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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	punishment_n	sin_n	wage_n	4,100	5	11.0461	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86974	A sermon preach't to his Maiesty, at the court of White-hall. Aug.8. / By Jos. B. of Exon.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1641 (1641)	Wing H414; Thomason E1100_2; ESTC R208332	12,915	54

rather bethinke which of those many thousand sinnes which they have multiplyed against heaven they are called to reckoning for and would have no word in their mouth but mea culpa mea culpa Now as where punishment is there was sin so where sin is there will be there must be punishment If thou dost ill saith God to Cain Sin lyes at the doore Gen. 4.7 Sin that is punishment for sin they are so inseparable that one word implyes both for the doing ill is the sin that is within doores but the suffring ill is the punishment and that lies like a fierce mastive at the door and is ready to fly in our throat when we looke forth and if it do not then seize upon us yet it dogs us at the heeles and will be sure to fasten upon us at our greatest disadvantage Tum gravior cum tarda venit c. Iosephs brethren had done haynously ill what becomes of their sin It makes no noyse but followes them slily and silently in the wildernes it followes them home to their fathers house it followes them into Egypt all this while there is no newes of it but when it found them cooped up three dayes in Pharaohs ward now it bayes at them and flies in their faces We are verily guilty concerning our brother in that we saw the anguish of his soule c. Gen. 42.21 What should I instance in that whereof not Scripture not bookes but the whole world is full the inevitable sequences of sin and punishment Neither can it be otherwise Shall not the Iudge of all the earth doe right saith Abraham Gen. 18.25 Right is to give every one his due wages is due to work now the wages of sin is death So then it stands upon no lesse ground then the very necessary and essential justice of God that where wickednes hath led the way there punishment must follow There is more need to apply then to prove so cleare a truth How then I beseech you honorable and beloved stands the case with us where is the man that dare flatter us so much as to say there is not store of wickednesse found in our hands Wo is mee we are in the eyes of all the world no lesse eminent in Gods favours then in our owne sinfulnesse It is past our power to either conceale or denye or excuse our abominable iniquities Certainly if we change not we are sure God will not What can we then expect from that just hand of the Almighty but that he should turne our fruitfull land into barrennesse for the wickednesse of us that dwell in it I may not be so sawcy to presage by what course he will doe it That Almighty arbiter of the world hath a thousand wayes to his own ends but it is not an improbable note of the Author of our Fasciculus temporum that there is trifarius cursus rerum Abundantiae indigentiae temperantiae a three fold course of things of Abundance want tempreance From abundance or excesse arises animosity and delicacy from these arises discord and quarrells and from these want from want we beginne to learne wit and compose ourselves to temperance that thrifty course raises abundance In circuitu ambulant impii as he speakes Now what shall we say Of the abundance and delicacy we have surfeited already too long we are now in the quarrelsome part that arises from our pampered animosity and what can follow next but our miserable indigence and distresse we may please our selves in the secure condition of our happy union in the strength of our wooden walls and our naturall Bulwarkes But I remember what I have read of a noble and wise Captain who when he was vehemently moved to take upon him the Defence of a strong City which was inforced to him by the safe site strong fortifications plentifull ammunition and inexpugnable walls of it Yea saith he but tell me I pray you have you any covering betwixt it and heaven have you any defence against the vengeance of that God whom your sins have provoked If those sins of yours shall draw downe Gods curses upon your heads to what purpose shall it be to indeavour to keep your enemy out of your gates The story applies it selfe In vaine shall we thinke to secure our selves and our state from earth if we irritate heaven There is no sin that is dumb there is none that whispers every one is vocall loud clamorous to solicit heaven for vengeance but some are more shrill and importunate then others God hath been pleased to distinguish their noyse Oppression is one that hee heares above the rest That hath two tongues both lowd ones both prevalent The cry of the Oppressed and the cry of the Oppression The Lord will enter into judgement with the Ancients of his people and the Princes thereof Wherefore The spoile of the poore is in their houses What meane you that ye beat my people to pieces and grinde the faces of the poore saith the Lord God of hoasts Isay 3.14 Contempt of Gods Ministers is another and that 's a paying sin wheresoever it is Ier. 25.4 Even Moses himselfe that was mitissimus super terram yet when he comes to speake of affronts offered to Levy can say Smite through the loynes of them that rise against him and of them that hate him that they rise not againe Deut. 33.11 What should I particularize The Lord hath a controversie with the land saith the Prophet Hosea By swearing and lying and killing and stealing and committing adultery they breake out and blood toucheth blood Therefore shall the Land mourne Hos 4.2 Doth hee not speake of our times think you But above all these there is a sin which wheresoever it is drownes the noyse of all the rest and that is Sacriledge which certainly in what hand in what nation soever it is found hurries downe an inevitable judgment It was a fearfull word that of the Psalmist Make their Nobles like Oreb and Zeeb yea all their Princes like Zeba and Zalmunna who said Let us take to our selves the houses of God in possession O my God make them like a wheel Psal 84.11 12. Indeed how can it be otherwise Will a man rob God sayes the Prophet Yee are cursed with a curse for ye have robbed mee Malachy 3.9 What should I tell you the stories of Baltasar of Heliodorus of Crassus of Iulian of the Templars of Woolsey and of his Master H. 8. shortly show me the man the family the nation that ever prospered after sacriledge I am sure I have a great Author to the contrary no lesse then one of the nine worthies Charles the great Novimus saith he multa regna reges eorum propterea cecidisse quia ecclesias spoliarunt résque earum alienarunt militibus loco stipendii dederunt We have known saith he great Kingdoms and the Kings of them therefore to have miscarried because they spoyled Churches and alienated their possessions and gave them to their souldiers for their pay If any man have a mind to feoffe a curse upon himself and his posterity let him defile his fingers with the holy things of God Oh let this portion be to the enemies of my Lord the King and our deare country But upon him and his friends and his peeres and people that abhorre this wickednesse let there be blessings from God even upon them and their seed for ever and ever Finally then since there is no wickednes which doth not mainly contribute to the pulling down of Gods vengeance upon us and our Land Let us in the feare of God joyn all our forces together against all the raigning sins of the time Let us never thinke we can spend our selves better then in striving against the stream of our pressing iniquities Wherefore hath God put the sword into the hands of you great men but that you should use it to the effectuall cutting down of all wickednesse and vice Wherefore hath God put the two-edged sword of the Spirit into the mouthes of us his Ministers but that we should lay about us zealously in season and out of season to the hewing downe of the over-growne abominations of this sinfull age Yea how doth it concerne every one of you who heare mee this day if you would be but wise men and good patriots to put your hand to the work and to bend your utmost indeavours to the beating downe of your owne sins and carefully to ransacke all the blinde corners of your hearts to finde out the cursed Achan in your owne bosomes Oh that each man would thus undertake to reforme one How sure should we be that the good God of heaven would divert his fearful judgements and graciously continue the blessings of peace plenty prosperity and together with them of an happy government and the freedome of the blessed Gospell to us and our posterity after us which God vouchsafe unto us for his mercies sake and for the sake of the Son of his love Iesus Christ the Iust c. To whom c. FINIS