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
A65073	The saints nearness to God being a discourse upon part of the CXLVIII Psalm / written at the request of a friend by Richard Vines ...	Vines, Richard, 1600?-1656.; Drury, William.	1662 (1662)	Wing V567; ESTC R3254	27,474	152

right Covenant is a perpetual Covenant such as they stand to through the attendance of unavoidable crosses and enemies Thirdly It is a Covenant which is not forgotten Men oft go so far as to make Covenants for ever but they forget them As mens evidences covered over with dust or thrown into a corner are out of sight and so forgotten so Covenants with God are covered over with sin or thrown into a corner a corner of the world pleasure or profit or credit and so are forgotten Hast thou not made a Covenant with God which is forgotten that some lust or other hath made thee quite forget it as if no such thing had been if thy Covenant be right 't is such a Covenant as is not forgotten The next signe of a Sign 2 Covenant-right is that where that is there are mutual passages of love and kindnesse as commerce and traffique so 't is between the soul and God in Covenant Then as God presents thee with mercy life peace friends presents with grace and the pearl Christ Jesus lockt up in the Cabinet of the Promises thou canst not but say as Peter said to the lame man asking an alms Such as I have I give thee though Silver and Gold have I none grace nor glory my goodnesse extends not to thee yet I give thee my self my thoughts affections and all I have I present thee my prayers and thanks and service Dost thou trade with him in duty as he traffiques with thee in mercy Hath he made thy heart his great staple of merchandize to exchange continually duty for mercy it is a sign thou art in Covenant with him On the contrary dost thou get what thou canst from him without leave without praying for them take things by force health wealth and the like not paying any thing any service not custome so much as the least deserved service it is a sign of one out of Covenant for only an enemy out of league will rob a Common-wealth or take things by force Lastly If thou art in league with God then thou hast common friends and foes with him Gods friends are thy friends and his foes thy foes Do not I hate Psal 139. 21 22. them that hate thee c. yea thou hatest sin and Psal 97. 10. the fuel and bellowes of sin the world and Satan which feeds and blows up sinne A man in Covenant hates sinne Men hate the sting and love the Serpent hate sin as 't is attended with Hell and death but love the sin it self Doest thou therefore hate sin thy worldly mindednesse or pride or uncleannesse or whatsoever it be so dost thou hate sinners as steept in sin as enemies too to thy inner man So again hast thou common friends with God to love where God loves and as far as he loves to love the very sight and shew of holinesse the name of a godiy man And doest thou love every thing that may confirm and continue the League the Ordinances betwixt God and thee though never so contrary and crosse to thy corrupt nature it is then a sign thou art in Covenant with God The second signe is from the second degree of nearnesse the nearnesse of Subject Whether art thou as a Subject of Gods or no if thou art a true Subject then thou obeyest his Laws and Proclamations then art thou confined in thy wayes within the precincts of his Laws so as to do thy indeavour to keep them even all of Psal 119. 33 34. them with thy whole man and that for ever Then all his Laws stand in force upon thy whole man till they are cal'd in by a new Act of the Court of Parliament of Heaven Thou endeavourest also to keep the least Commandment and doest not remain a wilfull breaker of it though it might get thee never so much Again Thou obeyest his Proclamations every promulgation of his will or any Law that by ill custome is ready to be antiquated and abolisht Every new duty commanded by his high Commission his Ministers whose office it is to beat down new up-rising enormities by dispeircing his Proclamations and fastening them upon the posts of mens hearts upon their consciences being faulty herein Whether again art Sign 3 thou near unto God as a servant is to his Master If thou art a servant of his then thou art faithfull unto him in all his house Heb. 3. 2. 'T is required Heb. 3. 2. in a servant that he be found faithfull as Moses was in all his house First Whether art thou faithfull and faithfull all his house First Art thou faithfull doest thou attend upon him and upon no other There are many in service with God that go for Christians and wear his Livery when their hearts attend upon Satan and the world Many are bodily conversant about him in Prayer and the Word whose hearts are left behind in the world and lusts Again They work not for him but themselves and so steale from him that which is his He is an unfaithfull servant that steals from his Master that which is his Men steal thus from God they steal from him his time his time of praying his time of hearing and reading and meditating and examining their hearts and lives and his time of receiving the Sacrament c. and give it to others to profanenesse give it to pride and worldly-mindednesse They steal from him also his Talents wit strength beauty health riches and give them to lusts and sinnes Art thou Secondly Faithfull in all his house to do all that his service requires Faithfull in regard of the Master to do all that concerns his person not one duty alone but all not only to tell him of things amisse in praying to him but also to hear him telling thee thy duty and obeying hearing his word and observing it Not only attending at his Table in coming to the Sacrament but also in loosing a meal in fasting when his service requires it and so every other day So faithfull in regard of thy fellow servants in helping and assisting them in their work in exhorting and encouraging them in well-doing in instructing them also and admonishing them when they erre and do amisse Faithfull in regard of all other things in the house Art thou then faithfull to thy Master and faithfull in all his house so as all his work is performed then art thou near him as a servant Contrary art thou sloathfull idle wronging thy Master in his goods and time and wronging thy fellow servants then art thou no servant of his but a servant of thy self 4. Whether art thou one of the friends of God or no If thou art a friend of his Then first thou lovest 1. Property of a friend him for himself thou lovest him for his purity and holinesse and excellency because he is so and not for that he hath Thou lovest not his but him for that is friendship to love a man for himself Many there are that pretend friendship to him