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
A60145	The present correction and reproof of sin or A discourse on 2 Jer. 19. vers. Thine own iniquities shall correct thee, & thy backslideings shall reprove thee.	Shower, John, 1657-1715.	1685 (1685)	Wing S3681; ESTC R221463	30,198	59

so And no better are they in the practice of Impiety for as Slaves are at the command of their Masters and blindly obey their wills and are no gainers by what they do and oftentimes feel the lash and the whip notwithstanding their drudgery such is the case of sinners under the power of a domineering vice Yea their service is more dirty and dishonourable their chains stronger and their recovery more difficult as being less apprehensive sensible of their thraldom And who can honour or esteem such voluntary slaves under the worst of Tyrants they render themselv's infamous despicable can not expect better then to be scorned or pittied No man will esteem or trust one that is a known drunkard and whoremaster a frugal honest man that hath but half the estate is better lov'd will be farther trusted then such a one tho he have twice as much Who can think or speak well of a drunkard any otherwise then of a cask or vessell to be often filled and emptied As of one that is a confident boaster of himself his own actions undertakings a slanderer backbiter of others one that is vaine and scandalous in company foolishly babling all he knows unfaithfully revealing the secrets of his friends rash and hasty in his resolutions extravagant in his projects irregular in his actions c. And what reputation can such a man expect the like I might say of the Glutton who spends his Life in carrying meat from the Table to the Dunghill and so of others The name of such men shall rot saith the wise man It shall putrifie assoon as their bodies and sometimes long before Yea some mens wickedness makes them infamous after they are dead kills them to immortality and poysons their memory to future ages they stand upon record as great Villains and warnings to posterity § 6. Sin corrects and reproves the sinner in this world by destroying his health How doth gluttony and drunkenness correct men by evening vomits and morning qualms crudities of the stomach pains of the head and inflammations of the liver rheums gouts dropsies cholick consumptions apoplexies palsies decay of sight want of appetite losse of memory and judgment stupifyeing the braine weakning all the members of the body and hastening old age and death How many an healthy constitution hath been destroyed by intemperance besides that it inflames passion and excites quarrells makes men more apt to give affronts more unwilling to take them On which acount saith Solomon Who hath wo who hath sorrow 23 Pr 29. who hath wounds without cause they that tarry long at the wine c. who can recount all the mischiefs to the body by an excess of eating and drinking wheras abstinence and a temperate life hath been proved by many to be the certaine cure of catarrhs and gouts and other diseases wherwith formerly they have been tormented How many miserable instances have we known of men tortur'd by acute distempers swoln with gouts burn't with feavers rackt by the stone torn with cholicks c. and forc't to pine away a great part of their days in paine misery by the effects of Intemperance and lust By this means Princes and great men have been forc't to own that it is an evil thing and a bitter to forsake God suffering such torments as the fruit of their Impieties that have made them envy the condition of Peasants Slaves and Beggars How many sacrifice their health and strength to a beastly opportunity and are punisht by pains of the head oppressions of the heart conturbations of the stomach gripeing of the bowells continual thirst unseasonable and unquiet watchfullness when nature and digestion require rest Besides that horrible disease imparted by this vice the most cruel the most filthy the most shamefull of all maladies from which no lustfull person can be secure Because 't is the nature of vice and of this in perticular to precipitate from one degree of excess to another A diseas which anticipates the corruption and uncleanness of the grave wherby sinners meet with their Limbo their Tophet here as a sad preface without repentance to an everlasting Hell § 7. By an untimely Death 'T is true a natural Death is the fruit of sin we may consider epidemical diseases and our common mortality the trouble of sickness and the pains of dyeing as some correction and reproof of sinners Their tears and groans and ghastly looks in a dyeing hour their broken sighs their distorted members their trembling languishing pulse their putrid breath and last agonies do all bespeak us to consider what sin hath done But a natural death being the punnishment of the first transgression and common to all mankind 't is an untimely death I am now to speak of Without disputeing wither the period of Life he mutable or not This is certaine that God from the infinity of his nature must needs be present in all duration at once and so cannot but foresee and know how long we shall live And t' is likewise evident from Scripture reason and experience 55 Ps 23. that some do not live out half their days to which they might have arriv'd according to the cours of nature The meek such as are blessed of God shall live long to inherit the earth but the Transgressors shall be cutt off 37 Ps 22. The fear of the Lord prolongeth days but the years of the wicked shall be shortned Some think that Balaam when he desired to dye the death of the Righteous and that his last end might be like his 23 Numb 10. meant only the prevention of an untimely death that he might goe to his grave in a good old age And God hath promised among other temporal blessings that the good man shall be gathered in peace to his Fathers like a shok of corn fully ripe and crown'd with length of days as well as with riches and honour T' is true a short Life and an hasty death are not allways a curse or the fruit of God's displeasure To a prepared soul t' is a blessing and as such more desireable then to abide in the flesh in order to our being with Christ which is best of all But how many are there whose impieties shorten their days and * Hinc subitae mortes atque intestata senectus It nova nec tristis per cunctas fabula coenas Ducitur iratis plaudendum funus amicis hasten their dissolution How many dye martyrs by the fire of lust By the strange woman many fall down wounded and many strong men are slaine by her Her house is the way to the grave leads to the chambers of death How many have extinguisht their vital flame by intemperate drinking and brought those diseases or furnisht the matter of them by excess wherof in a short time they dyed Besides the many thousand Murders which drunkenness hath caused in a drunken fit men have murdered themselv's their best friends and