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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	woman_n	young_a	youth_n	49	3	8.2213	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63741	Dekas embolimaios a supplement to the Eniautos, or, Course of sermons for the whole year : being ten sermons explaining the nature of faith, and obedience, in relation to God, and the ecclesiastical and secular powers respectively : all that have been preached and published (since the Restauration) / by the Right Reverend Father in God Jeremy Lord Bishop of Down and Connor ; with his advice to the clergy of his diocess.; Eniautos. Supplement	Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.	1667 (1667)	Wing T308; ESTC R11724	252,853	230

I seen the Pillars of a Building assisted with artificial props bending under the pressure of a roof and pertinaciously resisting the infallible and prepared ruine Donec certa dies omni compage solutâ Ipsum cum rebus subruat auxilium Till the determin'd day comes and then the burden sunk upon the pillars and disordered the aids and auxiliary rafters into a common ruine and a ruder grave so are the desires and weak arts of man with little aids and assistances of care and Physick we strive to support our decaying bodies and to put off the evil day but quickly that day will come and then neither Angels nor men can rescue us from our grave but the roof sinks down upon the walls and the walls descend to the foundation and the beauty of the face and the dishonours of the belly the discerning head and the servile feet the thinking heart and the working hand the eyes and the guts together shall be crushed into the confusion of a heap and dwell with Creatures of an equivocal production with worms and serpents the sons and daughters of our own bones in a house of dirt and darkness Let not us think to be excepted or deferred If beauty or wit or youth or nobleness or wealth or vertue could have been a defence and an excuse from the Grave we had not met here to day to mourn upon the Hearse of an Excellent Lady and God only knows for which of us next the Mourners shall go about the streets or weep in houses 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 We have lived so many years and every day and every minute we make an escape from those thousands of dangers and deaths that encompass us round about and such escapings we must reckon to be an extraordinary fortune and therefore that it cannot last long Vain are the thoughts of Man who when he is young or healthful thinks he hath a long thread of life to run over and that it is violent and strange for young persons to die and natural and proper only for the aged It is as natural for a man to die by drowning as by a Fever And what greater violence or more unnatural thing is it that the Horse threw his Rider into the River than that a drunken meeting cast him into a Fever and the strengths of youth are as soon broken by the strong sicknesses of youth and the stronger intemperance as the weakness of old age by a Cough or an Asthma or a continual Rheum Nay it is more natural for young Men and Women to die than for old because that is more natural which hath more natural causes and that is more natural which is most common but to die with age is an extreme rare thing and there are more persons carried forth to burial before the five and thirtieth year of their age than after it And therefore let no vain confidence make you hope for long life If you have lived but little and are still in youth remember that now you are in your biggest throng of dangers both of body and soul and the proper sins of youth to which they rush infinitely and without consideration are also the proper and immediate instruments of death But if you be old you have escaped long and wonderfully and the time of your escaping is out you must not for ever think to live upon wonders or that God will work miracles to satisfie your longing follies and unreasonable desires of living longer to sin and to the world Go home and think to die and what you would choose to be doing when you die that do daily for you will all come to that pass to rejoice that you did so or wish that you had that will be the condition of every one of us for God regardeth no mans person Well but all this you will think is but a sad story What we must die and go to darkness and dishonour and we must die quickly and we must quit all our delights and all our sins or do worse infinitely worse and this is the condition of us all from which none can be excepted every man shall be spilt and fall into the ground and be gathered up no more Is there no comfort after all this shall we go from hence and be no more seen and have no recompense Miser ô miser aiunt omnia ademit Vna die infansta mihi tot praemia vitae Shall we exchange our fair Dwellings for a Coffin our softer Beds for the moistned and weeping Turf and our pretty Children for Worms and is there no allay to this huge calamity yes there is There is a yet in the Text For all this yet doth God devise means that his banished be not expelled from him All this sorrow and trouble is but a phantasm and receives its account and degrees from our present conceptions and the proportion to our relishes and gust When Pompey saw the Ghost of his first Lady Julia who vexed his rest and his conscience for superinducing Cornelia upon her bed within the ten months of mourning he presently fancied it either to be an illusion or else that death could be no very great evil Aut nihil est sensus animis in morte relictum Aut mors ipsa nihil Either my dead Wife knows not of my unhandsome marriage and forgetfulness of her or if she does then the dead live longae canitis si cognita vitae Mors media est Death is nothing but the middle point between two lives between this and another concerning which comfortable mystery the holy Scripture instructs our Faith and entertains our hope in these words God is still the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob for all do live to him and the Souls of Saints are with Christ I desire to be dissolved saith St. Paul and to be with Christ for that is much better and Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord they rest from their labours and their works follow them For we know that if our earthly house of this Tabernacle were dissolv'd we have a building of God a house not made with hands eternal in the heavens and this state of separation St. Paul calls a being absent from the Body and being present with the Lord This is one of Gods means which he hath devised that although our Dead are like persons banished from this world yet they are not expelled from God They are in the hands of Christ they are in his presence they are or shall be clothed with a house of Gods making they rest from all their labours all tears are wiped from their eyes and all discontents from their spirits and in the state of separation before the Soul be re-invested with her new house the Spirits of all persons are with God so secur'd and so blessed and so sealed up for glory that this state of interval and imperfection is in respect of its certain event and end infinitely more desirable