Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	deliver_v	life_n	lord_n	4,297	5	3.6280	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04851	A sermon preached in Oxon: the 5. of November. 1607. By John Kinge Doctor of Divinity, Deane of Christ Church, and Vicechancellor of the Vniversity	King, John, 1559?-1621.	1607 (1607)	STC 14985; ESTC S108045	19,773	38

a general combustion communē rogum a common bonefire not onlie of mortal men but of immortal monuments trophees pillers yea charters and records of eternitie and to haue offered holocaustum a whole burnt offering of vs to haue caused to passe through the fire to their Moloch of Rome our sonnes and our daughters our King Queene and Prince Nobles Senatours and Priests with the flower people of our Land without distinction of Maiestie dignitie degree sexe age merit yea or religion it selfe in some part which what had it else beene but a type of the deflagration of Sodome Gomorre an image of Tophet 30. Esay the burning wherof was much fire wood a verie represētatiō the nearest on earth that cā be of that ignitū diluuiū that shal be at the end of the world of that Gehenna ignis which God hath prepared for the wicked when both root and branch flesh arme father and sonne and nephew damme and yonge in a neast together al had beene blowne away with a blast a whirlewind of destruction and the whole state of Kingdome and pollicie dissolued as a man turneth a platter vpside downe and that in an instant of time before wee could haue swallowed downe our spittle or in remembrance or remorse for our sinnes haue said Miserere Deus O Lord haue mercie vpon vs. Like to the destruction threatned to the house of Ieroboam 1. Kings 14. The house of Ieroboam shal be destroied in that daie VVhat Euen now as you would saie in a moment before they had leasure to thinke of it This was the worke of desolation meant and proiected wherof J haue told you so often Aske now frō one end of heauen to the other and throughout al the generations of the earth if euer the like were Herein J must confesse my text faileth me and scripture and al nature faileth me There neuer was example in the world of so facinorous a fact a sin so exceedingly sinful the primum genus of al sin and not a crying but a roring thundring sin as his excellent Maiestie tearmed it nor of bloud but of fire and brimstone a whole penuarie and store-house of sin wherin was proditiō perdition deperdition al congested and heaped vp in on But the goodwil of him that sat in the bush as Moyses spake the bush that flamed but consumed not the compassion of his sonn who waded in the midst of the firie fornace of Babylon deliuered vs as the bush the three childrē frō the Stygiā lake the mouth of hel freed vs from their Catholike dooms-daie and in a parable brought vs back from death to life as for those Salmoneā artificial fireworkes he confounded many of them by their owne skil and brought their intended mischeefes vpon their owne heads Now according to my text come and behold the works of the Lord what desolatiōs he hath wrought vpon the earth shal J saie he causeth warrs to cease Or breaketh the bow It was far worse For at that very time when they said of our soules There is noe help for them in their God there there thus would wee haue it their stratageme being as ripe as the mellowest sommer fruit there wanting nothing in the world but the last hand to act it at that very time that God maie be al in al and that the honour may be wholy his without anie thought of copartnership were al these machinations of theirs desolated discomfited and defeated And notwithstanding their vowed and dejerated secresie their threefold bond of keeping counsaile religion oath sacrament You shal sweare by the blessed Trinitie and the holie sacrament that neither directly nor indirectlie by word nor circumstance c Yet was their worke of darknes discouered their Troian horse of the most barbarous villanie that euer eare hard opened their Labyrint their dungeon their hel of secresy yea the deep and vnsearchable hell of their harts who cā find them out saith the Prophet eviscerated rāsacked and manifested to the light of the world Then were we as men that drempt when the Lord waked ouer vs wee sat vnder our vines and suspected nothing peace peace and al is wel the noise of milstones light of cādles bride bridgroome was our song at what time that the word of the Psalme may euer be verified dedisti metuētibus te significationē ut fugiant a facie arcus that he wil euer giue warning to his seruāts to flie from a flash of powder before it cōmeth from one of this Plutoes band is a letter sēt to a Noble thrice noble Lord whose memory be euerblest that letter not kept but imparted where it was fit examined skanned ouer againe againe afterwards by One wise as the Angel of the Lord to knowe good bad a regius propheta who spake not by priuate motion but as he was inspired by the holie ghost interpreted against the rules of art Whervpon those penetralia mortis in most chambers of death were narrowlie searched the last designed actor of the bloudy tragedy deprehēded the whole matter detected with such amasemēt to the actor himselfe that he said it was not God but the deuil that discouered it J now aske in the language of the 9. Psalme rendred by Tremelius Oinimice absolutae nesūt vastitates in aeternum an ciuitates extirpasti Haue thy desolations sped so maie they euer speed thus bee thy handie workes alwaies prospered hast thou spoiled and gotten possession Quies cite videte if there bee any sparke of grace left in you giue ouer your deuilish practisings Si genus humanum et mortalia temnitis arma At sperate Deum memorem fandi atque nefandi If you thinke that the Lawes of Princes be to weake against you their punishments too easie yet feare the iudgments of the dreadful Lord of hostes And you the faithful seruants of God and subiects of your Soueraigne whersoeuer deliuered as the scapgoat in the law frō the danger of death pulled out of the gulfe and bottomlesse pit of imminent destruction quie scite et videte put your trust in the Lorde hang vp your votiuas tabulas tables of boundē thankfulnes in the open sight of the world And let the scription of those tables bee Non nobis domine nō nobis sed nomini tuo O Lord al wisdome goodnes saluation in disclosing and dispersing the hole of those aspes belongeth vnto thee thine is the honor and thankes wee take to our selues noe part of thy glorie I knowe you haue long looked for an end Much speaking is wearines to the flesh and long hearing is offense to patience Wil you heare the end of al Thus began thus endeth my text The Lord of hostes is with vs that Dominus virtutum with and for whome the starres in their courses fight Et coniurati veniunt in praelia venti the winds and waues fight and pugnat orbis terrarum al the creatures in the world fight to take vengance of his enimies himselfe fighteth for vs Deus IACOBI of whom I trust he hath sworne by his holinesse that hee wil neuer faile him and hath made an euerlasting couenant with him and his seed his image our hopeful Prince and his whole happie race si custodierint if they wil keep his testimonies walke after his laws this God of Iacob is our defense To this God the author and finisher of al our welfare Father Sonne and holy Ghost be ascribed almight and Maiestie praise and thanksgiuing this daie and al the daies of our life in our Chambers at home and abroad in our Churches for our time and throughout al the generations of our Childrens children after vs til Christs comming in the cloudes Amen Amen FINIS 12. Eccl. The Proposition Dominus virtutum Deus Iacob 28. Eccl. 25. 15. Exod. Nobiscum susceptor noster 2. Probation 28. Es. 21. Qua● solitudi●es Genes Basil. 32. Deut. 45. Esay 20. Psalm Curt. 5. Auferens bella 1. Sam. 13. Liuy 205 Epist Arcus hasta Currus 1. Reg. 20. 2 Reg. 19. 16. Psalm 107. Counsaile Vacate videte Vacate Videte Ego Deus Exaltabor In gentibus In terra vniuersa Conclusion Application Salah Come Behold Iob. 19. 21. Ioh. 10. Act. In eo nimium sapientes quod se putant caelo vel ipsi quandoque imperaturos Pap. Mat. in Paul 4. 64. Psal.

A SERMON PREACHED IN OXFORD the 5. of November 1607. By JOHN KINGE Doctor of Divinity Deane of Christ Church and Vicechancellor of the Vniversity At Oxford Printed by Ioseph Barnes 1607. The Text. 46. Psal. vers 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 7 The Lord of hostes is with vs the God of Iaakob is our refuge 8 Come and behold the workes of the Lord what desolations he hath made in the earth 9 He maketh warres to cease vnto the ends of the world hee breaketh the bow and cutteth the speare and burneth the Chariots with fire 10 Be stil and knowe that I am God I will be exalted among the heathen and I will be exalted in the earth 11 The Lord of hostes is with vs the God of Iaakob is our refuge MY travaile for the choice of my text parallel to this daies worke was as the flying of Noahs doue or floting of his arke the one had no footing til it came to the arke againe the other noe restinge place but on the mountaines of Armenia nor I where to settle my diuided thoughts til I fel vpon this Psalme here I met with manie vniformities The event the same We maie as trulie and as happily say as these might of whō the Psalm treateth God is our hope and strength in angustijs auxilium praesētissimum or adiutor in tribulationibus quae invenerūt nos nimis our readiest help in our sorest dangers v. 1. Wee were the children of death and were euen come to the birth there wanted a verie little strength to bring vs forth Tempus faciendi domino it was then time for the Lord to put to his hand yea the time was almost past digitis à morte remoti quatuor aut septem there remained but a few houres to accomplish their mischeife The extent of the danger noe lesse Theirs was against both their Citie of God and the sanctuarie of his Tabernacles vers 4. Ours against both city sanctuarie the two sisters the Martha and Marie policie pietie Commonwealth and Church of our Countrie The thrones of Dauid chaire of Moyses golden sceptre golden candle stick our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 21. Act. 28. our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 also people law place temple must haue beene dissolued The places seeme to accord With them their citie of God so with vs too Our city of God the faierest the excellentest the absolutest that we had or contiguous to it our Ierusalē the Princesse of the thousands the mother of al the daughters of our land the Chāber of our famous Kings Queenes ioie of our English earth empresse of the Island and the renouned Emporie and Mart of the whole Kingdome And the Sanctuarie of our Tabernacles no lesse as theirs Our Bethel our Siloh our Hill of Sion where were our goodliest Tēples and Basilikes Chappels oratories where our verie oracles were wont to bee giuen the fountaine and spring of religion the arke of the presence of God aboue al other places of this land Omit not the season vers 5. Their deliuerance was verie earlie Manè diluculò ante auroram ad cōspectū aurorae So was ours For by fowre in the morning of that daie which had bin the evening and long night the blacknes of darknes to our state was the treasō discouered the Lords of the priuie Counsaile acquainted and the King in his bed chamber awaked and aduertised There wanted but a mornings worke which if it had sped sufficient vnto the daie the yeare and many ages of the world had the malice of that morning bin Betwixt the midnight of that eue whereon the Incendiarie kept his vigilles the middaie of their feast their greate Iubilee expected were but 12 houres and on of those twelue as of the 12. Apostles a devill so must haue been hora potestas tenebrarum the houre and power of the deuil the houre of firie trial hora nefasta nefanda the blackest that euer the eie of the sunne looked vpon worse then the worst Sodomiticall and Gomorrhean the most accursed and infamous that euer was accompted in anie Kalendar of time Mee thinketh the whole phrase of the Psalme hath great congruitie For surelie our ground had bin shakē vers ● yea her ioints had bin shiuered in peices and our mountaines if not of nature of art monumēts of age and honor as stable and statelie as mountaines huge masses and piles of magnificent buildings roiall pallaces religious temples Mausolean sepulchers shrines which the holie Ghost calleth domos seculi houses of eternitie had beene throwne into the midst of the riuer if not the sea and our waters had raged beene troubled vers 3. yea the foundations of their chānels had been discouered And that Riuer of ours the streames wherof make glad our Citie of God vers 4. had changed hir gladnes into mourning died her christal into rubies and turned as the riuers of Egypt into a riuer of bloud running as a Maister-veine with a full tide of bloude along the sides of the city hir carriages in stead of wonted cōmodities had beene dead corpses manie a thousand discerpted limme both of men and buildings must it haue drank downe buried within hir bosome Lastlie and in a worde the subiect of the Psalme throughout is very like The incursiō of the enimie to both strong and furious the danger imminēt vast peremptorie the deliuerance strange glorious the preventiō of the mischeife suddaine the commemoration and thanksgiuing solemne and most generous heroical invincible as in them so in vs J hope the resolutiō The Lord is our refuge c. Therefore wil wee not feare though the earth be mooued c. Si fractus illabatur orbis Notwithstanding al these resemblances the reede metwand of that danger and deliuerance of theirs is far to short to bee the measure of ours Ours is casus omissus a transcendent of transcendents a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our danger a monster of dangers such as nature neuer brought forth our deliuerance a mirrour a miracle of deliuerances such as the finger of God neuer wrought But taking my text as it is you shal finde in the opening of it 1 A proposition professiō protestatiō as it were to the whol world The Lord of hostes is with vs v. 7 2 A probation or demonstration therof Come behold his workes vers 8. 3 Confirmatiō explicatiō enumeratiō he maketh warrs to cease c. he breaketh the bow c. v. 9. 4 Exhortation aduise Be stil and know c. v. 10. 5 Conclusion acclamatiō The Lord of hostes c. vers vlt. Which being a repetition of the seauenth verse in the self same words and syllables carmen amaebaeum maie seeme to stand in the first place as a challendge and defiance to al aduersarie forces Dominus virtutū nobiscum we wil not feare for thousands and tē thousands whole armies of mē legiōs of deuills the gates of hel and when they haue