Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	death_n	sin_n	sting_n	4,673	5	12.3740	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43620	The good old cause, or, The divine captain characteriz'd in a sermon (not preach'd, nor needful to be preach'd, in any place so properly as in a camp) by Edm. Hickeringill ...	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1692 (1692)	Wing H1807; ESTC R7616	21,900	38

silly Heads 't is none of your Province but belongs to God alone therefore cast away Care 1 Pet. 5.7 and cast all your Care upon God for he careth for you I cannot but pitty those poor Hearts that make their Lives a Burthen to themselves and all that are hear them being overcharged with Cares and Fears of what shall come to pass For my part I care not what comes to pass I 'll prevent with my Might and Courage what we call Evils but when all I can do will not do whatever comes is welcome With what a Courage did St. Paul embrace his Fate How carelesly he descants on his death as if unconcerned Death that is the King of Terrours and makes them all their life-time subject to Bondage Cares and Fears was but St. Paul's Rejoycing and Entertainment yet the Sentence of Death the Sentence to be beheaded was past upon him by that bloody Nero and shortly to be executed 2 Tim. 4.6 then he writes his Second Epistle to Timothy and talks so unconcern'd we cannot but joy in him and with him as if he was only to undertake a pleasant Journey I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand The time the hour he had long wish'd for having a desire to depart and be with Christ which is far better A desire to depart the Original signifies an earnest longing of Soul as if nothing could satisfie but to have his longing namely Death which I say is called The King of Terrours the chiefest of Terrours but Death is so to none but to Knaves and Fools I mean to impenitent People and silly ignorant People To dye What 's that It is as natural to dye as to be born it is more necessary to dye than to be born it is for ought we know less Pain to dye than to be born Why do we fear Death then that is so natural so necessary so beneficial there the Wicked cease from troubling and there the Weary be at rest There no Tyrant can hurt us no Grief assault us no Pain nor Anguish for our selves or others can torment us there all Tears shall be wiped away from our Eyes And do we sear then to dye Obj. No say some we do not so much fear to dye nor cry Lothe to depart for any Sweets of Life which at the best are but bitter Sweets but we fear the Consequences of Death and Judgment Ans Do you so But I 'll give you an easie and infallible Receipt and Remedy against these fearful Consequences after Death that which makes a Snake or a Serpent terrible that alone makes Death terrible namely the Sting take away the Sting from these and you safely and without fear or danger hug them in your Bosoms Now the Apostle tells us The Sting of Death is Sin take away that and Death is stingless and harmless Sin shall never be imputed to any that are not Volunteers to Sin A man is not a Rebel to his Prince nor any Guilt imputed to him tho' he be in the Enemy's Quarters if he be taken Captive thither and strive to his utmost to make his escape So neither shall any man be accounted a Rebel to Heaven that 's carried Captive thro' Weakness and Infirmity to any Sin and strives to escape hating all Sin with a perfect Hatred and resisting it as his Enemy to his utmost To such a one the Lord imputeth not Sin Sin is in him but he does not live in Sin lye in Sin delight in Sin wallow in Sin But what a vast difference is there betwixt him that is overtaken in a fault and he that is a Volunteer to Sin and follows it with all his might to overtake it If to such a one Death be the King of Terrours I cannot blame his Fears but Who can pity him that takes no pity on himself that loves a Lust above his God above his Soul and above his Peace here and hereafter when he may so easily disarm the King of Terrours taking away his Venome and Sting To conclude this point By what has been briefly said you may easily know to get an Antidote against Death and Losses and Crosses whatsoever and consequently be arm'd against Cowardise and all unmanly and unchristian Fears even in the greatest Streights tho' beset as Joab and Abishai in the Text with a numerous Enemy in Front and Reer Our part then is to be of good Courage with a good Conscience and in a good Cause and let the event be Life or Death Victory or Defeat Let the Lord do what seemeth him good To dye thus in Battel for our People and the Cities of our God Where is that Dastard that is afraid thus to dye rather than survive a few weary days living or rather dying daily with the Pangs of the Gout the Dropsy the Consumption Stone or the like Not but that God's Will be done if this grievous Lot must be our Lot to endure a Thousand irksome Deaths painful and grievous to our selves and loathsome and troublesome both to our selves and by-standing Friends but we cannot help it if we must be condemn'd to endure the Fatigues of Life to the last dringling Sand we may not break the Glass but if a Bullet break it and in a good Cause the Glass is well run out and the most made of it that it can possibly be worth What! Do we fear to go to God and Heaven our certain Portion if we dye with the said good Conscience the said good Courage and in the said good Cause in defence of our People and the Cities of our God The very Heathen that had but the Light of Nature pro aris focis were ambitious to dye for their Altars and Fire-sides For this Good Cause to be kill'd in Battel is to dye in Peace like good King Josiah who is said to be gathered to his Fathers in Peace and yet he died in the Field in the FIght with his Sword in his Hand So that well may such a Divine Souldier with good old Simeon Swan like sing his Nunc dimitis tho' he dye like the great King Gustavus Adolphus in the Field Death may take such a man Death cannot hurt such a man by cutting off a few weary minutes for his Account is fairly cast up like Joab's in the Text if he lives he lives in Victory and Triumph and lives to God and if he dies he dies in Honour and dies in Peace and lives with God Can Life or Death be put out at better Interest Can more be made of it Well may such a Divine Souldier and Champion for Heaven say with St. Paul after he had fought with Beasts at Ephesus and more brutish men I have fought a good Fight I have finished my Course 2 Tim. 4.7 I have kept the Faith henceforth there is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness I have been extreamly cheer'd in the greatest Difficulties my little Experience did ever