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	work_n	6,714	5	6.1970	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29935	A perswasive to the stricter observation of the Lords day in pursuance of His Majesties pious order and directions to preachers particularly about the observation of the Lord's day, &c. / by Matthew Bryan.	Bryan, Matthew, d. 1699.	1686 (1686)	Wing B5247; ESTC R19898	22,342	36

Idol when thou O prophane Christian who hadst the Light of Scripture didst transgress the Laws of thy Maker and Redeemer and fearlessly break their bonds asunder and cast away their Cords from thee 2. Consider that not to keep the Sabbath c. is to sin against the express Law of our Creator who commands one day in seven to be kept Solemn and sacred for his service and will by no means dispense with the violation of it And what art thou O man that durst break it Is not he thy Maker and art not thou his Creature and consequently at his dispose Art not thou accountable for all thy actions to him Didst thou not receive thy Being and well Being from him canst thou live or move or breath without him and yet doest thou act as if thou hadst received nothing from him and owest nothing to him Is all thy dependance upon him and yet wilt thou not at all live to him Can he save thee alive or destroy thee in a moment and yet carest thou not Doest thou neither value his favour nor fear his displeasure Are you not his people and Sheep of his pasture Is not the inference than natural Enter into his Gates with thanksgiving and into his Courts with praise be thankful unto him and bless his Name Consider wherefore did God send thee into the World and continue thee in it what to live as the Leviathan in the Water to take thy pastime therein to live to thy self only yea the vilest part of thy self that walking lump of Clay thy body while the Soul thy immortal part is neglected and God forgotten days without number Remember he whom thou sinnest against is thy King and if thou wilt live in Rebellion thou knowest not how soon he may send out his warrant to attack thee and drag thee to his judgment seat and throw thee into Hell Why should he any longer suffer such a perverse obstinate wretch that will not be reclaim'd after frequent warnings and long forbearance such a harden'd Traytor and Rebel that will offend still and infect his fellow Subjects and draw them from their allegiance such an old accustom'd thief that will steal and rob still and is ripe for Execution Remember Christians he whom you offend is the great Landlord of Heaven and Earth and you are his Tenants and Tenants at will too and the Sabbath is his weekly Court-day whereon he summons all his Tenants to come in and pay their Homage and chief Rents whereby they acknowledge that they hold all under him and depend for all upon him and owe all to him And if you omit your duty and will not pay your suit and service what can you expect less than to be amerc'd and fin'd And you know not how soon be may send out his Officers the Angels and leavy those fines and Amerciaments on you and exact it of you And in what manner is at his pleasure whether on your Goods or Relations or Body or Soul for all is in his power and at his dispose and he has several Instruments of his wrath to execute his Will He may send the Thief to rob you and steal your Goods and in that Act retaliate your thievish tricks your robbing of God the false dealer to cheat you and go away with your Goods and Mony now a Tempest at Sea to drown some anon a fire by Land to burn the rest of your Goods and demolish your Houses and turn you out of possession one while he may send the Murraine amongst your Cattle another while Blasting and Mildew the Caterpillar and Palmer-Worm his Great Army as he stiles them Joel 2.25 and Blast and devour the Fruits of the Earth and baffle your hopes and expectations of a plentiful Crop make the Heavens above brass and the Earth beneath Iron withhold the Rain and break off the staff of Bread and cause the black horse to ride through your streets yea and the Pale horse too he may send the Plague and noisome Pestilence and other Diseases and afflict you in your persons and Relations Now a Child anon a Brother now a Father anon a Husband or a Wife or a dear Friend may be taken from you and leave you all in tears and sadness 'T is not unusual with God to snatch away some by death and that as an affliction and punishment to their offending Relatives Yea the Fine may be levied on your own persons that offend and the payment exacted of you either by sickness which takes away your Health by lameness which takes away your strength by madness which takes away your Reason or by some sad accident or sudden stroke which takes away your Life Or God may commute these punishments for temporal inflict spiritual ones a hard heart and a seared Conscience and a reprobate mind which was that severe spiritual Judgment which God inflicted on the Heathen for their Pride and Rebellion and rejecting the knowledge of God Rom. 1.28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient Or else he may epitomize along series of punishments contract them into that fatal Abridgment and Compendium of all miseries Eternal death That 's the second Argument Thirdly Consider 't is to sin against the Law against the Obligation of the Blood and love of our Redeemer to keep the Christian Sabbath is his Law And the chief design of it is to commemorate the work of our Redemption which was effected and compleated by the shedding of his most pretious Blood which is the greatest argument of divine Love Which Sabbath-breakers seem to have very little sense of and very little love and honour for their Redeemer But let such know that the Blood and Love which they spurn at and trample on will plead against them in another day the Blood of Jesus if despis'd and trodden under foot will speak worse things than the Blood of Abel the rejected the violated Law of Christ will exact a severer punishment than the despised Law of Moses So the Author to the Hebrews tells us Heb. 10.28 29. He that despised Moses Law died without mercy under two or three witnesses so did the man that gather'd sticks on the Sabbath day Numb 15.32 c. a small fault you 'll say but being a breach of the Law and he the first violater of it as Theodoret saith therefore for example to all others in future times he was so severly punished but what he did was out of necessity but how inexcusable are they that do needless works and break the Sabbath out of presumption and contempt of the Divine Authority and Obligations of the Blood and Love of our Redeemer Of how much sorer punishment suppose ye shall he be thought worthy who hath troden underfoot the Son of God and counted the blood of the Covenant an unholy thing and hath done despite unto the Spirit of Grace Well but perhaps