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	sin_n	temporal_a	8,837	5	8.6794	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96969	A short view of the principal duties of the Christian religion with plain arguments to perswade to the sincere and speedy practice of them : to which is added, a prayer suited to the whole, to be used morning and evening / by a divine of the Church of England for the use of his parishioners.	Wrench, Jonathan, 1667?-1741.	1700 (1700)	Wing W3679A; ESTC R42878	40,968	65

Ungodliness which we must deny 2dly Another Condition of the fore-mentioned Priviledges is our forsaking wordly Lusts By wordly Lusts I understand all the disorderly Motions whether of our Understandings Wills Affections or Appetites as they are all depraved or corrupted by the Abuse of our selves 1. As to the Disorders of our Understandings when these in Persuance of their natural Inclination to Knowledge either thirst after that which is neither proper nor safe to be known Deut. 29. 29 as the secret Things of God and the pleasures of Sin or after that which is both safe and proper to be known in an undue manner as when we immoderately study humane Learning to Rom. 1. ●1 3. 11. the utter Neglect of divine Knowledge and the Care of our Souls our Understandings are in both these cases productive of sinful Lusts 2dly There is a Corruption residing also in our Wills which diverts them from their Embraces Rom. 8. 7 of chiefest good as the Spiritual things of God to their over-earnest Persuit of sensual Pleasures by which they being enslaved and brought into Captivity to the Law of Sin are likewise productive Rom. 7. 23. of many sinful Lusts But 3dly And above all our Affections have suffer'd very much by the Abuse of our selves are very extravagant in their Motions and Col. 1. 21. withal but too easie to be misled thus nothing is more common than to see the two great governing Passions in us I mean our Love and Hatred misplaced by loving what we ought to hate such are sinful Pleasures and hating that which we ought to love such Psal 97. 10 are God and Goodness or if we love and hate what we ought yet it is often done in a Matth. 22. 37. disproportionate manner either by persuing the best things with an indifferent Affection and indifferent things such as wordly Goods with our best Affection or avoiding the least Evils such as temporal Calamities with our greatest Hatred and the greatest Evils viz. Sin and eternal Death with a less Hate or Aversion in any of these Miscarriages which God knows are but too frequent we blindly run into sinful Lusts 4thly And Lastly The disorderly Appetites of the Body together with that of carnal Concupiscence may in a more peculiar manner be called fleshly Lusts thus when we eat and drink more than is consistent with our Health Rom. 13. 13. 14. Jer. 5. 8. and the sprightly Operations of the Soul or when our carnal Concupiscence is directed to a wrong Object or immoderately used on a lawful one they are in the very matter of them sinful Lusts And thus having enquired into the Corruptions of our Nature 't is not difficult to forebode what without the Application of Religion must be the unhappy Effects of them It were easie to shew how every one of those fleshly Lusts in particular reckoned up by the Apostle flow from one or other of our disordered and corrupted Faculties But this were a task as ●ot very agreeable to my intended Brevity so I could hope not very necessary in as much as the Lusts of the Flesh are manifest which are Gal. 5. 19. 20. 21. ●●ese Adultery Fornication Vncleanness Lascivious●ess Idolatry Witchchraft Hatred Variance Emu●ations Wrath Strife Seditions Heresies Envyings Murders Drunkenness Revellings and such like These and such like are the Lusts which we must deny that is which we must avoid ●nd that not only in their grosser Acts but we must resist and stifle as much as possible the ●ery first Motions in us and in order thereto ●e must form before-hand firm and well-grounded Resolutions never to yield them our Assent and lest our Resolutions when tryed should not be found faithful we should prudently cut off all Occasion of Dispute and industriously shun even the very Shadow of a Temptation All this Care and Caution is implyed 1 Thess 5. 22. in this one word Deny And thus we see what it is to deny Ungodliness and wordly Lusts and that in effect it is the same as to Renounce the Rom. 6. 11. Devil and all his Works the Pomps and Vanities of this wicked World and all the sinful Lusts of the ●lesh as our Church Catechism expresseth it and this is one great Part of our Baptismal Vow That which is further required of us to procure us a Right to the fore-mentioned Priviledges is That we live Soberly Righteously and Godly in this present World soberly in Relation to our selves Righteously in reference to our Neighbour and Godly in respect to God which latter being the Foundation of the other two I shall beg leave to invert their Order and begin with that first which is here set last and that is the Living Godly Godliness or as it here signifies * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Piety hath as I before hinted a special Regard to those Commands of God which have a more immediate aspect upon God himself and so chiefly imports our duty towards God the whole whereof is sum'd up by the Author to the Hebrews in few words namely the believing that Heb. 11. 6. he is and that he is a Rewarder of them that diligently seek him As to his Existence this I might evince from not only his Works of Creation and Providence but from the Nature and Dictates of every Mans Conscience suggesting to him that God is not far from every Acts 17. 27. one of us Which gives me reasonable grounds of hope that my time and pains would be better spent in explaining his Essence than in proving his Existence that is in shewing you what he is rather than that he is Now God as far as an infinite Being can be conceived or described by a finite Understanding is a Spirit the Creator of all things Invisible whom no Man hath seen or can see Omniscient John 4. 24. Acts 17. 24. 1 Tim. 1. 17. 6. 16. Joh. 21. 17. 1 Sam. 2. 2. John 3. 33. Psal 90. 2. Jam. 1. 17. Gen. 17. 1. Psal 119. 68. Psal 139. 7. 145. 17. Deut. 7. 9. Exod. 34. 6. 1 Tim. 2. 5. 1 John 5. 7. John 4. 23 24. Eph. 3. 14. 1 Col. 6. 20. Acts 20. 36. Rev. 4. 10 11. or knowing all things Most Holy True Eternal Vnchangeable Omnipotent Perfectly Good both in himself and to us Omnipresent or every where present Most Just Merciful and Loving who though one in Essence exists in three Persons Father Son and Holy Ghost from which though imperfect Account of the Divine Being it is easie to deduce or draw our various Obligations to him as thus Since from this Description of God 't is plain that we owe our selves unto him we owe withal all possible Service to him which to procure his divine Acceptance must be suited to his Nature and that being Spiritual it follows that we must worship him in Spirit or with a spiritual Worship that is we must make all possible and just acknowledgments of the divine

Carnal to Spiritual and this requires more ●●me and pains than most Men think for let ●●en but try the Experiment upon one Lust ●●d see what Pangs and Throes of Mind what ●●ruglings and Conflicts what Watchings and ●rayers are necessary before they can make a ●erfect conquest of that one And then they ●ill tell me that a greater and more early ●●re than e're they dream't of is but requi●e to carry on the great Design of Religion which is the Life and Happiness of their Souls ●ith good Success And therefore Religion as wisely as well as kindly provided us with ●●rious helps both to prevent the Trouble of ●●forming a bad Life and to promote an early ●nd succesful progress in a Good one to which ●urpose we are when Children admitted in●o the Christian Religion by Baptism and by ●eing therein made Members of Christ Children of ●od and Inheritours of the Kingdom of Heaven we ●ngage all the Powers of Heaven on our side ●● enable us to begin continue and end our ●ives in a constant Observance of our Duty ●s which end there are Securities given of ●ur being educated in the Truth and as we ●●ow up we have the daily Administration of ●he Word and Sacrament the one to put us ●n mind of our Baptismal Vow the other ●o give us the Opportunity of renewing it We have also the inward Influences of the Di●ine Grace to encourage and assist our constant ●ndeavours of proceeding on from one degree ●f Grace to another in our Christian Course ●or so we are required to add to our saith Vertue 2 Pet 1. 5 6 7 8. 3. 18 ●● Vertue Knowledge to Knowledge Temperance and ●● on and so to grow in Grace and in the Know●●dge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ And ●astly to perfect holiness in the fear of God By 2 Cor. 7. 1. ●ll which you plainly see that to defer or ●ut off our Duty for the present with design ●o betake our selves to the practice of it 20 or 30 Years hence or at the latter end of our Days is directly contrary to the Nature and Design of Religion and is an open Violation o● Breach of our sacred Vows and Obligations made in our Baptism which is so far from being innocent that it is highly sinful and will infallibly betray Men into eternal Damnation in the other World if Death should chance to cu● them off as 't is probable he will before they have executed their Intentions of conforming to the Duties of Religion and 't is yet more unlikely that they may not have what they so much trust to the Opportunity of being Religious afterwards As will further appear if we consider Thirdly That as this Life is the only Time of Probation on which our Eternal Happiness or Misery depends so it is but a very uncertain Cast to have things of so great Moment depend upon it for What is our Life it is even a Vapour James 4. 14. that appeareth for a little Time and then vanisheth away a Vapour which we can take no Hold of but for all we know may slip through our Fingers before to morrow Morning So that Prov. 27. 1. the only Time we can be sure of is the present and That is so swift that whilst we are thinking Job 7. 6 7 8 9. and speaking of It it is gone and past Recovery And therefore there is no Delaying with Things of so slippery a Nature and so quick a Motion 'T is in vain to think that Time should leave its natural Property to stop a while and wait our Leisure it were Impious as well as Vain to desire that God would alter the Nature of Things to gratifie our lazy Humour no fond Men Time as it stays for no Man so whether ye will think fit to enjoy it or not will most certainly hurry you o● to a long Eternity And therefore to make suitable Preparation for This ye had need be as nimble as Time it self and employ every Minute that is given you to the best Advantage whereby ye should best comply with the wise Design of the Donor of it for how liberal so●ver God has been of all his other Blessings to ●s yet this of Time he has been pleased to ●ispense in a less plentiful manner choosing ra●her to give it by Minutes to signifie how pre●ious It is and that we should be sparing and ●hrifty of it diligent to Redeem That which is Eph. 5. 15 16. 1 Pet. 4. 2. Heb. 3. 13. ●ast and careful to improve That which is to ●ome To Day therefore whilst it is called to Day ●e exhorted to the Practice of your Duty lest any of ●ou be hardned through the Deceitfulness of Sin For Fourthly Supposing that God should be so ●ind to us beyond our Deserts though not our Desires as to prolong our Days yet it were un●easonable to expect that the Divine Grace ●hould be always at our Beck and continually ●ait our Leisure This were to desire that ●he Grace of God would be more kind and ●onstant to us than we are to our selves that whereas we intend to bestow no more than our ●xpiring Breath in calling upon God we would have his Grace attend us through the several ●tages of our Sins and court us to our Duty ●o the very last Gasp But Be not deceived what●oever Gal. 6. 7. Prov. 21. 24 28. a Man soweth that shall he also reap What God threatned to the Old World he will most ●ertainly make good to all old habitual Sin●ers viz. That his Spirit shall not always strive Gen. 6. 3. Luke 19. 42. ●ith Men but the Things belonging to their Peace if they will not know them now in this their Day ●ill most assuredly be hid from their Eyes And his our Blessed Saviour has signified to us in the ●arable of the Talents where he says at the Conclusion of that Parable from him that hath Matth. 25. 29. ●ot shall be taken away even That which he seemeth ●● have It is therefore the most seasonable and ●holsom Advice that either the Prophet could ●ive or We could take viz. Seek ye the Lord Isaiah 55. 6. 2 Cor. 6. 2. ●hilst he may be found call ye upon him whilst He ●● near For now is the accepted Time now is the Day of Salvation But as for the Time to com● 't is every whit as uncertain whether we sha●● fall to the Practice of our Duty hereafter if w● live as whether we shall live to Hereafter ●● fall to the Practice of our Duty For if Go● should now withdraw his Grace as Men ●● their resolved Contempt of it justly provo●● him they are left in as great an Incapaci●● of becoming Religious as if He had withdraw ● their Lives It being as possible to repent witho●● Life when we are Dead as without God's Grace wh●● we are Living as a late Divine has observed Dr. Scot's Christ Life Part First So that