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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	call_v	great_a	king_n	5,447	5	3.5712	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34427	Christian supports under the terrours of death	Cooke, Shadrach, 1655?-1724?	1691 (1691)	Wing C6035; ESTC R27915	14,420	34

Christian Supports UNDER THE TERROURS OF DEATH 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epict. LICENSED June 11 th 1691. Z. Isham LONDON Printed by B. Griffin for Sam. Keble at the Great Turks Head in Fleet-Street over against Fetter-Lane-end 1691. Christian Supports UNDER THE TERRORS of DEATH PSALM XXIII 4. Yea tho I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death I will fear no evil for thou art with me THat mighty and continual care which the Divine Providence hath over us is very gratefully represented by such soft and tender expressions and characters of God as do bespeak an abundant Affection and regard for us giving us all the assurance and security imaginable of an infinite kindness and compassion constantly ingaged for us So when our Lord doth comfort his Disciples with the Doctrine of Providence he thus expresseth it Your heavenly Father knoweth that you have need of all these Things What can be dearer and and more sollicitous than the Affections and concernment of a Parent Another of the like kind to the same end and purpose is here mention'd and apply'd by David who seems to assure or challenge to himself the extraordinary care and protection of God under all the very worst circumstances from the sutable character of Kindness and Indearment he ascribes to him ver 1. The Lord is my Shepheard and thence makes this natural Inference I will not want He will most certainly take care of me for to continue the Parallel or Similitude here before us ver 2. He maketh me lie down in green Pastures or Pastures of tender Grass he leadeth me beside still Waters or Waters of quietness Which is spoken with allusion to the most grateful things or conditions that God will bestow upon or provide for his People his goodness will take care that they shall have what is most proper and convenient for them And when they are brought to any distress he will deliver them out of it reduce them to a happy condition and set them right and safe in their wayes ver 3. He restoreth my Soul he leadeth me in the Paths of righteousness for his Names sake and which is more when they are under the most unpromising circumstances in that sad and doleful condition which we must all come to and lie under the dismal pressure and stroke of Death even herein the People of God are relieved and supported by this extraordinary Divine care and goodness Yea tho I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death I will fear no evil for thou art with me In which words are two things considerable First The terror or severity of a dying State Yea tho I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death Yet Secondly under such dismal circumstances God doth most abundantly comfort and support us Yea tho I walk through the Valley of the shadow of Death I will fear no evil for thou art with me First 'T is observable that holy David doth here remember us of the terror and severity of a Dying State or Condition Yea tho I walk through the Valley of the shadow of Death which is greatly signified by almost every word in it Yea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 etiamsi Notwithstanding implying the utmost distress or extremity I walk 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ambulavero I shall walk intimating a leasurely and so a more tormenting passage 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Valle the Septuagint 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the middle the depth or extreamity of the shadow of death 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Valle umbrae lethalis in the thickest of the deadly shade i. e. in ipsissimà profundissimâ mortis umbrd in the deepest and utmost shade or sorrow of death The Word here saith one Notat horribilem quandam mortis speciem figuram qualis morientium oculis observatur tristi●●iman● It denotes a very horrid appearance of death and that most dismal apprehension of it which Men usually have when they come to die every way beset with horror and distraction in a word a terrible and approaching destruction qui ●nim ad umbram accedit non longe a corpore abest He that is in the shadow is not far from the substance or thing it self Thus the Psalmist represents a dying State as most severe and terrible agreeable to what he tells us of it from his own experience My heart is sore pained within me and the pains of death are fallen upon me fearfulness and trembling are come upon me and horror or as it is in the other Translation an horrible dread hath overwhelmed me Death or rather the preliminary passage to it and the way into the other World is attended with great horror and affliction and is beyond expression harsh and terrible to which Job may have some reference when he faith O that my grief were thoroughly weighed and my calamity laid in the ballances together for now it would be heavier than the sand of the Sea therefore my words are swallowed up that is I want words to express my grief for the arrows of the Almighty are within me the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit the terrours of God do set themselves in array against me And that this was the utmost extremity of distress or afflictoin he could think of appears from that Standard of Sorrow which he makes it Chap. 24. 17 If one know them they are in the terrours of the shadow of death which he therefore calls The King of terrours The greatest of all humane Evils or Miseries And now that great terrour and severity which doth accompany a dying State or Condition may be occasioned First From the pains or agonies of it Secondly Mens misgiving thoughts of their future State Thirdly Their foregoing all the Pleasures and Enjoyments of this World Fourthly The sence of Guilt or Sin that will then crowd in upon us Fifthly The more and greater Assaults of our Spiritual Adversary Sixthly The thoughts and conviction of an ensuing Judgment Upon all which accounts our dying Circumstances will appear sufficiently dreadful and terrible The first great terror of Death doth arise FROM THE PAINS OR AGONIES THAT VSVALLY ATTEND IT For however it is to appearance there may be it s very likely even in the smoothest passage from this to the other World some rugged and uneven paths which can be perceived by none but those that tread them certain it is that in the general there is a great deal of hardship and difficulty at such a time and in such Circumstances as these from those pains and sorrows which do naturally attend that condition for in loosing that knot in dissolving the close Conjunction of Soul and Body there must be and we have reason to say there is a great deal of unconceivable Anguish and Affliction 't is an extream violence to Nature and the utmost contradiction to it And therefore must mightily fret and molest us for whence but from the most horrid pain and uneasiness can proceed