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	wage_n	12,499	5	11.2125	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69449	The doctrine & directions but more especially the practice and behavior of a man in the act of the nevv birth A treatise by way of appendix to the former. By Isaac Ambrose, minister of Christ at Preston in Amounderness in Lancashire.	Ambrose, Isaac, 1604-1664.	1650 (1650)	Wing A2955; ESTC R37037	61,894	74

the City the famine is there and if we sit here we dye also now therefore let us fall into the hands of our enemies and if they save us alive we shall live and if they kill us we shall but dye They had but one means to succor themselves withal and that was to go into the Camp of the enemies and there as it hapned they were relieved Thus is the lively picture of a poor sinner in this despairing condition when he seeth the wrath of God pursuing him and that the Lord hath beset him on every side at last he resolves thus with himself If I go and rest on my priviledges there is nothing but emptiness and if I rest in my natural condition I perish there also let me therefore fall into the hands of the Lord of Hosts I confess he hath been provoked by me and for ought I see he is mine enemy I am now a damned man and if the Lord cast me out of his presence I can be but damned And then he comes to the Lord and he falls down before the footstool of a consuming God and saith as Job did What shall I say unto thee O thou Preserver of men I have no reason to plead for my self and I have no power to succor my self my accusations are my best excuse all the priviledges in the world cannot justific me and all my Duties cannot save me if there be any mercy left O succor a poor distressed sinner in the very gall of bitterness This is the behavior of the soul in this work of Subjection The second part of Humiliation is Contentedness to be at the Lords disposal and this point is of an higher pitch then the former For example Take a debtor who hath used all means to avoid the creditor in the end he seeth he cannot avoid the Suit and to bear it he is not able therefore the onely way is to come in and to yield himself into his creditors hands but suppose the creditor should exact the utmost and throw him into prison to be content now to undergo the hardest dealing it is an hard matter and a further degree So when the soul hath offered himself and he seeth that Gods Writs are out against him and he is not able whensoever the Judgement comes to avoid it nor to bear it therefore he submits himself and saith Lord whether shall I go thy anger is heavy and unavoidable nay whatsoever God requires the soul lays his hand on his mouth and goes away contented and well satisfied and hath nothing at all to say against the Lord This is the nature of Contentedness Or for a further light this Contentedness discovers it self in these three following particulars First the Soul reflects on Gods Mercy which though he begg'd when he submitted yet now he seeth so much corruption and unworthiness in himself that he acknowledgeth himself unfit for Mercy O Mercy mercy Lord What saith the Lord I had thought your own Duties would have purchased mercy O no saith the Soul it is onely Mercy that must relieve and succor me but such is my vileness that I am not fit for the least mercy and favor and such is the wickedness of this wretched heart of mine that whatsoever are the greatest plagues I am worthy of them all though never so insupportable All the Judgements that God hath threatned and prepared for the Devil and his Angels they are all due to my wretched soul O saith the Soul had the Devils the like hopes and means and patience that I have enjoyed for ought I know they would have been better then I am It is that which shames the Soul in all his sorrows and makes him say Had they the like Mercy O those sweet Comforts and those precious Promises that I have had How many heavy journeys hath the Lord Jesus made to me How often hath he knock'd at my heart and said Come to me ye rebellious children turn ye turn ye why will ye dye O that Mercy that hath followed me from my house to my walk and from thence to my closet here Mercy hath conferred with me and there Mercy hath wooed me yea in my night-thoughts when I awaked Mercy kneeled down before me and besought me to renounce my bad courses yet I refused Mercy and would needs have mine own will had the Devil but such hopes and such offers of Mercy they that tremble now for want of Mercy they would for ought I know have given entertainment to it and what do I seek for Mercy shall I talk of Mercy What I Mercy the least of Gods Mercies are too good for me and the heaviest of Gods Plagues are too little for me I suppose for so is my opinion that God cannot do more against me then I have justly deserved but be sure God will not lay more upon me then I am justly worthy of Nay sure it is the Soul cannot bear nor suffer so much as he hath deserved if God should proceed in rigor with him therefore it reasons thus I onely for one sin deserve eternal condemnation for the wages of all sin is death being committed against Divine Justice and against an Infinite Majesty and then what do all these my sins deserve committed and continued in against all checks of Conscience and Corrections and the light of Gods Word Hell is too good and ten thousand hells too little to torment such a wretch as I am What I mercy I am ashamed to expect it With what heart I pray you can I beg this Mercy which I have trodden under my feet The Lord hath often wooed me and when his wounds were bleeding and his side gored and his hideous cryes coming into mine ears My God my God why hast thou forsaken me then even then this Christ have I slighted and made nothing of his Blood and can this blood of Christ do me now any service Indeed I crave grace but how do I think to receive any All the Pillars of the Church can testifie how often Grace and Mercy have been offered and offered but I have ever refused How then can I beg any grace O this stubbornness and villany and this wretchedness of mine What I mercy it is more then I can expect I am not worthy of any Oh no I am onely worthy to be cast out for ever Secondly the Soul reflects on Justice and now it acknowledgeth the Equity of Gods dealings be they never so harsh he confesseth that he is as clay in the hands of the Potter and the Lord may deal with him as he will yea the Soul is driven to an amazement at the Lords patience and that he hath been pleased to reprieve him so long that God hath not cast him out of his presence and sent him down to hell long ago It is the frame of the Spirit which the poor lamenting Church had It is the Lords mercy that we are not confounded because his compassions fail not When the Lord hath humbled