Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	bow_v	break_v	willow_n	16	3	15.8904	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63767	A trumpet blown in Sion, sounding an alarm in Gods holy mountain: or, A voice lifted up as a trumpet crying aloud, and not sparing, to shew the Lords people their transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins. By a poor worm, that through the Lords great grace, hath found great blessings among the Presbyterian ministry, and by conversing with some of the Lords upright ones of the Presbyterian way; and also choice blessings among the ministry of the Independant and Baptized congregations, and some of the faithful with them.	Poor worm.	1666 (1666)	Wing T3142C; ESTC R220929	125,364	105

we can The pliant Willow is the Precious Man Whose Oaths of one day though of fair pretext Vail to an Inspiration of the next And it is well known what great occasion there had been then given to him and others to bel●h out such Reproaches as these though this ought not to have been fastened upon all the Lords People there being many thousands of them that do abhor that Maxime That Integrity is no firm ground This Principle being firmly rivi●ed in the Souls of the Lords dear Servants That Integrity and Sincerity and plain Dealing without any hypocrisie or complements is the most bles●ed Path that any People or single Person can walk in And it is well known that there are thousands that cannot be as the Willow bowed to comply with what men will bow them to No but they will rather break then bow And several blessed Servants of the Lord have chosen rather to be broken then to ●ow to lose their precious Lives then to comply unworthily with any thing that may tend to the Dishonour of the Lord Jesus Christ their glorious Lord and King It is not the pliant Willow the bowing complying Man that is the precious Man but such a one is a degenerate Plant of a strange Vine and it is not his Preciousness but his Base●ess that is thereby discovered And there are also many thousands who having taken an Oath or Covenant dare not renounce it notwithstanding all the mo●●subtle charming Inspirations of the highest Episcopal or A●chiepiscopal shain imaginable But rather then vail to the Promises or Threa●n●ngs of the most advanced Hierarchy of whose Promotions they might soon have a sha●e they will chuse with Moses to suffer Affliction though it should con●inue all the days of their lives rather then to enjoy the Pleasures of Sinful Complian●● for a season But it must be acknowledged that though there be many thousands that never bowed the Knee to Baal that never did nor never would comply to take any Oath but such as they truly and conscionably intended to keep yet so it was that there were some who had the Name of being the Lords People who then were in Power and Authority who did very unworthily turn and wind like the Weather-Cock and comply basely with some things afterward which were contrary to a former Oath which they had taken and these gave the occasions of such Reproaches and Blasphemies to be cast upon others and caused the way of Truth to be evil spoken of But who ever they were that did it and were the chief Rin leaders in it though they were and are never so eminent and never so excellent in all respects and er●ed not in one point but this yea though they were as dear to the Lord as Moses and Aaron and though it may be he hath forgiven and will forgive their Iniquity yet he hath taken and may take Vengea●ce on their Inventions because they have not so honoured the Lord before all People as they should have done in an inviolable observance of his blessed Precepts in a faithful keeping Oaths or Covenants though it should have been to their own loss or det●iment For the Righteous Man sweareth to his own hu●t and changeth not V. Another great Sin which some of the Lords People have been guilty of V. PRIDE is PRIDE and Haughtiness of Spirit Though it may be the●e is but f●w of them that have a full sence of their guilt of this evil For it must be acknowledged that this evil doth not appear in the generality of them as it doth in some others who out of Pride and Haughtiness of Spirit if they be persons of Estate will scorn and despise the Company of them that are poor and mean in the World or scorn that such a one should go before them or such a one should take the Wall of them or sit above them in Feasts or in the Church-Meetings I say there are few or none of the Lords People whose Pride works in such gross and palpable things as these are But notwithstanding it is evident that too many are very guilty of that abominable Sin Pride and one clear proof of it is this That many of them are very unable to bear Reproof one of another when any evil or weakness hath appeared in them for which they are justly reproveable having taken that to be a slighting and an undervaluing of them So that though it hath not been so intended by the Reprover yet it hath been so interpreted by the Reproved But it is apparent that inability in persons to ●ear things of this nature discovers Pride for an humble man that is truly low and little in his own eyes and is not at all puffed up can with all con●entedness and patience bear Reproof whether it be justly or unjustly administred because another person cannot have meaner thoughts of him then he hath of himself and having mean thoughts of himself it is rather pleasing then displeasing to him that others see how mean and weak and unworthy a person he is rather desiring to be set in a low place in their thoughts then to be high as judging himself not worthy any high esteem in the thoughts of any considering how unworthy he is in himself before the Lord and how unworthily he hath carried himself in many respects to the Lord and how he deserves at the hand of the Lord rather to be despised and trampled upon by the worst of men then to have any e●eem among men and therefore if he be despised and counted poor and mean it is but as he deserves to be because he is but a polluted lump of Dust and Ashes as he is in himself And this we find hath been the way of the most eminent Saints and Servants of the Lord when they have had nearest Communion with God and have seen themselves in the clearest Light of the Spirit As the Prophe● Isaiah when his Eyes had seen the King the Lord of Hos●s having the clearest Vision of the Lord then he most clearly saw his own u●done Condition and saw himself to be a man of unclean Lips Isa 6. 5. How many of the Lords People would be very little and very vile in their own Eyes had they clearer Visions of the Glory of God and more intimate Communion with him But it is an argument of the very great darkness and weakness and meanness of that Christian that hath not a very true and real sense of his own poverty and vilene●s and unworthiness When faithful Abraham stood before the Lord he was truly sensible of his own unworthiness being but Dust and Ashes Gen. 18. 27. And blessed Job when he had seen the clearest Vision o● the Lord then most abhors himself in the sence of his own Vileness Job 42. 5 6. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the Ear but now mine Eye seeth thee wherefore I abbor my self and repent in Dust and Ashes And as it is always so with particular