Selected quad for the lemma: son_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
son_n	brother_n	father_n	sister_n	23,792	5	10.2345	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60145	The present correction and reproof of sin or A discourse on 2 Jer. 19. vers. Thine own iniquities shall correct thee, & thy backslideings shall reprove thee.	Shower, John, 1657-1715.	1685 (1685)	Wing S3681; ESTC R221463	30,198	59

or what they purchas'd by unlawfull means is sinfully imploy'd wasted and that so quickly sometimes as if they resolved their silver and gold should not tarry to witness against them God suffers their treasures of wickedness to melt away by intemperance riotous living Besides when one sin is made a cloak to conceal another and to hide the shame or avoid the punnishment of one crime they are sufferr'd to commit more as Joseph's Brethren after their cruelty to him in selling him into Aegypt they were as unkind cruel to their aged Father in bringing him his bloudy coat in revenge for his particular fondness affection to their Brother After the commission of any wickedness God may justly leave us to excuse it with a Lye Which is the greatest folly imaginable as therby professing that it is better to be really guilty of two faults then to be thought guilty of one And then you may proceed farther to protect that Lye by on oath and at length grow impudent incorrigible Therfore fear the beginnings of sin 2. Sometimes God corrects the sins of one by the sins of another Jacob the younger son stole his Father's blessing by the deceit of his elder Brothers garment and not long after his Father in Law Laban Genes 27.29 by a like fraud gives him Leah instead of Rachel substitutes the elder sister in the room of the younger whom he loved and served an apprenticeship for God by the faults of othermen repays us for our own As David's secret adultery by Absolon's openincest in laying with his Father's concubines by the lust of his son Ammon towards his sister Tamar And when David neglected to execute justice on Ammon for that offence Absolon injustly slew him David's treachery against Uriah was requited by the treason of his Son and the rebellion of his own subjects who joyn'd in conspiracy with him against his Father Thus God imployed the ambition of the King of Moab to punnish the Idolatry of Israel 3 Jud. 9.14 they became slaves for eighteen years to that people with whose Idolatrous customes they had wickedly complied Thus those who were disobedient to their Parents are oftentimes punnisht by the undutifullness of their own children Unfaithfull servants may meet with some hereafter who will be so to them 2. God doth oftentimes in this world inflict some calamity that is suitable to the crime and in some respect or other carries the resemblance of it And the Justice of God is more especially visible in the likeness proportion between the sin and the punnishment in these four respects 1. In the kind and quality 2. In the quality and measure 3. As to the time 4. As to the place 1. The kind and quality of the temporal punishment is oftentimes suited to the kind and quality of the sin As men sow so they reap 8 Hos 3. and to every seed it s own body They plow wickedness and sow iniquity reap a punnishment that is adapted to the sin They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind as the Prophet speaks 14 Prov. 14. The Backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways And the foolish sinner eat the fruit of his own doings and be filled with his own counsells 23 Numb 32. And their calamity be so remarkable that their sin shall find them out There are some peculiar punishments that ordinarily attend some sort of crimes that follow the guilty persons almost as constantly as giddiness doth a drunkard as that the spoiler shall be spoiled he that defrauds others shall be outwitted the Lyar shall loose his credit the censorious talebearer be blasted in his reputation the oppressor be brought low the proud be scorned and despis'd and he that stops his ears against the cry of the poor shall want a friend to succour him in distresse shall cry himself and not be heard That he that judgeth shall be judged the slanderer be evil spoken of that he that taketh the sword shall perish by the sword and that the Murderer shall not live out half his days If Jacob deceive his old Father Isaac by the borrow'd garments of his Brother Esaw his own children when he is old impose upon him by the bloudy garment of his beloved Joseph Abimelech slew seventy of his Brethren 6 Jud. 9.5 6. on one stone and he himself was slaine by a piece of a mill-stone God sometimes observes even an arithmetick proportion demands an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth gives bloud for bloud and burning for burning 1 Jud. 9.6 We have a pertinent example in Adonibezeck who had his Thumbs and great Toes cutt off And in the next verse he owns that he had served seventy Kings in the like manner He was so affected with the equity and justice of his punishment that he cries out 1 Ex 15.12 c. 29.14 c. 23. As I have done so hath the Lord requited me Pharoah resolues to destroy the male infants of the Israelites and the firstborn in every family of the Aegyptians was cut off in a night He gives order to the midwifes that they should be drownd and he and his mighty host perisht in the waters Joseph's Brethren sold him into Aegypt that his dream concerning their sheaves bowing down to his might not be accomplisht and that was the very means to bring it about The Jews crucifyed the son of God that the Romans might not come take away their Land and as the punishment of that crime God sends the Romans to destroy their Temple citty and Nation Jeroboam thought to prevent the revolt of Israel to the King of Judah by erecting calves in Dan and Bethel near to Sechem where the Samaritans had their Temple and where Abraham built an altar and forbidding the people to goe up to Jerusalem to worship 2 Cron. 36.21 and by that wretched policy he and his posterity lost the government of Israel The captivity of Israel for seventy years was the punnishment God inflicted for their prophaning the seventhday Sabbath and not suffering their Lands to rest every seventh year The unnatural lust of the Sodomites we read was punnisht by fire from Heaven 19 Gen. The punishment is in such cases the very eccho of the sin that brought it Which honours the Justice of God renders it conspicuous to all observers If Absolon take a pride in his hair his destruction shall come by that means If Nadab Abihu offer strange fire to the Lord 2 Sam. 18 9. by fire shall they be consum'd as face answers to Face so doth the punishment to the impiety that brought it 10 Levit. If David glory in the numbers of his men of war seventy thousand shall be swept away by a pestilence to diminish the number that he may see cause of humiliation in the matter of his pride Because Solomon served God with a divided heart his Kingdom shall be divided 1 Kings