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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	dead_a	life_n	soul_n	13,866	5	5.5252	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66424	A sermon preach'd at the funeral of the Reverend Thomas Jekyll, D.D. late preacher at the New Chappel, Westminster, October 7, 1698 / by John Lord Bishop of Chichester.	Williams, John, 1636?-1709.	1698 (1698)	Wing W2731; ESTC R7509	15,200	29

another and can hardly look out but they see Objects sufficient to terrify them and have the reliques of many a miserable Shipwreck floating in their view and are equally expos'd to the same Dangers yet chuse rather to run the hazard of being miserable and eternally miserable than to hearken to the Voice of God and observe those Measures that will infallibly direct and bring them in the conclusion to a place of safety and undisturbed repose Surely we cannot but perceive and our own experience will convince us that this World is not a Rest that Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward We cannot but observe how hood-wink'd soever we are in other matters that in a few days after many other Changes and a Course and Succession of other Miseries that the last Enemy of this World Death will seize upon us and carry us out of it We cannot but think that though the spark of an Animal life be extinguished and we are then dead to all the Enjoyments of this present state yet that our Souls which thus think are immortal and never die We cannot but think that as the spirit within us is immortal so there is a state suitable to such a spirit another World that it must live in and doth upon its separation pass into We cannot but think that the future state is a state of Recompence and that we are therein accountable and shall be determined to Happiness or Misery according to what we have done in the Body We cannot but think that however it fares with good Men here how deplorable soever their present condition may be yet that it shall at last be well with them that fear God and that their light afflictions their temptations and mortifications which are but for a moment shall work out for them a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory Lastly We cannot but think that as this is a desirable state in it self so that the Thought and Wish of Balaam will be if it is not now the Thought and Wish of the worst of Men Let me die the death of the righteous and let my last end be like his that is the beginning of a glorious and happy Eternity Where is now the misery the hunger and nakedness the pain and anguish the poverty and contempt of the once wretched Lazarus Where are the tryals of the cruel mockings and scourgings of bonds and imprisonment of those of whom the World was not worthy Where are the pilgrims and strangers that once wandred about being destitute afflicted and tormented Where is the right hand which was cut off the right eye that was plucked out the body that was buffered and kept under and brought into subjection Where is the strait gate and narrow way the conflicts and strivings of the Self-denying Christian Where are the laboricus Studies the Cares and Prayers of the pious and industrious Teacher Where the Ministry he has fulfill'd and made proof of in his Preaching Reproving and Exhorting with all Long-suffering and Doctrine Behold them in their Crowns and Rewards in their Glories and Triumphs in the Peace and Comfort the Perfection and Happiness of Heaven Behold there Abraham Isaac and Jacob and all the Prophets in the Kingdom of God Behold there the pious Lazarus in the Bosom of Abraham Behold there the wise and faithful Teachers shining as the brightness of the Firmament and those that turn many unto Righteousness as the Stars for ever and ever It is God's Rest who is his own Happiness and can alone be the Happiness of all out of himself And there it is that we shall be replenished with the like Goodness and Love in our proportion as fills the breast of God himself There we shall converse with nothing but Perfection And have our Souls so employed in Acts suitable to the exalted and divine Powers they shall be endued with that they shall not only be unwearied but infinitely satisfied in it Where our Rest shall be the same and our Will and Desire one with his who filleth all in all A Consideration from the beginning to the end of it that should excite all the Powers of our Souls to obtain it and that should make us extreamly cautious lest we fail in our advances and travels towards it Let us fear saith the Apostle lest a promise being left us of entring into his rest any of you should come short of it 2. It is a Rest which is promised and so is a farther Argument to Caution Lest we come short of it We have the advantage of the Heathen and of a mere state of Nature that we have the Revelation of the Gospel by which life and immortality were brought to light And this Revelation comes with the greater advantage as we have the Promise of God to ensure it to us A favour as well beyond our comprehension as our discovery and desert For how could we who have defaced the divine Image and been Rebels against God and have forfeited his favour think of being restored to it How could we whose Souls are d●praved and corrupted think of being admitted to that state whereinto no unclean thing can enter How could we that are corruptible think that we should put on incorruption And so must conclude that we are no more fit for that state of holiness and perfection of fellowship with God and the enjoyment of him than we are like unto him But when we are prevented in our thoughts and these arguings are fore-clos'd by the divine Goodness and Faithfulness by a Revelation and a Promise If we in the conclusion prove like those in the Parable that when invited to a Royal Entertainment make light of it and go away and reject the Counsel of God against our selves shall we fare better than they against whom the King sent forth his Armies and destroyed them and burnt up their City It was the aggravation of the Sin of the Israelites when they enter'd the Land of Promise and had a Land prepared for them where they had goodly Cities which they builded not and Houses full of all good things which they filled not Vineyards and Olive-trees which they planted not that they tempted and provoked the most High God and kept not his testimonies And will it not aggravate our guilt when we have a Revelation as clear as the day and the promise of God for our security which is as sure as the Ordinances of Heaven nay that is established upon a better and more lasting Foundation for Heaven and Earth may pass away but this Word shall not pass away Behold then here the greatest testimony of the divine Benignity and Honour the Treasure of Heaven laid open to our view Behold God himself proffering Salvation to Sinners and engaging himself by Promise to bestow it upon us on our acceptance And what can we plead in our own defence if at last we