Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	life_n	lord_n	power_n	8,674	5	4.5803	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19502	A most comfortable and Christian dialogue, betweene the Lord, and the soule. By Mr. William Covvper, minister of Gods word	Cowper, William, 1568-1619.	1617 (1617)	STC 5930; ESTC S115089	12,528	72

Is it not among my praises that I am able to doe exceeding abundantly aboue all that my Children can aske or think of me Knowest thou not that as the Heauens are aboue the Earth so my thoughts are aboue thine hast thou not considered that my mercy is aboue all my workes how much more then is it aboue thee who art nothing in comparison of my works and if it bee aboue thee how much more aboue all that thou canst do why thē wilt thou match thy sins with my mercies If require such mercy in my childrē that I will haue one of them to forgiue another not onely seuen times but seuenty times seuen times what pitty and compassion and readinesse to forgiue is in my selfe Therefore my beloued despaire not for the multitude of thy sins but be cōforted with my promises of mercy I haue made them without any exception of time For at what time soeuer a sinner doth repent him of his sins I haue promised to put away his wickednes out of my remembrance I haue made them without exception of sins for albeit your sins were as skarlet they shall be made as white as snow I haue made them without exception of persons for whosoeuer shal depart from his wicked waies turne to me I shall receiue him Let this threefold vniuersality of my promises sustaine thee that thy infidelitie contract not my mercies into narrower bounds then I haue extended them The SOVLE BE mercifull O Lord to my infidelity I beleeue in part Lord helpe my vnbeliefe stablish confirme my vnstable heart with thy good and holy spirit My conscience doth in such sort condemne mee that I stand in feare of thy iustice for thou art greater then the conscience wilt much more condemne me if thou dost enter into iudgement with me The LORD O My beloued consider that the cause of thy present vnquietnes is because with the one eye thou lookest to thy sins my Fathers iustice with the other lookest not to me in whome his iustice is satisfied and thy sins punished already Tell me I pray thee thinkest thou to get in thy selfe and the holines of thy dispositiō that which shall exempt thee from the feare of his Iustice Or art thou content to seeke it in me If in thy selfe thou seekest it remember what thou art doing wilt thou haue the Lord bound and obliged to thee wilt thou be thine own Sauiour or shall it be sayd his mercy saued thee not if no miserie were in thee whereupon should his mercy be manifested and if thy disposition in the earth were such as it should be then what remaineth but that the prais of his mercy should fall to the ground turne thee therefore to mee and seeke thy life in mee If thou wilt know what is thine thou art a sinner let my praise bee reserued to my selfe I am thy Sauiour Esteemest thou that my wounds are ineffectuall or that there is no force in my sufferings countest thou thy sinnes so deadly that my merit and vertue cannot cure them Will any Phisicion powre out a rare oyntment either where no need is or else where it cannot profit and thinkest thou that my Father would haue my bloud to be shed in vaine If his iustice terrifie thee remēber his iustice was satisfied in mee and that he pronounceth this sentence himselfe This is my wel-beloued Son in whom I am well pleased I came into the world not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance Tarry not from mee because thou art a sinner but for that cause come to mee and I will refresh thee The SOVLE O Lord I know that there is a clensing and reconciling vertue in thy bloud that life is in thy death but still I feare my sins deserue thou shouldest neither apply thy vertue nor thy merit to me for alas I find that yet the old man is strong and liuely in mee and that yet the motions of sinne haue power in mee to bring foorth fruite vnto death The LORD BE not I pray thee iniurious to the worke of my Grace in thee complaine not so of thy corruption but that thou maist giue vnto mee mine own praise Canst thou deny but that thou hast felt my power working in thy Soule Haue I not sprinkled thy conscience many times with the pacifying bloud of Christ frō which hath flowed to thee such a witnessing of good things such a sense of mercy as for the time hath filled thy heart with ioy and thy mouth with song of praise Haue I not sometime stirred thee vp in great feruencie to call on the Name of the Lord Haue I not made thee to giue Christs name a publike testimonie with thine owne disaduantage and how oft hath thine heart been effectually moued at the hearing of my word in such sort that it hath wrought in thee an holy remorse an inward contrition for thy sins which hath broken out into teares haue I not made thee a wrestler against thy inordinate lusts haue I not giuen thee strength many a time to stand against Sathans temptations whereas if I had left thee to thy selfe how oftē haddest thou bin made a prey to thine enemie Remembrest thou not that the Tempter hath assaulted thee but I haue with-drawne the occasion of sin and when the occasion serued did not I restraine and hold back the Tempter 〈◊〉 when both the Tempter and occasion were present haue I not filled thy heart with the feare loue of my name and so kept thee from sinning against me wheras many times of thy weaknes thou hast offended did I not with a melting heart mourning eye raise thee againe and renew my former familiarity with thee so that thou canst neuer say from the first houre that I begun to renew thee that I suffered thee to lie in thy sin as I haue done others that are strangers from my grace And many moe notable effects of my working in thee thou canst not deny Are not these the vndoubted tokens of my Grace in thee will Nature doe such things mayest thou not feele by these that I haue begun to apply to thee Christs merit for the remission of thy sin and Christs vertue for quickening thee to a new life Therefore think of thy selfe as basely as thou wilt but let the worke of my grace be esteemed of thee according to the excellencie of it be humble cast downe when thou lookest to thine owne corruption I finde no fault with thee but I reioyce am glad at the new Workmanship which I haue begunne in thee Indeed if there were nothing in thee but that which thou hast of nature thy estate were miserable but seeing thou seest a new workmanship in thee be comforted art thou so in darknesse that there is no light in thee or doth sin so possesse thee that beside it also there is not in thee a will to do good a loue to righteousnesse If thou saist thou hast no sin