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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
A09462	Satans sophistrie ansuuered by our Sauiour Christ and in diuers sermons further manifested / by that worthy man Maister William Perkins ; to which is added, a comfort for the feeble minded, wherein is set downe the temptations of a Christian.	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.	1604 (1604)	STC 19747.7; ESTC S4051	89,009	206

are helpes whereby men being humbled for their sinnes before God obtaine peace and holinesse of life 2. Cor. 1. 9. We receiued sentence of death in our selues because we should not trust in our selues but in God which raiseth the dead Esa. 26. 16. Lord in trouble haue they visited thee they powred out a prayer when thy chastening was vpon them Hos. 5. 15. I will go and returne to my place till they acknowledge their fault and seeke me in their affliction they will seeke me diligently Psal. 78. 34. When he flue them they sought him and they returned and they sought God early Ierem. 31. 18. I haue heard Ephraim lamenting thus Thou hast corrected me and I was chastised as an vntamed calfe conuert thou me and I shall be conuerted Heb. 12. 11. No chastisement for the present see●eth ioyous but grieuous but afterward it bringeth the quiet fruit of righteousnesse vnto them which are thereby exercised Psa. 30. 5. Weeping may abide at euening but ioy commeth in the morning Iohn 15. 2. Euery branch that beareth fruit he purgeth it that it may bring forth ●●re fruite 1. pet 1. 6. Wherein ye reioyce though now for a season if need require ye are in heauinesse through many temptations 2. Cor. 1. 4. The God of all comfort which comforteth vs in all our tribulations that we may be able to comfort them which are in affliction by the comfort wherewith our selues are comforted of God Rom. 5. 3. We glory in afflictions knowing that affliction bringeth patience Heb. 2. 10. He did consecrate the Prince of their saluation through affliction We permit Chirurgians that they both bind vs lying diseased in our beds and seare vs with hot irons yea lanch and search our members with rasors and lastly we send them away vsually with friendly and kind speeches often with a golden fee for their thus handling vs. Shal we thē suffer so many things of a Chirurgian to cure a bodily disease and will we not giue God leaue to cure by afflictions the most festered diseases of our sicke soules Lidia What is to be gathered hence Paul By this we may gather that the afflictions of the godly are signes of their adoption Heb. 12. 6. Whom the Lord loueth he chasteneth and he scourgeth euery sonne that he receiueth 7. If ye endure chastisement God offereth himselfe vnto you as vnto sonne● And that they are to them the Kings high way to heauen Iames 1. 12. Blessed 〈◊〉 the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried he shall receiue the crowne of life which the Lord hath promised to them that loue 〈◊〉 2. Cor. 4. 17. For our light affliction which i● but for a moment causeth vnto vs a farre more excellent and an eternall waight of glory 3 That God hath promised fauour mitigation of punishment his presence and deliuerance Philip. 1. 29. 1. Cor. 10. 13. God is faithfull who will not suffer you to be tempted aboue measure but with temptation will giue deliuerance 2. Sam. 7. 14. Psal. 50. 15. Call vpon me in time of trouble and I will deliuer thee and thou shalt glorifie me Psal. 121. 4. He that keepeth Israel will neither slumber nor sleepe Esa. 43. 2. When thou passest through the waters I will be with thee and through the flouds that they do not ouerwhelme thee when thou walkest through the very fire thou shalt not burne neither shal the flame kindle vpon thee 3. For I am the Lord thy God the holy one of Israel thy sauiour 4 That in all troubles of the faithfull Christ is a companion 1. Pet. 4. 13. Reioyce that ye are partakers of the afflictions of Christ. 2 Cor. 4. 10. Euery where we beare about in our bodie the dying of Christ that the life of Iesus might also be made manifest in our bodies Col. 1. 21. 5 That the Angels are readie to defend such as feare God Psal. 34. 8. 2. Kings 6. 16. Feare not there are more with vs then against vs. Lidia But of all calamities the remembrance of death is fearful vnto me giue me I pray you some few preseruatiues against it Paul Against the feare of death note these preseruatiues First death it freeth the godly from the tyrannie of Satan sinne the world the flesh and eternall damnation yea frō infinite both perils and losses and doth place vs both safe and happie vnder the shadow as it were of Christs wings Secondly Christ by his death hath sanctified vnto vs both death and the graue 3 Christ is both in life and death gaine to the godly Phil. 1. 12. 4 Those consolations which the spirit of Christ doth suggest to the soules of the faithful do by many degrees surmount the dolors of death 5 The desire of that most bright and glorious beholding of God and the presence of those Saints which are departed before vs. 6 In stead of our bodies we shall be clothed with glory 2. Cor. 5. 1. 7 The sting of death namely sin is then so taken away as that that serpent can no more hurt vs. 1. Cor. 15. 55. O death where i● thy sting O graue where is thy victory Heb. 2. 15. That he might deliuer all them which for feare of death were all their life time subiect to bondage 8 We should not so much thinke of our death as to take an exact account of our life For that man cannot die ill who hath liued well and he seldome dieth well that hath liued badly 9 The Angels they stand at our elbowes that so soone as a Saint departeth they may with al speed immediatly transport his soule into heauen Soules being once in heauen remain ther● till the last day of iudgement where they partly magnifie the name of God and partly do waite and pray for the consummation of the kingdom of glory and ful felicitie in body and soule Reu. 5. 8. And when he had taken the booke the foure beasts and the foure and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb hauing euery one harpes and golden vials full of odours which are the prayers of the Saints 9. And they sang a new song saying Thou art worthy to take the booke and to open the seales thereof because thou wast killed and hast redeemed vs to God by thy bloud out of euery kinred and tong and people and nation Reuel 14. 2. I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harpes 3. And they sung as it were a new song before the throne and they cried with a loud voice saying How long Lord holy and true doest not thou iudge and auenge our bloud on them that dwel on the earth Lidia Yet for all this Satan in the time of temptation and at the houre of death wil go about to perswade me that these things do not belong vnto me what must I do then Paul Descend into your owne heart see whether you haue Gods spirit or no testifying vnto you that you are Gods child for as many as haue the spirit