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	sin_n	sin_v	8,157	5	9.6294	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33343	The saints nosegay, or, A posie of 741 spirituall flowers both fragrant and fruitfull, pleasant and profitable / collected and composed by Samuel Clark.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1642 (1642)	Wing C4555; ESTC R23711	51,972	277

darknesse to cause if it were possible blacknesse of darkenesse even utter despaire in them 406 When men goe about to extinguish and darken the light of direction which God hath put into their hearts to guide their paths by hee putteth out the light of comfort and leaves them to darkenesse 407 Other afflictions are but the taking some stars of comfort out of the Firmament when others are left still to shine there but when Gods countenance is hid from the soule the Sun it selfe the Fountaine of light is darkened to such and so a generall darkenesse befals them 408 God in afflicting of his children proportioneth the burthen to the back and the stroke to the strēgth of him that bears it 409 One Sonne God had without sinne but not without sorrow for though Christ his naturall son was sine corruptione without corruption yet not sine correctione without correction though hee was sine flàgitio without crime yet not sine flagello without a scourge 410 As two peices of Iron cannot bee foundly souldred together but by beating and heating them both together in the fire so neither can Christ and his brethren bee so nearly united and fast affected but by fellowship in his sufferings 411 God by affliction separateth the sinne that hee hates from the sonne that hee loves and keepes him by these thornes that hee breake not over into Satans pleasant pastures which would fat him indeed but to the slaughter 412 A Torch burnes after a while the better for beating a young tree grows the faster for shaking Gods vines beare the better for bleeding his spices smell the sweeter for pounding his gold lookes the brighter for scouring God knowes that wee are best when wee are worst and live holiest when wee dye fastest and therefore frames his dealing to our disposition seeking rather to profit then to please us 413 As winds and thunders cleare the ayre so doe afflictions the soule of a Christian 414 Good men are like glow-wormes that shine most in the darke like Iuniper that smels sweetest in the fire like spice which savoureth best when it is beate● like the Pomander which becomes most fragrant by chafing like the Palme tree which proves the better for pressing like Cammomile which the more you tread it the more you spread it and like the Grape which comes not to the proofe till it come to the ●resse 415 Affliction like Lots Angels will soone away when they have done their errand like Plaisters when the sore is once whole they will fall off 416 Hard knots must have hard wedges strong affections must have strong afflictions and great corruptions great crosses to cure them 417 Gods corrections are our instructions his lashes our lessons his scourges our Schoole-masters and his chastisements our advisements Isa. 26.9 418 The Christians under the ten Persecutions lasting about one hundred and 8. yeares had scarce a leape yeare of peace in which some as too ambitious of Martyrdome rather woed then waited for their deaths 419 There is in Christ erected an office of salvation an heavenly Chancery of equity and mercy not onely to moderate the rigour but to reverse and revoke the very acts of the law 420 Though we be still bound to all the law as much as ever under the perill of sin yet not under the paine of death which is the rigour of the law 421 Gods children are as fully bound to the obedience of the law as Adam was though not under danger of incurring death yet under danger of contracting sinne 422 The Law is spirituall therefore it s not a conformity to the letter barely but to the spiritualnesse of the law which makes our actions to be right before God 423 The Law of it selfe is the cord of a Iudge which bindeth hand and foot shackleth unto condemnation but by Christ it s made the cord of a man and the bond of love by which he teacheth us to go even as a Nurse her Infant 424 The Law for the sanction is disjunctive either do this or dye for the injunction its copulative doe both this and that too 425 Gods children are not under the Law for Iustification of their persons as Adam was no● for satisfaction of divine Iustice as those that perish are but they are under it as a document of obedience and a rule of living 426 When the Law was once promulgated to Adam and put into his heart as the common Arke of mankind though the Tables be lost yet our Ignorance doth not make the Law of none effect 427 They who seeke to put out the truth of Gods word by snuffing of it make it burne the brighter 428 All like well to have Gods word their comforter but few take care to make it their counsellor 429 When wee reade the Scriptures if wee cannot sound the bottome we should admire the depth kisse the booke and lay it downe weepe over our ignorance and send one hearty wish to heaven oh when shall I come to know as I am knowne 430 To alledge Scripture in favour of sin is to entitle God to that which he hates worse then the devill and to make him a Patron and Patterne of wickednesse and his Word a sword for Satan his sworn Enemy 431 Plain places of Scripture are for our nourishment Hard places for our exercise these are to bee masticated as meat for men those to be drunke as Milke for Babes by the former our hunger is staid by the latter our loathings 432 As the Lapidary brightens his hard Diamond with the dust shaved from it selfe so must wee cleare hard places of Scripture by parallell texts which like glasses set one against another cast a mutual light 433 When men are sick though they cast up al they eate yet we advise them to take something for something will remaine behind in the stomack to preserve life So we should heare the Word though wee forget almost all wee heare for some secret strength is gotten by it 434 When the body is sick we use to forbeare our appointed food but when the soule is sick there is more need of spirituall food then ever for its both meat and Medicine Food Physick Cordials and all 435 It s better to loose the Sun of the Firmament then the Sunne of the Gospel 436 The glorious Gospel of Iesus Christ the Sonne of Righteousnesse shining upon one that is dead in sinnes causeth him to stinke the more hatefully both before the face of God and man 437 Ministers that have good parts should labour to adorne the same by holinesse of life without which the other are but as pearles in the head of a filthy Toad a Pearle in the head and the body all poyson 438 Some deale with their Ministers as Carriers doe with their horses lay heavy burthens upon them and exact worke enough but afford them but easie commons and then to recompense this they shall have bels hung about their necks they shall bee commended for able

which be above requitall 546 Ruptures betwixt great ones are alwayes dangerous whose affections perchance by the mediation of friends may bee brought againe to meet but never to unite and incorporate 547 Princes the manner of whose death is private and obscure fame commonly conjures againe out of their graves and they walke abroad in the tongues and braines of many who affirme and beleeve them to be still alive 548 Royall goodnesse is much more prone to smile then frowne yet yeelding to both in fittest seasons 549 Alexander Severus a worthy and learned Emperour was wont to say That hee would not feed his servants with the bowels of the Common-wealth 550 Generally active nations are strongest abroad and weakest at home 551 It is not the firmenesse of the stone nor the fastnesse of the mortar that maketh strong wals but the integrity of the inhabitants 552 The Genius of old Kingdomes in time groweth weaker and doteth at the last 553 As it was a signe that Sampson meant to pull downe the house upon the heads of the Philistims when he pulled downe the Pillars that bare up the roofe so its a shrewd signe that God is about to ruine a State when he takes away those that are the Pillars and props of it 554 As hee is a strong man whose joynts are well set and knit together not whom nature hath spunne out all in length and never thickned him so it is the united and well compacted Kingdome entire in it selfe which is strong not that which reacheth and strideth the farthest 555 It s better to bee Scripticall then Definitive in the causes of Gods judgements 556 Many men by surfeiting digge their owne graves with their teeth 557 Many wicked men are like Hawks of great esteeme whilst living but afterwards nothing worth the godly are like to tamer foules which are husht forth and little heeded whilst living but after death are brought into the Parlour 558 The wise man being asked returned this as the most profitable observation as he could make upon the sight of Rome flourishing that even there also men died 559 There stands in one end of the Library in Dublin a globe of the world and a Sceleton of a man at the other which shews that though a man were Lord of all the world yet hee must dye 560 As it is not a losse but a preferment and honour for a married woman to forsake her own kindred and house to goe to an husband so it s not a losse but preferment for the soule for a time to relinquish the body that it may goe to Christ who hath married it to himselfe forever 561 Good done at our end is like a Lanthorne borne after us which directs them that come behind but affordeth us very little light whereas the good done in our life time is like a Lanthorne borne before us that benefits both them and us equally imparting light to either 562 Death is the greatest losse that can bee to the worldly man it is the greatest gaine that can be to the godly man 563 Gods children as by death they are rid of corruption so after death they have no need of correction 564 Death is the best Physician to the godly it cures them not of one disease but of all and of all at once not for once only but for ever yea it cures them of death it selfe 565 A man may have a three-fold being A being of nature A well Being of Grace and the best Being of Glory our Birth gives us the first our New-birth the second our death the third 566 It s no life but death that severs a man from Christ whilst he liveth and it s no death but life that bringeth a man home to Christ when he dieth 567 Man is nothing but soule and soile or Breath and Body a puffe of wind the one and a pile of dust the other 568 Doe not that to day that thou mayest repent of to morrow yea doe not that to day that it may bee too late to repent of to morrow 569 Considering the frailty of our lives it s no marvell that death meets with us at length it s rather marvell that it misseth us so long 5●0 Wee are sure to dye not because we are sick but because wee live for a man may be sick and not dye but what man lives and shall not see death 571 Sinne and Death are as needle and thread the one entring before is a meanes to draw on the other nor would one follow if the other went not before 572 None come into life but by the perill of death and some are carried from the wombe to the Tombe from Birth to Buriall Io● 10.19 573 As for our Lands so for our lives wee are but Gods Tenants at will 574 Mans life is as a day dayes are not all of one length neither is there lesse variety in the length and size of mens lives 575 When wee have children at nurse or school when trouble or danger is in those places where they make their aboad wee send for them home that they may be in safety so God cals some of his children out of this world thereby taking them away from eevill to come Isa. 7.1 576 When our houses are in danger of firing wee remove our treasure and Iewels in the first place into places of more security so where Gods wrath like fire is breaking in upon a place he removes his children to heaven a place of greater safety 578 Death will doe that all at once which Grace doth now by degrees 578 Ambrose at the point of death said to his people I have not so lived among you that I should be ashamed longer to live with you nor am I affraid to die because wee have a good Master 579 Death is the Lady and Empresse of all the world her treasure is without surrender and from her sentence there is no appeale 580 Because God defers punishing men deferre repenting and spend the most precious of their time and strength in sinning and then thinke to give God the dregs the bottome the last sands their dotage which themselves and friends are weary of 581 Gods children are never better delivered out of their troubles then when they seeme not to be delivered at all when they are delivered out of them by death 582 A good mans death is like musicke though it consist of sharpes yet it ends in a Diapason and with a sweet close 583 When an ordinary man breakes ranke and dies there fals a vapour but when a good man dies ther fals a starre when Israel departed from Egypt they robbed the Egyptians and when a good man shakes off the world hee robs the world 584 As all the fresh Rivers run into the salt Sea so all the honour of the world ends in basenesse all the pleasures of the world in bitternesse all the treasures of the world in emptinesse all the garments of the world in nakednesse and all the dainties and delicates