Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	day_n	life_n	see_v	9,818	5	3.5124	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64596	The Upright lives of the heathen briefly noted, or, Epistles and discourses betwixt Alexander the Conqueror and Dindimus King of the Brachmans giving an account what sort of people they are, their divinity and philosophy, with their manner of living, &c. : collected together, and published for a general service.		1683 (1683)	Wing U120; ESTC R33718	6,417	12

Habit proper Habitations and the use of Gold and Marriage they conceal their Mysteries from their Wives lest they should blad them abroad They esteem this Life as Mans Conception but his Death-day to be his Birth-day unto that true and happy Life to him which hath been rightly Religious A worthy Sentence The Brachmans hold the World to be created corruptible round ruled by the high God Water they imagin to have been the beginning of making the World and that be●●des the four Elements there is a fifth Nature whereof the Heavens and Stars consist They hold the Immortality of the Soul and of the Torments of Hell and that the Souls of the Righteous go to God Megasthenes commendeth Mandanis one of the Brachmans saying That when Alexander 's Messengers told him That he must come to the Son of Jupiter with Promise of Rewards if he came but if otherwise menacing Torture He answered That neither was he Jupiter's Son nor did possess any great part of the Earth As for himself he neither respected his Gifts nor feared his Threatnings for while he lived India yielded him sufficient if he dyed he should be freed from Age and exchange for a better and purer Life whereupon Alexander both pardoned and praised him Clemens Alexandrinas speaks of their Fastings and other austere Courses out of Alex. Poly. Hist de Ru●us judicis The Brachmans saith he neither eat any quick thing nor drink Wine but some of them eat every day as we do some only every third day They contemn Death nor much est●●m of Life believing to be Born again Clem. Alex. storm l. 3. Suidas tells of a Nation called Brachmans inhabiting an Island in the See where Alexander erected a Pillar with Inscription That he had passed so far They live an hundred and fifty years and have neither Bread Wine Flesh Mettal nor Houses but live of the Fruits and clear Water and are very Religious c. These slay no Beasts in Sacrifice but affirm that God accepteth unbloody Sacrifices of Prayer and more delighteth in Man his own Image To Alexander did the Indian Magie so doth Arianus call their Brachmans say That he was but as other men saving that he had less Rest and more Troublesom and being dead should enjoy no more Land than would serve to cover his Body and every man said they stamping with their feet on the ground hath as much as he treadeth on Arian lib. 7. Eusabius writeth out of Braedsanes Cyrus That amongst the Indians and Bactrians were many Thosand Brachmans which as well by Tradition as by Law worshipped no Image nor eat any quick Creature drank no Wine nor Beer only attending on Divine things whereas the other Indians are very Vitious yea some hunt men sacrifice and devour them and were as Idolaters Euseb depres Evang. lib. 6. cap. 8. Heurnius reporteth That they have Books and Prophets which they alledge for Confirmation of their Opinions and that they have in their Writings the Decalogue with the Explication thereof that they adjure all of their Society to silence touching their Mysteries and that they adore the God which created Heaven and Earth often repeating the Sentence I Adore thee O God with thy Grace and Aid forever When they wash themselves which is often they lay a little Ashes on their Fore-heads and Breasts saying That they shall return unto Ashes Heur indic cap. 3. There was a malabar Poet which wrote nine hundred Epigrams against their Pago-gods each consisting of eight Verses wherein he speaks many things Elegantly of the divine Providence of Heaven and the Torments of Hell and other things agreeing to the Christian Faith That God is present every where and gives to every one according to his estate That Coelestial Blessedness consists in the Vision of God That the damned in Hell shall be tormented Millions of Years in Flames and shall never dye Aristotle in his Ethicks lib. 10. cap. 4.7 said They that did these things did them not as men but as having something Divine or of God in them Those that desire to read more of their Divinity Philosophy and manner of Living are refer'd to a paper lately published entituled A Dialogue betwixt an East Indian Brachman and a Christian price 1 d. THE END