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	sin_n	spirit_n	9,196	5	5.3489	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02221	Memento mori, or, A word in season to the healthful, sick, and dying, fit for this calamitous time. Wherein sicknesses, rage, and deaths, are frequent. In which is discoursed, 1. That the present life of man is short. 2. That death is most certain. 3. That the time and way of death is uncertain. 4. Motives to prepare for death. 5. Some things to be done in preparation for death. 6. Some antidots [sic] against the fears of death. / By a minister of the gospel.	Clark, James, 1660-1723.	1699 (1699)	Wing C4464; ESTC R171374	12,777	19

fittest season for this so great and important work then sure ye will have the less to do when sicknesses or pains seize upon you and many who have resolved and delayed to do this work till sick or to die have found that either God in his justice hath taken heart and hand from them or that their diseases and maladies have so disordered and distempered both body and mind that for their hearts they could not get their hearts serious or steddie in minding their souls eternity matters and who knows if they shall get a warning of sickness before death for in the twinkling of an eye they may be snatched out of time into eternity as you have been hearing of many tragical instances not getting so much time allowed them as to cry for Gods mercy From all which considerations we earnestly obtest you betimes to prepare for Death Judgment and Eternity SECTION V. Some things to be done in preparation for Death SAys John Revel 14.13 Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord whereby we may understand the thrice blessful estate of them who die in Union and Communion with the Lord in the Faith of the Lord in peace and reconciliation with the Lord in hope of being with the Lord for ever and who are prepared so to be Now for your help herein I will suggest a few necessary things proper to be practized by you Frequently meditate on death and your frail state of life let Memento Mori be often in your thoughts For to contemplate of Mortality and Eternity may dispose and frame your ●●arts to prepare for death and eternity Take some share of thy time seriously to consider thy ways reflect on all the passages and periods of thy past course of life as much as thou can remember steep thy thoughts in the deep consideration of thy great and many sins till thou win sensibly to know and see what an evil thing it is and bitter to have sinned against God and when thy heart is affected with a view of all thine iniquities confess them fully and particularly before the Lord and that in all their aggravating circumstances accuse thy self as worthy of death wrath and damnation repent and prostrate thy self in the most humble manner then renouncing all thy own righteousness as unclean lay hold on the righteousness merits and mediation of Christ Jesus by faith believing he is both able and willing to pardon all thine iniquities and to save thee from the wrath that is to come Covenant thy self away to the Lord avouching thy self sincerely and explicitely to be his Subject and Servant and avouching with alike plainness and integrity his being thy alone Lord and Redeemer and having thus entered into personal Covenant with him see thou keep thy Covenant inviolably also renew it frequently and endeavour to carry and walk as becomes a Christian in Covenant with Christ Study to lead a holy life no● only free of notour vices but adorned with examplar Christian virtues such as good works of Mercy Charity and Piety Have on thy Spiritual Armour always and stand on th● Watch-Towers that thou mayst be fenced and shielded again●● the fiery darts of Satan the snares and temptations of th● world and the rebellious inordinat affections of thy unmortified flesh Likewise keep up thy daily course of religious d●ties devoutly praying to God ilk morning and evening 〈◊〉 least frequently read the Scriptures and that with reverenc● attention and diligence praise God thankfully for all th● mercies in thy lot let thy conversation be in Heaven by sp●ritual-mindedness and fervent meditation on Heavenly an● spiritual things Neglect no opportunities when in health the publick Ordinances of God with the comfortable Congr●gations of his people improve them for daily increase knowledge growth and exercise of grace up-building and stablishment in the most holy Faith Keep thy mind free fro● earthly cares and distracting thoughts anent the things this vain vexatious world abandon also all inclinations malice revenge reproach or any way impairing or injur● thy Neighbours good Name Person or Estate and when ther through the sensible infirmities o● old age or threatn● symptomes of sickness or present dangerous diseases th● art under apprehensions of approaching death see thou thy house in order both as to the inward constitution of spirit and as to the outward disposal and settlement of secualr Interests and Affairs And in the last place fenc● and fortifie against the fears and terrors of death which leads to the last thing I shall offer SECTION VI. Antidotes against the fears of Death THat will be a sweet and welcome word from the mouth of our Saviour Matth. 25.34 Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the kingdom prepared for you O what risques of death do many run compassing Sea and Land without fear without fainting that they may gain some small moyetie or a few crumbs or this perishing earth and yet it how little pains are we for the inheritance of an everlasting Kingdom yea some are so Epicurish or Turkish that they would even quite their part and hopes of it if but freed from death and secured in a perpetuated possession of earthly pleasures and riches It is small wonder that such fear their loss of this life who have not the prospect of another after it But O Believer why dost thou fear death whereof if thou hadst a right notion there is nothing in it should be formidable to thee The valley and shadow of death is a dark irksome passage to those who go through it solitary and alone but Christ hath gone this way to sanctifie it to thee he will be with thee in every step he will not not leave thee This way is strawed with Serpents and Scorpions to the wicked which will still be stinging and tormenting them but Christ hath taken the sting of death for thee 1. Cor. 15.55 57. Art thou not in union with Christ yea such a strict and firm union that neither sin nor Satan can break nor death dissolve Matth. 22.32 In the vertue whereof all Believers the mystick members of Christ that glorious Head shall at the last day be raised unto glory and happiness I say indeed the terrors and torments of death are an earnest to the wicked of those ●●effible miseries that shall follow thereafter but death will free thee from sin and misery from all temptations to sin and perils of sorrow and make thee for ever triumph over sin Satan Hell and Death O Believer Hast thou not often been filled with many weary complaints in thy life Death will make them all to cease Hath not thy life been sometimes imbittered with exquisit● pain or heavy sickness Death will relieve thee of those burdens Hast thou not been in frequent tormentful fears of crosses losses poverty or disgrace and other infelicities Common to mankind It is death that thou so much fears will dissolve all these fears for ever Hast thou not often sighed and sorrowed over thy ill plaguie heart Hast thou not often cryed out alas my hard my vain my carnal my unclean and lustful my deceitful and perverse untractable heart Hast thou not also often cryed out O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of sin and death O Believer rejoice in hope for e're thy body of clay be laid into dust death will be the death of thy body of sin the old man will be fell'd dead with deaths last stroak thy corruptions and infirmities shall never any more be matter of thy grievance or complaint And as death opens the doors of the Lake to let in the workers of iniquity so it will be to thee O Believer an in-let to glory rest and happiness thou but dies that thou mayest live thou but leaves and flits this sinful and cumbersome Tabernacle of Clay that thou mayest go to the glorious Mansion above not made with hands but eternal in the Heavens and who but should be content with such a flitting We were telling before that Christ will be ready to welcome thee to the fruition of an everlasting Kingdom and to say so thy deaths day will be thy Coronation day for by death thou shall be immediatly wasted to glory What should we say more for eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive what the believer is to enjoy after death FINIS