Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	die_v	life_n	17,544	5	4.8615	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05468	The dutifull advice of a loving sonne to his aged father	Southwell, Robert, Saint, 1561?-1595.	1632 (1632)	STC 156.3; ESTC S106406	5,533	55

The dutifull ADVICE of a loving SONNE To his aged FATHER LONDON Printed for Beniamin Fisher dwelling in Aldersgate-street at the Talbot 1632. THE DVTIFVLL ADVICE OF A LOVING SONNE TO HIS AGED FATER SIR I Humbly beseech you both in respect of the honour of God your duty to his Church and the comfort of you● own soule that you seriously consider in what tearmes you stand and weigh your selfe in a Christian Ballance taking for your counterpoise the Iudgements of God Take heede in time tha● the word Tekall written of olde against Balthazar and interpreted by Daniell be not verified in you whose exposition was You have beene poysed in the scale and found of too lightweight Remember that you are now in the weining and the date of your pilgrimage well nigh expired and now th●● it behoveth you ●● looke towards yo●● Countrey your fo●●ces languisheth yo●● senses impaire yo●● body droops and 〈◊〉 every side the ●●●nous Cottage 〈◊〉 your faint feebl● flesh threatneth fall And having many harbingers death to premoni●●● you of your end how can you but prepare for so dreadfull a stranger The young man may die quickly but the old cannot live long the young mans life by casualty may bee abridged but the old mans by no Phisick can be long adiourned and therefore if greene yeares should sometimes think● of the grave th● thoughts of old ag● should continually dwell in the same The prerogativ● of Infancie is innocencie of Childehoode reverence of Man-hood maturitie and of old age wisedome And seeing then that the chiefest properties of wisedome are to be mindefull of things past carefull for things present and provident for things to come Vse you now the privilege of natures tallent to the benefit of your owne soule and procure hereafter to be wise in wel-doing and watchfull in the foresight of future harm● To serve the wo●● you are now unabl● and though y●● were able yet y●● have little cause 〈◊〉 bee willing seei●● that it never ga●● you but an unhapp● welcome a hurtf●● entertainment an● now doth abando● you with an unfo●●tunate farewell You have long sowed in a field of flint which could bring you nothing forth but a crop of cares and afflictions of spirit rewarding your labours with remorse and affording for your gaine eternall danger It is now more than a seasonable time to alter the course of so unth●●●ving a husbandr● and to enter into t●● field of Gods chur●● in which sowi●● the seed of repenta●●● sorrow and wa●●●●ring them with 〈◊〉 teares of humb●● contrition you ma● hereafter reape a more beneficial ha●●●vest and gather th● fruits of everlasti●● comfort Remember I pray you that your spring is spent your summer overpast you are now arrived at the fall of the leafe yea and winter colors have long since stained your hoarie head Bee not carelesse saith Saint Augustin though our loving Lord bear long with offenders for 〈◊〉 longer he stayes 〈◊〉 finding amēdmen● the soarer hee 〈◊〉 scourge when 〈◊〉 comes to Iudg●●ment And his p●●●tience in so long fo●●bearing is onely 〈◊〉 lend us respit to ●●●pent and not a●● wise to inlarge ●● leisure to sinne Hee that is to 〈…〉 with varietie of stormes and cannot come to his desired port maketh not much way but is much tormoyled So hee that hath passed many yeares and purchased little profit hath had a long being but a short life For life is more to bee measured by wel doing than by number of ye●●● Seeing that 〈◊〉 men by many 〈◊〉 do but procure ●●●ny deaths o 〈…〉 in short space 〈◊〉 to the life of inf 〈…〉 ages what is 〈◊〉 body without 〈◊〉 soule but a co 〈…〉 carkasse And 〈◊〉 is the soule with●●● God but a sepul●●●● of sinne If God bee the way the life and the truth he that goeth without him strayeth and he that liveth without him dyeth and he that is not taught by him erreth Well saith Saint Augustine God is our true chiefest life from whom to revolt is to fall to whom to returne to rise and in wh●●● to stay is to sta●● sure God is hee fro● whom to depart 〈◊〉 to dye to whom 〈◊〉 repaire is to reviv● and in whom 〈◊〉 dwel is life for ever Bee not then of 〈◊〉 number of the●● that beginne not 〈◊〉 live till they bee r●●●dy to dye and then after a foes desert come to crave of God a friends entertainment Some there be that thinke to snatch heaven in a moment which the best can scarce attaine unto in the maintenāce of many years and when they have glutted themselves with worldly ●●●lights would j 〈…〉 from Dives dyet 〈◊〉 Lazarus Crown●● from the service 〈◊〉 Satan to the sol 〈…〉 of a Saint But bee you w●●● assured that God not 〈◊〉 so penurions 〈◊〉 friends as to h●● himselfe and 〈◊〉 kingdome scaleab●● for the refuse a●● ●eversions of their ●ives who have sa●rificed the princi●all thereof to his e●emies and their ●wne brutish lust ●hen onely ceasing 〈◊〉 offend when the ●bilitie of offending 〈◊〉 taken from them True it is that a ●hiefe may be saved ●pon the crosse and mercie found at the last gaspe But 〈◊〉 saith Saint Aug 〈…〉 though it bee p 〈…〉 ble yet it is sc 〈…〉 credible that 〈◊〉 death should 〈◊〉 favour whose w 〈…〉 life deserved de●●● and that the rep●●●tance should bee ●●●cepted that 〈◊〉 for feare of hell 〈◊〉 love of himself 〈◊〉 for the love of 〈◊〉 and loathsomnesse of sinne cryeth for mercie Wherefore good Sir make no longer delayes but being so neer the breaking up of your mortall house take time before extremitie to pacifie Gods anger Though you suffered the bud to bee blasted though you permitted the 〈◊〉 to bee perished 〈◊〉 the leaves to dry 〈◊〉 yea though you 〈◊〉 the boughs to ●●ther and the bo 〈…〉 of your tree to gr●● to decay yet ala 〈…〉 keep life in the ro 〈…〉 for feare lest 〈◊〉 whole tree becom● fewell for hell fire For surely where t●● tree falleth there shall lye whether towards the South or to the North to heaven or to hell and such sap as it bringeth forth such fruite shall it ever beare Death hath already filed from you the better part of your naturall forces and left you now to the Lees and remissals of your we 〈…〉 ish and dying day The remain 〈…〉 wherof as it can 〈…〉 bee long so doth warne you speed 〈…〉 to ransom your fo●●mer losses for wh●● is age but the 〈…〉 lends of death a●● what import●●● your present weak●●nesse but a nearne 〈…〉 of your approchi●● dissolution you are now imbarked in your finall voyage and not farre from the stint and period of your course Bee not therefore unprovided of such appurtenances as are behoovefull in so perplexed and perilous a journy death it selfe is very fearefull but much more terrible in respect 〈◊〉 the judgment i● summoneth us un●to If you were no● laid upon your departing bed burthened with the heavi● load