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death_n	die_v	life_n	time_n	18,635	5	3.9362	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02589	A sermon of publike thanksgiuing for the wonderfull mitigation of the late mortalitie preacht before his Matie; vpon his gracious command, at his court of Whitehall, Ian. 29. 1625. And vpon the same command published by Ios. Hall deane of Worcester.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1626 (1626)	STC 12713; ESTC S103657	13,269	61

Let the world be a cheater our flesh a traytor the deuill a tyrant Faithfull is hee that hath promised who will also doe it God is the God of our Saluation How much more then in these outward temporall occasions when wee haue to doe with an arme of flesh Doe the enemies of the Church rage and snuffe and breathe nothing but threats death Make sure of our God he shal be sure to make them lick our dust Great Benhadad of the Syrians shall come with his hempen collar to the King of Israel The very windes and waues shall vndertake those Mahumetan or Marran powers that shall rise vp against the inheritance of the God of Saluation Saluation is rateable according to the danger from which we are deliuered since death therefore is the vtmost of all terribles needes must it bee the highest improuement of Saluation that to our God belong the issues from death Death hath here a double latitude of kinde of extent the kind is either temporall or eternall the extent reaches not only to the last compleate act of dissolution but to all the passages that lead towards it Thus the issues from death belong to our God whether by way of preseruation or by way of rescue How gladly doe I meet in my text with the deare and sweet name of our Iesus who conquered death by dying and triumpht ouer hell by suffering and carryes the keyes both of death and hell Reuel 1.18 He is the God the Author and Finisher of our Saluation to whom belong the issues from death Looke first at the temporary he keepes it from vs he fetches vs from it It is true there is a Statutum est vpon it dye wee must Death knocks equally at the hatch of a Cottage and gate of a Palace but our times are in Gods hand the Lord of life hath set vs our period Whose omnipotence so contriues all euents that neither enemie nor casualtie nor disease can preuent his houre Were Death suffered to runne loose and wild what boote were it to liue now it is tetherd vp short by that almightie hand what can wee feare If enuy repine and villanie plot against sacred Soueraigntie God hath well proued vpon all the Poysons and Pistols and Poynards and Gun-powders of the two late memorable Successions that to him alone belong the issues from death Goe on then blessed Soueraigne go on couragiously in the wayes of your God the inuisible guard of heauen shall secure your Royal head the God of our Saluation shall make you a third glorious instance to all posterities that vnto him belong the issues from death Thus God keepes death from vs it is more comfort yet that he fetches vs from it Euen the best head must at last lye downe in the dust and sleepe in death Oh vayne cracks of valour thou bragst thy selfe able to kill a man a worme hath done it a flye hath done it Euery thing can finde the way downe vnto death none but the omnipotent can finde the way vp out of it Hee findes hee makes these issues for all his As it was with our head so it is with the members Death might seaze it cannot hold Gustauit non deglutiuit It may nibble at vs it shall not deuoure vs. Behold the onely Soueraine Antidote against the sorrowes the frights of death Who can feare to lay himselfe downe and take a nappe in the bed of death when his heart is assured that hee shall awake glorious in the morning of his resurrection Certainly it is only our infidelity that makes death fearfull Reioyce not ouer me O my last enemie though I fall I shall rise againe O death where is thy sting O graue where is thy victorie Cast yet one glance of your eyes vpon the second and eternall death the issues where from belong to our God not by way of rescue as in the former but of preseruation Exinferno nulla redemtio is as true as if it were Canonicall Father Abraham tels the damned glutton in the parable there is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a great gulfe that barres all returne These black gates of hell are barred without by the irreuersible decree of the Almightie Those bold Fabulists therfore whose impious legends haue deuised Traian fetcht thence by the prayers of Gregory and Falcon●lla by T●claes suspending the finall sentence vpon a secundum praesentem iniustitiam take a course to cast themselues into that pit whence they haue presumptuously fayned the deliuerance of others The reseue is not more hopelesse then the preuention is comfortable There is none of vs but is naturally walking down to these chambers of death Euery sinne is a pace thitherwards onely the gracious hand of our GOD stayes vs In our selues in our sinnes we are already no better then brands of that hell Blessed be the God of our saluation that hath found happie issues from this death What issues Euen those bloody issues that were made in the hands and feete and side of our blessed Sauiour that invaluablie precious blood of the Sonne of God is that whereby wee are redeemed whereby we are iustified whereby wee are saued Oh that our soules might haue had leasure to dwell awhile vpon the meditation of those dreadfull torments wee are freed from of that infinite goodnesse that hath freed vs of that happie exchange of a glorious condition to which wee are freed But the publicke occasion of this day cals off my speech and inuites me to the celebration of the sensible mercie of God in our late temporall deliuerance Wherein let me first blesse the God of our saluation that hath put it into the heart of his chosen seruant to set vp an Altar in this sacred threshing floore and to offer vp this dayes sacrifice to his name for the stay of our late mortall contagion How well it becomes our Gideon to bee personally exemplarie as in the beating of this Earthen pitcher in the first publicke act of humiliation so in the lighting of this Torch of publicke ioy and sounding the Trumpet of a thankfull iubilation and how well will it become vs to follow so pious so gracious an example Come therefore all yee that feare the Lord and let vs recount what hee hath done for our soules Come let vs blesse the Lord the God of our saluation that loadeth vs dayly with benefits the God to whom belong the issues of death Let vs blesse him in his infinite essence and power blesse him in his vnbounded and iust Souerainty blesse him in his maruelous beneficence large continuall vndeserued blesse him in his preseruations blesse him in his deliuerances VVee may but touch at the two last How is our Earth ready to sinke vnder the loade of his mercies VVhat nation vnder heauen hath not enuied and wondred at our blessings I doe not carie backe your eyes to the ancient fauours of our God to the memorable frustrations of forraine Inuasions to the miraculous discoueries of Treasons to the succesfull