Selected quad for the lemma: end_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
end_n	mark_v	peace_n	upright_a	1,413	5	10.3964	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00564	The blacke devil or the apostate Together with the wolfe worrying the lambes. And the spiritual navigator, bound for the Holy Land. In three sermons. By Thomas Adams.	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1615 (1615)	STC 107; ESTC S100391	96,543	190

is now Gods bailiffe to arrest him his witnesse against him his whip to lash him His Register that reades ouer the long booke of his offences and after a terrible aggrauation of their heynousnes tells him his penance direfull and intollerable and that Coneordat cum actis Curiae it agrees with the iust decree of Gods Court neuer to be auoyded 4. His last state is worse then his first in respect of God who will now turne him out of his protection When he hath once proclaimed open warre and rebellion against God and hath manifestly declared himself an outlaw no maruell if God throw him out of the circumference of his mercy let his Prouidence take no charge ouer him sauing onely to restraine his sauage fury from forraging his grace-empaled Church But for himselfe the Scripture giues a renunciation If he will go into captiuity let him goe Reuel 22. 11. If he will be vntust let him be vniust still If he will be filthy let him be filthy still I will not hinder his course Abea●… pere●…t prafundat perdat said that father in the Comedy Let him goe perish sinke or swimme He hath full liberty to swill the cup of his owne damnation vp to the brim 5. In respect of the Deuil his latter state is worse Which may be demonstrated by a familiar smilitude A man is committed to prison for debt or some light trespasse is there indifferently wel vsed hath for his money all the liberty that the layle and layer can affoord him nay is permitted to go abroad with keepers At last he spies opportunity and breaks away then the layler fumes and fomes and rageth and perhaps sweares away that little share of his owne soule which he had left The prisoner had need looke to himselfe if the layler catch him he had better neuer haue stirr'd At last he is taken now bolts and lockes and heauy yrons a strong guard and a vigilant watch til he be made safe for stirring againe This bondage is far worse then the first The sinner in the deuils keeping is let alone to enioy the liberty of the prison that is this world he may feed his eye with vanities his hand with extortions his belly with iunkets his spleene with laughter his eares with musicke his heart with iollity his flesh with lustes and all this without controll But if he be wonne by the Gospell preached to break prison and thereupon giue the deuill the slippe let him take heed Satan doe not catch him againe If he once recouers him into his prison he will dungeon him remoue from him all meanes whereby he might be saued let him see heare feele vnderstand nothing but temptations and snares blinde his soule harden his heart loade him with heauy irons and locke him vp in bolts and fetters of euerlasting perdition 6. Then lastly his end shal be worse at the last when the least parcell of Gods wrath shall be heauier then all the anguish he felt before When his Almond tree shall be turned to his yron rod his afflictions to Scorpions VVhen the short and momentany vexations of this world shall no sooner cease to him then the eternall torments of Hell shall begin and which is most fearefull shall neuer end Be his body burned to death in fire yet those flames shall go out with his ashes but come his flesh and soule to that infernall fire and when they haue beene burned myriads of yeares yet it shall not be quenched The Application doth immediately concerne the Iewes which hath before beene plentifully instanced For our selues 1. The vncleane spirit hath by Gods holy Gospell beene cast out of vs. 2. Doe you thinke he is at quiet No he esteemes al places dry and barren till he get into vs againe 3. He resolues to try for entrance 4. Now is it enough that we leaue ourselues empty of faith and good workes for all our abhominable sinnes swepe with an ouerly repentance and garnished with hypocrisie and with our old affections to sinne still 5. Take we heed he will come with seauen spirits more wicked then the former and giue vs a fiercer assault But our helpe is in the name of GOD who hath made heauen and earth in whose mercy we trust because his compassions faile not Our owne strength is no confidence for vs but the grace of that strongest man who is alone able to keepe out Satan Let vs adhere to Him by a true faith and serue him in an holy integrity of conuersation and our latter end shall bee better then our beginning Marke the vpright man and behold the iust for the end of that man is peace Our end shall bee better heereafter when GOD shall wipe away all teares from our eyes when sorrow and sicknesse and death shall bee no more when Senacherib cannot rage nor the Leuiathan of hell assault vs. Peace shall enuiron vs Heauen shall containe vs Glory shall crowne vs. Our trouble woe mourning haue beene momentany but our ioyes peace blisse shall haue no intermission no mutation no end Now He that perfects all good workes make our latter end better then our beginning To whom three persons one eternall God be all prais●… and glory for euer and for euer Amen FINIS LYCANTHROPY OR THE WOLFE worrying THE LAMBES By THOMAS ADAMS Matthew 7. 15. Beware of false Prophets which come to you in sheepes cloathing but inwardly they are rauening Wolues TERTVLL Quaenam sunt istae pelles ovium nisi nominis Christiani extrinsecus superficies Hic dolus est magnus Lupus est qui creditur agnus LONDON Printed by William Iaggard 1615. TO THE TRVEly vvorthy Gentleman M. HENRY FORTESCVE Esquire a fauourer of vertue and good Learning SIR I haue put vp the VVolfe though not hunted him as iudging my selfe too weake for that sport-earnest It is no desertlesse Office to discouer that subtle and insatiate Beast to pull the Sheepe-skinne of Hypocrisie ouer his eares and to expose his feming malice and sanguisugous cruelty to mens censure and detestation Let those hands strike him that haue darts of authority put into their Quiuers Our Land is no Forrest literally or metaphorically vnderstood but whether for Church or Common-wealth profession or soile an Orchard of Gods owne planting fruitefull in goods and good workes VVolues we haue none but some Mystical ones whose ferocity is yet hidden vnder the habites and cases of those Lambes they haue deuoured These I haue set in view or at least meant my best to do it I haue seldome pretended that common poyse that by their owne report sets so many mad pens like wheeles a running Importunacy of friends I haue willingly published what I had hope would do good published Onely this I feared to keep from the Presse lest it should steale thither another way Being there I could not with better confidence fasten vpon a knowne Patron then your selfe who can both vnderstand it and will reade it not onely the Epistle but the whole Booke Though