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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	holy_a	life_n	5,129	5	4.3998	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49812	A serious remembrancer to live well written primarily to children and young people, secondarily to parents, useful (I hope) for all : lastly, compendious remarks of the death of Jonah Lawson who finished his course upon earth the 23d day of the month called February, 1683, in the 14th year of his age / [by] Tho. Lawson.	Lawson, Thomas, 1630-1691.	1684 (1684)	Wing L727; ESTC R34960	10,152	32

Comfort when other Lessons invented by Man will signifie nothing but be a Burthen Ye Fathers c. saith Paul bring up your Children in the Nurture and Admonition of the Lord Ephes 6.4 Such as are careless upon this account 't is an evident token they are not truly season'd unto God for they that are they cannot but desire the Spiritual and Eternal well-being of their Children Now you Parents truly made alive by the Quickening Word who Live Move and have your Being in God be concern'd for your Children that they may witness the same Travel when the Keepers of the House shall tremble and the strong Men shall bow themselves and the Grinders cease because they are few and those that look out of the Windows be darkned in a word when Old Age hath seized on you so as you wait for and expect the Dissolution of your Earthly Tabernacles 't will minister much Comfort and Consolation to you that you feel your Children growing up in Innocency Branches of the true Vine Christ Jesus and in them after your Bodies are commended to Earthen Sheets you as I may say Live Ambrose in his Funeral Oration upon Theodosius a Christian Emperor said Theodosius a great Emperor is gone from us but he is not wholly gone for he hath left us his Children in whom he lives still Or if according to the good Pleasure of the Almighty you Survive your Child or Children 't will be great Comfort and Satisfaction to you that such a Child or Children in that exercise in the least measure feels the sustaining and comforting Presence of the Lord so that you have ground to believe that Child or those Children go hence in the favour of the Lord. This was my Exercise of late I had a Son one only Son whose name was Jonah by Interpretation a Dove who in Nature I believe much answered his Name who tho' Educated in a mixed School where his Progress was above what could reasonably be expected from his Years was so acted and preserved as that in the days of his short Age I never knew him at variance or strife with any or bring any complaint against any Scholar or Servant I kept I never to my knowledge found a Lie in his Mouth or sought to cloke any thing I disliked but would nakedly and simply declare Truth I never heard as much as Mass or Mary proceed out of his Mouth or any Oath too common in many Schools having learned his Yea and Nay in a word as he was comfortable to us in his Life so in his Death also He was wonderfully afflicted with the Small-Pox and when we judged he was past the heighth thereof he came to be sadly troubled with Flegm with a Scowring and great Thirst which in a few days carried him away the nearer he drew to his end the more he called for my company and was not willing to want me The Night before he died I being beside him John the Son of Lancelot Fallowfield came in and said Jonah How dost thou He answered I am well Spiritually but indifferent in Body presently after he said Father talk with me I said to him Jonah What shall we talk on He said I know not Then being afflicted for him and silled with Love to him I said Jonah thou knowest I was never harsh but always tender to thee he said It is so Then I said Jonah we will talk of another Kingdom Our continuance here is very little think of that City whose Builder and Maker is God This World is but at the best a Bitter-Sweet but Heaven is nothing but Joy Have God in thy Thoughts Then he answered Ay Father and I hope I have little to answer for and that I have a good Conscience I have abhorred Lying and Swearing and what I saw to be Evil and I am willing to die if it be his pleasure or to live to praise him His Sister Ruth weeping beside him he said to her Weep not I hope we shall meet in a better place Soon after he uttered these words to the Lord The time thou hast appointed for me on the Earth give me Grace to praise thy Name Presently after as answered from above he said O sweet God A little after I coming to him he said to me Father Pray for me His last words a very little before his departure were to me and to his Sister Ruth So so I am coming I am coming I must yield I must yield Tho' his Affliction was exceeding great yet he never utter'd one word savouring of Impatiency and Vanity but such was his Patience and such things so tenderly and savourily dropped from him as wrought me into that Frame of Spirit as freely though dearer to me than all visible and transitory things to commend him to the Lord touched with much Confidence of his future Happiness And I wish I may never forget his finishing of his Course neither do I remember it but I am bettered by the remembrance thereof I remember what David said to Solomon in order to the Building the Material Temple Vp and be doing and the Lord will be with thee 1 Chron. 22.16 So you that read this Vp arise from Death to Life be doing work in the Life so the Lord will be with you to the Building a Temple without Hands knowing your Bodies the Temple of the Holy Ghost you feeding on Heavenly Food cannot but desire that others may partake with you Abraham's Sons and Daughters in the Faith are not Nabal's Fools and Churles but desire that others may feed of their Morsels partake of Spiritual Blessings with them so I conclude with Joachim Camerarius Vos virtutis iter gnatis monstrate Parentes Ipsa Aquila ut pullos fida volare docet Ut canere alma ocept pullos Philomela tenellos Sic gegitor gnatos format ipse pius Which thus I English You Parents teach your Children Vertue 's way As Eagles teach their Young to fly not stray As Nightingales do teach their Young to sing So Parents Just wash theirs in Vertue 's Spring After this I had written looking among his Papers I found several Affectionate Epistles written in Verse to one John Hall School-Master in Cleeve-Land his Quondam School-fellow a thing I never put him on nor encouraged him to and Verses upon several Subjects most of which his Sisters knew the time and occasion of writing them he wrote this following upon Man's Mortality Death puts an end to all that do remain Or which this mortal wretched World contain Croesus his Riches nothing can prevail Against the Darts of Death when they assail 'T is to be moved by no means at all Nor any spares but brings to all a fall The lofty Monarch it nothing doth regard Nor from poor Irus poverty 's debard It can be shunned by no Man's intreaty Of high and low at length it makes a booty The strength of Milo nothing doth prevail The Streams of Eloquence at length must fail What if a Prince heap Silver up and Gold Yet he must be interr'd within its Fold What if a Mortal very learned be Yet he of Death gets not the Victory What if a Poor Man with Intreaty strive Those his Intreaties keep not him alive He that of Death to get the Victory Contends he weaves th' Web of Penelope Seeing 't is so be mindful of thy end Thy few Days here in Vertuous Living spend Upon another Subject he wrote thus Humility the Spring of Vertue is Humbling thy self Vertue thou canst not miss Delight in Vertue Vice be sure to shun He 's happy that a Vertuous Course doth run One Night this Winter some Scholars in my absence propounded Questions one to another upon which he went to the Table and wrote these following A Virgin rare that 's past compare Doth in few places dwell But always she a Friend will be To those that love her well After a little season he said This Virgin is Wisdom which comes from above which indeed too few entertain but such as do she is their Guide and Leader to Life Eternal THE END