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	resurrection_n	rise_v	6,478	5	7.4970	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88656	The Resurrection rescued from the souldiers calumnies, in two sermons preached at St. Maries in Oxon. / By Robert Jones D.D.	Lushington, Thomas, 1590-1661.	1659 (1659)	Wing L3503; Thomason E1902_1; ESTC R202762	20,354	108

Saviour did in his rising but to intimate what the Jews had committed by their crucifying Things of a super-eminent nature are fain to borrow words of an inferiour signification when they are related to a low capacity so God gives himself attributes not as he is but according to the weaknesse whereby man apprehends him And here the action of our Saviour is set down not as it is done but according to the wickedness that the Jews had done The active signification of stealing belongs to our Saviour but the moral evil of it reflected upon others The Law saith he steals who fraudulently takes away something of anothers with intent to get the thing it self its use or possession if this definition be true his resurrection was stealing His body was now cadaver puniti the carcase of one that had publickly suffered and thereby forfeit to the State no man might meddle with it further then to bury it nor that without special permission it was now none of his his right and possession of it both gone tradiderat he had made delivery of it dispensed and passed it away to Pilat Pilat disposed his right to bury it to the Watch to detain it and now it was theirs When therefore he took it from the Grave he stole it his repossession of it defrauded all the Prae-detainers Said they not also he was a Deceiver But whether the Angel that rolled away the stone were necessary or ministerial we leave it to the Hermonists By natural relation his body was his own as being the essential and proper counter-part of his soul prae coexistent with it in one person but morally it was not so or if it were yet he might steal it for all that A man may steal that which is his own by interverting that right in it which hath been transferred to another and what kind of Theft this was we leave it to the Lawyers God forbid we should lay other Theft to our Saviour then that he attributes to himself in saying He came like a Thief in the night i. e. secretly and unawares so was his conveyance from the Grave close without the consent and notice of those that were present such a carriage we commonly call stealth We steal away from a room when we depart without the knowledge of the Company But whether he could convey himself so closely as to passe thorough the Tombe-stone we leave it to the Philosophers Yet so close it was that the Watch perceived it not for they were asleep they were set to watch it but they did not Not to watch is all one with not to be awake and that with to be be asleep We commonly call him sleepy that is negligent or careless of what passeth as the contrary we terme vigilant so the Watch was fast asleep they never gave heed to the Resurrection that so farre from their belief that they had no opinion of it But if death be a kind of sleep he is soundly asleep that lies for dead and so did the Watch in the 4th verse of this Chapter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for fear of the Angel they fell a shaking and became as dead men His presence gave them a strong Dormative it wrought beyond sleep Sleep reacheth but only to a Ligation of sense but in them all motion ceased they were examinate but whether that fit held them onely by way of Syncope or did determine in a Cataphora or soporiferous passion we leave it to the Physitians Fearful and Cowardish Souldiers more womanish than women At the presence of the Angel the Women stand upright but the Souldiers fall in a swoun Help them good Women unbutton the Souldiers ye need not fear their Halberts There 's work for you and your Spices your odours to comfort and recall their Spirits Bestow that Charity on the dying Souldiers which you intended on your dear Saviour for he is risen and needs them not but they may benefit the Souldiers The Souldiers used to such fits they had one of them the other night in Gethsemane but whether these dejections were sins in the Souldiers we leave to the Casuists Thus they were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 laid as men asleep for it signifies rather the reclination or posture of one asleep then the affection of sleep it self He that lies still without sense or motion whether he be in a sleep or trance or dead we say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and we call the Church-yard 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because the dead lie there as if they were asleep they stir not And so we must all be layd There 's no Dormitory Our case somewhat like the Souldiers We are appointed here to watch our Saviour and as we do it we are subject to the Souldiers infirmity apt to be cast asleep and become as dead men Yet let us not be subject to their fear our death is but like their swouning that 's the worst We are liable to rise again and our Resurrection shall be like our Saviours His and ours make a mutual Aspect His the Specimen and ours the Complement What he practised on himself he perfects in us He will come again by night and steal us to glory while we lie sleeping in the Grave Even so come Lord Jesus THE RECANTATION SERMON The PREFACE before the SERMON PErsonall Prefaces are commonly unpleasant mine is to me It is nomine poenae it requires my patience it entreats yours I never came here sponte sometimes upon request but now upon Command to which my obedience is very voluntary as willing to give satisfaction as any to receive it I never stood here to shew my self but now and now not for worth or wickedness but yet for weakness in not discerning the three vitall circumstances of a well ordered Action Person Time and Place For it I am now Prisoner to censure the Spectacle of submission and Petitioner for pardon It is good to be humble I like it very well and use it more then some men think I do My present business is not to repeat that Sermon which the Repeater condemned and left unrepeated in the forenoon I call it that for now it is none of mine It hath been censured publickly and justly and so let it suffer the whole for some bad parts as usually the pravity of one member is destructive to the whole body If ye will please to let it die I will substitute another in the room whereto though enjoyned by Authority my self doth most willingly condescend My Text was also imposed and delivered in these words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In prosecution whereof I humbly crave a fair construction and a favourable acceptation First for my offence past that my readiness to acknowledge it may go for one degree of satisfaction and sudden recantation for another What it wants in ripeness is supplied in sincerity though in this the more mature because the more timely Secondly for my present memory I have had no time to furnish it it is