Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	world_n	worse_a	wrath_n	19	3	7.2134	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55748	The mysticall match between Christ and his church by the late learned and reverend divine, John Preston ... The leading sermon to that treatise of his called The churches marriage.	Preston, John, 1587-1628.	1648 (1648)	Wing P3303; ESTC R33951	90,892	160

all his Attributes and how that the Lord himselfe will become thine consider the infinite wisedome of Christ his Almighty power consider his eternity consider whatsoever is in him and thinke with thy selfe that all this is in Him who offers himselfe to bee my husband and all this shall be mine all this is for my use and advantage this is a great motive to winne us to match with him as you know in earthly marriages the excellency of a husband the parts that are in him those that are inherent in his very person is the greatest motive of all other thinke therfore of all Christs excellencies draw to your selves some Idea of him and thinke all these are mine for my use as his wisedome to give me direction his power and strength for my protection upon all occasions whatsoever is in him is mine hee himselfe is become my portion this is a great motive to us Besides this consider that thou hast not onely the person of Christ alone with all his Attributes but how much comes with him which adde to this as the immunity thou hast by matching with Christ that when thou art once matched with him thou art under covert thy debts are paid thou art out of all danger My beloved if it were but to bee freed from those injuries and wrongs that a woman is subject unto from potent enemies that are able to hurt her upon all occasions you know it is a great motive to move her to match Now Iesus Christ frees us from all those great enemies of our salvation as it is Luke 1. 74. That being delivered from the hands of all our enemies wee might serve him in holinesse and righteousnesse all the days of our lives This wee have by him that when Satan shall come to us and arrest us wee may say to him I am now under covert thou must goe to my husband hee is bound to pay my debts My beloved we consider not what a benefit this is what it is to have Iesus Christ at such a time when you come to dye when you shall be arrested by death now to have the Lord Iesus to undertake all your debts now to bee under covert it is a great matter as you know to expresse it to you a little what it is Iudas when hee had committed that great sinne he was indited and arrested hee had none to flee to Peter when he had committed a sinne hee had a covert to goe to and you all know the difference that was betweene their conditions in the events upon both Saul and David if you looke on them in their distresse David had a covert to goe to when he was in distresse for I speake not now of the debt of sinne but of all calamities in which you shall have a husband to bee a refuge for you I say David when hee was in distresse upon any occasion when his Citty was burned and his Wives taken hee had a covert to fly to but when Saul was in distresse hee had none hee went to the Lord but he had no answer I say it is a great matter to consider this that we have a covert that when the Lord shall raine downe fire and brimstone upon us when there is no rock to shelter us now for Iesus Christ to bee a covert to us We know the Aegyptians when they were in that deadly storme of haile the Israelites were in their houses under covert and look't out and saw the danger they were in and they then knew the benefit what it was to bee under shelter such is the condition of all those that are in Christ. Besides this immunity consider all those great priviledges that doe come by him for this is not all but when you have matched with him hee will make you rich hee will make you heires of all things all the precious promises belong to you which it may be you reckon a small matter but the promises of God are most precious and will make one rich as you know a man that hath nothing but bills and bonds and evidences may bee very rich though he have not a penny by him so to have all the promises belong to us now as soone as we were in Christ there is not a promise in all the booke of God but it belongs to us that is the misery of another man that is not in Christ there is not one promise his Therefore till thou have him thou hast nothing And besides the hope of the promises consider what you have for the present what dowry hee brings with him in 1 Cor. 3. Wherefore let no man rejoyce in men for all things are yours whether it be Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world c. all is yours and you are Christs Marke here is the expression of that dowry that Christ brings with him an Inventory of the wealth of a Christian saith he when once you are matched to Christ all that is his belongs to you Paul or Apollos or Cephas all his servants all are bestowed on you to wait upon the Spouse as it were hee hath given all to you all those gifts are bestowed on them for your sakes besides the world is yours that is as farre as it is good for you the world and all things in the world are so a Christians though hee have but little of it yet indeed the world is his other men are the worlds if wee speake properly the world is not said to bee any mans but onely a Christians for his use he is the master of it Indeed whilest a man is in his minority you know the heire doth not possesse his goods because it is the time of his education so it may bee thou hast not full possession It is dispensed to thee as the Lord sees meete because it is the time of thy nurture and education thou art in thy minority but yet the world is thine Then he goes on life or death that is all this life is bestowed on a Christian for his advantage to another man it is not so the longer hee lives it is the worse for him hee hath the further reckoning it doth but make his sinne ripe and but lay up a treasure of wrath for him so that all a mans life long hee doth but gather stickes to make a fire to consume him at the last day But now in the portion of a Christian this is one thing that Iesus Christ bestows upon him that all his life is for his advantage all the good workes he doth all those shall bee remembred all those shall goe along with him and bring a sure reward and then not onely life is his but death is also My beloved it is a strange thing that this should be reckoned among the dowries and commodities and priviledges that Christ bestowes on his Spouse to bring death with him yet this is a great priviledge that hee bestowes death on us for what were the condition