Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	dead_a	die_v	sin_n	16,958	5	5.5972	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00228	Dives and Lazarus: or rather, Divellish dives: deliuered in a sermon at Pauls Crosse, by R.I. preacher of the word. ; Very necessary for these times, and purposely published for the great comfort of those that taste the bitternesse of affliction..	Johnson, Robert.	1623 (1623)	STC 14694.3; ESTC S93378	18,372	46

will not know me said the Lord. So the dogs here knew Lazarus to be pained but the Rich man would not vouchsafe to know him therefore his owne dogs condemned him of mercileue crueltie It is worth the noting the which Plinie reports of dogs Fidelissimi homini ante omnia sunt canes equos Dogs and Horses are most loyall and louing vnto men aboue all other creatures Againe Quod impetus eorum seuitia mittigatur ab homine concidentur humi That their sauagenesse and crueltie is mitigated when one doth fall on the ground but Lazarus humbled himselfe on the ground and lay in the dust yet this Rich man had no pitty on him he relieued him not Soli nomina sua canes Dogges onely of all other sensible creatures know their names I would all Christians would remember their names and what belongeth thereto how when they were incorporated into the Church they vowed to forsake the Diuill the world and the flesh Againe Soli vocem domesticam agnoscunt canes Dogs know the voices of them that are in the house if one come at midnight and chastise them they will cease to barke they will know the housholders voice and they of the houshold I would men would learne to know Christ their housholder and the voices of the Prophets and Preachers of his houshold Againe Scrutantur vestigia canes They search the foot-paths of their Masters We will not follow the paths of righteousnesse nor tread in the footsteps of our maister Christ although he hath said Learne of me and although the Apostle doth earnestly exhort vs Be ye followers of God as deare children Persequitur inimicum canis A dog chaseth his enemy but our enemy the Diuell chaseth vs. Sée that medicinable vertue that is in a dogs tongue for it healeth and was comfortable to Lazarus Mans tongue cutteth and killeth Thy tongue saith Dauid cutteth like a sharpe razor and the tongue that telleth lies slayeth the soule But now let vs consider the third part which is the death of the Begger It was so that the Begger dyed Here is the adage fulfilled Mors optima rapit deterima reliquit Now must I speake of tragicall matters of Funerals and Obsequies of dissolution and death which is called by many metaphors in the holy Scriptures as sometimes Transtius ex hoc munde ad Patrem A passage or going out of this world to the Father Sometimes Dissolutio so Paul cals it Cupio dissolui esse cum Christo I desire to be loosed and to be with Christ Sometimes Lucrum Gaine as in the Philippians Death is to me aduantage Sometime Somnus a sléepe so Abraham and Dauid slept with their Fathers Sometimes Seminario a sowing It is sowne a naturall bodie it riseth againe a spirituall bodie and it is thus defined Mors est separatio animae à corpore requies à laboribus misereri huius seculi Death is a seperation of the soule from the body a rest and quietnesse from all labours paines and miseries of this wicked world But there are thrée kindes of Death to wit Corporall Spirituall and Eternall The Corporall death is a naturall separation of the soule from the body c. The Spirituall death is two-fold there is Mors spirituales piorum impiorum There is a spirituall Death of the godly and of the wicked the spirituall Death of the godly Mors peccati mundi dicitur It is to die onely vnto sinne and to the world the spirituall death of the vngodly Est mors fide● anim● Is the death of faith and righteousnesse of the soule which death the vngodly taste of although they be yet liuing The Eternall Death is Sempiterna infoelicitas miseria quae secundum mora 〈◊〉 An euerlasting vnhappinesse and misery when the sould is separated from God and the company of all Saints which is called the second death Moritur ergo homo Temporaliter moritur Spiritualiter vtiliter moritur spiritualiter dansnabiliter Man may therefore taste of thrée Deaths First Corporall Secondly Spirituall and profitable Thirdly Spirituall and damnable Primam Christus suscepit Secundam docuit Tertiam damnauit The first is a temporall Death that Christ himselfe did suffer Non quia noluit sed quia voluit mortuus est Christus Not because he wanted power to withstand Death but because he would die willingly and offer a sacrifice for the whole world that do beléeue in him The second that is the Spirituall profitable Death to die vnto sinne and the world he taught by his owne example Ye are dead with Christ c. The third that is the Spirituall euerlasting Death he shall giue vnto the reprobate in the day of iudgement Goe yee cursed into hell fire prepared for the Diuell and his Angels But in the death of the Begger first we noted what became of his soule It was carried by Angels into Abrahams bosome Whereby we learne the immortalitie of the soule Pithagoras was the first among the Grecians that held the soule was immortall The Philosophers also and Heathen Poets do proue the immortality of the soule Cedit enim retro de terra quod fuit ante In terra sed quod missum ex aetheris oris Id rursum caeli fulgentia templa receptunt That part of man that was made of earth went to earth and that part as came from heauen went to heauen againe But leauing these we proue by Scripture the immortality of the soule Man was made a liuing soule Therefore the soule is immortall And here in the Text Lazarus being dead his soule was carried into Abrahams bosome Here therefore is the damnable opinion of the Atheists ouerthrowne for if they deny God they must also deny that they haue soules and so consequently that they are not men But Saint Iohn teacheth them that all things were made by the Word of God and without it nothing was made therefore if they are made they are made by the Word of God and of a reasonable soule which doth acknowledge and beléeue in his Creator Anima est primum principium vitae per se subsistens incorporea ac incorruptibile The soule is the first beginning of life subsisting of it selfe incorporeall and incorruptible Saint Austin Anima est spiritus substantia incorporea corporis su vita sensihilis inuisibilis rationales immortales The soule of man is a spirituall or incoporeall substance sensible inuisible reasonable immortall for as he also saith Solus homo habet animale rationalem Onely man hath an immortall soule Lazarus soule was carried into Abrahams bosome which is a quiet Hauen which the faithfull haue gotten by the troublesome Nauigation of this life that is the Kingdome of heauen There is Duplex Regnum Gratiae Gloriae There is two kingdomes one of Grace the other of Glorie Here therefore we note that the soules of the Elect being separated from their bodies are presently in ioyes and are carried into Abrahams bosome so