Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	apostle_n	sin_n	wage_n	4,685	5	10.8916	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14985	English paradise Discouered in the Latine prospect of Iacobs blessing. Preached at S. Buttolphs without Aldersgate at London, on the holy Sabboth commonly called Trinitie Sunday, in that ioifull season of the festiuall solemnities for the blessed creation of the most gracious Prince of Wales.	White, John, 1570-1615.	1612 (1612)	STC 25293; ESTC S119683	64,468	65

omnino est certus modus commotionis infantum The mutuall violence breathing on those tenderlings vnborne did presage their separation after their birth The good woman perceiuing a strife in her wombe as of contentious inmates in the Bee-hiue shee went to aske the Lord for the meaning of that strife Gen. 25.22 Seeing it is so why am I thus I may not trouble you with the bundles of opinions how shee was answered or by whom It is needlesse to argue whether it was Sem or Melchizedeck or they both at once or it was Heber or as some thinke it was Abraham as it is most like for circumstance of time place and person His person aboue the rest was of neerest acquaintance of surest faith and euident grace of reuelation for hee was a Prophet Gen. 20.7 The opinion of the most learned is that shee went to aske the Lord in the Science of some famous Patriarch at that time as Abraham was Whosoeuer resolued her the Lord sent her word by him what should betide her and the Church word by her what should befall the Church These are the rare blossomes of Ecce Behold two manner of people shall be diuided out of thy bowels faithfull and vnfaithfull out of one stocke pure and impure fruit of one tree true worshippers and heretickes in one Church sincere holy seruants and prophane counterfeit obseruants as a grape and a brier-berrie both of one vine a lambe and a woolfe both of one damme Beda In Ecclesia sunt ficus vna Christus tribulus spina Diabolus In the Church are both figges and grapes for Christ is both figges and grapes and in the Church are both briers and thornes for the deuill is both briers to catch thorns to hurt Iob. 1. And on a day the sonnes of God came and stood before the Lord and Sathan was also among them Abrahams sonnes are compared to starres and sands Starres are the heauenly sonnes of Ierusalem as Iaacob Sands are filij terrae sonnes of the flesh earthly proud inhabitants of Babylon as Esau Behold it was then posterior dies melior auis the latter day the better bird The elder shall serue the younger Iaacob did excelle his brother 1 iure primogeniturae 2 haereditate terrare sanctae 3 praerogatiua faederis Ecclesiae In the right of the best birthright inheritance and couenant In three faire pre-eminences In the first is signified the spirit of adoption by which we are sealed In the second our heauenly countrie Ezech. 37. Tacita Obiect to which we are called In the third the life of the Church out of which there is no life Here our drie bones are quickned But let this be true that thus the elder prerogatiue was fastened to the younger yet non obstante it could not be true in their specialties because still the elder did preoccupate iurisdiction ouer his brother Yes Respons howsoeuer Esau for a time made a more potent shew for prioritie then the yonger yet was the Prophecie true both in the letter and the mysterie In the letter true for the Idumaeans which were of Esaus issues were tributarie to Dauid which was of Iaacobs generations Some doe vnderstand it Comestor and ingeniously also that Esau did serue Iaacob whilst he did persecute him as the fyle doth seruice to the yron to make it more bright the fanne seruice to the corne to clense it and the furnace seruice to the gold to purifie it The truth is that Esau did Iaacob more good then he meant him as Iaacobs sonnes by selling of Ioseph to vilifie him did promote him to honour Deus aliquandiu impiorum indulget petulantiae sed modum statuit Ecclesiae tandem fontes dilatat Infideles Ecclesiae ruinas in discinctis vinculis intēdunt vt Q. Fabius naues diuidendo aquis immersit Sed Ecclesia vt tyrrhenus lapis integer enatat vt impiorum furores nihil ei incommodasse appareat quin idem propagasse God doth sometime winke at the iniurious attempts of the presumptuous but at his will he doth restraine them and inlarge his Church that her health may shine out of the bond of aduersitie and her enemies blowes ende in her aduantage Here I might reioyce to handle the right hand of Gods prouident power but I must containe my selfe within the limits of Ecce in this place See then the truth in the mysterie aboue the letter Iacob came last but did ouer-flie his brother Esau First that which is carnall then that which is spirituall the old Adam came first and the new Adam came after O melior auis The Eagle bird had Eagles wings and did mount on high aboue his brother Such is his magnificence That the Lord said to my Lord Sit thou at my right hand c. Such is the superioritie of the second Adam that in his exaltation he had a name giuen him aboue euery name The elder must serue they younger and glad may Adam bee that he and his may doe seruice to Christ as the sheaues which did reuerence Iosephs sheafe for in Adam all die but in Christ are all made aliue The Schollers of Pyrene Mystae gentiles and the wanton heads of the Temple infamous at Corinth did obiect that Christ died as did Adam the yonger brother as the elder The Apostle graunteth this for truth that both died yet the difference of their death is notable Both died and paid the wages of sinne Sed mors Adae poenae peccati mors Christi hostia peccati The death of Adam was the penaltie of sinne the death of Christ the redemption of the sinner This prepotencie was worth an Ecce Behold in Christ all things are become new for with his wounds are wee healed Fidelis medicus is est qui pro infirmo mortiferum ebibit remedium vt sanetur infirmus And in the reuewe of Iacob and Esau here is Ecce againe Behold white and blacke good and euill light and darkenesse life and death in two sonnes as if Rebecca's breasts did yeeld two kinds of milke wholesome milke for Iacob as the Hebrew mother corrupt milke for Esau as the Egyptian nurse And now Rebecca's breasts are not like the Equiuocators text both true and false they are both of one wholesome taste one hallowed kind of milke The second testaments are both one sincere milke of the word of God they are both of one truth and spirit of life as there is but one Lord faith baptisme hope and saluation Christus est veritas aeternalis verbum est veritas normalis Christ is the eternall essentiall truth and his word is our rule for truth There is but one God and one word Vnus veritatis fons est Deus verbum vna veritas in omnes filios saliens God is the onely fountaine of truth and his word is the liuing water flowing into his childrens hearts as the pure riuer of water of life cleere as Cristal proceeding out of