Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	devil_n	hell_n	sin_n	6,329	5	4.4630	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01837	Deliuerance from the graue A sermon preached at Saint Maries Spittle in London, on Wednesday in Easter weeke last, March 28. 1627. By Tho. Goffe, Batchelor of Diuinitie, lately student of Christ-Church in Oxford.	Goffe, Thomas, 1591-1629.	1627 (1627)	STC 11978; ESTC S103197	26,929	56

the Principall did not at all belong to him Non autem errabat in genere sed fallebatur in crimine 'T was we had forfeited the Bond and he must be arrested so a Heard of Tigers came to seize vpon the Lambe slaine from the beginning of the world for whom he being God became Man they being men to him became Deuils they apprehend him with their bloody hands whom their hearts could neuer apprehend all wickedly intending to confound him who onely intended to preserue them and thinking one death too little for him who esteem'd his owne life and eternitie it selfe a blessing too small for them The Element of Sinne which in one of our hearts weighes not at all because it is in its proper place and Elementum non ponderat in loco suo vpon him lay so heauie because he was no Center for it that it made him who was wont to bow the heauens bow himselfe vpon the earth in the Garden of Gethsemane knocking there at the doore of his Graue to be let in from thence hee was carried to the Theater of Death strew'd with Bones and dead Bodies where the vnwholsome sauors might haue brought him to his death without a Crosse. Thus both the liuing and the dead were equally prepar'd to bring him to his Graue who came to bring both the liuing and the dead vp out of their Graues How like a Coarse and nothing but a Coarse fit for a Graue must he needs looke when that Face at which the Angels so often wondred was scarrifi'de and cauteriz'd with Thornes those eyes from which the Lamps of Heauen the Sunne that wardeth by day and the Moone which watcheth by night might borrow a better cleerenes suncke into their Caues those eares wont to heare nothing but Anthem'd Alleluiahs deafn'ed with the scornes of insulting Sinners that mouth the Torrent from whence flow'd Eloquia Domini Eloquia munda words sweeter then Honey and the Honey Combe then stopt with Gall and Vineger hee that had giuen them Wine to cheere and make glad the heart of Man what a Potion did they giue him to comfort his dying heart Thus for his sufferings they would be sure to take what impious care they could and their busie malice was so wholly taken vp with them that they forgot when they had done to prouide him a Graue Hee that in his life time was worse prouided for then the wilde inhabitants of the Field or Ayre for himselfe complaines that the Foxes haue holes and the Birds of the Ayre haue nests but the Sonne of Man hath not where to lay his head liu'd and dy'de in the same case liu'd without a bed and dy'de without a Graue Because the liuing would not the dead came from their Graues to make him roome the Earth open'd her obedient armes to entertaine him the stones of the Temple leapt from their foundations disdaining the place where the hand of any Architect had laid them when those prophane builders refus'd Lapidem angularem him that was euer the head Stone of the corner He dy'de for the sinnes of strangers and therefore a stranger Ioseph of Arimathea must prouide him a Graue he beg'd him of Pilate and had so often laid him in his heart before that hee now esteemes himselfe happy if he may lay him in his Graue Would you now thinke this Man that could not saue himselfe as they blasphem'd could saue vs That he that could not procure himselfe a Graue should bring vs all vp out of our Graues Nullas habet spes Troja si tales habet How doe they yet deride our hopes in him who do not yet beleeue in him Durst he euer challenge Death vpon his owne Dunghill the Graue with such daring termes Ero mors tua ô mors O Death I will be thy death O Graue I will be thy destruction Will the Lord euer say to him Sit thou on my right hand vntill I haue made thine enemies thy footstoole Can he euer ascend on high and take captiuity captiue who was taken by two old men Ioseph and Nicodemus to bee laid in a new Monument in Iosephs Garden In horto erat Monumentum nonum A new Sepulcher wherein neuer man was yet layd A Stone hewne out of a Rocke and therefore most fit to lay the Rocke of our saluation in and into a Rocke his Disciples could hardly dig to get him out Therefore against that Rocke must they needs dash which would haue it said His Disciples came by night and stole him away They could say to Pilate Sir we haue heard the Deceiuer say and how wretchedly did they deceiue themselues by not beleeuing what he said His dixit euer was his fiat from the first saying Let there be light though afterwards when hee had made that light come to shine in the darknesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the darknesse comprehended it not They had seene him whom they so falsely term'd Deceiuer oftentimes making his word good without all deceit The Centurion askt no more at his hands but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Say but the word onely and my seruant shall be whole and his seruant was made whole the same houre He that was himselfe the Word needes neuer doe any thing but say the word hee said hee would rise againe the third day and as hee was Filius fortitudinis to the Lord himselfe the Sonne of his strength or the strength of his Sonne hee could finde or make a way to bring himselfe vp out of the Graue Let their laborious enuie heape hills of Earth vpon his Graue let their Grand Patron the Deuill himselfe send Legions from Hell to guard his Sepulcher as Pilate did a band of armed Souldiers they could not haue kept him in His very sleepe which they thought the sleepe of death was busie in a triumphant Conquest ouer Hell it selfe he was then gone to the house of the strong man which himselfe speakes of in the Gospell binding the strong man and spoiling him of his goods he enter'd as Conquerour bound him as the stronger spoild him as the right owner of that estate in vs which he by theft and violence had once carried away The drowsie weight of sleepe sate farre more heauie vpon the Souldiers eyes and bound them faster then the High Priests Seale then the Massie Stone then the walls of the Graue then Death with all his Cords were able to fetter him Were the Fogs call'd from the Lakes and Fennes for your sakes O you once his people Was darknesse call'd from the Center of the Earth to spread it selfe vpon the face of Egypt three dayes or rather three prodigious nights Didst thou O Sunne more then stand still in Gibeon and thou Moone in the valley of Aijalon that you his people should for euer since obtenerate your owne eyes with a darknes more palpable then that of Egypt and would neither then nor yet see this Sunne of righteousnesse comming