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	life_n	old_a	5,148	5	5.6715	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00537	The mirrour of created perfection. Or The life of the most blessed Virgin Mary Mother of God. Written by the R. Fa. I.F. of the Society of Iesus	Falconer, John, 1577-1656.	1632 (1632)	STC 10677; ESTC S117677	40,184	172

imitably gracious in all his behauiours speaches to these two only knowing his greatnes for 30. yeares together conuersing domestically with him who were neither dull to conceaue nor hard to belieue the mysterious verity of his speaches vnto them And if that be true which Salomon sayth that with the good a man shall be good how good then were these two who liued with goodnes it selfe and had their soules euer opened and prepared to receaue full streames flowing from the fountayne therof continually into them And if our Sauiour proclaymed the eyes of his disciples happy in hauing seene him whome so many Kings Prophets had desired to see and could not and their eares likewise blessed in hearing his speaches how happy and blessed may we conceaue his holy Parents to haue byn who with eyes and eares of soule and body together more lastingly clearely and deuoutly beheld their diuine Sonne pondering his mysterious speaches and in their hartes as it is sayd of the B. Virgin twice by the Euangelist deeply and delightfully considering them Of the B. Virgins charitable sorrow for S. Iosephs death Chap. 24. WHen this Blessed man dyed cannot out of the Ghospell be any wayes gathered Only it may most probably be ghessed that our Sauiour sent him to a happy rest before he began his owne preaching labours The place of his death is likest to haue byn in Nazareth where he liued and the circumstances therof are vnknown further then that as he was a iust man aduanced to a dignity more then Patriarchicall in being spouse to the Mother of God and Foster-father to the incarnate Word himselfe so was his end no doubt blessed and his merits suitable vnto it And whereas we read of many Saintes so diuinely fauoured in their sicknesse and death as they had their good Angells visibly comfortably attending them this Blessed man enioyed a far greater priuiledge when in his sicknesse and death the sonne of God himselfe and his gracious mother with a most charitable diligēce were ready to performe all seruiceable offices vnto him The disease of which he dyed seemeth to haue byn old age and the vsuall infirmities thereof increased perchance in him by the hard labours of his life as Pomegranuts vse to breake and fall to the ground by the ouer-filling grouth of their sweet kernells to rise againe in a new spring afterwards And whereas holy Men are said to dye in our Lord Blessed S. Ioseph may be said to haue dyed in him after a higher manner to wit reposed in the armes imbacements as we may conceaue of his heauenly Redeemer his immaculate louing Spouse not fayling the whilst to close his dying eyes to kisse his cold cheekes with flowing streames of teares to take her leaue of him by whome liuing she her diuine Sonne had byn so purely beloued and faithfully serued His gracious soule was no sooner breathed out but Angells there present ioyfully carryed it to the holy troopes of Patriarks Prophets and Saintes disceased before him as their heauenly Redeemers Foster-father to be honoured imbraced and ioyfully welcommed by them whilst his Spouse her diuine Sōne caused his pure body to be decently interred put into the earth where perchance it was from corruption graciously preserued to be gloriously repayred in our Sauiours Resurrection with other saintes bodies then miraculously raysed since no Saint deserued more then he to accompany his God and Sonne at his first entrance into his heauenly Kingdome Of the Blessed Virgin being in Cana with her sonne at a wedding Chap. 25. AFter S. Joseph his death the B. Virgin liued alone with her diuine sonne flowing in heauenly delights then without a partner receaued continually from him vntill his going to be baptized by S. John in the Riuer of Jordan whence after his Baptisme fasting in the desert and calling of many disciples to follow him he returned into Galilee and was with his B. Mother at Cana inuited to a wedding mysteriously graced shewed not to be sinfull as some ancient Heretiques affirmed by the sacred presence of two such guests who pleased to be present at the same Whose wedding this was is not known but that the Brides were poore may be well gathered from their want of wine before the Dinner was ended which want of theirs being knowne by the mother of compassion she came to her sonne well knowing his diuine power to effect her owne graciousnes to obtayne what she meant to aske of him saying they haue no wine briefly intimating so their wantes and her owne charitable desires of relieuing them to him who without words did she doubted not know them before hand would in his bounty there presently redresse them His reply woman what is that to thee and me was not harsh as Caluin wickedly affirmed but mysterious to let vs therby know that not her will albeit euer holy and pleasing vnto him but the decree of his eternall Father did in doing miracles chiefly direct him And by telling her that his houre was not yet come yet doing withall what she intreated him he gaue vs sufficiētly to vnderstand that her request made him to exercise sooner thē otherwise he would haue done his miraculous power in performing that charity which she intreated so of him and by going afterwards to the wayters and bidding them do whatsoeuer her Sonne commaunded them she wisely and charitably prepared them as Cardinall Tolet well noteth not to hinder by their vnwillingnes what she knew he intended as hauing byn diuinely inspired to aske that miracle of him and taught to know withall his manner of performing it by causing to wit water to be drawn by the wayters afterward into wine miraculously conuerted And the fruites of this first miracle so obtayned by her are said to haue byn the manifestation of her sonnes glory confirmation of his disciples Of our B. Ladies going to dwell at Capharnaum with her Son Chap. 26. OVr B. Sauiour intending whē he began to preach to transferre his dwelling from Nazareth to Capharnaum is sayd to haue taken his B. Mother with him that mutually they might enioy ech others company and withall that such persons as were conuerted vnto him might haue her a liuely mirrour of vertuous and exemplar perfection conuersant with them So that this heauenly Sun of Iustice shining heere on earth had two Maries bright starres indeed of the Sea as their names importe illustrated by him in their seuerall graces and wayting louingly on him the one euer a cleere mirrour of vnspotted perfectiō the other a liuely patterne at length of harty Contrition Graces were in the one as a bright sun-shine neuer sinnefully clowded and in the other as a radiant sky from storms newly cleared The one was as a full fountayne of liuing waters neuer defiled the other as a deepe well freshly clensed and filled The one neuer wanted a rich patrimony of heauenly graces still by her wonderfully increased the other