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	lord_n	soul_n	13,508	5	5.1021	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45530	Christian geography and arithmetick, or, A true survey of the world together with the right art of numbering our dayes therein being the substance of some sermons preached in Bristol / by Thomas Hardcastle.	Hardcastle, Thomas, d. 1678?	1674 (1674)	Wing H699; ESTC R29470	88,947	217

and time and strength has been mostly imployed about their own outward Man and their Families and Children how to get them Bread and Livings and Portions and in the mean while have made no provision for their long home for Eternity for their precious Souls but let them lie at sixes and sevens hunger'd starved defiled naked and bare He that reckons of the fewness of his dayes reasons and resolves thus let me secure an interest for my Soul in the Lord Jesus let me be assured of a kind reception beyond the Grave and a mansion in Glory and then if I have time I may look a little after the World but if I leave the former undone I shall be undone for ever I may leave the latter undone and no great loss God will take care of my Children he is bound to it and for my self if I be in the meaner condition here as we use to say to Children no body will ask them or tell them when they come to be Men what cloaths they did wear when they were Children so when I come to Heaven it will be all one then whether I had two coats here or never a whole one whither I lived in plenty here or sometimes was in such a strait that I did not know where to get my dinner let my Soul be once in a safe condition and then I am sure there can be nothing much amiss in other things 2. It is a Point of Wisdom to foresee an evil and to avoid it the Wise-Man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself but the simple pass on and are punished He that numbers his dayes aright that knbws the shortness of time the certainty and suddenness of Death does prepare himself accordingly he gets himself hid in the rock the Lord Jesus he has got an hiding place so that when Death comes to strike and Satan watching for the Soul and the Grave which can never have enough gapeing for the Body all on a sudden the Soul is carried by Angels into Abraham's bosom and the Body laid as seed in the Earth not detained as a Prisoner under the grave's power to be raised again a Glorious Body at the Resurrection of the Just the Soul is continually whilst here fortifying it self by Faith and Repentance and humility and self-denial which are Armour of proof in every evih day 3. He is a Wise-Man that knows how to carry himself suitable to his condition The right numbring his dayes conduces much to this as you have already heard and therefore I need not enlarge upon this Head only this he reckons his time is so short that it never concerns him whether he be in an high or in a low condition it 's no matter where or how I fit I am not like to fit so long no matter what part I act I shal quickly be gone off the stage I can take any part that is allotted me it 's no matter how I buy and sell or pofesess for I must do all as though I did it not because of the shortness of time so that in short as numbring our dayes aright is the fruit of Divine Teachings so it is the way and means to obtain Divine Wisdom 4. He is a Wise-Man that is well-read in antient Records and History and has a good reach with him about what things may fall out hereafter and manages himself accordingly Now to number our dayes aright will put us upon a search of the dayes that are past what times have been before and that which is is but what hath been and is gone and past and so must what lies before us top and therefore we shall be looking after something that is lasting not so flitting and fading as these earthly things are a Man that knows no more than the present day will mind nothing else but the present things will be alwayes muddling and moyling and scraping in the World and never looks about him to see what has gone before him or what will come after him which if he once did he would quickly come out of his muddy hole and shake himself and seek about for some surer foot-hold some better standing some other imployment than what he is now engaged in and taken up with 5. He is a Wise-Man what knows things of deep reach and search of profound enquiry things that are out of other Mens thoughts that never enter into their head 's the right numbring of our dayes will much help to this knowledg for he that considers that time will quickly end and Eternity presently begin which will never end will begin to inquire what things are conversant and in use in the other world and when he finds that Communion with God beholding Christ in his Glory freedom from all sin the society of Saints c is the condition of the place he presently turns out Worldly thoughts and designs and discourses about Houses and Lands and Money and Pomp and Glory and Pleasures and dives into the Mystery of the Gospel the Word of reconciliation a Life of believing the work and sealing of the Spirit the priviledges of God's People c and falls upon studying the work of repentance of self-denial of mortification together with all those works of meekness love and charity by which Persons are made meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light and are prepared for an Eternal state and condition alas faies he why do you trouble me with these trifles as Eating and Drinking and Trading c. It 's true they are of use in and are calculated for this present infirm state and must have their place but the main work and business is quite another thing the usages and customes of this World are quite differing from and contrary to those of the next and therefore I must begin the life here that I expect to live in the next and must be practising Non-conformity to and living above this present evil World I must come out of it I must be out of Love with it I must keep it at due distance I must use it as not abusing it as if I used it not that I may be ready and fitted for the condition and company of the World to come when-ever the messenger of Death comes for me which I am to expect every hour For I am commanded to watch alwaies with my loins girt about and my light burning that when my Lord comes and knocks I may open to him immediatly 6. We count him a Wise-Man who is willing to be taught and nothing like the numbring of our dayes will further that it cures trewantry he that does a thing as his last will be willing to do it the best way he can and will be glad of any help persons that have difficult business to do which must be done in such a time are ready to receive advice and take it kindly and this does argue them to be wise for willingness to learn is a sign of Wisdom he is