Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	new_a	old_a	testament_n	3,965	5	8.0680	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31401	Christian tranquility, or, The government of the passions of joy and grief in a sermon preached at Shenton in Leicestershire, upon the occasion of the much lamented death of that hopeful young gentleman, Mr. Francis Wollatson ... / by John Cave ...	Cave, John, d. 1690.	1685 (1685)	Wing C1580; ESTC R36287	20,948	37

minute to their days Much more might easily if not seasonably be spoken upon this fruitful Subject But sure we need not labour about the Proof or Illustration of a Point which neither Infidelity nor Scepticism ever disbelieved or doubted which every days experience attests which the Mourners publish in the Streets the Tombs and Grave-Stones the Escutcheons and Garlands in the Church Preach without a voice And indeed this Truth that the time of Life is short and of Death certain is written indelibly even in the dust But O vain twice vain man who will be still drawing lines in this dust and spinning out a thread which shall last as long as Methusalems if not as Melchizedechs without end of days But as mans time so the Worlds time Time it self is short yet a little while and the Heavens shall pass away and the Stars shall fall to the Earth like untimely Figs or withered Leaves from their Trees For In the second place The time of the coming of the Lord is short The Apostles spake of it then as nigh at hand and of the Judg as standing before the door And therefore it cannot be far from us after so many Successions of time However we may be sure the time to come is short in respect of that which is already past and that we are fallen into the last Act of the Worlds Tragedy And let me note this by the way that St. James Exhorts to Patience under Afflictions by this very Argument Be patient therefore brethren unto the coming of the Lord. Jam. 5.7 8. 3. The time of ease and delight is short Prosperity is not entailed it passes not after the manner of Inheritance from Generation to Generation we have here no abiding City no durable Riches no Honours or Pleasures which we can bequeath to Posterity Nay none which we can secure to our selves for the short term of our own Life Omnia ista quae vos tumidos supra humana elatos oblivisci cogunt vestrae fragilitatis c. non sunt vestra in depositi causa sunt jamjamque ad alium dominum spectantia Sen. de benef l. 7. Our Sun is often overcast sometimes Eclipsed before our day is done Riches when we think we have them in safe custody take to themselves wings and fly away from us Prov. 23. or else are consumed by the Moth or purloined by the Thief Again Men that are in honour abide not their beauty shall consume away from their dwellings Health is a harmony of humors which is soon discomposed and put out of Tune Credit is a Christal Glass quickly broken and cannot be repaired again What little assurance have we of beloved Wives or delightsome Children We please our selves with them to day and to morrow bury them out of our sight Three hundred of the Fabii in Rome were slain in one day and but one man of the Family left alive Babo Comes and we read of a Count in the time of Henry the second Emperor who had thirty Sons beside eight Daughters who followed him to Court and were all placed and preferred to good Offices by him but all died and left him in a very short space of time And so in Scripture we find all Gideons Children slain at once except one Our portion is among the Flowers which to day spring and look like Health and Beauty and in the Evening they are Sick and at Night are dead and buried in the Oven Ostenduntur haec omnia dum placent transeunt Worldly men indeed Card. Bon. opera p. 10. do very much value themselves upon the account of their worldly Accommodations and presume upon the long continuance thereof to them and theirs The Psalmist tells us that their inward thought is tho happily they are ashamed to publish it that their houses shall endure for ever Psal 49.11 and their dwelling places to all Generations They think all their daies be they short or long must be Summer and Sunshine without a Storm a Tempest a Cloud to cover any part of their Sky or to interrupt the gayety of any hour of their time they think their stock will never wast the provision of their Lusts will never fail that they shall always have their fill yea that their sensual delights will grow and improve upon them and that to morrow shall be as this day and much more abundant But as the Day cometh so also the Night and when men thus say The bitterness of Death or Sorrow is past or else will be long in coming when they say Peace and safety then sudden destruction cometh upon them as travel upon a Woman with child 1 Thes 5.3 When the Atheistical Fool Eat Drank and took his Pleasure as if he had goods laid up for many Years one Night put a Period both to his Enjoyment and his Projects The Ambitious man promiseth himself all the Advantages of Honour and Power and seems in his aspiring thoughts to be ascending into Heaven and exalting his Throne above the Stars of God but God who is above him and his Stars above all his rising Glories soon takes down his swelling Sail and degrades him from his proud heights Tho thou build thy nest among the stars thence will I bring thee down Obad. 4. Phot. Epl. 234. p. 349. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. The Princes and Potentates of the World who talk and look as if they were immortal die like other men Alas we find it so and their Glory doth not descend after them Yea many times their Crowns fall before them and their Honour is laid in the Dust while they walk above ground The greatest or the best of men have no sure hold of any earthly Felicity even their Summer days are short and the most flourishing Estate fading ready to die and wither when it makes the fairest shew and promiseth the fullest satisfaction The Rabbins have observed of Adam himself that he did not dwell one Night in Paradise but was poysoned with his Prosperity with the ravishing Charms of a fair Wife and the pleasant fruit of a fair Tree 4. The time of Adversity and Trouble is short Man indeed is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward Job 5.7 Our Lillies grow among Thorns our very Roses are wrapt up in Prickles our sweetest comforts have their sorrowful mixtures and the voice of mourning is heard among the daughters of Musick Yea sorrow and trouble are not only an Entail upon our Nature as Men but a Legacy bequeathed to us by the blessed Founder of our Religion as Christians and so they become as well our badg as our burden our mark of honour and relation to our Lord the man of sorrows The Cross shews whose Disciples we are and through manifold tribulations we enter into the kingdom of heaven But where we read in the Old or New Testament of the number or the sharpness of good mens troubles we read of their shortness too We