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	year_n	6,258	5	4.9578	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14322	The right way to heauen and the true testimonie of a faithfull and loyall subiect. Compiled by Richard Vennard of Lincolnes Inne.	R. V. (Richard Vennard), d. 1615?	1601 (1601)	STC 24637; ESTC S120185	25,162	65

is nothing more necessary to suppresse and subdue his haughty affections then continuall remembraunce what he is from whence he came Eccle. 7. and whether hee shall That in calling to minde his base mettle his wretched condition and mortall generation he may the rather bee moued more humbly and lowly to conceiue and esteeme of himselfe What is Man Telluris invtile pondus an vnprofitable Man what lump of earth like as one might say to a peece of yee thou wast water thou art water and to water shalt thou bee turned againe So Man was earth hee is earth and to earth hee shall bee turned againe Thou hast fashioned mee of mould and earth sayth Iob and I am become like dust ashes O homo saith Chrisostome Iob. Chrisost si consider as quid per os quid per nares quid per ceteros meatus egrediatur numquam vilius sterquilium inuenisti What is Man his matter is base slime clay his nature weake feeble his birth paine sorrow his life vayne and miserable his state slippery vncertaine his time short tedious his sins horrible filthy his end grieuous lothsome What is Man A mirrour of misery a play of fortune and a pray of death he is borne wee ping and wayling to shew his wretchednesse hee liueth laughing and toying to beewray his folly and dyeth sighing and sobbing to declare his weake infirmitie What is Man Apuleius a Philosopher and scholler to Plato describeth him in this wise Men Apulcius sayth hee are liuing creatures dwelling vpon the earth hauing soules immortall brutish seruile bodies subiect to death light carefull mindes apt to errour vaine in labours diuers in conditions long ere they be wise their time but short and during life neuer content What is the state of Man Saint Barnard describeth Barnard it in this manner There commeth before thine eyes faith he a man poore naked miserable mourning that hee is a man blushing that he is naked weeping for that he is a wretch replenished with misery and fearefull for that his time is but short A great part of his life passeth away in doing that is euill a greater part in doing nothing and the greatest part in doing thinges to small purpose And as the life of man is vaine transitory and miserable euen so is the world with all things else wherein humaine nature taketh pleasure and delight as health wealth honour wisedome strength beautie or whatsoeuer What is the World A vale of misery a sincke of sinne a mould of mischiefe a denne of theeues a World Court of Sathan a purgatory of payne a mother to the wicked and a stepdame to the good where the proude and vitious are daily aduanced without desert and the humble and vertuous oppressed without cause the way ward and seditious befriended and the quiet and obedient molested the ignorant and foolish permitted to speake and the wise and discreet put to silence crafty dissemblers extolled and simple innocents despised What is the world hir mirth is but sorrow hir pleasure but payne hir wisedome but folishnesse and hir wealth but misery where nothing is to bee looked for but euen a rancke of troubles one following in anothers necke A great trauaile is created for all men sayth Iesus the sonne of Sirach Eccle. and a heauie yoke vpon all mens children some so pinched with pouertie and oppressed with miserie some tossed and tormented with strife and contention some tormented with sicknesse sores and contagious diseases that if an old man would set downe the tragedie of his life from the day of his brith till his departure to his graue a man would wonder that the body could suffer and the heatt could beare so painefull and dolorous a pilgrimage All the godly from the beeginning haue tasted the troubles of their time Adam when his children did one kill another Abraham when he wandred into a strāge coūtry Iob when he saw the spoile and hauocke of his goods the destruction of his children and his owne body tormented with botches and sores Ioseph felt his part of miserie beeing sould by his brethren and imprisoned without cause Noah felt his part of miserie beeing persecuted by the wicked Lazarus was both sicke sore hungry thirsty Father Iacob complayned that his daies were few and euill Dauid said hee was a worme and no man Solomon was weary of his life beecause all hee saw vnder the Sunne was nothing but vanitie miserie and vexation of minde Father Ierome complayned that Sathan sought to ouer throw him and that his weake flesh was ready to consent The prophet Ieremy cursed the day of his birth Ionas said it was better for him to dye then to liue Chrisostome called the daies of his life the daies of his sorrow Nazianzen wept that his mother had brought him forth to see such miserable daies Such trauayle hath God giuen vnto men vnder the Sunne to be exercised therein Cap. IIII. Of the race of mans life And certenty of death AND as the daies of this our painefull pilgrimage are vaine and miserable so are they short and tedious The one foote no sooner on the ground but the other is ready to step into the graue Man that is borne of a woman saith Iob hath but a short time to liue and is full of miserie hee springeth as a flower vadeth like a shadow and neuer continueth in one state The life of man is aptly compared to a vapour to the trace of a cloude to a ship passing ouer the waues of the Sea tossed beaten with tempest to a bird that flieth in the Aire or a shaft that is shot at a marke and neuer staieth till it light on the ground Euen so man as soone as hee is borne doth begin immediatly to draw to his end The godly Patriarks who liued in the first age Certainety of death of the world saw many yeeres yet at last they dyed Death was alwaies the end of their song Adam liued 930. yeeres Seth 912. Enoch 905. Kenan 910. Mahelael 895. Iarard 962. Methuselah 969. Lameth 777. Noah 950. and they dyed saith the text Abraham the Father of the faithfull Dauid a man according to Gods owne heart Iohn Baptist of whom our Sauiour Christ saith there hath not risen a greater among the children of women yet they dyed All the Prophets Apostles godly Martirs wer greatly in Gods fauour yet they dyed Rich and poore wise men fooles learned and vnlearned godly and vngodly all must follow the daunce of death Many are gone before the rest must follow after Wyse Solomon Rich Iob Strong Sampson faire Absolon haue trode the path of al flesh Great Alexander cōquered the whole world yet could finde no weapon to conquere death The stiffest steele yeldeth to the hammer the strongest Oke to the Axe and the stoutest hart vnto nature And as death is a thing of all other most certaine and sure so is the