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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	death_n	sin_n	sting_n	3,612	5	12.7179	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09977	Life eternall or, A treatise of the knowledge of the divine essence and attributes Delivered in XVIII. sermons. By the late faithfull and worthy minister of Iesus Christ, Iohn Preston, D. in Divinity, chaplaine in ordinary to his Majestie, master of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolns Inne.	Preston, John, 1587-1628.; Ball, Thomas, 1589 or 90-1659.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1631 (1631)	STC 20231; ESTC S115069	220,964	434

eternall estate depend so upon uncertainties And let them consider this that are yet strangers to the life of God that if death should come they should not escape eternall death it is good to keepe our thoughts upon this and it would make us not to hasten after the things of the world as we doe and for thy sinne thou dotest on so there are three things to be considered in it First the pleasure of it is as the speckled skin of the Serpent Secondly the sting of sinne and thirdly the eternity of that sting Now looke not thou upon the pleasure of sinne that endures but for a season but consider the hurt that comes from sinne and then consider the eternity of it a candle in a darke night makes a great shew but when the Sunne comes it vanisheth and is nothing so would all these things that wee doe so affect now if they come before eternity in our thoughts it is great wisdome in this kinde to husband our thoughts well 1 Cor. 7.29 30 31. Vse this world as not using it for the fashion of this world passeth away that is minde them not much be not much affected with them one way or other either in joy or griefe let them be such as if they were not for why they are temporall things passing things things that continue not for that is the thing I gather out of that place that the Lord would not have our thoughts to be bestowed upon them but so remissely as if not at all because there are eternall things and set your minde upon them for the time is short As if he should say thou hast not so much time to spare the time is short and you have businesse enough another way there is water little enough to runne in the right channel therefore let none runne beside and the things that should take up your minds are sin and grace things that are eternall It is a pitifull thing that the noble intentions of eternall mindes should be bestowed so ill upon these flitting things which are nothing to eternity A man that hath not much mony in his purse but onely for to provide necessaries when one comes and askes him to borrow any he will say I have no more than to buy me food and rayment or if he hath his rent to pay and no more if one should come to borrow any of him he saith no I have no more than to pay my rents So saith the Apostle there you have no such spare time no such spare affections that you can bestow them else-where but bestow them upon things that endure to eternall life And further to move you to this consider the shortnesse and vanity of this life how all mankinde are hurried and rapt with a sudden motion to the west of their dayes Our fathers went before us we follow them and our children follow us at the heeles as one wave followes another and at last we are all dashed on the shore of death and withal consider the vanity that al conditions are subject unto whether they be mountaines or valleyes if mountaines they are subject to blasts to be envied or if valleyes to be over-drowned oppressed and contemned yea the things that we prize most honour and pleasure what doe they but weary us and then whet our appetite to a new edge Consider the men that have beene before us many men that have beene like a greene tree but now the floud of their wealth is dried up they and their goods have perished together Consider in the second place what eternity is here the body is corrupted with diseases and the soule subject to vexation but that life is sure composed and constant and there is no variablenesse in it and if we desire life so much why doe we esteeme this life that is but a span long and neglect that which is so spacious Consider the errand upon which you are sent into this world and be not put aside from it by any needlesse occasions as they are all when they come into competition with this which hinder our thoughts and our actions as farre as they belong to eternity and indeed all the world spend too much of their time upon by-businesses and they are hampered with them before they are aware still making our selves new worke so that we make this life which is short enough of it selfe shorter than it is wearying our selves with anxious griefes labour and care thus men did before us and thus we are ready to doe therefore we had the more need to take heed unto it Vse 2 If God be eternall then be not you offended because you see that he stayes long either in giving reward or in executing judgement on men for their sinnes for with him no time is long there is no succession with him therefore say not because you feele nothing for the present there are great promises made but you finde no performance and there bee many judgements threatned but none executed doe not you therefore say that your rewards are neglected or judgement passed over and that God hath forgotten For here you see that with God no time is long or short there is no succession with him you have the same use made of it Isai. 40.27 28. Why sayest thou O Iacob and speakest O Israel My way is hid from the LORD and my judgement is passed over from my GOD There is the objection that which is in the hearts of men Now you shall see what answer is made to it in the following verse Hast thou not knowne hast thou not heard that the everlasting GOD the LORD the Creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not neither is weary there is no searching of his understanding The meaning is this To us indeed the time is long either when reward is deferred or when the punishment or the execution of sentence against evill works is deferred but with God it is not so Now that which makes it seeme long to us is 1 Partly the passions and restlesnesse of the mind for that is motion but God he is without al motion or passion and therefore nothing is long 2 Againe not only we are subject to motion but the things that we have to doe with they are subject to motion and passe away and therefore they seeme long to us for time you know is nothing else but the measure of motion and therefore where there is motion there is time and no while else Now to us that are in motion and to the things that we have to doe with a thousand yeares are a thousand yeares but in God there is no motion nor flux and therefore a thousand yeares with him are but as one day God is neither in motion himselfe nor are other things as in motion to him but wee are moved and the things we have to doe with are moved and if either there must be motion for if the ship moves though the waters stand still or if