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	everlasting_a	life_n	5,649	5	4.7198	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09387	Deaths knell: or, The sicke mans passing-bell summoning all sicke consciences to pr[e]pare themselues for the comming of the grea[t] day of doome, lest mercies gate be shut against them: fit for all those that desire to arriue at the heauenly Ierusalem. Whereunto are added prayers fit for housholders. The ninth edition. Written by W. Perkins.	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.	1628 (1628)	STC 19684; ESTC S119984	9,405	26

Deaths Knell or The sicke mans Passing-Bell Summoning all sicke Consciences to pr●●pare themselues for the comming of the grea● Day of Doome lest mercies Gate be shut against them Fit for all those that desire to arriue at the heauenly Ierusalem Whereunto are added Prayers fit for Housholders The ninth Edition Written by W. Perkins Printed at London for M. Trundle and are to be at her Shop in Smith-field 1628. Deaths Knell LEt the memory of Death good Christian be euer the Looking-glasse of thy life thy continuall Companion and inseparable Spouse let thy solace be y e sighes of a sorrowfull soule and those the more bitter the better whilest Worme-like thou crawlest heere below fasten all thy faculties vpon the Commandements of thy Creator for those in thy finall passage must be the Pylot to steere thee into the Hauen of Heauen Thinke euery moment thou art in the waning that the date of thy Pilgrimage is wel-nigh expired and that the lampe of thy life lyeth twinckling vpon the snuffe and that now it stands thée vpon to looke toward thy Celestiall home thy forces are enfeebled thy sences impaired and on euery side the tottering and ruinous Cottage of thy faint flesh threatneth fall And méeting so many Harbengers of death how cāst thou but prepare for so gastly a guest The young man may dye quickely but the old cannot liue long the young mans life by casualty may be cut off but the aged by Physicke cannot be preserued Gréene yéeres must resolue to grow to the graue and the meditations of old age must dwell in the same be mindfull of things past carefull of things present and prouident for things to come Use the blessings of nature to the benefit of thy soule be wise in well-doing and watchfull for thy end Serue not the world for that can possesse thee of nothing but pride enuy lust anger malice and infinite follies for it defileth a man with sin disquieteth with troubles oppresseth with labours vexeth with temptations vanquisheth with vaine delights and miserably wrappeth him vp in wofull calamities The world it is an Ambassadour of the euill a scourge of the good a tyrant of the truth a breaker of peace a worker of warre a sweet of vices a gall of vertues a friend of lyes an inuenter of nouelties a trauell to the ignorant a table of Gluttons a furnace of concupiscence a sepulcher of the dead a prison of the liuing a pitfall to the rich a burthen to the poore a Palace of Pilgrims a Den of Deceiuers a slanderer of the good a commender of the wicked and a deluder of all Thou hast no reason to dote vpon the world for at first it affords thee but a wrangling welcome and at last turnes thee off with a fearefull farewell moreouer it doth torment thée abuse thée consume thee and at length expell thee whereas on the contrary Heauen doth comfort thee conserue thée and exalt thée On Earth thou sowest but in a field of Flint which bringeth foorth nothing but a Crop of care and languishing for thy labour it is time therefore to leaue so vnthriuing a husbandry and to sowe in Gods ground the seed of repentant sorrow and water it with the teares of humble contrition so shalt thou reape a plentifull haruest and gather the fruits of euerlasting consolation Imagine thou thy Spring to be spent thy Summer ouer-past and that thou art arriued at the Fall of the Leafe and though thy louing Lord doe long forbeare offenders yet at last he will scourge them and that his patience lends vs but respit to repent not leysure to sinne Hee that is tossed with sturdie stormes and cannot come to his desired Port rids little way but is much turmeiled so hee that passeth many yeeres and purchaseth but small profit to his soule hath had a long being but a short life for life is to be measured by vertuous actions not by number of dayes Some men by many dayes purchase many deaths and others in a short space attaine to life euerlasting What is the body without the soule but a corrupted Carkeise and what is the soule without God but a Sepulcher of sinne Man was made and sent hither to no other purpose but onely to serue God in this life and to enioy Heauen in that life heereafter If our end be the Kingdome of Heauen why are we so much enamoured on the Earth If the end of our Creation be eternall saluation why hunt we after the vanities of this vaine life If our inheritance be to raigne as Kings why liue we like seruile slaues in danger to be diuided from God from Christ our Sauiour from the Angels from the Communion of Saints and from the hope of our celestiall portion If God be the way the truth and the life then he that walketh without him wandreth that is not instructed by him erreth and that liueth without him dyeth to reuolt from him is falling to returne to him is rising to stay vpon him is sure standing Hee it is from whom to depart is to dye to whom to repaire is to reuiue in whom to trust is truly to liue O be not thou like those that beginne not to liue vntill they be ready to dye and then when they deserue an enemies reward come to craue of God a friends entertainement Some thinke to snatch Heauen in a moment which the best can scarce attaine in many yeeres and when they haue glutted themselues with worldly delights would iumpe from the Dyet of Diues to the ioyes of Lazarus from the seruice of Satan to the solace of a Saint But be sure that God is not so penurious to make his Kingdome saleable for the refuse and reuersion of their liues who haue sacrificed the principall and prime thereof to his enemies and their owne brutish appetites then onely ceasing to sinne when the ability of offending is taken from them What thanke is it to pardon our enemies when wee can not hurt them to giue away our goods when we can kéepe them no longer to shake hands with our pleasures when wee can vse them no more to forsake sinne when sinne leaueth vs God may be mercifull at the last gaspe but most miserable is that man who casteth the Anchor of his eternall weale or woe on so vncertaine and sandy a point The thiefe may be saued on the Crosse and mercy found at the last yet it is not likely that hee should finde fauour at his death whose life earned the wages of wrath or that his penitence should be accepted who more for feare of hell and his owne selfe-loue then for the loue of God or lothsomelesse of sinne cryeth out for mercy Put not off repentance therefore to the last point take Dauids early in the morning stay not till to morrow though thou sufferedst the Bud to be blasted the Flowres to fade the Fruit to perish the Leaues to wither the Boughes to dry vp and the body of the Tree to decay yet