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	soul_n	union_n	6,110	5	9.7698	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02571	Pharisaisme and Christianity compared and set forth in a sermon at Pauls Crosse, May 1. 1608. By I.H. Vpon Matth. 5.20.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1608 (1608)	STC 12699; ESTC S116595	49,640	218

no lea●e He alone would bow his head and giue vp his Ghost 〈◊〉 haue power to lay downe my life Man gaue him not his life man could not bereaue it No man takes it frō me Alas who could The High-priests forces when they came against him armed he said but I am he● they st● fall backward How easie 〈◊〉 breath disperst his enemies whom he might as easily haue bidden the earth yea hell to swallow or fire from heauen to deuoure Who cōmanded the diuels they obei'd could not haue bin attached my men He must giue not onely leaue but power to apprehend himselfe else they had not liu'd to take him Hee is laid hold of Peter ●ight St Pu●●● saith Christ Thinkest thou that J cannot pray to my Father and hee will giue mee more then 12 legions of Angels What an Army were heer more thē three-score twelue thousand Angels and euery Angel able to subdue a world of men Hee could but would not bee rescued hee is ledde by his owne power not by his enemies and stands now before Pilate like the scorne of men crowned robbed scourged vvith an Ec●e Homo Yet thou couldest haue no power against mee 〈◊〉 i● vvere giuen thee from aboue Behold he himselfe must giue Pilate power against himselfe else hee could not be condemned Hee will be condemned lifted vp nailed yet no death without himselfe Hee shall giue his soule an offering for sinne● Esay 53 10. No action that fauours of constraint can be meritorious hee would deserue therefore he would suffer and die He bowed his head and gaue vp the Ghost O gracious and bountifull Sauiour hee might haue kept his soule within his ●eeth in spight of all the world the weakeness of God is stronger then men and if he had but spoken the word the heauens and earth should haue vanisht away before him but he wold not Behold when he saw that impotent man could not take away his soule he gaue it vp 〈◊〉 would die that wee might liue See heere a Sauiour that can contemne his ovvne life for ours and cares not to bee dissolued in himself that we might be vnited to his Father Ski●●e for ski●●e saith the diuell 〈◊〉 all that he hath a man will giue for his life Lo heere to proue Satan a lyer skin and life and all hath Christ Iesus giuen for vs. We are besotted with the earth make base shifts to liue one with a mai●ed bodie another vvith a perfu●●d soule a third with a rotten name and how many had 〈…〉 neglect their soul● then their life and 〈…〉 and 〈…〉 then die● It is a shame it● tells many of vs Christians 〈◊〉 op●n life and ●●●●●ble and ●a●h and she 〈◊〉 solue so 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 excesse of loue ●o●ard● 〈◊〉 〈…〉 as Peter denies Christ ●i● forsweares him 〈…〉 graines of incense ●nto the Idols ●ire E●ius 〈…〉 thrice Spir● 〈…〉 a● despa●●es ●de● me liue ●aith the 〈…〉 Whith●● d●st thou 〈◊〉 ●hy selfe 〈…〉 and ●do● us 〈…〉 w●ld'st thou 〈◊〉 with thy selfe 〈◊〉 Thou hast not thus learned Christ● 〈…〉 voluntarilie for thee thou wilt not bee forced to die for him hee gaue vp the Ghost for thee thou wilt not let others take it from thee for him thou wilt not let him take it for himselfe When I looke back to the first Christians and compare their zealous cōtempt of death with our backwardness I am at once amazed ashamed I see there euen women the feebler sex running with their little ones in their armes for the preferment of martyrdome and ambitiouslie striuing for the next blowe I see holy tender virgins chusing rather a sore and shamefull death then honourable espousalls I hear the blessed Martyrs intreating their Tyrants and tormentors for the honour of dying Ignatius amongst the rest fearing least the beasts wil not deuoure him and vowing the first violence to them that he might be dispatched And what lesse courage was there in our memorable glorious fore-fathers of the last of this age and doe vvee their cold and feeble ofspring looke pale at the face of a faire and naturall death abhor the violent tho for Christ Alas how haue we gathered rust with our long peace Our vnwillingnesse is from inconsideration from distrust Looke but vp to Christ Iesus vpon his Crosse and see him bowing his head and breathing out his soule and these feares shall vanish He died wouldest thou liue He gaue vp the ghost and wouldest thou keep it Whom vvouldest thou follow if not thy Redeemer If thou die not if not vvillingly thou goest contrarie to him and shalt neuer meet him Tho thou shouldest euery day die a death for him thou couldest neuer requite his one death and doost thou sticke at one Euery word hath his force both to him and thee He died which is Lord of Life and cōmaunder of Death thou art but a tenant of life a subiect of death And yet it was not a dying but a giuing vp not of a vanishing and aery breath but of a spirituall soule which after separation hath an entire life in it selfe He gaue vp the Ghost Hee died that hath both ouercome and sanctified and sweetned death What fearest thou he hath puld out the sting and malignity of death 〈◊〉 thou bee a Christian cary it in thy bosome it hurts thee not Dar'st thou not trust thy Redeemer If hee had not died death had been a Tyrant now he is a slaue O Death where is thy sting O Graue where is thy victorie Yet the Spirit of God saith not hee died but gaue vp the Ghost The very heathen Poet saith He durst not say that a good man dies It is worth the noting me thinks that vvhen S. Luke would describe to vs the death of Ananias and Sapphira he saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hee expired but when S. Iohn vvould describe Christs death he saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he gaue vp the Ghost How gaue he it vp and whither How so as after a sort he retained it his soule parted from his body his Godhead was neuer distracted either frō soule or body This vnion is not in nature but in person If the natures of Christ could be diuided each would haue his subsistence so there should bee more persons God forbid one of the natures therefore may haue a separation in it selfe the soule from the body one nature cannot bee separate from other or either nature from the person If you cannot conceiue wonder the Sonne of GOD hath wedded vnto himselfe our humanitie without all possibilitie of diuorce the body hangs on the Crosse the soule is yielded the Godhead is euiternally vnited to them both acknowledges sustaines them both The soule in his agony feeles not the presence of the Godhead the body vpon the Crosse feeles not the presence of the soule Yet as the Fathers of Chalcedon say truly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 indiuisibly inseparably is the Godhead with both of these