Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	life_n	live_v	love_n	9,426	5	5.6923	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90521	The Scriptures stability or, the Scripture cannot be broken. Proved, explained, and several wayes applied, whereby all Scripture may with singular advantage come to be improved. Very seasonable and usefull in these last and worst dayes, wherein the authority and truth of the Scripture is now much oppugned, and by few so improved as it ought. By Robert Perrot, B.M. and minister of Gods word, at Deane in Bedfordshire.	R. P. (Robert Perrot)	1658 (1658)	Wing P1646; Thomason E1928_2; ESTC R209990	89,342	222

we should not be saved the Scripture would be broken First I say let us be exhorted to be much in blessing and praising of God yea and in admiring and adoring his infinite wisdom mercy and goodness that the Scripture being that which cannot be broken he should contrive and find out a way so as for man to be saved and yet his truth the Scripture what he had said upon mans sinning be salved and not be broken man had sinned and man must dye for sin according to what God had said Gen. 2. 19. for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely dye i. e. not only spiritually and temporally but eternally and now God out of his infinite wisdom and according to his infinite goodness contrives and finds out such a way by his Son becoming man that as man had sinned so man he doth dye for sin his Son becoming man and dying yea suffers what was equivalent to the second death even to eternal death and the pains of hell for ever the whole wrath of God due to the sin of man being poured forth upon him those sufferings though only for a short time yet being the sufferings of such a one of him who was God as well as man were more than if all the world had suffered for ever and did countervail everlasting death and damnation And thus man is saved and yet Gods truth salved and his justice satisfied the Scripture not broken and this it was the Lords own doing the contrivement of his wisdom and the product of his goodness and mercy and it is that which should be very marvellous for ever in our eyes and provoke us to be much in blessing and praising of his name And the more to provoke and stir us up hereunto consider but these few particulars 1. That according to what God had said we were all upon sinning in a lost and undone condition c. 2. That if God could not have saved us and withall have salved what he had said but that must have been broken he would never have saved us no he would rather break a whole world yea were it ten thousand worlds than have his truth broken he is Iehovah and cannot but give being to what he speaks Heaven and earth shall pass away but his words cannot pass away Again 3. Consider that it was beyond the Wisedom and contrivement of all the Creatures in Heaven and in Earth to finde out such a way as that Man might be saved and yet withall what God had said be salved the Scripture not be broken We find in the 6th of Daniel that Darius there signes a Writing and a Decree That whosoever should ask a Petition of any God or man for 30. daies save of him should be cast into the Den of Lions Daniel yet when he knew that the Writing was signed prayed as he did aforetime thrice a day And now when the King hears of this he is sore displeased with himself and sets his heart on Daniel to deliver him and he labeured it is said Verse 14. till the going down of the Sun to deliver him but his Statute and Decree being that which might not be changed he could not do it but Daniel is cast into the Den of Lions No more could all the Creatures in Heaven or in Earth have found out a way for Man to have been saved and Gods Word be verified no but he must for ever had it been left to them have been cast into Hell the redemption of their Souls though never so pretious must have ceast for ever as concerning such Wisdom we might say as Job 28. 12. Where shall it be found and where is the place of it man knoweth not the price of it neither was it to be found in the Land of the living the depth saith it is not in me and the Sea saith it is not in me c. And then consider 4. Fourthly that God now after all this should find out a way so to save man as that what he had said should not be dissolved nor violated O what thanks can we render unto God for this that he should do it when all the Creatures in Heaven and Earth could never have done it and yet when as if it had not been done if such a way had not been contrived man must have been undone for ever and that God should now do it O what thanks can we I say render to God for this how admirable should this be in our eyes especially if we consider the way he contrived and took to do it that we might be saved and the Scripture not be broken he is pleased to break his Son to bruise him Isay 53. 10. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him he hath put him to grief c. That he might spare us he did not spare him no not his own Son his dear Son his beloved Son his onely begotten Son but delivered him up he comes down from Heaven becomes Man and being found in fashion as a Man humbles himself and becomes obedient unto Death even the Death of the Cross and all that we might live and Gods truth not be violated For God so loved the Word that he gave his onely begotten Son that whosoever believes on him should not perish but have everlasting life John 3. 16. And in this was manifested the Love of God towards us because that God sent his onely begotten Son into the World that we might live through him thus by the grace of God as the Apostle speaks Hebrewes 2. 9. Jesus Christ he tastes death for every man i. e. for all sorts of men for every of the Elect for every one who believes for every one who hath life and salvation he tastes Death he dyes for them in their place and in their stead Gal. 3. 13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law being made a curse for us his Soul was in our Souls stead when he told his Disciples it was troubled and when he cryed What shall I say Father save me from this Joh. 12. 27. hour but for this cause came I to this hour my Soul is exceeding sorrowful Mat. 26. 38 even to Death And when he was in Luc. 22. 44 such an Agony as his sweat is said to be as it were great drops of blood falling to the ground then I say he was in our sted surely he hath a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 borne as a Porter bears an heavy burthen borne our griefs carried our sorrowes it was for our transgressions that he was wounded and for our iniquities that he was bruised they were laid upon him or else they must have lain upon us and sunk us to all eternity But by the grace of God that the Scripture might not be broken in our being delivered from everlasting breakings Christ he is broken and dies and by the grace of God his death stands for ours and his pains though for a short time yet being

it self wholly void of all falshood and fraud yet because by reason of our infirmity he hath not doubted to his most true promises over and above to add his Oath and that that we might be thorowly perswaded in our hearts of his immutable truth and great kindness towards us and from thence might have strong consolation both in life and death it would be more than barbarous inhumanity and ingratitude for us by our infidelity not to give credit to his promises being so confirmed 5. Cannot the Scripture be broken then from hence are we further informed and given to see whence it is that there is yet a Church and Ministry in the world 1. A Church surely from hence it is because there are in the Scripture so many gratious promises as concerning its continuance and being upheld and the Scripture cannot be broken as that in the 16. Matth. 18. that the gates of hell shall not prevail against it i. e. neither the power nor policy of hell neither the force nor subtilty of the devill nor all his instruments For in former time the gates were the Seat both of strength and counsel the Senate-Houses Fortresses being there so that that there is yet a Church in the world it is not that Satan or his instruments have been wanting to excercise all their power and policy to subvert it and utterly to overthrow it but because Gods word cannot be made voyd because this and other the like Scripture-promises cannot be broken the Scripture cannot be broken and therefore let the Churches enemies associate themselves and they shall be broken Isay 8. 9 10. apieces let them gird themselves and they shall be broken a pieces and again let them gird themselves and they shall be broken apieces let them take Counsel together and it shall come to nought speak the word and it shall not stand because the word of the Lord that must stand and cannot fall to the ground So in the 12. Zach the Churches preservation there and victory over all her enemies is notably and most elegantly set forth under a threefold Metaphor of what she should be to all her enemies First a Cup of trembling Secondly a burdensome Stone Thirdly as an hearth of fire amongst the wood and a Torch of fire in a sheaf Verse 2 3 6. behold I will make Jerusalem a Cup of trembling unto all the people round about when they shall be in the Siedge both against Judah and against Jerusalem and in that day I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the people all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it And v. 6. In that day will I make the Governors of Judah like a hearth of fire among the wood and like a torch of fire in a sheaf and they shall devour all the people round about on the right hand and on the left and Ierusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place even in Jerusalem these are Metaphors and all exceeding apt and appropriate for to shew and illustrate not only how bootless and fruitless but likewise how pernicious to themselves all the enemies attempts should be against the Church it is not for me at present to stand to open and explain each of them it would take up too long time and therefore to speak only a little of the second of them v. 3. and in that day will I make Ierusalem a burdensom stone for all the people all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it the enemies of the Church are here compared to such who going about to shew their strength by lifting up some great and heavy stone that is above their strength come to be overborn and crushed by its weight r Comparat at hostes Jerosolymae homini qui lapidem tollere conatur ubi vires non sufficiunt ille ergo concidit sibi nervos c. Calv. in locum and so shall it be with all those who go about to subvert and overthrow the Church of God they shall find it too burdensome a stone for them and instead of overthrowing that shall be destroy'd and overthrown themselves ſ Ecclesia huc usque tanquam scopulus ad quem undique fluctus maris alliduntur perstat firma immota nec delebitur unquam it is supposed to be a Metaphor borrowed from an excercise or game frequent in dayes of old viz to take up a great round stone to try their strength lifting it up from the ground sometimes to their knees sometimes to their middle sometimes to their shoulders and sometimes as high as their heads at which sports in so lifting they did sometimes grievously hurt themselves but what ever it be the Metaphor is borrowed from the meaning is this that all the attempts of the Churches enemies be they never so many or mighty be they what they will or of whom they will they shall all certainly not only be vain and invalid as to the Church I mean as to the utter overthrowing and ruining thereof but pernicious and destructive as in reference to themselves the Church shall be too burdensom a stone for them all and all their attempts whether by power or policy by strength or stratagems they set upon it O how many have still in all ages been heaving at this stone trying by all wayes and means for to evert it the devill hath still in all ages found such fools as to be lifting at it some by their power others by their policy some one way some another but blessed be God it hath hitherto been too heavy and burdensom a stone for them all and so shall be to the end for these and the like are Scripture-promises and the Scripture cannot be broken Psa 129. 1 2. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth may Israel now say Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth yet they have not prevailed against me t Est hactenus mirabiliter defensa servata ecclesia servabitur de inceps frustra frementibus contra niten●ibus diabolis toto mundo Moll●r in loc it hath still been indeed the way of the devill and his wicked instruments in all ages to afflict the Church and their endeavour in all ages to destroy the Church I but yet they could never effect it yet they have not prevailed against me faith the Church 2. From hence we are informed and given to see whence it is that there is yet a Ministery in the world surely it is from hence because there are in the Scripture so many gracious promises made as concerning the continuing and upholding the same and the Scripture cannot be broken and therefore is not at this day the Ministery broken and utterly extinct because the Scripture cannot be broken Truly it is marvellous and may seem strange that there

according to his purpose Heb. 12. 9 10. furthermore we have had Fathers of our flesh which corrected us and we gave them reverence shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of Spirits and live for they verily for a few dayes chastened us after their own pleasure but he for our profit that we might be partakers of his holiness Phil. 1. 19. for I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your Prayer the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ Psal 119. 67. before I was afflicted I went astray but now I have kept thy word 71 it is good for me that I have been afflicted that I might learn thy Statutes 1. The Scripture speaks of them as tokens of Gods love favour Rev. 3. 19. Heb. 12. 5 6. Prov. 3. 11 12. as many as I love I rebuke and chasten c. 2. As dealing in afflicting of them as with Sons Heb. 12. 7 8. if ye endure chastning God dealeth with you as with Sons c. 3. As being to purge iniquity and to take away sin Isa 27. 9. by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged and this is the fruit to take away his sin 4. As being but to try and ercercise their graces Job 13. 10. Ps 66. 10. Iames 1. 12. 1 Pet. 1. 7. 4. 12. Rev. 2. 10. when he hath tryed me c. 5. As furthering promoting grace here as augmenting glory hereafter Rom. 5. 3 4 5. Iam. 1. 2 3. 2 Cor. 4. 17 tribulation worketh patience c. 6. As preventing sadder things which shall befall the world 1 Cor. 11. 32. we are chastned of the Lord that we should not be condemned with the world Nor secondly at the Errors Heresies and Apostacies of these latter dayes that perillous times are come and many deceivers are gone forth and deceive many for these are no other than what the Scripture long since foretold and the Scripture cannot he broken not that the Scripture foretelling them was the cause of them but being to come the Scripture hath foretold them that so we might not be scandalized at them the Scripture being that which cannot be broken thus the Scripture in divers places hath foretold them Matth. 24. 4 5. And Jesus answered and said unto them Take heed that no man deceive you for many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and shall deceive many and so again in 11 12 24 25. vers many false Prophets shall arise and deceive many c. 1 Tim. 4. 1. Now the Spirit speaketh expresly that in the last times some shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devills 2 Tim. 3. 1 2. this know that in the last daies perillous times shall come for men shall be lovers of their own selves covetous boasters proud blasphemers and so on 2 Pet. 2. 1. But there were false Prophets also among the people even as there shall be false teachers among you who privily shall bring in damnable Heresies denying the Lord that bought them and bring upon themselves swift destruction 1 Cor. 11. 19. For there must be Heresies among you c. as by reason of Satans Malice mans corruption Gods just judgement and wise counsel who drawes light out of darkness and that they which are approved may be made manifest and the like so because of the frequent predictions of the word Tenthly and lastly cannot the Scripture be broken but what ever it promises shall it certainly be performed then there are several other duties which from hence we are to be exhorted and much incouraged unto and that upon this account because the Scripture which cannot be broken hath made so many great and pretious promises unto them as 1. To love God to which the Scripture that cannot be broken hath made so many great and pretious promises as Rom. 8. 28. all things shall work together for good to them that love God and 1 Cor. 2. 9. Eye hath not seen nor ear heard nor hath it entred into the heart of man to conceive what God hath prepared for ●hem that love him and 1 Iames 12. Psa 91. 14 15. Iohn 14. 15 16 17. 21 23. God hath promised them the Crown of life he will deliver them c. Such shall be loved of the Father and Christ will love them and manifest himself to them and both will make their abode with them c. and many other places that speak what God will do for them that love him 2. To fear God Psal 25. 14. 34. 9. 103. 13 17. 115. 13. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him c. there is no want to them that fear him he pitties them as a Father his Children he will bless them both small and great 3. To trust in God Psa 32. 10. 125. 1. Isay 26. 3. Ier. 17. 7. Mercy shall compass such about they shall be as Mount Zion c. God will keep them in perfect peace he is blessed shall be as a tree planted by the waters c. 4. To ask seek and call upon God Luke 11. 9 10. and 13. verse 5. Iohn 16. 24. Iames 1. 5. Psal 145. 18. Ask and it shall be given you c. how much more shall your heavenly Father give the holy Spirit c he giveth to such liberally and upbraideth not 5. To wait upon God in his wayes Isa 64. 5. Isay 45. 19. Matth 18. 20. Psa 63 2. 73. last Psa 84. 10. God meets such they shall not seek him in vain c. 6. Being weary and heavy laden to come unto Christ Matth. 11. 28. Iohn 6. 27. to such he will give rest and will in no wise cast out 7. To follow Christ Iohn 12. 26. Matth. 19. 28. such shall be where Christ himself is and shall sit upon thrones c. 8. To part with any thing for Christ Matth. 16. 24 25. Mark 19. 29 30. such shall receive an hundred fold here c. and in the world to come eternal life 9. To suffer for Christ 2 Tim. 2. 12. Matth. 5. 10 11 12. 1 Pet. 4. 13 14. Luke 22. 28 29. c. Such shall reign with him are pronounced blessed and the Spirit of God and of glory rests upon them c. 10. To overcome our spirituall enemies Rev. 2. 7. 11. 17 26 27 28. Rev. 3. 5. 12. 21. 21. 7. Such shall eat of the tree of life c. shall not be hurt of the second death shall eat of the hidden Manna c. shall be cloathed with white rayment c. shall sit with Christ in his throne c. shall inherit all things and God will be their God and they shall be his Sons And so I might instance in divers others but these you may observe and take notice of our selves Again cannot the Scripture be broken Use 4. Of Admonition was it not nor could it not be broken no not in reference to the Son of God himself no not