Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	child_n	egypt_n	pharaoh_n	1,349	5	10.1449	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36543	The Christians zodiake, or, Twelve signes of predestination unto life everlasting written in Lattin by Ieremie Drexelius.; Zodiacus Christianus locupletatus. English	Drexel, Jeremias, 1581-1638.	1647 (1647)	Wing D2168; ESTC R38850	91,238	264

inaccessible Whilst all of us tend unto one onely gaole alas what diversity is there in those wayes we goe we run and we perish in The way of life is narrow that of perdition broad rosie pleasant there we must climbe up a craggy clift here we slide easily downe into a dale facilis descensus Averni the descent to hell is easie Truth cryes out unto us exhorts and admonishes us Intrate per augustam portam c. Enter by the narrow gate since the gate is broad and the way spatious which leads to perdition and many there are who enter by it whereas the gate is straight and the way narrow which conducts to life and there are few who finde it And it inculcates the same againe Inforce your selves to enter by the narrow gate For I say vnto you Matth. 7. Luke 13. there are many who are desirous to enter in and yet cannot A narrow way indeed it is which wee cannot goe but alone and unaccompanyed Rom. 22. Gal. 6. Cor. ● each one of us is to render account unto God Almighty onely of himself each one to undergoe his owne burthen each one according to his works that he hath done shall receive reward● And this is that which made our Saviour break forth into those dolefull words Multi sunt vocati pauci verò electi Many are called but few are chosen How many by the force of this one word pauci few have as it were by some sudden thunder clap been awaked out of the dead trance of their licentious lives How many at the bare report therof have retired themselves into solitary caves and desarts from all society and commerce with men How many thousand Martyrs hath it made expose themselves to wracks prisons fires torturings gibbets wild beasts and the executioners utmost rage and cruelty whilst you might heare from them no other voyce than this it is no hard matter to dye for us who are to live againe among those few of the elect sheath your swords in our bodies and spare not so long as our soules may be numbred among those few but happy who are saved Who of them would not find courage enough to say Could I be extended on a hundred Crosses I would not shrinke to escape one of them had I a hundred necks I would stretch them all out under the Axe it should be my pastime to dye a hundred times and I s●ould esteem my torments only as restoratives so as I may be admitted after all into Paradise in company of those few who are predestinate from hence proceeded that generous sa ing of that glorious Martyr Saint Ignatius Let all crosses come fire wild beasts and as many torments as the devil can invent so as I may enioy my Christ I care not How many hath this same thunder of our Saviour● words this onely one word pauci a few recalled from the rank meddowes of luxury to the house of sorrow and repentance they chusing rather to be saved with a few than perish with many since they perish no l●sse who perish in co●pany non minus perit qui perit in tu●ba And of th●s great sca●city of those who are saved we have for our warning had frequent examples in every age ●his was the onely subject of Noah's preaching that Herald of justice as S. Paul termes him for an hundred years more and yet men were so obdurate in their wickednes as out of that infinite multitude then alive onely eight soules were saved in that wooden arke or prison of those few impious Cain was one for so you shall as rarely find any society of good without the admixture of some bad as the fragrant rose without the bryer cleaving to it And so God being upon the poynt of destroying the Land of Sodom and Gomorrah was yet content with ●brahams request to hold his hands and spare the● if he could but have pickt him out ten just men of such innumerable multitudes as they were and yet so great was the scarcity of the good as they were not to be found whereupon the Angels adviseth Lot Festina salva te to make speed and save himself and so onely three persons were preserved from so generall a calamity as was the burning of two such mighty Cities whose ruines are even extant to this day the monuments of the wrath of Almighty God Neither in more ambiguous manner is the paucity of the predestinate exprest in that passage of sacred Scripture when Moses leading under his conduct out of Aegypt 600000. fighting men besides women and children and others promiscously without number of lesser note but onely two of such a world of people arrived unto that plentiful land of promise all the rest being buried in that mighty Sepulcher of that vast desart the receptacle of so many thousand dead As for Pharaoh who followed them with such warlike preparation to restraine them of their liberty againe he together with all his army was buryed in the red sea the gaping sepulcher of such a mighty hoast Exod. 3● quis non timebit te ô Rex gentium who will not stand in awe of the O Lord of the Gentiles Besides for their falling into actuall idolatry Moses proclaymed among the children of Israel Si quis est Domini iungatur mihi c. whosoever is our Lords let him joyne with me and they slew that day of them ●3000 a lamentable issue of one act of Idolatry to signifie how much God Almighty doth detest one mortall sin So Iosuah having taken by that mysterious stratagem the City of Ierico put all the men and living creature in it unto the sword and fire and so that mighty City like some carkasse in its funerall fire was all unto a heap of ashes consumed away only one house surviving so great a ruine so great a calamity And Gedeon in his expedition against the Midianites out of 32000. chose onely 300. out for that present enterprise and dismissed all the rest Iudges 7. For God hath no respect of any number but of the good neither is the way to hell so long but in one breath it may be gone by committing of one mortall sin whereby we become traytors to the Divine Majesty and meriting eternall punishment So in former times for one libidinous act 40000. Hebrews and 50600. Benjamites were slaine and how deare did the Benjamites with the losse of so many thousand soules pay for the curiosity of their eyes when they looked with too great irreverence on the Arke of God Neither is this great scarcity of the predestinate lesse clearly s●t before our eyes in the sacred history of the Kings where Absolon leading an Army of rebells against the King his father a messenger in all haste ran to let David understand that all Israel with their whole heart did follow Absolon toto corde universus Israel sequitur Absalon 2 Kings 15. and Seba seditiously stirring up a sort of tumultuous people