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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	aaron_n	good_a	lord_n	60	3	3.5240	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87090	A divine prospective: representing the just mans peacefull end. In a funerall sermon preached at Katharine Creechurch, Aug. 14. 1649. at the enterrement of the remaines of the Right Worshipfull and truly religious, Sir John Gayr, Knight: deceased July 20. 1649. / By Nathaniel Hardy, M.A. and preacher to the parish of Dionis Back-Church.	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1649 (1649)	Wing H715; Thomason E574_8; ESTC R206287	27,124	35

owne experience of the Wicked and from thence incourageth us to observe our own experiences of the Good Thereby intimating unto us that as the way of the Just and the Unjust is directly opposite so their end shall be manifestly contrary And withall that what he saw in his time might be observed and should be made good in the experience of all times God is the same yesterday to day and for ever The same not onely in his Essence but in his Operation in his Being but in his Working what he hath done that he still does and will doe Divine providence ever acts like it selfe and though it vary in particular circumstances yet ever keepeth the generall course of rewarding every one at the last according to their workes and therefore former experiences are just grounds of future confidence those dispensations of God towards the Righteous the Wicked which Holy Men of Old have registred may encourage us to expect the same to which end it is David here called upon us in the words of the Text Marke and behold The duty here required we see is ingeminated not onely Marke but Mark and Behold The reason whereof we may very well conceive to be both fervency in the Pen-man and necessity in the Matter Indeed these two do well together where the duty is needfull Zeal becometh the Preacher that cannot be too often prest which must be perform'd 't is like the frequent knocking at the Doore that it may be sooner opened the renewed strokes upon the Naile which drive it in the faster Thus the Prophet Zephany perswading to that needfull part of Repentance which consists in self-examination not onely propounds but repeats it Gather your selves together yea gather your selves together And the Psalmist here seeing a necessity of this duty to prevent those dangerous mis-constructions which otherwise carnall Reason might be apt to make of Gods proceedings not only sets it before us but presseth it upon us in this double expression Marke and Behold But this is not all the reason that may be given of this Gemination we may very well apply a double Object to this double expression of the Act and both out of the Text to wit the upright Man and his end what he does and how he fares mark his way behold his end mark his action behold his retribution both call for our consideration First marke the upright man himselfe in the course of his life indeed his intentions are onely known to God but his actions are visible unto men true Grace where ever it is may be seen felt heard and understood 't was our Saviours precept to his Disciples that their light should so shine before men as they might see their good workes And surely if good Men must doe their workes so as to be seen we must see their good workes when they are done And in this respect we must take notice of the upright man for a double end First Vt honoremus let us mark him that we may honour him and those Graces of God which are manifest in him indeed the world lookes on the Saint with a scornfull eye because with a Carnall they say of him what those Jewes did of Christ He hath no forme or comlienesse and when we see him there is no beauty that we should desire him Let us view him with a Spirituall aspect and we shall finde that worth which deservedly calls for our esteem indeed the upright as David well calls them are the excellent ones of the Earth though men cast them out as Drosse yet they are the finest Gold though men trample them under foot as Pebles yet are they pretious Pearles They are so in Gods account let them be so in our esteeme Secondly Vt imitemur let 's mark the upright man so as to imitate him eye his steps so as to tread in them 'T is Gods goodnesse to afford and should be our wisdome to make use of the Godly Tanquam statuas Mercuriales as Travellours doe of those Statues which are set to point forth the way unto them Saint Paul calls the Saints of the Old Testament a cloud of witnesses alluding no doubt to that pillar of a cloud which went before the Israelites in the Wildernesse to lead them the way So should our eye be fixt on those Saints that are gone before us or that live amongst us as a cloud for our direction in the way to heaven 'T was S. Pauls request to the Corinthians Be ye followers of me we must be so of every upright man and to that end marke him Secondly Behold the upright man in the close of his death and this is that I conceive the Psalmist chiefly aimes at So Tremellius his reading plainly manifests Observa integrum aspire rectum finem illius esse pacem Observe the perfest and behold the upright that the end of this man is peace He calls for not a transient view but a permanent aspect as an Archer having shot an Arrow takes not off his Eye untill he sees it fall so must we with a fixed eye behold the upright til we see what becomes of him This was that the Apostle James wills those to whom he wrote to doe in reference to Job both to look upon him in that way of patience wherein he trod You have heard of the patience of Job and withall in that end which happened to him And have seen the end of the Lord Indeed this is that duty which concernes us in reference both to the good and bad to look upon them not in their present but future state This world is as a stage whereon both the Vpright and the Hypocrite the Perfect and the Wicked are Actors and that which in both of these we ought chiefly to be Spectatours of is their Exit not so much how they come on as how they go off in regard of the Wicked this was it which Moses wish'd the Israelites to fasten their eyes upon and therefore when Corah Dathan and Abiram had rebelliously conspired against him and Aaron he calls the people to a consideration of their end If these men die the common death of all men or if they be visited after the visitation of all men then the Lord hath not sent me And in regard of the Good 't is that which here David would have us chiefly to take notice of his end is peace not is it without good reason since by this meanes we shall best rectifie our judgements and avoid false censures So that these two words Marke and Behold are as it were a bridle to keep us in from running head-long into rash judgings when we see the upright encompassed with afflictions and thus we must behold the upright mans end to restraine us from passing wrong Sentence both upon God and the Good upon God as if he were unjust upon the Good as if they were the most miserable First we must behold his end in