Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	law_n	punishment_n	sin_n	9,072	5	5.3449	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19261	A white sheete, or A warning for whoremongers A sermon preached in the parish church of St. Swithins by London-stone, the 19. of Iuly, anno Domi: 1629. the day appointed by honorable authoritie, for penance to be done, by an inhabitant there, for fornication, continued more then two yeares, with his maide-seruant. By Richard Cooke B: of D: and parson there.	Cooke, Richard, 1574 or 5-1639.	1629 (1629)	STC 5676; ESTC S108659	25,390	52

iudge And as for the manner how God will punish them that also is as he will and how he pleaseth Non desunt Deo vlciscendi modi God never wanteth weapons to wound his enemies or rods in pisse to whip vngratious and rebellious children Fire and brimstone for Sodome and those Citties when God sees the old world so foule with sinne he knowes how to wash it with a floud of waters he hath a tenne stringed whipp for Pharaoh The earth to swallow vp Corah and his Company Leprosie for Miriam and Gehazi The sword famine and pestilence for Israel Lice and wormes for Herod and the like and what not indeed to meete with sinners Oh that we could ever thinke of that after-reckonning for sinne Or that we knew the worst or what it would cost vs before God hath done with vs who knowes who can presage how God may deale with him when by his sins he hath once provoked him What punishment originally and by that first law that God made against Adulterers you know was no lesse then death The mercy of the Gospell in some Churches hath mitigated that severitie into more milde and mercifull proceedings not taking away allcensures or punishments from that sin but hath left it in the wisedome and power of Authoritie to haue that sinne severely and sharpely punished though not with death God grant this sinne may finde no hole to hide his head in nor that there may be no daubing nor dallying no dandling of it Wee see where this mans sinne was lately censured it hath had but little countenance and lesse incouragement The blessing of him that dwelt betwixt the bush reward them seuen-fold into their bosome for their singular Iustice and Sinceritie But shall I tell you how this sinne hath prospered and what entertainement it vsually findes at Gods handes I must tell you then but them especially that finde such pleasure in this sinne that God neuer giues other then sower sawce to such stollen meate as will pregnantly appeare by those fearefull presidents and examples of Gods heauie hand in revenging and punishing this sin of vncleanesse what a pitifull massacre followed vpon the deflouring of Dinah Iacobs daughter by Sechem the sonne of Hamer how dearely did Amnon pay for his incest with his sister When though full two yeares after yet God nor man and not yet forgottē it he was suddenly murthered by the servants of his brother Absalon as he sate at the Table What an heauie time was it what a black day in the Campe and Congregation of Israel for this very sinne when not onely Zimri and Cosbi perished by the hand of Phinees but twentie and foure thousand of the people besides were swept away suddenly by the hand of God Yea the very heathen haue had this sinne in such detestation that they thought no punishment bad enough for the committers of this sinne Zaleucus King of Locris adjudged them by Law to loose their eyes both man and woman and so strickt was hee to see his Law observed that when his owne sonne was taken in Adultery and should haue lost both his eyes the people importuning his Father to forgiue him rather then iustice should not be done he commanded that one of his owne and another of his sonnes eyes should bee put out and so they were as Peter Martyr upon the 2. of Sam Nebucadnezzar hearing that one Acub and Zedekiah Iewes had committed fowlenesse with two married women broyled them both to death on a gridiron Amongst the Egyptians the man that was taken in Adultery was beaten with a thousand stripes and the woman had her nose cut off as Dio Siculus reporteth The Ancient Germanes vsed to set the Adulteresse naked before her kindred and to cut off her haire and then her husband was to driue her before him through the Citie beating her with cudgels The Cumeans placed the Adulteresse in the open market place vpon a stone in the publique view of all the people that shee might be derided and scorned of all and then setting her vpon an asse to ride through the streetes and shee was ever after called in mockage 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an asse-rider and that stone shee stood on was ever held and abhorred as a thing filthy and vncleane as Plutarke hath related And hath God at any time beene lesse friendly or favourable to this sinne then so hath his sight beene weaker that he cannot see or his power wasted that he doth not smite now as of old his anger is not now turned away but his hand is stretched out still wee see enough every day to make vs beleeue it How many fearefull sights are daily in our eyes representing Gods iustice vpō such offenders in their soules bodies goods good name and in their issue and posteritie of these if any be for by some of these ever by many of these often by all these now and then God meetes with them and payes them home for their beastly living Looke vpon his iustice in their soules what impressions of his wrath he hath left there by the substraction of his grace a plaine presager of a Precipitation and downefall into sinne blinding their vnderstanding besottiug their affections hardning their heartes delivering them vp to a reprobate sense and giving them vp to vncleanesse through the Iusts of their owne heartes as S. Paul speakes of the Gentiles and at last in his iustice suffering them to perish in the vanitie of that sinne and to carrie it with them to the graue from which while they lived neither Lawes of God or man could possibly reclaime them Looke vpon them in their goods and estate though faire and great how God hath blowen vpon it and how soone hath it beene blasted brought to nothing That which Salomon speakes of another sinne the sinne of drinkenes a companion I am sure if not Cozen-German to the sinne of filthinesse That the drunkard and the glutton shall come to povertie I am sure he tells vs it will be no better with whoremongers For by meanes of an whorish woman a man is brought to a morsell of bread whores and Iesuits I may well couple them together like Simeon and Leui brethren in euill for those as well as these are if not carnall yet spirituall fornicators those I say haue ever beene wheresoever they come the onely soakers sinkers of the fairest inheritances Horse-leech-like ever crying giue giue That which Diogenes sometime said of a drunkards house with a bill on it to signifie that it was to be let I thought as much said the Cynck that ere long hee would spue vp his house also And so will these doe that follow this it is a thousand to one if they leaue not that that will not leaue them worth a gray groat Miserie and beggery will be their end for if he that followeth vaine persons shall haue poverty enough they shall be sure to be

worthlesse worke of mine you haue somewhat suffered through the sinne of him that suffered that day that condigne shame and punishment I would it had never beene told in our Gath nor published in the streets of our Askalon or that so bad a Bird had not defiled so sweete a nest I did my best to free you all from either concealing or conntenancing of the sinne and gaue them their due that did their best to haue it punished whose paines to that purpose may iustly callenge a thank full remembrance from us all Refuse not to countenance his paines that did what he could to maintaine your honour I haue hitherto blessed God and reioyced in your liberality your many favours from many of you in private from most of you in publicke shall ever oblige mee unto you all in all thankefull loue and observancie Adde I pray unto the great heape of your former beneficencie a favourable acceptance of these few leaues of my weake labours It is a Childe that was both begotten and borne in your Parish I hope it shall not find the lesse favour for the Fathers sake You haue beene I am sure and still are as I thinke at this time also at the care and cost of keeping some poore mens children what this may cost you I cannot tell howsoever I perswade my selfe you will not see it starve in the streetes Silver and Gold haue I none but such as it is it is onely yours and so is hee that living and dying resolveth to be an humble petitioner unto the throne of Grace for the happines and prosperitie of you all here and hereafter Now the very God of peace sanctifie you wholy and I pray God your whole Spirit and Soule and Body be preserved blamelesse unto the comming of the Lord Iesus Christ so it becommeth him to pray who is your servant in the worke of his Ministerie and heartily desireth the continuance of your loue and favour and to remaine Yours 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 RICHARD COOKE A White Sheete OR A Warning for Whoremongers HEB. 13. 4. Whoremongers and Adulterers God will judge YOu will not much wonder I perswade my selfe that I haue this day changed mine ordinary and vsuall Text while you cast your eye vpon this penitentiary spectacle of a blacke soule in a white sheete The first of this kinde and nature I thanke God that since my time we euer had and I hope both wee and he also will pray God that as he hath beene the first so also he may be the last A Spectacle causing I know not whether greater sorrow or rejoycing in me I can assure you it causeth both If naturall parents hauing children that proue vnnaturall and disobedient cannot but lament and grieue for them as for a murthering Caine a mocking Ismael a prophane Esau c. but to haue in the family a Reuben climing vp to his fathers bed an Amnon to defile his sister Tamar or an Absolom to lie with his fathers concubines in the sight of all Israel and of the Sunne how can this but cut them to the very heart and soule How then can those whom God hath made to be spirituall Fathers but mourne as much to haue such monsters God is my witnesse this is no pleasing sight to me further then I consider in it digitum Dei the finger of God in this iustly inflicted and imposed punishment vpon him which I hope through the mercy of God may be for the destruction of the flesh that his soule may be saued in the day of the Lord Iesus which God grant It hath beene often said that it is a fayre flocke that hath neuer a scabd sheepe in it The fruitfullest fieldes of corne when they haue beene freest haue had some weeds growing as well as grayne Crescunt cum tritico Zizania tares amongst the wheat and what Congregation euer was yet so fortunate to haue all stand sound and strieght amongst them In the primest times and purest dayes of the Gospell the Apostles had an Ananias and Saphira an Elimas a Simon Magus and the like In the Church of Corinth for all Pauls zealous praying for them and preaching to them there was such a sinne brake out amongst them that was not named amongst the Heathens That a man should haue his fathers wife Yea Christ himselfe amongst those few he had euen of twelue one proued to be a deuill Sorrow and compassion is neuer more sweete and seasonable then when God is dishonoured the soules of men endangered and religion blemished by the fowle and filthie sinnes of vngodly and graceles men When Zimri and Coshi had committed fornication in the campe of Israel you shall finde all the congregation of the people of Israel weeping before the doores of the Tabernacle of the congregation What made Dauid to take on so pittifully for the death of Absalom but for his sinnes the maine cause of his vntimely death he died a rebell to God and a traytour to his Father hinc illa lacryma this caused that sorrow S. Cyprian in his sermon de lapsis a little from the beginning testifieth of himselfe that when he saw or heard of any that fell away from the Orthodoxe faith for feare of persecutiō that he could not but shed many teares for them and that he felt himselfe as deepely wounded with their apostacie Tanquam persecutorū gladijs vulneratus fuisset as if he had beene wounded vnto death by the swords or other weapons of cruel persecutors When that incestuous person in the Churh of Corinth had brought that scandall on the Church and had nothing said or done to him for it S. Paul went not behinde their backes to blame them for it and to tell them they were rather puffed vp then sorrowed that he which had done that fault might be put away from amongst them It is a master-peece of religious wisedome in sorrowing for the sinnes of others to put a difference betwixt their sinnes and their soules hauing compassion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 diligendo homines odio habendo peccata hating them as sinners but louing them as men And thus and no otherwise stand I this day affected to the sinne the shame of him that stands here before vs. And as I am sorrie for the foulenesse of his sin so I professe I reioyce and am glad with all mine heart for the execution of iustice by those Honorable Reuerend and Worshipfull persons in the High Commission-Court that haue so iustly and worthily inflicted this punishment vpon him No more I am confident then law permitted though not so much I dare say as his sinne deserued If such a flie had fallen on weake spiders webbs God knowes where he would haue light and fly-blowē next There is nothing that causeth such boldnes and impudencie in sinne as impunitie Because sentence against an euill worke is not speedily executed the hearts of men are fully set in them to doe euill Saul can no