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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	sin_n	spiritual_a	6,216	5	6.8219	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44678	A funeral sermon for Mrs. Esther Sampson the late wife of Henry Sampson, Dr. of Physick, who died Nov. 24. 1689 / by John Howe ...	Howe, John, 1630-1705.	1690 (1690)	Wing H3026; ESTC R19694	24,476	33

end the importance whereof was such as that it ought to transcend any regard to the welfare of mens bodies but not to exclude it which we now come briefly to shew in the next place viz. 2. That tho' compassion towards an infirm creature under bodily distemper was not the principal inducement unto this cure it was a real one Our Lord doth really compassionate the frailties of those that relate to him while they dwell in mortal flesh He himself bears our sicknesses He has a tenderness towards them even while he doth not think it fit actually to release and set them free which makes way to what was proposed in the last place to be insisted on as preparatory to the intended use 4. That in what way soever our Lord Jesus works a release for them that are most specially his own from their bodily distempers he doth it in mercy to them He lets their affliction continue upon them in mercy greater mercy indeed than would be in an unseasonable deliverance But when he sees it a fit season to give them a release that is an unquestionable mercy too tho' it be not in such a way as appears such to vulgar eyes It is more easily apprehensible to be from compassion if he relieves a poor pained weak languishing sickly creature by giving renewed strength and ease and health in this world But when the release is by death as in the case we have under our farther present consideration it is hard to perswade that this is done in mercy that there is compassion in this case There is 't is true in this a manifest disparity but not a disadvantageous one Is it a less thing to release an holy soul from the body than from bodily distempers It can only be so in the opinion of such blind moles of the earth as the children of men are now generally become But let the case be considered according to it's true and real import Why a recovery from sickness is but an adjournment of death 't is but death defer'd a while When there is a release wrought in such a way as this in which hers was wrought whom God hath lately taken from amongst us here is a cure not only of one bodily distemper but of all not only of actual diseasedness but of the possibility of ever being diseased more here is a cure wrought not only of infirmity but of death for the Saints conquer death by suffering it Yea a cure not of death only but of mortality of any liableness to death so as it can never touch them more Yea further not only of bodily diseases but of Spiritual too far worse and more grievous than all bodily diseases whatsoever a cure of blindness of mind deadness and hardness of heart of all indispositions towards God his ways and presence towards the most spiritual duties and the best and most excellent of our enjoyments The body of Sin and the mortal body are both put off together The imprisoned soul is set free and enters upon a state of everlasting liberty is releast from the bands of death of whatsoever kind and in the highest fullest sense shall reign in life thorough Jesus Christ. What is the decease of a Saint but a translation out of a valley of death a Golgotha a place of Skulls a region where death reigns into the region of perfect and everlasting life It is not to be called death simply or absolutely but with diminution 't is death only in a certain respect when in an higher and much more considerable respect When in an higher and much more considerable respect it is a birth rather a dying out of one world and a being born at the same time into another a much more lightsome a purer and more glorious world The soul is cured in a moment of whatsoever was grievous or afflicting to it and the body put into a certain way of cure of being made from an earthly mean mortal thing heavenly spiritual incorruptible and immortal from a vile a glorious body like Christs own and by that power by which he can subdue all things to himself Phil. 3. 21. And now for Use. I. Learn That there is no inconsistency in the case that the same person should be at once the subject of long continued bodily affliction and of divine compassion These are reconcilable things sickly languishings under which one may be ready to fail and compassions that fail not This is a common Theme but the due consideration of it is too little common Let it now be considered with impartial equity and with deep seriousness Do you think the all-comprehending mind of the Son of God now first began to pity this daughter of Abraham While he was not yet ascended this attribution is given him Otherwise no doubt than as a false complement Lord thou knowest all things Since his ascension we are assured he hath a feeling of our infirmities so as to be toucht with them a continuing sympathy remembring the inconveniences of that state he had past thorough as she once non ignara mali c. and is always ready therefore to do the part of a faithful and merciful high Priest Before his descent we must with equal reason suppose him to have an entire prospect of the sad case of wretched mortals in this miserable world of ours What else made him descend And after that he was descended this mark could not but lye still before the eye of his divine mind to which all his works were known from the beginning of the world Yet the cure is defer'd the release is not given till the appointed season When it is the case of any of you to be afflicted with long sickness and to feel the tediousness of a lingering disease count upon it that it may be so as 't is like it hath been with divers of you Do not then permit the matter to the censure of an incompetent partial Judge If you consult flesh and blood if sense be to pronounce in the case and give judgment how hard will it be to perswade that you are not neglected in your languishings that your groans and faintings are unpity'd tho' you are so plainly told that whom the Lord loves he chastens Are you not ready to say how can this stand with being at the same time the object of divine pity If he pity me would he let me lye and languish thus in so miserable a plight day after day and year after year Yes these things very well agree and I would fain shortly evince to you that they do Why 1. His Compassion may sufficiently be Evidenc'd in another kind and by another sort of instances Sure it will speak compassion if he frequently visit his frail infirm creatures and by his visitation preserve their spirits if he support them if he refresh them this is grace My grace shall be sufficient for thee saith he to the great Apostle when he refused to release him from that thorn in the