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	spirit_n	5,276	5	5.2874	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93746	The nature of God's kingdom and dominion over men clearly laid open and explained, as the same relates to these following particulars ... in a discourse on Deut. 8.2. wherein is likewise shewed, what influence these things ought to have upon our life and conversation / by Richard Stafford.	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1697 (1697)	Wing S5125; ESTC R42792	28,272	40

fron within which shall fetch out the Soul to receive for its Sinful Evil Deeds Saith one It is easy for the Lord to recompence a Man according to his ways in the day of his Death Nay He doth it not so properly in the ex●ct and particular day of Ones Death as afterwards for as when we begin an Action or Commence a Suit at Law against any Man we do first Arrest him by such a Bayli● or Inferiour Officer So God hath his Sergeant or Messenger who sits upon a Pale Horse whose Name is Death and enters into Palaces all One as common Houses for no Place or Person is Priviledged against him who arrests severally all the Men and Women of all Generations and Countries and fetches out their Souls from their Bodies Luke 12. 20 And then God begins his Process or Proceedings against them according to what they have done in this Life whither Good or Evil. God could have Punished Man in this Life and on this Earth If he had so pleased But his general Decr●● is to spare them here expecting that his Goodness Forbearance and Long Suffering should lead them to Repentance but when he hath given them a space to Repent and they Repented not then comes Retribution and Punishment In this Life man doth Despise and Provoke the Lord God but by Death God takes Vengeance on Man For the Wrath of God is Revealed from Heaven against all Vngodliness and Vnrighteousness of Men Rom. 1. 18. Mark here diligently how it is expressed It is Revealed that is as much as to say It is made known from Heaven but it is not yet executed and sensibly felt which will then be after the Breath of Men is gone out of their Nostrils and their Souls are departed from their Bodies or rather when they come to rise up and be Reunited again then they shall receive according to what they did in them in this Life and on this Earth On this wise all the great Promises a●d Threatnings of God do stand The Promises are now revealed or made known from Heaven they belonging unto Godliness and Righteousness but are not yet Actually given But they shall be certainly given in the appointed time or rather at the End of time And so the Threatnings are Revealed or made known from Heaven against all Ungodliness and Unrighteousness of Men by which last Word is signified all that is contrary unto that great and compleat Rule of Righteousness in Scripture Comprehending all our Duty to God as well as to our Neighbour and not only Injustice and Wrong between Man and Man although this is included also it being contrary to that great and compleat Rule of Righteousness therein mentioned but God doth not execute his Threatnings presently nor yet are they sensibly felt by the Children of Men. Which yet some of them will sensibly feel Smart and Groan under after that their Spirits are deceased or departed from these Bodies of Clay and are removed to another place then this Earth God hath another place besides this Earth and another time besides this Life to fulfil and make good every thing to the least little that he hath now spoken unto the Inhabitants of this Earth in his written and Revealed Word The Bruitish Man and Unbeliever and Ignorant Persons are apt to put off all this with a transient Jest or their way of Proverb What Shall I speak of it after I am Dead Shall I feel Punishment when my Body can feel nothing Implying as if there was an Impossibility in this No such matter Behold I shew you a Mystery Neither they nor we shall Dye but we shall be all changed How now What dost thou contradict Scripture and the Experience of all Mankind It is appointed to Men once to Dye Notwithstanding that I will however make out what I before said and affirmed that neither we nor yet Unbelievers shall ever Dye We that is our selves our Souls shall not Dye This is most true For it is only the Body that Dies then shall the Dust return to the Earth as it was and the Spirit to God who gave it Then the Soul doth only decease or depart from this Earthly House God knows where Hence Death is properly called a Decease or Departure Our Life is only taken off from the Earth Acts 8. 33. but continued elsewhere And so the Soul is equally alive the next Hour or Day after her departure from the Body all one as she was when she was in it And it returns to God who gave it And then she hath a more Lively Hope or Comfortable Assurance of good things from him or a Fearful Expectation of Evil things according as she hath behaved he self well or ill in the Body The shewing unto ye this Mystery doth also answer those two other Imaginations in the Children of Disobedience which emboldens them to Sin or Transgress against him because he is out of sight and he now keeps Silence For besides that the same Word of Truth which saith No Man hath seen God at any time Joh. 1. 18. doth elsewhere acquaint us with the Glorious Appearing of the Great God Tit. 2. 13. And how that it shall be one day said to the Cities of Judah Behold your God Isa 4●●9 The same Word which doth take notice how that God hath a long time refrained himself and held his Peace even of Old Isa 57. 11. There it is added And thou fearest me not Even for that same Reason because he h●ld his Peace And so he holdeth his Tongue when the Wicked Devoureth the Man that is more Righteous then he Hab. 1. 13. And also whilst that Evil Iniquity and Treachery are Transacted which is mentioned in the very same Verse And so it is whilst the whole course of Sin and Transgression goes on as the same is committed by the Generations of Mankind Th●se things hast thou done and I kept Silence Psal 50. 21. Why here the same Word that expresses how God holds his Peace holds ●is Tongue and keeps Silence doth also mention and assure us Our God shall come and shall not keep Silence I will Reprove thee and set them in order before thine Eyes Psal 50 3. 21. Even all the things that were done in this Life and on this Earth Behold how one Scripture answereth to another for it is even so in the Order and Determination of God And we shall see it accordingly so fulfilled as it is written in the Scriptures when the Lord God of Elijah shall take away all the Generations of Mankind from this Earth and shall cause the Dead to arise and the great Day of his Judgment is come and the after State It was before mentioned that though God is now out of sight yet at this very time he hideth himself and standeth behind the Skreen of his Visible Creatures yet Faith would find him out and perceive him for all that As also an Obedience of Faith would approve our selves unto and please him all