Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	dead_a	quicken_v	trespass_n	3,621	5	10.4863	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45689	Old Jacobs accompt cast up and owned by one of his seed, a young lady &c., or, A sermon preached at Laurance Jury, Feb. 13, 1654 at the funerall of the honorable and most virtuous lady Susanna Reynolds wife to the Honorable Commiss. Gen. Reynolds / by Thomas Harrison.	Harrison, Thomas, 1619-1682.	1655 (1655)	Wing H914; ESTC R28062	18,006	42

thred of his life drawn out to the full length according to the course of nature The goodliness of all flesh is like the flower of the field Isa. 40.6 not of the garden exposed to all hardships and hazards whatsoever 3. God in his wise providence hath set such limits unto our age least we should grow into extremities as namely into extremity of sinning in the beginning of the world men were more upright and innocent and then God lent them a longer time but afterward when iniquity began to abound he decreed to shorten their days least sin should be out of measure sinful Thou hast set our iniquity before thee saith Moses to God Psal. 90.8 and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance and then it follows our days are passed away in thy wrath even as a tale that is told and our yeers are but threescore and ten And our blessed Saviour foretelling his Disciples what persecution should befal them says unless those days of persecution should be shortened no flesh should be saved Mat. 24.22 there would be no living in the world the malice of their enemies would know neither bank nor bottom would not keep within any bounds There would be likewise extremities of miseries if men should live always in the world if our days indeed were good the more they were we might be the merrier but seeing they are so miserable it s well that God in his mercy hath made them so few Do but think with your selves if Adam and Eve our first Parents had been tyed to have lived until this day whether they would not have been the most miserable couple that ever lived they should have had a share in all the calamities that have light upon the world God therefore out of his goodness will shorten our days the sooner to put an end to our sorrows Object Some perhaps will here think that our life is not so short as we make it seeing many live till they be Seventy or Fighty years old which seems to be a long time Answ. To whom I answer that yet this is nothing in comparison of Eternity a thousand years with God are but as one day nay it is nothing in comparison of the time that the Fathers lived before the Flood to which it seems Jacob in this place had reference though he were an hundred and thirty years old yet saith he I have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my Fathers In the days of their Pilgrimage some whereof lived seven some eight some nine hundred years and upwards Nay of that small pittance of life which we have there is a great part of it which deserves not the name As the time 1. Of sleeping that 's but a short kind of death as anger is a short fury and their names are promiscuously used Our friend Lazarus sleepeth Awake thou that sleepest and stand up from the dead I found him dead said Epaminondas when he slew the sleeping Sentinal and I left him dead and this time is well nigh the third part of our lives Vitae fur malus ille mae saith Martial of sleep 2. Of Child-hood and Old-age Homo est fatuus usque ad anum quadragessimum deinde ubi novit se esse fatuum vita consumpti est said Luther its long before a man begin to live childhood and youth are vanity Eccl. 11.10 and when he grows in yeers he dies dayly as the old man Alexis in Stobaeus going easily upon his staff said to one that asked him whether he went pedetentem morior I am going step by step into my grave 3. Of Eating and drinking these are a repairing not an injoying of nature and yet how much is bestowed in these reparations Isa. 5.11 The Germans live as they pronounce vivere and bibere with them is all one thing and if we ply our liquor as we begin they are like to lose their Charter and how many rich gluttons are there among us who fair deliciously every day and so every day lose so much more of their life howsoever usually this time is one part of twelve 4. Of Recreations Amici diem perdidimus said he my friends we have lost the day which we spent in idleness yet how many stand all the day idle 5. Of Sining Ep. 2.1 You hath he quickened who were dead in sins and trespasses saith Paul to his Ephesians and he tells Timothy That a widow that lives in pleasures is dead whiles she lives 1 Tim. 5.6 6. Of Sickness or suffering non est vita vivere sed valere to live is not to be but to be well we say of some delights that a man cannot live without them Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery and life to the bitter in soul saith Job 3.20 as if he should say he had as good be without it and speaking of the day of his birth which was the beginning of his misery vers. 6. Let not that saith he be joyned unto the days of the yeers let it not come within the number of the Months and Noahs Ark wherein he was imprisoned is called his Coffin or his ten Months Sepulchre and the men in Hell are said to die the death to wit because of their sufferings though there shall be alway a conjunction of soul and body in them Now when all this is abstracted after all these deductions from the time of our life that which remains will be little or nothing our days will be shrunk into a narrow compass The meditation of the shortness of our lives this fewness of our days will be useful to teach us 1. Use Not to be too much taken with the things of this world Not with Honours when Samuel was to annoint Saul God gave him for a sign that he would have him for a Prince over his people that as soon as he was gone from him he should find two men neer unto Rachels Sepulchre 1 Sam. 10.2 God might have given him some other sign but he chose rather to give him this it may be to quel the pride and haughtiness of his new preferment that the ashes of so fair a creature as Rachel was should mind him what he should be afterward Not with wives and children these which are now the pleasures of thine eyes shall shortly be loathsome and stinking carcases insomuch that Abraham shall desire that his beloved Sarah might be buried out of his sight that he may not behold her and therefore Isaac on the night of his Nuptials placed his wives bed in the Chamber where his Mother did dye to temper their Nuptial delights with the remembrance of death Gen. 24.67 Are these the things ye look upon said Christ to his Disciples when they told him of the goodly buildings of the Temple there shall not be left one stone upon another which shall not be thrown down so do ye look upon the world and the glory and beauty and pleasure in it these you must soon