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
A01118	Christ Iesus triumphant A fruitefull treatise, wherin is described the most glorious triumph, and conquest of Christ Iesus our sauiour, ouer sinne, death, the law, the strength and pride of Sathan, and the world, with all other enemyes whatsoeuer agaynst the poore soule of man: made too be read for spirituall comfort, by Iohn Foxe, and from Latin translated intoo English by the printer.; Christus triumphans. English. Selections	Foxe, John, 1516-1587.; Day, Richard, b. 1552.	1579 (1579)	STC 11231; ESTC S116950	29,170	80

shadowes doe not more differ from the things themselues nor that whiche is Counterfaict from that which is True But so it falleth out that as the commoditie of the other euen so the Maiestie and incredible Benefites of this our heauenly Prince are not so hyghly esteémed of vs vnles we first perfectly know and feéle the force of those our enemies whom he hath subdued or the depth of those dangers from which weé haue beén and are dayly deliuered Wherfore I am to request all godly and true harted Christians to geue diligēt heéde and attentiue eare whilest I shall both playnly truly set before their eyes the most lamentable estate of our wretched Nature and the exceédyng might and malice of our most cruell enemies So will it come to passe that we shall more worthely accompt of and more ioyfully acknowledge the victorious power of CHRIST in workyng our saluation And that I may passe ouer with silence those lighter fleabitynges in respect I meane the commō kinde of greuances yet full of miserie and sorrow which sōdry wayes befall vs in this life that also I may omit the inward gronings of the hart and secret vexation of thoughtes and temptations wherewith euery one for the most part is inwardly tormented in himselfe for who hath not some one or other familiar Sathan attendyng at his heéles that I maye let these things passe the seuerall discourse whereof would require whole volumes long and tedious looke vpon those commō and publique Euils equally and indifferently betyding to vs all how miserable doe they make this lyfe or rather to be no lyfe at all to be touched therewith wée count it much yet they oppresse vs but to be oppressed by thē wée make a wonder yet most wonderfully and vtterly wée are thereby consumed AND first to begyn with the least lightest of these Euils consider with mée the inuincible Tyranny of Death dayly raunging raging in this world the power and force whereof not all the Monarches of the earth could once withstand Not that great Kyng of Macedon whose aspiryng hart the Conquest of one whole world could not content was at any tyme able too cope with her Not Hercules strength albeit the bane of most vgly Monsters was euer hable so much as too wound this byting Serpent Not that Persian Xerxes euen he that threatned fludds and mountaynes could once amaze her with all his armed troupes Not Marius the renowmed or the more renowmed Pompey Not hauty Caesar Not the most harty and valiaunt Romane Souldiors who limyted their Empire with the boundes and borders of the earth bringyng all Nations intoo subiection were at any tyme able too cast of the yoke of her subiection How many ages of this world hath this tyrannicall fury ryoted vp downe yet no mortall wight hetherto found once able too delay much lesse too delude and so escape her deadly inuasion Not the dreadfull Maiestie of Kyng or Keisar could at any tyme haue her at becke or checke No conueyaunce or deceitfull drift in Law could circumuent her No worldly Wealth could brybe her no reaching head or high look of Philosophers could teach her a tricke of new deuise in Schole No painted speach of Rhetorique could qualifie her rage No subtile Sophister could geue her the shift No brag of Stoicall Libertie could euer shake of her seruil yoke No Pharasaicall Holynes No Religion of Bishops No Monkishe Austeritie No Prayers of Priestes could intreat her No Citizens Pollicie No Handycrafts Labor could banish her of House or Towne Finally No Strength of Nature No Reason of Man could at any tyme resist and geue her the foyle What Man sayth the Prophet liueth and shall not taste of DEATH For she tyrannically sparing no one inuadeth all Estates all sexes and Ages of Men she assaulteth aswell Princes Towers as Poore Mens Cotages she separateth Wife and Husband dissolueth Frendship and which is most lamentable violently snatcheth the tender sucklyng from the Mothers teat ô most pitifull and plentifull are the teares lamentations harthreakynges which hereof haue and dayly do procéed After this manner that séely Mother in the Gospell followyng her onely sonne to buriall how thinck you did she lament and wryng her handes but the LORD most happely méetyng her on the way restored her sonne to lyfe agayne So Lazarus of his two sisters so Dorcas in the Actes is of many lamented These onely I touch by the waye for examples sake well knowyng that no house or famelie whatsoeuer but some tyme or other hath like chaunces and cause of woe Now if we were so cléere of eye as wherewith we might pearce the hart and bowels of the Earth therein taking vewe and tale of the infinite number of all those whom DEATH since the creation of the worlde hath swallowed vp good God what a wonderfull slaughter of dead Men what outragious tyrāny of deuouring DEATH should wée not onely comprehend with inwarde mynde but also behold with outwarde eye For the infinite and vnscrutable number of Men liuyng at this present houre what are they in respect of those who so many yeares since taken waye by DEATH dwel as the Poet sayth and rot in graue Howbeit such eye-sight had that most wise Prophet who by commission dyd proclayme that All flesh is grasse and the glory thereof as the flower of the field And what then shal it auayle any one in what delights pleasures power glory wisedome learning counsaile honor and pompe he liue and florishe when he shall be perforce depriued not onely of those things but of lyfe it selfe as also of light ayre and body For as the wise Preacher doth witnes The Wise-Man aswell as the Foole the learned as the vnlearned the rich aswell as the poore the Prince and Paifant all a lyke There is no difference no respect or regard of Persons one or other DEATH méeteth with all alike equally strikyng all mortall creatures For all man are borne on this condition to dye some sooner some later and though some one Mans lyfe last to extreme old-Old-age which now is very seldome séen yet that hindreth not a whit but that the old Prouerbe may still bée true as stéele A Man â Bubble And here first doth the TRIUMPH of CHRIST our LORD open and shew it selfe in our infirmitie by infinite degrées surpassing whatsoeuer Triumphes or stratagemes any where are or at any tyme haue bene vnder Heauen not onely in that he alone of all Men euen in that respect that he is Man is now contrary to Mans Nature and cōdition become immortall but in this also that by restoring vs miserable and mortall Men from the bondage of DEATH to immortalitie translateth vs from a wretched and frayle estate of life to eternall blisse of saluatiō there making vs coheires with him and frée Citizens of his glorious kyngdome What thing in all the world was euer comparable to this VICTORY Take good and