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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	death_n	die_v	life_n	5,110	5	5.0778	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45182	Christ mysticall, or, The blessed union of Christ and his members also, An holy rapture, or, A patheticall meditation of the love of Christ : also, The Christian laid forth in his whole disposition and carriage / by J.H. D.D. B.N.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1647 (1647)	Wing H374; ESTC R16159	67,177	294

his sacrifices unto God his faith listens and looks in at the door of heaven to know how they are taken Every man shows fair in prosperity but the main triall of the Christian is in suffering any man may steer in a good gale and clear sea but the Mariners skill will be seen in a tempest Herein the Christian goes beond the Pagans not practise onely but admiration We rejoyce in tribulation saith the chosen Vessel Lo here a point transcending all the affectatiō of Heathenism Perhaps some resolute spirit whether out of a naturall fortitude or out of an ambition of fame or earthly glory may set a face upon a patient enduring of losse or pain but never any of those heroick Gentils durst pretend to a joy in suffering Hither can Christian courage reach knowing that tribulation worketh patience and patience experience and experience hope and hope maketh not ashamed Is he bereaved of his goods and worldly estate he comforts himself in the conscience of a better treasure that can never be lost Is he afflicted with sicknesse his comfort is that the inward man is so much more renued daily as the outward perisheth Is he slandered and unjustly disgraced his comfort is that there is a blessing which will more then make him amends Is he banished he knows he is on his way home-ward Is he imprisoned his spirit cannot be lockt in God and his Angels cannot be lockt out Is he dying To him to live is Christ and to dye is gain Is he dead He rests from his labours and is crowned with glory Shortly he is perfect gold that comes more pure out of the fire then it went in neither had ever been so great a Saint in heaven if he had not passed through the flames of his triall here upon earth He knows himself never out of danger and therefore stands ever upon his guard neither of his hands are empty the one holds out the shield of faith the other manageth the sword of the spirit both of them are employed in his perpetuall conflict He cannot be weary of resisting but resolves to dye fighting He hath a ward for every blow and as his eye is quick to discern temptations so is his hand and foot nimble to avoid them He cannot be discouraged with either the number or power of his enemies knowing that his strength is out of himself in him in whom he can doe all things and that there can be no match to the Almighty He is carefull not to give advantage to his vigilant adversary and therefore warily avoids the occasions of sinne and if at any time he be overtaken with the suddainnesse or subtilty of a temptation he speedily recovers himself by a serious repentance and fights so much the harder because of his foil He hates to take quarter of these spirituall powers nothing lesse then death can put an end to this quarrell nor nothing below victory He is not so carefull to keep his soul within his teeth as to send it forth well addressed for happinesse as knowing therefore the last brunt to be most violent he rouzeth up his holy fortitude to encounter that King of fear his last enemy Death And now after a painfull sicknesse and a resolute expectation of the fiercest assault it fals out with him as in the meeting of the two hostile brothers Jacob and Esau in stead of grapling he findes a courteous salutation for stabs kisses for height of enmity offices of love Life could never befriend him so much as Death offers to doe That tenders him perhaps a rough but a sure hand to lead him to glory and receives a welcome accordingly Neither is there any cause to marvell at the change The Lord of life hath wrought it He having by dying subdued death hath reconciled it to his own and hath as it were beaten it into these fair tearms with all the members of his mysticall body so as whiles unto the enemies of God Death is still no other then a terrible executioner of divine vengeance he is to all that are in Christ a plausible and sure convoy unto blessednesse The Christian therefore now laid upon his last bed when this grim senger comes to fetch him to heaven looks not so much at his dreadfull visage as at his happy errand and is willing not to remember what death is in it self but what it is to us in Christ by whom it is made so usefull and beneficiall that we could not be happy without it Here then comes in the last act and employment of faith for after this brunt passed there is no more use of faith but of vision that heartens the soul in a lively apprehension of that blessed Saviour who both led him the way of suffering and is making way for him to everlasting glory That shews him Jesus the Authour and finisher of our faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the Crosse despising the shame and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God That clings close unto him and lays unremoveable hold upon his person his merits his blessednesse upon the wings of this faith is the soul ready to mount up toward that heaven which is open to receive it and in that act of evolation puts it self into the hands of those blessed Angels who are ready to carry it up to the throne of Glory Sic O sic juvat vivere sic perire FINIS § 1. How to be happy in the apprehending of Christ. 2 Tim. 1. 12. 1 Tim. 2. 5 1 Joh. 2. 1. Joh. 14. 1. Luther in Gal. § 2. The honour and happiness of being united to Christ. Job 17. 14. Gen. 2. 23. Eph. 5. 30. 2 Pet. 1. 4. § 3. The kind and manner of this union with Christ. § 4. The resemblāce of this union by the head body Heb. 2. 16. 1 Cor. 12. 12. § 5. This union set forth by the resemblāce of the husband and wife Esa. 62. 5. Hose 2. 19. Ephe. 5. 31. Gen. 2. 24. Gen. 2. 22. Joh. 6. 37. Joh. 1. 14. Gen. 2. 23. Cant. 6. 3. Cant. 2. 16. 1 Cor. 7. 4. Ezek. 16. 6. 〈…〉 16. 〈…〉 11 Cant. 1. 5. Cant. 1. 16 Cant. 6. 3. Cant. 7. 6. Cant. 5. 16. Cant. 4. 9. § 6. The resemblāce of this union by the nourishment and the body Joh. 6. 51. 55. 56. 54. § 7. This union resēbled by the brāch and the stock the foundation and the building Joh. 15. 5 6 Rom. 11. 1 Pet. 2. 6. 1 Cor. 3. 11 2 Pet. 2. 5. § 8. The certainty indissolublenesse of this union Heb. 13. 8. Jam. 1. 17. Mal. 2. 16. Eph. 5. 29. 1 Joh. 3. 16. Joh. 13. 1. Mal. 2. 16. Rev. 22. 2. Joh. 17. 20 21 22. § 9. The priviledges benefits of this union The first of them Life Col. 3. 4. Phil. 1. 21. Gal. 2. 20. 2 Cor. 13. 5 Gen. 25. 22. Rom. 7. 18 Rom. 7. 22 Col. 3. 1. Gal. 4. 19.