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
A43351	Miscellanea, or, A mixture of choyce observations and institutions, moral, and divine, composed for private use being the product of spare hours, and the meditations of J.H.	Henshaw, Joseph, 1603-1679.	1669 (1669)	Wing H1480; ESTC R4644	40,398	215

accompany all these it will be a woful adventure for that man when the sin of his Soul and the end of his Life shall meet together as the trespass of Jonah and his being cast out of the Ship CHAP. LXXXI DEfer not thy Repentance lest thou be denyed Pardon Late Repentance is seldom true He that hath promised thee pardon upon thy repentance hath not promised life till thou repent and every day thy Repentance is deferred thou hast a day more to Repent of and a day less to repent in 'T is folly beyond expression while the Ship is sound the tackling sure the Pilot well the Saylors strong the Gale favourable and the Sea calm to lye idle at road carding dicing drinking burning seasonable weather and when the Ship leaks the Pilot is sick the Marriners faint the storm boysterous and the Sea tumultuous then to lanch forth and hoyst up sayl for a voyage into far Countries Such is the skill and case of evening repenters who in the morning of youth soundness of health and perfect use of reason will not weigh Anchor hoyst up Sail and cut the Cables that with-hold them from seeking God but feed themselves with a fond perswasion that when their reason is distracted their senses astonied all the powers of their mind and parts of their body distempered they shall leap into heaven with a Lord have mercy upon us in their mouths and become Saints at their death who have demeaned themselves like Devils all their life But think not if thou serve Satan and thy youthful lusts with full dishes that God will accept the abject scraps of old age 'T is easier to pass the Foard in the morning when the water is low then in the evening when the banks are full By delay thy account is encreased thy debt augmented thy enemy grows stronger thy self the more enfeebled and all the difficulties of conversion daily more and more multiplied upon thee CHAP. LXXXII AS the wise Physitian gives not the same physick to all Patients nor in the same proportion but he fitteth it in quantity and quality to every ones constitution strength and disease giving to one a Pill to purge him to another a cordiall to restore him one must be lanced another must be healed one must have sauce to quicken his appetite another must fast it out and be cured by abstinence Thus the Lord in wisdom dealeth with the sons of men he giveth that allowance to every one that he knoweth to be most requisite respecting the person of none but doing good to all as their state and condition doth require one is bettered by liberty another by restraint one being ingenious by nature is made better by benefits another of a more servile disposition is made worse and only mended with threats and punishments one man is fit to be rich another to be poor one for the Court another for the Cart thus every one hath his Portion his Station allotted him by God in his wisdom and goodness See thou pay God that tribute of praise and acknowledgment which is due for the portion he hath given thee lest thy ingratitude deprive thee of his benefits or lest they prove pernitious Rivers receiving their fullness from the Ocean pay their Tribute by returning back their streams which homage if they should deny their swelling waters would break down their banks and drown the Country CHAP. LXXXIII HAve frequent and serious thoughts of the last and dreadful day of Judgment when thou must appear and when all thy actions with all their circumstances will be weighed in the ballance of equity by the impartial judge of all whom thou canst not pervert with bribes nor perswade with Rhetorick nor move with tears but thy doom shall pass according to thy desert and if sentence pass against thee it can never be reversed for from this high Court of Justice there lyeth no appeal and as the Sentence so shall be the Execution which will neither be delayed nor can be avoided And think not to appear before this Tribunal in thy scarlet Robe thy rich attire or with thy Golden Scepter Those sparkling Diamonds and that curious dress which may commend thee to the blind world will not be valued here this Sin revenging-Judge knoweth no distinction but of good and bad It is reported of a Christian King of Hungary that being sad and pensive at the remembrance of his sin and the thoughts of his appearing before the Judgment Seat of Christ his brother a resolute Courtier observing him and understanding the Cause made a mock of it as gallants use to do accounting it nothing but a melancholy dump The King replies not at present but the custom being that if the Executioner sound a Trumpet before any mans door that man without delay or further tryal is had away to Execution hereupon the King commands his death's-man in the dead time of the night to sound his Trumpet before his Brothers door who hearing the Messenger of death springs in pale and trembling into his Brothers presence beseeching the King to let him know wherein he had offended him Oh Brother replies the King thou hast not offended me but if the sight of thy Executioner be so dreadful to thee shall not we miserable sinners tremble to appear before Gods Tribunal CHAP. LXXXIV AVoid as well the occasion and appearance of evil as the evil it self The appearance of evil will blast thy good name for men judge according to appearance and an evil occasion frequently produceth an evil action Look what a clear Fountain is to the thirsty what the shade is to the weary Travelour such is occasion to corrupt nature St. Augustine maketh mention of his friend Alipius that having resolved never to look upon the Fencers Prizes was through the importunity of friends drawn along to the Theatre where these bloody sports were performed protesting that he would keep his eyes shut all the while he was there the people giving a suddain shout he looked about to see what the matter was whereupon he became pleased with the sport which before he had abandoned He that toucheth Pitch shall be defiled therewith Remember Dinah the Daughter of Lea who went forth a Virgin to see the Daughters of the Land in their sports and May-games but was defiled before her return CHAP. LXXXV BUsie not thy self in matters which concern thee not if they succeed well thou art not concern'd if ill thou shalt have blame for thy intermedling God hath given to every Tree its proper work to bring forth its own fruit every Bird to build her own nest to every man a Calling which if attended will find him employment and yield him profit but observe he that 's busie abroad either wanteth business or neglecteth his business at home See thou hasten not to give counsel in any case the event whereof is doubtful if the event happen according to expectation it will be imputed to the discretion and industry of him that managed it