Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	devil_n	sin_n	soul_n	4,124	5	4.9357	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10057	Sauls prohibition staide. Or The apprehension, and examination of Saule And the inditement of all that persecute Christ, with a reproofe of those that traduce the honourable plantation of Virginia. Preached in a sermon commaunded at Pauls Crosse, vpon Rogation Sunday, being the 28. of May. 1609. By Daniel Price, Chapleine in ordinarie to the Prince, and Master of Artes of Exeter Colledge in Oxford.	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.	1609 (1609)	STC 20302; ESTC S101915	22,573	47

all his fainting and falling yet hee was restored and receyued his story is an Ocean of mercy you shall find him somtimes doubting sometimes sinking sometimes distrusting sometimes denying so peremptorily and so blasphemously as if hee had beene reprobate Nay in the greatest misteries of our saluation Peter was possessed with a dead dull heauy drowsie sleepe Looke vpon him in the transfiguration Luke 9.32 Peter was a sleepe Looke vpon him in Christes Prayer Peter was a sleepe Mat. 26.39 Looke vpon him in the very howre of the power of darkenes when Christ was to be betrayed Peter was a sleepe Mar. ●3 34 In the Persecution of the Church when earnest prayer was made by all the Church for Peter Acts. 12.6 euen then also Peter was a sleepe And yet after all these slips and sleepes and falls and faults Peter is receyued to be Angelus terrestris Coelestis homo Magister Gentium Forma Martyrum Formido Daemonum Aug. de Temp. Indultor criminum Fons virtutum c. as Austen speaketh and to be though not Primas yet Primus Apostolorum but of all other that ingeminated Lamentation of his euen Ierusalem O Ierusalem Ierusalem which killest Prophets and stonest them that are sent vnto thee how often would I haue gathered thy children together Luk. 22.31 as the henne gathereth her chickens vnder her wings thou woulast not The passionate compassion that our Sauiour had ouer these Mat. 23.27 and so ouer all his is so infinite that no dimension in Arte no affection in nature no proportion in the Creature can expresse it O height of heauen depth of hell bredth of the world distance of the Poles loue of friends fathers mothers nurses they are but shadowes and semblances kennings not skannings of his fauour his mercies cannot be sufficiently descried or described they be the heads of Nilus riuers of Paradise springs of Lebanon fountaines of Hermon streams of Sion Iordan that maketh glad the City of God They be the Charter of heauen couenant of grace assurance of glory musicke to the eares splendor to the eye odour to the smell dainties for the taste pleasures for the sense and solace for the soule Misericordia Christi germinat ingeminat he giueth grace liberally multiplieth his grace giuen conseruing his grace multiplyed rewarding his grace conserued Out of this doubling and reiterating of the name Doctrine I obserue this doctrine that the Lord doth so much desire the repenting of a sinner that hee will vouch safe his seruants that fauour as to double his call and not at the first to proceed in iudgement against loitering and lingering conuerts Expectat torpentes inui●at repugnantes he expecteth them that linger Austen inuiteth them that repugne stirreth them that loiter He calleth Saul 2. Samuel 3. his Spouse 4. Sodome shall haue some dayes 2. Sam. 3.4 Niniuie shall haue fortie dayes Ierusalem forty yeares There was a time when he did not call once nay for sinning once he punished for euer he thrust the Angels out of heauen for one sinne expelled Adam Paradise for one Apple stoned Achan for one wedge plagued Gehezi for one bribe Ananias for one dissembling Corah for one rebelling yet since to moue vs to repentance hath borne with sinners yeares and yeares after a thousand falls of weakenesse and wilfulnesse in thought in word in deed Euery thing in God is worthily to bee admired and wondered at but his mercy is to be embraced with amasednesse that he is merciful in so rich so deepe so long so broade so vnmeasurable a measure in so great so mighty manifold miraculous maner Hilary on the 144. Psalme hath a sweet saying to this purpose Hoc magnum est hoc mirum Hilary in 144. Psal this is an especiall thing in God this is mightily to bee wondred at in that mighty one not that hee made heauen because hee is powerfull nor that hee setled the earth because he is strength nor that he distinguished the yeare by starres because hee is wise not that he gaue man a soule because he is life not that he moueth the sea by ebbing and flowing because he is a Spirite but that he should be so mercifull who is so iust that he should so familiarly deale with vs who is a God Hoc mirum Hilary 144. Ps hoc magnum and all this onely to draw vs to repentance The vse of this to moue you to conuersion by the mercifull compassion of the Lord In the manifold care hee hath of carelesse man Vse hee hath drawne him out a way to walke This is the way walke in it and least the way should seeme darke and hard to be found hee hath giuen him a lanthorne and least he should faint in the way he hath placed a brooke in the way to refresh him that he may drinke of the brooke in the way This way is Conuersion Bernard which though it be via anfractuosa is not via infructuosa though a hard rough craggie way yet is it not an incommodious or a fruitlesse way but the vertues thereof are eternall life the world misconceiuing this way they vtterly refuse it they like not the pace because they must runne they like not the race because it is long they like not the passage because it is strait they like not the entrance because it is narrow they like not to clime they feare the hill they like not to sayle they feare the sea the way hard the race long the race running the passage straight the dore narrow the sea perilous the hill promontorious alas they cannot endure it and so they tire or retire with the thought of feare Hereby they loose the life of Saints and foreslow that holy conuersion and conuersation of the seruants of the Lord. O my beloued seeing the Lord is slow to anger and of great mercy draw neere to him by a true hearty speedy conuersion It is a speciall gift of God salue of sinnes hauen of sinners ioy of Angels terror of Diuels the new creation of the Soule the new life of the Saints a consumption yet not sickenesse a mortification and yet no death a compunction A Enigma Diumum yet scarsly sorrow a killing and yet a quickning a Crucifying and yet a Reuiuing It is an A Enigma wherin when we are borne wee are buried and when wee are quickned Hugo de Victor wee are killed and when we are mortified wee are raysed and when our old man is consumed our new life is consummated O that yee were all sicke of this Consumption that Prayer might bee your Physicke your Dyet might be fasting Compunction your blood letting your potion the teares of sorrowing faith your handmaid watching and good workes the signes of your recouering If yee were sicke of this Consumption it would be the means to bring health to your bodies happinesse to your Soules length to your liues life to your dayes for euermore it would be