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	soul_n	wage_n	5,338	5	10.9200	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15086	Londons vvarning, by Ierusalem A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse on Mid-Lent Sunday last. By Francis White, Mr. of Arts, and sometime of Magdalene Colledge in Oxford.	White, Francis, b. 1588 or 9.	1619 (1619)	STC 25386; ESTC S119902	38,729	102

speake for mercy vnto God for man for in the second of Ioel the Priests these crying Voyces of the Lord Verse 17 they weepe betweene the porch and the Altar and cry to God Spare thy people O Lord and giue not thine heritage ouer to reproch and God in the 18. and 19. verses to shew how much hee accepts the cry of his Voyces the cryes and prayers of his Ministers which they powre before him for his people himselfe vouchsafes a gracious reply and makes the answer how that at the cry of his Ministers he cannot but be iealous ouer his Land and spare his people and giue them their hearts desire corne wine and oyle and freedome from their enemies such is the force of prayer for the people in the Lords Ministers mouth if it be feruent from the heart Now then ye people of the Lord if ye haue any care or regard at all of your soules learne to distinguish betweene the cry of voyces that knowing which cry against your soules good and which cry for the good of your soules you may be able to discerne which you are to heare and obey which to shut your eares against and to auoyd You see heere there bee three crying voyces abroad in the world The first is the crying nay the roaring voyce of the Deuill and this voyce cries vnto you to breathe defiance against Heauen and to write your names in the earth with the red inke of bloud or the blacke inke of hellish villany This voyce cries vnto you with wicked Kain to murther a righteous Abel it cries vnto you to play the traitor with Iudas it cries vnto you to take away another mans possession with Ahab it cries vnto you to steale a wedge of gold with Achan it cries vnto you to play the drunken Sot with Nabal it cries vnto you to play the vncharitable Miser with Diues it cries vnto you to dye your soules of the Deuils hue in the blacke deeds of darknesse and of wickednesse Now the second crying voyce which is abroad in the world is the crying voyce of sinne and this cries to heauen for a punishment for sinners it cries vnto the clowds to deny the sinner raine it cries vnto the sunne to deny the sinner light it cries vnto the earth to deny the sinner food it cries to Mercy not to regard the sinner it cries to Iustice to renounce the sinner it cries to hell to receiue the sinner and it cries for tortures to torment the sinner this is the crying voyce of sinne which is neuer with vs but is still against vs. Now the third and last crying voyce which is Gods crying Voyce of Mercy this cries vnto you not to play Kains part and to kill but to loue thy brother as thy selfe not to play Iudas part and betray but to obey from the heart those which are set ouer you not to play Ahabs part and oppresse but to giue to euery man his owne not to play Achans part and to steale but to worke euery man with his own hands to eat his bread in the sweat of his browes not to play Nabals part and be drunke but to be sober to watch and to play not to play Diues part and to be miserable but to doe good to distribute to bee to all men charitable and then againe it cries vnto you as you would haue the clowds drop raine so let your eyes drop teares for your sinnes as you would haue the earth be fruitful so to be fruitfull in good works as you would haue the sunne giue light so to walke as children of light as you would haue heauen escape hell so to haue your conuersation in heauen while ye liue on earth This is the Voyce of mercy which is euer with vs and neuer is against vs. Now chuse you which of these three voyces will you heare the Deuils voyce you see how it comes vnto you with a word cloathed with death and playes the Orator for hell to gaine right to your soule through vnrighteous practices and will you heare this voyce to obey and follow it Why follow it you may but know where it leades it leads to the paths of death high-way to damnation The crying voyce of sinne this you heare how it cries to heauen against you and still in the end proues a backward friend to those her vassals who obey sinne in the lust thereof though at first the better to serue her turn she fawne vpon them and will you now bee wonne by the entising voyce of sinne to follow and obey it in the lust thereof why follow it you may but it threatens your destructiō for sinne will one day pay her seruants their wages home and will requite their euill life which was spent in her seruice with euerlasting death which is their wages for their seruice Rom. 6. for the wages of sinne is death and therefore as you tender your soules redeemed by Christs precious bloud from the power of sinne and Satan captiuate not your soules againe by listning to the entisements of sin and prouocations of the Deuill but lend your eares onely to the Lords crying Voyce of mercy attend only this blessed Voyce which cryes abroad in the world to bring sinners home againe to God by repentance and if you shut your eares the dores of your soule against all other entising voyces of sinne and Satan and open them onely to the Lords crying Voyce to prepare a way for the King of glory to enter in assure your selues such shall be the peace and ioy of your soules that you shall haue heauen in your soules in this life and your soules shall haue heauen in another life And so much for the first reason why the Voyce it is a crying Voyce Now secondly the Voyce it is a crying Voyce to rouze and awake the dead secure City dead asleepe in sin which no voyce but a crying Voyce could rouze and this collection fitly arises from some variety of interpretation of the word in the Originall which is here rendred a City for as Cal uin hath obserued it some read it Vox Iebouae ad ciuit atem some againe Ad exper gefaciendum clamat Some read it The Voyce of the Lord crieth to the City Some againe read it The Voyce of the Lord crieth to rouze to awake which implies the great deadness security of the Citie which could not be awaked without a crying Voyce for as our blessed Sauior being to raise dead Lazarus from death to life is said to cry with a loud voyce Clamauit voce magna saith the text he cryed with a loud voyce Iohn 11. Lazarus come forth so our blessed Sauior being to raise the dead sinner dead in sins trespasses as it is Ephes 2. he makes his Voyces crying Voyces vers 1 to cry vnto the sinner to come forth of the graue of sin Surge qui dormis Awake thou that sleepest Ephes 5.14 and stand vp