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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	desire_v	die_v	life_n	7,123	5	4.9012	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11247	Resurgendum. A notable sermon concerning the resurrection, preached not long since at the court, by L. S.	L. S., fl. 1593.	1593 (1593)	STC 21508; ESTC S120772	19,781	36

which was amōgst the falling Angels in heauen is now found among the sonnes of men in the earth The voluptuous man is like him who hath the dropsie the more he drinketh the more he desireth he would lye deeper and longer with the swine in the mire The couetous man as the graue neuer saith there is inough Gods good giftes are without vse buried in him His arke and his chest may be filled but his heart in the chest of his body can neuer be satisfied Honour profite pleasure no earthly thing can content the heart of man It is onely this Lord this Sauiour this Christ which draweth mens hearts to heauen and there fully satisfieth them The Israelites in the wildernesse did eate Manna and dranke of the water out of the rocke but hungred and thirsted and died in the end But they which are fed with the true bread that came downe from heauen and drinke of the water of life they shall neuer be more a thirst but shall haue eternall life Christ Iesus is the euerflowing ouerflowing well Blessed are they that hunger thirst for him for they shall be satisfied in him he is the pearle for which we must sell all and buy him He is our head and with the serpent we must be wise to suffer losse in our bodies in our goods in our fame in our liberties in our liues so that we keepe our head safe Aeneas when Troy was won hauing a grant as all the citizens had to carie away some one chiefe thing which he made best account of chose and tooke away Patrios Poenates the gods of his countrey preferring them before his father his goods or any other thing which might be of price with him Which action of his may teach vs in our desires and affections to make choise of Christ and lift vp our hearts to him He requireth in the Gospell to be preferred before those things which otherwise be of most value with vs. He that doth not forsake father and mother is not worthie of me He would not suffer one whom he called to take his leaue of his friends at home nor permit another to bury his father a worke of humanitie and pietie Hieronimus ad Heliodorum hath a worthie iudgement agreeable to this licet à collo paruulus pendeat infans licet vbera quibus te nutrierat ostendat mater licet in limine iaceat pater vt te à Christo retardent abijciatur infans contemne matrem calcandus est pater solum est pietatis genus in his fuisse crudelem If thy young child hang about thy necke if thy mother shew her breasts wherewith she nursed thee if thy father lye in the doore to stay thee frō following of Christ cast from thee thy child contemne thy mother tread vpon thy father ad Christi vexillum vola flie to the banner of Christ to be his souldier and seruant it is pietie to be cruell in this case Glaucus carieth the bell among all fooles for changing his golden armour for brasen harnesse The Israelites lothed Manna and wished the onions and garlicke the grosse diet of Egypt The Gergesens were more grieued for the losse of their swine then glad of the presence of Christ nay they desire him to depart out of their coasts And all the sonnes of the earth these Terrigenae fratres may with the Athenians giue for their badge the grashopper which is bred liueth dieth in the same groūd so their whole desire both in life and death is in earth and as the grashopper hath wings but flyeth not sometimes she hoppeth vpward a litle but presently falleth to the earth againe so they haue some light and short motions to goodnesse but they returne to their old affections of the world their portion is only in this life for they loue vanitie more then truth drosse then gold earth then heauen the world then him that made and redeemed the world riches that rusteth before treasure that lasteth trash and pelfe not true wealth which maketh happie anie earthly vncertaintie before this Sauiour the Lord Iesus Christ the onely author of all felicitie Those foules that feede grossely neuer flie high and they which feed their hearts with things below can not haue their affections in heauen The Sunne draweth out of the sea the clearest water leauing the grosse and dregs behind which some thinke is the cause of the saltnesse of the sea so the sonne of God draweth vp the harts of them that are pure but leaueth below the earthly minded If Christ be deare vnto vs if the day starre be risen in our hearts if we find in our soules that Christ is a Lord a Iesus a Sauiour if the power of these offices take place in our consciences it cannot be but our harts shal be with him Gods spirit worketh this confession in vs that with feeling we may say the Lord is Iesus as Paule writeth 1. Cor. 12.3 To speake the wordes without sence thereof is to no vse The parrot vttereth wordes but knoweth no meaning but the godly do find with ioy that Christ is the way by truth to life the ladder by which they ascend to heauen the good shepheard by whom they are safe the henne vnder whose wings they rest quietly In him is their health wealth ioy rest felicitie he is their treasure and therefore their hearts are with him whereby it commeth to passe that they long for and desire his comming The first comming of Christ was long wished and most desired The holy fathers who with the eye of faith a farre off saw that day reioyced as Christ speaketh of Abraham and when he was come there was great gladnesse thereof The Angell telleth the shepheards that he brought tidings of great ioy to all people The same night that he was borne there was great light in token of comfort but at his death there was darknesse vpon the day in signe of sorow The Sunne put on his mourning garment and was ashamed to looke vpon that cruelty which the sonnes of men were not afrayd to commit If that first comming of Christ was so ioyful which was but meane and simple alone and solitarie when he came to stand at the barre to be iudged when he gaue vs but the earnest of our saluation thrise more comfortable shall his second comming be which shal be in glorie attended vpon with ten thousand of Saints and Angels when he shall sit him downe to iudge the wicked giue full possession of his kingdome to the elect Then shall the sheepe be gathered into the fold neuer to be in daunger of wandering or of the wolfe then shall the corne be inned into the barne neuer to be shaken with the winde or weather againe then shall there be a Saboth after which no work-day shal follow then shall be an euerlasting Iubilie when all bondage shall cease and the chosen shall enter to their inheritance which neuer shall be taken from them The hope of this

perish there are least like to be restored But looke howe easie it is for the husbandman by his seruants to gather the wheate into his barne so easie it is for God by his Angels to bring all people before him The potter can make a new vessell of the same lumpe of clay if the first fashion dislike him much more is God able out of their dust to raise againe our dead bodies As the Captaine by the sound of his trumpet doth awake his souldiers so the trumpe shall blowe and the dead shall rise for all shall heare that great voyce whereof Chrysostome thus speaketh Verè vox magna est quae petras scindit monumenta frangit vniuersos mortuos resurgere facit ad iudicium ire compellit It is surely a great or strong voyce that cleaueth the rockes that breaketh tombs that raiseth the dead and that draweth men to iudgement Shall napkins be brought from Paules bodie to the sicke and diseases depart from them shall the shadow of Peter helpe the weake and sicke shall Elizeus thinke by sending his staffe to reuiue the Sunamites sonne shal the sayd Elizeus bones giue life to a dead corps cast into his graue And shall not the mightie power of God change these vile bodies and make them like the glorious body of Christ Aarons rod had leaues bloomes and almonds Moyses staffe was made a liuing serpent Sara her dead wōbe was mother to a sonne These saith Epiphanius lib. 1. haeres 9. are some tokens of the resurrection The graue may be the mother of the sonnes of the resurrection hauing this great power of God to strengthen it The Behemoth is a huge beast vpō the land his bones are like staues of brasse and his litle bones are like staues of iron the trees and reedes are too low to couer him the riuer Iordan seemeth not enough for him to drinke The Leuiathan is a monstrous fish in the sea out of his mouth go sparkes and lampes of fire his heart is as strong as the stone and as hard as the neather milstone he esteemeth brasse as straw and iron as rotten wood Iob. 40. If there be such power in the creatures farre more in the creator Christ commandeth the windes and the sea and they obey him he chargeth a legion of vncleane spirites and they departe at his word he wrastleth with death and taketh a fall and is caried prisoner into the graue which is the strongest hold and castle of death but he bursteth his bandes and breaketh open the gates and taketh away the power of death and will in the end vtterly vanquish it Christ raised the rulers daughter in the house and the widowes sonne carried out to be buried and Lazarus which had lyen fower dayes in the graue For with him it is all one to restore to life them that haue bene lately or long dead For as the beame of the eye discerneth in like space things that be neare and things farre off so doth the power of God in this case August Epist 49. vseth this comparison The garments of the Israelites waxed not old neither were their shoes worne in 40. yeares This was done by the prouidence of God for that people neither shall the bodies of men by death and corruption be so wasted but the Lord by his power shall renew them God can of the stones raise vp children vnto Abraham farre more easie is it to raise our bodies againe out of their owne dust It is possible with God that a cammell or a cable be drawen through the eye of a needle therefore death can not shut vp the graue so close but God will and can draw out thence these our vile bodies and make them like the glorious bodie of Christ If one Angell in one night can bring downe to death 185000. of the greatest men in Senacheribs armie shall not infinite thousands of Angels call from death all the world hauing this vanquishing power working with them To winde vp all it was harder for God to make woman of the ribbe of man to make man of the slime of the earth to make the earth the heauen and all in them both and betweene them both of nothing then to raise vp man out of his owne dust which if our eyes cannot see nor our vnderstanding conceiue nor our reason reach vnto yet our faith will apprehend it being founded vpon the wil of God declared in his word and grounded vpon his power shewed in his workes The want of these two foundations was the cause of this error in the Sadducees for so Christ reproueth them Do ye not erre not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God The wise Athenians mocked at Paul when they heard him preach the resurrection and Festus sayd he had ouer studied him selfe and by too much learning was become mad when he disputed before him of the same matter But the godly are not faithlesse but beleeue as Iob confesseth I knowe that my redeemer liueth c. and Martha saith of her brother I knowe he shall rise at the last day For they build their beleefe vpon these two pillers the will and power of God not calling flesh and reason to counsell For as Augustine ad Volusianum saith Si ratio quaeritur non erit mirabile si exemplum poscitur non erit singulare Demus aliquid posse Deum quod fateamur nos non posse inuestigare tota ratio facti in talibus est potentia facientis If reason be sought it will not be strange if an example be asked it will not be singular Let vs graunt that God can do some thing the reason whereof we cannot find out In such things the whole reason of the deed is the power of the doer The foresight of this chaunge should make vs warie to keepe cleane our bodies seeing they must be chaunged and made like to Christs glorious bodie The husbandman hath great care of that corne which is for his seede our bodies are the seed of the resurrection The huswife will keepe sweete and faire those vessels which are for the table our bodies are vessels or should be vessels of sanctification The Church and temple of God should be kept cleane and comely our bodies are the temples of the holy Ghost therefore should be heedfully looked vnto This is litle thought of of the oppressour who is become a Lyons denne full of pray and rauine or of the drunkard who maketh him selfe a swill-tub or of the proud man who maketh his bodie a painted puppet or of the luxurious man who is a cage of vncleane birds or rather a stable or a stye We dishonour God as much by abusing our bodies as Iehu did the temple of Baal who made it an house of the vilest vse God neuer tooke pleasure with his Temple of Ierusalem after it was defiled by the Babylonians but burnt it downe with fire and he hath in store a more fearfull fire if we abuse our bodies Therefore let vs be carefull to vse well these crackt and brittle vessels for that they must be in better case now vile but shall be changed and made like the glorious bodie of Christ and shall be vnited to the soules and receiue that blessed inheritāce which God the Father of old hath prepared God the Sonne of late hath purchased God the holy Ghost doth dayly seale in the hearts of Gods children To which three persons one true and euerliuing God be all honor glorie and praise both now and for euer Amen FINIS