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	soul_n	6,945	5	5.0141	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40652	The best name on earth together with severall other sermons / lately preached at St. Brides and in other places by T. Fuller.	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1659 (1659)	Wing F2413; ESTC R28667	34,017	156

with me first the party to whome the wrong was offered was a stranger the word stranger in the very mention of it ought to carry with it a protection from all wrongs the heathen Romans were so Christian in this kind that if their enemy chanced to enter into their house in nature of a stranger there was a cessation from enmity during his abode under their roof and revenge gave place to hospitality Secondly she was a woman that sex may seem in some sort to be fenced from injury because it is not fenced from injuries For such is the known weakness of women that wee count it weaknesse in men to offer them any wrong and our modesty is the best safeguard and defence for theirs Thirdly she was a Levites wife and methinks some shadow of sacrednesse should be reflected from him on her Fourthly she was abused to death indeed she died not presently but before she came into the house her soul got out of her body and even in our law it is murther that comes within the compasse of a year and a day now murther you know is a crying sinne yea like Stentor the Graecian it shouteth louder then 50. other ordinary offences The monster mother may smother her child but when she hath done she cannot smother the murther of her child Fifthly abused to death by a whole city those are deceived who conceive the multitude of offendors diminish the offence Rather the more the sinners the more heinous the sinne the worst sinne that ever was was the most generall sinne that ever was when all mankind together sinned at once in Adam yea in our law that which being done by one or two is but a trespasse committed by more assumes the name of a ryot Lastly by a whole city of Israelites but if they had been Hivites or Hittites that had done me this dishonour then perchance I should have born it had they been Canaanites or Jebusites had offered me this disgrace then more patiently could I have digested it but they pretended to serve the same God and observe the same religion They were descended from the loyns of Jacob and issued from the womb of Rachel what good doth the ark of God in Shiloh with Levites a tending before it Aarons rod pot of manna mercy seat within it if there be a Sodome in Sion a Bethaven in Bethel folly in Israel verily I say unto you I have not found so great an offence no not amongst the Gentiles Happy those poor Armenians which live in those remote parts where the shrill sound of the gospel was never trumpetted forth their invincible ignorance will be an Orator in the ears of the mercifull judge not wholly to excuse but much to diminish their fault not to prevaile for a full pardon yet to procure a lighter punishment whilst in the same day they shall rise up and condemn the Jewes in my text seeing better by the light of a candle then the Iewes by the beams of the sun I come now to the prescribing of the wholesome order for the future consult consider and give sentence but first wee must remove an objection which here may rise for may some say why is it not particularly exprest in the law of Moses what punishment ought to be inflicted upon an whole city when by lust they abuse a woman to death had this been a book-case and the penalty precisesly specified it would have spared the Israelites all their pains to consult and consider yea this may seem to argue the law of God of some defects and imperfections that it is not adaequate to all occasions and of extent large enough for all necessities and needs to be patcht and peeced with the accession of humane deliberation For two reasons the particular punishment is expressed first because the spirit of God being charity it self charitablely presumed that no Israelites would be so wicked the heathen appointed no punishment for parricides supposing that sinne could not be committed Men must first murther all nature in themselves before they can be so unnaturall as to murther their parents Secondly the mentioning of the punishment might by satans suggestion and mans corruption be abused to make them commit the sin some sinnes are left out in the law not because they are too little but because they are too great should the punishment of every villany be put into the law the committing of many villanies would be put into our minds which otherwise might be forgotten and sinnes punisher would be made sins remembrancer Yet though this case for circumstance is not set down in the Bible for substance it is in severall places who sheddeth mans bloud by man shall his bloud be shed Gen. 6.9 now the scripture is not written for those that will be idle but for such as comparing one place with another by faithfull consequence will proportionably extract and deduce what ought to be done in each severall action whose substance in the bible is recorded though each circumstance particularly set down And now I come to the order for the time to come but behold in the order it self much confusion arising from the variety of translations you shall scarce find three bibles wherein two of these words are rendred alike what therefore must wee do the best way to expound the text is to practise it and before wee give sentence what should be the meaning of these severall words let us first consult with interpreters and consider the originall The first word in the great Bible consult importeth in the originall a meeting of many together rendred by learned Tremelius adhibete vos ad istud settle your selves together to this matter The observation is this in matters of moment we are not severally to follow our private advice but jointly to unite your selves together in consultation eyes see more then an eye saith the proverb I must confesse Paphnutius with his one eye for his persecutors had bored out the other saw more in the matter of ministers marriage then the 300 two-eyed bishops assembled in the councel o● Nice But he was an exception from a generall rule ordinarily tow are better then one yea Solomon the wisest of earthly kings had his councel of aged men which stood before him 1 Kings 12.6 nay a greater then Solomon may be brought for the proof of this point God himself Genes 1.26 being about to contract the first volume of the world into the abrigement of man called as it were a councel in the persons of the Trinity let us make man Had God any need of councel is not the same eternall act which is done by one person done by all or are not these things rather written for our instruction surely for our instruction they are written that when we enterprise things of consequence we may call for and make use of the councels and directions of others to blame then are they who rashly runne on their own heads I cannot but commend the swiftnesse of