Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	escape_v	net_n	partridge_n	24	3	16.2564	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63127	Christian chymistrie extracting the honey of instruction from variety of objects. Being an handfull of observations historicall, occasionall, and out of scripture. With applications theologicall and morall. By Caleb Trenchfield, sometime minister of the church at Chipsted in Surrey.	Trenchfield, Caleb, 1624 or 5-1671.	1662 (1662)	Wing T2121; ESTC R219723	79,230	213

best 53 I observed then too that 't is not the pulling out the Flax alone that makes a thread but the twisting of it and rendring it upon the quill 'T is not a crew of words or sentences poured on us like hail that benefits the mind or makes a cord to draw it forth to action but our considerate observation and prudent application to our particular use 54 And then I saw a broken end is not thrown away but applyed to the Flax and with gentle handling made an usefull thread with the rest A dissenting brother is often rendred unprofitable not so much by his own peevishness as our slighting who if complyingly dealt with might in time wind on the same bottom with the rest 55 A Wood-pecker by a job of her bill against a Tree knows by the sound whether it be hollow and then pierceth an hole through the outward solid part and layes up its brood in the hollowness If by the vanity of our discourse Satan discover that our hearts are hollow and empty of good thoughts he will with temptation soon pierce our best defences and lay up a brood of vile lusts there 56 When wild beasts get into Corn or good Pastures they are more eyefull and circumspect then at other times alwayes hearkning after the least intimations of danger When affairs succeed prosperously with us our cautions should be greatest for our dangers are David took more harm upon the roof of the house then in the Cave 57 A parcel of fat sheep are designed by their owner to the slaughter this to day that the next and another the day following while they rejoyce in their ease and full feeding and neither forethink nor foreknow the evill hour How often fareth it thus with the sons of men who pride it in their enjoyments and rejoyce in their plenty not considering that God above hath appointed death to seize on them they know not how soon nor caring to provide for the day of visitation 58 If any danger threaten the Conies they send presently to their holes so the Doves flye to their windows When troubles are abroad the Saints security is in their Rock Christ 59 The hunting Spanniel beats the fields with much labour and sagacity to find his game which when he hath found they spring and flee away and his sport is to run with an antery after them and thus when the day is spent he comes weary and faint and hungry home for what he hath got all day will not fill one of his teeth at night thus is it with foolish worldlings who with much labour and heat of desire hunt after the things of this world which when found flee away and their delight is in pursuing not enjoying and when the day of life is spent in these endeavours the night of death finds him weary and faint without one crum of comfort to refresh a departing soul with 60 Milk will pierce through those wooden vessels through which water finds no passage though seemingly much thinner Curious and polisht discourse though it may seem more taking yet penetrates lesse then that which is plain and more solid 61 I had a Spanniel which having hunted indesatigably after his game and happily caught eat it not nor afterward when it was roasted would touch a bone of it I have seen such covetous worldlings who would not enjoy those goods which with much care and pains they sought to get but have gone with tattered backs and pinched bellyes not because they had not full but would have fuller Coffers 62 Partridges that have lain fast when the net hath been run over them have escaped the danger when those which have thought to escape by flying away have flown into the Net and lost their lives Those lawfull means which God hath afforded and allowed us would have secured us when unlawfull means which we have thought better have been our ruine 63 The Partridge that hath been once intangled in a Net and hath escaped will be sure to flee away if the Net be but shewn the second time Surely he is more than brutishly unwise that hath been snared in a temptation and recovered by repentance that will not be shy afterwards 64 The Spanniel sets at a distance from the Partridges as if he meant not to meddle with them nor intended their death or danger but thereby points them out and betrayes them to destruction Temptation at the first assault usually speaks us fair as if it designed not our harm but if not then resisted or avoided into how deadly precipices are we hurryed by it 65 The best Setter if disused from the sport and hunted like a common Spanniel though there may remain some principles of his art in him yet he will soon lose the practice of it and become like one of them and it will require no small time and pains to restore him to his former excellency The most sanctified person if he forbear the exercises of Religion and ingage in the pursuit of the world with the worldly though the seed of God may remain in him yet he will find himself much degenerated and no small adoe to restore in him those lost habits of vertue 66 The most punctual Setter if not kept strait to his rules will soon get a trick of running in or contract some other evill habitsd 'T was the Apostles counsell to Christians to walk accurately and not without great reason for if we walk not close by rule we shall soon grow unruly 67 'T is the Setters excellency to hunt for his game with the highest mettal but when he hath found it to observe his distance else he incurs his Masters anger and lash In seekking after the things of this world 't is Solomons advice What thou takest in hand to do do it with all thy might Yet when they are obtained to keep the soul from too neer a conjunction by immoderate love least God be angry and thou plagued 68 The experienced Setter ranging the fields takes no notice of the Larks and other small Birds that foolish Curs run at but let him crosse upon the scent of Partridges he points at them presently and sets down there The religious soul while he is conversant in this world though he meet with many fair appearances of pleasure and profit which worldlings with hue and cry pursue yet he baulks them as not being for his purpose but let him crosse upon an expedient that conduceth Heavenward he takes to it presently as being that which he had in his design 69 A Net hath many holes therefore seems not dangerous but in that is the couzenage for there is none passable Sin seems to present us with many fair hopes of evading but if once entred in is like a grated prison whence no coming out till the payment of the utmost farthing 70 Close a Woodpecker in her hollow tree with a wedg driven in never so forcibly yet if you kill her not she will make her way through again