Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55916	A sermon preached at the funeral of Mrs Mary Dawes at Great Bardfield in Essex, January 15. 1690. By Thomas Pritchard, M.A. and late rector of West-Tilbury in Essex. Imprimatur. C. Alston. Nov. 16. 1692.	Pritchard, Thomas, d. 1692.	1693 (1693)	Wing P3526; ESTC R220530	12,337	33

at the Throne of Grace in such a decent Manner in such a lowly Posture of Body as becometh Supplicants and as the infinite Majesty of that God to whom we pray doth require and as frequent was she at the Publick Prayers of the Church which she continually attended nay would often go when her Health would ill admit of it being desirous to omit no opportunity of serving God in his own House his House of Prayer where she was wholly intent on the Duty she was about joining with the greatest Devotion and Earnestness and at Sermon time as I have observed when I have occasionally Preached here she was a very diligent serious and attentive Hearer and as she was thus constant at the Publick Prayers of the Church and Sermon so was she also at the Holy Communion which to the end of her Life she frequented having received the Holy Sacrament at Church on Christmas day the last opportunity she had of receiving those blessed Viands which Duty she never went about Heedlesly or Inconsiderately but used the greatest Care and Diligence possible to fit herself for it always setting apart some time for Preparation practising the Apostles Advice examining herself and that strictly too before she would presume to eat of that Bread and drink of that Cup which she did with a Devotion and Reverence suitable to that great and holy Duty Such was her Piety Which is the more commendable because it was an early one she remembred her Creator betimes in the Days of her Youth devoting the best and prime of her Days to his Service a juvenile Piety is most acceptable unto God I love those that love me saith God and they that seek me early shall find me the truth of which gracious Promise I believe this Pious Soul doth now experience the Comfort which the remembrance of her well-spent Life gave her supported her under all her Sickness which made her not only not afraid to Die but if it were Gods Will to desire that she might die which she desired not out of any Impatience for what she suffer'd or out of any Discontent or Dissatisfaction but as she herself assured me when I visited her in her Sickness out of a firm Hope she had that God would pardon her Sins through the Merits of Christ by whose alone Merits she hoped for it and that God of whose Favour she had a well-grounded Assurance would bestow upon her those great and unconceivable Felicities of the other World which she stedfastly believed and hoped through the Mercy of God and Merits of Christ to partake of it was this which made her desire to be Dissolv'd that she might be with God and Christ which is best of all or to give it you in her own Words from a Letter which she left to comfort a dear Relation under this so great a Loss having spoke in that with some certainty of her future Happiness she thus saith I speak not with this Confidence of my future Felicity through any opinion of my own Virtue and Goodness alas no I am deeply sensible of my Deficiency in both and that I deserve nothing but eternal Punishment but all my Dependence is on the Merits of my Saviour who I hope will never cast off a Soul to whom he hath given the Grace to trust in him this is the ground of my Assurance which though perhaps attended with some Fears is still maintained by meditating on the boundless Clemency of my Creator and Redeemer These are her own Words it was this which made her so willing to die having that to cheer her which is the greatest Comfort we can have when we come to die that she was exchanging this short troublesom Life for a blessed Eternal one It pleased God to visit her with a long and tedious Sickness so God often treats his most faithful Servants whom I love I rebuke and chasten and whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth tho her Sickness was severe and long tho she endured much Pain and had many weary and restless Nights yet did no one ever hear a murmuring and complaining Word from her but looking up to God and considering that it was he that afflicted her she quietly and patiently submitted herself to his correcting Hand God having thus made trial of her Graces which in her Sickness she had an opportunity of exercising she having now finished her Course having faithfully served God and secur'd her eternal State God finding her ripe for Glory would no longer delay her Happiness but took her unto himself from Earth to Heaven from Pain Misery and Trouble to Rest Immortality and Glory her Life ended with the Year and she began the New one in the other better World where is no Pain nor Sorrow nor Sickness nor Diseases nor Death where she shall die no more but live in the greatest Happiness for ever And now having such just cause to hope that her Spirit is with God that gave it that she is in an eternally happy State why should we weep weep for her we must not but for our selves who only are the Loosers yet considering that our Loss is her Gain let us moderate our Grief and dry up our Tears and sorrow not as men without hope for her that sleepeth in Jesus whom God at the last day will undoubtedly bring with him it will be an ill expression of our Kindness to her immoderately to bewail her Death which to her is but a passage into a glorious Eternity it will look as if we envied her that Happiness she is is now possessed of to use her own consolatory Words let not her Joy be the cause of our Sorrow since as she saith she took no Delight in this World we ought to esteem it a Mercy rather than a Judgment that God hath taken her to a better even to that Worldon which her Affections were wholly plac'd where she frequently was while she was here upon Earth by her holy Thoughts and devout Meditations by these she had her Conversation in Heaven And now that these Remains of her are immediately to be laid into the Earth and hid from our Eyes for ever tho she be thus wholly taken from us yet let her Memory as deservedly it ought be ever precious unto us let her Name be always mentioned with Honour and Respect let us imitate her holy and pious Life let us follow her as she followed Christ that so at that great Day when we shall all be raised out of our Graves and called to Judgment we may meet together again and take no more sorrowful Farewels of one another but dwell for ever without parting any more spending an Eternity together in singing Halelujahs and Songs of Praise to our gracious Creator and Redeemer who hath brought us to the possession of such unspeakable and endless Felicities FINIS