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
A31030	Jacob at his journeys end, or, Part of his last words uttered to his son Joseph, and the rest of his children, immediately before his being gathered to his fathers a sermon preached at the interment of ... William, Lord Brereton of Brereton in Cheshire ... / by A.B.	A. B.	1665 (1665)	Wing B9; ESTC R3284	11,205	26

being met the whole charge of entertaining you here had been the province and task of some other of my brethren that had been every way more able to have discharged it than my self It may I hope be a pardonable excuse if I allege for my self that my meditations have been much very much discomposed by my sorrows that mine eyes have sometimes vyed drops with my pen while I was about this sad task And probably had I loved and honoured him less I might have performed this service better But t is fit I leave Apologies and come to my remaining task that is to make some honourable mention of our Israel now he is dead whom we deservedly honoured while he was alive I shall not stick long upon the Parallel yet shall I first observe that our Israel like him in the Text was by God made happy in the number of so many surviving children as were the heads of the twelve Tribes though not all of the same Sex and had the addition of one grandchild more than Joseph presented to departing Israel to receive his benediction Of all which our Israel made frequent and affectionate mention and to which together with his own he bequeathed his blessing as old Jacob did to the sons of his son Joseph 2. The name Israel as you heard before was superadded to the former name of Jacob as some think or rather given in its stead because he was Rectus Dei an up right man Jacob signifies a supplanter some conjecture he was so called because he got his brother Esaus birth-right by a wile but the word signifies properly plantam tenens and the child was in likelyhood called Jacob because about the time of his birth he held his twin brother by the heel Our Honoured Lord could not be called Jacob at all for whose birth-right had he taken We may say with St. Paul he had wronged no man defrauded no man but he might be called Israel for he was rectus Dei had an upright plain dealing soul like Nathaniel a true Israelite in whom was no guile 3. Israel was vir videns Deum a man that saw God and so I doubt not but this Honourable Person did too though not as Jacob face to face yet by some such means by which God is pleased to make discovery of himself to men in these latter times Lyra upon Genesis thinks it was by vertue of the Spirit of prophecy that old Israel foretold his death before it came and said I dye But whether he had the Spirit of Prophecy or no I do not question Sure I am there is no great need of any extraordinary Revelation to let a man of an 147. years of age as Israel was know that the time drew nigh that he should dye but I have reason to believe that there was something more than ordinary in it though being a man of singular reservedness he did not discover it that this Honourable Person when he was but about 52. years of age and under no visible distemper of body or mind should above three moneths ago even then when he accompanied his dear and honourable Mother to her long home in his passage from the house to the Church say with some kind of confidence that he should be the next that should go that way And before he was seiz'd with any sickness let fall some expressions in the hearing of his dearest relations whom he yet was most unwilling to grieve signifying his expectation that ere long they should have occasion to Mourn for him And I am the more confident that he had some foresight of his approaching end from one expression uttered to my self in the time of his visitation which was upon this occasion We that were about him and observed how little he was afraid or spoke of what we so much suspected doubted that the nature of his disease had made him insensible of his danger that though Death made irresistable though slow assaults he did not apprehend it hereupon I did as I conceiv'd I was oblig'd make my private application to him and dealt plainly with him discovering to him our just fears and his own great danger and admonished him to prepare himself throughly for Death which we doubted he could not avoid And I was satisfied that he foresaw his danger and therefore had prepared for it when I heard him say and that with a serene countenance and a very grave utterance Parson I was sensible of this before any of you were And we were afterwards satisfied why he was so long desirous to conceal his danger for when he saw it was to no purpose to endeavour to hide what his dearest relations had discovered and therefore thought fit to yield and in effect to say with old Israel Behold I dye and saw his dearest Confort and the rest about him thereupon to give vent unto their passion and let it out in a floud of tears he presently added these words I this is it I was afraid of thereby declaring that the reason why he seem'd to take so little notice of his danger was not because he was insensible of it but because he would not have his Relations understand it nor be troubled at it 4. Israel was so called as most do probably think because he was Princeps cum Deo and prevail'd with God when he wrestled with him for a blessing Gen. 32. 28. It was our Israels custom to wrestle with God as Jacob did Devotion was one part of his dayly exercise And it hapned to him as to Israel Gen. 32. For coming from his morning exercise he was seiz'd as Israel with a lameness in his thigh And I make no question but that as he did with Israel go away with a bodily foyl he receiv'd a spiritual blessing and though he came or rather was carried off with a maim in the body he was princeps cum Deo and prevail'd for a blessing on his soul And I do not think fit nor can I let pass this observation without commending it to the careful notice and consideration of all that hear me that the great stroke by which God call'd him to himself befell him presently upon his rising from his private devotions as if God had said to him Thy prayers are come up and I come down to fetch thee up likewise Thy work is done and now I will do mine and give thee a reward Sure happy is that devout soul whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so doing standing upon his watch and calling upon his God Oh consider it how much more comfortable it is for a man to be found so doing than to be snatch'd away with his Dalilah in his arms or with an intemperate cup in his hand or a dam-me in his mouth or any Idol in his heart which might make him incapable of communion with his God! But I leave the Parallel and offer him 2. To your consideration as a Person of Honour different indeed from most other men of