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	sin_n	sting_n	6,936	5	11.4570	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06705	Adams tragedie declaring Satans malice and subtiltie, mans weaknesse and miserie, and his deliuerance from eternall captiuitie.	Mabb, John.	1608 (1608)	STC 17156.3; ESTC S4378	29,410	112

inclose them and euerlasting Condemnation to retaine them in that Lake which burneth with fire brimstone for euer more Reul 20.10 And therfore Satan in tempting our parents by attempting soueraignetie with God denied him to be the Lord although they confessed him to be God To confesse God wholly not in part Whereby we are to learne to beware that we doe not confesse God in part and denie him in part which the Diuel did but to hold fast the analogie of our Fayth and euer with a pure heart to confesse GOD to be the Lord and the Lord God Adam Eues arraignement And concerning the order and equitie of God in the Arraignement Gen. 2.8 vnto vers 19. he proceedeth first against Adam because he was created before Eue and to him was giuen the possession of the Garden and the precept commandement touching the fruite before Eue was formed made Then next he calleth Eue beeing bone of Adams bone and flesh of his flesh inferiour vnto him in order of nature though first before him in degree of sinne and yet the order of the arraignement is iust though Adam sinned after Eue Gen. 4.9 for although Cain was not his Brothers keeper yet the Husband is the Wiues head Ephes 5.23 and ought to be her Instructor in all the commaundementes of God The Husbands care which he ought to haue ouer his wife that she might liue in his feare be obedient vnto him For as no reasonable man will hurt his owne flesh so no godly man ought through his negligence to suffer his owne flesh to sinne but still to haue an eye and care for her preseruation as much as in him lyeth And lastly God speaketh vnto the Serpent as being the Diuels instrument vnto sinne and maketh no further expostulation with him because the Diuel The Diuel was a conuict and reprobate before Adams fall who was in the Serpent was a conuict and condemned creature before attainted before Gods iudgement seate in heauen and cast downe from thence with the rest of the disobedient Angels and therefore he commeth to no new arraignement The Serpent being the instrument of sinne is punished but the person of the creature being an instrument which the Diuel vsed to draw our Parents vnto sinne is accursed which sheweth vnto vs that not onely the perswaders and consenters vnto sinne but the dumme creatures also which are meanes and instrumentes made by the wicked for the inticement vnto sinne are accursed before the sight of God so holy so iust and righteous is the Lord Deut. 28.17.18 and therfore the Earth creatures thereof are accursed for Mans sake when as by the instigation of Satan Man is allured by the pleasures thereof to loue imbrace the world more then God And so in the iustice of God the glorious Houses and stately dwellinges of the mighty vpon the earth are accursed and made desolate Mich. 7.13 for the sinnes of the owners and buylders thereof who haue raysed vp the Walles by Oppression tempered the Morter with Blood adorned them with Vanitie possessed them with Pride Psal 49.11 and called them and their lands by their owne names that they might be as Gods to liue for euer But behold as Adam was cast out of Paradise so are they out of their dwellinges verse 14. They lie like Sheepe in Graue and Death deuoureth them and their name is perished from of the earth SECT 10. AS touching their answers Adams Indictment consisting of Two partes the Offence committed and the Flying vpon the offence Adams pleading to the indictment Hee confesseth it and would auoyde it by way of extenuatiō in alleadging the principall cause to be the Woman And as touching his Flight he doth also extenuat it by the presence of God in following him for he sayth he was afrayd and that in two respectes the one because he heard Gods fearefull voyce the other because he Saw himselfe to be naked whereas vpon the committing of the sinne he feared neither the presence of God nor his owne miserie to come for he thought to haue been equall with God Satans subtiltie to couer sinne It is the subtiltie of Satan in drawing men forward to sinne to hide the hooke of Miserie vnder the bayte of flattering felicitie their eyes being blinded not to see the one and their handes and feete too swift and forwarde to runne and reach vnto the other Gehazi got Money and Apparrell of Naaman 2. king 5.21.22 but it infected him with Leprosie Adam eate the Apple but it poysoned him euen vnto death had not Iesus Christ his and our heauenly Phisition purged him from his sinne which is the venome and mother and sting of death 1. Cor. 15.5.6 Eues her pleading And Eue in her answere followeth her husbands president pleading as he did confessing and auoyding the offence alleadged in her indictment affirming the Serpent to be the cause of her offence Such is the course and practise of Satan in his malice towardes man that when man hath offended he hardneth and shutteth vp his heart from repentance Offenders will excuse but not confesse their fault making him bold and impudent to excuse his fault eyther by posting it ouer vnto some other or dawbing and couering it with vntempered morter falshood vntrueth thinking thereby to blinde the eyes of God their Iudge But they are deceiued for nothing is hidde from his sight Psal 7.9 he Searcheth the heartes and the reynes and the night is as cleare as the day before him and psa 139.1 vnto 18. He knoweth mans going foorth and his comming in their wordes and their workes are registred before him yea he is in the closets and priuie chambers of men to heare their counsels and to see their wayes So that when they shall come vnto iudgement before him the Booke of their offences shall be opened and read vnto them their Consciences shall tremble their Heartes shall melt they shall not be able to answere one sinne of a thousand In temptations to thinke vpon God is the preuenting of sinne Therefore in the committing of sinne if men would but remember who seeth them it would be a curbe and bridle to bring them backe or if after the sinne committed they would remember who shall iudge them it would be a meanes to make them humble them selues before the throne of God to confesse their sinnes and craue pardone for the same through the merites of Iesus Christ who is a Sauiour vnto all them that put their trust in him Equiuocate lying shifting is most abhominable before God For all coulorable shiftes and lyes and subtile equiuocation highly offendeth God and maketh the sinne double and more haynous in his sight It had been better for our Parents Adam and Eue plainely to haue confessed and acknowledged their disobedience then to haue posted it and shouelled it from