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cause_n	body_n	death_n	die_v	1,694	5	6.0612	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06800	The sicke-mans comfort against death and the deuill, the law and sinne, the wrath and iudgement of God. Translated out of Frenche into English, by I.E.; Consolation et instruction aux malades contre l'appréhension. English.	L'Espine, Jean de, ca. 1506-1597.; Eliot, John.	1590 (1590)	STC 17238; ESTC S119213	84,176	220

soule is buried when it pleaseth God to fetch it from thence it is not as though he should make it come forth of the graue and raise it vp againe What is the occasion then that men may haue to flye from this corporall death and to haue it in such horrour Séeing that seperating the soule frō the body setteth the soul out of prison and sendeth it to enioy liberty in heauen there to be made much of in the bosome of Iesus christ and to inioy with him and with all the happy soules the eternall comforts promised and reserued for the elect people of God The body on the other side liethe in the earth as in a bed there to sléep and take his rest at his ease being neuer wake or troubled in his sléepe neither by fearefull dreames nor cares nor feares nor cries noyses or any thing els that maye disquiet the same sléeping there til the day of the resurrection when it shalbe waked by the sound of Gods Trumpet and knit againe to the Soule hauing left behind in the earth his mortality dishonour and weakenesse hauing put on his robes of glory power immortality and corruption Whereby we may sée that it is without curse that men feare so much this corporall death the which doth but seperate for a time the soule from the body for y ● great profite of the one and of the other For the body is by this meanes out of all daunger not onely of sinne and of the miseries that waite thereuppon but also of all temptation remaining and resting in the earth in certaine hope of the resurrection and of the life euerlasting And although it séeme to be altogether depriued of life lyinge in the earth because that the soule being departed from it leaueth it without any mo uing or féeling and it putrifieth and goeth into earth yet being alwaies accompanied with the spirit and infinit power of God which quickeneth all thinges it is not altogether void of life as Saint Paul saith If the spirite of him which raised Iesus Christ vp from the dead dwell within you He also which hath raised him vp shal also quicken your mortal bodies because of his spirit which dwelleth in you This is the reason why in another place drawing out vnto vs the portrature of the resurrection of our bodies to come he brings in an example of the séede which is cast into the earth the which hath life in it although being in the Garner it semeeh to haue none and holding it in our hands wee cannot iudge but that it is a thinge dead and without life Yet when it is cast into the earth where a man would think the life if it had any would be smothered and taken away it showes it selfe and growes as it were from the rottennesse from whence wee sée the eare commeth which nourisheth and grows afterwards shewing plainely by euident tokens the life that was hidde in it before it was cast in the earth So God in the holy scripture caleth himself the God of Abraham long time after Abrahams death and saith that he is not the God of the dead but of the liuing Then it followeth that not only the soule of Abraham which he redeemed by the death of his Sonne is yet liuing since it hath béen seperated from the Body but that the bodye which is partaker of the same redemption which is knit and incorporate to Iesus Christ to be one of his members and hath bene consecrated and sanctified vnto God that he may dwel therin as in his holy Temple is not clean without life although it be putrified in the bowels of the earth For so much as it is alwaies accompanied with the grace of God and iointly with the soule comprised in the euerlasting couenant that hee hath made with his people which couenant is a fountaine and vaine of life not onely to the souls but also the bodies of al the faithfull And if as Saint Iohn saith they bee most happy and blessed which die in the Lord and that no blessednes can be without life we must needes conclude the one of these two things either that no blessednes can come to the body or els if it may come that the body is not depriued and void of all life lying in the earth For although it be putrified and haue no signe of life in it at all yet retayneth it in it selfe as it were a séede and stack which shal appeare at the day of the resurrection when the spirite of God pouring out his infinite vertue on our bodies shal raise them vppe againe and shall make them shine with the glory and brightnes that hee hath promised his elect And euen as in an egge there is a chicken and a certain life which is euidently perceiued when the hen hath heated and hatched it by her heate so immortality and life euerlasting whereof both our soules and bodies are called to bée partakers from the time that we haue receiued the Gospell of Christ which is a worde of life and a séede incorruptible shal shut vp till the last day by the power of our God which shall then make vs newe againe as hee shall doe the Heauens the earth and all other creatures which then shall fully be deliuered from the bondage of corruption Whereof we are also assured by the baptisme that is giuen vs in the name of the Father of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost For the water which hath bene poured vpon our bodies whiche the Scripture calleth the lauer of Regeneration is not onely to assure vs that our soules are washt and purged cleane by the bloud of Iesus Christ for the remission of our sinnes but also our bodies And that being both together couered and clad with the righteousnes and innocency of the son of God and besides sanctified by his holye Spirite they are by and by put in possession of life euerlasting and altogether made frée and deliuered frō the slauery of death which hath no power as we said but onely where sinne raigneth which is the onely cause of death The holy Supper of our Lord in the which taking by faith breade and wine which are giuen vnto vs by the handes of the minister we are receiued to the partaking of the flesh and bloud of Iesus Christ and so vnited and incorporate with him that for euer as Saint Iohn saith he dweleth in vs and we in him doth it not assure vs also that being inseperably ioyned with the life and with him that is cause of life wee can neither die either in soule or body by reason of this vniō which is common both to soule and body The death of the body ought not to séeme so hor rible and hideous as it doth vnto others who are frighted as little children with a maske or false vizard For if the mother should come to her childe with a monstruous and vgly face to be séene he would be afraid and

in the sixt Psalme hee saith O Lorde rebuke mee not in thine anger neither chastise me in thy sore displeasure Acknowledging that the anguish and sicknes wherewith hee felt himselfe so grieuously afflicted was the very pricking and working of Gods displeasure whom he knew he had sore offended Hée saith as much in another Psalme Thine arrowes haue light vpon mee and thine hand lieth vpon mee And in the two and thirtie Psalme Thy hand is heauy vpon me daie and night And againe in the 39. Psalme I was dumbe and spake nothing I kept silēce euen from good and my sorrow was more stirred My hart was hot within mee and while I was musing the fire kindled c. Ezechias Iob likewise doo attribute their sicknes to none other but to God And Iob saide that in the very stinch that came from his flesh halfe-rotten and in the multitude of lothsome wormes that issued from his bodie he still beheld but one hand of his Sauiour to touch him to the ende hee might heale him againe with the other The very Heathenish Infidels haue somtimes acknowledged that their Sicknes and diseases procéeded from none other cause but from God who then punished them because of their offences As Pharao and his family in the daies of Abraham the Egyptians in the time of Moyses the Philistians in the time of Samuell when they kept the Arke of Couenant captiue and prisoner in their owne country after they had takē it in the war wherein they vanquished the children of Israell We must then conclude that diseases and generally all afflictions and aduersities doo come from God who dooth nothing but with great iustice and by his heauenly wisedome For all his actions are so well directed that nothing may be found in them but is done with waight number and measure and for great reason although the cause thereof be sometimes vnknowne to vs. As then the Goodnes the Power the Wisdome the Iustice the Equitie Constancy and veritie which appeare in all the works of God are the motiues and causes why we allow of them and praise them So confessing all these vertues in our sicknes and other aduersities which are the handyworke of God and of none other ought we not to take them in good part and to arme our selues with this faith and holy cogitation against the impatience and murmuring of our hart which doth pricke and prouoke vs to stomake and be angry with God yea and sometimes to blaspheme his holy name horribly when he will not doo as we would haue him and fulfill the wicked and disordinate desires of our sinful flesh which if he should do he should become like vnto vs who are but flatterers and dissemblers of our owne vices and abhominations Contrariwise to become holy good and vertuous we must labour to be like vnto him and to submit all our desires and will vnto his wil. For otherwise we are indéed but hipocrites and although that in our praiers wée craue and desire that his will bee done our hart dooth secretly make our mouth bée found a liar and doth by and by tell vs in our eare ha hipocrite that thou art if thou mightest choose thou hadst rather haue thy own wil to be done then Gods will When a man speaketh to vs of Gods prouidence and asketh vs if euery thing that God dooth be good and well done we can tell him by and by it is and so we say to our neighbors friends when we sée them in any anguish or affliction to giue them the best comfort and counsel that we can and for the best and spéediest remedie we tell them then it procéedeth from the prouidence will of God But when it commeth to the point to apply it to our selues we doo as Phisitions who can minister good medicines and giue skilful counsel to others but will follow none themselues Neuertheles there is nothing so néedefull and wholesome for vs as to occupy our selues daily in meditating of the prouidence of God and to acknowledge that it guideth gouerneth and disposeth all thinges to the ende that beholding alwaies the workeman in his workemanship we may by and by like of it and allow it knowing that he letteth nothing go out of his shop before it be throughly polished well trimmed perfect and accomplished as it should be in all points And if we giue such credite to cunning Artificers to accept of their workemanship so soone as we sée their marke shall we doo so great iniury to God as not to allow and estéeme of his workes wherin we sée the markes and prints of his bountie and iustice so euident and apparent to the eies of all men Uery true it is that that which doth come directly from his bountie pleaseth vs better then that which procéedeth from his rigour iustice as is séene in the workes of Nature some séeme more pleasant and delectable then other some the day is more comfortable to vs then the night the sommer more pleasant then the winter the sunshine and cleare weather maketh vs a great deale gladder then the blacke pitchy darke rainy and stormy season dooth So when God smileth vpon vs and sheweth vs the light of his countenance and by his milde and gratious dealing towards vs dooth cherish and make much of vs embracing vs with his mercy on euery side multiplying without cease his graces vpon vs and euery day endewing vs with some new benefit as the Prophet saith that without doubt is farre more acceptable vnto vs then when he sheweth vs his sterne and frowning lookes makes vs feele the rigor of his wrath and the sting of his Iustice. Did not Dauid take greater pleasure in hearing the goodly large promises that God made vnto him to establish him in his kingdome and to giue it to him and to his children for euer to giue him victory ouer all his enemies the which were as thicke in euery corner as the dust in the market place to make his fame and renowne to flie and resownde in all quarters amongst strange Nations to heare God with his owne mouth say that hée had found him a man after his own hart to consider how God tooke and chose him euen from his shéepe to exalt him aboue all the houses of Israel and how God did as it were degrade altogether the house of Saul to enrich and adorne him with their spoiles hauing none other reason to doo all this for him but of his méere grace and good will I aske you then whether these so great and euident tokens of the bountie and mercy of God towards him were not farre easier to be disgested then the grieuous reproches that he made him of his ingratitude after his fall And the fearefull threatnings that he vsed to discouer and publish openly all his offence to make murthers and bloodshed abound in his house and that the honour of his wiues should