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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	body_n	fire_n	soul_n	6,029	5	5.5197	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67772	A serious and pathetical description of heaven and hell according to the pencil of the Holy Ghost, and the best expositors: sufficient (with the blessing of God) to make the worst of men hate sin, and love holiness. Being five chapters taken out of a book entituled, The whole duty of a Christian: composed by R. Younge, late of Roxwell in Essex, florilegus.; Whole duty of a Christian. Selections.	Younge, Richard.	1660 (1660)	Wing Y184A; ESTC R221317	29,019	34

resolved with a vengeance and so shall you O ye fools when that hour comes though you flatter your selves for the present When you feel it you will confess it and when it is too late you will like a Fool say Alas I had not thought For this is the difference between a Fool and a Wise man A wise man saith Solomon foreseeth the evil the evil of Hell says Bernard and preventeth it but fools go on and are punished Prov. 22. 3. Acknowledge thy self a Fool then or bethink thy self now and do thereafter without delaying one minute For there is no Redemption from Hell if once thou comest there And there thou mayest be for ought thou knowest this very day yea before thou canst swallow thy spittle Thy Pulse may leave beating before thou canst fetch thy breath Sect. 3. But to speak this to the Sensualists is labour in vain For their consciences are so blinded that they as they think do believe an heaven and an hell yea in God and in Christ as well as the precisest Joh. 4. 38 39 46 47. For it is hard for men to believe their own unbelief in this case They that are most dangerously sick are least sensible of their being sick A very likely matter thou believest in Christ and hopest to be saved by him when thou wilt neither imitate his actions nor follow his precepts How does this hang together Let me ask thee a question or two that may convince thee of thy unbelief If a Physician should say to his Patient Here stands a Cordial which if you take will cure you but touch not this other Vial for that is deadly poyson and he wittingly refuseth the Cordial to take the Poyson will not every one conclude That either he believed not his Physician or preferred Death before Life If Lots Sons in law had believed their Father when he told them the City should suddenly be destroyed with fire and brimstone and that by flying they might escape it they would have obeyed his counsel If the Old World had believed that God would indeed and in good earnest bring such a flood upon them as he threatned they would have entred the Ark and not have scoft at Noah for building it So if you did firmly believe what God in the Scriptures speaks of Hell you would need no entreaties to avoid the same Sect. 4. But alas men of thy condition are so far from believing what God threatens in his word against their sins that they bless themselves in their hearts saying We shall have peace although we walk according to the stubbornness of our own will so adding drunkenness to thirst Deut. 29. 19. Yea they prefer their condition before others who are so abstemious and make conscience of their ways thinking that they delude themselves with needless fears and scruples 2 Kings 18. 22 30 33 35. Alas if they did in good earnest believe that there is either God or Devil Heaven or Hell or that they have immortal souls which shall everlastingly live in bliss or woe and receive according to what they have done in their bodies whether it be good or evil 2 Cor. 5. 10. They could not but live thereafter and make it their principal care how to be saved But alas they believe that they see and feel and know they believe the Laws of the Land and know that there are Stocks and Bridewels and Goals and Dungeons and Racks and Gibbets for Malefactors and this makes them abstain from murther felony and the like but they believe not things invisible and to come For if they did they would as well yea much more fear him that hath power to cast both body and soul into hell as they do the temporal Magistrate that hath only power to kill the body they would think it a very hard bargain to win the whole world and lose heaven and their own souls Luke 9. 25. Men fear a Gaol more than they fear Hell and stand more upon their silver or sides smarting than upon their souls and regard more the blasts of mens breath than the fire of Gods wrath and tremble more at the thought of a Sergeant or Bayliff than of Satan and everlasting perdition Else they would not be hired with all the worlds wealth multiplyed as many times as there be sands on the Seashoar to hazard in the least the loss of those everlasting Joys before spoken of or to purchase and plunge themselves into those easless and everlasting flames of fire and brimstone in Hell there to fry body and soul where shall be an innumerable company of Devils and damned Spirits to affright and torment them but not one to comfort or pity them Confident I am thou wouldst not endure hereto hold thy hand in a fiery crucible the space of a day or an hour for all the worlds wealth and splendour How then if thou bethinkest thy self wilt thou hereafter endure that and ten thousand thousand time more for millions of millions of ages Look Rev. 20. 10. and bethink thy self how thou wilt brook to be cast into a doleful disconsolate dungeon to lie in utter darkness in eternal chains of darkness in a little ease at no ease for ever and ever Canst thou endure to dwell with the devouring fire with the everlasting burning Sect. 5. Wherefore let me my Brethren beseech you not to be such Atheists and Fools as to fall into Hell before you will fear it when by fearing it you may avoid it and by neglecting it you cannot but fall into it What though it be usual with men to have no sense of their souls till they must leave their bodies yet do not you therefore leap into Hell to keep them company but be perswaded to bethink your selves now rather than when it will be too late when the Draw-bridge will be taken up and when it will vex every vein of your hearts that you had no more care of your souls Yet there is grace offered if we will not shut our hearts and wills against it and refuse our own mercy but how long God will yet wait thy leisure or how soon he will in his so long provoked Justice pronounce thy irrevocable sentence thou knowest not nor canst thou promise thy self one minutes time Oh that men would believe the God of truth that cannot lye touching spiritual and eternal things but as they do these temporary and transitory Oh that thou who art the sacred Monarch of this mighty Frame wouldst give them hearts to believe at least thus much That things themselves are in the invisible World in the World visible but their shadows only And that whatsoever wicked men enjoy here it is but as in a dream their plenty is but like a drop of pleasure before a River of sorrow and displeasure And whatsoever the godly feel but as a drop of misery before a River of mercy and glory That though Thou the great and just Judge of all the World comest slowly to Judgment yet Thou