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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	die_v	live_v	sin_n	27,888	5	5.5903	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17079	The vertuous daughter A sermon preached at Saint Maries in Warwicke, at the funerall of the most vertuous and truely religious young gentlewoman, Mistresse Cicely Puckering, daughter and co-heire to the right worshipfull, Sir Thomas Puckering, knight and baronet, the fourteenth day of Aprill, 1636. By Iohn Bryan, parson of Barford.	Bryan, John, d. 1676.	1636 (1636)	STC 3955; ESTC S114258	15,760	30

heard th●se foure evidences 1 She was sensible of Gods correcting hand Ioh 1.20 Ier. 5.3 and affected with the smart of his rod as appeared by this speech J am almost even tyred with my sicknesse but my hope is J am going to a better place as for this world it is full of misery 2 She was silent and free from murmuring and ●●owardnesse I heard them about her say Lev. 3.10 Io● ●● 2.40.4●5 that notwithstanding the long continuance of her sicknesse and the paine she suffered by purging and letting bloud yet she was never seene to open her mouth in discontent 〈◊〉 to be angry or pettish with any that were about her 3 She did justifie God Psal 119.75 Lam. 1.12.18 Eze. 9. ● 3. Micha 7.9 and cleare him in his dealing with her for being asked Doe you not thinke God deales very hardly and severely with you in afflicting you so sorely No truely doe I not said she but I thinke he deales with me very well because I have beene so wretched a sinner 4 She did submit willingly and obediently to Gods will and pleasure as appeared by these words of hers Lev●● ●6 41 〈…〉 J am very willing said she either to live or dye for if J live I hope J shall live a more godly life and commit lesse sinne of I dye I shall be freed from all sinne and ●●sery whereof this world is very full And so she ●●ose 〈◊〉 had the better part And God was pleased to give her full assurance before her death for hearing mention of the happinesse of heaven she spake thus I know that I shall very shortly see and enjoy it which she did Sic mihi contingat vivere sicque mori I thought it my duty to mention these vertues and graces of this sweet childe of God my Text calling upon me so to doe As for her birth Verse 30. and favour and beauty and riches the holy Ghost telling us they are deceitfull and vaine I thought them not worthy so much as of mention Let that which hath beene said in her commendation first cause us all especially those who are of more yeares and farre longer standing in the Schoole of Christianity to blush and be ashamed and confounded in our selves that we should be thus outstript in knowledge selfe-denyall sanctification devotion and patience by such a babe in Christ such a childe in yeares 2 Let it stirre us up and provoke us to imitation we reade that our Saviour tooke a childe and set him in the midst of his Disciples Math. 18.2.3 and said unto them Except ye be converted and become as little children ye shall not enter into the kingdome of heaven I have after our Saviours example set a childe in the midst of you and doe assure you that except ye become like it in those graces vertues formerly mentioned ye shall in no wise be saved yea this childe shall rise up in judgement against you at the last day and so shall all her gratious speeches which I have uttered from her mouth I will shut up all with a few words of exhortation unto the worthy Parents of this vertuous childe Foure things I have right Worshipfull to exhort you unto 1 To search and try your wayes This we are to doe in what affliction soever we are Lam. 3.39.40 Wherefore saith the Church doth the living m●n complaine a man for the punishment of his sinnes Let us search and try our wayes and turne againe to the Lord. Desire of God Iob 10.2 as Iob did to shew you wherefore he contended with you It may be the sinne was overloving of your childe for that is an ordinary fault even in the best Parent we see it in David how exceedingly did hee love a naughty sonne as appeareth by his excessive griefe at his death And the king was much moved 2 Sam. 18.33 and went up to the Chamber over the gate and wept and 〈◊〉 he went thus he said O my sonne Absalom my sonne my sonne Absalom would God I had dyed for thee O Absalom my sonne my sonne It may be you had a male love to your childe and offered a female to the Lord. 2 To be thankfull to Almighty God Saint Paul exhorts us in all things to give thankes 1 Thes 5 1● Phil. 4.6 Iob 1 2● and to make our requests knowne unto God by prayer and supplication with thankesgiving Iobs example is most worthy of your imitation who at the losse of his Cattell Servants and Children said The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away blessed be the name of the Lord. More especially let me exhort you to thankesgiving to God for these three b●●ries 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 7.4 1 For making you instruments of bringing forth such a childe 〈◊〉 hath beene described I may say to you as Saint Paul in another case did to the Romans Yee have brought forth fruit unto God 2 For arming you with such courage and patience in bearing so great a losse so quietly and obediently and that you are come to see her committed to the ground with as much cheerefulnesse as the Husbandman sees his pretious seed cast into the earth and covered with cloddes which he values at as high a rate as that which he reserves at home as knowing that though her body lye a while in the grave yet it shall shortly rise a glorious body as the Apostle teacheth Phil. 3.21 Phil. 3.21 Who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like his glorious body and shall shine forth as the Sunne Math. 13.43 in the kingdome of her Father 3 For giving you such cause of patience and ground of comfort 1 In that he hath removed that thing from you which might have stollen your hearts from him 2 In that he gave you such assured evidences of grace in her before her death and her assurance of salvation 3 In taking her away so swee●ly without the least paine or strugling 4 In infusing such comforts into your soules even in the time of her dissolution that you m●●● rejoyced for her gaine then sorrowed for your owne losse 3 To draw nearer unto God and to have more fellowship with him in his ordinances and you shall finde the comfort of your childe in God who will be better to you then ten daugthers y●● he will recompence your losses to you if not in the same 1 〈◊〉 1 1● yet in some other kinde as he shall see it best●● his owne glory and your comfort 4 To bury all your sorrow for her in the grave with her and let it rise no more Put on Davids resolution While the childe was yet alive I fasted and wept 2 Sam. 12.22.23 for I said who can tell whether God will be gratious unto me that the childe may live But now he is dead wherefore should I fast can I bring him backe againe Goe hence with as much comfort as if you had matched her to the greatest prince on earth Doe as the wise man counselleth Goe thy way eate thy bread with joy Eccles 9. ●8 and drinke thy wine with a merry heart for God accepteth thy works Let thy garments alwaies be white and let thy head lacke no oyle You rejoyced on the day of her birth why then rejoyce now for the day of death is the soules birth-day And the Preacher telleth us speaking onely of such as she was That the day of their death is better then the day of their birth Eccles 7.1 I will conclude all with that advise of Nehemiah Nehem. 8 10. Goe your way mourne not neither be sorry for the joy of the Lord is your strength FINIS Her Epitaph by the Author BIrth breeding beauty grace carriage sweet In thee deare Saint did all together meet The Sunne ne're saw a lovelier face than thine Nor heaven receiv'd a spirit more divine Thrice happy Parents such a childe to breed Begot againe of Gods immortall seed Cease sorrowing then sith Saints Angels sing To see her match'd with an eternall King