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	soul_n	torment_v	2,474	5	10.1615	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30271	Causa Dei, or, Counsel to the rich of this world to the highest part of the dust of the earth : to which is prefixed an humble address to the King's Majesty.	Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713.	1697 (1697)	Wing B5696; ESTC R15481	49,787	144

him not have less than one Hour in seven every Day Take fast hold of faithful Reprovers Are there none near you Send for them as Cornelius for Peter And when you have them let them not go Keep them as more needful to your Souls than Butlers and Cooks for your Bodies Turn them not away for crying Fire Fire when you and yours are nigh unto burning Beware of the Phrenzy of the Athenian Beggar Who could not be perswaded but all the Ships in the Harbour were his Tormenting Fears do not half the hurt of presumptuous Hopes Who will have his Arm taken from his Shoulderblade unless he believe it to be gangreen'd Or who of you will run that he may obtain if he presumes himself to have ran and obtained already Deceitful Hopes avert from all endeavours and the very desires that be requisite to Salvation Often compare the Gain of Godliness and the Profit of Sin The Natures the Vses the Durations of the one and the other Draw up a Catalogue or Inventory of them Or read them often in Authors that have drawn them up to your Hand And then Night and Day consider the Danger of Delays Tell your selves that a future Repentance is not a Preparation for the Judgment to come And that it is no Repentance at all which is not entire without Reserve and present without Delay God's voice to every Man of you is this Arise lest thou be consumed Escape for thy Life look not behind thee Haste therefore and Do the Act which is the most momentous one of your Life The act before which the Wrath of God abideth on you And after which there is no Condemnation to you With Judgment Sincerity and Gratitude give your selves to God in Christ Join your selves in Covenant unto the Father Son and Spirit For there is no other God in Heaven but the Triune And the Socinian is but a more subtle sort of Mahometan Learned Dr. Pocock observed that our Saviour was more honoured in Turky than in Cracovia In short Mr. Howe 's Decimo of Self-Resignation is a Diamond And so is Blessed Allein's Manual of Conversion Being made God's Temples keep Porters at your Doors You do no sooner join unto the Lord in the Gospel-Covenant but you become Sacred Temples of the Holy Ghost And becoming such it concerns you to set a strict Watch. That no unclean thing enter you That Things and Persons and whatever is Vnholy be put out of your Society For If any defile the Temple of God him will God destroy But Think it not enough to abstain from Sin You do not think it enough for your Servants to forbear smiting you without serving you And what if from this Hour you never sinned any more Stocks and Stones do not commit any Sins So very poor a Praise it is to die unto Sin if you live not unto God! Would you appear the Children of God You must abound in the Work of the Lord. And be holy as well as harmless Look not for the Aids which God hath promised without the use of all Means which he hath required He hath said he will give Wisdom and Will and Power to do good But not unless you ask He hath not said you shall find unless you seek Yea seek with the whole Heart And Watch daily at Wisdom's Gates and wait at the Posts of its Doors God had given his Apostle all that sailed with him Yet without scruple he pronounced that Except they abode in the Ship they could not be saved Acts 27. Aim as high as Perfection No sensual Man covets less than perfect Health and Strength and Beauty Nor does any spiritual one crave less than perfect Knowledg Love and Obedience He is not Holy enough to be admitted into Heaven who desires no more than needs for his Admission Solomon calls it despising of a Man's Soul to be content with low Attainments for it And to be stingy and pinching and sparing of Pains to accomplish it Sincere Love of God aspires to fulfilling of the Law of God! It 's the Bond of Perfectness and that which holds all our Faculties and Powers in the pursuit of it In Religion he that designs but a Mediocrity is under the reigning power of Hypocrisy A true Christian thinks not himself a sufficiently good Man till he is as holy as the best Angel Whatever you are doing remember you are dying Lamps are wasting as soon as they burn and we are dying as soon as we live How often in the Womb is Life spent before Breath is drawn It 's sure we are on our way toward another World before we are born into this and as long as we breath in it It is dying that we live And there 's no Dweller on the Earth but what is a Passenger As in a Ship under Sail whatever Men are doing they are certainly and swiftly passing It is Dying that you eat drink and sleep Dying that you buy sell or game Dying that you read hear or pray And it is a great need that you have of Death in your Thoughts to quicken you to care of your Ways Dr. Bates his Treatise of the four last Things was ate and drank by the best of Queens Happy England when our Nobility and Gentry entertain themselves as wisely But alas Titius is in danger of the Sea breaking in upon all that he hath With much cost he builds a Wall to keep it out Only he leaves a huge Gap in his Wall Yet many see the Wall who see not the Gap and therefore do admire the Work and praise the Man But Sempronius a less negligent and more skilful Observer spies the Gap And is sick to see the absurdity of the Wall and the Folly of Titius Predicting his Ruin unless the Gap be stopp'd with Expedition Lords and Gentlemen the Case is your own There be vast Gaps in the Walls of your most operous and sumptuous Religion And these you are called to have effectually stopp'd Ask not any of you for you are already told What is your Trespass and what is your Sin that you are so hotly pursued Elijahs must tell Ahabs that they and their Fathers Houses have troubled Israel in that they have forsaken the Commandments of the Lord and have followed Baalam And if a very David shall cloak his Sin Nathan must say plainly Thou art the Man Wherefore be it your care that you be not driven one Day to say We are very guilty concerning our plain Monitor in that we saw the anguish of his Soul when he besought us to stop our Gaps and we would not hear him Therefore is distress come upon us In hope of preventing it I have followed Jacob's Counsel to his Sons Gen. 43. I have taken of the Fruit of Canaan and brought you this Present A little Balm a little Honey Spices and Myrrh Nuts and Almonds CHAP. V. To the truly Religious GOodness and Greatness are a rare Conjunction What more Divine than le Bon le Grand