Selected quad for the lemma: end_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
end_n	death_n	sin_n	wage_n	2,199	5	11.3275	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53265	New-England pleaded with, and pressed to consider the things which concern her peace at least in this her day, or, A seasonable and serious word of faithful advice to the churches and people of God, primarily those in the Massachusets Colony, musingly to ponder, and bethink themselves, what is the tendency, and what will cetainly be the sad issue, of sundry unchristian and crooked wayes which too too [sic] many have been turning aside unto, if persisted and gone on in delivered in a sermon preached at Boston in New-England, May 7, 1673, being the day of election there / by Urian Oakes ...	Oakes, Urian, 1631-1681.	1673 (1673)	Wing O21; ESTC W23179	65,078	72

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take_v hold_v of_o hell_n as_o solomon_n speak_v to_o another_o sense_n prov_n 5.4_o 5._o can_v a_o man_n take_v fire_n in_o his_o bosom_n or_o go_v upon_o hot_a coal_n and_o not_o be_v burn_v prov._n 6.27_o 28._o you_o will_v account_v he_o a_o poor_a distract_a creature_n that_o shall_v so_o do_v and_o think_v to_o escape_v without_o harm_n and_o inconvenience_n sinner_n be_v as_o irrational_a and_o as_o much_o bereave_v of_o sense_n and_o understanding_n that_o dally_v with_o sin_n and_o play_v with_o the_o serpent_n that_o have_v a_o speckled_a skin_n and_o consider_v not_o that_o it_o will_v sting_v they_o to_o death_n at_o last_o thou_o go_v after_o thy_o lust_n as_o the_o ox_n to_o the_o slaughter_n or_o as_o the_o bird_n haste_v to_o the_o snare_n and_o know_v not_o that_o it_o be_v for_o thy_o life_n prov._n 7.22_o 23._o remember_v and_o judge_v aright_o that_o the_o end_n of_o your_o natural_a life_n will_v be_v death_n and_o the_o end_n of_o your_o sinful_a life_n will_v 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