Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	iniquity_n	mercy_n	transgression_n	4,351	5	9.6345	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68989	Lord have mercy upon vs the vvorld, a sea, a pest-house, the one full of stormes, and dangers, the other full of soares and diseases : the observance from these, (though especially accomodated to the times of this heavy contagion,) fitted for all times : for all men, and all times are sicke, of the cause of this sicknesse : Lord haue mercy vpon vs.	T. B. (Thomas Brewer)	1636 (1636)	STC 3719.5; ESTC S242	11,491	24

Harvest Shee labours and feeds while the Grashopper playes and fasts The slothfull man sleeps and does nothing or evill which is worse than nothing While his field and his vineyard is cover'd with Thornes and Nettles This is the field of the foole which Salomons wise man seeing makes a stand looks on it considers and from it receives instruction Prov. 24. 30 31 32. Poverty comes upon the slothfull man unawares and Necessity like an armed man for in this disease a man is thus dull thus stupid Before the enjoyment of any thing sweete we must sweat for the gods sell all for Labour In this Twelfth Roome see a Disease to which a meale a delicate dish or a Dinner is a bit like that morsell or mouthfull f●ll that we use to cast to a Dogge which as soone as he hath he swallows and presently gapes for another So this man he gapes swallows and gapes This man whose God is his Belly whose Temple is his Ki●chin whose Altar is his Table whose Ministers are his Cookes whose Offering is a Banquet and the smoake of that Banquet his Incense In the 13. Roome after such a gluttonous feeding see the Disease of Drinking In which you see a man without eyes without ●●ete without heart without hand without hearing or if he have the Organ he hath them not as he ought in th●●r vigor and uses And therefore to see a man thus that is with them and yet without them is not to see a man but in the place of a man a Mo●ster A moderate Raine does good makes the earth faire fresh and fruitfull but immoderate shewers deprive her of all these blessings And thus that earth Man with moderate and immoderate drinking fresh faire and fruitfull or neither fresh faire nor fruitfull in any of those things that become him Take heed lest at any time your hearts be over-burthened with surfeiting and drunkennesse Luke 21. 34. In this 14. Roome see the strange disease of strange and new fangled fashions let them be what they will adorne or deforme the fashion is the fashion and a man must be in the fashion The present fashion is a Doublet two inches too short and the Breech ten inches too long scarse halfe a legge to bee seene the wast so embraced with points and the knee with the young or spawne otherwise call'd sprigs or jinglers that old Buckle and Thong the Girdler is a thing that is seldome thought on and Timothy Tagge the principall man in the Parish I could from the Hat with the band as light as a Feather observe to the sole of the shooe and in divers places betweene them shew you other spots of the fashion but so I might stay too long and the fashion goe out before me For as if every new fashion made m● Gallant a very new man hee must weare out ten fashions before he can weare out one suite or he is not a man in fashion In this 15. Roome see that grievous Disease of Neglecting and leaving what our best Ph●sitian prescribes us and affecting and embracing what this Mountebanke World shall prepare for us Lord have mercy upon us This infection these Diseases and a multitude hard to bee thought on are still to be found in this Past house St Bernard saying Peccatum morbus est anim● Sinne is a disease of the foule And that the principall ca●se of all the Diseases of the body are those of the Soule which is Sinne take these holy places to witnesse 1. By one man sinne entred into the world and Death by sin and so Death went over all men forasmuch as all men have sinned Rom. 5. 12. 2. Behold all Soules are mine both the soule of the father and also the soule of the son The soule that sinneth shall dye Ezek. 18. 14. 3. Thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquities because thy sins were increased I have done these things unto thee Ierem 30. 15. 4. Si● no more le●t a worse thing happen unto thée John 5. 14. 5. Thus saith the Lord of Hasts This City must bee visited O●pres●on is in the midst of it As the fountaine caste●●●ut her water so she casteth out her malice truelty and spoile is continually found within her ●er 6. 6 7. 6. For sin hath Fami●● mea●erly stalk'd among us Bia 〈…〉 s Mildews Catterp●●lers and the gréedily devouring Pe 〈…〉 1 Kings 8. 37. Lord have mercy upon us These and many other places doe most perspicuously demo●strate unto us the cause of these heavy Uisitations Sinne the disease y● Adam dyed of and so all the sonnes of Adam It cannot he time ill s●ent here to make a stand and a little to 〈◊〉 ●●cke to that heavy commination or threat 〈…〉 at this 〈…〉 re 5. And the better to fixe it upon our Hearts to observe it in these foure circumstances Who how what and for what Who threatens The Lord God of Hosts How As a man compell'd constrain'd and uecessitated by the multitude of Sinnes Transgressions intimated in this word Must This City must What Be punished afflicted For what Sinne Oppression is in the midst of it Oppression which was in the midst of that City is in y● midst of this even in the Centre of it and so in the Centre of this Kingdome diffusing shedding and spreading it selfe into every part of her faire and large circumference As the Fountaine casteth out her water so shee casteth out her malice c. Lord have mercy upon us For these and their spotted companions did the Pestilence that Tyrant in the yeare of that never to be forgotten number 1625. Arrest and Imprison in that Goale in which they must rot that enter so many many thousands of people sparing neither the silver head of the old man nor the golden hopes of the young man the strength of the Male nor the beauty of the Female Lord have mercy upon us For these did this Tyrant that neither feares the rich nor pitties the poore take the rich from his wealth and the poore from his want and make them in the grave companions Lord have mercy upon us For these did this Tyrant snatch the wife from the husband and the husband from the wife the parent from the childe and the childe from the parent the first be wayling the losse of halfe themselves and their beautifull Olive-branches and these branches their children the losse of that roote from which they received their being Lord have mercy upon us For these did this Tyrant make the Citizen flye the City to méete what hée fled in the mercilesse entertaine of the Countrie that undutifull hand-maid that insteed of taking to heart the heart-sicke estate of her Lady to the numberlesse number of her teares her groanes her sighes and unutterable measure of anguish added the matter of them all in the hardnesse of her heart to her miserable sonnes and daughters Lord have mercy upon us For thse did that Tyrant cast so great an Eclipse o're the

glory of this City that nothing was seene but blacke no more of her brightnes no more of her splendor beauty than of the beauty of the heavens when the darke robe of night over-spreads it Lord have mercy upon us To particularize the calamities of that yeare were needelesse so few yeares have past since we felt it that in husband wife child parents kinsman friend trading or in o●●e sad thing or another many thousads yet living féele it And to make us the more to feele it God again has begun to strike us But like an ●noulgent father he yet hath bin pleased to strike us telling his stroaks by leasure and in that telling us he had rather affright than hurt us As I live saith the Lord I desire not the death of the wicked but that the wicked may turne from his waies and live Ezek 14. 11. For his way is the way to death but the way of the Lord to life and both eternall Lord have mercy upon us Heere God Almighty has strooke one there another there another and a great way off another this wéeke so many another so many one Bill rising another falling the increase bidding flye from sinne the decrease not to flie from the City a command to depart and asw●et invitation to tarry Let every one that calleth on the name of Christ depart from iniquity 2. Tim. 2. 19. Lord have mercy upon us The best flight we can make is to flye from that as fast as we can the farther the neerer to God Every punishment is an Arrow from the qu●ver of God Almighties anger and those aimed onely at sin from which if we carefully flye we remoove the marke and with it evade the danger Lord have mercy upon us My wish to the flight of those that flye is that flying they may thus flye and withall Gods will ever placed in the fore front of all our wishes that they may not as sometimes it happens at a shooting intending to runne from the arrow they see not runne under it and sinke where they seeke their safety Too many so have runne too many beene so over-taken L●t our prayers be one for another that staying or flying living or dying wee may all live and dye in the feare love and favour of Go● our Almighty Creator Lord have mercy upon us It is written of two of the Schollers of I socrates Euphorus and Theopompus that for their difference in the swiftnesse and slacknesse in Learning The one had neede of a Bridle the other neede p●aspu●re But wee had neede of them both every one both of Spurre and Bridle A Bridle to ●ur●e us from running so fast in those courses for which God Almighty pla●ues us and a Sp●rre to pricke us forward to those things that may m●ve him to spare us Lord have mercy upon us And enlighten our understanding make us see what we ought to see and know what we ought to know Which that wee may assuredly doe teach us O Lord to know thée and to know that to b●e able to speake as it is said of Solomon from the Ce●er in Lebanon to the Hysop that 〈◊〉 ●o it of the Va 〈…〉 ●o know all the Creatures and not to know the● their Creator is in knowing of all things to know noth●ng and seeming so wise to bee foolish Lord have Mercy upon us St. Austen tels us That he that knowes thee though these things he doe not know is a happy and a blessed man Hee that knowes thee and these for these is never a whit the more blessed but hee that knowes thee for thee for thy selfe the Fountaine of all our happinesse is happy and blessed for ever Lord have mercy upon us Teach us O Lord to know thee to know thee angry and give us grace to endeavour to please thee Following the counsell of thy holy servant Ho●ea in turning to thee O Lord that so having smitten us thou maist ●eale us having wounded us thou maist make us whole and in thy good time translate us from this Sea full of stormes and dangers this Pest-house full of Sores and Diseases to that Haven and that Habitation where there is no storme or tempest and where Death or Disease never entred Lord have mercy upon us FINIS