Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

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
A02259	Deaths deliverance, and Eliahes fiery charet, or The holy mans triumph after death Delivered in two sermons preached at Plymouth, the one the 16. the other the 19. of August: the former at the funerall of Thomas Sherwill, an eminent and pious magistrate of that place. 1631. By Alexander Grosse now pastor of Bridford.	Grosse, Alexander, 1596?-1654.	1640 (1640)	STC 12394; ESTC S117896	44,988	121

shall wickednesse deliver those that are given to it The proofe of this is as needlesse as to prove the going downe of the Sunne from our Horizon which every eye may daily behold and see neither is it strange for There is some sinne some corruption in the best there is that seed Reasons 1 which bringeth forth death as the moth eates the garment the worme in the tree makes him moulder the leak in the ship letteth in the water untill at length it sinke so sinne where it once entreth once taketh up his abode death doth ensue and follow after as the threed followeth the needle as r Ruth 1.16 Ruth followed Naomi as Ionathans Armour-bearer said to him Å¿ 1 Sam. 14.7 turn thee behold I am with thee according to thy heart so may death say to sinne for which way soever that turnes or goeth before it death doth without faile ensue and follow t Rom. 5.12 after it This is the u Rom. 6.23 wages belonging to it the payment never faileth as Salomon saith of other buildings w Eccl. 10.18 by much slothfulnesse the building decayeth and through idlenesse of the hands the house droppeth through So may I say of these our earthly Tabernacles through our corruptions these weake buildings of our bodies doe decay and through the sinne which is within us this house droppeth through till at length it falleth to the ground commeth to the grave sinne is the mother and death the daughter x Lam. 3.42 43. Lam. 3.42 43. Reasons 2 This sutes with the present condition of Gods people they are y 1 Pet. 2.11 Pilgrims this is not their z Heb. 11.9 14. Country now they are a 1 Cor. 9.24 Travellers and tend every day to their journies end and as Israel could not come to Canaan but through the b 1 Cor. 10.1 Red Sea no more can Gods people attaine their journies end but by death when the prison walls are beaten downe then they who are kept in fetters there may goe forth c 2 Cor. 5.1 2. We know saith the Apostle that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved wee have a building of God a house not made with hands eternall in the Heavens This maketh them also in some sort Reasons 3 conformable to Christ their head Our Lord and Master hath drunke of this cup trodden this path before us and the d Mat. 10.24 Disciple must not looke to bee above his Master but as in other things so in this we must be made like him to this we are e Ro. 8.29 ordained wee must first be like him in his sufferings and then we shall be like him in his raigning f 2 Tim. 2.11 It is a faithfull saying if we be dead with him we shall also live with him if we suffer we shall also raigne with him Therefore as Gideon said unto his Souldiers g Judg. 7.17 Looke on me as yee see mee doe so doe yee so must we looke on our Gideon our Christ our Captaine and doe as wee have seene him doe before us This workes the utter destruction Reasons 4 of sinne in them as Sampson by his h Judg. 16.30 death destroyed the Philistines his enemies so the righteous by their death destroy their corruptions sinne is like a subtile Fox that cannot bee taken till his holds be destroyed like ivie in the wall which cannot be totally taken away till the stones be pulled asunder Israel could not be freed from the i Exo. 14. Morte peccati praecisionem homo lucratur ne malum immortale esset ita poena ipsi in misericordiam cessit Nazian Orat. 38. Egyptians till they came to the red sea no more can Gods people of their sinnes till they come to the grave by death doe the righteous gaine the cutting off of sinne and death which was a punishment is turned to a mercy to all that walke uprightly But Christ hath dyed for them and their sinne is forgiven Gods Justice is fully satisfied how then can God bee just in bringing death on them Quest Shall the principall be arrested and cast into prison when the surety hath formerly paid the debt for him Resp Christ who hath paid the debt for us was freely k Joh. 3.16 given of God to us given not instantly to conferre upon us an actuall freedome from all evills but in due time after we have beene exercised with variety of tryalls God doth not onely give Christ but also apply him unto us and when there is a full application of Christ to beleevers then there shall be a compleat l Ephes 1.14 redemption from all evils and thus though Christ have paid the ransome yet God doth us no wrong in suffering us to be exercised with many troubles because there is not yet a full application of this ransome and because God gave him in such a way and manner to bring his chosen to salvation as seemed best to his own wisdome God promised Canaan to Israel but yet he led them through the red sea before he brought them thither and in so doing did them no wrong Death to the people of God is not evill the curse is taken away Death is like Moses m Exod. 4.3 4. serpent it may at first sight make the people of God afraid as that did him but as Moses afterwards tooke the Serpent in his hand and it did him no harme so is death to the righteous like a Serpent without a sting like a Souldier overcome and his weapons taken from him n 1 Cor. 15.55 56 57. O death saith Saint Paul where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory the sting of death is sinne the strength of sinne is the Law but thankes be unto God which giveth us the victory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Death is ordained of God to be the destruction of sinne in his children as David cut off o 1 Sam. 17 50 51. Goliahs head with his owne sword so will God destroy sin by death which is held as a sword in sinnes hand Death is to Gods people as the red sea to Israel the destruction of the enemies of their salvation an end of all miseries a passage to everlasting life so that Gods people have freedome from the evill but not from the necessity of dying and herein is the wonderfull power wisdome and goodnesse of God very clearely seene even in changing the nature of death and making it to his people so usefull which in it selfe is so hurtfull Vse Doe the godly the dye are not the righteous exempted must they taste of this cup It is then in vaine for the wicked unrighteous unmercifull to dreame of escapall As the Apostle said in another case p 1 Pet. 4.17 if judgment begin at the house of God what shall bee the end of them which obey not the Gospel of God and as our Saviour also said in another case q Luk. 23.31