Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	age_n	die_v	life_n	4,788	5	4.6294	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02534	Epistles the first volume: Containing II. decads. By Ioseph Hall; Epistles. Vol. 1	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1608 (1608)	STC 12661.7; ESTC S103637	49,336	198

vppon the place and saw the number and the neede of the people together with their hunger and applause meeting with the circumstances of Gods strange conueyance of this offer to mee I saw that was but as the fowlers feather to make mee stoope and contemning that respect of my selfe I sincerely acknowledged hyer motiues of my yeelding and resolued I might not resist You are deare to mee as a Charge to a Pastor If my paines to you haue not proued it suspect mee Yet I leaue you God calls mee to a greater worke I must followe him It were more ease to mee to liue secretly hidden in that quiet obscuritie as Saul amongst the stuffe then to bee drawen out to the eye of the world to act so hye a part before a thousand witnesses In this point if I seem to neglect you blame me not I must neglecte and forget my selfe I can but labour wheresoeuer I am GOD knowes how willingly I do that whether there or here I shall dig and delve plant in what ground soeuer my Maister sets mee If hee take mee to a larger fielde complaine you not of losse while the Church may gaine But you are my owne charge No wise father neglectes his owne in compassion of the greater neede of others yet consider that euen carefull Parentes when the Prince commaundes leaue their families and go to warfare What if God had called mee to heauen would you haue grudged my departure Imagine that I am there where I shall bee altho the case bee not to you altogether so hopelesse for now I may heare of you visit you renue my holy counsels and bee mutually comforted from you there none of these Hee that will once transpose mee from earth to heauen hath now chosen to transpose mee from one peece of earth to another what is heere worthy of your sorrow worthy of complaint That should bee for my owne good this shall bee for the good of many If your experience haue taught you that my labours doe promise profit obtaine of your selfe to deny your selfe so much as to reioyce that the losse of a fewe should bee the aduantage of many soules Tho why do I speake of losse I speak that as your feare not my owne and your affection causes that feare rather then the occasion The God of the haruest shal send you a Laborer more able as carefull That is my prayer and hope and shall bee my ioy I dare not leaue but in this expectation this assurāce What-euer become of me it shall be my greatest comfort to hear you cōmend your change and to see your happy progress in those wayes I haue both shewed you and beaten So shal wee meete in the ende and neuer part Written to Mr. I. B. and Dedicated to my father Mr. I. HALL EP. 10. Against the feare of Death YOu complaine that you feare Deathe Hee is no man that doth not Besides the paine Nature shrinkes at the thought of parting If you would learne the remedie knowe the cause For that shee is ignorant faithlesse She would not be cowardly if shee were nor foolish Our feare is from doubt and our doubt from vnbeliefe and whence is our vnbeleefe but chiefly from ignorance Shee knowes not what good is else-where shee beleeues not her part in it Get once true knowledge and true faith your feare shall vanish alone Assurance of heauenly things makes vs willing to part with earthly He cannot contemne this life that knowes not the other If you would despise earth therefore thinke of heauen If you would haue death easie thinke of that glorious life that followes it Certainely if we can indure paine for health much more shall we abide a fewe pangs for glorie Thinke how fondly wee feare a vanquisht enemy Lo Christ hath triumpht ouer Death hee bleedeth and gaspeth vnder vs and yet we tremble It is enough to vs that Christ died Neither would he haue died but that we might die with safetie and pleasure Thinke that death is necessarily annexed to nature Wee are for a time on condition that wee shall not be wee receiue life but vppon the tearmes of redeliucrie Necessitie makes somethings easie as it vsually makes easie things difficult It is a fond iniustice to embrace the couenant and shrinke at the condition Thinke there is but one common rode to all flesh There are no by-paths of any fairer or neerer way no not for Princes Euen companie abateth miseries and the commonnesse of an euill makes it lesse fearefull What worlds of men are gone before vs yea how many thousāds out of one field How many crownes and scepters ly piled vp at the gates of death which their owners haue left there as spoyles to the Conqueror Haue wee beene at so many graues so oft seene our selues die in our friends and do wee shrinke when our course commeth Imagine you alone were exempted from the common law of mankinde or were condemned to Methusalahs age assure your selfe death is not now so fearefull as your life would then bee wearisome Thinke not so much what Death is as from whom hee comes and for what Wee receiue euen homely messengers from great persons not without respect to their maisters And what matters it who hee bee so hee bring vs good newes what newes can bee better then this That God sends for you to take possession of a kingdome Let them feare death which knowe him but as a pursuiuant sent from hell whome their conscience accuses of a life wilfully filthy and bindes-ouer secretly to condemnation Wee knowe whither wee are going and whom wee haue beleeued Let vs passe on cheerefully through these blacke gates vnto our glory Lastly knowe that our improuidence only addes terrour vnto death Thinke of death and you shall not feare it Do you not see that euen Beares and Tigres seeme not terrible to those that liue with them Howe haue wee seene their keepers sport with them when the beholders durst scarce trust their chaine Bee acquainted with Death though hee looke grimme vppon you at the first you shall finde him yea you shall make him a good companion Familiaritie cannot stand with feare These are receites enow Too much store doth rather ouerwhelme then satisfie Take but these and I dare promise you securitie FINIS The second Decade of Epistles To Sr. ROBERT DARCY EP. 1. The estate of a true but weake Christian IF you aske how I fare Sometimes no man better and if the fault were not my owne Alwayes Not that I can commaund health bid the world smile when I li●t How possible is it for a man to bee happie without these yea in spight of them These thinges canne neither augment nor empaire those comforts that come from aboue What vse what sight is ther of the starres when the sunneshines Then onely can I finde my self happy when ouer-looking these earthly things I can fetch my ioy from heauen I tell him that knowes it the contentments that earth