Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	lie_v	little_a	sail_v	1,306	5	10.2775	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30609	The saints treasury being sundry sermons preached in London / by the late reverend and painfull minister of the gospel, Jeremiah Burroughes.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.	1654 (1654)	Wing B6114; ESTC R23885	118,308	158

the glory of our lives and to prize our lives aright excellent effects would proceed from it were our hearts wrought to these things But Secondly If the onely time that we have to provide for eternity be the time of this life how then are those to be reproved that mispend and squander away this precious time of their lives about vanities and neglect the great businesse that they were sent into the world for If such great things depend upon our lives then the losse of the time of our lives is a most dreadful losse we all say time is precious and it is so and the through-understanding and applying of this point would make us see time precious indeed If there could be an extract of the quintessence of all the pearles in the world put into one it would not be such a precious pearle as this time of our lives because there is that depends upon it that is infinitely more worth then ten thousand worlds however men and women make little of their time and play and sport it away yet there is no moment of thy time that thou doest mispend but for ought thou knowest it might be the very moment upon which thy eternal condition doth depend thou goest abroad and art merry and jocund and mispendest thy time and abusest thy self I say for ought thou knowest that instant of thy sinning might be the very moment upon which the very hinge of all thy eternall condition depends and did we understand this doctrine aright we should see it to be an exceeding great evil and folly to mispend our precious time men ordinarily live in the world as if they had nothing to doe here but onely to make provision for the flesh If a man should come to the City about a businesse that concernes his life and the time he hath to doe it in were very short how industriously doe you think would he spend that time every time the clock strikes would strike to his heart or suppose God should send a damned soul that is now in hell into the world againe and should say thus to him Soul you shall goe and live againe in the world and I will give you a little space you shall live a quarter or half a yeare or if it were but a moneth or week and I will put you in such an estate that there shall be a possibility for you to make your peace with me and to deliver your self from this misery that you are under I appeal to you how doe you think such a one would spend his time now as you are perswaded and convinced in your consciences how such a one would spend his time so doe you labour to spend your time many would have rules to guide them in their way why take this rule if such a thing could be that a damned soul could be sent into the world again and be in a possibility of another estate I say What you think such a one would doe that doe you If one should come and say to him what shall I give for your time that is granted to you how would he contemne him if you offer him Crownes and Kingdomes yea all the world for his time be it but a week or a day he would scorne such an offer and prize one day more then a thousand worlds Now you have had dayes and weekes one after another and yet for ought you know you are liable to eternal ruine and you know not whether you have a week or a day more before your eternal condition be stated upon you O what need then have you to improve your time How few think of the passing away of their time or that any great matter depends upon the time of their lives here in this world you would count it a great folly and madnesse if a man had a precious oyle that were worth a thousand pound a pinte and he should set up a light with this oyle to talke or play or doe trifling things by what a lampe that is sed by such oyle that is worth thousands surely this lampe should be for some weighty businesse and not for trifles Know brethren that the time of your lives is this lampe lighted up and fed with such precious oyle O do not squander it away then about trifles and vanities for there are things of infinite concernment that you have to doe in this time of your lives t is the great charge of Christ against Jezebel Revel 2. 21. And I gave her space to repent of her fornication but she repented not I remember an expression of a woman that was in great distresse of conscience some came to her and endeavouring what they could to perswade her that there was hopes of mercy for her she lookt with a gastly countenance upon them and said Call time again call time again as if she had said if you can call time again there may be hope for me Certainly we doe not consider what depends upon time it is a good signe of an enlightned conscience to make conscience of time there is nothing puts a more serious frame into a mans spirit then to know the worth of his time sayes one in discovering the losse of the opportunity of time suppose there were a company of men sailing to sea and they come at last to a little Island that lies in the middest of the sea many thousand miles from any other Land and they goe and refresh themselves upon the Island but sayes the Marriner look to your selves be not farre off be within call for I will not stay for any of you the old men it may be are afraid to be too farre but the young men trust to their legs and think they can make haste but the Mariner is gone and they are left behinde and perish t is true while we are here in this world we are refreshing our selves but be sure sayes God you be ready when I call and Gods call is the time of death now God he calls and poor creatures are not ready and so they perish eternally O the losse of the time of your lives will be a dreadful losse one day and it will pierce your souls to think that once you had a day of grace but now you have no time judgement is now past upon you and there is no remedy It is reported of a woman who had her house on fire that she was very busie and spent her time about saying of trifles and in the meane time had a childe in the cradle and forgot that and when she lookt upon what she had saved she saw a few trifling things but then it came into her minde O what is become of my childe and imagining that her childe had been burnt though it was saved she ran mad to consider that she should be so foolish as to minde things of no concernment and to forget her childe Take heed it be not your case you heare that time is precious and that there are great