Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	gain_v	jew_n	weak_a	10,116	5	11.7630	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45313	Satans fiery darts quenched, or, Temptations repelled in three decades : for the help, comfort, and preservation of weak Christians in these dangerous times of errour and seduction / by I.H. ...	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1647 (1647)	Wing H410A; ESTC R34452	86,739	386

is a charge to be trembled at Yee shall not sweare by my name falsly neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God I am the Lord And if the word of charge be so dreadfull what terrour shall we find in the word of judgment Lo God sweares too and because there is no greater to sweare by he swears by himself As I live surely mine oath that he hath despised and my Covenant which he hath broken even it will I recompence upon his owne head It was one of the words that were delivered in fire and smoak and thunder and lightning in Sinai The Lord will not hold him guiltlesse that taketh his name in vaine I dare not therefore feare any thing so much as the displeasure of the Almighty and to dye for will neither take an unlawfull oath nor violate a just one As for that sociable excesse whereto thou temptest me how ever the commonness of the vice may have seemed to abate of the reputation of hainousnes in the opinion of others yet to me it representeth it so much more hatefull as an universall contagion is more grievous then a local I cannot puchase the name of good fellowship with the losse of my reason or with the price of a curse Dayly experience makes good that word of Solomon that Wine is a mocker robbing a man of himselfe and leaving a beast in his roome And what woes do I heare denounced against those that rise up earely in the morning that they may follow strong drink that continue till night til the wine inflame them If any man thinke he may pride himselfe in a strong brain and a vigorous body Woe to them that are mighty to drink wine men of strength to mingle strong drinkes Let the Iovialists of the world drink wine in bowles and feast themselves without feare let me never joyne my selfe with that fellowship where God is banisht from the companie Wouldst thou perswade me to falsifie my word for an advantage what advantage can be so great as the conscience of truth and fidelity That man is for Gods tabernacle that sweareth to his owne hurt and changeth not Let me rather lose honestly then gaine by falshood and perfidiousnesse Thou biddest me serve the time So I will doe whiles the time serves not thee but if thou shalt have so corrupted the time that the whole world is set in wickednesse I will serve my God in opposing it gladly will I serve the time in all good offices that may tend to rectifie it but to serve it in a way of flattery I hate and scorn I shall willingly frame my selfe to all companies not for a partnership in their vice but for their reclamation from evil or incouragement in good The chosen vessell hath by his example taught me this charitable and holy pliablenesse Though I be free from all men yet have I made my self a servant unto all that I might gain the more To the Jewes I became as a Jew that I might gaine the Jewes to them that are under the Law as under the Law that I might gaine them that are under the Law To them that are without Law as without Law being not without Law to God but under the Law to Christ that I might gain them that are without Law To the weake I became weake that I might gaine the weake I am made all things to all men that I might by al means save some My onely scope shall be spirituall gaine for this will I like some good Merchant trafique with all nations with all persons But for carnall respects to put my selfe like the first matter into all formes to be demure with the strictly-severe to be debaucht with the drunkard with the Atheist profane with the Bigot superstitious what were this but to give away my soule to every one save to the God that ownes it and whiles I would be all to be nothing and to professe an affront to him that hath charged me be not conformed to this world Shortly let me be despicable and starve and perish in my innocent integrity rather then be warme and safe and honoured upon so evill conditions VI. TEMPTATION It is but for a while that thou hast to live and when thou art gone all the world is gone with thee Improve thy life to the best contentment Take thy pleasure whiles thou maist Repelled Even this was the very no●e of thine old Epicurean clients Let us eat and drink for to morrow we shall die I acknowledg the same dart and the same hand that flings it a dart dipped in that deadly poison that causeth the man to dye laughing a dart that pierceth as deeply into the sensuall heart as it easily retorted by the regenerate These wilde inferences of sensuality are for those that know no heaven no hell but to me that know this world to be nothing but a thorow-fare to eternity either way they abhorre not from grace onely but from reason it selfe In the intuition of this immortality what wise man would not rather say my life is short therefore it must bee holy I shall not live long let me live well so let mee live for a while that I may live for ever These have been still the thoughts of gracious hearts Moses the man of God after he hath computed the short periods of our age and confined it to fourescore yeares so soon is it cut off and we fly away inferres with the same breath So teach us to number our daies that we may apply our hearts to wisdome As implying that this holy Arithmeticke should be an introduction to Divinity that the search of heavenly wisdome should be the true use of our short life and the sweet singer of Israel after he hath said Behold thou hast made my daies as a span long mine age is nothing to thee findes cause to look up from earth to heaven And now Lord what wait I for surely my hope is even in thee He that desired to know the measure of his life findes it but a span and recompences the shortnesse of his continuance with hopes everlasting as the tender mercy of our God pities our frailtie remembring that we are but flesh a wind that passeth away and cometh not againe So our frailty supports it selfe with the meditation of his blessed eternity My daies saith the Psalmist are like a shadow that declineth and I am withered like grasse But thou O Lord shalt endure for ever and thy remembrance to all generations As therefore every man walketh in a vain shadow in respect of his transitorinesse so the Good man in respect of his holy conversation can say I will walke before the Lord in the Land of the living and knowes himselfe made for better ends then vaine pleasure I shall not dye but live and declare the works of the Lord It is for them who have their portion