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
A90761	The upright Protestant, as he was reformed from the superstitious errours of popery in the happy reignes of Edward the 6th. Qu. Elizabeth, and K. Iames of blessed memory. And for whom this (thrice happy) Parliament will live and die.	Palmer, Herbert, 1601-1647.	1643 (1643)	Wing P245A; Thomason E99_26; ESTC R20434	3,732	9

THE Upright Protestant AS HE WAS REFORMED From the Superstitious errours of Popery in the happy Reignes of Edward the 6th Qu. Elizabeth and K. Iames of blessed memory And for whom this thrice happy PARLIAMENT will live and Die Job 14.14 If a man die shall he live againe All the daies of mine appointed time will I waite till my Change come LONDON Printed for George Lindsey and are to be sold at his Shop over against THE London-STONE 1643. The Characters of a Beleeving PROTESTANT in Paradoxes and seeming Contradictions A True Reformed PROTESTANT is one that beleeves things his reason cannot comprehend he hopes for things which neither he nor any man alive ever saw He labours for that which he knoweth he can never obtaine yet in the issue his beliefe appeares not to be false his hope makes him not ashamed his labour is not in vaine He believes Three to be One and One to be Three a Father not to be elder then his Sonne a Sonne to be equall with his Father and One proceeding from Both to be equall with Both he beleeves three Persons in one Nature and two Natures in one Person He beleeves a Virgin to be a Mother of a Sonne and that very Sonne of hers to be her Maker He beleeves him to have been shut up in a narrow roome whom Heaven and earth could never containe he beleeves him to be born in time who was and is from everlasting he beleeves him to have been a weake child carried in armes who is the Almighty and him once to have died who onely hath life and immortality in himselfe He beleeves the God of all grace to have been angry with one that never offended him And that God that hates sin to be reconciled to himselfe though sinning continually and never making or being able to make satisfaction he beleeves the just God to have punished a mo●t just person and to have justified himselfe though a most ungodly sinner he beleeves himselfe freely pardoned and yet a sufficient satisfaction was made for him He beleeves himselfe to be precious in Gods sight and yet loathes himselfe in his own he dares not justifie himselfe even in those things wherein he can finde no fault with himselfe and ye beleeves God accepts him in those services wherein he is able to finde many faults He praises God for his Justice and feares him for his Mercy He is so ashamed that he dates not open his mouth before God and yet he comes with boldnesse to God and askes any thing he needs he is so humble as to acknowledge himselfe to deserve nothing but evill and yet believes that God meanes him all good He is one that feares alwaies yet is bold as a Lyon He is often sorrowfull yet alwaies rejoycing many times complaining yet alwaies giving of thanks he is the most Iowly minded yet the greatest aspires most contented yet ever craving He beares a lofty spirit in a meane condition when he is ablest he thinks meanest of himselfe He is rich in poverty and poore in the midst of riches He beleeves all the World to be his yet he dares take nothing without speciall leave from God He covenants with God for nothing yet lookes for a great reward He loseth his life and gaines by it and whilst be loseth it he saveth it He lives not to himselfe yet of all others he is most wise for himselfe He denieth himselfe often yet no man loves himselfe so well as he He is most reproached yet most honoured He bath most afflictions and most comforts The more injury his enemies doe him the more advantage he gaines by them The more he forsakes worldly things the more he enjoyes them He is the most temperate of all men yet fares most deliciously He lends and gives most freely yet he is the greatest Usurer He is meeke towards all men yet inexorable by men He is the best child husband brother friend yet hates father and mother brother and sister He loves all men as himselfe yet hates some men with a perfect hatred He desires to have more grace then any man in the World yet is truely sorrowfull when he seeth any man have lesse then himselfe he knoweth no man after the flesh yet gives all men their due respects He knoweth if he please man be cannot be the servant of Christ yet for Christ his sake he pleaseth all men in all things he is a Peace-maker yet is continually fighting and an irreconcileable enemy He beleeves him to be worse then an Infidell that provides not for his family yet himselfe lives and dies without care He accounts all his superiours yet stands stiffely upon authority he is severe to his children because he loveth them and by being favourable unto his enemy he revengeth himselfe upon him He beleeves the Angels to be more excellent Creatures then himselfe and yet counts them his servants he beleeves that he receives many good turnes by their meanes and yet he neither prayes for their assistance nor offers them thanks which he doth not disdaine to doe to the meanest Christian he believes himselfe to be a King how meane so ever he be how great foever he be he thinkes himselfe not too good to be a servant to the poorest Saint He is often in prison yet alwaies as liberty A free-man though a servant he loves not honour amongst men yet highly priseth a good name He beleeves that God hath bidden every man that doth him good to doe so he yet of any man is the most thankfull to them that doe ought for him he would lay downe his life to save the soule of his enemy yet will not adventure upon one sinne to save the life of him who saved his he sweares to his owne hinderance and changeth not yet knoweth that his oath cannot tie him to sinne He believes Christ to have no need of any thing be doth yet maketh account he doth relieve Christ in all his acts of Charity he knoweth he can doe nothing of himselfe yet labours to worke out his owne salvation he confesseth he can doe nothing yet as truely professeth he can doe all things he knoweth that flesh and blood cannot inherite the Kingdome of God yet beleeveth that he shall goe to heaven both body and soule He trembles at Gods Word yet counts it sweeter to him then the honey and the honey-combe and dearer then thousands of Gold and Silver He beleeves that God will never damne him and yet feares God for being able to cast him into hell he knoweth he shall not be saved by nor for his good workes yet he doth all the good workes he can He knoweth Gods providence is over all things yet is so diligent in his calling and businesse as if he were to cut out the thred of his own fortunes he beleeves beforehand that God hath purposed what he shall be and nothing can make him to alter his purpose yet prayes and endeavours as if he would force God to save him for ever He prayes and labours for that which he is confident God meanes to give and the more assured he is the more earnest he prayeth for that he knowes he shall never obtaine and yet gives not over he prayes and labours for that which he knows he shall be no lesse happy without he prayes with all his heart not to be led into temptation yet rejoyceth when he is fallen into it he beleeves his prayers are heard even when they are denied and gives thanks for that which he praye against He hath within him both flesh and spirit yet he is not a double minded man he is often led captive by the law of sinne yet it never gets dominion over him he cannot sinne yet can do nothing without sinne he can doe nothing against his will yet maintaine he doth what he would not he wavers and doubteth yet obtaines He is often tossed and shaken yet is as Mount Zion he is a Serpent and a Dove a Lambe and a Lyon a Reed and a Cedar He is sometimes so troubled that he thinkes nothing to be true in religion yet if he did thinke so he could not at all be troubled he thinkes sometimes that God hath no mercy for him yet resolves to die in the pursuit of it he beleeves like Abraham against hope and though he cannot answer Gods Logicke yet with the woman of Canaan he hopes to prevaile with the rhetoricke of importunity He wrestles and yet prevailes and though yeelding himselfe unworthy of the least blessing he enjoyes yet Jacob-like he will not let him goe without a new blessing he sometimes thinkes himselfe to have no grace at all and yet how poore and afflicted so ever he be besides he would not change conditions with the most prosperous man under heaven that is a manifest worldling He thinkes sometimes that the Ordinances of God doe him no good yet he would rather part with his life then be deprived of them He was borne dead yet so as that that it had been murder in any to have taken his life away After he began to live he was ever dying and though he hath an eternall life begun in him yet he makes account he hath a death to passe through He counts selfe-murther a hainous sinne yet is ever busied crucifying the flesh and in putting to death his earthly members He beleeves his soule and body shall be as full of glory as them that have more and no more full then theirs that have lesse He lives invisible to those that see him and those that know him best do but guesse at him yet those many times judge more truely of him then he doth of himselfe The world will sometimes account him a Saint when God accounted him an hypocrite and afterwards when the world branded him for an hypocrite then God owned him for a Saint His death makes not an end of him his soule which was put into his body is not to be perfected without his body yet his soule is more happy when it is separated from his body then when it was joyned unto it and his body though torne in pieces burnt to ashes grownd to Powder turned to rottennesse shall be no loser His Advocate his Surety shall be his Judge his mortall part shall become immortall and what was sowne in corruption shall be raised in incorruption and glory and a finite creature shall possesse an infinite happinesse FINIS