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death_n	adam_n	sin_n	sin_v	19,442	5	9.9710	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10084	A verie godlie and learned sermon treating of mans mortalitie, and of the estate both of his bodie and soule after death. Preached at Denham in Suffolke. At the celebration of the solemne and mournfull funerals of the right orshipfull Sir Edward Lewkenor Knight, and of the vertuous Ladie Susan, his wife, both at once. By M. Robert Pricke their beloued and faithfull minister: now also since that time (to the encrease of our sorow for the losse of so excellent a light) departed this life.	Pricke, Robert, d. ca. 1608.; Allen, Robert, fl. 1596-1612.	1608 (1608)	STC 20338; ESTC S112476	28,846	49

calling to minde how religiouslie and iustly he had behaued himselfe in the former course of his life and hereby carried awaie a most renowned victorie The 6. reason is the discomfort of conscience in time of sicknes specially at the hour of death for neglect of leading a godly life Furthermore manie in sicknes and great extremitie speciallie at the houre of death are troubled and doe lament for that they haue suffered the former parte of their life to passe a way without doeing any good duties either toward God or their neighbour but all in vaine For oftentimes the season beeing past and death oppressing them their breath is shut vp in horrible despaire whereupon insueth eternall miserie and destruction The doctrine cōcluded vvith an earnest exhortation Fronte capillata pòst est occasio calua Let all persons therefore olde and young men and women of what estate degree qualitie whatsoeuer lay holde vpon fitte time and oecasion remembring what the verie heathē haue sayd that occasion weares a bushe before but is balde behinde so that beeing gone it cannot be layd hold one afterward Oh that christians had wisedome to consider the exceeding goodnes of God who wher as he might haue cut of their life so soon as they were borne he graunteth them longer time and fit opportunitie to prepare themselues for the obteining of euerlasting life and happines Which metcie of God if they lightlie passe ouer they shew themselues most vnthankeful to God and enemies vnto their owne soules And thus much for the reason why the argument of the death and dissolution of man followeth in the last place and now The text diuided into tvvo parts let vs come to the Text it selfe which conteineth two parts 1. A description of death The 2. is the estate of the two generall and principall parts after death The first part of the text vvhat death is Death then is nothing els but a separation of the soule and bodie a sunder or a seuering and diuorce of the soule and bodie This description is not expressed plainlie and in so manie wordes but it is necessarilie concluded from the Text. For if death do separate the soule and bodie as farre one from the other as the heauens are distant from the earth thē doth it follow necessarilie that death is a separation of the soule and bodie Which is also manifest by diuers phrases formes of speach in holie Scripture by which we may by the way clearely see that death is not a small or light punishment of sin Death a great punishment of sinne but great heauie and terrible For is not that a great and mightie Tyrant that doth rend a sunder things that are knit ioyned together with so strong and wonderfull a band as is the bodie with the soule And is not that a heauie fearefull thing that doth part two deare friends one from an other who shuld haue liued in an eternall vnion of ioy and happines had not sinne bene Death iustly terrible to all flesh In regard whereof it is no maruell if all flesh euen the best of Gods children doe tremble and are astonished at the remembrance of death 1. Cor. 15. as being a terrible enemie and a very cruell Tyrant Death commō to all men and the reason vvhy 1. For all haue sinned But whatsoeuer death be it is certainely a state and condition common to all the posteritie and generation of Adam All men must die and none can auoyd the stroke of death For if death be the fruite or effect of sinne as it is most certaine as appeareth Gen. 3. then seeing all men haue sinned partly in Adam partly in themselues it followeth of necessitie that death raigneth and hath dominion ouer all mankinde Rom. 5.12 Which thing may yet be proued and made more cleare First of all from the Scriptures Secondly by continuall experience From the Scriptures two waies 2. It is Gods decree and iust sentence First by the sentence of God pronounced vpon all mankinde 3. God is faith full in executing his sentence as experience confirmeth Againe by the execution of that dreadfull sentence For proofe of the first It appeareth that the Lord gaue charge to Adam in his innocencie that hee should not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and euil threatning that if hee did eate The proofe and amplification of the first and second reason or taste thereof he should die the death But Adam did eate of the tree forbidden and so trespassed against the Commandement and therefore God foorth with gaue sentence in these words Earth thou art and to earth thou shalt returne That is I haue decreed appointed as a punishment for thy sinne that both thy selfe and all thy posteritie conteined in thy loynes shall not only be subiect to eternall misery but also shall suffer a corporal or natural death Wherevpon it followeth that death is most certaine and ineuitable For why all men must of necessitie taste of death it cannot be shunned or auoided And as the sentence it selfe is certaine and vnrepealeable proceeding from the mouth of him that is truth it selfe and vnchangeable so the execution of that sentence is so certaine and infallible that no meanes or prerogatiue can resist or preuaile against it The proofe and amplificatiō of the third reason Neither length of dayes nor wisdome nor riches nor honour nor strength no not that excellent gift of regeneration The auncient Fathers The Patriarks though they liued long yet are long since dead Salomō thogh most wise yet is dead Samson thogh most strong yet he is dead Dauid Moses all the Prophets though most holy in their times are dead and Patriarkes before the flood liued verie long some 700. some 800. some 900. yeares yet it is said of euery one hee died and was gathered to his Fathers Salomon was wise and excelled all Kings before him and since his time in riches glory Sampson was endued with extraordinary strēgth Dauid was a man after Gods owne heart Moses sawe God face to face The Prophets were endued with a great measure of sanctification yet the Prophet Zachary ioynes them all together in one state of mortalitie in the first Chap. verse 5. Your fathers where are they and doe the Prophets liue for euer Zach. ● 5 Vpon this ground the Holy Ghost in diuers places of the Scripture affirmeth that man borne of a woman is of short continuance and full of trouble that he shooteth forth as a flower and vanisheth also as a shadow and continueth not That a man can by no meanes redeeme his brother that he may liue still and not see the graue Yea as a thing commonly knowne death in a prouerbiall manner is called the way of all flesh So loude cryeth the holy Scripture that all men are subiect to death But if this voyce were silent yet experience doth speake out the matter so plainly that