Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	die_v	young_a	youth_n	726	4	8.8271	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72331	Viaticum animæ or, VVholesome repast for the soule in her pilgrimage towards Ierusalem which is above Prepared, and made ready, by the diligent search, & paynes of Iohn Hodges, priest, M. of Arts and vicar of Shakerstone in Leicester-Shire.	Hodges, John.	1638 (1638)	STC 13547; ESTC S125028	34,877	287

content for it is not much that nature wants it is lesse that she requires Take up therefore the care of riches only to serve thy turne in this life and as thou findest thy selfe drawing neerer home the more disburthen thy selfe of them knowing that he is but a foolish traveller that will furnish himselfe for a litle way as if his journey were of many Miles and if in thy journey thou meete with any crosse or affliction which the good are most subject unto being heere from home in a strange place in body goods or good name first looke backe to thy selfe what thou hast deserved and then looking up to heaven 1 Sam. 3.18 say with Eli It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good No man that warreth entangleth himselfe with the affaires of this life because he would please him that hath chosen him to be a Souldier 2. Tim. 2. ver 4. 2 IT ill becommeth a Souldier that is upon service for his King and Countrey when hee should be bending both wit and force for the annoying of the enemy then to bee contriving or making Merchandise with him and as ill or rather worse it becommeth a Christian when hee hath given up his name to become the Souldier of Christ Iesus then to be traffiqueing and trading with the Devill dealing with him about worldly affaires Thou therefore that hast by Baptisme put on Christ Iesus Gal. 3.27 proclaming him to be thy King and vowing thy selfe to be his Souldier stand to thy tackling be strong and quite thee like a Man feare none but God and yeelde to nothing but godlinesse which hath the promise of this life and of that which is to come Turne thine eyes from the things of this World and fix them upon heavenly consider it is a Crowne thou runnest for a kingdome thou fightest for fight therefore manfully and so at last having fought that good fight of faith thou shalt inherit the Kingdome and raine regally without opposition or annoyance for ever for thou shalt please him whose Souldier thou art 1 Sam. 2.30 and who hath thus honoured thee NOVV will I arise sayeth the Lord now will I be exalted now will I lift up my selfe Esay 33. ver 10. 3 AS the nource to weane her child from the too earnest desire after her breast layes some bitter thing thereupon which having prevailed shee eyther wipes it off or throwes it away So deales God with the bitter enemies which he stirreth up against his peopl to weane them frō sin the love of the World hee at the last turnes their rage and fury upon themselves though they bee for the present Thornes in his Churches side Numb 33.55 and Prickes in their eyes and vexe them in the land wherein they dwell yet having executed and brought to effect his purpose hee at the last sweepes them away with the besome of destruction Esay 14.23 and kills their roote with famine For their actions proceeding from an hatred against Gods people and not from obedience they are at the last justly punished of God for that they have in such cruell manner made havocke of his people Let this then arme thee with patience when the Hand of God is upon thee Job 13.15 To trust in him though hee slay thee or when he doth exercise thy faith by wicked instruments yet still to relie upon him for deliverance for he will in his due time deliver thee he will arise and be exalted so that thou shalt see thy desire upon thine enemies O. JOB 21. vers 23.25 ONE dyeth in his full strength being in all ease prosperity And another dyeth in the bitternesse of his soule and never eateth with pleasure 1. VVHAT is the life of mā but a journey or pilgrimage through the desart of Sin toward the land of Promise the heavenly Ierusalem Esay 33.24 where no inhabitant shall say I am sick In which progresse some parents see their childrē consumed for presumption like Nadab and Abihu Leut. 10.2 Some both parents and children are devoured for rebellion like Corah his company Numb 16.31 but most children see their parents interred in the Wildernesse for their manifold transgressions and disobedience Man is borne with a condition to die and not only old men must but the youngest and lustiest may die Nay our whole life is a continuall death Infancy dies in childhood childhood in youth youth in strong age that in old age and old age is our Nebo from whence having taken a veiw of the holy Land we die according to the word of the Lord for it was Satans language he first spake the word yee shall not die at all Deut. 34.5 Some depart out of this World like a guest out of his Inne willingly others leave it like a Man pluckt out of his house Gen. 3.4 against their will one dyes like a Lampe or Candle wasted and consumed so dyes the old man the other like fier quenched with water violently so ends the yong man so that will they nill they yet all returne to Golgotha The workes of God are unsearchable and his wayes past finding out wherefore the godly and the wicked are many times deceived in the end God aimes at The wicked doe many times so flourish and end in such pompe and the godly are so afflicted and die so despisedly in the eye of the World that the one thinkes the godly mans life to be but madnes Wisd 5.4 and the other that he hath clensed his heart in vaine but the time will come when the wicked shall be scattered away like chaffe Psal 1.5 and the righteous shall stand in great boldnes before the face of such as have tormented him Wisd 5.1 Therefore judge not thou thy selfe hated of God because thou art poore and endest thy dayes without pleasure neyther judge thy selfe beloved because thou art rich and departest in prosperity but labour in both estates to die the Servant of the Lord and so bee thou low Wis 5.5 or high rich or poore thou shalt have thy Portion among the Saints ONELY by Pride doth Man make contention Pro. 13 10. 2. PRIDE is a disease of the minde whose efficient cause is the good gift of God abused to wit a wealthy estate yea so easilie doth prosperity infect that hardly can a Man be rich and not tainted with this disease While the families of Abraham Lot were not greate there was peace and quiet but assoone as they were encreased peace was excluded and debate admitted into the roome then began the hearts to bee possest with that contentious rhetorique of Mine and Thine which parted those whom neither adversity nor peril 's in famine or exile could sever or part assunder It is commonly sayd that poverty parts good company but it is more often seene that those have bin severed by prosperity whom a meaner estate had lovingly knit in a firmer bond for wealth inflameth the