Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	aaron_n	blossom_n	rod_n	20	3	9.1317	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63124	A cap of grey hairs for a green head, or, The fathers counsel to his son, an apprentice in London to which is added a discourse on the worth of a good name / by Caleb Trenchfield.	Trenchfield, Caleb, 1624 or 5-1671.	1671 (1671)	Wing T2118; ESTC R25830	77,548	215

who considereth a field and buyeth it c. is dismist with this Elogium Give her of the fruit of her hands and let her own works praise her in the gates Prov. 31.31 When those unprofitable drones who spend their time to trick up themselves that they may see and be seen perish in their own rottenness And when such as refuse to give to the poors bellies that they may make gallant their own backs shall like a candle expire in their own stinks Then the dead Dorcasses shall have the coats and garments shew'd which they made while they lived to cloath the naked with and shall be followed out of the world with this discourse that they were full of good works and alms-deeds which they did Act. 9.36 39. 4. By being publick-blessings to the places where they live to the Families they have been of like chariots and horses for publick defence and ornament 2 Kings 13.14 like Abraham and Jacob and Joseph and David such as leave behinde them not onely imitable acts like the faith of the Grandmother Lois and the Mother Eunice but in the remembrance also of whom God should please to do good to their Posterities 2 King 8.19 such who are for Walls and Bulwarks for whose sakes God will spare a sinning people 5. By being exemplary in acts of Moral vertue Thus we have Aristides registred for his Justice Regulus for his fidelity Scipio for his continencie Curtius for his moderation who was Dictator ab aratro and Tubero for his contented poverty who did caenare fictilibus in ipso Capitolio 6. By Faith and Patience and the exercises of Grace by which some have purchased better names then of sons and daughters Isai 56.5 Whence the Apostle saith Jam. 5.11 Ye have heard of the patience of Job Ye have heard of the faith of Abraham and the constancie of the three children and you may see a Catalogue of Worthies whom it hath pleased God himself to register Heb. 11. of whom 't is said All these obtained a good report such whose names are written not in earth onely but also in heaven Now why such a good name is better then precious oyntment preserving the memory more then the best embalming will appear it we consider 1. That it is the most certain expedient to continue our Memorial a man may be deprived of other means which he may designe to himself by the iniquity or Executors but this a man is sure himself to put out of doubt Miltiades the Athenian though forbidden burial yet hath raised up to himself a never-dying Monument by his vertues And Supio though inter'd in his own house hath left his memory better preserv'd then if he had been pressed with a Pyramid 2. That it is the most durable Herod rob'd and spoil'd the Sepulchre of David but could not spoil his memory that God himself remembers many years after that he was fallen asleep as an argument why he should shew mercie to his Posterity This is the way to place a mans Memorial beyond the reach of men It sometimes so falls out that those who by their Funeral-pomp have been plac'd inter superos among the Gods above at the next turn have been dispatch'd ad inferos rendred vile and accursed by all imaginable indignities Like Claudius Caesar whom Seneca reigns to be thrust out of Heaven and sent down to Hell But a good name admits of none of these misadventures often shining brighter by obscuration as T●ritus saith of C●ssius and Brutus whose Effigies were not shew'd it the Funeral of Junia Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso quod effigies eorum non visebantun 3. That it is the most perpetual expedient Not onely most durable against the force of men but also most permanent against the tyranny of time This is it which that Edax rerum can make no prey of But when the most lasting Marbles fret and prove unfaithful unto their inscriptions when a deluge of forgetfulness drowns the most pompous Funerals then a good name shall buoy up the memory and preserve it from the common inundation 4. That this is an expedient of our own making Embalmings costly Sepulchres are done for us not done by us But a good name is that whereby we embalme our selves 'T was a true Maxime of the Stoicks Quae extra sunt nostra non sunt like that of the Poet Et genus proavos quae non fecimus ipsi vix ea nostra voco But in this like the Phoenix we gather together for our selves spices and celebrate our own Funerals 5. That God himself is willing in this respect to be the Physitian and embalm the deceased with this sort of embalming You may therefore observe how that through the whole Book of the Kings the Lord is pleased to break the boxes of his sweet Odors over the Sepulchres of the good Kings so that as Paul saith 2 Cor. 5.1 When the earthly house of this tabernacle shall be dissolved we have a building of God an house not made with hands So may we say here that when the stately Sepulchres of the interred shall crumble into dust then shall the good men have their Epitaphs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not made with hands but such a Sepulchre whose maker and builder is God 6. That this puts a vast difference between those that are embalmed with it and such who are not We in our thoughts put no great odds between two wicked men though the one lye under a stately Monument the other on a dung-hill but we fear that they may be both gone to their own place But we have a far different estimate of a good man though cast out into the Common-shore then we have of any wicked person however sumptuously interred For which cause we finde so vast a difference made between the exit of Jehoram and that of Josiah 2 Chro. 21.20 and 35.29 The Text thus explained may be applyed First for our instruction in these particulars 1. Hereby we may see the way how we may emerge out of the common Grave how we may render our ashes discernable among those which are cast out into the common Urn How to disappoint Death that great Leveller that with his Sythe cuts all down and lays all in the Swarths of the wide field of this world How though a Diogenes you may beard an Alexander when those who caused terrour in the land of the living lye all down in the pit among the uncircumcised in the grave Ezek. 32.20 and in that very day all their ambitious thoughts and all their oppressive thoughts perish and their remembrance perisheth from the earth and they have no name in the street but they shall be forgotten as untimely births Job 18.17 Then shall the good mans name like Aarons Rod blossom among the dryness of the rest of the world and his remembrance be perspicuous His life being discernable in the lustre of it having indeavoured to make his light shine among men And verily hereby you may know how to prevent the stilness of the Grave the hushness of Death and