A word in season, for a warning to England: or a prophecy of perillous times open'd and apply'd. Wherein the signes of bad times, and the means of making the times good, are represented as the great concernment of all good Christians in this present age. First exhibited in a sermon preached in the Abby at Westminster, July 5. 1659. and since enlarged and published. / By Thomas VVilles, M.A. minister of the Gospel, in the city of London.

Willis, Thomas, 1619 or 20-1692
Publisher: Printed by Tho Ratcliff for Tho Underhill at the Blew Anchor in Pauls Church yard
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1659
Approximate Era: Interregnum
TCP ID: A96538 ESTC ID: R7862 STC ID: W2308
Subject Headings: Christian life; Conduct of life;
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In-Text They with the busie Wasp (that little Epicure ) are more taken with the sweetnesse of honey, then with the Royal Eagle (that Embleme of Noblenesse ) with the Brightnesse of the Sun. God is the Chiefest Good, the most Amiable Object to an Intellectual Eye, and yet more Amiable to a Spiritual Eye, as he discloses his Beauties in the Face of Christ. Sensual Pleasure is a soon vanishing smile, a tickling of the Senses, causing the Laughter of Fools. What Fools are those that prefer a vanishing shadow before a never fading Beauty! And besides, these transitory Pleasures, thus inordinately pursu'd, end in eternal Paines. They with the busy Wasp (that little Epicure) Are more taken with the sweetness of honey, then with the Royal Eagl (that Emblem of Nobleness) with the Brightness of the Sun. God is the Chiefest Good, the most Amiable Object to an Intellectual Eye, and yet more Amiable to a Spiritual Eye, as he discloses his Beauty's in the Face of christ. Sensual Pleasure is a soon vanishing smile, a tickling of the Senses, causing the Laughter of Fools. What Fools Are those that prefer a vanishing shadow before a never fading Beauty! And beside, these transitory Pleasures, thus inordinately pursued, end in Eternal Pains. pns32 p-acp dt j n1 (cst j n1) vbr av-dc vvn p-acp dt n1 pp-f n1, av p-acp dt j n1 (cst n1 pp-f n1) p-acp dt n1 pp-f dt n1 np1 vbz dt js-jn j, dt ds j n1 p-acp dt j n1, cc av av-dc j p-acp dt j n1, c-acp pns31 vvz po31 n2 p-acp dt n1 pp-f np1. j n1 vbz dt av vvg vvi, dt vvg pp-f dt n2, vvg dt n1 pp-f n2. q-crq n2 vbr d cst vvb dt vvg vvi p-acp dt av-x j-vvg n1! cc p-acp, d j n2, av av-j vvn, vvb p-acp j n2.
Note 0 Summum Bonum. Summum Bonum. fw-la fw-la.
Note 1 Eccl. 7.6 Ecclesiastes 7.6 np1 crd




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Adjacent References with Relevance: 2 Corinthians 4.6 (AKJV); 2 Timothy 3.4 (Tyndale); Ecclesiastes 7.6; Ecclesiastes 7.6 (AKJV); Ecclesiastes 7.7 (Douay-Rheims); Job 20.5; Job 20.5 (Geneva)
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Ecclesiastes 7.6 (AKJV) ecclesiastes 7.6: for as the crackling of thornes vnder a pot, so is the laughter of the foole: this also is vanitie. sensual pleasure is a soon vanishing smile, a tickling of the senses, causing the laughter of fools True 0.696 0.201 0.178
Ecclesiastes 7.7 (Douay-Rheims) ecclesiastes 7.7: for as the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool: now this also is vanity. sensual pleasure is a soon vanishing smile, a tickling of the senses, causing the laughter of fools True 0.696 0.182 0.178
2 Corinthians 4.6 (AKJV) 2 corinthians 4.6: for god who commaunded the light to shine out of darkenes, hath shined in our hearts, to giue the light of the knowledge of the glory of god, in the face of iesus christ. he discloses his beauties in the face of christ True 0.625 0.334 0.208
2 Corinthians 4.6 (ODRV) 2 corinthians 4.6: because god that commanded light to shine of darkenes, he hath shined in our harts to the illumination of the knowledge of the glorie of god, in the face of christ iesvs. he discloses his beauties in the face of christ True 0.614 0.463 0.213




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Note 1 Eccl. 7.6 Ecclesiastes 7.6