Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	adam_n	grace_n	sin_n	4,888	5	5.2180	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07627	1607 Lamentable newes out of Monmouthshire in VVales Contayning, the wonderfull and most fearefull accidents of the great ouerflowing of waters in the saide countye, drowning infinite numbers of cattell of all kinds, as sheepe, oxen, kine and horses, with others: together with the losse of many men, women and children, and the subuersion of xxvi parishes in Ianuary last 1607.		1607 (1607)	STC 18021; ESTC S110019	8,041	28

him accuse god of vnkindnes frō hearing to suspition of his loue from suspition vnto direct rebellion against his law shee took of y● meat prohibited eat therof yea not so cōtented she did intice allure by perswasions her husband vnto the same capitall crime office against the diuine maiestie the worlds creator The fact being thus notoriouslie committed the Lord came gaue his sentence vpon the malefactors namely that they should among other punishments specified in the text returne vnto earth from whence they were taken Thus of immortall they were made mortal children of death and corruption but happy it had been if this calamity had extended no further then themselues ●las Adam was a publick person receiued graces for al his posteritie and therefore if hee had stood we had likewise done so but hee falling wee fall together with him into the same calamityes which sin brought him into euen into all miseries leading vnto death and death it selfe vnto temporall and eternall vnlesse wee bee redeemed by our blessed mediator and redeemer Jesus Christ our Sauiour So that howsoeuer manye of the olde worldes Patriarkes liued seauen eight and nine hundred yeares by meanes not onelye of their owne temperance but also of a singular blessing of God bestowed on them to the end they might the better finde out artes and Sciences which required long experience fill also the world the sooner with people haue their obodience vnto the Lord the more fully tride and the more purelye conuay true religion vnto their posteritie as not passing through the handes of many persons yet you see stil at the last they dyed the power of originall sin the wages wherof is death alwaies at y● lēgth taking hold vpon them and because they vsed the benefit of their long life not in such holy maner as the Lord required but grew shamelesse in all euill courses wee see that Almightie God being mooued vnto wrath by their enormous vices sent a floud vpon them and swept them away from the sace of the earth like dung and excrements onely preseruing faithfull Noah and his housholde together with some reliques of the creatures in an Arke which he had caused him to frame for that seruice and as for their posteritie in Noahs linage who repeopled the world againe we see that the Lord did abridge their yeares by many hundreds from those which their forefathers did inioy that so they and wee to the worldes end might bee perpetuallye mindefull of their our departure out of this vale of miserie wherein wee haue no certaine habitation or inheritāce but are continually subiect vnto the arrest of death hels prison vnlesse in time we get all the debts of our offences cācelled by being made heires of the riches of Gods lone in his Sonne Christ Jesus for death striketh with more dartes then one he hath euen almost infinite wayes to seize vppon vs when from the Lord he hath his licence Thus wee see sometimes men consume away languish sometimes the Pestilence doth destroy them sometime the sword and sometimes famine euerie one some thing or another according to the speech of the Poet Happie is he that is so prouided as y● in deed no kinde of death is suddaine to him seeing examples vse to mooue vs let vs seriously thinke vpon the late inundation of waters which hath euen a● vnawares surprised many who little expected such an accident that so by the due noting of it wee may bee incited to prepare our selues for some tempest in one kinde or another as terrible vnto vs as that hath been to thē knowing that these prodigious ouerflowinges of the waters howsoeuer natural causes as Gods instruments doe claim their partes in thē yet they proceed from the Lords own direction who by his punishing of others with thē doth threaten grieuous calamities euē against our vice vnles I say speedy repentance amendment doe auert his feareful wrath iudgemen frō vs apparātly kindled in many kindes within these few yeares last past against vs. It hath alreadie by the pen of another beene related what great harme hath beene doone by the deluge of waters inuading Somersetsh couering neere the Severne 20 mile in cōpas to the ruine of al creatures places which lay within y● circuite further it hath beene shewed that al Erent marsh is couered y● sea got vp between Barstable and Bristowe as high as Bridge-water what is done in Herefordsh Glocestersh diuers other bordering places vpon y● seas it cannot yet in special be recorded vpon ground of certaintye but touching Monmothsh in Wales the report of one in place of authoritie that not vpon a bare heare-say is this IN the month of Ianuarie last past vpon a Tuesday the Sea being very tempestuously moued by the windes ouer-flowed his ordinary Bankes and did drowne 26. Parishes adioyning on the Coast side in the foresaide Countrey of Monmouth-shire the particulars whereof doe follow all spoyled by the greeuous and lamentable furie of the waters Matharne Portescuet Caldicot Vndye Roggiet Lanihangiell Ifton Magor Redwicke Gouldenlifte Nashe Saint Peire Lanckstone wiston Lanwerne Christchurch Milton Bashallecke Saint Brides Peterston Lambeth Saint Mellins Romney Marshfield Wilfricke Now all kinde of Cattle being for twentie foure miles in length and foure in breadth were drowned R●kes and mowes of corne torne out of their places and carried away Againe the Sea hath beaten down at the foresaid times a great multitude of houses scattering and dispersing the poore substance of innumerable persons So that the damage done in the foresaid places both in cattel and other goodes is supposed to amount vnto the value of aboue an hundreth thousand pounds But alas a man wil giue all that hee hath so that his life may bee preserued this is it which wee estéeme of aboue all worldly treasures howsoeuer as one said well of olde it being nothing but a bridle and miserable fetter which chaineth the pure and euerlasting soule vnto the vile sinfull and corruptible bodie But surely there is none eyther so greate an Oratour or else so mightie an Enchaunter as life is for it doeth perswade vs vnto the contrarie of that which wee both sée féele for although we know our owne frailty and that we must needes die yet what wrongs what hatreds what labours what vnspeakeable wretchednesse will men endure rather then leaue these their clay houses wherein they are but Tenants at Will subiect to be dispossessed at Gods pleasure Wel saide the Roman wise man That séeing the flowers of life be but lusts and pleasures false shewes shadowes and vanities the fruites thereof but labour care sicknesse and tediousnes yea the trée it selfe but corruption and frailety Oh what reason haue men to doate vpon it why should death be so fearefull vnto them especially when hauing their portion in Christ Jesus they are well assured that their felicity is not in this life to be expected but in the