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	rise_v	soul_n	5,336	5	5.5152	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19499	A mirrour of mercie or The prodigals conuersion briefely, and learnedly expounded, and full of comfortable consolations for all penitent sinners. By William Cooper, minister of Gods word, and B. of Galloway.	Cowper, William, 1568-1619.	1615 (1615)	STC 5928; ESTC S119161	51,916	283

fructum esse stultae sanitatis That sinne is the fruit of vnhappy health and that holy sicknes is to be preferred vnto it the same is to be thought of all other crosses being sanctified to our vse Vers. 18. I will rise and goe to my Father and I will say These being his motiues now followeth his resolution wherein first wee see that true repentauce is a rising we fall by sinne we rise by repentance in the godly there is a death and a resurrection and an ascention euen while they liue in the body by the first death sinne dies in them By the first resurrection they arise from their sinnes by the first ascention they go vp after their Lord though they walke vpon earth They haue their conuersation in heauen and their affections are set on these things which are aboue at the right hand of God Blessed is he that hath part in the first resurrection for vpon him the second death shal haue no power If the soule while it is in the body rise not out of the graue of sinne sure it is the body shall neuer rise out of the earth but to shame and confusion Awake therefore thou that sleepest and stand vp from the dead and Christ shall giue thee light But we must know that this rising of a sinner from his sinnes is not a worke that can be wrought by the power of nature the second resurrection will bee wroght by the mighty power of God and much more the first Si stare perse non potuit humana natura adhuc integra multo minus per se resurgere potestiam corrupta Euery man by nature is a vessell replenished loadned heauy with sinne not vnlike that Ephah wherein wickednesse was couered and prest downe with a talent of lead how shall he thē rise if grace come not from aboue to remoue the talent he cannot so much as lift vp the head no more then that man diseased of the Palsey till the Sauiour come and giue the command and with the command grace Arise and walke Lazarus was dead but foure daies he stunke already but should haue lien still till hee had rotted if Iesus had not stood ouer his graue and called vpon him and no better is it with vs we are dead in sinne till the Lord quicken vs. Vtinam ad hoc monumentum meum digneris accedere domine Iesu voca me de monumento huius corporis si illachrymaueris prome saluus ero It was the desire of Ambrose alluding to Lazarus his resurrection shold be ours also Oh Lord Iesus that thou wouldest draw neere this sepulchre of mine that thou wouldest raise me out of the graue of this body and command me to come out that my cogitations and affections he not inclosed in darkenesse but I may see thy light and being set at liberty may walke after thee And goe to my father He sinned by going from his father when he repents he returnes to his father againe this repentance hath a course plaine contrary to that which men kept while they walked in their sinnes So Chrysostome alluding to the doings of wise men who went home an other way then the way they came to the field obserues it in al penitent men they come home to the Lord an other way then they went from him Hast thou gone from the Lord by the way of anger or hatred returne againe by the way of meekenesse and loue Hast thou sinned by intemperance amend by abstinence Wentst thou astray by the way of concupiscence returne by continence Hast thou sinned by couetousnesse taking from thy neighbour what thou shouldest not make restitution with Zaccheus This is that effect of repentance which Saint Paul calleth reuenge When a man grieued in himselfe for that hee hath grieued the Lord resolues to bee reuenged on his sins by following a course plaine contrary vnto them Againe we see here goe a sinner where he will he can neuer find rest and contentment till he come home to God his heauenly Father Seeke it as thou wilt in the creature thou shalt neuer find it God made all his creatures for man but man he made for himselfe and he is content all that is his bee thine prouiding thou wilt be his All things are yours things present and things to come and yee are Christs and Christ is Gods God calleth vppon vs to come to himselfe My Son giue me thine heart Come vnto me I will refresh you And euery creature in their kinde sends man backe vnto the Lord this is their voice Why wander yee in vanity Why follow ye after lies for your sinnes we our selues are subiect to vanity seeke not your good in vs seeke it in him that made vs by your restitution to his fauour Wee looke for deliuerance from this bondage of corruption in to the glorious liberty of the Sonnes of God By your going a whoring after vs yee may increase bondage and ours also but cannot procure to your selfe wished contentment All that euer tasted the pleasure of the creature before vs witnesse the same vnto vs. But alas so foolish is man that hee dreames of a possibilitie to finde contentment for himselfe wher neuer one could find it before him he regards not the testimony of others hee will not be taught of any till experience the the Schoolemaster of fooles teach him and then though hee were ten times more wise and wealthie then euer Salomon was and would lay downe his head and his heart to seeke desired comfort in the creature yet shall hee be forced to acknowledge that All the labour vnder the Sunne is but vanity and vexation of Spirit there is a short abridgement of our life Man commeth into vanity and goeth into darkenesse it is no better if we doe no more but follow the course of nature let vs therefore go aboue the Sunne seeke rest ioy and contentment in our God in whom onely it is to bee found And I will say When hee was in the way of his sinnes he went from one sin to another till hee came ad profunaum to the deepth of sinne Now when hee comes to the way of repentance repentance yee see from one grace hee proceeds and steppes forward to an other for both vertues and vices haue their owne fellowship Vices are linked together like the links of a chaine any one of them preuailing ouer a miserable man deliuers him to another Ope vicaria fugitiuum seruum vitia ret nent Thus is hee carried as a capt●ue from hand to hand in that cursed fellowship till hee come to their common master the prince of darkenesse Vertues also and graces haue their owne society and a man comming in amongst them is sent from one of them to an other till he be deliuered into the hands of their Lord and master Iesus Christ for no vertue nor vice