Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	grave_n	sin_n	sting_n	4,163	5	11.3993	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36938	The Christian's compass, or, The mariner's companion being a brief compendium of the principles of religion, in the things which are necessary to be known and practised by all who profess the name of Christ / long since prepared, and now published by John Durant ...	Durant, John, b. 1620.	1658 (1658)	Wing D2671; ESTC R8810	36,678	107

grace for grace i.e. Every grace of Christ in thee answerable to what it is in him As little of the creature and as much of Christ as may be 6. Seek Evermore for some evidences of Christ in you S.E. by S. the hope of glory Let it not content thee to make out after Christ but strive to be sure thou hast attained unto him Many never come to good and grounded hope few come to sure earnests of Christs ir-being in them But look thou to see Christ dwelling in thy heart by faith Christ evidencing his abode in thy soul by the evidence of his spirit Be not if it be p●●●ible alwaies at a venture or peradve●… for Christ but go to the assuring 〈◊〉 to make sure that Christ is in thee of a truth Though to go to the Assurance-Office for a Venture at Sea is accounted by some an underly way of Merchandize yet it 's a good way and very noble in Christianity Indeed they are the noblest spiritual Merchants that are most and deepest in assurance The clearer our assurance is the more comfortable out voyage will be 7. Still Set Eternity before you in regard of enjoying of Jesus Christ S.S. E. To be ever with the Lord let that still sound in thy ears and be in thy eyes Entreat Christ not to tarry with thee a few dayes but covet to have him with thee alwayes even all thy voyage on earth and at thy Port at death Let Christ be in thy eye both in life and death Or if thou canst not be so happy as to have his sensible presence all the voyage in the time of life Be sure thou make it thy desire and design to have him for ever after death If Christ will have you put out to Sea as his disciples and tell you hee 'l come after Intreat him not to fail in that thou ●● you have not his visible presence no●… yet desire of him to vouchsafe to you hereafter to be alwayes with him where he is as John 17.24 8. Settle it Ever in your soul as a principle which you will never depart from S. by E. that holinesse is in Christ South is by East and holiness is by Christ Christ was holy when a child and holinesse is as near to him as himself is to himself it 's his essence and therefore abominate all loose and lewd principles which would set up Christ without holinesse and possess or perswade thee that thou mayest have Christ though thou mind not holinesse or which would exalt holynesse without Christ and perswade that even Nature Reason Education Morality can make thee holy enough to enjoy God though thou never hear of nor know Jesus Christ Let Ranters and Socinians keep those poysons to themselves Be thou for Christ and Holynesse for Holynesse and Christ still together never asunder in points or practice CHAP. VI. The chird quarter of the duties in the Christian Compasse HAving past two parts of our Compass wee 'l hasten over the other two onely let me intreat you to mind and con these well e're you proceed to learn the other But when you have got by heart or rather into the heart this half then proceed unto the next which is our Southern quarter and here remember your eight points likewise 1. Set thy self alwayes as before the Lord Imagine nay believe it S. thou art alwayes as directly before the Lord as the South is just in a strait line before or in the face of the North I have set the Lord alwayes before me he is at my right hand I shall not be moved 'T was the saying of David Psal 16.8 nay of Christ who was David's Lord and ours as it 's clear by Act 2.25 This is the nature and life of holiness to eye God alwayes without holiness we shall never see God here nor hereafter And t is holiness which fixes our sight upon God The Southern Sun doth not more directly cast his beams upon the North then the sanctified soul doth cast his eyes and every glance of his soul upon God It 's the height of thy soul the Meridian point of thy piety always to have thy face and thy heart toward thy God 2. See weakness hastening thee to death S. by W. even when thou art at highest pitch or point Even the Sun at the height in the South moves immediately to the West and its first differenced motion from South is by West You remember in our points of knowledge chap. 3. I termed West our death point South our holiness point c. Now it 's in allusion to that notion that I make this my second practical Rule in this quarter of our Compass Even holy men at and in the height of holiness are by death It 's appointed for all once to dye As sin hath brought death upon all so holiness doth not exempt any I mean death natural 'T is true in a spiritual divine sense Saints do not shall not cannot dye but in a litteral humane sense even the highest Saints that have come up to highest degrees of Sanctity have and must drink of deaths cup and it 's much for the advance and strengthening of holiness in our hearts to see our selves alwayes stepping towards the grave going to set in the point or place of death 3. See Sin which is the sting of death as taken out S. S. W. and away by Christ if ever you expect to dye in peace Often mind and think upon that Scripture 1 Cor. 15.55 56. and search thy soul to see whether upon good ground thou canst say Oh death where is thy ●ing It 's not sword or plague or devouring Monsters at Sea or Land which can make death st●nging if the soul can see the bloo● of Jesus to have cleansed it from all its sins Death onely stings with poyson and pain such as live and dye in their sins But to souls who are true believers who are washed with the blood of Jesus death is a Bee having much hony but no sting at all 4. Store up Wisely Some provisions every day for your dying day S. W. by S. Dying men need cordials and so do dying Christians search and lay up promises study and store up experiences How will you be able to see sin as gone except you be acquainred with sin-pardoning-promises and except you have eyes and taken notice of divine experiences Mark how and by what God at any time speaks peace to your soul in the blood of Jesus Treasure up every hint and intimation of Grace and Glory which at any Sermon in any duty upon or after any eminent danger deliverance which thou ●●st had the Lord hath sweetly given in unto thy soul Oh what reviving comforts what conscience-cordials unto a dying soul are the r●memembrances of such such discoveries and tasts of God at such and such a time Verily the experienc●s of our life are often cho●ce refreshings in or at our death