Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	sickness_n	young_a	youth_n	66	3	7.8774	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66816	Eremicus theologus, or, A sequestred divine his aphorisms, or, breviats of speculations, in two centuries / by Theophilus Wodenote ...	Wodenote, Theophilus, d. 1662.	1654 (1654)	Wing W3241; ESTC R39130	60,438	192

to do but a great number of them for our admonition that we may know what to shun 17. WHom thou now truly believest to be invisible and immortall and incomprehensible Think not at any time that God is in earnest like one of us or that God hath a body because the Scriptures sometimes give him our parts because we read of the heart of God eyes ears arms hands feet and such like for the holy pen-men by now and then the things of God by the phrases of men for mens better apprehension and readyer understanding because we cannot understanding because we cannot understand how one should see without eyes or heare without eares or shew strength without armes I speak after the manner of men saith Saint Paul because of the infirmity of your flesh [y] Rom. 6.19 I speak as men commonly use in regard of your weak capacities and carnall imaginations taking the best way to be understood to instruct your souls and affect your hearts Come not to the hearing or reading of such speeches as the Corinthians came together not for the better but for the worse [z] 1 Cor. 11.17 gather not the more errour from them but the more knowledge Hear them or read them to that end for which they were written even for thy clearer conception and easier perswasion 18. IN all places and amongst all persons let thy maine care alwaye be to set forward Gods cause to defend his truth to maintaine his Name and estimation whensoever it is any way questioned or evill spoken of Have a greater care of Gods glory than of any others or of thine own and let it go neerer unto thee to hear Gods Name dishonoured than to have thine own destroyed yea rather than thou O Lord shouldst lose any part of thy glory which is most proper and precious unto thee glory be for ever taken away from us and our honour with all contempt and disgrace layd in the dust loss of credit and reputation be to all our doings and sayings losse to our goods and good name and whatsoever in this world is most dear unto us 19. BE slow to wrath in the greatest in juries inferred upon thy selfe but in the least affront offered to God put on all the indignation and rigour thou hast Be mild and forbearing suffering and soft in causer of thy own but in the quarrell of God be magnanimous and fervent sharp and severe according to thy power and place Moses in his own quarrell in matter concerning himself was a man most meek and had not an equall unto him in his time for peaceable and gentle behaviour [a] Numb 12.2 3. he quietly bare wonderfull wrongs and was easily perswaded to depart from his right But when he was to deal for God he took upon him an holy obstinanacy He would not consent unto Pharao that so much as an hoofe should remain behind them [b] Exod. 10.26 but when he spyed a Calf in the campe when he perceived idolatry committed and Gods glory comming into question He proclamed a bloody massacre and pronounced the execution to be a consecration yea he with his partakers speedily sacrifised to God the blood of three thousand malefactours [c] Exod. 32.27 28 29. S. Paul was not mooved with thought of his own troubles or danger of death but when he saw the City of Athens wholy given to idolatry his spirit was stirred in him and though he did not as Moses because he had not the like authority yet he disputed in the Synagogue with the Jewes and with the devout persons and in the Market daily with them that met with him [d] Acts 17.16 17. 20. MAke O make no long yea no little tarrying to turne unto the Lord put not off from day to day from youth to old age when Summer is turned into Winter when the raine descendeth and the flouds come and the winds blow [e] Matth. 7.27 when men are beset with troubles and sickness with paine and grief and torment when their wits and senses are taken up to devise remedyes against their diseases to prevent or to sustain the pangs of death but remember thy Creatour and remember a convenient time for thy Creatour remember thy Creatour in the dayes of thy youth in thy young years in thy flourishing dayes in thy time of prosperity whilst thy sences are sharpe thy memory quick thy wit ripe thy capacity ready thy understanding deep Remember his might that thou mayest believe his mercy that thou mayest hope his justice that thou mayest be fearfull his goodnes that thou mayest be thankfull [g] Augustinus 21. LOve all Gods children for his sake and obey all superiours whom he hath appointed The debt of love is generall we all owe it and we owe it unto all but trust in God and depend upon him onely joyne not any creature with him He is contented and hath commanded that we should perform all other duties to all others to whom they belong Render therefore to all their dues tribute to whom tribute is due custom to whom custom fear to whom fear honour to whom honour appertaineth [h] Rom. 13.7 provided alwayes that we yeeld them all to him chiefly to him ever and to none so much as him But the worship of confidence he hath reserved wholy to himselfe neither may we communicate it to any other upon any conditions without extreme disloyalty to him what is it less than idolatry for the meanest upon earth to tender it and as much as it as sacrilege for the mightiest up●arth to take it 22. OPen thy mouth and thy mind for thy brethren when they are molested and maligned and laden with scandals and reproaches but much more then for his cause and for his glory that made thy mouth and thy mind Be not ashamed of his righteousnes or of his Gospell lest he be ashamed of thee confess his Name before the sons of men and thou shalt be sure to be confessed before the sons of God Acknowledge Christs truth and he will acknowledge thee before the Angels and before his Father 23. IT hath been the custome alwayes of the best sort to offer in the best manner the best they had unto the best that is to the Lord himself Offer thou likewise the best to God whensoever thou hast cause to offer if ever thou desire to be in the number of the best otherwise the worst sort shall rise up in judgment and condemn thee the very idolaters that worshipped the works of their own hands and turned the truth of God into a lie shall go before thee into the Kingdom of heaven They in their oblations thought not the worst they had or what came first to hand as good enough but brought the best they had would have brought better if they could and thought nothing too much for their newly devised God they were content to spoil themselves that they might adorn their idols (i) Exod. 32.2 3. 24. STand upon

learning and grow in grace set thine ears to harken to the Word if thou wouldst not have thy prayers despised despise not the Word to heare the Word come thou never careless lest thou depart fruitless come thou never with any contempt least thou reape condemnation whosoever busieth himself in other things as gazing here and there observing clothes and countenances remooving talking beckning nodding and such like gestures whil'st he is hearing heareth but with half an ear if with half an ear whereas both are too little for so high a work whereas all the powers both of soul and body should for that time wait upon the voice of the Preacher 33. WHensoever thou art resolved to hear be an humble suter to God for a blessing both upon thy self and the preacher upon the preacher to prepare his speech upon thy self to perswade thy soul For though hearing of necessity go before faith yet faith doth not of necessity follow after hearing The fowler catcheth not every bird he calleth neither doth the preacher win every soule he wooeth whom the Holy Ghost teacheth not inwardly they return unlearned [p] Quos Spiritus Sanctus non intus docet indocti redeunt August in epist Johan tract 3. It is not mans words that maketh man understand Gods Words It is God that maketh him to understand [q] Non ver bi hominis fit ut intelligatur verbum Dei facit Deus ut intelligatis Aug. He hath his chaire in heaven that mooveth hearts on earth [r] Cathedram in coele habet qui corda movet Aug. 34. COme not to the house of God onely to heare others taught but to learn thy self too come not to refresh thy self but to reform thy life Affect not such teaching as appeareth to be most plausible but such as is most profitable not that which may please the ear but that which may pierce the heart Attend not so much what well digested order what eloquence what learning the preacher sheweth as what mis-opinions he detecteth what schismes or heresies he convinceth what sins he reprooveth that so thou mayest the sooner come to repentance There is danger in not hearing and no less daunger in hearing and not profiting It is not more wicked not to come to hear than to come and hear and mind to be wicked Better not come to hearing than not come by hearing to be better 35. HEar not the Word by parts and parcels by clauses or cantels onely so farr as it agreeth with thy humor and keepeth fair and far off from medling with thy offences but attend and hear as well the judgments of God thundered out against thee in the Law as the sweet promises pronounced and offered in the Gospell as well the laying open of thy own sins as the publishing of the sins of other men we are ready to hear all things that are commanded thee of God saith Cornelius [Å¿] Acts 10.33 when Peter came to preach at his house not to hear only such things as we like but to hear all things that are commanded thee of God though thou be charged to press most earnestly upon us to turn from our most pleasing ways O who commeth to hear now adayes with the like mind And yet as he must be reformed whosoever will be saved so he must with a calme and subdued heart intertain all just reproofs whosoever desireth to be reformed 36. SUbmit thy self unto thy Minister with reverence and patience not onely when thou hearest pleasing things precious promises and gracious comforts but when thou hearest him according to Gods Word sounding an alarm in thine ears uttering reproofs delivering threatnings and denouncing judgments against the prevailing sins of the time and therefore perhaps thine amongst the rest as lying slandering murmuring and treason pride and oppression malice and cruelty The which howsoever it seem as bitter potions and very distastfull to flesh and bloud yet is it very wholesom for the soul and spirit may help to purge away the gross humours of sin and preserve from eternall death No wickeder man than he who being hardened in sin hateth to be reprooved who cannot without raging indure to hear him by whom he is meekly and wisely rebuked for his sins 37. THat thou mayest not perish but profit by the threatnings of God know that the denunciations of Gods Judgments are for the most part conditionall not absolute towards his people and to be undestood with this exception except they repent [t] Luke 13.3.5 Apoc. 2.5 If we be hereupon stirred up to repentance and new obedience even in the greatest and most fearfull threatnings of Gods heavy Judgments there is comfort remaining and hope of grace mercy to be found there is health in sickness and life in death 38. NEither read nor hear as travailers by the Law might ear grapes [u] Deut. 23.25 that is eat some for the present time but carry none away with them but whatsoever good thou readest or hearest learn to remember it and remember to follow it remember it love it practise it remember it that thou mayest earnestly love it love it that thou mayest continually practise it and persevere in it to read it or hear it and not to remember it is ridiculous to remember it and not to love it is vain to love it and not to practise it is absurd but to remember it love it practise it and persevere in it is the way to everlasting blessedness 39. UNderstand this and mark it that outward service separated from inward obedience is not respected but rejected of God If thou keep from him the one he careth not for the other naked hearing is but a needless halting in Gods sight which God cannot abide bare receiving of the holy Sacrament without faith without love without conscience is but a base deceiving of thy own soul 40. KNowledge and practice of Gods will are as two wings whereby we must flie up to heaven there is no flying with the one alone It is not enough to know what to do unless we labour to do what wee know knowledge without obedience and imployment is not a vertue for good but a venom for hurt and in such an unthrifty steward the more increase of science the more increase of sorrow For what can he look for in the end but an equall number of stripes according to the measure of his unfruitfull understanding Even ignorance thorough want of the means shall exempt no person from offence or condemnation He that knowes not his masters will shall not altogether escape unpunished though his case be more tolerable though his censure shall be the less though he be beaten with fewer strips but on him to whom the Lord hath vouchsafed the means of knowledge will he be sure to powr down the greater vengeance but that servant that knew his Masters will and prepared not himself neither did according to his [w] Luke 12.47 48. will shall be beaten with many stripes the better

look back upon Peter with his Spirit as well as with his ey thereby to work upon his conscience He was not moved He was not touched with compunction He had no heart at all to go out nor will to mourn and weep bitterly for his sins 83. SEest thou thy neighbour drawn into a dangerous sin draw not out thy stilletto of final condemnation upon him look not upon him without hope deprave not his former graciousness as though it had never been real nor conclude his future reprobation as though he could never be righteous what knowest thou but that he that is fallen may rise again as a member that is out of joint may be set in again And what knowest thou but that the same which is to day his sin may be to morrow thy wickedness reprove him and admonish him thou mayest and must according to thy office and opportunity So thou begin and proceed with a charitable construction and Christian compassion but to aggravate and amplify slips or falls as worldlings use to do and to sentence offendours to the pit of hell that is a power for the potter not for the clay (o) Non est judicium luti sed figuli Aug. de correp grat cap. 5. Thou hast no part nor fellowship in that authority 84. BEholdest thou any slain together in the field or drowned together in the Sea or any way els come to the same destruction together yet conclude them not equally vertuous or vicious or their rewards after death alike happy or miserable For their lives may be contrary though their deaths be the same or though they agree a long time in their race yet may they differ before their races end The two malefactours that suffered with our Saviour on the Cross had the like external punishment but not the like eternal condemnation in their death they were not divided they both dyed a violent death but in their souls they were plainly parted the one went to heaven the other to hell 85. JUdge not any man by his distemperature in his sickness but by his disposition in his health or by the strangenes of his death but by the strictness of his life whereof the constant course is the best rule whereby to conjecture his future estate unless thou wilt be judged thy self to be full of malice and empty of charity They are usual mischiefs and not extravagant misdemeanours No not raving and blaspheming in case of violent disease disturbing the head and brain that can make any probable argument or likely signe of a son of perdition 86. ABhor that pe remptory censure that this man is a Saint and that man is a sinner he the servant of God and he the child of the Devill For who is able without special revelation to say determinately and assuredly touching another that he is the child of the Devill or that he is the Child of God cannot grace easily cut off the oldest and strongest entail of wickedness Are there not many Wolves within the very Church whose hypocrisy the Lord will in time discover and are there not many sheep without the sheepfold of Christ which God in his time will call (p) August hom 45. upon John What man is there of so weak a faith or so wicked a life but that one day Christ out of his infinite goodness may call him and heal him How far was Paul out of the way and in what wrong and violent course in his former years He breathed out threatnings and slaughter against the Disciples of the Lord (q) Acts 9.1 he was a blasphemour and an oppressour (r) 1 Tim. 1.13 But was he so alwayes Did not God reduce him and reform him in his later years whilst he was striking was he not stricken into his conversion and of a ravenous and most cruell wolfe was he not made first a mild sheep and then a most diligent and excellent shepheard And where is he that dare take upon him so to judge of another mans future estate as to say certainly that he is damned or he is saved Is it not more than he hath any warrant for Who art thou that so judgest anothers servant Is it not to his own master only who perfectly knows him to whom he stands or falls and not to thee who art not able to know his heart Is not his own master only that one Law-giver who is able to save and to destroy (s) James 4.12 Who art thou that takest such authority and severity upon thee that dealest so unmercifully with thy brother He is a sinner and so art thou a sinner so either thou art or hast been or mayest be Judge thy self try and examin thy own works search and sift them Judge thy self and judge not him lest thou be condemned of the Lord for not judging and judging 87. BEfore thou receive the holy Sacrament whose price is unvaluable and the vertue no less than the Communion of the Body and Blood of Christ (t) 1 Cor. 10.16 To the partaking whereof no man should rashly and rudely thrust himself or come without religious fear and trembling lest instead of a seal of Gods mercy he receive a pledge of his wrath if thou be not fit for such a favour of so high and holy a nature endeavour to make thy self fit and the way to make thy self fit is examination of thy self in what case thou standest Examin thy repentance whether it be sincere thy purpose whether it be stedfast thy faith whether it be lively thy thankfulness whether it be real and thy charity whether it be generall 88. BE frequent and forward in coming to the holy Sacrament a visible pledge of Gods grace and holy covenant with thee a Seal to assure thee of the performance of the gracious promises made to thee in the Word a part of the most delicate and delightful souls food that ever was tasted or that can be in the world Deprive not thy self of so excellent a help both to provoke obedience and to strengthen faith and to increase the comfort of the inward man Make preparation but make not excuse Thou wouldst think thy self wrong'd if having furnished thy table and provided liberally for thy guests any one of them frowardly should reject thy kindness what a wrong is it then to refuse the table and feast of Almighty God It is no less danger to abstaine from the Lords Supper wilfully than it is to receive it unworthily 89. WHat though Gods gifts be sure without sealing as he himself is sure without changing what though the Sacraments of themselves cannot confer grace ex opere operato by the work wrought that is by force and vertue of the work and Word done and said in the Sacrament as the Papists affirm (u) Conc. Trident. Sess 6. cap. 8. Rhem. Acts 22. Sec. 1. Ro. 6. Sect. 5. blasphemously giving that power to the creature which belongeth only to the Creatour yet are they instruments of Gods merc es