Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	bear_v	die_v	live_v	5,060	5	5.3319	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17458	A handkercher for parents wet eyes vpon the death of children. A consolatory letter to a friend.	I. C.	1630 (1630)	STC 4279; ESTC S120682	16,348	71

him the second day as the first No griefe hath so much violence in the continuation as in the first Accesse Take the simplest Country-Mother the weakest Nurse of a Village that wrings her hands and teares her haire laues the Ground on which she wallowes with eye-water and takes on neuer so impotently for her departed Child and the space of a few dayes will slake the rage of her sorrow and anon bury it in vtter forgetfulnesse That which Time worketh in the ignorant shall not Time and Reason together effect as easily in the wise CONSIDERATION 5. Fiftly But you will say your Son might haue liu'd longer And hee might as well haue dyed sooner Who can shew me a Lease of his life vnder Seale for one houre Why may not euery day proue our last day Some are suffocated in the wombe others crowz'd to death in the Birth One is snatcht away in the Cradle Another mow'd off in his May of youth being onely shewne to the world like a curious picture finisht and straight the Curtaine drawne and remou'd away againe It s the priuiledge but of few to step down vpon the Griece of Old Age. Our life from the first houre to the last gallops on towards death And who seeth not with what speed it conquers euen the longest way in this iourney If Time then be the thing you stand on for your Sonne how small a matter of Oddes is a little more or lesse Time in so fugitiue and swift a Race It 's scarce discernable A Cart full of Prisoners are brought to execution what skills it which is first or third or sixt or tenth or sixteenth All must dye What gets hee that is delayed till the afternoone aboue him that was executed in the morning Perhaps to be superafflicted with longer expectance and pre-apprehension sighing that his turne had not beene with the formost But the Prisoner may not appoint his owne course that is in the Iudge or the Sheriffe to dispose of The whole world is but a Cart of condemned persons God culls out euery day some and some for Execution This very Minute a Slaue dyes foredone with toyle and hardship Instantly a King or great Lord mounts the Scaffold By and by a Mechanick a Rusticke a Pesant a Milk-maid a Cow-heard a Schoole-boy or Girle suffer Straight after a Royall Lady or Princesse stoopes her faire Neck to the Blocke Anon a fresh louely actiue vigorous Youth a beauteous young Damsell Ornaments to the world are presented to the Axe Behold now a feeble old man is led vp hauing scarce life inough left to be kild c. The oldest of these hath not liu'd a minute ouer his Time nor the youngest a minute vnder for neither might the one budge any sooner without summons order nor the other tarry any longer being call'd away But you will say He had no cause to complaine that was respited to Old Age which brings with it a saciety of liuing Nor You by the same reason For when God hath decreed I shall liue no longer This fall it when it will is my Old Age. Wee are not Caruers of our owne Times Hee onely that predestinated the houre of our Birth from all Eternity hath power to decree the houre of our Death You neither could cause your Child to bee borne sooner or to dye later Times Maker knowes the fittest Times for all his purposes He hath not appointed all to liue the same terme of yeeres Some goe before Serius aut citius metam properamus ad vnam Ouid. some after But first or last all arriue at the same marke The Husbandman reapes not all his Akers at once but one sooner another later as they are sooner or later ripe Let God alone hee knowes better then any Farmer the number and condition of his Akers where he findes one forward turn'd white betimes though but the other day greene and in the blade there he puts in his Sickle and carries it into the Heauenly Barne A Place of safety Which with longer standing might haue spilt shed or beene wansled and come to nothing Long lasting euen to the frostiest old Age is not the matter Puer centum annotum Esa 65. for there may bee a Child of a hundred yeeres old that yet is not ready for Heauen God hath reserued to himselfe alone the sight of the running out of the Glasse Man knoweth not his Time and End but vnperceiuingly slides into it as the Fish into the Net or the Bird into the Snare God pushing on meanes to vs vndreamt of and vnsuspected to serue his Decree It is with men in the world as with the Vessels in a Potters Shop There are of all sorts sizes and fashions That which to day is whole handsome and vsefull to morrow with a knocke or a fall may bee broken to sheards Your Vessell was sheene and new of a firme making likely to haue lasted many a faire yeere euen till it had flawed and moudred away of it selfe but it stood in harmes-way disease and sicknesse gaue it a knocke and a cracke which could not bee soldred And indeed the sleekest the sweetest the trimmest Dish of China is but a China Dish handle it or set it vp as charily as you can deuise Wee would haue our Candle burne downe into the socket but God hath a wind to blow it out sometimes as soone as lighted or a Thiefe to consume it with guttering ere any Eye heed it Few of our liuing Candles not one amongst a Thousand last burning to the last Inch. Hee that numbreth all our Times and houres hath numbred your Sonnes also and set him his day beyond which he could not passe Honour him with free yeelding this preeminence to him and let it stop your mouth and stoope your heart I held my peace Psal 1. Sam. Iob. because thou didst it It is the Lord let him doe whatsoeuer he pleaseth He giueth he taketh blessed be the Name of the Lord. But he doth nothing but for the best to them that loue him Many times Life is not so much taken away as Death giuen for a speciall Fauour Iust and Mercifull men are taken away from the Euils to come Esay How many times ouer haue some dyed by liuing long Righteous Abel the second Sonne of the sole Emperour of the whole Earth was cut off in his Youth The Eternall Son of God himselfe died a young Man Our Estimate of Life is wrong and false quite odde and different from Gods We measure it like Canuas by the Ell God like Gold by the Graine Our Examen is by the Tale so many Scores Gods by the Touch so vertuous so exemplary of such an Allay Now God hauing thus qualified Your Sonne with Grace made him early ready for Heauen hee had attain'd his due and true Seniority and could not complaine that hee lackt Time or had liu'd too little while M. B. Hol. in Transtat of Pers Action not Time does