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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	devil_n	life_n	power_n	5,141	5	4.6090	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01559	A defiance to death Being the funebrious commemoration of the Right Honourable, Baptist Lord Hickes, Viscount Camden, late deceased. Preached at Camden in Gloucester-shire, Nouember 8. 1629. By Iohn Gaule.	Gaule, John, 1604?-1687.	1630 (1630)	STC 11688; ESTC S102991	19,410	83

what may separate vs from our selues rather imbrace we what will conuey vs to Christ Death is deomed to vs all and why feare we what we cannot eschew Our willingnese to dye is the onely way to preuent the necessity of death Chrys in Mat. 10. Offeramus Deopro munere quod debito teneamur reddere Let vs therefore offer God our liues as a free gift which hee will otherwise require as a due debt Deaths comming is vncertaine and shall any vncertaine thing cause in vs a certaine feare Incertum est Sen. ep 26. quo te loco mors expectet itaque tu illam omni loco expecta Rather seeing it is vncertaine at what time or in what place death will ouertake vs let vs therefore bee sure to expect death at all times and in euery place Death is equall and impartiall to all this also should make vs lesse afraid of death Sen ep 30. Quis queri potest in ea conditione se esse in qua nemo non est Who can complaine when himselfe is but in such a case or condition in which none are not Who lookes that shee should spare any that knowes her indifferent to all When the like ruine is threatned to an whole world who expects that himselfe should escape alone Some comfort against the cruelty of death is her equality There are diuers wayes of dying and should that make vs afraid of death No matter how we dye seeing the most is but to be dead Non multum curandum est eis Aug. lib. 1. Ciu. Dei qui necessario merituri sunt quid accidet vt moriantur sed moriendo quo ire cogantur Since wee must dye it skilleth not how we dye but whether we must goe after death Lastly death is a thing fearefull to flesh and bloud yet should not all this make vs afraid of death For it is not death but the feare of death that is so fearefull This feare fulnesse is rather from our owne ignorance then according to the nature of the thing Chrys ad pop hom 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 did we but know death wee would not so feare death The feare of death is the punishment of our ignorance and negligence which make vs apprehend things as new and strange things which otherwise are neither strange nor new The onely way then to make death not so fearefull to vs is by a daily meditation thereof to make it more familiar to acquaint our selues withall before the comming that we may lesse feare it when it comes And thus first learning not to feare death at last come wee to dare death O death where is thy sting 1 Cor. 15.26 Death is not yet destroyed for the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death but death is already disarmed O death where is thy sting The Text is an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Captaines song of victory as also the Souldiers song of deliuery The words are of a mighty Conquerour brauely insulting ouer a base and wretched enemy And who is this conquerour of death but Christ Iesus the Lord of life It was hee spake in the Prophets words O death Hos 13.14 I will bee thy death and in his power speakes the Apostle here O death where is thy sting Greg. hom 22. Quia in electis funditus occidit mortem mors mortis extitit Christ did once subdue death for vs O death I will be thy death and we may now deride death in Christ O death where is thy sting Olim morti nostrae Leo serm 8. passion mortis suae potentiam minabatur Christ once threatned his death to our death O death I will be thy death wherefore wee now may glory in the vertue of his death against the malice of our owne O death where is thy sting Christ ouercame death by dying nay through death destroyed be not death onely but him also that had the power of death the Deuill Heb. 7.14 Our Captaine both beate our enemy at her owne weapon and caught the Hunter in his owne snare Hee but yeelded to death to take aduantage against her yea therefore dyed the life that death might no longer liue Chrys in Math. 12. Wherefore Non Christum mortuum in morte credimus sed mortem mortuam in Christo Wee doe not thinke that Christ is dead in death but beleeue that death is dead in Christ Death that greedy Whale durst deuoure Christ our Ionas who was therefore cast forth into the sea of the world that so the stormes and tempests of the deuill and sinne might cease but hee was preserued aliue in the Fishes belly the belly of hell the iawes of death to preach repentance to the Niniue of the Church This same Whale swallowed the baite of Christs humanity but the hook of his diuinity intangled her and made her vomit vp her bowels Hieron lib. 1. ep ad Heliodor together with the baite Deuorasti deuorata es Death thought to haue swallowed Christ downe in obscurity and so death her selfe was swallowed vp in victory Death that Serpent was bold to sting Christ but he made her lose her sting for her labour His humanity could but receiue her sting of which his Diety did depriue her So that wee may well aske her in him O death 1 Cor. 15.56 Ioh. 1.29 where is thy sting The sting of death is sinne Christ the Lamb of God hath taken away the sins of the world In Christ Iesus therefore may we securely say O death where is thy sting Iob askt of man Man dyeth and where is he Iob 14.10 but wee may aske as much of death Man dyeth and where is death yea wee may aske concerning the worst of death deaths sting O death where is thy sting Iacob thus bewailed the death of Ioseph Ioseph is dead Ioseph is not Gen. 42. And Rachel wept for her children and would not bee comforted because they were not Math. 2. Because death was there they thought their children to bee no where But now death does but conuey vs where we should be and death it selfe is no where O death where is thy sting Death is quite vndone since the Crosse of Christ When death entred first into the world Exod. 15. it was like the waters of Marah exceeding bitter but since the Tree of the Crosse of Christ was cast therein it is now seasoned and sweetned vnto vs. Wee might once cry out with the children of the Prophets 2 King 4. death is in the pot death is in the pot But since Christ hath said This Cup is the new Testament in my bloud we may now say with the Saints of God The Cup of Saluation Saluation is in the Cup. There is now no more death since the Lord of life Vita cius instruxit nostram mors destruxit nostram His life hath instructed our life his death destroyed our death his life quickened ours his death sweetned ours his