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	sin_n	5,504	5	4.4990	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45716	The dying mans last sermon. Or, The fathers last blessing Left, and bequeathed as a legacy unto his children, immediately before his death. Being comfortable meditations and preparations for the day of death; which for the worth of them are more worthy to be written in letters of gold, then with ink and paper. The twelfth edition with additions, by Andrew Jones, a servant of Jesus Christ.	Jones, Andrew, M.A.; Hart, John, D.D., attributed name.	1665 (1665)	Wing H945F; ESTC R216557	8,183	24

the body frees us from the misery and incumbrances of this life So many are the miseries and afflictions of this life that were it not for the hope of heaven it would be worse then hell it self cross afflictions come as fact upon its as Jobs Messengers The life of man is tike a Winters day short and very cloudy Few and evil are the dayes of this life Gen. 45 9 Man that is born of a Woman is but of few dayes but full of troubles Job 14.1 2. Lastly death translates us from a prison to a palace from a Scaffold to a Paradise from a vale of miseries to a away all tears from our eyes Rev. 21.4 Where there shall be no more death nor sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more pain where we shall be perfectly free from all sin therefore may we say with Solomon Better is the dead then the living And with St. Paul To me to live is Christ and to dye is gain Phil. 1.27 Every man with Balaam desires to dye the drath of the righteous Numb 23.10 and in this they desire well For to dye well is a point of the highest concernment in the world because either eternal life or eternal death depends upon it for as the tree falls so shall if lie But to dye well is not attainable unless we have first learnt the art of living well A fair ●ay Bay have a foul evening but a good life cannot have a bad death for as David saith Psal 37.37 Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace therefore it is good always to be in readiness for death and whensoever the will of the Lord is willingly and chearfully to submit unto it for it is written Rev. 14.13 Blessed are the dead that dye in the Lord for they rest from their labours and their works do follow them And. if we be dead in Christ we shall also rise with Christ Rom. 6.8 For when Christ who is our life shall appear then shall we also appear with him in glory Col. 3.4 And now my Son as I have leasure and opportunity enough so have I cause more then enough to meditate and prepare for death I bless God neither my prosperity nor my adversity hath made me a stranger to the thoughts of Mortality for meditating on and preparing for death is never unseasonable although the time and manner of death be alwayes very uncertain I bless God I am not so old as to be weary of life nor so bad as to be either afraid to dye or ashamed to live my afflictions make me even sometimes desire to dye but when I consider that it is the glory of a Christian to dye daily I desire to conquer death by faith and hopes of a better life Blessed be God I can look upon the sting of death as unpoisonous although it may be sharp because I know my Redemer Jesus Christ hath taken it away by his death I can say and that truly I never found so much life of Religion the feast of a good conscience as I have done since I came to converse so nearly with the thoughts of death I do wholly desire to depend upon God and submit to his will both in life and death I shall not think my life too long or too tedious if God by prolonging it shall be pleased to give me fresh opportunities to do good thereby neither shall I think my death too soon whensoever the will of the Lord is to call for me it is my honour and my erceeding great comfort that I can go as willingly to my grave as to a bed of doun or roses the will of God hath confined and concluded my will I shall have pleasure in dying for death cannot deprive me of more then I am willing to lose when God sees it fit whose mercy I am confident will abundantly reward my loss with the joyes of heaven My Son the God of heaven and earth be thy portion these are my last words for now the time is come that I must leave this world and go to a better hitherto as a Father have I protected and directed you but now my time being come my dayes being but a span long I must go hence and shall be no more seen Psalm 39.13 See therefore that you serve the Lord with all singleness and uprightness of heart in godly sincerity and he will be a Father unto you in my stead Keep a good Conscience all the dayes of your life no to others as you would have others to do to you For that is the Law and the Prophets saith our blessed Saviour Mat 7. 12. And then when the time shall come which although you be young now you know not how near it may lodge at this present for many are living now that must dye to morrow who would weep if they knew they had so short a time to live that when you shall lie upon your death-bed death may not a frighten you but may appear unto you as blessed be God it doth now unto me not in his ugly shapes and deformities but stingless as a friend thus shall you have comfort within you that shall rejoyce you when all out wards comforts sail you 〈◊〉 then every pain you feel shall be but as a pleasure unto your because it shall prevent the pains of hell then the grave shall not appear loathsome unto you but sweet because it was the Lords bed I bless God I finde the truth of this upon my own soul and O that the mercies of God to me might move you and all others to love him and to serve him to your lives end And I charge thee before God before whom I am presently to appear that you honour God above all things daily and principally let him be thy fear and let him be thy dread let him be thy counsellour the joy and delight of thy soul and be sure thou set God alwayes before thy face so will he be a lanthorn to thy feet and a guide to thy paths Labour strongly to suppress vice and cralt vertue strive to be in love with goodness remember that thou must give an account of each idle hour and very idle word as our Saviour saith Matth 12.36 Let all thy actions then proceed from a good conscience for thou shalt never thrive by such wayes and means as God hath accursed for that is a miserable gain that is gotten by the less of thy soul For what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul Matthew 16.26 Be alwayes the same in the sight of God for he seeth all mens actions be they never so secret as thou appearest to be in the sight of men take heed thou give no aid nor assistance to any wicked words or works neither countenance wicked men in the least with thy company for the faults of those whom thou favourest will be imputed to thee Be not a follower of