Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	sin_n	sin_v	wage_n	4,962	5	11.1880	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31933	Englands looking-glasse presented in a sermon preached before the Honorable House of Commons at their late solemne fast, December 22, 1641 / by Edmund Calamy ...	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1642 (1642)	Wing C236; ESTC R206351	35,591	72

easily appeare our Heavenly David though hee march never so furiously Repentance is so acceptable to God that he rewarded Ahab for his hypocriticall repentance that others by his example might be provoked to turne truely to God who knew not his repentance to be hypocriticall I have here a large field of matter for a yeare rather than a day But as a little Boat may land a man into a large Continent so a few words may suggest matter sufficient to a judicious eare for a whole lives meditation I shall not spend time in unfolding the nature of this duty of turning from sinne or in shewing the reasons why this turning is so potent to divert judgements and procure mercies this is the worke of every Sermon I will onely make one Use of exhortation for it needes application more then explication To beseech you to turne the doctrine into practice and to expresse the sincerity of your Repentance by two duties which are as the two poles upon which our turning from sinne doth move By humiliation and reformation Humiliation for sinnes past Reformation for the time to come Humiliation without Reformation is a foundation without a building Reformation without Humiliation proves often a building without a foundation Both of them together comprehend the Essentialls of this great duty which is the very quintessence of Practicall Divinity 1 Let us turne unto God by humiliation for sinnes past This day is a day of humiliation A Sabbath of weeping and mourning Wherein we should wash the feete of Christ with our teares wherein we should weepe bitterly before the Lord powre forth our hearts like water and strive who should put most teares into Gods bottle I beseech you let us turne unto God with true penitent teares drawne from the Well of a broken heart fetcht out with the backet of Gods love Let us sanctifie a fast and afflict our soules before the Lord that this day may become a day of attonement And because the Well is deepe and our hearts are very hard and some it may be want buckets to draw water withall Give mee leave to offer unto you seven buckets which will serve as seven helpes to humiliation 1. Let every man consider his owne sins which hee himselfe is guilty of Have wee not broken the holy and righteous Commandements of God a thousand times and shall not this break our hearts Have wee not broken our vowes and covenants which wee have often made with God and will not the meditation of this break our hearts God in Scripture is said to have a bagge and a bottle A bagge to put our sins in and a bottle to put our teares in Have wee not filled Gods bag with our sinnes and shall wee not now fill Gods bottle with our teares Doth it not grieve us that wee have so often grieved the Holy Spirit of God Are we not heavy laden with those sinnes with which God himself is pressed as a Cart with sheaves Is not God himself broken with our whorish hearts and will not this break our hard hearts Have wee not had yeares of sinning Oh let us have one Day of mourning Have we not trampled the bloud of Christ under our feete and shall not the bloud of this Scapegoate melt our adamantine hearts It is an excellent saying That in all the sins we commit we must not so much consider the sin that is committed as the God against whom it is committed And this will provoke us to great Humiliation for little sins as well as great sins For there is no sinne simply little There is no little God to sinne against The lest minimum spirituale the least offence is committed against an infinite God and therefore deserves infinite punishment There was no little price paid for little sins the least sinne cost the shedding of the bloud of the eternall God There is no little disobedience in a little sinne For as there is the same rotundity in a little round Ball as in a great one So there is the same disobedience against God in a little sinne as well as in a great one To dis-obey God in a little is no little dis-obedience There is no little unthankfulnesse in a little sin For the lesser the thing is in which wee offend God the greater is the unthankfulnesse that we will sin against God for so little a matter There is no little pollution and defilement in a little sin A little puddle may dirty a man as well as a great one A little Bodkin may wound a Caesar to death There is no little punishment for little sins For the wages of sin is death The wages of sin as sin and therefore of every sin A quatenus ad omne valet consequentia Non est distinguendum ubilex non distinguit And therefore let us I beseech you mourne with a great lamentation for our little oaths our idle words our omissions of good duties and defects in good duties c. Can we mourne for the losse of our estates for the death of our Children And shall we not mourne that we have lost God and the peace of a good conscience by our sins and that our hearts are so dead and dull to goodnesse Can wee cry for the stone in the bladder and not for a stony heart The stone in the bladder can but kill the body but a stony heart will cast body and soule into Hell Weepe for those diseases that will destroy soule and body for ever Wee have beene often in the valley of Hinnon sacrificing our sonnes and daughters unto Divels by their wicked educations improoving our parts and mercies to the service of the Divell Oh let us this day descend into the Valley of Bacah and let us make this Church a Bochim a place of weeping We have many Church-sins Sermonsins Sacrament-sins Let us have Church-tears for our Church-sins A second help to humiliation is the consideration of the sinnes of the Nation wherin we live This Kingdome is an Island incompassed with three Oceans not onely with an Ocean of water but also with an Ocean of mercies no Nation more exalted in mercies and I may as truly adde with an Ocean of sinnes And that which makes our sinnes the greater is because our mercies have beene so great We have sinned under mercies we have provoked God at the Sea even the red Sea This was a great aggravation of the Israelites sin and so it is of ours Wee have sinned not onely under mercies but with our mercies wee have made a golden Calfe with the jewels of mercies which God hath bestowed upon us We have taken the Members of Christ and have made them the members of a Harlot What sin is there under the cope of Heaven whereof any Nation is guilty which we have not ingrossed to our selves Let us weepe for the beastly drunkennesse of this Nation But why do I call it beastly for generally beasts are sober It deserves