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	life_n	live_v	4,791	5	5.2156	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06163	Catharos. Diogenes in his singularitie Wherein is comprehended his merrie baighting fit for all mens benefits: christened by him, a nettle for nice noses. By T.L. of Lincolns Inne, Gent: 1591.	Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625.	1591 (1591)	STC 16654; ESTC S109562	41,902	68

vpon the burning coales rather desirous to be burned with materiall fire than with that fire which is inextinguible The fifth is oftentimes to thinke on the day of death at which time we ought to enter into count with the iust Iudge who shall cast all fornicatours into perpetuall darknes stored with inquenchable fire so as the learned Poet Dante most eloquently describeth It is a remedie saith Athanasius which saint Anthonie vsed to thinke on the paines of hell when he thought to exclude out his filthie and dissolute thoughtes Which also the great doctor Iherome was accustomed to do as he himselfe witnesseth of him selfe The sixth when a man is tempted to commit that vice he ought to consider that God which is present in all places is at hand and beholdeth vs and our good Angel which séeth vs before whom we ought to be ashamed to perpetrate so villanous an act since we durst not auowe the doing thereof before the poorest man of the worlde By this meditation the Hermit Pasnacus conuerted a sinfull woman called Thais giuing her to vnderstand that in no place of the earth how secrete so euer it bee shée could so couertly hide her selfe that God would not both espie behold her and therfore said he you ought not to be so impudent shameles as to commit so villanous a sinne in the presence of so great a Signior and although God did not sée vs yet ought we not to commit the sinne it is so filthie dishonest of it selfe The Pagans themselues by a natural light knewe well to saye this as Cicero who writeth that a chaste and vertuous person ought neuer to commit the foule offence of lust although neither Gods nor men were priuie thereunto The seuenth wée ought to consider that there is nothing that more hindreth the humane spirite from Philosophie and true contemplation of heauenly things than the delectation of the flesh The same is that which Orpheus Trimigistus Pythagoras Socrates Plato Empedocles Plotinus Lamthiques Simplicius Plutarch Cicero other lights of morall Philosophie haue left vs in writing saying the soule is tyed to terrestriall things by pleasure as it were with nayles in such sort as it cannot mount on high and contemplate diuine things and they hereunto annex that they who dispoyle themselues of these pleasures went vnto the heauens in the companie of celestiall spirites and dwell with God where they experiment a pleasure incomprehensible to the humaine spirite But to the accomplishment hereof they ought first of all to hate their bodies chase away their pleasures for as Orpheus sayeth If thou hatest not thy bodie thou canst not loue thy selfe well Is it not the true Orpheus Iesus Christ that saieth vnto vs He that loueth saith he his soule in this worlde that is to say his bodie he shall lose it in another And he that hateth it in this worlde shall keepe it in the life eternall The same is it that Cicero intimateth when he writeth that the sensuall sort who haue giuen themselues ouer for a praye to the pleasures and delightes of this world and haue violated both deuine and humane lawes are depriued of life in the other world and abide beneath in the earth agitated and tormented from diuers ages to ages vntill such time as they returne that is they shall be tormented world without end The eight remedie which is the most soueraigne of all is that we ought when we féele our selues vrged by the inticements of the flesh to haue recourse vnto God by prayer and teares and to implore his ayde with an ardent affection as they that sée themselues sodainly surprised with a huge tempest in the midst of the Ocean sea For in sooth the combate of the flesh is a true tempest and storme and to this ende it shall be good to present vnto God some good and short Prayers such as Augustine in his temptations and the Hern it Isaac as Cassianus writeth were wont to vse In summe in taking these courses we shall haue fewer Lechers in Athens and more religious Cosmo Truely Diogenes thy plaine method of doctrine in this point argueth thy ability both to correct bitterly and to perswade blessedly So that thou séemest to be no Grecian tied to earthly contemplations but a man inspired with more than Apolloes wisedome for to discerne matters incident to the sense and subiect to reason is the part of a prudent man and a searching wit but to enter thus profoundly into the nature of sinne and the workinges of God argueth that thy inspiration is from God wee therefore bide thy reprehensions with more patience and attend thy counsailes with more perseuerance Dio Your conformity pleaseth mee haue you not read that Diogenes is a dogge that biteth men but for their amendment and not for enuy then heare me and I will heale woundes Philoplutos thou art in authority wherein thou canst not so liue but thou must be subiect to euill language thou must haue a serpents eare to preuent the charmes of the flatterer and Linx his eie to spie out contempts ere they attempt thée If thou art reprooued of the iust for a good cause mend thy selfe for their second assault is seasoned with shame if wrongfully beware to stir too much lest being not guilty thy stirring make some suppose that thou stinkest It is a trim thing to be silent a wisedome to be silent thou maist kill with thy eie when thou listest but kéepe thine eie from lusting after other mens blame lest thou proue blind in thine enuy and thine enuy cause thy death An enuious man in Virgils opinion may bee compared to a Uiper that gnaweth the boanes and sucketh the bloude and beareth his owne torment in himselfe In briefe if thou be enuious thou shalt liue Titius life and be so wounded in heart as neither the sonne of Saturne nor the god Phoebus nor Aesculapius the cunning shalbe able to cure thée Alexander the great said often that the enuious were their owne hangmen And the wise Gréeke Periander that euen as rust eateth the Iron so enuie deuoureth his Master Plutarch detesteth this vice And Horace saith Inuidia Siculi non in venere tiranni Maius tormentum This is it which Martial condemneth and the reason that caused Socrates to wish that all enuious men were nought throughout euerie part but eares and eies to the ende that séeing and hearing other mens prosperitie they might be the more tormented and receiue their punishment which they deserue Flye this therefore Philoplutos and with this flie insatiable couetousnes which thou shalt effect if thou haue a constant determination to liue to Fame and not to Fortune It is better thou die with Phocion than liue like Demades Husband not for manie Winters for thou art old Care not for to morrowe let to morrowe care for it self Onely liue well this day and lay thy hopes on heauen and he that prouideth for the little birds will not sée thée want Looke on