Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	cause_n	original_a	sin_n	4,828	5	6.3550	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07774	Philip Mornay, Lord of Plessis his teares For the death of his sonne. Vnto his wife Charlotte Baliste. Englished by Iohn Healey.; Lachrimae. English	Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623.; Healey, John, d. 1610.	1609 (1609)	STC 18153; ESTC S112901	15,449	72

place of so blessed security The sonnes of men growe more and more peremptory against the prescriptions of the highest the monuments of goodnesse are so weather-beaten that iniquity and antiquity hath almost left no character thereof vndefaced the rust of irreligiousnes hath eaten into the most steely tempers of our age had our son thinkest thou any especiall protection promised him no effect in others confirmeth this to vs. Wipe away those teares once more that gush out in such aboūdance seeming as if hee were not dead already to drowne him in his graue and consider but this How inumerable and almost ineuitable trap-falls are set in the tract of vertue in all her walkes Here you shall haue one that will kisse the visar of vertue but shew them her true face and you turne all their kisses vnto curses You shall haue other some that while shee is vnderfoote will lend her a hand to helpe her vp but when shee is vppe and hath gotten wing and mounteth then they either suspect hir themselues or buzze suspicions of her into the heads of others Affording hir all their diligent culture while shee is a springing but growing once aloft they make haie of her ere shee come to her hight and rend her vp by the rootes And then there is that pestilence reigning euer amongst men of equallity in what ranke soeuer I meane Envye and her nature and consequently her practise is euer to persecute that good which shee cannot paralell That hight which she cannot mount vnto shee presently vndermines setting all her Pioners cauillation detraction and derision on worke vpon the ruine of that glorie which shee cannot reach it is her food to bee felt heauy vpon the highest fortunes And this is the source of all the grudges malice and altercations that haue beene the pestilence which hath swept such multituds from the bosome of our mother France this malice oh this madnesse of the Nobility that for ought I can see are now but bastards to their ancestours valour these adulterous births haue obscured the rising glory of France with the mystes arising from the bleeding bodyes that haue fallen in this fatall warre wherein with thoughts more bloudy piercing then their armes Religion and all respect of goodnesse beeing thrust ou● of the true place the brother ranne head-long vpon his brother as vppon his fiercest enemie And looke now our sonne is acquit from hauing any hand in these desperate hacksters actions and sittes aloft looking downe and laughing at this little lumpe of earth so ouergrowne with Spuma Cerberi and the weedes of the Diuels haruest which he hath left beneath him But what comfort canst thou haue of this or I that share with thee in this sorrow if wee stand shaking our hands or arming our hearts against GOD who is the onely consolation in the extreamest agonie and anguish of heart Are not wee of them that haue receiued the seale of the Lion of Iudah are we not Christians Downe downe perturbed spirit thou abortiue of misery Why but God might haue shielded him from all these encounters of vicious extreames You neede not tell mee that I know hee might but had hee not made him a fraile mortall nay and had hee not appointed him a place in warres and instilled a Military vigor into him Being euery day betweene the chaps of death why might hee not be catcht at length is it possible to stand in a shower of hailstones haue not one to touch him GOD had made him valorous the likelier to bee ouerha●dy in daring of death and so ouer-taken in his too much heat and too little dread God had made him with an heart that put forth his rigour in all the endeuoures of masculine vertue Alas what was hee in this but a fayre shotte-marke for foule Enuie a rocke for the vntaught billowes of iniurious suspect to beate against and perhaps though breaking manie of themselues first at length to shake downe into ruine Didst thou looke to haue him miraculously lifted vp from his seate in this sea of deprauation What warrant hath GOD giuen the for that what bargaine had Fate made with thee or mee including any such condition How much more com for t should we finde and how much more easily should wee settle the rebellious affects that keepe this coyle in our bosomes if wee would steppe a little out of this wildnesse of conceite and suffer our imaginations to bee guided vnto Truth by the sette order of nature by mans fraile estate in this order and by the reall cause of this frayltie of state Death ending man in this order time bringing him on to death and originall sinne the due deseruer of death bringing man forth to his first moment of time Such considerations as these were farre more fitte for vs then to cast off our thoughts at randon to suffer them flye beyond the pitche of our obedience to our maker And now tell mee true consideratis considerandis and all accompts beeing cast is not our sorrow exceedingly lightened to see our beloued sonne deliuered from those complete armed Battailions of deadly dangers that enuironed him on euery side Tell mee now thou vile and mis-beleeuing flesh hast thou not now reason to turne ouer a new leafe and to say with that holy singer I acknowledge O Lord that thy iudgements are iust and that thou hast afflicted me for my faith for tryall of my faith God is euer good vnto Israel and pure in heart He is so and when his wrath seemeth to threaten vs in most terrible thunder then raigneth hee his mercy vpon vs in a most mellifluous dew I will therefore turne mee I will leaue all and turne mee to my GOD and on him will I build my confidence And now shall my mouth bee shutte no more but I will turne it into a Trumpet in the cause and quarrell of the Almightie This will I resound and of this shall all the world returne an Eccho Thou hast done it O Lord and well hast thou done it Well hast thou done it for thou canst doe nothing but well being thy selfe the neuer dryed Well of goodnesse Vnto the good nothing befalls but good come it in neuer so horred a shape of mischiefe in a forme neuer so fearefull Well hast thou done vnto our sonne in taking him out of the perillous conflicts where-into hee had nowe set foote and that was all if hee had done that and bestowing his freedome gratis vpon him nay and besides crowned him with a Garland of such glory Had hee liued longer hee might haue runne astray the more the larger weight of worldly experience might haue bent him downewards and haue fixed his affections vpon fading glories For there was Salomon whose eminence of wisdome is by the diuinity of wisdome it selfe eternized vnto all after ages as also his fall is beeing the more amazefull vnto all posteritie by reason that is was from such an admired height of vniuersall vnderstanding Oh what a