Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	eternal_a	life_n	way_n	6,934	5	5.0572	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68989	Lord have mercy upon vs the vvorld, a sea, a pest-house, the one full of stormes, and dangers, the other full of soares and diseases : the observance from these, (though especially accomodated to the times of this heavy contagion,) fitted for all times : for all men, and all times are sicke, of the cause of this sicknesse : Lord haue mercy vpon vs.	T. B. (Thomas Brewer)	1636 (1636)	STC 3719.5; ESTC S242	11,491	24

glory of this City that nothing was seene but blacke no more of her brightnes no more of her splendor beauty than of the beauty of the heavens when the darke robe of night over-spreads it Lord have mercy upon us To particularize the calamities of that yeare were needelesse so few yeares have past since we felt it that in husband wife child parents kinsman friend trading or in o●●e sad thing or another many thousads yet living féele it And to make us the more to feele it God again has begun to strike us But like an ●noulgent father he yet hath bin pleased to strike us telling his stroaks by leasure and in that telling us he had rather affright than hurt us As I live saith the Lord I desire not the death of the wicked but that the wicked may turne from his waies and live Ezek 14. 11. For his way is the way to death but the way of the Lord to life and both eternall Lord have mercy upon us Heere God Almighty has strooke one there another there another and a great way off another this wéeke so many another so many one Bill rising another falling the increase bidding flye from sinne the decrease not to flie from the City a command to depart and asw●et invitation to tarry Let every one that calleth on the name of Christ depart from iniquity 2. Tim. 2. 19. Lord have mercy upon us The best flight we can make is to flye from that as fast as we can the farther the neerer to God Every punishment is an Arrow from the qu●ver of God Almighties anger and those aimed onely at sin from which if we carefully flye we remoove the marke and with it evade the danger Lord have mercy upon us My wish to the flight of those that flye is that flying they may thus flye and withall Gods will ever placed in the fore front of all our wishes that they may not as sometimes it happens at a shooting intending to runne from the arrow they see not runne under it and sinke where they seeke their safety Too many so have runne too many beene so over-taken L●t our prayers be one for another that staying or flying living or dying wee may all live and dye in the feare love and favour of Go● our Almighty Creator Lord have mercy upon us It is written of two of the Schollers of I socrates Euphorus and Theopompus that for their difference in the swiftnesse and slacknesse in Learning The one had neede of a Bridle the other neede p●aspu●re But wee had neede of them both every one both of Spurre and Bridle A Bridle to ●ur●e us from running so fast in those courses for which God Almighty pla●ues us and a Sp●rre to pricke us forward to those things that may m●ve him to spare us Lord have mercy upon us And enlighten our understanding make us see what we ought to see and know what we ought to know Which that wee may assuredly doe teach us O Lord to know thée and to know that to b●e able to speake as it is said of Solomon from the Ce●er in Lebanon to the Hysop that 〈◊〉 ●o it of the Va 〈…〉 ●o know all the Creatures and not to know the● their Creator is in knowing of all things to know noth●ng and seeming so wise to bee foolish Lord have Mercy upon us St. Austen tels us That he that knowes thee though these things he doe not know is a happy and a blessed man Hee that knowes thee and these for these is never a whit the more blessed but hee that knowes thee for thee for thy selfe the Fountaine of all our happinesse is happy and blessed for ever Lord have mercy upon us Teach us O Lord to know thee to know thee angry and give us grace to endeavour to please thee Following the counsell of thy holy servant Ho●ea in turning to thee O Lord that so having smitten us thou maist ●eale us having wounded us thou maist make us whole and in thy good time translate us from this Sea full of stormes and dangers this Pest-house full of Sores and Diseases to that Haven and that Habitation where there is no storme or tempest and where Death or Disease never entred Lord have mercy upon us FINIS