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
B11637	Adam in his innocencie. By William Bloys, esquire	Bloys, William, 17th cent.	1638 (1638)	STC 3139; ESTC S116391	73,020	296

againe quickened and become a beautifull and glorious branch Quam multos aestu laborantes ramorum opacitas texit Senec. a refuge from the storme a shadow from the heat protecting us from his Fathers wrath when by our provocations it begins to be kindled against us From him we receive this blessed fruit that in peace and tranquillity we can sit every man under his vine Micah 4.4 and under his figge-tree Zech. 3.10 that in abundant plenty we can eate every one of his vine and every one of his figge-tree that in perfect charity we can call every man his neighbour under his vine Isa 36.16 and under his figge-tree whose love doth not determine in the outward benefits of this life for then our shadow would be turned into darknesse but he gives us the gracious promises of a better life when the times of Refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord Tempora refrigerii Acts 3.19 that the Sun shall not any more light on us nor any heat These are the blessings we should chiefly seek after which will never leave us nor forsake us as for the delights and pleasures of this life they are like a fleeting shadow of no continuance If God blowes upon them they doe wither and fade like a leafe In the calme and bright dayes of Summer wee receive some contentment by using our arbours but when the storme ariseth or the Winter approacheth or the day groweth to an end we then returne into our houses In the time of health and strength wee are ready to say I shall never be moved and doe place too much confidence in the profits and comforts of the world but when God shall send some pining sicknesse that shall shake us like a mighty tempest when the winter of old age causeth our desire to faile and the yeeres are come in which we have no pleasure when the night doth overtake us and we goe to the gates of the grave even to the land of darknesse and of the shadow of death we shall then be removed like a shepheards tent our earthly house of this tabernacle shall be dissolved and we shall arrive at our long home as Barzillai was buried in the grave of his parents where we may say to corruption 2 Sam. 19.37 Thou art my father and to the worme Thou art my mother and my sister Oh that we were wise that we understood this that we would consider our latter end and not set our hearts upon these transitory trifles that deceive us when wee have greatest need of them Thinke upon the renowned Patriarkes and obedient Rechabites blessed of the Lord who dwelt in tents it was but the plucking up of a pin and they were gone Psal 120. Indesinenter vagare errare cogor Jun. Job 27.18 Though thou livest in an house of Cedar it is but as the tents of Kedar or a booth that the keeper maketh as Job speakes or a lodge in a garden often removed or of short continuance God can sweep away thy web with the besome of destruction or cut thee off and make thee goe to the generation of thy fathers where thou shalt never see light We will not abide any longer in this our arbour the use whereof doth so expire Now because a plantation is vaine unlesse it be environed with a sufficient defence against the beast of the field that destroies the trees Cant. 2.15 as the little foxes spoile the vines and against the beast of Ephesus brutish and unreasonable men who will not be content to eate their fill at their pleasure as God did permit in our neighbours vineyard but will put into their vessels Deut. 23.24 robbing the owner of the fruit of his labour we will therefore in the next place walke about our garden and goe round about it marking well her walls and considering the strength of her inclosure by meanes whereof it is preserved from ruine and desolation In the Parables Mat. 21.33 when God plants a vineyard he provides for the safety thereof either hedging it round about Isa 5.2 or making a wall about it thereby declaring his providence and care in the preservation of his Church and Chosen Isa 27.3 Lest any hurt his vineyard hee will keep it night and day As the mountaines are round about Jerusalem Psal 125.2 so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth even for ever Thus hee made an hedge about Job Job 1.10 and about his house and about all that he had thus he doth compasse us about with his loving kindnesse and keeps us from the adversaries of soule and body We have a vigilant enemy ever ready to assault us he walkes about as Peter speakes 1 Pet. 5.8 and would take any advantage to make a breach and enter as he did into Judas And having once climbed up and got possession like a thiefe he would steale and kill and destroy robbing us of the fruit of righteousnesse and depriving us of all heavenly comforts making us to become a reproach a waste and a curse Now it is by the favour and goodnesse of God that we are protected Cant. 4.12 as a garden inclosed a spring shut up a fountaine sealed The Angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that feare him and delivereth them wherefore let us feare to offend against the Lord for in so doing we lay our selves open to the rage and cruelty of all our enemies There are divers kinds of plants that will get rooting in the joynts of walls and buildings Caprificus ficus hedera alia virgulta Causabon and there increasing will breake them asunder and overthrow them Such are our sinnes if we suffer them to grow up and doe cherish them they will batter downe the wall and expose us to confusion Ever remember that there is no strength nor fortification that can secure us against the judgements of God when wee transgresse his lawes If hee gives power unto man to leap over a wall Psal 18.29 then he himselfe is most able to surprize us wheresoever wee bee Though our foundation abideth sure the God of hosts can muster up his armies the locusts Exod. 10.15 the palmer-worme the caterpiller Amos 4.9 the canker-worm the frost Joel 1.4 7. blasting and the like to eate the fruit of the trees and consume the increase of our labour No mighty man can be delivered by much strength God can take him away as with a whirlewind both living and in his wrath As we are to be sensible of Gods love towards our selves in particular so likewise we ought evermore to be thankfull for his wonderfull mercy and unspeakable goodnesse towards this his Church which he hath hitherto so graciously preserved There is a City that is described to be compassed about with fire Silicum lapidicinae unde cinctum igne Madritum Mercator in regard of the quarries of flint adjoyning thereunto But I