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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	dead_a	die_v	rise_v	4,600	5	7.2459	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93737	Divine arithmetick illustrated in the right and exact numbering of our days, or, A discourse of the near and continued approaches of death unto every one whatsoever with the same inference and application which the apostle in I Cor. 15 makes from and alike subject, that the knowledge and consideration of these things should exhort people to be stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord / by Richard Stafford.	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1697 (1697)	Wing S5117; ESTC R42707	17,947	18

give the whole World if she had it and if such a thing were possible for to obtain his Reconciliation and Loving Kindness Then the same Soul that did heretofore Despise and Disobey God is all for Honouring of and Obeying him But she should have done it before for now it is too late But even from the Thoughts of Dying Persons we come to know and discern what would have been good for them and what the Lord did require of them in the midst of Life and Happy would it be and it would be well with them if they had then so done For this is the very top of the chiefest VVisdom to do those things whilst Living which one shall wish he had done when he comes to Die As also to refrain from those things such are Sin and the Pleasures of Life as we shall indeed wish and desire that we had abstained and refrained from when we come to Die To approach draw near and stick close unto God To wait upon him in all his Publick Ordinances not forsaking the Assembling our selves together and that so much the more as ye see the Day Approaching as also in all private Duties To serve him with our utmost Power to be a doing of Righteousness and good VVorks Alms Mercy and Compassion to the very utmost of our Ability There is indeed a Bitterness in Death as Agag truly called it For my part I am not ashamed to own that I do Vehemently and very much Fear it This makes me to do Sundry things Pertaining to God and Religion which I should not do otherwise if hereby I may somewhat take off and lessen from this bitterness of Death If hereby I may store up to my self Comfort against my dying Day For this Cause I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ nor yet of Preaching it in what is called a Foolish and Contemptible manner as I make it known unto People in its Simplicity and pureness For I believe that God hath chosen the Foolish things of the VVorld and the things which are despised 1 Cor. 1. 27 28. I have already Sufficiently Experienced the same and I have been given to Understand further that this kind of doing hath been and will be an Occasion of Loss as to VVorldly Goods For more might be allotted unto me if I would leave off the Preaching and Publishing the Truth of the most High God But when I ponder it in my Mind this same Hope of storing up to my self Comfort against my dying Day doth with me weigh down all VVorldly Considerations or Temptations And I trust in the Everliving God that this shall be my Guide unto my dying Day That I may give up an Account of the Ministry which I have received with Joy and not with Grief for this would be unprofitable for you The Searcher of all that is in all Hearts knows that the very Reason why I do desire a full and greater Assembly of Hearers and that my Books and Writings may have a more Universal Reception is chiefly that I may let down my Net for a greater draught of Fishes For I know and believe that the more Souls shall be converted Edified or built up in their Holy Faith by my Ministry it will tend so much the more to their own and also my Comfort and Rejoycing and Crown in the last Day But however whether more or few will receive it I shall endeavour by the Divine Grace to approve my self Faithful in the Ministry as Moses was Faithful in all his House I mean not to lead People on as the manner of some is in a meer outward Profession as if there was no more than only to come to such a place of Worship Or in a Partial Obedience of the Law Mal. 2. 9 In that deceit so common and universal amongst those who call themselves Christians of keeping some of the Commandments of God and neglecting others Or the Naming the Name of Christ and not departing from Iniquity Like those who call him Lord Lord and do not the things which he saith So there be others of a more Religious sort who mightily harp upon the word Christ Christ and yet themselves in the mean while shew forth a ●erverse Spirit against the Ministration of his Word and they refuse him that now Speaketh from Heaven through one of his least Members Against all such I do here set my Testimony according as I have received the same from the Word of Truth God is most Glorified when his Servant doth follow the Conduct and Leadings of his Truth whethersoever it goes for this is to follow the Lamb whethersoever He goes inasmuch as the Lamb is the Way the Truth and the Life And so I am determined by his Grace to go on although in the continued Ministration and Successive Outgoing and Emanations of his Divine Truth Lover and Friend hast thou put away far from me and mine Acquaintance into Darkness whether the Multitude or greater part of People do hear or forbear receive it or not and so we intirely leave and submit it all to his own Divine Majesty for God is Judge himself when every Man shall receive his own Reward according to his own Labour 1 Cor. 3. 8. When Jesus did by the Grace of God taste Death for every Man Heb. 2. 9. He thereby took away that exceeding bitterness in it for all those who will comply with the Ends of his death which is to die yea and to be dead unto Sin and to rise again unto newness of Life But this doth not belong to the Wicked or Sinners for in the Hand of the Lord there is a Cup and the Wine is Red and it is full of mixture and he poureth out of the same but the dregs thereof all the Wicked of the Earth shall wring them out and drink them Psal 75. 8. so that the same Cup of Death will taste differently unto two sorts of People The Righteous and the Wise will taste some little Bitterness therein wherewith also Sweetness will be intermingled Marvel not at this for I know a Man to whom Sweetness and a kind of Perfume hath arose even from the Apprehension of Death But it will be only mixture wherein the sowre and bitter part will make the greatest Ingredient and dregs to the wicked of the Earth for the sting of Death is Sin which sting gives the Pain or smart and it stings more or less according as Sin is more or less in the Person who is to undergo it So that it must be the wiser and more excellent way to stand in awe and Sin not and to cease from our own Works By which I mean the ceasing from those our Works which do proceed and arise from the worldly fleshly and corrupt Nature for all this is our own The Duty and Obligation hereof appears from what is written There remaineth therefore a Rest to the People of God for he that is entred into his Rest hath ceased from his own Works