Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	believe_v	die_v	live_v	4,475	5	5.3700	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12365	[The magistrates scripture.]	Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.	1591 (1591)	STC 22681; ESTC S107792	18,636	70

riches and thou shalt go to giue account how thou camest by them How many things doth he implie whē he saith ye shall die this is a barre in their armes which makes the proudest peacocke lay downe his feathers so often as he thinks vpō it though he pricke them vp againe Whereby the holy Ghost would haue them learne that nothing will make them liue and rule and deale so well in their thrones as to remember that they shall die and shortly giue account for all Signifying that prosperity makes vs forgetfull of our ende and that these mortall gods liue as though they were immortall A hard thing for Princes to remember death when they haue no leisure to thinke of it but chop in the earth before they be ware Like a man which walketh ouer a field couered with snow sees not his way but when he thinkes to run on suddenly falls into a pit euen so they which haue all things at will and swim in pleasure which as snow couereth their way and dazeleth their sight while they think to liue on to reioyce still suddenly rush vpō death make shipwrack in the calme sea Therfore it is good for them to heare they ar gods so it is meet to know they shal dy Wherfore ye shall dy saith he in the next words as if he would preuent some conceipt that they would take of words which he cast out before he cools them quickly before they swel deferres not to another time but where he calles them gods there he calles them wormes meat lest they should crow betweene the praise and the checke I haue saide ye are gods but ye shall die But for this die manie would liue a merrie life and feast and sport and let the world slide but the remembrance of death is like a dampe which puts out all the lights of pleasure and makes him rub and frowne and whine which thinks vpon it as if a mote were in his eye O how heauie tidings is this to heare thou shalt dy from him which hath life and death in his owne hands when the messenger is sent to thē which raigne like gods as if he should say euen you which glister like Angels whom all the world admires and sues bows to which are called honorable mightie and gracious Lords I will tell you to what your honor shall come first yee shall wax old like other then yee shall fall sicke like other then yee shall die like other then yee shal be buried like other then yee shal be consumed like other then yee shal be iudged like other euen like the beggers which crie at your gate One sickens the other sickens one dies the other dies one rots the other rots Looke in the graue shew me which was Diues and which was Lazarus This is some cōfort to the poore that once he shall be like the rich one day he shall be as welthie as mightie as glorious as a king one houre of death will make thē al alike they which crowed ouer other and looked downe vpon them like oakes other shall walke vpon them like wormes and they shall be gone as if they had neuer bene Where is Alexander that conquered all the world and after sought for another because one would not satisfie him Where is Zerxes which could not number his armie for multitude Where is Nemrod which built his nest in the clouds Where is Sampson which slew an armie with the iaw of an asse Where is Constantine Nero Galigula Titus Vespatian Domicius thunderboltes in their kinds One hundred Princes of England are dead and but one aliue the rest are gone to giue account how they ruled here when they sustained the person of God VVho vvould haue thought saith Ieremy that the enimy should haue entered into Ierusalem and spoiled that faire Citie yet he brake into it and Ierusalem was ransackt like other Who would haue thoght that Herod which was honored like a God should haue bin deuoured with wormes and sauour that none could abide him yet while he was in his pomp sodainly he was strokē al his glorie eatē with worms Who wold haue thought that Iesabel that beautiful tēptation shold haue bin gnawn of dogs yet she was cast to dogs not an ear left to seasō the graue What wold he think that should haue seene Salomon in his roialty after see him in the clay O world vnworthie to be beloued who hath made this proud slaughter Age Sicknes Death the three sōmoners which haue no respect of persons made them pay the ransome thēselues bow to the earth whence they came there lie the men which were called gods How soone the flower of this world is faded Yesterday the tallest Cedar in Libanus to day like a broken sticke troden vnder foote yesterday the stateliest vpō earth to day shrowded in earth forsaken forgotten that the poorest wretch aliue would not be like vnto him which yesterday crouched bowed to his knees Then wo to them which had the names of God and the sinnes of men for the mightie saith Esay shal be mightily tormēted All their friends and subiects and seruants forsake them because they go to prison to trie the mercie of hell take what the spirite of darknesse will heape vpon them There lie the men which were called gods and thus ends the pilgrimage of kings princes and rulers this is our life while we enioy it we loose it like the sunne which flies swifter then an arrow and yet no man perceiues that it moues He which liued 900. yeers could not hold out one houre longer and what hath he now more then the child which liued but a yeare Where are they which founded this goodly Citie which possessed these faire houses which walked these pleasant fields which erected these stately tēples which kneeled in these seates which preached out of this place but 30. yeares ago Is not earth turned to earth and shall not our sunne set like theirs whē the night comes Yet we cannot beleeue that death wil deale with vs. as he hath dealt with them though all men die yet euerie man dreames I shall scape or at least I shal liue till I be old This is strange men cannot thinke that God will doe againe that which he doth dayly or that he will deale with them as he deales with other Tell vs that all other shall die and we beleeue it tell one of vs that we shall die and we beleeue it sooner of all then of one though we be sore though we be weak though we be sicke though we be elder then those whom we follow to the ground So they thought which lie in this mould vnder your feet as you do If wisedome or riches or fauour could haue entreated death these which liued before vs would haue kept our possessions frō vs but death would take no baile we are all tenants at will and we must leaue this cottage whensoeuer the