Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	death_n	life_n	sting_n	6,880	5	11.9994	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83980	Englands new-yeares gift, or, A pearle for a prince: with such grapes from thornes, and fruits from foes, to the whole land, as none shall be worse for wrongs, nor hurt by any but themselves, though the times should prove worse and worse.		1648 (1648)	Wing E3004; Thomason E424_4; ESTC R204545	38,288	40

their wrath the more shall the gold of thy Faith be purified the more the winds blow the more Oake like shalt thou be fixed and rooted in thy holy resolutions 2 Sam. 6.20 21. as David by the mocks of Michal the more thy foes rub thee like a Pomander yea pounce thee in the mortar of their malice the spices of thy graces smell the sweeter the more that Sathan and his Organs winnow thee the lesse chaffe they leave in thee the more thy Kitchin-sculs scum thee and scour thee as a vessel of Honour the brighter they make thee the tongues of these Dogs these Cerberized whelpes doe but medicinably lick the sores of thy sins as once the ulcers of Lazarus their Gall and Aloes doth but imbitter the dugs of the world to thee that Christ may be more sweet these bug-beares do but make thee cry and fly into the armes of thy Father faelix crux quae ducit ad Christum it is a happy Crosse which drives thee yea drawes thee nearer unto Christ it is no matter how fierce and rough the winds be that drive the loaden ship sooner and safer into her Haven the Port of Peace The conclusion of all is to prevent confusion we may be wronged by others hurt only by our selves others may plunder our goods but so long as the flesh is sound the silver feathers may grow againe as in Jobs case Job 42.10 the Devill himselfe could not hurt Job nor his cursed wife though called the Devills Dam Naomi that is emptie may be full againe Ruth 1.21 however thou runnest thy race never worse to heaven though thon wantest thy trappings and golden Bosses and though thou beest in as great exigents as once David 1 Sam. 21.3 ca. 25.8 and as Elias 1 King 17.12 13. to beg thy bread of some Nabal some poor Widdow yea as poore as Job on the dunghill or as once Christ thy Master Luk. 9.58 yet in all this not forsaken Psa 37.21 the Lord forsakes not his Saints V. 28. though the Lions lack and suffer hunger yet they shall not want Psal 34.10 though they gather but a little Manna it sufficeth Exod. 16.18.20 godlinesse with contentation is enough 1 Tim. 6.8 God can blesse to them a little meale a little oyl in a cruse as to two poor Widdowes 1 King 17.13 2 King 4.2 a little pulse to Daniel cap. 1.12.13 as sometimes a few Turnops and Potatoes when we were besieged in Ireland as well as a stalled Oxe There is one Pearle even for a Prince which cannot be plundered it adornes a Crown though beset with Thornes and this Pearle is patience a great possession unto all as Christ calls it Luke 21.19 a rich dowry to a Widdow as poore as Ruth a possession out of which the Devill himselfe could not dispossesse Job c. 1.22 withall thou mayest be wronged in thy name a Joseph may be falsly accused a Cato a Scipio an Abner a Themistocles a Phocion a Socrates yea the best Patriots and Patricians may be questioned an Athanasius an Eugenius a Narcissus may be scandalized in life and Doctrine by the Arrians as was Calvin Beza Luther our best Belgick Divines by Cocleus Bolsecus Scurrilous Kellison Endemon Cacodemon and other Romish Rabshakehs but what of this is an Eagle hurt by the chartering of a Crow or a Lion by the yelps of a Curre doth the Moon shine lesse though the Dogs of Egypt bark at it can earthly or lunatick interpositions long ecclipse the Sunshine of the Saints we have heard of a Grandee which wished his man to call him Knave and then shakt the lap of his Gowne and what was he worse for it words are but wind they breake no bones quid male feci what evill have I done may any Plato say that a bad man speakes well of me de me male dicunt ast mali God will doe David good even eo nomine because Shimei reviles him 2 Sam. 16.12 Besides thou art imprisoned yea Paul and Silas may be so far wronged as whipt in prison Act. 16. yet not hurt these blessed Birds sing sweeter tones in their cages v. 25. then ever the birds of Hanno or Sapho thou mayest be also so farre wrong'd as to be banished thy Countrey and bandied and racketed from post to pillar and find no rest like Noahs Dove to the soale of thy foot yet not hurt so long as thou findst rest in Christ so long as the Spirit doth visit thee in thy Pathmos Rev. 1.10 11. omne solum forti Patria the Sun shines every where and God is found in every Countrey indeed could thy foes banish God from thee as thy sinnes doe thy worst foes then thy case were lamentable as once Sauls 1 Sam. 16.14 cap. 28.15 16. Lastly thy foes may take away thy life yet they hurt thee not onely sin hurts thee that deprives thee of the life of grace and of the life of glory that deads thy soule here Ephes 2.1 Luk. 6.60 and damnes it hereafter Rom. 6.23 it is onely sinne the sting of death which hurts thee 1 Cor. 15.55 56. which sting being taken away by Christ thou maist put this stinglesse Bee in thy bosome v. 57. death is to thee a sweet sleep Esay 57.2 a blessed rest Rev. 14.13 in Abrahams bosome Luk. 16.22 in these and whatever else is obnoxious to humane nature the Saints are Conquerors Rom. 8.37 now did Conquests ever hurt a Caesar a Pompey a Lucullus a Fabius doe all things health wealth poverty sicknesse life death friends foes worke together for the good of the Elect Rom. 8.28 as all the Physicall Simples in a compound for the good of a Patient all the Starres and Planets by their influence for the good of these sublunary bodies and can that which works for our good doe us hurt unlesse we hurt our selves as indeed we doe bringing the worst foes we have from home with us yea carrying them about with us as Snakes in our bosomes to sting us our sinnes our darling regnant unmortified sinnes bred in our soules these and onely these being the Achans in our Camps to disturb us the Sinons in our Cities chiefely in our Troynovant yea the Quoy-ducks the Dalilahs in our Families our Chambers our Closets to betray us the vipers which breed within our bowells the wormes within our intralls the Flesh Wolves within our flesh which corrode us yea kill us the Cantharides in our oyntments to soile us to spoile us the Moaths in our Garments to fret us the Midianites amongst us to vex us the Canaanites in our borders as pricks in our sides and thornes in our eyes Judg. 2.31 to torture us to torment us that of Chrisostome being to me oraculous truer then from Delphos that nemo laeditur nisi à seipso hone is hurt but by himselfe by his owne sinnes as Noah was drunke with his owne wine Gen. 9.22 Cambises slaine with his owne sword Marlow stabbed with his owne Dagger so we are slaine by our owne