Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	body_n	death_n	separation_n	3,748	5	10.7337	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32882	Christ in the clouds, or, God's coming to judgment A short treatise, very necessary in these evil and dangerous times, for all those which desire that the day of the Lord may be their day of joy.		1686 (1686)	Wing C3931AB; ESTC R215217	9,972	26

and the minds For now if ever is the perfection or rather imperfection of all the sins the Apostle names to be the fore-runners of the end Why doubt we then that the ●nd is not at hand Or why fear we not rather that a sudden end will prevent our procrastinated repentance As bodies are sick before death and as Iufirmities and Sickness are the true forerunners of a separation between the ●ody and the Soul even so fareth it with the World it now languisheth and is corrupt it now lies sick and therefore it must needs come to Confusion and to an end For deadly sickness is a forerunner of death all things now suffer their defect and let no man wonder at it for man is now born in such defect in respect of the birth of man in former times but what is wanting in the present-condition of mans Body is supplyed in the faculties of mind and what is defective in the strength of his Members is compleat in the ripeness of his understanding which is for the most part imployed not in liberal but in devilish Arts not in the study of Learning but in pleasure Only Wit and Maturity is resident in Man the only Idea and representment of the Image of God in Man What can we otherwise but think that the Time is at hand wherein Mortality shall put on Immortality wherein the burthen of the flesh being laid aside the Glorious Body of the Church shall be coupled to her Glorious Head The Communion of Saints shall be consummate and Christ shall enjoy his Spouse in continual Love and Vnion In the mean time with Paul Unhappy men that we are who shall deliver us from the Body of death that we may pass secure to the Body of Life Then let every good Christian in these Wicked times wherein destruction hangs over our heads with good Hezekiah Pray Lord I am oppressed do thou undertake for me and since the day of destruction is so near us we intreat thee since it is expedient for us that thou wouldest teach us So to number our days that we may apply our hearts to Wisdom And since thou hast pronounced that Servant happy whom his Master when he came found Vigilant and Watchful Grant Lord we beseech thee that since it is manifest that long it cannot be before the● come that we may be fitted and prepared fo● thy Coming and may be found with Oyl i● our Lamps and so in Holiness enter th● Bride-Chamber with Ioy And let us good Lord think the day most near least whilest the Day of Death or Iudgment be thought to b●afar off it prevent the improvement and while long life is expected it quickly forsake the Wicked and Guilty persons Our minds are very destrous if we could to know the Day of Death and Desolation But if we could attain to the knowledg thereof what would it profit us Suppose the Consumation of this World to be after Ten Twenty or Forty or an Hundred years what is this material Is not the Term of Life the Consummation of each Man Why then art thou so troubled about the last day of Iudgment Since as thy end leaves thee Iudgment sh●ll find thee And how suddenly Death shall find thee thou art altogether ignorant For as in other things no●regarding things pertaining to our Souls we altogether are busted in things common saying this man is an Adulterer this man a Thief this man a false-hearted fellow that man proud But no man hath a care far feeling his own sins far worse So doth every man neglect his own end he would fain learn when the general day of Dissolution shall be Which Day whether it be near or far off it doth nothing concern us so each man regard his several end for since thou art Born 't is most certain thou must Dye And it is certain after Death cometh Iudgment that may be far off yet thy last day is at hand Therefore prepare thee for this day For if this day find ther unprovided the day of Iudgment shall find thee so likewise when thou shalt rue for it Consider this all ye that forget God least he tear you in pieces and there be none to help For our God shall go and shall not keep silence a Fire shall come before him and it shall be very tempestuous round about him For God himself is Iudge and the day of Iudgment will quickly have an end prevent the speed thereof It will speedily come prevent it I say be thou speedily converted And as the Prophet David adviseth us Let us run before the face of the Iudge with Confession of Our Faults and true Contrition of the same And the reason why thou knowest not his coming is that thou mayest alwaies be prepared for it For it is in thine own power now thou maist expect his Comming He therefore deferrs his Comming that when he comes he may not daunt thée Behold he is not yet conte he is in Heaven thou art on Earth He deferrs his Comming do not thou deferr this time of Repentance lest thou for ever then too late Repent thee of his Comming For in that day it will be too late to Repent Therefore pray not that his Kingdom come which thou fearest comming but rather correct thy self that thou pray not against thy self So dayly he calls upon thee that he may not that day contemn thee He that shall then be thy Iudge is now thy Advocate and he now calls upon thee that thou wouldst lead a Godly Life Let us therefore set the day of Iudgment before our Eyes which way soever we go let us carry the Memory of it with us and it will bring this profit with it that we shall not only meditate on the Horror and Destruction of that day but also wish for the accomplishment of the same which makes the Wicked to tremble when they hear it approaches Thus S. Chrysostom saith Let us from among our selves repeat these things and with others There shall be a Resurrection a day of Iudgment and a Time of Examination of our Works whether good or bad And this will cause the minds both of good and bad be not conversant in the Vanities and Pleasures of this World and be not tempted to any Wickedness but rather to undergo any Thing to be imposed upon them here than to incurr the intolerable punishments of everlasting Fire hereafter This made David cry out Establish my Flesh in thy fear for I have been afraid to hear of thy Judgments To conclude this Point since we must all appear before the Iudgment-Seat of Christ that every one may Receive the things done in his Body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad and knowing the Terror and Iustice of the Iudge of all Men that shall Iudge the world in Righteousness and considering the punishment that then shall be imposed on the Wicked that shall be turned into Hell with them that forget God Let us hear and follow