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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	heaven_n	life_n	write_v	3,782	5	5.8197	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87797	The grand statute: or The law of death unalterable; opened and applied in a sermon preached May 11. 1660. At the funerals of that pious, useful, and much lamented gent. Mr. John Cope in the parish-church of St. Mary-Bothaw London. By John Kitchin, M.A. minister of St. Mary-Abchurch London.	Kitchin, John.	1660 (1660)	Wing K655; Thomason E1040_17; ESTC R207918	25,041	39

make a vertue of a necessity must you die oh be willing to die oh be ready to die That 's a gallant speech of the Apostles 2 Tim. 4.6 I am ready to be offer'd saith Paul i. e. I am ready to die saith he and the time of my departure is at hand oh if Pauls departure had been at hand and he had not been ready to depart it had been a very sad thing but here was Pauls comfort and safety death was ready for him and he was ready for death I am ready to die oh how unready are many men to die how unready is the drunkard to die how unready is the worldling to die how unready is the voluptuous person to die in one word how unready is the Christlesse man to die For the Lords sake Sirs make it your businesse to be ready to die that you may be able to say Why is his chariot so long a coming Judg. 5.28 and why tarry the wheeles of his chariot I am ready to be offered Three things must be done ere you can be thus ready to die 1. Exod. 10.17 2 Cor. 11.23 Mors complectitur omnis generis calamitates propter peccatum in hac vita tolerandas quae sunt mortis caduceatores nuncii Gerhard Make sure of Christ there is but one malady in the world and that 's sin and there is but one grief and pain in the world and that 's death and accordingly there is but one remedy in the world to cure this malady and to sweeten or remove this pain and that 's Christ Oh labour for an interest in him When Noah knew that the Flood was coming he gat him an Ark and he gat him into the Ark also Gen. 6.22.7.7 My Beloved let me tell you the Floods's a coming let me warn every man and woman this day as Noah did the old World that there is a Flood a coming possibly an universal deluge of wrath and judgement upon the whole Nation for the crying sins and abominations thereof however this is certain that thine and my particular flood is approaching to sweep us out of the Land of the living and to hurry us into the botom of the grave Death 's a coming be sure the harbingers of death are come already upon some of us Aches and Pains and Consumptions and other languishing diseases and old age and hark the sound of their Masters feet is behind them 2 Kings 6.32 Arca Noe est Christus Ecclesia Christi ita ut qui●unque ext a hanc Arcam inveniuntur regnante diluvis peribunt Aug. lib. 15. de Civitate Dci c. 26 Oh therefore get your Ark ready and get into your Ark hasten to the City of refuge before you be overtaken get Christ and make sure of Christ 't is dangerous trusting to opinion only and profession only and other mens Esteem only and a few groundless hopes only oh make sure work in this matter man thou canst never be too sure of Christ get into Christ if thou mean'st to escape 'T is not enough to be upon Christ by outward profession there are many thus who yet are damned notwithstanding a Saviour but you must be in Christ by justification and Renovation by a lively faith and an exemplary life Doubtless there were many of the old World that kept a great deal of scuffling and scrambling to get upon the Ark when they saw the Flood was come indeed and there happily they might sit a little but alas now comes a blast of wind and blows off one and then comes a wave of water and dashes down another and so they all perish in the deluge Gen. 7.23 only Noah and his Family who were in the Ark were saved Ah Sirs you must be in Christ you must be in the Ark if you mean to be saved from death and hell and the deluge of wrath to come Turn to that place in Rev. 20. ult Liber vitae idcirco rectè dicitur liber ●…gni quia cuncti Electi quorum nomina in illo scripta sunt non aliter quam per Agnum Iesum Christum Justificati renati conformes imagini suae facti salvabuntur Rupertus in Apocal. and compare it with ch 21. ult Whosoever was not found written in the Lambs book of life might in no wise enter into Heaven but was cast into the lake of fire why the Lambs book of life wah they must be justified they must be renewed they must be mortified they must be sanctified as well as elected they must be in the Lambs book of life as well as Gods book of life if they will escape death This Lamb has overcame death as David overcame Goliah namely with his own weapon All Israel feared the Giant till David came and he cut off his head with his own sword Just so 't is here to those that are out of Christ death is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the King of terrors as Job speaks Job 18.14 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 B●●…i Selenc Orat 32. and all have reason to fear him but Christ comes and he cuts off his head with his own sword he kils death by death get into Christ and you make a perfect conquest of death that you need not fear it Rev. 12.11 They overcame by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their Testimony and then they lov'd not their lives unto the death then they were ready to die then they were willing to die then they fear'd not death they fear'd to live rather then to die they lov'd not their lives unto death Oh how should a poor soul tremble to die that 's out of Christ I do not know any such miserable spectacle in the world as a Christless dying man if a man was dying and not Christless he might be comfortable yea exceding joyful he might sing Simeons song Luke 2.29 Egredere anima mea now Lord let me be gone if a man was Christless and not dying it might be somewhat tolerable for happily the next meeting of Christ in an Ordinance might be towards him his time of love oh but to be a Christ-less dying man to be Christless and dying too that 's intolerable Awake awake oh soul thou art a dying God knows whether ever thou shalt hear a Sermon more oh get Christ and get into Christ and that speedily or thou art undone 2. Entertain thy thoughts much with premeditations of death before-hand think with thy self thus What if I should die now O 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Clemens Alex lib. 4. Stromat Wards Serm. what If I should die to morrow what if I should be the next corse that should be followed to the grave this would tune thy spirit into a dying frame this would make thee moderate thy joyes thy griefs thy cares thy loves all thy passions and affections enough soul enough I must die ere long and what needs all this I have read a story of one that observing a riotous young Prodigal