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	unite_v	4,194	5	9.8657	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45184	The bow of Jonathan with the flower de Luce in a funeral lamentation committed to the men of Judah : parallelled and applyed to that worthy his compeere Robert Lucy of Charlcote in the county of Warwick, Esquire, lately deceased : in a sermon preached at Charlcote / by Richard Hunt ...	Hunt, Richard.	1657 (1657)	Wing H3741; ESTC R32357	22,399	42

for his acts how you that have been faithfull in few things hath he not made rulers over many and if you like stones should hold your peace the Farmes Leases and Estates for life would speak by him granted and confirmed say Sirs for that little model of commands in his courtly service found you not a great appearance of the graces in his rewards he hath put the proverb out of date an old serving-man and a new gentleman in the place how many largesses to his lacquais suites of cloths with Jonathan hath he put off to invest and make known his favorites withal And now may you worthily put on your mourning weeds for Jonathan 1 Sam. 1.24 ye daughters of Sion weep for him that clothed you in scarlet and put ornaments of gold upon your apparel and some whose lives he sought to save with the hazard of his own To speak all in a few words his house was a Bethgerim for hospitality of strangers a Bethlehem an house of bread for the needy bellies the poole of Bethesdah for relief of waiters in her porches Lucius Aci 〈◊〉 both alike and the house of the Lucies joyned to the Spencers was pardon the comparison those two fishes which by the blessing of the Son of God did feed five thousand persons and twelve baskets for the poor If the Bow-song on Jonathan suite not aright in all proportion sure I am that with Davids leave we may properly intitle his praise to the Shoshanim and tune of the Flower de Luce for six leaves in that flower displaying themselves He was a true Flower de Luce to lose nothing of his name which open'd and shut his favours with the Sun of righteousness in a sympathy with his Saviour Christ living and dying about the same age and now following the Lamb wheresoever he goeth His six leaves of mercy to the body exposing themselves Visito Poto Cibo Redimo Tego Colligo Condo I View Drink Feed Redeem Bring home and Bury were accompanied with the six spires of spiritual assistance to complete and answer them Consule Castiga Solare Remitte Fer Ora Counsel Reprove Forgive Bear Pray Makemerry A Flower de Luce. 1 Rooted so fast in his religion that no wind or storm could stir or alter him For his candor and sincerity in which vertue he was so plainly visible and transparent that his bosome was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 5.8 exposed to the Sun and might be seen thorough sincere with an heart so clear perspicuous and plaine that like Drusus house full of windows all that was contained within might be seen without as the Poet Cui meliere luto Juvenal finxit praecordia Titan. Whom the pure Sun with better clay Made a true heart for yea and na y. 2 So candid and fair conditioned to treat so oyly and soft to handle so innocent and harmlesse to act that Adam seem'd to have lent him little matter to be offended and grace lesse mind to give offence 3 So coole a temper in his nature that as the lilly water allays and cooles all burning sores and apostems so he by example and sweet words loved to asswage heart-burnings swelling and fallingout of neighbours 4 So white and spotless in the virgin and his married life that he esteem'd and made his chastity most odoriferous to all in a bed undefiled and kept whole but if broken or bruised he abhorred as too rank a smel for him and most unsavoury in his family 5 So open and expansed in his love and bounty spreading on every side that his dishes and vessels were as the baskets and bowls of the Lilly full of refreshment ornament and medicine to his friends all graced with such an humble condescent that you might say there was the rose of Sharon Cant. 2.1 and the lilly of the Valleys A Flower de Luce broad in his blowed leaves upwards towards heaven 6. but contracted and narrow in the bottom toward the earth being large and heavenly minded in his contemplation of that land and mansion esteeming all his lands and houses not worth a thought to think on nor a look with Lots wife to reflect upon no nor so much as one sisters tear to fall for the losse of them going as willingly to his grave with his body as to his bed and sending forth his soul as chearfully as Noahs dove flew from the Arke when the flood was past or a prisoner to be enlarged to a palace In a time large enough for him to have lived longer although determined of God whose eternity meets and complies with all times but enforceth none in the Autumn that deadly season and fall of the year when the Sun falls from his height the dayes from their length the Elements from their beauty the Corne under the sickle Flowers from the stalk Leaves from the trees Fruits from the boughs men from their families now the lovely Adonis of all delight is rooting up by the dirty Bore of winter hasting on enough to make women superstitious to weep for this Tamuz Ezek. 8.14 the sweet-heart of the Sun and cause enough for us to take on with David for our Sun is now gone down of whom the world was not worthy our Adonis is withdrawn by death our Brother Jonathan is in the dust But stay Rachel thy work shall be rewarded his body shall return in the day of Renewing when the great Lapidary shall have ripp'd off the earthy bark of this diamond Mal. 3.7 and shall make up his jewels the righteous and such as do likewise shall see and enjoy him again the stay wil seem no longer than a sweet nights sleep and the time no more to you than the years past before you were born But methinks I see his soul and better part ere this become a gainer by this blessed change The Bow of Death hath not taken this within its reach or distance it is past the stroke or aim of all these earthly Archers and having broken thorough the black colour and cloud of death Rev. 4.3 shines like the Rainbow in the green colour of Gods reflecting grace until both soul and body united shall ascend higher even to the bright Aurora-colour of full glory And in the mean time learn Clergy Laity Widow and Posterity Brethren and Sisters Tenants and Servants Strangers and Familiars Friends and Poor folks not to furnish the pasquils of mens ears with libels jeers or reproches they cannot hang upon his worthy Pillar but fill it with the inscriptions of complaints and praises commendations and Panegyricks and learn the lesson if not to excel or equal yet to aim at or to imitate which was the end of David's Lesson and shall be of mine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉