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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42212	Hugo Grotius, his consolatory oration to his father translated out of the Latine verse and prose ; with epitaphs, &c. by F.G.; De consolatoria oratio ad patrem. English	Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.; Goldsmith, Francis, 1613-1655.	1652 (1652)	Wing G2095; ESTC R30324	7,558	18

not fully gives Night place Thus short the course is thus ends the swift race Now could what in the morning dies have spoke It might complaine lifes thred was too soon broke That which at midday death shall overtake Would grudgingly crosse o're the Stygian Lake But what in th' evening dies more willingnesse Perhaps might shew and its old age confesse Not that twelve houres so great a number are But that our selves with others we compare The Raven give her no more yeers then man Would cry her Ell was shortned to a Span. We never pleas'd at home are looking on Our neighbour were none happy wretched none Will think himselfe It would great wisdome be What others have as not our own to see Who knowes from what evill that provident Parent hath withdrawne your sonne How quite contrary to the hopes which they had rais'd hath the disposition of many been perverted how many vices are abroad at this day what corruptions Although God forbid I should make this augury of him yet we may bee glad that he is not onely past danger but beyond fear Hee had his almost daily tormentor the Collicke which not content alwaies to torture would at length have kil'd him If he had gone with the army what hazards had he been liable to A wise saying was that of Syrus What may happen to one man may happen to every one Imagine before your eyes maym'd men and buried already in a part of them the butchery of Chirurgions who picke the bones of the living all which who would not abhor worse then death But let us suppose the least Yet he had dyed far from the sight of his most deare mother We should neither have heard of his sicknesse nor of his death wee could not have prepar'd our hearts for the losse nor have bin a helpe or a comfort to him We should have doubted still with what minde he took his death which I suppose to bee a chiefe matter These are the evills which our first thoughts suggest to us But we are sottishly ignorant if not yet taught even by our own example how many and much more grievous those evils be which come upon us so much as dreaming on them Many Father many discommodities is he delivered from by a timely death and if from no other certainly from old age See this also how many comforts his very death may afford you He died in a slippery age and not of a sudden but slow disease so that for a long while hee might perceive himselfe to die Which you perhaps may think a part of his misery I of his felicity Especially whereas the pain was not extreme For so it comes to passe that not only the body it selfe is tam'd but also by how much it decayes so much the soul improves there follows a loathing of life and a desire of eternall happinesse Would to God you indeed had seen him and heard with how great a fortitude he did challenge death The despairing of that health which we wish'd him made him to be assur'd of a better I will say more God hath call'd him to himselfe not without a miracle Hee was taken with a frenzy and the contagion of his sick bodie had also infected his minde Yet as often as hee was admonish'd of death salvation God as if this only concern'd him hee so answer'd as that in every word hee shew'd a good understanding But of the things of this present life he was nothing at all sensible O unhappy we if good health had in this case surpriz'd him Yet once there did appeare I know not what hope thereof which as you confesse doth the more trouble you Surely God made made an experiment in him whether so indeed he would still be out of love with life But the pious youth submitted himselfe wholy to his will being prepar'd on either side How great a benefit is it that God hath called us to be witnesse the•eof that we saw him blaming the delay of death and with an unconquered breast proclaming as it were this very Verse I've liv'd and run the race which God me gave But death it selfe you will say is grievous and that of the Antients not altogether true That it is naturall and therefore not painefull First whatsoever it is it is now past Hee seeks for sorrow where it is not who grieves that his have bin miserable Nothing is more agreeable unto Nature then to rejoyce at the end of evill But what What if to die be indeed no evill And this hath been believ'd even by the Philosophers We Christians go further and dare with Paul to say I desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ This is the onely gate to eternall life This is that over which He the first fruits of the dead hath triumphed we therefore hear the Apostle to contemn his sting For our healths sake wee take poyson in potions and what soever else is loathsome to nature what should we not undergo to enjoy a perpetuall and unchangeable health Valiantly then valiantly let us endure both death and the losse of our friends Christians have no colour for mourning unlesse that wee mourne for our selves who have lost yea rather who have but sent them before us And how foule and mis-becomming is this very sorrow Who is he that is so much a selfe-seeker and so envious of his friends happinesse as to call back them who are blessed to take part with him in misery If you would do any thing for your sons sake if there be any respect to bee had to his ghost do what you think hee would have you doe if hee hath any care at all of humane affaires Surely hee would take it ill you should bee afflicted for his sake who being plac'd above the mockeries of fortune looks down from aloft on the businesse of mortals Him wondring at his glorious house of Rest Heaven holds for ever no more now opprest With publique nor with private sorrow he From hopes and fears from sin and pain is free Who fil'd with true light smiles at mists below And that but empty names of things we know And thus much indeed I have said in generall There are also very many other reasons you may suggest unto your selfe in private See Sulpitius writing to Tully Thinke in what manner hitherto fortune hath dealt with us that those things are taken away from us which ought unto men to be no less dear then children Adde but this one evil and how can griefe bee raised higher or what mind exercis'd in these calamities ought not to grow insensible and to esteem more lightly of all things So many miseries are lost if we Are not by suffering hardned nor to be Wretched yet learn Hence also comes reliefe 'Tis good to have been familiar with griefe An Epitaph ON Mrs DUDLEY HERRIS WHose Mind was than her face more fair Though both were good her Fathers heir And for which men should choose a wife Of a devout and harmelesse life A Virgin hath us left in woe The Lamb where-ever he shall go To follow let us then no more Say she is lost but gone before