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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	death_n	destroy_v	resurrection_n	1,008	5	9.2410	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93739	The exceeding great comfort and benefit of having walked before God in truth, and with a perfect heart, and of having done that which is good in his sight set forth in several discourses on Isaiah 38. 2, 3 / by Richard Stafford ...	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1699 (1699)	Wing S5118A; ESTC R43773	94,501	125

but of two Viz. Joseph and Benj●min Now Herod slew all the Children that were in Bethlehem and in all the Coasts thereof So it must take in all the descendants from Jacob or Israel But because that Rachel was the most true and proper VVife of Jacob the VVife of his Covenant and Labour and because she was most concerned and affected for her Children therefore the Holy Ghost makes use of her Name for indeed she was somewhat a Type and Signification of the Church of God And Answereth to Jerusalem which now is and is in Bondage with her Children Gal. 4. 25. The Enemy meant and spoken of in Scripture is Sin Death and the Devil And He shall thrust out the Enemy from before thee and shall say Destroy them Deu. 33. 27. O thou Enemy Destructions are come to a perpetual End Psal 9. 6. This Enemy in both these places spoken of is the Devil who makes use of those two his Instruments Sin and Death for to Destroy So that conceive and put all this together seeing that Sin Satan and Death are the Enemies of Mankind And the Devil would fain yea He doth by the means of Sin and Death bring them at last into his Land which is a Land of Darkness of Dragons and Scorpions where the shadow of Death and no Light is And when He hath them there He would keep them there unless here again Almighty God who is Greater in Power and Might should cause them to return from this Land of the Enemy VVhich He will do in the Resurrection and only to such who shall be Accounted worthy to obtain that Resurrection That will be Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth to Poor Mankind But here again as for them as Hezekiah will be one of them who shall be Accounted worthy to obtain this Resurrection and to return again from this Land of the Enemy The Lord God will wipe away Tears from off all their Faces How so By doing what is there aforesaid He will swallow up Death in Victory Isa 25. 8. And as they have in the mean while the well grounded hope thereof They may well refrain their Voice from Weeping and their Eyes from Tears It is observed that some constitutions are more subject and inclinable to weeping then others as Children Young People and VVomen are more apt and ready to it then Men of full Age and again some are more inclinable to it then others for in some Men it is evidently seen that their heart is become like the nether Milstone which nothing in the VVorld can make to shed Tears o● to really weep But there is no Person living who doth not sometimes Lye and Labour under the thing signified thereby that is Vexation Grief Pain and Sorrow or i● somewhat which is a Feeling and Resentment of Misery And Tears of VVeeping are but outward signs of expressing these forth As VVaters when they are deep are most silent and make the least noise in running So that sorrow of mind is then greatest like as fire when Pent in is most raging and violent when it is kept in and not expressed forth in Tears and Weeping for it 〈◊〉 felt and experienced That an Ease and Mitigation thereof is had by sending forth of Tears and by the Voice o● VVeeping But when any one is under a Great deep an● remediless Misery and He is throughly knowing and sensible thereof it is hard to refrain from Tears VVe shal● experience it so When the Rain shall descend and the Flood● come and the winds blow and beat upon our Earthly House 〈…〉 In order to make it fall When dangerous Diseases and Death it self shall be upon us Or when we shall be unde● deep Poverty with the miserable train thereof Hunge● and Thirst Cold and Nakedness or in Imprisonment● when one lies in a low deep and dark Dungeon Sait● Jeremiah I called upon thy Name O Lord out of the lo●● Dungeon Altho' People make now a Laughter or Jesting 〈◊〉 VVeeping and Tears and some are so Puffed up th 〈…〉 they think themselves above it and as unbecoming them Yet if they did know and consider throughly on the other side That Fear Pit and the Snare are upon them ye Inhabitants of the Earth And how it stands in the Nature of Things and their Establishment And then 〈◊〉 Man look throughly upon his own Frame and Constitution his own Vileness for we are here in Vile Bodies VVeakness and Mortality how he is Dust and Ash 〈…〉 walking up and down like a shadow a little dependa●● Being and much more there is to bring us into a Lo●● Trembling and VVeeping condition for lay all this 〈◊〉 heart and it will appear that VVeeping is much more becoming Man then Laughter Nay properly and in Truth Laughter is as unbecoming Men and Women whatever Fashion it be in amongst the Company of the VVorld in this weak imperfect mortal and miserable condition here on Earth who are liable to Death here and Damnation hereafter As Laughter is not becoming any one in Bedlam who is under Shackles and Fetters and lies upon a Bed of Straw For as the Poor Lunatick or Mad Person Laughs because He knows not throughly his own miserable Imprisoned condition devoid of Reason The same also is the very Reason of that Laughter now in use in the VVorld amongst Sinners who are Children of the Devil He who committeth sin is of the Devil and the Servants of sin for they are subject to Death here and endless misery hereafter but this last they know not or do not throughly consider of and therefore it is That they spend their Days in Mirth and in a moment go down to the Grave and from thence to Hell VVe may now hear one speaking from Heaven unto all the Inhabitants of the Earth what He did once to the Daughters of Jerusalem Weep not for me but for your selves who are in the VVilderness which may be properly called Bochim A place of VVeeping because of that manifold kind of Tribulation and Trouble ye meet with all in the VVorld and yet ye will have more before ye come to my Kingdom VVe should VVeep yet more especially for those sins which caused the Death of our Lord Christ so as to turn all our VVeeping into Mourning for Sin for this is to lay the Ax to the Root of the Tree For Sin or Ignorance which Ignorance is also a sin is the Root and Antecedent cause of all Sorrow Trouble Affliction and Misery And I will pour upon the House of David and the Inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of Grace and Supplication and they shall look upon me whom they have ●ierced and they shall Mourn for him as one Mourneth for his only Son and shall be in Bitterness for him as one that is in Bitterness for his first Born Zech. 12. 10. Here we should turn all our Mourning and Bitterness into Mourning and Bitterness for those very Sins Iniquities and Transgressions which Pierced the Lord of Life

cry out O wretched Man that I am Who shall deliver me from this Body of Death So this or the like Exclamation may be taken up O the exceeding Evil and Guilt of Sin Who shall deliver the Sinner from all the Evils that are due unto him for it 〈◊〉 None but Jesus which delivered us from the wrath to come And that also He will do no other way Then in turning away every one of you from his Iniquities Acts 3. 26. So that if the sinner will not turn away from his Iniquities He shall feel all the Evil consequents that follow upon it We may see somewhat thereof in the Glass 〈◊〉 the word But we shall not fully know the utmost Evil and Sinfullness of Sin until in the future State we come to see the wrath of God and what kind of Punishment He will inflict for the same Which indeed will be a Judgment worthy of God and an Horrible Vengeance shal● overtake the ungodly The Righteous shall rejoyce whe●● He seeth the Vengeance He shall wash his Feet in the Bloo● of the Wicked So it will be the return and saying no● of David only but of the other Saints saved by th● Lord which shall stand by when He shall Judge th● World and make distribution of Good or Evil to every one according as their deeds have been then it will be returned and said Horrour hath taken hold of me because 〈◊〉 the wicked which forsake thy Law Psal 119. 53. The Godly and Ungodly are of two different mind● as indeed they must be so for otherwise the one woul● not have been Godly and the other Ungodly A Godly Hezekiah of Old Time did weep because He though● that by Death He should be for ever deprived and hi● dred from the Praise and Worship of God and from enjoying sweet Communion with him again Wherein 〈◊〉 was Ignorant for Death doth only make way to enjo● Ten Thousand times more and longer Communion wi●● God But the Ungodly of our Days do weep and ho● near the time of their Death because they think an● dread that they shall meet with God in the other World What makes them to weep and howl is because th●● they expect no Good but Evil from him as so indee● they will have if they receive the due Reward of the● Deeds Luk. 23. 41. As the Ungodly now count it a Pr●viledge to willingly absent themselves from and negle●● the Worship of God for they Account that an Irksom● Dull and Tedious thing so they could be contented to sleep for evermore and not Praise God throughout all Eternity They have no miss of that because they take no delight therein as indeed Praise is not seemly in the Mouth of a Sinner An unholy Creature cannot Praise an Holy God And in this sense it is true when understood of such as are Dead in Trespasses and Sins for the Grave cannot Praise thee Death cannot Celebrate thee But whoso offereth Praise Glorifieth me and to him that ordereth his Conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God Psal 50. 23. And it is He only who ordereth his Conversation aright doth aright offer Praise and whoso aright offereth Praise Glorifieth God Tho' Peradventure Hezekiah might have a little apprehension thereof yet He had not a through and full knowledge of future Life and Immortality and it was this which caused him to weep sore For any one would be apt to weep at a Message how they are to be bereaved off and taken from all Good Things here and not to know where to have others in their stead As to all this the VVord of Consolation speaketh on this wise to such as lived under the Old Testament Dispensation Thus saith the Lord a Voice was heard in Ramah Lamentation and bitter Weeping Rachel Weeping for her Children refused to be Comforted for her Children because they were not So it is all the VVorld over People are Irrecoverably deprived of Persons and Things and as there was some comfort in the having of them so it is inward Anguish and Grief Lamentation and Bitter VVeeping when People consider throughly that they once had such good things as Children Friends and Relations and such like and they are not Neither can they possibly be again when Dead unless they should come forth and appear again to us as they will in the future State and Resurrection Now comes in the VVord of Answer and Comfort to the foregoing Complaint and VVeeping Thus saith the Lord Re●rain thy Voice from weeping and thine Eyes from Tears for thy work shall be rewarded saith the Lord and they shall come again from the Land of the Enemy Jer. 31. 15 16. As in the Verses following our Text The Word of the Lord saith unto Hezekiah I have heard thy Prayer I have seen thy Tears So in this Place of Jeremiah The Lord saith unto Hezekiah and to all his Servants together under the Old Testament Dispensation Thus saith the Lord unto Hezekiah under whom may be understood all the Faithful Refrain thy Voice from Weeping and Thine Eyes from Tears for thy True Perfect and Good Life shall be rewarded saith the Lord. And so the Lord saith unto all the Inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem who did obey and serve him and who lived before the Time his Son Jesus Christ was manifested in the flesh Refrain your Voices from Weeping and your Eyes from Tears for your works shall be rewarded saith the Lord and they shall come again from the Land of the Enemy To have faithfully and diligently served God all our Life time and it may be for that to have sustained several VVorldly Losses and Inconveniencies and after all to have no future Good or Reward thereof would be apt to raise Anguish in the Heart and Tears in the Eyes But then here to have assurance from the VVord and Promise of God whom it is impossible for to lie that it shall be made up and considered this again will effect it so That they shall refrain their Voice from Weeping and their Eyes from Tears And they shall come again from the Land of the Enemy This Scripture was in Part fulfilled as the Evangelis● doth shew When Herod sent forth and slew all the Children that were in Bethlehem and in all the Coasts thereof from two Years Old and Vnder according to the Time that He had diligently enquired of the Wise Men Mat. 2. 16. Now when these Infants were Murdered they were there by sent into the Land of the Enemy which is Death for the last Enemy is Death Now as Lamentation and Bitter VVeeping was occasioned by Reason of that by consequence there must be comfort when they shall come 〈◊〉 again from the Land of the Enemy This may be understood of all the Children of Rachel and not only those Murdered by Herod for He slew more then wh●● were the Children of Rachel even some of the Childre● of Leah also who was Mother of Six Tribes Gen. 30. 20. And Rachel was