Selected quad for the lemma: end_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
end_n	day_n	sabbath_n	week_n	4,328	5	10.6246	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52818	A spiritual legacy being a pattern of piety for all young persons practice in a faithful relation of the holy life and happy death of Mr. John Draper / represented out of his own and other manuscripts containing his experiences, exercises, self examinations and evidences for heaven ; together with his funeral sermons ; published by Chr. Ness.	Ness, Christopher, 1621-1705.; Draper, John, d. 1682.	1684 (1684)	Wing N464; ESTC R29558	57,400	206

over his Face toward me which I bewailed little the other days of this month I neglected being out of town to take an account of only in the general I observed that my deadly sin prevailed most while my Soul is most clouded October the 1st my old Distractions Disturbed me running from the Cellar up to the closet and from thence to the cellar again yet had through Grace a little of Gods presence The 2d I was too rash in speaking a thing that was not so The 3. I was unwilling to pray in the Cellar at night yet made willing to go I. found much of the presence of him who had thus inclined me The 4. I spoke not of God in company of others Yet with another Companion my God helped me to savoury Discourse in prayer but then to Epsom til the 14 day I was under dreadful desertions which made me cry out woe is me I have sinned away my God by my minding the World too much and my God too little and by relying too much on my own strength on the 14. he renews his old complaints Heaven out of sight not mourned for the sins of the land nor my own c. Adding rose from Table without any thing of God there On the 15 not so much troubled as before with wandrings yet sin set too light c. the 16. and 17. the same The 18. and 19. bad the 20. not so bad had at night God presence and some sence of sin which made me burst out crying how have I been hopping from Mountain to hill through Simplicity forgetting my right resting place O that those lost minutes and hours had been spent in the sweetest converse with my Dear Redeemer but now from this time the Lord grant great Reformation in John Draper The 23. of October 1682. he saith I have strove this day to get to God but could not fasted and three times prayed still the face of God was hid from me The 24. still under Gods withdrawings so on 25 26 and 28 no better with me on the 29 30 and 31 but wandrings in duty no right mourning for sin dull dead and thoughts mostly taken up with the World very little of God in all that I do so that I knew not what to do November the 1 could not gain Gods presence 2. the same but not so bad in duty 3 and 4. as bad O sad sad sad but on 6. had much of Gods presence 8 9 bad again so 10. and 11. still dull and cold so 12. and 13. and endways in a sad condition December having been long out of town half of the foregoing month till the fourth of this month and lived as without God my mind taken up with the World no longings after Gods presence 't was a good providence I saw their worship at Windsor which did more establish me This month the Lord taught me the deformity of all sublunary things without God now I see my folly and oh that it may not be too late I could weep night and day for my great loss of God I am so perplex'd that I scarce know what to do with my self c. January 5. 1682. I was taken very Ill so that those about me thought I was a dying but God raised me up again Oh that it might be to dye to Sin and and live to God The 7th which was his seventeenth and last Sacrament-Day makes his former moans about wandrings c. Adding I laid in Bed too long when I should have been upon my knees yet had more Evidences that day than for along time before after this was taken with a Dizziness in my head like to fall down stairs about 8. had a great pain in my side and my fit came about ten then from day to day lay long in bed had little of God sometimes forgot how it was with me not minding my inward man enough by distempers of my outward On the 22. I considered what I should do if God call me to sufferings and thought Gods hand was not shortned to strengthen me as he had done all the martyrs On 25 my cough and pain in my left side grew upon me so unfitted me for Duty yet on 30. I prayed and had a clear sight of God and of my Christ my Dear Redeemer Blessed for ever blessed be his holy name Least any ponderous passage out of his Diary that might be profitable to posterity should be omitted which through the broken account I have of his manuscripts cannot easily be avoided I shall reduce the most remarkable of them to those Remarks or Heads following The First Remark is this gracious Young-Mans Diary doth plainly proclaim that God made him live at the sign of the Chequer his life this last Year was strangely chequered with the Black of Misery and with the White of Mercy he was got into Canaan a land of hills and valleys now up and now down One while mourning for Gods Absence and another while magnifying him for his presence c. The Second Remark however God withdrew from him on the Week-day yet did he mostly enjoy lest or more of God on the Sabbath as well as Sacrament Days this I find in his own record which was to beare up his head above water in his Conflicts The Third Remark is he observes Gods tenderness towards him in never withdrawing too long from him for though he found himself dull and dead in duty in the morning of the Sabbath yet found he life and warmth at evening c. Fourthly When he was commanded to stay at home for keeping the house and shop upon the Sabbath from Sermon he saith God made that time of privacy a most sweet time to him When God denyes means He supplies means Fifthly He Remarks how oft he was interrupted in his private duties being called off from them as he was a servant to his Master which the Envious one might have an hand in as prayer is a charm and torment to him when God is present c. Sixthly He notes that the low Cellar was his oratory or place of private prayer where he spent many hours without either fire or candle in the night and once had the door broke open to fetch some candles while he was in his Devotion c. Seventhly He observeth Gods dealings with his Soul from one Sabbath to another and from one week day to another taking notice of all his omissions of good and of all his commissions of evil from Munday Morning to Saturday Night Eightly This was not only his practice every Week from the beginning to the end of the Year as is above mentioned but also every Day how it was with his Soul God ward Morning Noon and Night and what discourse at meat time also Ninthly So strict was his Scrutiny and Self-Tryal that he set down once the thoughts of having a God Ring and another time thoughts o● getting some books the Tempte● made use of to justle out his thought of God

evil but as he was Israel so his Days were many and good He had two Names Jacob and Israel Genesis 49.1 2. both given him from his Wrestling the farmer Name was given him for wrestling with his Brother for the Birth-right in the Womb wherein he Miscarried but the latter for his Wrestling with his God for the Blessing at Penuel wherein his Valour through Divine Condescension obtain'd the Victory When the Messiah saw Jacob's undaunted Courage in resolutely detaining him Asks him his Name Gen. 32.24 26 27. As if he should say Thou art such a Fellow as I never met with who though thou be lamed and laid Hard at yet wilt not let me go without my Blessing Thou hast let thy Flocks go and thy Herds go Thou hast let thy Wives go and thy Children go yet thou wilt not let me go nor my Blessing go I will not let thee go except thou Bless me saith Jacob v. 26. Hereupon He Honours Him as it were with the Honour of Knighthood saying to him Kneel down Jacob Rise up Israel for as a Prince thou hast had Power with God and with Men and hast prevailed Gen. 32.28 Hos 12.3 4. Now Jacob is a Name of Weakness the poor Worm Jacob Isa 41.14 Trampled upon and trodden under foot This Afflicted State made Jacob sigh out those Sad Words All these things are against me Gen. 42.36 and those of my Text also Few and Evil have the Days of the Years of my Life been But so far as he had Princely Power as Israel signifies both with God and with Men In this Sence his Days were many and good One Day with God is a Thousand elsewhere VSE Hence learn we the Reason why the Church is called Jacob through out the Scriptures when Speech is of her Weakness and Calamity But she is frequently call'd Israel to signifie her Splendour and Glory and as it is thus with the Church of God in General so it is with the Children of God in Particular Some times they are run down with strange Temptations and with strong Tribulations then are they the poor Worm Jocob Isa 41.14 The Shulamite found two Armies Warring in her The Army of the Flesh and the Army of the Spirit Cant. 6.13 When the Army of the Flesh or Amalek prevaileth as Exod. 17.11 then the Seed of Jocob droops but when they are made strong in their Weakness 2 Cor. 12.9 Strengthned with all Might Col. 1.11 and made able through the Supplies of Christ's Spirit Phil. 1.19 to Tread down Strength as Judg. 5.21 even the strongest Temptation without then are they called the Israel of God Gal. 6.16 for their Prince-like prevailing over Flesh World and Devil III. Observation From the Circumstances of the Text. The Third Observation ariseth from the Conjunction of these two Parts This Question and the Answer to it which is 'T is a Duty Incumbent upon all Mankind to be Asking and Answering How the Days of the Years of their Lives do pass away It was Moses's Prayer Lord teach us to number our Days that we may apply our Hearts unto Wisdom Psal● 90.12 In which Psalm it being ● Meditation of Man's Mortality corresponding with my Text therefore Mark 1. Moses mentions the Brevity and Uncertainty of Man's Life comparing it to a Watch v. 4. which is but the fourth part of a Night Mark 13.35 Then he goes on and compares it to a Sleep to a Dream all vanishing things and to a Tale that is soon told and is as soon forgotten lastly to Grass which we well know if it be not cut down in Summer or Autumn doth wither in Winter So such Mortals as are not cut down with the Sithe of Death in their Youth do yet wither away in the Winter of Old Age. Quid est Vita nisi quidam Cursus ad Mortem said the Ancient Father Life is nothing but a Posting to Death The 2d Occurrence in this Meditation of Moses upon Man's Morality is his assigning the proper procuring Cause of this Humane Mise●y to wit Divine Displeasure ●gainst Sin which causeth God to ●urn Man to Destruction ver 7 8. Man at the first was made Immortal he had then an Immortal Body a Suitable Companion for his Immortal Soul These two Sweet Associates had never been severed each from other if Man had not sinned against his Maker Had Adam stood on his State of Innocency He should then have rendred to the Lord a time of perfect Obedience and Service here upon Earth and when that Homage to his Great Landlord had been accomplish'd he should then have been Translated from Earth without the least taste of Death to Heaven the Soul should never have been separated from the Body as now it is for the Wages of Sin is Death Rom. 6.23 It was that one Man's Offence that pulled up the Sluce and let in Death as a Deluge with a Regal Authority over all the World Rom. 5.14 to 17. and Sin did not only let in Death but also all sorts of Sicknesses Sorrows and Sufferings that are Forerunners of it Then 3ly Moses Condemns Mans Dulness in taking no more notice of this Divine Displeasure ver 11. All other Creatures know their Times and their Seasons Jerem. 8.7 but Man knoweth not the Day of his Visitation till He come to be Snared in an Evil Net c. Eccles 9.12 Though Man's Life be a Life full of all Inconveniencies of Indignities of Injuries of Infirmities and of Iniquities also yet such is the Stupidity of the Fall'n Nature that Man puts the Thoughts of these things far from him Amos 6.3 Fourthly Hereupon Moses begs God for Illuminating Grace wherewith to make a more Distinct Discovery of all Humane Frailty Lord teach w to number our Days c. ver 12. And the Sweet-Singer of Israel David will be of the same Chorus with Moses sighing as well as singing out these Synonimical Sentences Lord make me ●o know my end and the Measure of my Days what it is That I may know how frail I am c. Psal 39.4 5. Thus likewise Jacob in my Text carries on the like Concord and Consort to compleat the Harmony complaining here Few and evil have the Days of the Years of my Life been c. Adding only this one Note of Discord for making better Musick that God had taught him this great Truth concerning his own Frailty He had seen it for time past and He would be sensible of it for time to come his Days had been few and Evil Now they might be fewer and worse seeing He and all his were famished out of Canaan the Land of Promise into Egypt the place where his Posterity would be evilly intreated Gen. 15.13 VSE Moses teacheth us what use to make of the knowledge of our own Frailty It should strongly stir us up to an earnest imploring of Divine Mercy He maketh a loud Out cry after Mercy Crying Return O Lord How long c. Oh satisfie us early with thy Mercy

Days Job 7.1 and 14.13.14 A few Days are the number of his Life Psal 39.4 Yea the Days of an Hireling who is hired only for some few Days to do some Jobb of Work which requireth haste and is but for a Spurt not lasting Nay Sometimes the Hireling is hired but for one single Day as Matth. 20.1 2 c. where the Parable calls Man's Life but one particular Day consisting of twelve Hours And what a poor part of time is one Day especially when the Sun Sets at the Noon of that Day Amos 8.9 This makes it a very short Pilgrimage indeed as was that of this Young-man III. REASON The Third Demonstration is drawn from Scripture Metaphors which Illustrate the swiftness of Man's Life in its Passage through the World all implying the shortness of that Passage for the swifter that the Motion of the Runner is the shorter is the time wherein the Race is run I might Re-assume here the Philosophical Allusions of Man's Life As First Plato's Game at Dice is soon play'd out Secondly Seneca's Flash of Lightning soon vanisheth Thirdly Pythagoras's Stage play is soon Acted Fourthly Symonide's shewing his Face soon shewed his Back and was gone Fifthly Epictetus's Voyage is very short and all the former are short none of them long abiding So likewise the Theological As l. James's Vapour soon Evaporaeth 2. David's Smoak soon Dwindleth 3. Job's Shadow soon Vanisheth 4. Hezekiah's Tent is soon taken down 5. And both Job and Hezekiah's Shuttle hath both a swift and a short Motion c. 6. The Prophet's Grafs soon withereth and his Flower soon fadeth The Time for all these is but a short Time as saith the Apostle The time is short 1 Cor. 7.29 But to insist only upon those three great Metaphors that Job seriously plays upon all together a Post a ship and an Eagle Job 9. 25 26. to shew the swiftness and thereby the shortness of his own Life or Pilgrimage The Improvement of these three Points must stand here for a Third Application The First Simile The First Metaphor Resembleth Man Riding Post My Days an swifter than a Post c. which Allusion hath a fourfold Congruity First As the Post-Boy is one that Rides upon Swift Horses spurring them End-ways and sparing no Horse-stesh Riding always upon the Speed with Haste Haste Haste for His Majesties Service from City to Country and from one Kingdom to another carrying always Matters of Great Concern along with him So every Man is Riding Post in this Life carry'd in the Chariot of Time which is drawn by the swiftest Horses even such as be Winged Horses like Pegasus and so Flee faster than any Post according to Job's Phrase My Days are swifter than a Post They flee away c. They run faster and outrun the Post Oh that Men would consider the great Concern of the Pacquet they carry and the Tendency of their way c. Bethink your selves 2 Chron. 6.37 as the Hebrew Reading is and consider 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Septuagint Reads Psal 119.59 Make a Dialogue with your own Hearts commune with them upon your Beds as David did Psal 4.4 Excutite Excutite Zeph. 2.1 Shake your selves from Sluggishness as Sampson did Judg. 16.20 Consider and better consider Hagg. 1.5 7. do it not to half part Secondly The Post Rides Night and Day without either stop or stay making no long Meals any where but takes a Bit and away c. So Man's Life is ever in motion it makes no stands at any place or time but every Moment he is yielding some little unto Death his Life is passing towards it while he is sleeping in his Bed He is ever Riding Post be it Winter or Summer time or be his way and weather fair or foul in Prosperity or Adversity Oh that there were such an Heart in Men Deut. 5.29 to consider their latter end Deut. 32.29 Seeing every Year Month Week Hour and Minute you are riding Post to your Graves They that do not Remember their latter end are to be lamented because they will come down wonderfully Lament 1.9 Thirdly The Post is Betrusted with Matters of weightiest Moment sometimes the saving or sinking of a Kingdom depends upon the Posts Carriage or Miscarriage he therefore in such a Case is commanded to Ride upon pain of Death and dare not loiter or linger carelesly till he come at the end of the Stage and till his Pacquet be carefully delivered So Man in his Riding Post is betrusted with a concern of Infinite and everlasting Consequence to wit his Pretious Soul which is a Jewel of more worth than the whole World Christ who is Truth it self saith so and he is best able to know the worth of Souls because he alone paid the price of Souls Matth. 16.26 and 20.28 Oh consider how everyone of you are Riding Post with this Pearl of great Price in your hands take heed of scattering it or trucking it away for Trash and Trifles you Ride upon pain of Death be not careless your Life Spiritual and Eternal lies at Stake how can you be too careful beware of Spiritual Slumber until your pretious Pacquet be delivered upon a Dying Bed and you then be able to say with the Proto-Martyr Stephen Lord Jesus Receive my Spirit Act. 7.59 or better with your Blessed Redeemer saying Father into thy hands I commend my Spirit Luke 23.46 Thus David was careful to deliver his Pacquet into Right hands both Living and Dying Psal 31.5 c. Fourthly Some Posts Ride longer Stages than others and some shorter with their Mail and Errand yea some are stopp'd and Robb'd of their Charge c. Thus no Man knows the length of his Post-Stage We know that it is but short in General but alas we know not how short it may be in particular We are bid not to Boast of to Morrow for we know not what a Day may bring forth Prov. 27.1 Jam. 4.13 Matth. 6.34 We know not what lies hid in the Womb of Time one Big-belly'd Day may dismount us as young as we as strong as we have been dismounted yea some we see daily are unhorsed assoon as thy set out dying in their Child-hood God call'd from Heaven to Abraham saying Stay now thy striking Gent 22.10 11. and he may call upon any one of us this or the next Moment saying Stay now your Riding God indeed gives to some enough of Riding Post they are weary with Posting weary of the World and the World as weary of them they live undesired and die unlamented But all must wait till their change come Job 14.14 The Second Allusion in Job 9.26 is a Man Sailing in a Ship Mark the Gradation The Second Simile First A Ship is swifter than a Post and thence Job riseth higher there but an Eagle is swiftest of all the three A Ship passeth swiftly before the Wind and stoppeth stayeth not till she come to the Shore some one Port she is Bound for and rests not strikes not Sail