Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	child_n	husband_n	parent_n	3,987	5	7.8229	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65357	The godly mans delight or A family guide to pietie containing directions to a holy life with certain Christian dialogues also prayers & meditations upon severall occasions.	T. W.	1679 (1679)	Wing W121; ESTC R219275	84,760	225

What distractions their Minds What fear their Hearts What deadness their Understanding at the Great Assize Then they will say what madness and distractedness did possess us that we should be so foolish as list our selves under his Banner that now will be our tormentor and that like so many Esau's sold our Birth-right for a mess of Pottage for a few merry hours and a little ease and delight When they see the Heavens pass away as a scroll and the Earth melt with fervent heat they shall see the resemblance of their approaching misery pourtrayed Then they shall feel the punishment both of sense and loss then they shall have God's Vials of wrath and indignation poured upon them then they shall be sensible of that devouring fire that God so many times by his faithful Ministers hath pressed upon them that fire that either consumes or refines the world shall burn the sinner to all Eternity and yet shall neither be consumed nor refined always a dying but never dead And then how will his merry days be vanished as a dream and his jovial life will be as a tale that is told and his Repartees pleasant Sports and wanton Dalliances his Cups and Queans his vain hopes of Heaven and confident Conceits all all deceased all will be pass'd away together This is the time that sinners that the wretched world shall be discriminated from the happy Saints whose misery and property is to be wise too late The Vizard of the World will then be taken off it will be then unvailed and then the seeming holiness of the Hypocrite will be conspicuous and will be exposed to the face and view of all the world and then shall he see his own folly not only in reference to his own Soul but also in slighting Christ offered to him in the Gospel then he shall see how nigh he came to the Kingdom of Heaven and yet came shert of it and how shall he expect or imagine to be hid in the day of the Lords anger that knew that his Judge every day was looking on when he so dissembled and cheated the world himself and God as he supposed O ye Hypocrites God one day will force your Consciences to witness against you and your tongues to consess the accusation Christ's Ministers must be brought in to ●●●est for God and if God be against you who shall then be for you If Christ that would have saved thee be against thee and condemn thee who shall be able to justifie thee All that feared God will attest against thee What a deplorable condition will it be to think how the Master shall evidence against his own Servant the Husband against the Wife and the Wife against the Husband the Parents against their own Children and the Children against their own Parents Sinful Compotators or Pot-Companions little conjecture they must bear witness of and concerning those sins that they have helped forward in others and they themselves heard and did swearing and execrating and mocking those that feared God and scoffing at an holy Life The Fornicators little think that their lustful and wanton Mates must bear witness against them that thought they had been concealed in secret places and that that secresie shall be laid open to the view of the world and that those that encouraged them to sin shall accuse them of sin O! the cold comfort that such will have in the reflection of all their pleasures at that day when the very devils that tempted them to such and such sins will stand at their elbows to accuse and witness against them and tell them that they were no readier to tempt than they were ready to assent to every temptation Where on the contrary they slighted Gods Ministers and strivings of God's Spirit within them The very Angels will witness against them at that day and Conscience will produce its black Bill of his secret reclamings and of all the Examples that have ever been to demonstrate the displeasure and hatred God has against such sins as they have been Assenters to and Agents in In turning the Grace of God into wantonness and in gaming and squandring away precious time in which time instead of working out their own salvation they have wrought out their damnation God's Book of Record will be produced concerning all the thoughts words and actions against sinners Nothing shall have been done in secret that shall not be revealed Luke 8.17 Nay every man shall be his own Accuser at that day The painted Hypocrite will then cry out of his out-side profession fair without but foul within a meer painted Sepulcher The covetous Usurers Conscience will accuse and condemn him for cozening and cheating others for griping and grinding the faces of others The rich Man's wealth will so cry out against him and the Canker of his Gold and Silver will witness against him that he shall be forced to say Lord I am in thy hand do as it seemeth good in thy sight with me His Riches will be corrupted and his Garments moth-eaten And the profane Sabbath-breaker that notwithstanding all the rebukes by evident Judgments from God did profane the Sabbath and instead of communicoting divine Truths as for spiritual Food and Manna for his Soul to feed upon from Sabbath to Sabbath shall be forced to cry out Lord I have neglected the day of Grace do as it pleaseth thee towards me I have instead of learning those things that would have instructed me in the way of life learned that that has brought me to destruction and this is the fruits of my Labour instead of keeping and subjugating my self to Divine Laws I have rebelled both against Divine and Humane Laws even the very Laws of Nature and Humanity have I broken Instead of attending thy Ordinances I have attended the Invitations of my own Lusts O you that are yet on this side Hell this side Eternity have a care of stifling a good Conscience and know that if you will not hear it now you shall be constrained to hear when all your political excuses shall be debarred your mouths stopped you shall stand speechless and Conscience God's Witness set up in every Mans breast shall be heard There were four sorts of Hearers specified in Christ's Parable but one sort good the rest were Sabbath-breakers such as there are many now a-days that instead of getting their hearts prepared according to the preparation of the Sanctuary to meet with God and hear what he will dispense to them from his Word they trim paint and pin away a good Conscience in trimming and painting and pinning their Bodies Where is that that the Scripture commands I say the time that should be spent in preparation for meeting with God is spent in dressing and trimming these crasie and rotten houses of clay that is like to fall at the blast of every Distemper and e're long shall be turned into earthy dross and clay as trees that cumber the ground and are useless in their Generation They