Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	darkness_n	death_n	shadow_n	3,756	5	10.1492	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14860	A posie of spirituall flowers taken out of the garden of the holy scriptures, consisting of these sixe sorts: hearts ease, true delight, the worlds wonders, the souls solace, times complaint, the doom of sinners. Gathered for the encouragement of beginners, direction of proceeders, meditation of good hearers, consolation of true beleeuers, expectation of Sions mourners, confusion of irrepentant sinners. By George Webbe, minister of the word.	Webbe, George, 1581-1642.	1610 (1610)	STC 25164; ESTC S102126	70,373	214

damned of his owne selfe and being senselesse of his sinne is giuen ouer to a reprobate sense Rom. 1.24 and being past feeling Ephes 4.19 giue themselues ouer to worke all vncleannes euen with greedinesse being alreadie within the iawes of hell before they bee awares And well I wote that when such sleepie soules shall awake and wake they shal securely now although they sleepe that then their horror shall be the greater farre like wilde beasts which though so long as they lie asleepe seeme tame and gentle yet being roused vp are fierce and wrathfull In the meane Sinners Gods enemies albeit in outward shew they may seeme ioyfull yet let them know their case is fearfull for if the wrath of an earthlie King bee raging how dreadful then must needs be their estate who are professed enemies to the King of Heauen Isai 26.11 Surely he hateth all those that worke iniquity Psal 5.6 and both the wicked man and his wickednes are in hatred with him Psal 14. Prou. 15.9 The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord Isai 1. Psal 50. Hee cannot abide nor permit the sinner to praise him to pray vnto him or to take his couenant in his mouth no maruell then if at the last day hee shew such rigor vnto them who in this life are so extreamly hated and detested of him Gods threatnings against sinners What peace then can they haue that haue the Lord of hosts to be their enemie Psal 10. God shall raine snares of fire vpon sinners brimstone with tempestuous windes shall be the portion of their cuppe the Lord shall breake their teeth in their mouthes Psal 57.6.9.10 and shoote foorth his arrowes and destroy them Hee shall carrie them away as a whirle winde in his wrath and wash his feete in the blood of the vngodlie He will powre out his wrath vpon them and fulfill all his anger in them Ezech. 7.8.9.10 Hee will iudge them according to their waies and lay vpon them all their abominations neither shall his eye spare them neither will he haue pitie on them and they shall know that hee is the Lord that smiteth them Cursed be they in the towne and cursed in the field cursed in the fruite of their bodie Deut. 28.16.17.18 and cursed in the fruite of their land the increase of their kine and in the flocks of their sheepe cursed when they come in and cursed when they goe out cursed in their bodies and cursed in their soules Now then let them boast while they will of their prosperitie The beginning of hell here in this life to the wicked and let such as are like vnto them flatter them in their follie though they seeme with Capernaum to be lifted vp to heauen Matth. 11.23 yet behold alreadie they are in the confines of hell though they haue a name of mightinesse yet indeed they are in the lowest estate of abiectnes Though they may seeme the only men that liue yet they are but dead whiles heere they liue 1. Tim. 5.6 Though worldlings do admire them Rom. 6.16 yet are they but the Lords laughing stockes Sinnes slaues and Satans drudges Poore woodcocks are they ensnared in Satans springs 2. Tim. 2.26 Rom. 9.22 vessels of wrath ordained for the Diuels blacke kitchin alreadie treading the waies of darknesse Prou. 4.19 Exod. 3. the prince of darknesse taske mē in the works of wickednesse yea they dwell alreadie in the land of darknesse and in the shadow of death Psal 107.10 being fast bound in miserie and iron Psal 37.8 when Gods children are satisfied with the dainties of his house Luke 15.16 they feed on husks of sinne and draffe of beastly life when the soules of the Saints are temples of the holy Ghost 1. Cor. 6.15 Reuel 18.2 their soules be nests of Scorpions dungeons of Diuels Reuel 21.27 when Gods children haue their names registred in the booke of life their names are engrossed in the book of perdition being alreadie in the power of the Diuell and his angels 1. Tim. 5.6 subiect to sinne and all temptations dead in trespasses and sins whiles in their bodies they bee aliue and when they die hauing this death the earnest penie of the second death For certainly The dolefull estate of the wicked in the day of death The reioycing of the wicked is but short and the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment though his excellencie mount vp to the heauen his head reach vnto the clouds Iob 20.5.6.7.8.9 yet shall hee perish for euer like his dung and they which haue seene him shall say Where is he He shall flee away as a dreame and shall passe away as a vision in the night Goe he shall there is no remedie Iob 10.22 into the land of darknesse and shadow of death into a land I say darke as darknesse it self and into the shadow of death where is none order but the light is there as darknesse Heb. 9. Eccles 3.19 And albeit this is the condition of the iust as well as the vniust and as the one dieth so must the other die and returne vnto the dust yet good Lord how great a difference is there betweene the righteous and the wicked at the day of death Mark the vpright man Psal 37.37 and behold the iust for the end of that mā is peace when ghastly death approcheth with her inexorable destinie then doe they lift vp their heads Luke 21.28 for that their redemptin̄ draweth nigh from the labours and toyles of this world Psal 40.1.3 Blessed then are they that feare the Lord the Lord wil strengthen them vpon their bed of sorrow and make their bed in their sicknes So that with holie Hilarion they then begin to cheere vp their soule Hieron in vita Hilarion Exito anima mea exito c. Goe out my soule goe out thou needest not feare thus long thou hast serued Christ why shoul dest thou now bee afraid to goe to him But for the wicked and vngodly man as there is no peace to him during the whole course of his life so shall hee finde least peace at the houre of death O Death how bitter is the remembrance Eccles 41. of thee to a man that liueth at rest in his possessions how irksome shall it bee to an vnrepentant sinner when hee shall see Death it selfe standing before his face to arrest him and approching vnto him with this incultable doome Thou soule Luke 12.19 this night I must take away thy soule from thee and then whose shall these thy pleasures and thy profits be A wofull anguish must thē needs possesse his heart when hee must part from all his earthly ioyes pleasures commodities which he hath trauelled for with the hazard of his soule and finde no profit in them but that hee hath trauelled for the winde Eccles 5.15