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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	sin_n	7,620	5	5.8816	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11377	Dorcas: a true patterne of a goodly life, and good end With a pithy exhortation to the practice of faith and good works. In a sermon preached at Totnes in Deuon, Ianuary 14 16[...] at the funerall of Mrs. Mary Bab, widow. By Thomas Saltern, sometimes lecturer there; and preacher of the word at Bradford. And now published, at the request of sundry godly persons.	Saltern, Thomas, b. 1579 or 80.	1625 (1625)	STC 21636; ESTC S112139	17,242	24

and remedies many times more troublesome then the diseases themselues whē a man is hungry he is not well till he eat labor killeth without rest after it the comfort of the one to cure the paine of the other and yet ofttimes eating makes as sicke as hunger did the rest of the body yeelds no rest to the mind and the time of quiet proues the most vnquiet time of all It came to passe that she was sicke What this godly and charitable matron yea and no maruaile at it the Lord chasteneth whom he loueth and afflicteth with some kind of crosse or other euery sonne whom he doth receiue and qui excipitur è numero flagellatorum excipitur è numero filiorum They that are altogether without correction are bastards and not sonnes Heb. 12.8 But it proues in Gods children though harsh to flesh and blood as the clay by our Sauiour Christs power did to the blinde man Ioh. 9. an excellent meanes to open those eyes which were shut by sinne and make a man see both Gods power and his owne weaknesse which in time of ease and freedome he did not so well discerne for the fruit of wisdome groweth on the tree of trouble and the schoolehouse of affliction is the schoolehouse of instruction But if iudgement be executed on the house of God where shall the wicked and sinners appeare the one are corrected in the world that they may not be condemned with the world and the other let alone oft-times to spend their daies as oxen in fat pastures of purpose to be reserued for a more grieuous slaughter O then if you will that death shall not be terrible when it comes though the Philosopher calls it of all terrible things the worst learne first to bid the forerunners of death welcome learne to entertaine as ye ought sicknesses patiently the sicknesses of the body and crosses patiently the crosses of the minde and losses patiently losse of goods losse of friends losse of liberty if God doe so order it these are anteambulones the prodromi the footposts the messengers the harbingers of death bid I say these welcome and death shall come well vnto you when it comes as come it will perhaps as neere to the heeles of sicknesse as the words in my text doe come close together she was sick and dyed Or if not as not alwaies yet are there two wormes the two daughters of Time Day and Night which continually bite and gnaw at the root of the tree our very life and hart-blood while we prodigall of that whereof to bee couetous is the onely couetousnesse that is honest viz. our time doe so long feed on the honey-combes that hang ouer out heads desiring to satiate our selues with the pleasures of this life till this tree of our life bee bitten through by those two worms and we fall into that pit whence there is no redemption She was sicke and dyed Yea this is the ordinary effect of sicknesse that sooner or later it will end in death she was sicke and dyed and man is sicke and dyeth saith Iob c. 14.10 but what meanes Iob so immediately to the former words man is sicke to adioyne those other and man dyeth why doth he so Is it to aggrauate the miseries to which poore man in this world is subiect by the whole scope of the text it should seeme it is and yet how can it be so for man is sicke and dyeth is no more then man hath gone a long and a wearisome pilgrimage and hath finished his course or man hath laboured and wearied himselfe al the day long and is set him downe to rest or man hath ouer-watcht himselfe and is falne asleepe this is man is sicke and dyeth death indeed the remembrance of death is bitter to the man that is at rest in his possessions that hath nothing to vexe him but hath prosperity in all things whose brests are yet full of milke and his bones of marrow who may wash his plants with butter and whose rocks powre him out riuers of oyle O how would the newes of death make him startle and his knees smite each other with trembling as it fared with Foelix when Paul reasoned of the iudgment to come Act. 24.25 But when a man shal long for death as a seruant doth for the shadow an hireling for the end of his worke and a woman in trauell for her deliuery when he would seeke for death if hee knew where as a man would seeke for treasures and reioyce if he could finde the graue whose cheekes are gummy with weeping and the picture of death sits in his eyes who neuer eates morsell with pleasure but is still dying in the bitternes of his soule to such a man how acceptable would the iudgement of death be and to dye after sicknesse no degree of misery Indeed if wee consider death as adioyned to that world of miseries which in this world of misery we are subiect to then is death a more excellent medicine then all the Art of man can prescribe to cure all diseases but if in the cause of it which was sinne and in the nature of it euen the dissolution of nature then doth flesh bid away to death though it be the ordinance of the Lord ouer all flesh yea all The words of Iob doe shew the Pedigree of all mankind I haue said to corruption thou art my father and to the wormes thou art my mother and my sister Iob 17.14 And if King Dauid said personally of himselfe prophetically of his Lord and ours I am a worme and no man what man is there that is not a worme also This we know well enough all of vs euen so well that the Deuill himselfe cannot make vs beleeue the contrary he dares not say to vs as he did to our first parents ye shall not dye they had seene none dye before them wee haue had millions yet see how easily he makes fooles of vs hee chokes vs with the same bait as he did them but with this difference he gaue them the bait whole and they swallowed it he giues it vs by peeces as that we shall not dye yet not this day or this weeke or this moneth or perhaps not this yeare and so quickly perswades vs so to liue as if we were immortall neuer dreaming either of deaths certainty or hells misery or heauens felicity The due consideration of which things euen of death alone would serue to humble vs as it did those Ancients who made their often casting ashes on their heads a monument and memoriall of their mortality it would serue to worke repentance in vs as it did in the Niniuites and that excellent resolution which it did in Iob when hee said Naked came I out of my mothers wombe and naked shall I returne thither the Lord giueth and the Lord taketh away liuing as well as life and life as well as liuing blessed be the name of the Lord for all Iob 1.21 It would bee auailable