Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	hell_n	life_n	soul_n	7,851	5	4.9047	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85381	Anti-Cavalierisme, or, Truth pleading as well the necessity, as the lawfulness of this present vvar, for the suppressing of that butcherly brood of cavaliering incendiaries, who are now hammering England, to make an Ireland of it: wherein all the materiall objections against the lawfulness of this undertaking, are fully cleered and answered, and all men that either love God, themselves, or good men, exhorted to contribute all manner of assistance hereunto. By Jo: Goodwin.	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1642 (1642)	Wing G1146; Thomason E123_25; ESTC R3123	51,456	53

used these words Now wee commit thy soule unto the Divell And when Hierom of Prague through long and grievous imprisonment grew very sicke and as himselfe thought neere unto death desired that hee might have a confessor being it seemes consciencious this way the story saith that very hardly and with great importunitie it could bee obteyned which shewes that it was griefe and torment to his enemies that hee should have any thing that in their opinion might bee a meanes to save his soule after hee was dead besides many other like streynes of the same spirit which that story presents unto the diligent Reader Now then there being a spirit of this profound deepe and divellish enmitie against you working in the Bowells and inward parts of these men to desire not onely your temporall but eternall death also it is none other like but if they suspect and doubt of the strength of their arme for the sending of you by death into Hell as I make little question but they doe they have no great hope of hunting your soules into the bottomlesse pit which is reserved for their owne they will themselves create a Hell for you as full of torment and cruell burnings as they can make it and cast you into it themselves before you die and so be gotten out of their reach So that there is nothing to bee looked for from these men but death or that which is worse then death a life to contribute towards the increase of the paines and sorrowes of your death and so indeed death howsoever Therefore I beseech you consider the weight of this branch of the present motive also Will you thinke of keeping or saving your estates to the losse or imminent danger of your lives Shall you not keepe your money to make a goodly purchase if you bring all these great evills and miseries upon you thereby Though in many other cases you might make much gaine and advantage by making the Divell a lier yet it will bee your wisedome to justifie him in that his saying skinne for skinne or rather skinne after skinne or skinne upon skinne and all that hee hath will a man give for his life If you have so much of men in you as Sathan your enemy supposeth it seemes that you have to value your lives at any such rate above all your possessions whatsoever shew it this day and make a fortification and bulwarke of all that you have for their defence and safetie Solomon we know made some hundreds of Targets and Shields of Gold it should not be grievous to any man to sacrifice his estate his Gold and Silver upon the service of his life There is a time to keepe saith Solomon and a time to spend or to cast away Eccles. 3. 6. Certainely of all other that is no time to keepe when a mans life lies at the stake and is in all likelihood not to bee redeemed but by casting away Thus much for your temporall and outward injoyments they are all involved and concerned to the utmost in the present occasion and service which you have beene exhorted to promote and further with all your strength and all your power But secondly it were well at least it were lesse to bee layd to heart it were a matter of farre lighter moment and importance if your outward concernments onely though it were even to life it selfe were imported in that great occasion which is now on foot and hath beene againe and againe recommended unto you but behold greater things then these Your spirituall concernments also are like to suffer and that in a very high degree if Gog and Magog prevaile if ever you come to bee at the allowance of Cavaliers Papists and Athiests that have taken the field against you for the things of Heaven You are like to have stones in stead of bread and Scorpions in stead of Fish Those golden Pipes by which Heaven and Earth are as it were joyned together and have lively communion each with other I meane your pure ordinances of worship which have both the wisedome and grace and goodnesse of God abundantly in their frame will be cut off and others of Lead laid in their stead ordinances I meane of an humane constitution and frame whose chiefe substance or ingredients will bee the wisedome and will i. e. the folly and corrupt affections of men by which not Heaven but Hell and the world will bee joyned together and the trade and traffique betweene both places much quickned and advanced ordinances which will bee ready to bee cast as dung into your faces by God when you have beene exercised in them You must never looke to see the goings of God in the Sanctuary as you have done to see any more visions of life and immortalitie let downe from Heaven unto you in these houses of vision those excellent ravishments and raptures of spirit those takings up into the third Heaven by seeing him that was greater then Solomon in all his glory will cease from you Those pure streames of the Gospell will bee all bemired and soyled when they are given unto you to drinke Yea happily and poysoned too by the influence of the corrupt minds and judgements of those that shall give them unto you You must looke to have the Gospell turned upside downe and to be made to stand in perfect conjunction with Hell with loosenesse wickednesse and prophanenesse and in opposition to Heaven Grace and Holinesse to be made a Savour of death to those that shall bee saved and a Savour of life to those that shall perish It will bee made to frowne upon those that are godly and to looke cheerefully and comfortably upon loose men So that if your soule shall lust for these Sommer fruits if you shall desire to have communion with God in communion and fellowship with his Saints If you shall desire at any time to bee rained upon by a shower of life and peace from Heaven you must repaire againe to the woods and mountaines or to the covert of some close and secret place where you must eate the bread of your soules in perill of your lives as your forefathers did in Queene Maries dayes on with danger of suffering whatever the malice and revengefull spirit of your enemies shall thinke good or can devise to inflict upon you Therefore now consider you that have had the liberty of your Sanctuaries and of your publike assemblies that have beene fed with hony out of the Rocke and with the finest wheate of Heaven you that have had an open and free trade to Heaven and have had glorious returnes from them day after day to whom the Ministery of the Gospell hath beene as the wings of the morning as Chariots of fire to carry you up and downe as it were in spirituall state and triumph betweene Heaven and earth Oh how will that day be as the shaddow of death unto you wherein you must exchange your Quailes and Manna from Heaven for the Garlike and Onyons