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	world_n	8,924	5	4.9560	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14778	Christ in the clouds, or Gods comming to iudgement A short treatise, very necessary in these euill and dangerous times, for all those which desire that the day of the Lord, may be their day of ioy.; Christ in the clouds.	Warner, John, fl. 1635.	1635 (1635)	STC 25078; ESTC S106604	10,185	26

fulfilled and the end of the world drawing neere The Prophesies are come to passe both in respect of the men and the mindes for now if euer is the perfection or rather imperfection of all the sinnes the Apostle names to bée the fore runners of the end Why doubt wée then that the end is not at hand or why feare we not rather that a sudden end will preuent our procastinated Repentance As bodies are sicke before death and as infirmity and sickenesse are the true fore-runners of a separation betwéene the Body and the Soule Euen so fareth it with the world it now langnisheth and is corrupt it now lies sicke and therefore it must needes come to confusion and to an end For deadly sicknesse is a fore-runner of death all things now suffer their defect and let no man wonder at it for man now is borne in such defect in respect of the birth of man in former times but what is wanting in the present condition of mans body is supplied in the faculties of his minde and what is defectiue in the strength of his members is compleat in the ripenesse of his vnderstanding which is for the most part implyed not in liberall but in diuellish arts not in the study of learning but of pleasure Onely wit and maturity is resident in man the onely Idea and representment of the Image of God in man What can we otherwise but thinke that the time is at hand wherein mortality shall put on immortality wherin the burthen of the flesh being laid aside the glorious body of the Church shall bée coupled to her glorious head the communication of Saints shal be consummate and Christ shall inioy his Spouse in continuall loue and vnion In the meane time with Paul Vnhappy men that we are Rom. 4. ●4 who shall deliuer vs from this body of death that wee may passe secure to the body of life Then let euery good Christian in these wicked times wherein destruction hangs ouer our heads with good Hezekiah pray Lord I am oppressed doe thou vndertake for me and since the day of destruction is so néere vs wee intreat thée since it is expedient for vs that thou wouldest teach vs so to number our dayes that we may apply our hearts to wisedome Psal 39. And since thou hast pronounced that seruant happy whō his Master when the came found vigilant and watchfull Grant Lord we beseech thée Luk. 12.37 that since it is manifest that long it cannot bée before thou come that wée may bée fitted and prepared for thy comming and bée found with oyle in our Lampes and so in happinesse enter thy Bride-chamber with ioy and let vs good Lord thinke the Day most neere lest while the day of death or iudgement bée thought to be farre off it preuent the improuident and while long life is expected it quickly forsake the wicked and guilty persons Our mindes are very desirous if we could to know the day of death and dissolution But if wee could attaine to the knowledge thereof what would it profit vs suppose the consummation of this world to be after ten twenty or forty or a hundred yeeres what is this materiall is not the terme of life the consummation of each man Why then are thou so troubled about the last day of iudgement since ●s thy end leaues thée Iudgement shall ●ind thée and how suddenly death shal find ●hee thou art altogether ignorant For as ●n other things not regarding things per●aining to our soules wee altogether are ●usied in things common saying This man is an Adulterer this man a Theefe ●his man a false-hearted fellow that man proud but no man hath a care or feeling of his owne sins far worse So doth euery man neglecting his own ●nd he would faine learne when the generall day of dissolution shall be which Day whether it be néere or farre off it doth no●hing concerne vs so each man regard his ●euerall end For since thou art borne 't is most certaine thou must dye and it is cer●ain after death commeth that Iudgment may be far off yet thy last day is at hand Therefore prepare thee for this day for if ●his day find thée vnprouided the day of ●udgment shall find thée so likewise when ●hou shalt rue for it Psalm 50. Consider this all yee ●hat forget God lest he teare you in pée●es and there bee none to helpe For our God shall goe and shal not kéepe silence A fire shall come before him and it shall be ●ery tempestuous round about him for God himselfe is Iudge And the Day of Iudgement will quickly be at hand preuent the speede thereof It will spéedil● come preuent it I say bée thou spéedil● conuerted And as the Prophet Daui● aduiseth vs let vs runne before the fac● of the Iudge with confession of our fault● and true contrition for the same And th● reason why thou knowest not his comming is that thou mayest alwayes be prepared for it for it is in thine owne powe● how thou mayest expect his comming h●● therefore defers his comming that whe●● he comes he may not daunt thee Behold hée is not yet come he is in Heauen thou art on earth he deferres his comming do● not thou deferre this time of repentance lest it for euer though too late repent th● of his comming For in that day it wil● be too late to repent therefore pray no● that his Kingdome come which thou fearest comming but rather correct thy selfe that thou pray not against thy selfe Today hee cals vpon thee that hée may not in that day condemne thee He that shall then be thy Iudge is now thine aduocate and hée now cals vpon thee that tho● wouldest leade a godly life Let vs therefore set the day of Iudgement before ou● eyes which way soeuer wée goe let v● carry the memory of it with vs and i● will bring this profit with it that we shall not onely meditate on the horrour and de●truction of that day but also wish for the ●ccomplishing of the same which makes ●he wicked to tremble when they heare it approacheth Thus Chrysostome saith Let vs from ●mong our selues repeat these things and with others there shall be a resurrection 〈◊〉 day of Iudgement and a time of examination for all our workes whether good or bad and this will cause that the minds ●oth of good and bad be not conuersant in ●he vanities and pleasures of this world and bee not tempted to any wickednesse ●ut rather to vndergoe any thing to be imposed vpon them here than to incurre the ●ore-séene punishment of euerlasting fire ●ereafter This made Dauid cry out Establish my flesh in thy feare for I haue been afraid to ●eare thy iudgements To conclude this ●oint since wée all must appeare before ●he Iudgement-seat of Christ that euery ●ne may receiue the thing done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad and knowing the terror and Iustice of the Iudge