Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	aaron_n	blossom_n	rod_n	58	3	9.0447	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02735	Deaths aduantage little regarded, and The soules solace against sorrow Preached in two funerall sermons at Childwal in Lancashire at the buriall of Mistris Katherin Brettergh the third of Iune. 1601. The one by William Harrison, one of the preachers appointed by her. Maiestie for the countie palatine of Lancaster, the other by William Leygh, Bachelor of Diuinitie, and pastor of Standish. Whereunto is annexed, the Christian life and godly death of the said gentlevvoman.	Harrison, William, d. 1625.; Leigh, William, 1550-1639.	1602 (1602)	STC 12866; ESTC S117329	105,988	243

way he hath trode the wine-presse alone and there was none is helpe The cup of bitter affliction whereof he tasted agonizing in the garden for no intreatie with his Father could passe from him to any other Oye Papists at last in the name of God be wise and warned leaue off your mixtures away with your medleys and if you desire either peace to your soules or rest to your bodies only walke before him Meddle with no merit of man pardon of Pope meede of Martyrs or pride of your owne workes vnwisely wrought Make no mixtures of the sacred water and bloud which flowed frō the side of Christ with the bloud of Hales and Becket or with the inchanted holy water of an vnhallowed Priest Neuer match your triple crowne of gold and diamonds glittering with the single crowne of thorne piercing And neuer thinke the puri●ie of the word will abide the mixtures of your traditions the text your glosses the Church your Idols the arke of God your Dagon nor the poore priesthood of Christ your papall pride and Popedome Looke for none other but that the bodie and soule of your religion like the image Nebuchadnezzar saw p●tcht together of gold siluer brasse iron and clay will and shall ●inner when the stone cut out without hands shall smite the same Your coate is of ●i●●ie wool●ie not for our wearing Your familie like Micha of mount Ephraim and not for our dwelling for as he had so haue you an house of gods an Ephod and a Teraphim he would serue both God and Idols and so doe you And as for vs who beleeue and looke after better things we say with the poore Paralyticke in disclaime of all others helpe it is Iesus that made vs whole And we say with Abraham when we go to sacrifice thou seruant stay here I and the childe will walke alone And now for conclusion by the Lords commaund that wee are for Bethel we haue with Iacobs familie put away the strange gods that were among vs we haue clensed our selues and chaunged our garmēts pluckt off our earings and put all into the hand of our Iacob our Elizabeth who faithfully for her God and graciously for her people hath buryed Pop●rie with it execrable things vnder an oke at Shechem neuer to be reuiued neuer to be found out Amen Amen Lastly for an end sith the time is past and I feare much I haue wearied your patience ouer-long From the proper obiect of our faith walking come we to the progresse and increase of both contayned in this word walketh Where you may see as in a glasse chrystaline that a christian life is not a standing still but a walking on and growth in the doctrine of faith and practice of godlines The first blessing that euer God gaue after the creation was increase and multiplie which tooke it effect not only in the creatures by propagation of kinde but also in his gifts graces by renouation of minds new birth growth in knowledge true faith and godlines All the trees in Paradise did grow and all the floods in Paradise did flow to teach vs that we must not stād still at a stay lest either wee be fruitles and so accursed or become puddle water and so vnprofitable The finest cloath will weare if it be not vsed the purest gold will rust if it be not handled the sweetest balme will corrupt if it be not broken and the cleerest fountaine will stincke if it runne not So are the graces of God and doctrines of the beginnings of Christ though of themselues pure as gold sweete as balme cleere as a fountaine yet in respect of vs vnprofitable if we proceed not further but there stand still Foundations they are I graunt for the scripture hath said it Hebr. 6. 1. But what of that and what is the foundation be it of Beryll Topaze or Chrisolite if you build not vpon it proceed no further in the work In the first of Ezechiel where the vision of gifts and graces are described it is said that the beasts winds and wheeles went as the spirit lead them and they returned not when they went foorth and if at any time they stood they let downe their wings as vnprofitable then vntill the Lord had put power in them of further proceeding And in the same Prophet againe where the like gifts are described by another vision you may finde that from vnder the threshold of Gods sanctuary the waters issue out and they runne East West North and South The●mā with the line measured a thousand ●ubi●s and the waters were to the anckles Againe he measured a thousand and they were to the kn●os he measured againe and they were to the loynes after he measured againe and it was a riuer impossible signifying that the graces of God should neuer decrease but euer abound in his Church The fishers should spread out their nets frō En-gedi to En-egl●um The trees shuld grow vpon the brinke of the riuer on this side and on that side with leaues not fading fruit not failing leaues for medicine fruite for meate and fruite euer new according to his moueths As for the miry places thereof saith the Prophet and the maris●ies which stand still they shall not be holesome but they shall be made ●alt pits You may remember when Aarons Priesthood should be confirmed all the tribes with their names cast their rods into the mercie-●eate and none blossomed but Aarons You are a kingly people and a royall Priesthood ò bud bloome blossome and bring foorth fruit worthy amendment and newnes of life Dauid said of his Saints Ibant de virtute in virtutem they went from strength to strength and from faith to faith as it is written from the faith of the promise to the faith of the performance from the faith of the letter that killeth to the faith of the spirit that giueth life from the faith of Christ his humiliation in misery to the faith of his exaltation in glorie from the faith of the first resurrection from sinne to the faith of the second resurrectiō from death from the faith of the law wounding to the faith of the Gospell curing from the faith of the Prophets ●owing to that faith of the Apostles reaping from the faith of the old sacrifice giuing to God to the faith of the new sacraments receiuing from God in a word from the faith of the old couenant wherein God speaketh to the faith of the new restament wherein Christ bleedeth Of al which I may conclude with Haymo Ex side qua cōcipitur corde profertur ore exhibetur opere iustus viuit By faith conceiued in the hart professed with the mouth practised with the hand the righteous man liueth Paul is plentifull in this doctrine and hauing once laid the ground of faith hee vrgeth nothing more then the increase of faith He tels the Romanes That by the Gospell