Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	death_n	mercy_n	sin_n	3,579	5	4.7173	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03025	Horæ succisivæ, or, Spare-houres of meditations upon our duty to [brace] God, others, our selves / by Ios. Henshaw.	Henshaw, Joseph, 1603-1679.	1631 (1631)	STC 13167.5; ESTC S2727	61,976	360

as nature God receiveth no sonne whom He chastiseth not but t is with a gentle hand He leaves no markes behinde and He hath soone throwne away His rod if with unfained resolution you will doe so no more God though He beate many of His Children till they cry yet He never beates any for crying There is a double life in man and must bee a double nourishment men live as if there were no more to bee done but feede and be warme food and rayment are the maine businesses of the World 'T is true wealth and friends and health are things to thanke God for but better desires better becomes Christians the Christian man lives not by bread onely c. Meate for the belly and the belly for meate but God shall destroy both it and them every good mans meate and drinke is to do the will of Him that sent him God hath given us this aire to breathe in it doth not give but continue life 't is the meanes of living not the Author of life God gives it us to use not to serve How many make this world their God and serve it and God as it were but their World to make use of I will never be a servant to my slave God though He be ever the same in Himselfe He is not alwaies so in us though Hee love those whom He doth love unto the end yet not without Intermission Men commonly never know the benefit of a thing but by the absence of it wee could not so well esteeme of health if it pleased not God we were sometime sicke the long absence of a desired friend makes him more welcome at his returne thus Christ is pleas'd sometime to withdraw His presence that with more earnestnesse we might be drawne to seeke Him Tell mee Oh Thou whom my soule loveth where thou feedest c. As when many eyes are fixed upon one pictture every one thinkes the eyes of the picture to be fixed on him so with our soules all looke together at God but every one must appropriate Him to himselfe To know that God is the God of Abraham the God of Isaack and the God of Iacob is but a weake assurance that He will provide for me unlesse also He be my God our faith as our charity must begin at home and say My Lord and my God Our Saviour doth not say doe unto others as others doe unto you but as you would have others doe unto you If thou wouldest have thy neighbour do thee right doe so to him though he have done thee wrong Lex talionis was never a good Christian Law If I forgive not I shall not be forgiven As he cannot rise againe the resurrection of the body that doth not first dye the death of the body no more can he be borne the birth of the soule that doth not first dye the death of sinne It is necessary that hee which will bee borne twice should dye once while he lives and hee that will once rise the resurrection of life should dye twice That I may live ever I will dye daily That two contraries cannot consist in the same subject is as good Divinity as it is Philosophy Good and evill are like Fire and Water ever contending till the one be conquered either my sinns and I must part or God and I I cannot be at once Gods Church and the Divels chappell It is the fault of a great many if God beare with them in their sinnes they thinke hee countenances them if they be not presently striken dead with Vzzah they goe on when they smart not they beleeve not and he is not fear'd till felt Sicknesse is not thought of till death nor that till hell forgetting that the long sufferance of God should lead them to repentance he forbeares us that hee might forgive us shall I sinne because grace abounds God forbid God as He is infinite in mercy so is He in justice and as His mercy extends to thousands in them that love him so do His judgments to many generations of them that hate Him That He is long in comming is no argument that Hee will not come forbearance is no acquittance the longer our time the greater our account if we have liv'd long and liv'd not well of young Saints prove old Divells wee had beene better have gone to heaven young than to have lived to these yeares to goe to hell miserable is that mans case whose latter end is worse than his beginning The relation betweene sinning and falling is so neere that they are us'd promiscuously the one for the other Now it is a hard matter to fall without hurt and once downe it is not an easie matter to rise without helpe Where it is so dangerous to fall and so hard to rise if we love our selves we will looke to our footing Most men feare to heare ill that feare not to doe ill the arrantest hypocrite in the world would not be thought so he would not be censur'd for sinne that feares not to be damned for it and is afraid of holding up his hand to the barre that is not afraid of standing at the Tribunal seat of God All the care is how to sleepe in a whole skinne not so much to live well as to die safe keepe without the compasse of the Law though they come within the teach of hell If this bee not to feare men more than God I know not what is I should wonder many times to see sin so smugge to here a Iudas at his haile Master and kisses did I not remember of what Sire they come the Divell and that he can stil personate that goodnesse he once had He would be more shunn'd if he could not bee mistaken that is not suspected in a disguise where the adversary is so subtile they had need bee wise as Serpents that would be innocent as Doves Charity so forgives offences that it is ready not only to pardon the offender but to doe for him and thinkes it selfe not innocent that it starves not it's enemy while it sees him starve What little difference is there in Religion betweene not saving and killing we are not commended that we require not evill with the like We have not forgiven injuries if wee doe onely not revenge them if wrongs tye our hands from doing good where we ought and may they prove sinnes to us that were but crosses and we wrong our selves more by not doing than by suffering and God shall so forgive us our trespasses For with what measure I mete unto others it shall be measured unto me againe God deales by us as He would have us deale by others and we must doe by others as we would have them doe by us and all of us deale one with another as we would have God deale with all of us As I cannot love God and hate my brother so can I not bee loved of God How iustly is the fire of Envy punished with the fire of Hell It cost God

blessed to my cost With God all things are not onely alike possible but easie and he can as well of stones make Abraham children as of Iews I will never despaire of him that can do al things I cannot be so infinitely sinful as God is merciful Oh God if thou wilt when thou wilt thou canst make me whole why should I give my selfe over where my Physician doth not Workes without faith are like a suite of clothes without a body emptie Faith without workes is like a body without cloathes no warmth want hear Workes without faith are not good workes faith without good workes is as good as no faith but a dead Faith Then onely are they themselves when they are together what God hath joyned let no man put asunder Our actions are never pleasing to God when our light doth not shine before men let your light so shine before men that they may see your good workes and glorifie your Father which is in heaven that your Father which is in heaven may one day glorifie you With men confesse and suffer is good justice but with God the contrarie to confesse our sins is the next way to be forgiven them that soule is past hope that lyes speechlesse I will ever pray Oh Lord open thou my lips and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise and my owne sinnes Pray for them that curse you doe good to them that c. Is durus sermo a hard saying and against the haire 't is not so easie a matter to forget an ill turne as to doe one yet this must be if we will be Christians hee that will not be in charity shall never be in heaven Why should I doe my selfe a shrewd turne because another would It was the divell that first made us enemies to God and it is still he that makes us enemies to one another it is not for nothing I have thought that he is painted with a clovē foote hee loves divisions so well and there is no greater argument of a divell incarnate than a malicious heart say what thou wilt but I will never beleeve thee against scripture that thou lovest God whom thou hast not seene that lovest not thy brother whom thou hast seene if wee love Him we will love one another If we will be Christs Disciples we must leave all but it s not all wee must take up our crosse too be readie to take it up not of our selves but if it be layd upon us we must suffer willingly for Christs sake we must not suffer wilfully or throw our selves into the fire He that bids us suffer bids us flye If they persecute you in one City flye c. It is our commendation to endure to stroke or the Faggot it is not to seeke it when zeale runnes without discretion warrant it commonly makes more haste than good speed CHRIST would have us innocent but wise too Serpents as well as Doves lay downe our lives for His sake but not fling them downe we must neither goe like beares to the stake nor like mad-men neither runne to our martyrdome or from it Pray with our SAVIOVR if it be possible to misse the cup or but to kisse it but still not my will but thy Will we must submit all to God and thinke that fittest for us which Hee thinkes so That which I heare from David I would heare from every good man Thy word is a Lanterne to my feete c. To his feete not to his eyes alone if we use the Word of God onely to gaze on and see fine stories to discourse by not live by it wants his use and wee want our goodnesse and shall want our glory knowledge without practice adds to our punishment together with our sinne How many Pharisees have sate in Moses that shall never sit in Abrahams bosome onely for this because they knew and did not Workes of piety must never goe without humility he that prayes and is not humbled like the Pharisie in the parable goes away worse than hee came When thou prayest thou askest blessing and doe it on thy knees if to your earthly father how much more to your heavenly Men have inverted the course now they drinke their health upon their knees and pray for their health upon their tailes God shall answere such men according to their manners proudly Why should GOD stoope to their wants that stoope not to their owne we cannot bee too humble when we are to speake to that Majestie whom we cannot see and live and whom wee shall one day see and live to our cost if we be not humbled thanke God thou hast knees to howe how many would that have not why shouldest thou bend and cringe and bow to thy father or thy friend or thy betters and not to thy God Prayer is the Iacobs ladder of the soule wheron it goes up and downe to God and conferres with Him in our praiers wee blesse Him and by our prayers wee blesse our selves there is no part of Gods worship more acceptable or more profitable than this of prayer and none more slighted men come to prayer as to a thing indifferent wilfull negligence in leaving it undone and coldnesse in doing of it are the sinne almost of who not only Oh Lord doe thou be mercifull to the neglect of thy people There are many services and many Masters and yet no man can serve two masters that is two of a contrary disposition for there is the world the flesh and the divell and ye may serve all these at once nay yee cannot serve one and not all the glutton he serves his belly with Esau sells his birthright his blessing for pottage the drunkard he serves I know not well what whether the drinke or the company or his appetite or all but instead of quenching his thirst drownes his soule the envious man and the furious man are alike in this both serve the passion onely here they differ the envious man with Sampson will braine himselfe so hee may braine others the furious man braines others so long till at length he be brained himselfe the usurer he serves his gold the adulterer he serves his lust but all serve one chiefe Lord one Master the Divell and shall all receive the same Wages which is the wages of all sinne death Why should God pay them for their paines that goe not of His errands FINIS SPARE HOVRES of Meditations The Second Part. BLessed are the poore for theirs is the kingdom of heaven How are they poore that have a Kingdome or what Kingdom is wealthy if not that of heaven or why complain'st thou of that povertie that saints thee that is a happy soule that makes even with God every night and every morne begins the World anew God is love and hee that loveth is borne of God God loveth him so there is no love lost by this are we knowne to be Gods sons and Christs disciples if we love one another I may love others