Selected quad for the lemma: fire_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
fire_n	brimstone_n	lord_n	rain_v	2,569	5	11.8203	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30702	Cosmo-meros, the worldly portion, or, The best portion of the wicked, and their misery in the enjoyment of it, opened and applyed together with some directions and helps in order to a heavenly and better portion, enforced with many usef[ul] and divine considerations / by Seth Bushell ...	Bushell, Seth, 1621-1684.	1682 (1682)	Wing B6237; ESTC R40782	133,437	408

saith he I want onely one thing Peace of Conscience that I would have It is not Beer nor Friends nor any easie Pillow I want but Peace of Conscience my thoughts are troubled my mind perplexed Conscience is unquiet and my Heart fails Oh consider now whether there be not like to be perplexity in your Spirits when you come to dye Let due forethoughts of your latter end now take up your Hearts Secondly Then you are to give an account for all though as I told you before not to account for the right to use but for not right using of what you have Then you are to come up upon account Here you go on to buy and sell and get gain and are jovial and pleasant you spend your daies in wealth and mirth Jam. 4.13 Job 21.13 and in a moment go down to the Grave but then an account is to be made for all A sad reckoning is at hand and such as alas they little think of As a many of Prodigall spenthrifts met together do in the Tavern carouse all care away and amidst their spuming healths never think of the shot or reckoning that is to pay Or as some wretchless Malefactors desperately careless and prodigall of their Lives though Hue and Cry be at their heels and the avenger of blood pursue them and no less lye at stake than their very lives yet in an Ale-shop met together there they bench away all their cares and drown their fears and never think of the reckoning they have to make nor dread the Officer at hand to take them The Barr Impii praesumendo sperant sperando pereunt where they must hold up the Hand and be arraigned is not at all forethought of by them Even thus it is with the men of the World amidst their sickly healths they dread no evil nor ever call their account to mind but come ye say they and I will fetch Wine and we will fill our selves with strong drink and to morrow shall be as this day and much more abundant Isaiah 56.12 Oh sad will be the reckoning which such men have to make and dreadfuull the account when they are called to it Do but now think with your selves if you have now so much as you cannot reckon how then will you be able to reckon for it If now you have so much as you cannot count how then will you be able to give an account of what you have especially when you shall be hurried thereto at unawares and have had no thoughts thereof before-hand Thirdly Dreadfull is the Portion of these men at the Day of Judgment Oh the shame and confusion that will then be upon the Faces of the men of the World How will they then be confounded in themselves and desire the Mountains to fall on them and the Rocks to cover them Rev. 6.16 Jam. 2.3 especially when they shall see their poor neighbours or such whom when in the World they would have disdained to have set at their Footstool or with the Dogs of their Flock taken up with Christ into Glory and themselves cast out when these shall stand on the right hand and they as Goats shall be set on the left Mat. 25.33 Perhaps a poor Boy or Servant in the House shall be advanced to Glory and you that are their great Masters shall be cast out Eternally Oh what an Infinite shame and confusion would this be to you what will you say how will you change your minds Oh now I see what it is to trust in God and not to trust in him Now I see that there is a vast difference between a true believer and an impenitent wretch Now we may discern between the righteous and the wicked between him that serveth God Mal. 3.18 and him that serves him not These are happy that would trust for the future that durst take God's Word and Promise for their Portion and Inheritance but I miserable to all Eternity that drust not trust him And then the conclusion what will it be the Royal Prophet tells you Psal 11.6 upon the wicked the Lord shall rain snares fire and brimstone and an horrible tempest this shall be the Portion of their cup. Here 's the Portion of the ungodly at the last fire and brimstone is upon them and it 's rained down so as it falls more violently and the Lord does it and therefore it is an horrible tempest and their condition is denoted more wretched in that they cannot escape for in snares rained down they are entangled and moreover to add to this their woe and misery and make it out of measure miserable They are not only to have this fire and brimstone on them but in them too for all this is put into their cup and they are to drink it and so to drink it as not to leave the dreggs behind but to wring them out and drink them Psal 75.8 And this shall be the Portion of their cup. They have had a Goodly Portion in the World which they have abused their cup did overflow and now they shall have as dreadfull a Portion at the Day of Judgment for this shall be the Portion of their cup. The servant that eates and drinks with the drunken and so does abuse the mercies put into his hand shall have his Portion appointed him with the Hypocrites Mat. 24.51.46 there shall be weeping and gnashing Teeth Think but of one Text and I have done with this particular Job 27.8 What is tht hope of the Hypocrite though he hath gained when God taketh away his Soul Note hence there are many Hypocrites that aim to get in the World and cannot God crosseth them and disappoints them in their devices and will not let their covered intentions prosper Well but suppose they aim at gain and get it and so attain what they doe desire yet what hope hath the Hypocrite though he hath gain'd though he hath grown never so rich and gained what he did desire when God takes away his soul * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Si evellat Deus animam ejus Job 27. ● Luk 12.20 plucking it as it were in anger from him Thou fool this night thy Soul shall be required of thee Then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided Where 's thy gain and what 's thy hope when thy Soul is pluck'd away The Portion thou hast gained is gone and another wofull Portion there is behind which now thou art to enter upon to all Eternity Now know that this time is coming it will be ere long and then perhaps this Text of mine may ring in your ears when you lie upon your sick beds and daies of weakness come upon you and your thoughs rationally work about and are fixed upon your latter end then this argument may come into your mind and conscience preach this over again unto you telling you I heard such a time there were a Generation of Men who had all their Good things in