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	resurrection_n	4,690	5	8.8195	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33180	To Catholiko Stillingfleeton, or, An account given to a Catholick friend, of Dr. Stillingfleets late book against the Roman Church together with a short postil upon his text, in three letters / by I. V. C.	J. V. C. (John Vincent Canes), d. 1672.	1672 (1672)	Wing C433; ESTC R21623	122,544	282

conditions of the Angels falling from Heaven like lightning And we are here to observe that whatever grace or vertue our Lord had himself should be dispersed among those who follow him with a true and upright heart for of his fulness we all receive even grace for grace Whence we may well conclude that saint Francis Bennet Romwall Bruno and Dominick were Jesus Christs true servants by the graces and visions they had like himself and not that they were fools and fanaticks except we intend that others more forward men should by the same topick conclude the like of Jesus Christ himself and what I pray you Sir would a prophane Rhetorick what sport would it make upon several words of the Gospel concerning our Lord for example Marc. 3. where it is said of him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that he was beside himself Is not this in our Doctors english to be a fanatick saint Francis with the rest slighted the world left their patrimonies went poorly attired beaten reviled scoft at by the world Were not all the Apostles such men in a mind piously disposed these things would seem glorious and transcending the power of flesh and blood either to do or suffer constantly through our whole life without some special assistance from Heaven But where God once inhabits he raises above earthly things those holy tabernacles of his now wholly conversant in Heaven And so much indeed as any man hath of God so much is he he like to saint Francis and Bennet to the Prophets and Aposties of our Lord however these may appear to carnal eys contemptuous and vile Flesh and blood left alone seeks ease wealth fulness honour and whatsoever is gustful to our outward sences or more interiour imagination reduced into concupiscence of flesh concupiscence of eyes and pride of life And he that laughs at the lives of St. Bennet or St. Francis and the rest like unto them can have but little of Gods Spirit in him if any thing at all The stile of the holy Ghost concerning such men is Diametrically opposite unto the jeering phrase of Dr. Stilling fleet By faith saith holy Writ Abraham as soon as he was called obeyed to march forth into a place he should inhabite not knowing whither he went By faith he removed towards a land promised him into a strange country and dwelt in tabernacles and so did Isaac and Jacob heirs with him of the same promise For he looked for a City having a foundation whose builder and maker is God Thus speaks the holy Scripture and is not this St. Bennets case as well as Abrahams Did not he thus march forth out of his father house thus dwell in the tabernacles of rocks and caves looking after a City built above in Heaven and both St. Bennet and Abraham did both of them dye in that their faith and never returned again from whence they came Again by faith saith holy Scripture Moses when he was great refused to be called the son of Pharaos daughter choosing rather to suffer adversity with the people of God then to injoy the pleasures of sin for a season preferring rebukes and taunts before the treasures of Egypt Thus did Moses and is it not the same thing which St. Francis did St. Francis preferred rebukes and taunts for Christs sake whom he loved before the pleasure of his fathers house nay to suffer adversity with Gods peculiar people for that name he rejoyced to be disinherited by his own father Moses then and St. Francis were both of them either wise and holy men or a couple of fools Holy Scripture goes on thus others were tortured and racked others mocked and scourged bound and imprisoned stoned and murdered cast out from amongst men and banished walking up and down in Sheeps skins and Goats skins in need and want in tribulation and affliction wandering in wildernesses in mountains dens and caves of the earth of whom the world was not worthy and all these men through faith obtained a good report Thus speaks holy Writ but Dr. Stilling fleet has no good report for them they are all in his phrase and judgment madmen and fanaticks and unworthy of the world whom the holy Ghost judges beloved and divine Heroes of whom the world is not worthy And our great Lord at the sight of these exulted in Spirit and said I confess to thee O Father Lord of Heaven and earth for that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to babes So O Father because it so seemed good before thee 4. Another thing also did then much run in my thoughts and it is this that all the whole History of our Lords incarnation passion ascention is liable to the same kind of derision here used by this Doctour Nay the whole Gospel and all the precepts and counsels of Christianity together with all its threats and promises are as meer a folly unto a carnal man that will presume ●o sport himself with them as any thing here derided Few of those who live in this present age are ignorant of this Our ears are beaten with such talk familiarly in all places And the bearer does generally but laugh and applaud the wit of this prophane orator For this reason St. Paul to prevent the cavil acknowledges himself a fool aforehand Ye do willingly bear with fools saith he to the inhabitants of Corinth and take me if you please for such another We are all fools in Christ And if any one doth seem to be wise among you let him become a fool too that he may be wise indeed I know saith he again that the word of the cross is but folly unto desperate forlorn men But Gods folly is wiser than mans wit The foolish things of the world these hath God chosen that he may confound the wise and so hath that holy one ordered his ways and counsels that by folly he might save the world which carnal wisdom had undone These and other things to this purpose speaks that holy man And what I pray you Sir is greater folly with carnal men than to pass by injuries insensibly and suffer our selves to be abused in patience to divide our goods among poor people neither of kin to us nor perhaps known to disdain this present life to fly with all caution the delights and pleasures of it to pant and breath after our last hour so to mannage all our affaires as if our Soul were but a pilgrim in our mortal body to meditate daily on our latter end still to abstract our mind from visible and corporeal things ready to fly hence out of this prison unto our God invisible our bodies either slenderly regarded or wholly neglected or perhaps chastised and curbed that liveing here we may express our Lords death and dying obtain part of his resurrection and glory which yet our eye never saw nor ear heard nor can our heart conceive what it is All this which is but evangelical rules and counsels acted by good