddenly ere one be a ware of it So Secondly As a vapour riseth from that upon which it falleth and so doth destruction fall upon those that hath framed it as yee comes of water and to water it turneth they fall into the pit they have digged and the mischief falleth upon their owne pate which they have imagined Thirdly Againe a vapour is extracted by the heate of the Sun so is their destruction by the wrath of God and the anger of the King Fourthly And as a vapour vanisheth suddenly so shall they in their destruction their I ●age shall vanish out of the Citie I looked for him saith David Psalm 37.36 but his place could no where be found Well then being it comes upon a sudden like a Theife in the night and so man knoweth not his time Eccles 9.12 but like a bird taken in the snare and or a fish in the not so is man in the evill day when it falls suddenly upon them For as men riding in a mist when it is gone finde themselves sometimes where they would not so those that walke in the Clouds of obscurity 2 King 6.26 as they thinke no man descries them so neither doe they descry their owne danger till it discover it selfe suddenly Therefore what manner of men ought we to be in all godly conversation and honesty since it comes suddenly and therefore they cannot escape for God will shoote at them who obey not his precepts Psalme 64.7 with a swift arrow suddenly that they shall be wounded But yet if this were all we might hope of some end of it but the wise man will put us in no hope of that for hee saith it is inscrutable who knoweth the ruine of them both Where wee see First that neither can exempt himselfe from destruction Neither he that feareth not God nor he that feareth not the King nor he that feareth neither God nor the King they that are medlers against lawfull authority or he that medleth or mixeth with them both are threatned here Prov. 11.21 Though hand joyne in hand yet not one shall goe unpunished So secondly we see the punishment is inscrutable and as farre as I know eternall First Inscrutable in his beginning not comming with a loe here or a loe there but as in the Church men doe and shall arise from amongst our selves speaking perverse things Acts 20 30. so even from among those that feare neither God nor King may arise some whose hearts God may so turne as they may bee a meanes to bring ruine upon the rest Secondly Inscrutable in the manner for who knoweth what kinde it shall be Baiazet little thought of the Iron Cage in which Tamberlaine carried