Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	let_v	life_n	soul_n	9,147	5	4.9888	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87672	A sermon preached before the Commissioners of both kingdomes, the same day they delivered the propositions to the Kings Maiesty, for a safe and well-grounded peace. / By Samuel Kem, Batchelour in Divinity.	Kem, Samuel, 1604-1670.	1646 (1646)	Wing K255; Thomason E346_14; ESTC R201011	22,136	38

new Physick The Lord give skill also to discover all such if any before they too much retard the Churches cure The Lord make you all men of affections and bowels to lay to heart and pitty the Kingdoms wounds Nay thirdly men of diligence neglecting no opportunity the losse of time may be the losse of life Now if ever pray for good successe Indeed the condition of the three Kingdomes doth not onely require it but the distressed of the Land expect that you croud thorough all difficulties and carnall reasonings and by any means represent their condition to the Lord in the way of extraordinary duty I could wish we would at last leave mocking and deluding the poore Church of God and deale open-heartedly with them we promise and professe we will doe any thing for their ease and yet more then show nothing is done to this day we are like an idle servant alwayes going of an arrant but never goe and do it For shame now at last let us lessen weaken our sins that we may strengthen our prayers the life of three Kingdoms is at stake nay of the Church of God for ought you know pardon my importunity if I sollicite you to be active by a few Motives it being upon life and death of three famous Kingdoms 1. Motive Yours and everie one of our Relations to it it is the Church of God of which you are fellow-members it is the ship of which you are partowners in which your lives nay the lives of your precious Soules and all the provisions for your posterities are imbarked Since the storme began I confesse you have rowsed up many a lazie and shorting Jonah nay you have cast most of the unnecessary lumber that was more burthensome then serviceable to the ships use into the Sea shall I say nay som● part out of their seas and yet all is not well the poor ship drawes much blood yet swims very deepe in the Red Sea I beseech you rumedgy the ship once more and if you find any seeds men of Division S. Paul in the 16. of the Romans 17. intreats you to take notice of them as monsters and I have read it is prodigiously ominous to a ship to be haunted with monsters Raysing parties in a family ship or army is a thing of very sad consequence thirefore the Apostle dares give it under his hand that God is not the author of confusion but of peace as in all the Churches of the Saints 1 Cor. 14.33 Truly it is a sad thing to see the members of Jesus Christ out of joynt for Christ falls not off from his members why should the members fall off from one another There can be no such reason given why we should seperate one from another as there can be why Christ might seperate from us It is the glory of Christs body when every member is serviceable to 〈…〉 ●…ole in its right place These are also weighty luggedge and the Apostle adviseth such after admonition to be cast out for these extreamly prevent the exact performance of proportionable duty Lastly let every one search his owne Cabine whether he have not secretly brought no unwarrantable goods aboard for his own ends that may make the ship liable to forfeiture If so over with them what a shame is it to any man to forfeit a ship for his owne advantage or the Church should perish for concealed abhominations unpardoned sinners are dead men and dead men are prejudiciall to a ship and therefore to be cast over else God will say ere long as to Abimelech 〈◊〉 20.3 Behold thou art but a dead man for the woman thou hast taken so for the sin you have committed and are taken in Why should we joy in any thing whilst the Chruch may take hurt the Saints of God have ever been as tender of it as their selves and preferred its good before all injoyments If I forget Jerusalem let my right hand forget its cunning It was so deare and went so neere to old Ely the news of its losse when the Ark was taken that it is disputed whether his heart or neck brake first Wherefore I beseech you let your relation to it make you now in its misery to put forth and hazzard your selves to the utmost for relieving Mercy Mordecais Motive to Esther was it was her Nation it s mine to you they are your Nations it is your Church your Families your Houses your Estates your Children Wives Selves Souls your Gospell Ordinances are aimed at O pray pray Fast and pray cry mightily all 's at stake 2. Motive Because such duty if the Church be fick or Sentenced unto death under a decree Nay although with Ezekiah it hath received a message That it shall dye and not live yet it is of power to procure God to visit it and one of his visites is halfe the recovering of it 〈◊〉 ●8 14 It is some comfort to men that are labouring under hard undertakings that they labour not in vain be of good courage and of good comfort Your labour is not in vaine with the Lord for his decreed Church to ruine 3. Motive It is your last refuge it is that besides which you have hardly any thing left you If men have nothing left or have spent all but their fingers ends to maintaine them and their families they had need ply them diligently and cherish them carefully If a house stand but on one pillar it had need oft to be viewed for repaires and to see that be safe and well founded prayer is as it were the only Pillar of the Church it is as the fingers ends we had need imploy our fingers ends for our selves and our fellow-members in misery if we intend a livelihood 4. Motive You are all sentenced and by your Enemies appoynted to dye I hope no true member of the Church but will speake a word for himselfe I confesse our owne guilt might sow up our lips and we might bee left wordlesse but yet if God offer thee an opportunity ply him for thy life and the Churches safety with importunity for if thou speed not this way thou art undone for ever Your life is on it there is no trifling with life doe you not know what condemned men do in point of life for pardon Improve all their friends all their time all their skill all for a pardon so do you and prosper 5. Motive Because by this kinde of duty if you cannot prevaile with God and that for causes best known to himselfe for complete redemption out of misery Yet you shall for a mitigation of it and for a sanctified use of it and for strength of grace to undergo it and there is a great deale of difference in mens sufferings and deaths all men die but some men are kil'd by death It was the saying of a godly man he did aegrotare vitaliter so the godly doe mori vitaliter for nothing can arme death to hurt us but sin otherwise thou art hard sting-free