Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	day_n	heart_n	youth_n	1,554	5	9.4723	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52050	The right vnderstanding of the times opened in a sermon preached to the Honorable House of Commons, December 30, 1646, at Margaret Westminster, being the day of their solemne monethly fast / by Stephen Marshall ...	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1647 (1647)	Wing M771; ESTC R6357	33,802	51

Humiliation that wee have not in time past so knowne the times as wee should in reference to our duties There is one more and that is A Use of Exhortation Is this so excellent and necessary a dutie to know the times in reference to our duties O that I knew how to speake somewhat in the name of the Lord that might promote this wisedome in you for time to come that in this our day wee might know the things that concerne our peace that they may not be for ever hid from our eyes O that I could say to you as Paul said to the Thessalonians Concerning the times and seasons it is superfluous for mee to write to you for you your selves know perfectly To this end I beseech you take briefly these foure Meditations to provoke you to study this wisedome in time to come First Often consider how much time how many golden opportunities thou hast lost already how oft there hath been in thy hands a price to purchase Wisdome and thou hast lost it for want of a heart and then thinke whether it bee not more then needfull that thou shouldest lose no more Secondly Consider how much doth depend upon that moment of time that yet is behinde It is an old saying Our life is but a moment but Ex hoc momento pendet aeternitas Eternity dependeth upon this moment no lesse then the glory of God and the saving of thy immortall soule and it may bee of thy family it may bee of the Church and Kingdome dependeth upon thy knowing the times Thirdly Consider thou canst not tell whether ever thou shalt enjoy after this day one opportunity more the Angel may quickly come and sweare concerning thee and mee Time shal be no more And then Fourthly Consider when Time ceases to bee any more thou must give an accompt for all the time that hath been that certainly at the barre and Tribunall of God all the Times and seasons that God hath trusted thee with stand upon thy score and will bee exacted of thee Rejoyce O young man saith Solomon in the 11 of Ecclesiastes in thy youth and let thy heart cheare thee in the dayes of thy youth and walke in the wayes of thine heart and in the sight of thine eyes take thy pleasures waste thy seasons but know that for all these things thou must come to judgement Such Meditations as these would provoke your hearts to bee very carefull to lose no more time but rather to enquire what you should doe for time to come and how you might learne this Wisdome And truly it would fill a Volume to tell what every one should doe from what wee should redeeme our time and to what wee should redeeme it and by what meanes wee should doe it I dare not enter upon that discourse But there is one thing wherein I desire freedome that I might be as helpfull as I can to the Honourable Senate that hath called me to the service of this day Honourable and Beloved God hath cast your lot so that if you be rightly instructed in this one Lesson you may make our times differ as much from former times as Nebuchadnezzars Golden head did from the feet of iron and clay Golden times indeed might bee brought about if God vouchsafed but to teach you this one Lesson Your duties are many for whatsoever lies upon any other lies eminently upon you You are to doe all those things in every time that others are to doe and you are to doe many things that others cannot doe and may not doe That you may therefore know your duty give mee leave to represent before you the true face of our Times wherein wee live and shew what in these Times you have to doe and herein I will not presume to put any Prudentialls upon you we ought all to thinke that Prudentialls are better understood by you then by us but what shall I say shall God willing appeare to be matter of Conscience matters of necessity and things that may not bee left to liberty Know then our present times First in generall are such Times as I thinke never were before us in the World I may say of our times as the Prophet Joel saith in the 1 of Joel Heare O yee old men was it ever thus in your dayes or in the dayes of your forefathers I meane our times are so full of various administrations such a concurrence of all kinde of Providences and Administrations as seldome were ever knowne in so few yeares Wee have been sometimes full of hopes of recovery sometimes at the brinke of despaire sometimes dawnings of light by and by all clouded over againe with utter darknesse sometimes we see a people drawing nigh to God that hides his face from them by and by God drawing nigh to a people that run away from him such alterations such vicissitudes of all kindes of administrations that truly I may compare our times to the wind mentioned in the first of Ecclesiastes It whirles about continually now in the North and then in the South and never abides in one Point So hath it been with us for these foure or five last yeares this day of ours hath been like that day in the 14 of Zachariah neither night nor day nor light nor darknesse but a strange kinde of mixture of all these and in such various and uncertaine Times as these are what have the heads of our Tribes to doe I answer plainly all others with you and you with others are in such dayes to stand and behold the Workes of God viewing and admiring and adoring these Mosaick works these Checquer workes of God but it concernes you above all others to stand constantly upon your watch and employ all your Parts and Wisdome and Faithfulnesse lest a change of time take you upon a sudden As when a Ship is at Sea if it saile to the Westward and once get beyond the Canaries where the Sea sets constantly one way and state-winds blowing for so many Moneths together in one Point a moderate skill and care of him that guides the Helme wil carry them on with ease but in various winds and tumultuous Seas when they saile sometimes among Rocks and sometimes among Quicksands sometimes in Gulfes sometimes in the Ocean sometimes almost at the Shoare if the Pilot be not extreame skilfull and carefull himselfe his Barque and all that are with him are quickly cast away So I am assured is it now with us in these various administrations you that are our Pilots that sit at the Sterne must shew more then ordinary skill and diligence or we may quickly perish But More particularly there are seven severall Scenes of the Time if I may so call them or sorts of things that every day are acted upon our Stage and in every one of them I shal shew you what you that are the Heads of our Tribes have to doe First Our times are