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	nature_n	sin_n	8,709	5	5.4949	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26904	A sermon, or, The survey of man taken by J.B. as it was delivered at his father's funeral, September 4th, 1638.	J. B.	1652 (1652)	Wing B123; ESTC R32846	17,502	24

his untimly fall so cancelled the divine character His fall and misery whence all the faculties of our soul are corrupted continually prone to sin This now is the law of our members and the wages thereof is death O the hard condition of a man that before he can offend even from the womb he is necessitated to it Heraclitus therefore still wept in the consideration of our humane misery and Plinie accounted him most happy which should die unborn or being born should die Usually the new born babe that is a Male cryeth A and the Female E. Dicentes E vel A quotquot nascuntur ab Evah And what means Evah but Heu Ha both are interjections of sorrow expressing the greatnesse of their calamity There was some reason then for that custom amongst the Scythians who still wept at the birth of their children and did feast it out at the death of their parents because that then they were delivered out of all their troubles O how full of anxiety are mindes of mortal men cares and crosses still set upon them they are encompassed with afflictions on every side Experto crede Magistro Job 19. Job spake it by experience in his nineteenth Chapter If I am ungodly then woe is me and if just I cannot lift up my head being fill'd with misery And from this no estate condition nor age is free all is vanity and vexation of spirit Our infancie is full of folly youth of disorder and toil elder years of infirmity each time hath its burthen and that which may justly work our weariness Art thou poor O man why then thou shalt be opprest with need hunger nakedness and with cold But art thou rich why hereby then thine abundance will prove to be thine overthrow this gives thee reins to run after thy impious lust and to rush upon all unlawfull Acts. Again art thou a servant why then either thy mind is terrified with threats or thy body afflicted with many stripes Or art thou a Master and hast others at command why then if thou art cruel fear will possess thee of rebellious servants and if kinde and affable they will soon neglect thee and wax insolent Either thy rigour will draw hatred on thy head or familiarity contempt So that there is no estate on earth can make a man compleatly happy Yea who ever lived one day in perfect joy wherein either the guilt of conscience the violence of wrath or the motions of concupiscence did not trouble him wherein neither the spite of envie the love of avarice or swelling pride did not touch him and wherein neither loss offence or passion did not move him Yea that very time the night which is granted us for our rest and quiet is not granted to be quiet for dreams do terrifie and visions do molest us and although those things are not truly terrible and sorrowfull which Dreamers dream yet they are truly terrified and are sorrowful insomuch that sometimes sleeping they do weep and waking are much disturb'd Yet above and besides all this there are divers sicknesses whereunto our nature is continually incident All the industry of Physitians have not hitherto found out so many names for diseases as our humane frailty do dayly suffer Suffer did I say unsufferablenesse of diseases or unsufferable did I say sufferance The sence will be best if we take both for it is unsufferable from the bitternesse of the passions and sufferable for the necessitie of it JESUS therefore when he saw Mary lamenting her late diseased Brother John 11.35 was troubled in the spirit and wept John 11. perhaps not because that Lazarus was dead but rather for that being dead and at rest he was about to recall him into the misery of this present life But the Lord again will deliver both him and us out of all our troubles Job 14.5 for our time is determined and he hath appointed our bounds which we cannot pass therefore we must die Death is the wages of sin therefore we all shall die and for to die is the law of nature therefore we cannot chuse but die which sheweth you my second part The necessity of death The act in mans departing He yieldeth up Homo moritur Man yieldeth up Second part Eccles. 3.2 There is a time to be born and a time to die saith the Preacher but this Preacher could not tell us what year The necessitie of Death or in what time of the year this time of Death should be And that she is most to be feared in March and in Autumn is no more then a popular perswasion Every moneth every day is fitted unto death The Church yard is alwayes open and every hour may be heard the dolefull sound of the passing Bell. sooner or later we must all shake hands with impartial death Gen. 5.24 Thom. Aquin. in Haebr c. 11. It is true that Enoch is not yet dead yet saith Aquinas he must sometime die for it is an irrevocable sentence laid on sin Morte moriemini ye shall surely die or dying you shall die Motthamoth as it is in the original Gen. 2.17 Gen. 2.17 Which kinde of speech we may not call a Pleonasm or a vain Grammatical repetition and doubling of the word moriendi for in the Hebrew Dialect by this is meant Certissimè mori the certainty and necessity of death and not only this but citissimè mori the suddenness of death and not only this but violentèr mori the violence of death For as often as the Scripture makes mention of death and doubleth it there is not meant a natural death but * Philo-Judaus violent and judicial Our first parents died against nature their death being an act only of Gods Justice towards them for their disobedience The Lord made a Covenant with Adam wherein Adam tyed himself his Heirs and Executors but he forfeited his Bond and we that succeed him in his sin are lyable to the debt Death is the debt that we must all pay though never so unwilling as the word moriendum sheweth it would be bootless to resist Do we not receive our life but upon condition why then should we grieve to pay it at the first asking A wise man will make a vertue of necessity and when his soul that was lent him is required he will be thankfull unto God for its use and is very ready to render it to him again he yieldeth it up By death we restore but what was borrowed Homo vitae commodatus * Publius Mimus saith one non donatus est But I may well alter the case and say non homo vitae sed vita homini commodata est non donata Doth God then lend us one another and do we grudge when he calls for his own So have I seen ill Debters that borrow with prayers keep with thanks and repay with enmity We much mistake our Tenure and account that for gift which God intends for loan We are no