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	life_n	part_n	5,356	5	4.4664	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26661	A sermon preached at the funeral of ... Mr. Georg Ritschel, late minister of Hexham in Northumberland by Mr. Major Algood ... ; with an elegie on his death.	Algood, Major, 1641-1696.	1684 (1684)	Wing A925; ESTC R20315	9,968	25

A SERMON Preached at the Funeral of the Reverend and Learned MR. GEORG RITSCHEL Late Minister of Hexham in Northumberland By Mr. MAJOR ALGOOD Rector of Symon-burn in the same County With an Elegie on his Death LONDON Printed for Joseph Hall Bookseller and Bookbinder on tyne Bridge Newcastle upon Tyne 1684. Ecclesiastes 12 part of the 5 verse Because man goeth to his long home THe great matter necessary to be thought of in this life is what shall become of us after death and whither we shall goe when we goe hence For here we have but a short time to stay we are on our journey and every moment brings us nigher to the end thereof but wherever we goe to after death it is for ever and ever Solomon tells us in his distribution of time that there is a season to every purpose under heaven and amongst the rest he reckons a time to be borne and a time to dye but he tells us of no time to live because our life is uncertaine death follows in some soon after the birth and their cradle seems to stand on your graves and those that live longest are but of few dayes in respect of eternity So that our life is to be reckoned rather a moment then time and yet on this moment doth depend our everlasting happiness in the next life This all is allowed us to make provision for our long home In the words we may consider 1. The subject man 2. His transitory estate and condition expressed by way of travaile goeth 3. The end of his journey to his home 4. The duration of that home it is a long home To the first man Man in general that is every man every woman when our glorious God had by his infinite wisedom made the world in a wonderful manner and furnished it with all varietie and creatures for profit and pleasure at last after a most exquisite manner he consulted with himself for the shape of Man and finding no creature fit enough for a pattern concluded with himself to make mankind as a lively ressemblance after some sort of his own majesty that he might both in soul and body represent his creator Adams soule did most lively shadow out the divine essence not onely in the simplicity invisibleness and immortality therof but also in that power which it enjoyed to know and to will 1. For mans body it did likewise resemble God in several respects but more especially in that immortalitie wherin it was at first created The whole Man then mixt of body and soule was in the creation in a glorious state of immortalitie bordering upon everlastingness but it was not absolutely but conditionally So it is true he had a power not to dye if he had not sinned but there was a necessity he should dye when he had sinned for so the unalterable charge runs * Gen. 2 17. in the day thou eatest therof thou shalt surely dye Thus was the statute enacted that all must dye which is not to be repeated It hath bin put in execution from the beginning of the world to this time and so shall be to the end of the world We all come by the wombe and we must go by the grave from the arreast of death there 's no releasement from its sentence there 's no appeale Balthazar 's embleame is now written upon every mans wall thou art weighed in the balance and art found wanting and therfore thy life is divided and given to death It is not the Majesty of a Prince nor holiness of a prophet nor the gravity of a prelate that death respecteth It is not strength of body nor comliness of person not tender years nor the wisedom of the aged not profound learning nor an abiss of riches can plead a priviledge against the grave In other dangers there may be some way contrived by the will of man to escape them power treasure flyght counsel and policy may serve the turn but there 's no power in man to bannish death no riches will buy it of nor can we fly from it neither prevent it by counsel nor turn it back with pollicy The greatest and best of men as well as the meanest and worst must say with Job * Job 17 14. to corruption thou art my Father to the worm thou art my Mother and my Sister Abel whose sacrifice was accepted as well as Cain whose offerings were rejected Abraham the Father of the faithful as well as the infidel Abimelech Jacob whome God loved as well as Esau whome he hated and David a man after Gods own heart as well as Saul from whom he toke his holy Spirit have bin all alike subject to the empire of death and to the decree of God so that then death is the common roade of all the world of Man in general without exception 2. His transitorie state and condition goeth We are heere in this life performing a journey which we must one day finish One goes before and another followes after one body rotts in the grave and leaves room for another Whether we go softly or run swiftly our time still spends and every moment brings us more forward towards our journeys end and nigher to our home our bodies are but earthen cottagies houses of dust which fall before we are aware our life runs on apace and death rides post after and often overtakes men before ever they thought it was nigh them and when they least thought of 't Our life is like a candle in the body in one the wind maketh it sweale away in another it is blown out before it be halfe spent and in other though it burn out to the end yett it continues not long at last vanisheth into smoake and exspires Whether we sleep or wake whether we stand sitt or walk still the course of our life goes on till it be finished we never make a step forward on the ground but it is a slep nigher to death My dayes saith Job 7 6. are swifter then a weavers shuttle and in the 9 chap. vers 25.26 now my dayes are swifter then a poste they flee away they see no good they are passed away as the swift ships as the eagle that hasteth to the prey Where he reckons our life by dayes and not by yeares as if it depended on moment and not on time but if on time it must be that which is present not that which is to come But although in these places he allowes men dayes to live here yett in another place as if he had bin so prodigal in his account he lakes up and therfore he will have him to be a ereature but of yesterday Job 8.9 for we are but of yesterday and know nothing because our dayes upon earth are a shadow And in deed we may be very properly tearmed creatures of yesterday for a dying houre hastens on us so fast that we cannot assure our selfs of the light of another day and the time of our journey end is so uncertaine