Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	jesus_n	life_n	sin_n	18,761	5	4.6811	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54422	Some fruits of a tender branch, sprung from the living vine being a collection of several sound and godly letters, written by that faithful servant of God, Benjamin Padley. With diverse living testimonies to that innocent life, in which he walked, and continued to the end of his day.	Padley, Benjamin, 1658 or 9-1687.	1691 (1691)	Wing P161; ESTC R217466	26,941	57

OH feel the Bowels of Enlarged Love which the Lord God Almighty hath opened in me towards thee and hath laid it weightily upon me to visit thee with a tender visitation of love and also to lay open some of the snares and stratagems of the Enemy whereby he kept me in bondage many Months and some Years But the Lord in his tender mercy and infinite compassion hath redeemed me out of them all and hath set me free to worship him in spirit and in Truth unto whom my soul doth at this time and for ever desire to return everlasting glory and endless praises and thanksgiving who alone over all is worthy for ever and ever For after he was pleased in his endless mercy to bring me into the Wilderness into a place of want into a bewildred state into a wantfull state and into a sense of the Necessity I had of seeking after a Saviour the Enemy through hearkening to his deceitful voice kept me long wandring here before I could get thorow or arrive within the River-banks of Canaan yet can I truly say the Lord brought me not hither to starve me but to try me for he never left me nor forsook me but he dayly pursued me with mercy and followed me with his loving kindness he fed me with the Manna from Heaven and caused me to drink of the Rock that followed me which Rock was a shelter unto me and that Rock was Christ which dayly begot a longing desire in me of being redeemed out of that bewildred state and of coming to the full enjoyment of that living refreshment which my Soul at times and seasons was made partaker of for truly I have many times felt such living refreshments from the hand of the Lord both when I have been amongst the Assemblies of Gods People and also when alone in secret Places when my heart hath been kept low in his fear and when in the sincerity of my Soul I have waited upon him in a true Resignation to his Will that my Soul as it were hath been overjoyed and then whilst I have been thus pleasing my self with those Joys and take a Rejoycing in those Refreshments then hath the Enemy com'd in with those Perswasions and said Thou art now come to the full Enjoyment of thy desire thou art now come to arrive within the Blessed Land for which thou so earnestly travelled for and thou may now take up a rest here for thou need never fear of being deprived of these Enjoyments or of being driven back out of the Land wherein thou art arrived yea these and many more stumbling Blocks hath the Enemy cast before me whilst I was in this Blessed Exercise and through lending an Ear and hearkening to his deceitful Voice in taking up a false Rest which the Lord hath never ordained for me I have been led backward into the Wilderness and the Veil hath again been brought over me and the thick Clouds of Darkness hath covered me and the Mercies of the Lord hath been withdrawn from me and he hath as it were for a Season hid his Face from me so that I have sometimes been ready to say Surely this is Aegypts Darkness and to take up a Lamentation for want of the enjoyment of his presence which I did enjoy whilst I was obedient to him and in the deep sence of these my Wants and of the necessity of the saving Power and Salvation of the Lord God Almighty hath my Soul been bowed down under great Weights and Burthens beseeching him that he would again appear and rend away the Veils and take off all Coverings and let me feel of his wonted Goodness and of the fresh Incomes of his Love and Mercy which formerly I had been partaker of for in the sence of these Wants hath my Soul with David been ready to say Lord hast thou forgotten to be gracious wilt thou be favourable no more O then did he Answer me and say My hand is not shortned at all that I cannot save neither is my ear heavy that it cannot hear bu● thy Sins hath separated betwixt thee and me through hearkening and lending an ear to the Enemy in taking up a polluted Rest therefore turn from the evil of thy ways and I will still have Compassion on thee and appear to save in all Troubles and carry thee thorow all thy Exercises and Tryals which I will suffer to come upon thee and set thee as a Pillar in my House that shall never be removed O then his Words were strength to my soul and more desired by me than my necessary Food and now can I truly say the Lord is become my chiefest delight and the object of mine eye he is the God of my Salvation therefore will I trust in him and not be afraid though he was angry with me his anger is turned away though in a little wrath he did his face from me yet with everlasting loving kindness he will have Mercy on me And now the Lord having brought me out of the Wilderness out of a Place of Want into a Land of Plenty and given me to drink of the River of his pleasure which is set open and freely tendred to all that will come he hath taught me not to sit at ease and take up a Rest as the Enemy would have perswaded me for though the Enemies be subdued that were within the Borders and that hindred me from arriving within the Blessed Land yet GOD hath shewed me there are yet many Enemies within the Land which if there be not a continual Watch kept will come suddenly upon me and drive me out This is the Philistine Nature which will dam up the Wells of Jacob which will stop the Passage of the Fountain of Life from running into my Soul there are the Pleasures of the World and the Cares of this Life and all vain Traditions and Customs of Men which must be forsaken and Sufferings both of Body and spoyling of Goods Scoffings and Scornings Revilings and evil Entreatings which they that will live godly in Christ Jesus must endure And now the Lord having set before me Life and Death I will rather chuse to suffer affliction with the People of God than to enjoy the Pleasures of Sin for a Season for when I lay wallowing in my Blood and nothing but Wounds and putrifying Sores and when the Priest and the Levite passed by and regarded me not nor none could speak a word of Peace to my Soul O he was the good Samaritan Who took me up and had Compassion on me he was the skilful Physitian who knew my Infirmity and poured forth Balm from Gilead upon all my Wounds and healed me of mine Infirmities O therefore hath he engaged me to love him and to give up all for him and to follow him thorow the Loss of all things yea to give up my Life for his sake if he should require it at my hand and it is but all what I owe unto him it is but the sacrifice of