Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bring_v	death_n	great_a	1,642	5	3.2072	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33343	The saints nosegay, or, A posie of 741 spirituall flowers both fragrant and fruitfull, pleasant and profitable / collected and composed by Samuel Clark.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1642 (1642)	Wing C4555; ESTC R23711	51,972	277

which be above requitall 546 Ruptures betwixt great ones are alwayes dangerous whose affections perchance by the mediation of friends may bee brought againe to meet but never to unite and incorporate 547 Princes the manner of whose death is private and obscure fame commonly conjures againe out of their graves and they walke abroad in the tongues and braines of many who affirme and beleeve them to be still alive 548 Royall goodnesse is much more prone to smile then frowne yet yeelding to both in fittest seasons 549 Alexander Severus a worthy and learned Emperour was wont to say That hee would not feed his servants with the bowels of the Common-wealth 550 Generally active nations are strongest abroad and weakest at home 551 It is not the firmenesse of the stone nor the fastnesse of the mortar that maketh strong wals but the integrity of the inhabitants 552 The Genius of old Kingdomes in time groweth weaker and doteth at the last 553 As it was a signe that Sampson meant to pull downe the house upon the heads of the Philistims when he pulled downe the Pillars that bare up the roofe so its a shrewd signe that God is about to ruine a State when he takes away those that are the Pillars and props of it 554 As hee is a strong man whose joynts are well set and knit together not whom nature hath spunne out all in length and never thickned him so it is the united and well compacted Kingdome entire in it selfe which is strong not that which reacheth and strideth the farthest 555 It s better to bee Scripticall then Definitive in the causes of Gods judgements 556 Many men by surfeiting digge their owne graves with their teeth 557 Many wicked men are like Hawks of great esteeme whilst living but afterwards nothing worth the godly are like to tamer foules which are husht forth and little heeded whilst living but after death are brought into the Parlour 558 The wise man being asked returned this as the most profitable observation as he could make upon the sight of Rome flourishing that even there also men died 559 There stands in one end of the Library in Dublin a globe of the world and a Sceleton of a man at the other which shews that though a man were Lord of all the world yet hee must dye 560 As it is not a losse but a preferment and honour for a married woman to forsake her own kindred and house to goe to an husband so it s not a losse but preferment for the soule for a time to relinquish the body that it may goe to Christ who hath married it to himselfe forever 561 Good done at our end is like a Lanthorne borne after us which directs them that come behind but affordeth us very little light whereas the good done in our life time is like a Lanthorne borne before us that benefits both them and us equally imparting light to either 562 Death is the greatest losse that can bee to the worldly man it is the greatest gaine that can be to the godly man 563 Gods children as by death they are rid of corruption so after death they have no need of correction 564 Death is the best Physician to the godly it cures them not of one disease but of all and of all at once not for once only but for ever yea it cures them of death it selfe 565 A man may have a three-fold being A being of nature A well Being of Grace and the best Being of Glory our Birth gives us the first our New-birth the second our death the third 566 It s no life but death that severs a man from Christ whilst he liveth and it s no death but life that bringeth a man home to Christ when he dieth 567 Man is nothing but soule and soile or Breath and Body a puffe of wind the one and a pile of dust the other 568 Doe not that to day that thou mayest repent of to morrow yea doe not that to day that it may bee too late to repent of to morrow 569 Considering the frailty of our lives it s no marvell that death meets with us at length it s rather marvell that it misseth us so long 5●0 Wee are sure to dye not because we are sick but because wee live for a man may be sick and not dye but what man lives and shall not see death 571 Sinne and Death are as needle and thread the one entring before is a meanes to draw on the other nor would one follow if the other went not before 572 None come into life but by the perill of death and some are carried from the wombe to the Tombe from Birth to Buriall Io● 10.19 573 As for our Lands so for our lives wee are but Gods Tenants at will 574 Mans life is as a day dayes are not all of one length neither is there lesse variety in the length and size of mens lives 575 When wee have children at nurse or school when trouble or danger is in those places where they make their aboad wee send for them home that they may be in safety so God cals some of his children out of this world thereby taking them away from eevill to come Isa. 7.1 576 When our houses are in danger of firing wee remove our treasure and Iewels in the first place into places of more security so where Gods wrath like fire is breaking in upon a place he removes his children to heaven a place of greater safety 578 Death will doe that all at once which Grace doth now by degrees 578 Ambrose at the point of death said to his people I have not so lived among you that I should be ashamed longer to live with you nor am I affraid to die because wee have a good Master 579 Death is the Lady and Empresse of all the world her treasure is without surrender and from her sentence there is no appeale 580 Because God defers punishing men deferre repenting and spend the most precious of their time and strength in sinning and then thinke to give God the dregs the bottome the last sands their dotage which themselves and friends are weary of 581 Gods children are never better delivered out of their troubles then when they seeme not to be delivered at all when they are delivered out of them by death 582 A good mans death is like musicke though it consist of sharpes yet it ends in a Diapason and with a sweet close 583 When an ordinary man breakes ranke and dies there fals a vapour but when a good man dies ther fals a starre when Israel departed from Egypt they robbed the Egyptians and when a good man shakes off the world hee robs the world 584 As all the fresh Rivers run into the salt Sea so all the honour of the world ends in basenesse all the pleasures of the world in bitternesse all the treasures of the world in emptinesse all the garments of the world in nakednesse and all the dainties and delicates