Selected quad for the lemma: fire_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	body_n	earth_n	element_n	4,634	5	9.8975	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36466	Rex meus est deus, or, A sermon preached at the common place in Christs-church in the city of Norwich by G.D. ...	G. D. (George Downham)	1643 (1643)	Wing D2061; ESTC R209871	32,251	33

incorrupted Judge qui nec flecti potest precibus nec corrumpi 〈◊〉 as Gerhard who will neither bee wonne by intreaties nor corrupted with gifts This is that Insepulta sepu●tura a Grave ever open hee that stumbleth at it doth irrecoverably fall into it Quid prodest non habere Conscium l●ab●●nti Conscientiam No booke to bee secret from the view of men so long as conscience is privie to it lesse like a Sergeant or Catchpole it sits at our doores and never parts with the sinner till he parts with his sin But most of all Pecc tum prae foribus wee shall finde sinne at the doore when wee are going out at the doore at the time of death or going out of the world For God herein alludes to the nature of some Mastiffe or wilde beast lying at the doore of a mans house who as soone as ever a mans foote is over the threshold to goe forth it fires in his face to plucke out his throat So Conscience in wicked men like a bandogge barkes at them all the while they are in the house of this life but when at death they goe out of the Clay houses of their bodies then it furiously sets upon them teares out the throat of their soules and makes a full end of them Thirdly and lastly Peccatum prae foribus Sinne lyeth at the 〈◊〉 that is li●nes punishment is at the doore hard at hand ready to overtake him that sinneth Sinne and his punishment except they be severed by found Repentance goe still together Gognatum 〈◊〉 inuatum est omni sceleri sceleris supplicium Sinnes punishment is home-bred nay imbred with it As in the cleere Sunne-shine the darke shadow followeth the body so in the sweete pleasure of evill lad punishment accompanieth sinne if thou commit the one God will not omit the other If thou doe the one thou shalt suffer the other Therfore the Chaldee paraphrast turnes it thus Si non bene egeris peccat 〈◊〉 tuum in diew judicij servatum erit If thou doest not well thy sinne is reserved till the day of judgement thou mayest shut it out at the doore of thy minde but it will fit at the doore of Gods memory to procure just vengeance on thee As the Poet said of perjury I may say of all other sins It may tarry long Sera tamen tacitis paena venit pedibus Slow footing it makes but sure footing it takes and then as Val Maximus saith Tardetatem supplicij gravitate compensat it will make amends for the long time of delay with the heavinesse of the punishment when it commeth for though God hath leaden feete hee hath Iron hands though hee commeth very slowly yet he payeth surely And thus it was with Cain Hee lived long after this he built Cities married Wives begate Children invented Arts as if nothing did trouble him but all this while he had with in him a feared Conscience a trembling heart a guilty looke sinne lay at the doore and at last threw him out of house and home and so the end of sins pleasure was the beginning of hell-torments Consider this all yee that forget God least he teare you in peeces while there be none to helpe Sinne is a bad Tenant it casts out the Land-lord If you please your selves in sin God will displease you in punishment His judgments are ever just and vengeance will come when it is due Serious consideration herein may doe much good whilest wee consider that divine punishment argues humane transgression Wee may safely conclude from a punishment to an offence Posito uno po●itur et alterum Who can enumerate your grosse enormities and crimes now raigning among us How doth rebellion which is as the sin of witchcraft get a head whilest Authoritie and Dominion is troden under-foot How doth Schisme and Faction prevaile and increase whilest order and decency is set at nought ● How is Religion made with many the Maske of Villany How is the Ministerie contemned and our Message disgracefully accepted How have the Holy Scriptures lost their due Authoritie and cannot be beleeved by many of Us But above all How by our unhallowed lives doe we treade under feete the precious bloud of JESUS CHRIST When the Citie of Oth● was burned one yeelds this as a presaging cause of it that a little before a Priest at Masse spilt a Chalice of Consecrated Wine which that credulous age thought to have beene the very bloud of Christ Our Kingdome hath not beene burned nor I trust ever shall till that great day of fire when the earth and the Elements and the Heavens and all shall burne and yet how is the Bloud of Christ spilt upon the ground and troden under foot by our prophane courses But what though our Houses escape the fire if our bodies doe not No marvaile if some have Ignem in ossibus the fire of loathsomnesse in their bones when they have kindled I gnem in Carne the fire of Lust in their flesh No wonder that our bloud boyles with the heate of feavers and burning Agues when the fervour of drunkennesse and distemperature hath blowne the Coales No mervaile if all the plagues concomitating a civill Warre doe fall upon us when out filthie lusts within us which warre against the Soule are so predominant Quid mirum in generis humani crescere jamiram Deicum creseat quotidi● quod puniatur What marvaile saith Saint Cyprian to see the judgements of God every day increase when our sins which call for them do increase more than they Our pride increaseth our hypocrisie increaseth our prophannes increaseth our rebellion increaseth our Atheisme increaseth Is it a wonder then that the Pox should increase that the Plague should increase that our divisions should increase that wars and rumours of wars should increase also Be wise therefore my Beloved and sin no more lost worse things befall Vs take away the cause if you would have the effect to cease and remove sin from your doores if you would have God with-hold punishment from your soules And so much for the second point The third remaines which is Argumentum ab aquo bono a reason taken from right and equity unto thee shall be his desire and thou shalt rule over him And here it did become mee to crave your patience a little longer the time being already past did I not know the subject I have in hand commanded it For behold my heart hath i●dighted a good matter and I will speake of the things that I have made touching the KING And I would to God that none would touch him worse Vnto thee shall bee his desire and thou shalt rule over him WHich words are meant of Abels subjection to Cain and of Cains supremacie over Abel God that he might restraine Cain from a further evill doth comfort him with this present good that neither his owne wickednesse could deprive him of his dominion nor his