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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	serpent_n	sin_n	sting_n	4,692	5	12.2188	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01092	The means to keepe sinne from reigning in our mortall body A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, May 26. 1629. By William Foster, Master of Arts, and parson of Hedgeley in the county of Buckingham.	Foster, William, 1591-1643.	1629 (1629)	STC 11204; ESTC S120710	21,469	38

Syrach saith that we must flie from sinne tanquam à facie colubri as from the face of a Serpent for if thou commest too neere 〈◊〉 it will bite thee the teeth thereof are as the teeth of a Lyon ●●aying the soules of men Ecclus. 21. 2. We must flie from sinne as from the face of a serpent For as in the face of a serpent lieth all the danger because there is the poyson and the teeth so in obeying of lusts which are the faces and first appearings of sin we shall swell with the poyson of sin and be bitten with the teeth of death Or wee must flie from sinne 〈◊〉 from the face of a serpent that is from the heads and first lustfull motions of sinne A serpent hath a head a taile and a bodie Capite immisso totus statim illabitur And if she get her head into a place the whole bodie is so glib and ●ubricke that it will quickly enter in after So in yeelding to lusts which are the heads of sinne the whole bodie of sinne will quickly follow after For lusts the heads of sinne though they seeme small yet they will make no small worke where they enter They are like young rogues who getting their heads in at the windowes creepe in and open the doores for the great theeues to spoile the house For lusts the heads of sinne are not idle heads but like Iesuites heads working mischeeuous heads contriuing treason against the state both of soule and bodie Lusts will hatch sinne sinne will produce death and death will bring a thousand endlesse woes and miseries Now our lusts are many our acts of sinne many and the deaths produced by sinne and the lusts thereof as many Mi●●e ●●dis homines miser●s mors ●na f●rig●● Death assayes men a thousand wayes But death in generall produced by sinne and his lusts is threefold Viz. Mors 1. Corporis The death of the bodie 2. Anima The death of the soule 3. Corporis anima The death of both 1. The death of the bodie So dead was La●arus Iohn 11. 2. The death of the soule So dead are such widdowes whereof S. Paul speaketh 1 Tim. 5. 6. So dead was hee to whom out Sauiour Christ said Let the dead burie their dead follow thou mee Matth. 8. 22. A strange speech Let the dead burie their dead As if the dead had not as much need to be buried themselues as to burie other dead and as vnable to burie other dead as themselues But our Sauiour Christ meant it of those which followed sinne and not him being via vita veritas The way the life and the truth that they were dead alreadie in their soules that in them as Theophylact speaketh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their liuing bodies were nothing else but coffins of their dead carrion stincking soules 3. The death both of bodie and soule So was Diues Luk. 16. He prayed therefore he had a soule Hee had a tongue to be cooled therefore a bodie He was dead therefore dead both in bodie and soule Thus die all they that suffer sinne to reigne in their mortall bodie Nay they are not onely dead but buried while they liue Their sinnes become their graues Tumulusiste mali mores saith S. Ambrose Their throat is an open sepulcher saith the Prophet Dauid Psal 14. 5. Nay they are not onely dead and buried but they are dead and buried and in hell whilst they liue Nobiscum videntur vinere sed sunt in infern● saith S. Ambrose They seeme to liue with vs but in verie deed they are in hell For where are presumptuous sinners but where the Deuill is that first presumed to sinne And where is hell but where the Deuill is that was without redemption cast out of Heauen O then my beloued take heed of going on in wickednesse nip sinne in the bud yeeld not obedience to the lusts of sin Lusts are the iawes of sinne and the king reignes where his lawes are obeyed Lusts will goe on to acts acts will goe on to custome custome will goe on to the death and destruction both of bodie and soule For God will wound the hairie scalpe of such as goe on still in their wickednesse Psal 68. 21. The sinner goes on in his sinnes and God goes on to punish their sinnes sinne followes sinne and one death followes another The second death followes the first the death of the bodie begins and the death of both bodie and soule followes after The death of the bodie is cum anima deserit corpus when the soule forsakes the bodie and is by order naturall statutum est omnibus c. It is decreed for all men once to die Heb. 9. 27. The death of the soule is cum animam descrit Deus when God forsakes the soule and is by diuine Iustice iudiciall the soule that sinneth shall die Ezech. 18. 4. The death of both bodie and soule is cum anima à Deo deserta deserit corpus when God forsakes the soule and the soule forsaken of God forsakes the bodie and is by equalitie proportionall For both bodie and soule haue sinned therefore they both die both are punished Qui i●●guntur in culpâ non separantur in poenâ saith S. Cyprian Those that are partners in the fault must also bee partners in the punishment for the fault But yet a man may so die the first that he may escape the other death Hee may so die that he may repaire the ruines of his mortall bodie and not die for euer For as a ruinous house though the wals bee fallen downe and the roofe perished may by reparation be sustained and be made more beautifull than at first so long as the maine and principall posts thereof are kept sound So this mortall bodie of ours though it be ruinous and the fleshy walls falling downe and the thatch of the roofe thereof decaying with hoatie haires yet so long as the principall pillars thereof bee not pulled downe as Samson did the house vpon the Philistins that is so long as the members of our bodie the pillers thereof are not yeelded as instruments of vnrighteousnesse vnto sinne to let sinne reigne but yeelded as those that are aliue from the dead as instruments of righteousnesse vnto God and sinne suppressed wee may repaire this mortall bodie and make it more beautifull than before Corruption putting on incorruption and mortalitie putting on immortalitie death being swallowed vp in victorie O death where is thy sting O hell where is thy victorie 1 Cor. 15. 44 45. And this leads me by the hand to the last part of my text to speake of the kingdome our mortall bodie and the repairing thereof Let not sinne reigne therefore in your mortall bodie 3. In your mortall bodie ANd here by our mortall bodie we must not vnderstand onely our lumpe of flesh part of man but totum