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	sin_n	sting_n	5,056	5	11.5139	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02030	The bread of life, or Foode of the regenerate A sermon preached at Botterwike in Holland, neere Boston, in Lincolnshire. By Thomas Granger, preacher of Gods word there.	Granger, Thomas, b. 1578.	1616 (1616)	STC 12177; ESTC S121351	21,732	40

in op●ration when the receiuer thereof that before was dead is now raised from death by the spirit which as it gaue life to the first Chaos or Masse in the creation so it giueth life to the second confused Masse the naturall man Secondly bodily meate must bee mortified by the body which separateth the impure from the pure conuerting the one into his owne substance and nature but expelling the other as excrements but contrarily the meate of the soule which is the Gospell is not mortified of the soule but it doth mortifie the soule with all the powers and faculties thereof conuerting the soule into the nature and property of it selfe It destroyeth nature it casteth a man out of himselfe separating himselfe from himselfe as a corrupt refuse or excrement As for example Paul counted all things losse for the knowledge of Christ and iudged them to bee but dung that hee might win Christ and bee found in him But what things are they His Iewish priuiledges whereof he maketh an enumeration in the former verses and diuers other things wherein hee excelled many of his owne nation For hee was of excellent education perfectly instructed in the lawes of the Fathers skilfull in diuers languages by profession a Pharisee not luke-warme but zealous touching vertue and righteous liuing according to the Law vnrebukeable Heere is nothing wanting to Paul as hee supposed hee had made his saluation so sure that if hee were not saued hee thought none could be saued But this proud and dead flesh that is without feeling must bee launced cut and eaten away For when as in blinde zeale riding toward Damascus hee was throwne beside his horse being affrighted and astonished with the sudden light that shone about him and the voyce that spake vnto him hee was throwne beside himselfe also Hee fell a Iew he rose a Christian his fall was his spirituall death to his former Iudaisme the miraculous light and voyce of Christ his spirituall resurrection From hence-forward he glorieth not in worldly prerogatiues and Iewish priuiledges hee counts them but losse for Christ and iudges them to be but doung but hee reioyceth and glorieth in afflictions for Christs sake yea hee is content to suffer any thing scourgings imprisonments shipwracks perils of waters of robbers of the Iewes of the Gentiles of false brethren in the City in the wildernesse in the sea to suffer wearinesse painefulnesse watching hunger thirst colde nakednesse stonings fire sword if so bee that by any meanes hee might attaine to the resurrection of the dead Therefore this spirituall meate cures not for wee are past cure there being nothing in vs for medicine to worke vpon to recouer vs withall It mends not for these mildring muddy walls of ours can sustaine no new matter no more then olde vessells can containe new wine or an old garment retaine the new peece of cloth It repayres not for this ruinous building must not bee built vpon but pulled downe yea the foundation thereof must bee razed All mans vnderstanding wisedome reason imaginations will affections and all his goodnesse must be cast vp as vnprofitable rubbish good for nothing but as vnsauory salt to bee cast into the streets for men to tread vpon and a new foundation must be laide whereon he must build a new euen Iesus Christ on whom hee must be founded and out of whom he must grow euen as the building doth artificially grow from and out of the foundation And all other things what shew soeuer they haue of wisedome godlinesse zeale deuotion yet are they but sinne because they arise not from the true foundation which is Faith Therefore this meate transformeth and renueth non superinducens sed inducens nouam formam not putting vpon vs but putting in vs a new forme or shape which must transforme and change the whole man and life of man out of naturall into spirituall out of corruptible into incorruptible out of earthly into heauenly out of temporall into eternall Thirdly bodily meate is mortall therefore it cannot preserue the body for euer but both come to destruction but the word of GOD is immortall seeing that the spirit which is the life and strength thereof is immortall so mortality is swallowed vp of immortality And now Death where is thy sting Sinne where is thy strength Despaire where is thy worme Hell where is thy victory This is the true Philosophers stone that turneth iron euen iron hearts into gold mortall into immortall death into life euen as Lazarus was raised from death to life and as the dead and darke eyes of the blinde man were changed from darkenesse into light Fourthly corporall meate must bee mortified and prepared by our labour and Art but spirituall meate which is the Gospell is as gold purified seauen times in the fire seperated from all impurity much more then gold can bee by the skill of the cunning Alchimist mortifying and preparing vs to conuert vs into the nature of it selfe Wee serue our selues of bodily food but this meate must serue it selfe of vs else wee doe adulterate the same applying it carnally to our condemnation euen as the Iewes adulterated this miracle of our Sauiour making no other vse thereof than to serue their bodily turnes of it the filling of their bellies Note this well for it is the nature and very essence of hypocrisie and carnall gospelling which in these dayes is as rife as euer it was and that in the highest degree For in these dayes as there is much knowledge so is there great abuse of knowledge by hypocrisie and sophistry For men are not onely politicke to couer and hide their filthinesse by dissimulation and apish imitation of certaine words and termes and counterfaite shewes of profession as they are subtile to defend and excuse their wicked and most vngodly doings hauing Scripture and reasons as ready at command as Arrius the hereticke and as the Deuill the Father of cauils and lyes Satan neuer playd his part his Deuills part so kindly as when hee drew arguments of perswasion out of the Scriptures thereby to induce Christ to sinne contrary to the Scriptures Neyther doe hypocrites play their parts so kindely that is imitate their Father the Deuill so naturally as when they transforme themselues into the children of light euen as hee transformeth himselfe into an Angell of light to deceiue This hypocrisie hath taken such deepe rooting and is become so habituall that men are now as skilfull to deceiue their owne hearts as heeretofore they haue bin to deceiue others Let such sophisticall hypocrites take heede how they carnalize the Gospell and profession of religion that is serue their owne turnes of it eyther for profit or vaineglory as the common practise is And as men count themselues the wiser as they deepelier dissemble and blinde the world so much more foolish are they euen the Deuills fooles not considering how that by this way hee serueth himselfe of them Now to conclude this point Bodily foode yea all worldly