Selected quad for the lemma: body_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
body_n	life_n	part_n	soul_n	16,643	5	5.3842	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27456	Historical applications and occasional meditations upon several subjects written by a person of honour.	Berkeley, George Berkeley, Earl of, 1628-1698.	1667 (1667)	Wing B1963; ESTC R8483	20,594	142

be granted let us raise our Meditations higher and consider how advantageous it will be for us to meditate of the God of Nature to advance his Glory expressing our Love to him by singing his praises while we have a being here which is the delight and employment of Beatified Souls to all Eternity II. LEt us consider why so many of us so often miscarry in the Designs and actions of this Life even when we have most confidence and assurance The Reason is very obvious We place too much trust in secondarie Causes and in the son of man whose breath is in his nostrils but in the beginning of every enterprise neglect to implore the Divine assistance and wholly to rely upon his Wisdome with an humble and dutifull acquiescence in his will whether he shall please to blast our purposes or to prosper the action God knowing what is better for us then we do for our selves If so we are sure our Designs and endeavours will be successfull or we shall have as much reason to be satisfied as if they were being free from all repining murmuring thoughts because we submit to his Providence who is the sole disposer of all persons actions and times which is the happy priviledge as well as duty of a Christian. III. O Lord I confesse because I slept unquietly the last night being troubled with melancholick Dreams and found my body indisposed this morning I was more discomposed in my mind then when I have wilfully offended thy Divine Majestie by sinning against thee thus sinfully preferring the health of my Body before the quiet and tranquillity of my Soul perishing things before eternal I beseech God to forgive me this and all other my offences and for the time to come give me grace that I may be but little concerned for my Body making it my great interest as it ought to be to take care for the eternal welfare of my Soul which is best secured by a good imployment of my Time and Talent looking upon it not onely as the Design and businesse of my life but to be my greatest pleasure and delight to doe thee service in whose service is perfect freedome Amen IV. O Lord how short and momentany is this Life in respect of Eternity and yet what great care do we take to provide for the things of this Life as if all our Eternity were here and not hereafter However we must look upon Death which is natural and must come it may be to morrow as the greatest Good to us which is to be desired or as the greatest Evil to be feared Fear it we may but we cannot avoid it and therefore it is in vain to be transported with a foolish fear which disquieteth our thoughts but no way secures us from what we fear but by arming against it which thus a good Christian ought to do To arme himself by putting on the Breast-plate of Righteousnesse and flying for Sanctuary to him who hath had victorie over death by a lively Faith in his Merits Then the King of Terrors cannot be able to hurt us but will doe us great service in giving us a passage to the enjoyment of a blessed Immortality where we shall enjoy rest and ease and happinesse unspeakable such as Ear hath not heard nor Eye hath seen neither hath it entred into the Heart of man to conceive To which place God of his mercy bring us for his sake who hath so dearly bought us our blessed Saviour Christ Jesus Amen V. MY Soul and Body are two great Friends having been Companions many years and therefore are unwilling to part But let us consider Friends are most sad who fear when they are parting they shall never meet more But O my Soul 't is certain at the last day there must be a conjunction between thee and my Body though you part for a season yet when you meet again after this life you shall never part more Therefore be not dejected to separate when the Body dies which must of necessity be according to the inevitable decree of Nature nay of the God of Nature but be careful so to demean your selves while you both live together here that you may both part willingly and meet joyfully hoping for a blessed Immortality which God of his infinite mercy grant for Christ Jesus his sake Amen VI. IT is said of Plutarch that he should say of himself It were better there had never been such a man as Plutarch then that they should justly report him unmercifull and unjust It was a worthy saying of an heathen and might well become the meditation of a Christian. There are many who go under the notion and profession of Christians few are really such comparatively but better were it we never were born then that we should be Christians onely in profession not in practice having a Form of Godliness but denying the Power of it in our lives and conversations For then we have cause to fear the pronouncing of the sad Sentence Go ye cursed c. for we have but little hopes of finding Christ our Saviour at our Deaths if we do not own him for a Sovereign while we live VII IT is reported in story of a great Politician at Rome That he made it his whole Design for many years to secure the election of his intimate Friend to the Popedome after the death of the present Pope who was very aged and having for some considerable time impatiently expected an happy issue to his so much desired hopes the Pope dies his Friend succeeds Now he accounts himself a happy man It is but ask and have of what is within the Pope's power and this is confirmed to him by a solemn promise from the mouth of his Holinesse But mark the unhappy issue Whilst our Politician is considering what places of Honour or Profit will be most gratefull to his Ambitious mind his Friend the Pope dies too and he finds all his endeavours are rendred fruitlesse Upon the news of his death he vainly laments his losse and says it was not in his power to secure himself against such a misfortune Thus it fares very often with the men of the World who put their trust and confidence in Princes and in the Son of man whose breath is in his nostrils If we wholly rely upon our earthly Friends when they die we lose our expectation of what advantage their friendship and kindnesse can afford us But if we rely upon God and secure him to be our Friend he will comfort us when our Friends fail when they die he can raise us new ones he will be our Friend when we have most need of him not onely in our lives but at our Deaths and continue so to all eternity O what an unspeakable honour and happinesse is it to gain God to be our Friend even the highest frail man is capable of It is our greatest Concern to make Friendship with the Almighty Was it not a great honour for Abraham the Father of the