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	sin_n	21,606	5	4.7055	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96131	A preparative for the fast, or, a sovereigne balsome for the cure of the distempers of the times.	Weall, Job, 17th cent.	1642 (1642)	Wing W1186; Thomason E133_8; ESTC R23066	7,430	19

will not invite you to incline to a cure yet let the terrors and torment of thy diseases and Death allure thee and the consideration of thy Parents and friends or thy wife children estate and all that is thine or theirs Besides remember that thy life is not thine owne to dispose of thou must know that it is but lent thee for the service of thy Creator thou shalt aswell answer for the neglect of that due meanes God hath appointed thee for thy recoverie As for laying of violent hands upon thy selfe or any other both of them being Murther in the sight of God So likewise if the blessings and Commodities of Unitie and Order will not prevaile with thee Let the discommodities and terrours of Discord and disorder affright thee to it Suppose thy selfe and all thou hast or canst call deare and pretious to thee either for the present or the future were embarked only in one Vessell and it in a great storme amongst rocks quicksands and Pyrats and your only Cable that holds and preserves you from ruine were almost crackt in sunder Wouldst thou be so farre from lending thy hand to mend it that thou wouldest cut and breake it more Certainly no man in the same Ship that understands himselfs but will account thee a mad man for so doing and hinder thee from doing it Againe if there were but one Bulwarke or partion-wall that keepes us from our bloudy enemies and the cruelties of our adversaries wouldst thou be one of them that should pull it downe Thinke upon the hydeous roaring of Cannons the tormenting murders bloudy Massacres and lamentable cryes of thy Parents Wife Children or Friends and losse of all it may be of thine owne soule and theirs likewise Againe consider of those bounds and Fences which keepe in the violence of the Fire and the rage of the Waters which within their due bounds are usefull and profitable for thee wilt thou be so sencelesse to pull the fire out of the Chimney into the middle of thy house where Gun powder and other combustible matter is Wilt thou breake downe those bankes and let the Ocean in to make a perpetuall deluge and inundation of all Or let me demand of thee if thou hast so much judgement to discerne it whether in thy warfare thou wouldst not observe military discipline Wouldst thou bee one of them that shouldst endeavour to breake those rankes and formes thy Generall and Commanders order thee to fight in and thereby to let the enemy make an inrode upon thy route and disorder and so bring thee to confusion and you must know this may happen by so small a matter as the losse of one naile of an horse shooe inan Army and therefore how behoveful is it for thy Commanders and thee also to take care and prevent all disorder whatsoever in the least appearance Wherefore now as it stands thus desperate you are to be the more patient and willing to submit your selfe to your Physitians care and fidelity Be confident that they will doe nothing but for thy good for they and theirs are likewise interressed therein Thou must be contented to have thy ulcers and putulent wounds clensed before they are bound up and Fractures and Dislocations are not so easily united and reduced to the service of the body without some dolour Peradventure some of thy wounds are gangrened and have contracted so much virulencie that there must bee amputation and dismembring of that joynt But bee well assured that thy Physitians will not order it so to be unlesse they find absolute necessitie and then thou wilt find it better to part with a limme then lose thy life Peradventure they may see cause to make some evacuation of thy redundant and peccant humours which hinder thy wounds from healing and are apt to bring thee into other distempers When they see it fitting they will give thee Cordials to comfort thee and to give thee rest for thy unsetled and distempered spirits if they finde it to conduce to thy good By this time I hope you are resolved to be patient and therefore now I will apply my selfe to the Remedies Let this Principle be granted which indeed is not to be denied that all afflictions come from God and all injuries whatsoever doe befall us by the Providence of the Almighty and then we may presently draw these Conclusions That the instrument must doe that which the Almighty will have it to doe And that it can goe no farther then hee pleaseth to order it and therefore we must first apply our selves to him to remove it from whom it commeth The Disease indicates a necessity of a speedy Vnition and Reconciliation to be made with the Almighty whom wee have offended and provoked to wrath in and by the Mediation and intercession of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Speedy I say because that a little delay may bring a great deale of danger few dayes neglect in this case may hazard thy life And if this Remedy prevaile not sentence of Death may passe upon you sooner then you are aware Procrastination in wounds and other diseases often makes them incurable Continuance in sin is not the way to make satisfaction to God Confession and Contrition begets remission when obstinacie heapes on further punishment Do'st thou think to escape Gods hand by murmuring against him Be well assured if the sword of Justice prevailes not it may be the Plague or Famine shall or some severe judgement Thou shalt get nothing by thy impatience for thou art not able to resist the Almighty and if he takes the rod into his hand againe hee will make thee feele it to the purpose Let me rather advise thee to submit to the mercy of so gracious and loving a Father and not to stand to the terror and anger of the Almighty That wee may meet God in the way of his Judgements by Prayers and true Repentance that sweet Incense which will correct and dissipate those malevolent aspects It hath beene heartily prayed for and endeavoured that there might bee a generall monthly day of Humiliation for the blessing of the Parliament with Vnanimous proceedings for the setling of Religion in Truth Peace for the composing of distractions at Home and for the distresses and seasonable reliefe of our Brethren in Ireland for aversion of those impendent judgements over our heads Not forgetting to give thanks to the Lord for those manifold Mercies we have received and for all good meanes conducing to our reliefe That these dayes may take the better successe and effect As a praeparatory thereunto it may prove usefull and beneficiall if some grave Orthodox Divines and Christians wel setled and affected to the Truth and Peace of the Church and State did meet and consider of those chief and provoking Sinnes of this Kingdome which are those efficient and impulsive causes of our disunions and distiesses at this time There are questionlesse generall sinnes of Nations as well as of particular persons whereby God