Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	day_n	heart_n	know_v	2,574	5	3.3365	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70235	The vanity of self-boasters, or, The prodigious madnesse of tyrannizing Sauls, mis-leading doegs, or any others whatsoever, which peremptorily goe on, and atheistically glory in their shame and mischief in a sermon preached at the funerall of John Hamnet, gent. late of the parish of Maldon in Surrey / by E.H. Minister ...	Hinton, Edward, 1608 or 9-1678.	1643 (1643)	Wing H2066; ESTC R7444	51,429	56

either as a judgement on their hard hearts which cannot repent they shall be cut off in the midst of their strength and sinnes as most interpret the words or wicked men though they die feeble and aged yet are they said dies dimidiare not to live out halfe their dayes because they are so deeply in love with the world and greedy of life that they would willingly live as long againe as already they had or lastly are so carelesse of their walking so little knowing how the precious time passes away that they are at their journeyes end ere they thinke they have gone halfe way thus being tooke away before they expected death they are tooke away also ere they could halfe provide for it Whereas if wee consider how fraile and brittle even naturally how subject to variety of casualties the frequent instruments of sudden death wee are how many continually fall on every side of us what store of blood-thirsty Papists and desperate Libertines rage and swarme in our land each whereof suae vitae incuriosus tuae dominus growne carelesse of his owne life becomes master of thine and upon these considerations alwayes keep e Sen. Ep. 66. in our view and minde approaching death we should never be unprepared for it Non subito moriuntur qui semper se morituros cogitaverunt i.e. those which with Saint Paul dye daily f 1 Cor. 15.31 for so also may he be understood cannot die suddenly If therefore thou art resolv'd to pray From sudden death good Lord deliver us pray also with David g Psal 92.12 Teach us so to number our dayes that we may apply our hearts unto wisdome i.e. bring them to wisdome make them wise Now a wise mans heart saith the Preacher h Eccles ● 5 discerneth both time and judgement the last time death and the last judgement at Christs second comming not that he punctually knowes the time when he shall die or when Christ shall in flaming fire be revealed from heaven no these times and seasons belong unto God alone but that he so well discernes the one and the other that neither of them shall take him unprovided to this purpose as it becommeth a wise sonne he gathereth in summer l Prov. 10.5 In the long dayes of peace and the glorious sun-shine of the Gospel he layes up against Winter i.e. either against times of blindnesse and persecution when the meanes shall be denyed him or else against death when his strength like that of Plants returnes to the earth there to be kept untill the Resurrections spring You therefore which desire to be freed from sudden death and by your prayer will witnesse this your desire witnesse it also I beseech you by your carefull endeavour to prepare for its comming pray that you may apply your hearts unto wisdome and manifest your selves to be wise sonnes by gathering in Summer O gather therefore gather apace whilst it may be yet said to be Summer For ought I know our Sunne may be declining and our Summer drawing towards an end darkenesse and spirituall blindnesse may be comming faster on us then the yeares Winter We have truth is at this time a great shine great store of excellent and faithfull Preachers but this may be but Vltimus lucernaefulgor the last blaze of a dying candle greatest at last The times are dangerous full of teares and dismall expectations what bloody and desperate designes are continually hatcht and discovered strange talke and projects abroad God knowes whether the Jesuites many yeares plot may now have issue the scales may turn sure I am our sinnes and hardened hearts deserve it nay doe we not see them swagge and much adoe to keepe even and did not the prayers and humiliations of some few good soules amongst us which sigh and cry both for their owne and the abominations of the land adde weight unto the right scale we were utterly lost O how suddenly may the freedome and liberty of injoying God in his Ordinances for want of valuing and rightly using them be tooke from us Let therefore you and me and him let every one of us resolve with his Saviour m Iohn 9.40 To worke the workes of him that sent us whilst 't is day because the night comes when no man can worke the workes of him that sent mee not of my Father Vt obligationem faciendi ipso missionis nomine declaret n Maldon in locum that he might shew the necessity of performing these workes from his purposely being sent for their performance So ought wee whilst 't is called to day the time of our life the time of our liberty or the time allowed us for comming in let us ply the businesses breeding faith and perfecting repentance not onely because they are the works of our Father works tending to his glory but also because they are the works of him that sent us to this end hath hee sent us into the World that we might repent and beleeve It concernes us therefore carefully to use all the meanes to attaine to this perfection ere we are took out of the world ere the night of death come on us when no man can work And for ought I know to the contrary this night wherein no man can work may as well include our last sicknesse the time of dying as that after it Death is a harder task and there is more to do in it then most men think of How much businesse we may then have and how little time allowed for its dispatch God onely knowes A carelesse man going on in the sinnes and courses of the world who thinkes it not worth the while in times of health and content to trouble himselfe with the melancholy of repentance will finde it employment more then enough on his death-bed for his weak heart and giddy head to set his house in order the chief thing in these troubles cared for by worldly Achitophels with patience to undergoe his present paines or to make the little and spiritlesse flesh God shall leave him willing to depart What no time then my brethren and quiet will he have to make even with God having run on 30 40 50. or more yeares in horrible arrerages what little leisure then will hee have to resist the Devill quiet his conscience or answer his clamorous sinnes I shall in a word shew you what a toile and trouble almost invincible 't will be for that man to dye well that hath lived ill acquainting you with these 2. things 1. How hard it is for such a one to be willing to dye 2. How hard it is for him dying to resist the Devill First see how hard it will bee for him to bee willing to dye Whatsoever is destructive to being or life nature abhorres the continuance and preservation of this being its onely appetite Such a one then as yet being in the state of nature cannot but mightily dread death Nay there hath been in the dearest of Gods