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	great_a	lord_n	6,463	5	3.6139	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41990	The voyce of truth or The high way leading to true peace composed in Latine by M.G. and translated into Inglish by F.G.	M. G. (Martin Grene), 1616-1667.; F. G.	1676 (1676)	Wing G1826A; ESTC R215166	33,580	126

been puffed vp with good successe some times contristated at evil events and never intirely cooperated with devine grace This I have been such does my memory represent mee and this and worse shall I bee for the future if thou Lord doest not prevent mee with thy grace Banisht poore ignorant inconstant feeble sick infirme in spirit and more infirme in flesh blind in the vnderstanding blinder in the will prone to sinne by nature proner by evil custome I live a scandall to my brethren a prejudice to Religion and dangerous to my selfe There is noe creature whose injuryes I am not exposed to there is noe member of my body that is not subject to innumerable miseryes noe sense but that eternal death may enter by not a day not an hower not a moment but that I am in great daunger of loosing an aeternity Lord whilst I consider these things I cannot chuse but bee much troubled and ceased with feare and trembling How then ô Lord doe you say that the knowledge of my selfe does contribute to peace of mind Loe how even this imperfect knowledge of my selfe makes mee a weary of my Life and have noe mind to any thing but to lament and weepe If then I did fully know my selfe and clearely see my basnesse what other should I find but most bitter bitternesse and vnconsolable griefe Sonne doe not thinke you loose your peace by the knowledge of your selfe This thought is not with out paine and griefe and therefore worldings fly it as a disturber of quiet The knowledge of ones selfe takes a way sloath and pusillanimity but not peace Peace cannot consist without security nor security without a feare that proceeds from the knowledge of ones selfe The feare of God is the beginning of wisdome and the knowledge of ones selfe the beginning of the feare of God Vnlesse all things bee rightly ordred in you you can have noe peace nor can you have any thing rightly ordered in or concerning vnlesse you know your selfe There are three chiefe principles or maximes conducing to peace to bee drawen from the knowledge of your selfe The first is not to place any confidence in your selfe but cast all your hopes in Allm God who soever confides in himselfe shall bee deceived and restlesse Doe not presume of your selfe neither in great little or even the least things for of your selfe you can doe nothing If in your dayly actions you doe relye on your owne forces you will necessarily fale when assaulted with a strong tentation For on the one side your forces are not sufficient and on the other not beeing vsed to make your recourse to God you will not bee able to hope for his helpe soe that you will come to bee left voyd of all helpe The affaire of your salvation must bee perfited by God and your selfe and as God will not doe any thing with out you soe can not you doe any thing at all with out God Doe not therefore confide in thy selfe least God leave thee to thy selfe but begg of God that hee will vouchsafe powerfully to prevent thee that soe thou mayst bee able to doe all things in him that strengthens thee The best counsaile you can follow is to enter into the abysse of your owne basenesse before you beginne any affaire even the least to see vnderstand and confesse that you can doe nothing without mee and when you have rightly considered the abysse of your nothing then ascend vnto the hight of my mercy which is above all my workes and soe let one abysse invoke another abisse and I le ' open the cataracts of heaven and powerforth my grace vpon you When you have thus humbled your selfe aske what you will and it shall bee done The exinanition of ones selfe is the most efficatious prayer Lessen first your pride and then bend your knee in prayer As often as you shall humble your selfe in any of your actions soe often shall I assist you with my omminipotency that you may want nothing Loe therefore Sonne what great good there is contained in the knowledge of your selfe If you know your selfe you will humble your selfe and make your recourse to mee and if you have recourse to mee I le ' help you and labour with you and what can you feare when you have the Omnipotent to assist you who can as easily doe great matters as the smalest things You ought to feare nothing but only confiding in your selfe for as long as you place your confidence in God you shall aequaly overcome all because you relye on him who can with the same case doe all things either alone or with you God therefore left man naked needy and vnable to rayse him selfe towards his end because hee would himselfe out of his infinite love allways assist him with his wisdome rule him with his power defend him and replenish him with grace ●mediately floeing from himelfe If you doe rightly vnderstand these things you have lay'd a solide foundation of true peace And if you are come to know your ●nperfections you have made a great steppe towards perfection and this is the first fruite you must reape from the knowledge of your selfe which being well vnderstood you will easily obtaine the two following The second fruite then is that this knowledge of your selfe cutts a way all vaine hopes by the rootes Why doe you beginne with vaine hopes what of your selfe you are not able to effect for whome doe you heape vp treasures who are but a passenger that must leave them all to morrow Eternity is at the dore which will force thee to bid a long adieu to thy desires what will then become of the honour you soe dearly bought and soe carefully cherished when you shall sleepe in dust and bee noe longer thought on but graunt that all did prayse you after death what then shall not the wormes stil feede in the same manner on thy corps shall not thy soule bee tormented a like perhappes many have praysed you in your life time which you knew not of what were you the better for this vnknowen prayse Many alfoe have disprayed you which you were ignorant of and what are you the worse It will bee just soe after death when neyther prayse nor disgrace shall move you absent now and insensible If you did know your selfe you would curbe your ambition and live in a most profound peace Doe not labour and take pains that others may know you but endeavour to bee fully knowen to your selfe and God You are what you are in the sight of God and not what men Iudge you Doe not compare your selfe with others but beholde your selfe in the presence of God that you may allwayes humble your selfe If you compare your selfe with others to bee sure your perfections of body or mind will not reach to a mediocrity and labour what thou will you shall find your selfe surpassed by a great many Bee therefore content that as many surpasse you in guifts of nature as God has preferred