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	moses_n	reign_v	4,387	5	9.3174	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36233	The preachers precept of consideration, or, Englands chief lesson and duty in this sad time of visitation wherein is contained, 1. A catalogue and collection of all the particular capital sins mentioned in Scriptures ... 2. The author's opinion and judgment, for which and why it is, that this unparallel'd visitation is now laid upon us / delivered in the parish church of St. Katherine Coleman, London, upon the monthly fast-days set apart for humiliation, by His Majesties special command.	Dobson, Jeremiah.	1665 (1665)	Wing D1799; ESTC R32815	35,607	45

the midst and worst of tryals or evils that can befal us or our Relations inasmuch as He is thorow Jesus Christ the Father of mercies and hath graciously promised (l) Psal 145 9. that all things shall work together for our good and that he will never leave us nor forsake us Love and Mercy as the Psalmist intimates is ever more one Ingredient in all his Dispensations towards us Insomuch that I dare deliver it for a certain Truth though perhaps a seeming Paradox that many times it is a mercy that God is pleased to remove and withdraw a mercy from us For we may be sure if he take away one it is that thereby He may make way for another a greater and better to be bestowed upon us Thus He oft withdraws temporal Comforts to make room in mens hearts for Spiritual Blessings and Graces thus He oft denies health to our bodies to make us mind the welfare of our souls yea thus He oft deprives his own dear Children and Servants of a natural life that so He may take them unto Himself and put them into a full and actual possession of heavenly joys The Prophet Isaiah averrs what I say Chap. 57.1 2. The consideration whereof I suppose was that which enabled patient Job so contentedly to entertain the most sad news of the sodain death of all his children (m) Job 1.21 The Lord gave c. This made David so chearfully say (n) Psal 31.5 Into thine hands I commit my spirit c. And this made (o) Phil. 1.21 23. St. Paul desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ and to count death his exceeding gain Again 2. Another thought and consideration that may be of very good use to arm and fortifie Believers against the affection of overmuch Fearfulness and Despondency Remedy 2. is to consider what Death is Some indeed look upon it as Summa Malorum the Worst of all evils Rex terrorum the King of fears and fancy it to be a most terrible fiery Serpent but the (p) 1 Cor. 15.56 57. Sting we know is taken away and then why I pray you should it be so dreadful In Scripture I am sure it is called a sleep a (q) Job 3.17 ceasing from trouble a resting from labours and so the Grave a (r) Isai 57.2 bed to rest in Now what more grateful and welcome to Nature when men are wearied and tired out with labour than to betake themselves to their rest What more comfortable than a soft Bed What more desirable and pleasant than sleep Nay for some reasons in holy Writ and by the ancient Fathers it is very plainly preferred before life For life says St. Augustine is nothing at all but transitus ad mortem a passage to death but Death is introitus in vitam meliorem an Entrance into eternal life This therefore all things considered must needs be better as tending to a more excellent end No wonder then that you hear St. John (s) Rev. 14.13 pronounce them blessed that dye in the Lord. And good ground it seems had the Wiseman to say (t) Eccl. 7.1 that the day of death is better than the day of ones birth and Reason He had (u) Eccl. 4.2 to praise the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive It is observable that the very Heathens were wont to celebrate the day of their Birth with sadness seriousness and sorrow but of a friends Death with all mirth joyfulness and feasting So fully and verily were they perswaded of the truth of that memorable Saying of the Oracle Optimam non nasci proximum mori i. e. the best and most desirable thing is not to be born at all the next to dy quickly Let none of us I beseech you therefore fall short of them in point of courage and resolution forasmuch as our hope is not confined only to this life for then indeed (w) 1 Cor. 15.19 we were of all men most m●serable But we are assured of unspeakable bliss and eternal peace in the life to come and a joyful Resurrection of our bodies at the last day The Wiseman tells us (x) Eccl. 12.7 that the Spirit shall return immediately unto God that gave it and as for the Body though it be laid in the dust and (y) 1 Cor. 15.42 43. sown in corruption yet it shall be raised in incorruption though sown in weakness yet it shall raised in power though sown in dishonour yet it shall be raised in glory Which Metaphorical phrase of St. Paul gave the holy Fathers occasion to call the Churchyard Gods field upon earth Wherein the graves are the furrows the dead Bodies of his Saints are the Seeds sown and the Resurrection at the last day the time of harvest when God will send forth his Reapers i.e. the holy Angels as Christ himself expresly (z) Mat. 13.39 calls them that they may (a) Mat. 24.31 gather his elect together from the four winds and from the one end of heaven to the other even as wheat into his garner And then 3. Another consideration is the impartiality of Death Remedy 3. when our appointed time is come and the natural necessity of it In regard whereof the Heathen (x) Horat. Ode 4. Poet says well that aequo pede pulsat pauperum tabernas regumque turres i. e. It boldly knocks at the Palace gates of Princes and Nobles as well as rings and raps at the doors of poor Peasants It balks nor spares none when it is sent be they high or low rich or poor young or old For (b) Heb. 9.27 Statutum est c. It is appointed for all men once to dye Death is the greatest Monarch and the most ancient King in the world For death says (c) Rom. 5.14 St. Paul hath reigned from Adam to Moses to which I may add that it hath reigned from Moses to us and so shall still reign over all to the end of the world Every one without exception must stoop and bow to his Scepter One (d) 1 Cor. 15.41 star indeed may differ from another star in glory i. e. in brightness lustre and magnitude but yet we know that as sure as they have their Rise in the West so sure they are to set in the East Even so it 's true One man on earth may differ from another man in glory i. e. in wisedom and wealth or beauty and honour c. but yet notwithstanding as sure as they had a rising in their Birth so they shall have a setting in Death the honour of the greatest as well as the meanest when their appointed time is come must be laid in the Dust For (e) Eccl. 2.15 16. one event happens to them all and how dyes the wiseman even as the fool Dye we must said the (f) 2 Sam. 14.14 wise woman of Tekoah neither doth God respect any person Now seeing it is thus that Death is