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	sinful_a	4,258	5	10.1705	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60355	The souls return to its God, in life, and at death A funeral sermon, preached upon occasion of the death of Mr. John Kent, late of Crouched Friars, who departed this life Decem. 16. 1689. By Samuel Slater, minister of the Gospel.	Slater, Samuel, d. 1704.	1690 (1690)	Wing S3976; ESTC R217893	35,053	36

first I do earnestly desire you all to be without any further unreasonable delays upon your return unto God Look where you ar●… sinners in a state of sin and wrath and is it good to be so Look whithe●… you are going is it not to Hell and do you think it will be good to b●… there Do not go on but stand sinner I do in the name of the great God b●… thee stand and come back too remember from whence you are fallen a●… from whom you have departed and come back The expressions that our Lor●… Iesus used to the Church his Spouse come into my mind Cant. 6. 13. H●… bespeaks her thus Return return O Shulamite return return that w●… may look upon thee What will ye see in the Shulamite as it were t●… company of two Armies Let me speak to you in the same manner onl●… let me first propound to you this one serious and weighty Question Ho●… do you find matters are within you Is there such a sight as this to be seen I mean to be seen in your Souls Do you feel strugglings in you as R●… bekah once did in her womb Is there the company of two Armies O●… that there were in some of you it would be welcom news to me I shoul●… be glad ●…t heart and with my Soul bless God for it I know there is on●… Army in the very worst of men the greatest Debauchees and vilest Monste●… trenched and fortified themselves and fight against God and War against the Soul and it is not improbable but that there may be a Legion of Devils too which side with them and yet all this while there is no noise no disturbance of the sinners rest but he goeth on in his way and enjoys himself for as our Saviour hath told us while the strong man armed keeps the house his goods are in peace there is a sinful quietness though indeed that is a dismal and woful one But what say you is there the Company of two Armies in you Is there a Law in your minds warring against that Law of Sin and Death which is in your members Is there a Spirit within you lusting against the flesh is there a contest and combating within you And that not only between one faculty and another but between the same faculty and itself So that you cannot sin with that freedom and plenary consent that you were wont to do but you find a reluctancy and opposition in your selves Oh that it were so with you that you were able to say you hate what you do though you cannot do what you would And to you I do now call return return O sinners return return That we may look upon you and love to look that your Ministers and Relations and Friends your Parents that have travailed in birth to see Christ formed in you your dear Yoakfellows who love you and longed for your Spiritual and Eternal welfare and have looked upon you with sad hearts Sighing Shaking their Heads wringing their hands and shedding Rivers of tears may now look upon you with comfort and rejoycing and count you their blessings That when they look upon you they may see your faces Sion ward and Heaven ward and your feet directed into the ways of peace and that when God who looks from Heaven upon all the Children of men doth look upon you and into you also he may see your hearts are toward himself really set for his Service and honour and the enjoyment of him You that are Elder and are yet in your sins walking on in the vanity of your minds suffer the word of exhortation do you return and that presently for you have nothing to shew why you should not you have taken your swing and rambled far enough and lived without God long enough a man would think you have had your belly full of wind and ashes and husks that you have had enough of base sins and what is worse than childish vanities and are guilty of such egregious and ruining follies that you have reason to be weary of them I beseech you learn to be wise it is indeed it is high time if you will not be wise now when will you You that are younger do ye apply your hearts to true wisdom come ye Children hearken to me come ye young-men and maidens come in to God who desires you who calls you who stands with his arms ready and stretched out to receive you come to him in whom you will find rest to your Souls and have such joys as will be great and cheap and never end in sorrow It is much more easy for you to return than it is for old sinners who have grown grey in their rebellion and obstinacy for you are not gone so far from God as they have done and you have not so many Chains and Fetters as Satan and lust and a continued conceive how exceeding welcom you shall be how glad Heaven will be of you Oh how doth God Father Son and Spirit embrace the young converts how ready will the blessed Angels be to watch over you to encamp about you to minister to you and to do you acts of kindness What huggs and kisses did the affectionate Father bestow upon his repenting and returning Prodigal He ran to meet him and that while he was a great way off he could not sit still when he saw him coming but must get up himself and while the good old mans feet did run I doubt not but his heart leap'd within him Use Second Under this I shall direct my discourse to you who already are converted and have hearkened to the voice and calls of God in the Gospel and come in to him And you I advise to improve all your experiences to the utmost for the drawing of your hearts more out to God and bringing you into a closer Communion with him Thou hast been my help said David Psal. 63 7. What then my Soul followeth after thee ver 8. Because thou hast been my help in work in trouble hast assisted me in such and in such a case yea in every case therefore my Soul now doth and still shall follow hard after thee that I may have more of thy help as I need it and more and more of thy self too so as you have heard in the Text return unto thy rest O my Soul unto that God who is thy rest for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee Consider and call to mind what sights have you had of Gods power and glory in the Sanctuary What tasts of his sweetness in the banquetting house of Ordinances what tokens of love sent in in various ways what Messages of peace by his holy and blessed Spirit what returns of prayer by the hand of gracious providences how great things hath God done for you consuting your fears and exceeding your expectations how good and gracious hath he been to you compassing you about with his favour as with a Shield and daily loading you with his