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	see_v	soul_n	14,522	5	5.2397	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40668	Good thoughts in worse times consisting of personall meditations, Scripture observations, meditations on the times, meditations on all kind of prayers, occasionall meditations / by Tho. Fuller ...	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1647 (1647)	Wing F2436; ESTC R7345	37,840	250

posture from other Foule proper to themselves fit it is that there should be a distinction betwixt Soveraigne and Subjects carrying their prey in their Talons but young ones on their backs so interposing their whole bodyes betwixt them and harme The Old Eagles body is the young Eagles-sheild and must be shott through before her young ones can be hurt Thus God in saving the Iewes put himselfe betwixt them and danger Surely God so loving under the law is no lesse gracious in the Gospell Our soules are better secured not onely above his Wings but in his body your life is hid * with Christ in God No feare then of harme God first must be pierced before wee can be prejudiced XVIII None to him IT is said of our Saviour his Fan * is in his hand How well it fits him and he it could Satans clutches snatch the Fan what worke would he make He would Fan as he doth * winnow in a tempest yea in a Whirle-winde and blow the best away Had man the Fan in his hand especially in these distracted times out goes for Chaffe all oposite to the opinions of his party Seeming sanctity wil carry it away from such who with true bu● weak grace have ill natures and eminent corruptions There is a kind of darnell called Lolium Murinum because so counterfeiting Corne that even the Mice themselves experience should make them good Tasters are sometimes deceived therwith Hypocrites in like manner so act holinesse that they passe for Saints before men whose censures often barne up the chaffe and burne up the graine Well then Christ for my share Good luck have hee with his honour The Fan is in so good a hand it cannot be mended Onely his hand who knowes hearts is proper for that employment XX Humility IT is a strange passage Rev. 7.13 14. And one of the Elders answered saying unto mee what are these who are arrayed in white robes and whence came they And I said unto him Sir thou knowest And he said unto me these are they who have come out of great Tribulation c. How comes the Elder when asking a question to be said to answer On good reasō for his Quaere in effect was a resolution He ask't St. Iohn not because he thought he could but knew he could not answer That Johns ingenuous confession of his ignorance might invite the Elder to inform him As his Question is called an answer so Gods Comm●nds are Grants When he enjoynes us Repent Believe it is onely to draw from us a free acknowledgment of our impotency to performe his commands This confession being made by us what he enjoynes he will enable us to doe Mans owning his weaknesse is the onely Stock for God thereon to graft the grace of his assistance MEDITATIONS on the TIMES I. Name-Generall HEber had a Sonne borne in the dayes when the * Earth was divided Conceive we it just after the Confusion of Tongues when Mankind was parcelled out into severall Colonies Wherefore Heber to perpetuate the memorie of so famous an accident hapning at the birth of his Sonne called him Peleg which in the Hebrew tongue signifieth Partition or Division We live in a Land and Age of dissention Counties Cities Townes Villages Families all divided in opinions in affections Each man almost divided from himselfe with feares and distractions Of all the children borne in England within this last five yeares and brought to the Font or if that displeas to the Bason to be baptized every Male may be called Peleg and Female Palgah in the sad Memoriall of the time of their Nativity II. Wofull Wealth BArbarous is the custome of some English People on the Sea side to prey on the goods of poore shipwrack't Merchants But more divelish in their designe who make false fires to undirect Sea-men in a Tempest that thereby from the right Road they may be misled into danger and destruction England hath been toss'd with an Hirricano of a civill Warre Some men are said to have gotten great wealth thereby But it is an ill leap when men grow rich per saltum taking their rise from the miseries of a Land to which their owne sinnes have contributed their share Those are farre worse and may not such be found who by cunning insinuations and false glosings have in these dangerous dayes trained and betrayed simple men into mischeife Can their pelfe prosper not got by valour or industry but deceit surely it cannot be wholsome when every morsell of their meate is Mummie good Physick but bad food made of the corps of mens estates Nor will it prove happy it being to be feared that such who have been enriched with other men's Ruines will be ruined by their own riches The child of Ten yeares is old enough to remember the beginning of such men's Wealth and the man of threescore and ten is young enough to see the ending thereof III. A new Plot VVHen Herod had beheaded Iohn the Baptist some might expect that his Disciples would have done some great matter in revenge of their Masters Death But see how they behave themselves And his * Disciples came and tooke up the body and buried it and went and told Iesus And was this all and what was all this Alasse poore men It was some solace to their sorrowfull Soules that they might lament their losse to a fast friend who though for the present unable to helpe was willing to pitty them Hast thou thy body unjustly imprisoned or thy goods violently detained or thy credit causelesly defamed I have a designe whereby thou shalt revenge thy selfe even goe and tell IESUS Make to him a plaine and true report of the manner and measure of thy sufferings Especially there being a great difference betwixt IESVS then clouded in the flesh and IESVS now shining in glory having now as much pitty and more power to redresse thy greivances I know it is counted but a cowardly Trick for Boyes when beaten but by their equals to cry that they 'l tell their Father But during the present necessitie it is both the best wisedome and valour even to complaine to thy Father in Heaven who will take thy case into his serious consideration IIII. Providence MArvelous is Gods goodnesse in preserving the young Ostridges For the old one leaveth her * Egges in the earth and warmeth them in the dust forgetting that the foot may crush them or that the wild Beast may breake them But Divine providence so disposeth it that the bare Nest hatcheth the Egges and the warm'th of the sandy Ground discloseth them Many Parents which otherwise would have been loving Pelicans are by these unnaturall Warres forced to be Ostridges to their own children leaving them to the Narrow mercy of the wide world I am confident that these Orphanes So may I call them whilst their Parents are a live shall be comfortably provided for when worthy Master Samuel Herne famous for his living preaching and