Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	destroy_v	life_n	sin_n	6,349	5	4.8398	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12529	Noahs doue, or Tydings of peace to the godly A comfortable sermon preached at a funerall. By Samuel Smith minister of Gods word at Prittlewel in Essex.	Smith, Samuel, 1588-1665.	1619 (1619)	STC 22851; ESTC S110828	14,797	60

with him in the last dayes though his barnes bee full and his presses run ouer though hee can number his Oxen by thousands and his Sheepe by ten thousands these cannot adde one iot of comfort to his heauy heart when death approacheth hee shall then finde no pleasure in them for then there remaines for him nothing but a fearefull expectation of iudgement This shall bee the woefull estate and condition of those that put from thē the euill day that will not be acquainted with Gods wayes their liues hauing beene dissolute and sinfull their deathes shall be wretched and without comfort The Reasons Reas 1 First the wicked want peace in death because they want faith in life for it is faith euen faith alone that must giue vs boldnes and comfort at that day For thus runnes the promise Io. 3.16 God so loued the world that whosoeuer beleeueth in him should not perish but haue life euerlasting But wicked men beleeue not in him the word of God cannot worke vpon their harts it is but as seed cast vpon stony ground as appeares by the heardnes of their hearts and therefore being without the couenant no maruaile though they partake not of the promise Reas 2 Secondly the prerogatiues and priuileges of Gods people would bee much infringed if there were no differēce betwixt the wicked the godly if they were but so blessed in their deathes as they seeme prosperous in their life then might the godly say that they had cleansed their hearts in vaine But now in that the hope of the wicked doth perish and in death they begin to partake of miserie whereas the godly after al their trials trouble shall then haue peace Herein standeth the difference betweene them Pro. 14.32 The wicked shall bee cast away for his lewdnesse But the Righteous hath hope at his death For the time of this life we see that commonly wicked men enioy their pleasure and are full whereas Gods seruants are afflicted and suffer want and therefore the Iustice of God requireth that their conditions should bee changed on both sides The pleasure of the one to bee turned into paine and the sorrow of the other into comfort for if there were not a day of refreshing vnto the godly of al men they were most miserable And if there were not a reckoning day reserued for the wicked of all men they were most happy Vse 1 This serues first of all to awake the Carnall man which is euer singing the sweete dittie of peace vnto his Soule that seemeth to haue made a league with death to be at an agreement with the graue Ah poore Soules there is a day comming when the Lord wil disannul this agreement and this drunken peace shall bee dissolued when death shall once lay vpon them his arest what will it auaile thee to crye Lord Lord. Thou maist crie till thy tongue cleaue to the roofe of thy mouth thou mayst howle vpon thy bed like a wolfe and yet the Lord will stop his eares that hee will not heare thy crye and that because thou hast dispised instruction Pro. 1. and when the Lrod sought vnto thee and offered grace vnto thee thou wouldest not heare him Therefore his distributiue Iustice requireth that thou shouldest crie and call vnto the Lord and hee shall not answere thee This is a most fearefull condition thus to be forsaken of the Lord especially whē in time of distresse the poore soule shall seeke for cōfort This is Gods iust iudgement for the contempt of grace before offered vnto him Oh the miserie of this poore creature that is so payned that hee cannot liue so vnprepared that he dare not die that goes to bed but cannot sleepe that tasts his meat but wil not down that shifts his roome but not his paine as for death which hath already seazed vpon him his conscience tels him he is altogether vnprepared for This is the condition these will be the outcries of those that will not in time bee warned to seek to worke out their peace betimes in their life time before it be too late and their conscience shall tell them There is no peace Vse 2 But especially are they heere to be reproued that liue in hope that the time of their death will beget hope They knowe that they haue beene vile wretched and desperate sinners without grace and goodnesse and that they haue from time to time dispised Gods patience and long suffering that should haue led them to repentance vnto all manner of licentious liuing this they knowe and that they haue presumptuously euen against knowledge conscience resisted the Lord hardning their owne hearts against his ordinance this they knowe Yet they trust they say at last to haue repentance for al so be saued Their own cōscience telleth thē that their estate is damnable 〈◊〉 if the Lord should at this instance of time call them to accoūt they must needs perish yet poore Soules they presume of repentance at the last But poore Soules how can such as haue spent their dayes in the seruice of sin and Sathan thinke that death will prooue so good vnto them Are Theeues and Robbers and such like offenders bound ouer to the Assises to the end they may receiue honor or shame to be put into the Commission and taken vp to the bench or not rather to receiue Iudgement and to bee executed according to their demerits Oh take heede thou deceiue not thine owne soule herein Many thousands are now in hell and there shal suffer the paines of the damned for euer more that had these purposes to haue cryed God mercy at last Remember this when I am gone that it is grace in this life that brings peace at last I knowe the Deuill will still perswade vs to play with our sins but in the meane time our sins will not play with vs we run dayly into Gods score and the greater our debts the deeper repentance at last If Moses had not slaine the Egiptian the poore Ebrewe must haue perished Saul fauoured the life of Agag but it cost him his owne life If those fiue wicked Nations had not beene destroied before the Iewes had seated themselues in the Land of Canaan where had beene their peace Seeing then that the case is so dangerous let Agag bee slaine the Cananits cast out and the Egiptian put to death I meane let vs kill our sinnes and break off our iniquities by repētance that so wee may procure our peace doubtlesse then shall wee possesse our soules in peace while we liue heere and end our dayes in peace Which the Lord grant vnto vs all for his Christs sake Amen FINIS