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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	sin_n	soul_n	4,646	5	5.4196	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44967	Two sermons by Geo. Hall ...	Hall, George, 1612?-1668.	1641 (1641)	Wing H339; ESTC R19103	23,750	56

of the Historie that man is of the earth witnesse the like qualities of his nutriment his sinking in the water melancholy his compact flesh the drynesse of his bones the constancy of his figure and that which is not of least moment the base worldling that has fixt his eyes on the earth and by his life-preaching Gentilisme does sacrifice at Vesta's Altars and calls her the mother of gods and men it may be Lucretius read his Pedigree where hee tells of men whom the earth after certaine conversions of the heaven growne big brought forth and nursed with her owne milke But let the Poet dreame of prodigious birthes we know that God made man of the earth I doe not say as some did fetcht from the foure extremities of the earth to shew that his Dominion and the world had the same bounds but of earth First that wee might the more joy in our Ascension to heaven and glorifie our Maker for raising our heavie bodies to so high a place above the Ayre above the Fire above the Moon and though Leucippus taught {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that the Orb of the Sunne was the supreame Orb above the Sunne above all the Starres except those that praysed him in the morning Iob. 38. The blessed Angels whose early harmony eccho'd to the harmony of the new borne world Secondly of earth that we might have from whence to raise our soules but not why to raise our Crests that great ones might not look too big on the poore but resemble in this that glorious Planet the bright eye of the World the Sun the higher it is the lesse it looks that they might consider the humble shrub lives in Mount Lebanon as well as the stately Cedar and many times lives longer alway safer that 't is somecimes in States as in nature that gives to lighter bodies the higher place that all faces are drawn in dust though some in illustrious dust that very Cyrus who in his time was writ {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} now begs his memorie as Strabo writes {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} O man I am Cyrus he that stiled himselfe great from the Empire of the earth stood but like the Embleme of inconstancie with his foot upon a Globe a slippery Globe earth upon earth he and poor Diogenes lived both but for a time and both in a time though not both in a Tub and Plutarch sayes they dyed both in one day Death you see makes no difference and Christ himselfe seemes to make none 't is noted to this purpose that on the mount there appeared with him Moses and Elias the one in his younger yeares was a mightie man in Aegypt after a leader of Gods people the other alway poore cold and hungrie cloathed with Goats haire Away then with that Knave Lisippus that must needs paint Alexander with a Thunder-bolt in his hand with Caligula that set his head on Jupiters shoulders and with Darius that by all meanes must bee a god though but for thirtie dayes better was that speculation of Philip the Macedonian who on a time falling and viewing in the dust his length cryed out Lord what a little portion of earth is not content with the whole earth he well took notice that as he had falne on the earth so hee came from the earth which is my first part and should returne to the earth which is my second {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Rhet. 2. Arist. who knowes not that he shall dye to consult about an escape were {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} seriously to deliberate what course a man might take that the Sun should nor rise or set I have read of Temples dedicated to Feares but that no people did ever consecrate a Priest or Temple to death as being well knowne to bee inexorable who have not heard of the gates of Death who knowes not that they lye open and that for him yet because Evills that may bee farre off doe not much affect and wee while the bloud runs hot in our veines put farre from us that frozen and benumbed age as if eternall Hebe or Youth fild our Cups as Poets say shee does their Joves it will not be out of place or time in the middle of Summer to admonish of Winter 't was the Devills policy in old time to have the dead buried without the Walls out of sight that the living might not lay it to heart he that steeres well must sit at the end of his Boat and 't is the good Politician {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} when danger is farre off then to suppose it neate in this respect it cannot bee out of season this is my second part our returne to the earth The whole man came not from earth and therefore cannot returne to the earth the soule shall goe to places deputed to her the body to the earth one and the same our Mother our Nurse our House our Tombe that these two should part proceeds from causes Morall and Naturall the Morall cause is sinne that made a separation of God from the soule then followed a separation of the soule from the body for God made not Death neither taketh the Potter pleasure in bruising an earthen Pitcher two things I may safely say cannot God make a God and Sin of these take the word properly he has no Idea The Naturall causes of Death are either externall or internall exrernall O that I could number them I should then learne to number my dayes the internall cause is the mutuall conflict of contrarie qualities the brain being cold the Stomack and the Liver hot the Bones drie and the Reines moyst the soule comes from the Father of Spirits it selfe a Spirit into a body whose principles exercise naturall and irreconcileable enmitie me thinks at her first entrance into an house so divided against it selfe she should looke about her like that fellow in Libanius that comming home and finding painted on his Wall two ready and instructed Armies cries out {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} who has made my house a Military Campe The members of every mans body are at continuall Warre wee may bee at peace with forraine enemies our domestick are alway in armes 'T is false that Solinus writes of a people in Iurie that are so equally mixt their temper so arithmeticall without excesse defect or jarre ut aeternagons sit cessantibus puerperiis that there is alway the same number of people and yet no children borne Who shall make me believe that Iurie or any part or Jurie is exempted from death since life it selfe our Lord and Saviour Jesus did dye in Jurie Death erects her Trophies as well in Iuries as Greece and in Greece as Scythia her victories are here above her Captives lie below God made the face of the earth to bee inhabited sin and death the bowells this is the place of them that live that of them that have lived Thus

dayes of thy youth for by the good actions done in thy youth and then the sense will bee give testimonie that thou Remembrest thy Creator by thy well-doing in thy youth for so may this word Dayes bee used Abraham said Moses departed full of daies Hooest sayes Aquinas plenus operibus lucis diei Neither doe I without warrant expound this Preposition in as a causall signifying by so would some have it meant in the verie first word of Genesis and so it is used in the Psalme In wisedome hast thou made them all that is by wilsedome for the Son is the wisedome of the Father And so is it used in the first of the Hebrewes {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} hee spake to us in his Sonne that is by his Son Thus I have done with the second particular In the dayes of thy youth But that is not enough the wise man addes now in the dayes of thy youth I say now for now is the Sabboth Day to the hallowing of which GOD prefixt as hee did to my Text a Remember Remember that thou keep holy the Sabboth day Secondly remember him now because no time is thine but this verie now whether any bee to come it is uncertaine and what it may bring with it as uncertaine That which is past is behinde thee and seeing thou art a Travailer on earth the further thou journyest the further thou leavest it Thirdly Rememeber thy Creator now because now in this very moment this verie Article of time does he create thy better part thy soule for by the verie same action by which it was first created is it till this day created is this minute created and shall bee created to all eternitie mistake mee not the Conservation of it in being being nothing else but the Creation of it continued since therefore God upholds thy soule in being by the same act by which hee gave it being I meane thy soule onely for hee did not in a proper sence create thy bodie and since no cause loseth its Name or Formalitie till its actuall influence or causalitie cease who sees not that when soever hee did first create it yet he now creates it hee is now thy Creator therefore thou shalt now remember him if he be thy beginning thou must make him thy end the first efficient and the last end must needes bee co-incident if hee doe for thee thou must doe for him if hee now remember thee thou must not now forget him because thou wast at first deduced from him thou must bee thus reduced to him Alcinous in his Introduction to Plato sayes of him {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} hee held GOD of a Sphaericall figure and truely though God bee of no figure yet to omit many instances hee seemes to love this figure for as a Circle returnes into it selfe and ends where it began so all things that were derived from him and what was not derived from him must end in him Ister Achelous Euphrates and Ganges all these Rivers flow from that mightie Well and after all their windings come to pay tribute and fall with a loud noyse into that mightie Well Last of all Remember you especially your Creator now because there was of late evill in your great Citie the evill of Plague but now is not because the Gyant hath now laid by his Quiver his Bow and his Arrowes because shee that did sit in Ashes is now become the glorie of Cities the seat of joy of mirth and health because now her streets her Courts of Iustice her Temples are returned from solitude to their old frequencie because now shee heares not Zim nor the Scriech-Owle by night nor the Vulture nor the Raven by day O let it not bee told in Edom let not the Hittite and the Stranger heare that Israel found a mindfull God but God an unmindfull Israel that you are still a rebellious people though his Angel past by your houses and your first-borne live that you heare not him whereas he heard for you your verie doores calling and crying Lord have mercy upon us *⁎* Errata PAge 2 line 4. read vilescit for vile est p. 3 l. 15. r. leaving for bearing p. 4. l. 17. r. mind to that for mind that p. 5. l. 24 r. are not ascribed for doe not ascribe p. 8. l. 1. r. put for set p. 8. l. 16. del. at Arts and set it at Sciences p. 25. l. 16 r. carried for cursed FINIS