Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	death_n	sin_n	soul_n	8,513	5	5.2643	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39242	The great danger and uncertainty of death-bed repentance as it was deliver'd in a funeral sermon preach'd lately in the parish-church of Chiswick in Middlesex.	Ellesby, James, b. 1644 or 5.	1693 (1693)	Wing E538; ESTC R24951	18,514	33

and make your condition Desperate and for ever Hopeless Sect. To this Duty of the Text be ye further perswaded from this Spectacle of Mortality now before you viz. That of a strong and lusty Young Man cut off in the midst of his days who before he was seiz'd with his Distemper was as likely to live as any of you all Sect. As to the Life and Conversation of the Deceased 't is too well known already and therefore I shall not meddle with it but with respect to what was most remarkable in his Sickness I think my self obliged to take notice of and advise these two things First That you would Repent of and avoid those sins which in his sickness he publickly own'd himself guilty of and profest to be sorry for and what they were I suppose is well known to many here specially to such as were his usual Companions and Associates And therefore to such as you I shall more particularly apply my self in this Discourse for whose Sakes it was chiefly design'd at first Many great Sins and wilful neglects with respect to God and Religion he openly lamented and bewailed during his long and tedious Sickness which yet several others among you are taken Notice to be guilty of as well as he and therefore you have as much reason to repent of them as he had and if you do it not now you may do it hereafter with less hopes and to less purpose Remember those Sins that troubled him when Sick and Dying ought to trouble you that are now alive and in Health those neglects of Religion and omissions of Duty which sate so heavy upon his Soul may fit heavy on yours and will do so too when once God comes to set those things home upon your Spirits and to awaken your Consciences by Sickness Death or any other remarkable Affliction How light soever you may make of Sin now the weight of it will be intolerable then and without timely Repentance and amendment sink you down to the bottomless Pit of Destruction The Remembrance of a wicked and ill spent Life will fill you with Horror and Amazement when God shall come to write bitter things against you and make you to possess your former Iniquities The Spirit of a Man may hear his Infirmities but a wounded Spirit who can bear Prov. 'T is possible we may be enabled upon several accounts to bear up under the one whereas nothing will be able to support us under the other but Alas When the Spirit shall be wounded with Guilt and the Body at the same time weak and languishing with Pains and Sickness how will it be possible then to bear up under both When God at such a time shall frown and look Angry threaten and hide his Face who then can abide who will be able to speak Peace this can be no other than the Gate of Hell and the beginning of its Torments Let the deceased be a Warning and Example to you God was pleas'd to punish him by a long and lingring Sickness by a faint restless and uneasie Distemper none of us can tell what he suffer'd and endur'd all that while but then at the same time his Soul was fill'd with Grief and Trouble with Sorrow and Remorse in the Remembrance of his Sins past and better so than otherwise better be troubled for Sin than go out of the World stupid and hardned without any Sense thereof and after all cut off in the midst of his days by a severe yet righteous Dispensation of the Divine Providence and how far God hath accepted his Sighs and Tears we do not know for secret things belong to God therefore to God we must leave him our Business is not to judge preremptorily concerning the Dead but to warn and caution the Living Remember therefore there is none of you all how brisk and gay soever you may be in your Humors how Confident and secure at present in your Sins how stubborn and hardned against Reproof but Sickness and Death will be able to tame and humble you to pull down the Pride and Confidence of your Spirits and fill you with Anguish and Bitterness of Soul in the thoughts of what you have deserv'd and therefore may justly expect and Fear Secondly Do not delay your Repentance to Sickness or Death as he did because that is as you have heard the most unseasonable and inconvenient time to set about it The deceased found it so and did in effect acknowledge as much when he wisht he might live his Life over again that he might spend and imploy it better Now what God hath deny'd him he hath in a great measure granted you all of you at present are well in Health and alive before God this Day but how long you may continue so none can tell You know not how soon God may lay his Hand upon you by Death or Sickness and cut off the Thread of your Lives unexpectedly to what you now hope for and if your Repentance is not begun before that time I fear you will be very unfit to set about it then Alas if Repentance is necessary when we are Sick or Dying then it is necessary now 't is necessary every Hour and Moment of our Lives because we are Dying daily and we know not how soon the Fatal stroke may be given we are daily hastning to the Grave and we know not how soon our Feet may stumble on the dark Mountains and if 't is necessary to repent before we dye then it is the wisest course we can take to set about it in time while God doth continue to us Life and Health which is the fittest Opportunity for its performance and if once lost or suffered to slip from us may never return more we may never meet with the like again and then it will be in vain to recal mispent time or wish we might live our Lives over again for time past can never be recall'd the loss of it will be irrecoverable all that we can do then is to bewail that which we can never repair and to lament our Folly when 't will be too late to grow wiser by it If you will not learn and take warning by the Example of the Deceas'd you know not how soon God may make you a warning and Example to others reduce you into as bad or worse Circumstances than he was in and be forc'd to acknowledge the Justice of God in all that befall you as he did You have often seen and heard how the Judgments of God have overtaken both afar of and nearer hand many bold and daring Offenders sinners every whit as Confident and Presuming as any of you now present and made them Examples of his just Anger and Displeasure against sin and why then should you think to escape more than they Tho' you are not Punisht yet doth it therefore follow you never shall Is not the same Great and Holy God able to punish you as he hath done them and many others and