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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	earth_n	heaven_n	life_n	8,760	5	4.3162	3	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03419	A Christian caueat for al estates. Or A sermon, preached by that religious seruant of God, Master George Hockin, Bachelor of Diuinitie, Fellow of Excester Colledge, and preacher to the towne of Totnes in Deuon	Hockin, George, b. 1569 or 70.; I. C., fl. 1622.	1622 (1622)	STC 13542; ESTC S116598	26,164	49

is aboue Their affections be in heauen though they be on earth their treasure is in heauen and therefore their hearts are where their treasure is and death to them is a passage to life They feare not death hauing a good measure of faith to warm them at the heart they change not their countenance nor haue their colour any whit abated but aâ— it is recorded of Mistris Ioyce Lewis at the stake sundrie other Christians euen of the fearfullest by nature sexe looked as fresh cheerly at the houre of death as at their mariage But if men which are aged do not feare God they wish to die to be freed from paines but they passe from litle paine to great from easelesse to endlesse from corporall to eternall Hell is Deaths Page Follower attending him where euer hee goes among the wicked sort It is miserable to see how boldly blindly such men venture on death Theramines wrote books in praise of Death as the end of all calamities Augustus dies iesting calling for a Plaudite Tiberius in dissimulation Diogenes hearing Antisthenes cry out in his pains who shall ease mee offers him a knife to dispatch himselfe withall Caninus called to execution bids this fellow remember hee had the best of the game The Earle of Kildare seeing his Writ of death brought in when hee was at shouel-boord throwes his cast with this in his mouth whatsoeuer that is this is for a huddle If such men idid know the follower of Death they would neuer iest so and vse such idle mirth Vse Hath old age many miseries which accompanie it so that there is no pleasure in it but euerie day is a day of wrath an euill day subiect to some iudgment or other this should make the children of God lift vp their hands and hearts desiring to enioy that life wherein neuer a day shal passe away in wrath but all in loue fauour and glorie and wherein the dayes of our life shall not be a returning to death but a going on from life to life and ioy to ioy when we shall liue to liue and the longer we shall liue the longer we shall haue to liue and that in happinesse and glorie which daies and times shal neuer waste If we had hearts to consider of things as they are there is neuer a day goes ouer our head but yeeldeth matter of sighing and groaning vnder some act of Gods wrath doe we the best we can If we had the greatest causes of comfort both for this world the world to come that the world can affoord or that euer any man had yet when he shall summe his accounts he shall find the daies he liues here are but daies of euill and he shall see more cause of sorrow mourning then of ioy Let the bitter of Gods wrath here make vs the more seeke after the daies of eternitie where there shall not be the least crosse nor affliction Mans life in this life is nothing else but a returning back againe vnto death Euery man whiles he is here walkes to the house of his graue and though he be a little longer in going backe vnto the earth then he was comming from it yet he doth nothing while he is here but goe back to it A tale is quickly told a word is soone spoken a thought is soone conceiued so the yeers and daies of man are quickly spent It may teach vs euerie day to meditate and thinke seriously of our death and the graue It is the place we are continually trauiling vnto Which way so euer our faces are we mooue thitherward Euery day we are going to the place of execution A Malefactor that is going to suffer death thinks no other thing but death were going to the place of execution wee should still mind death and euerie day prepare to die As Dauid said of Aphimaaz let him come and welcome c. 2. Sam. 18.27 so the faithful Christian wil say of death he is the messenger of Christ he is welcome he bringeth to me the ioyful newes of eternal life They are blessed which die in the Lord Reu. 14.13 And one day of a blessed death wil make an amends for all the sorrowes of a bitter life FINIS

Teeth and Iawes make a base small sound in grinding the meat grinding it badly and weakely And he shall rise vp at the voyce of the bird that is he shall not be able to sleep or sleepe very little and be awaked with euery little sound euen the singing of a Bird this followeth their cruditie and rawnesse being not able to digest their meates All the daughters of Musicke shall bee brought low that is their voyces will faile them And men will dread euery high place and feares will be in the way that is they are afraid to goe vp into high places they are afraid to walke because a plaine way seemes rough vnto them a hillocke a mountaine a hollownesse a great valley And the Almond tree will flourish that is the head grow white He nameth the Almond tree for that doth first flowre of any tree as if he should say old mens gray haires come on with haste sometimes before they looke for them As the flowers of trees are a signe of instant Summer so the whitenesse of the head is a signe of instant death And the Grasse-hopper shall be a burthen that is the least creature shall bee a burthen light things shall seeme heauie vnto them And all lust will be dissolued that is all the desire to eate or drinke or otherwise shall decay because all the faculties both vitall and naturall shall bee weakned For man goeth to his long home that is goeth to his old house from whence first hee came forth The Graue is the house where the dead must dwell it is the way as Ioshua saith of all the world Iosh 23.14 that is I shall die shortly after the custom of all other men Dauid said I goe the way of all the earth 1. King 2.2 The Graue is the common house and receptacle of all humane bodies Euery one shall sleepe in his owne house Esay 14.18 that is in the Graue I know saith Iob thou wilt bring me to death and to the house appointed for all the liuing Iob 30.23 and the mourners goe about in the streetes that is weeping for the dead for weeping is not to bee reproued if it be moderate our Sauiour wept for Lazarus his friend Ioh. 11.35 Abraham lamented Sarah Gen. 23.2 The Hebrewes Moses Deut. 34.8 Ioseph Iacob Gen. 50.1 The Israelites Ioseph the Apostles Stephen It is not without much reason that Solomon doth giue counsell to goe to the house of mourning for there is perform'd that blessing which Christ promiseth Heathenish mourning is reproued which is without hope 1. Thess 4.13 but Christian sorrow is commendable The siluer Cord is loosed that is the Marrow of the backe which because it is white is called by the name of Siluer this beginneth at the Braine and goeth all along the bone this in old age strength decaying is lengthned and drawne out The golden Ewer is broken that is the Braine whose skin which compasseth it is yellow as gold which being broken or hurt man must needs die Nor the Pitcher burst at the Well that is the great Veine called the hollow Veine which caÌ„not draw bloud any more out of the Liuer which is the common Store-house and Fountaine which watereth all the body in such sort that it yeeldeth no more seruice then a broken Pitcher By the wheele broken at the Cisterne that is the Head for that is like a wheele And by the Cistern is meant the Heart which is the chiefe dwelling of Life When all this commeth to passe then the body which is made of the dust of the earth shal turn into it againe through the sin of our first parents In death all things are recalled to their first beginnings And the spirit to God that gaue it hence is it that God is called the Father of spirits Heb. 12.9 that is the maker and giuer of soules He formeth the spirit of man within him Zech. 12.1 the soule is the hoast in the sin of the bodie not produced from the seed of the pareÌ„ts nor from the soule of the parents but giuen of God that it might viuificate the bodie There can be no pleasure where so many troubles Reas 1 sorrows are It is better to die then to liue What pleasure is there in old age when old persons caÌ„not put on or put off their clothes cannot feed themselues caÌ„not rellish their meat nor know what day of the weeke it is nor discerne good from euill When Dauid would haue Barzillai come to him into Ierusalem that he might feed him Barzillai said vnto the King how many daies are the yeers of my life that I should goe vp with the King to Ierusalem I am this day fourescore yeers old and can I discerne between good or euill hath thy seruant any taste in that I eate or in that I drinke can I heare any more the voyce of singing men women wherefore then should thy seruant be any more a burden vnto my lord the King Thy seruant wil go a little way ouer Iordan with the King why will the King recompence it me with such a reward I pray thee let thy seruant turne backe againe that I may die in mine own citie be buried in the graue of my father and of my mother 2. Sam. 19 34 35 36 37. Barzillai vsed foure reasons for his refusall to go with Dauid First his age be being fourscore was not fit for trauell Secondly the defect of his sences and therefore not fit for a Princes court he could not iudge between sauourie and vnsauourie between sweet and sowre he could not discerne by tasting good or euill in meate or drinke or in any other such pleasant things neither did he here with pleasure Thirdly he was loth to be a burthen to Dauid In Princes courts such as wil not behaue themselues as others doe are burdensome if they will not be merry coÌ„panions if not drinkers they are a burden Kings will haue such men with them which can discourse but I am vnable to doe it and therefore vnfit to be a Courtier Fourthly it was pleasant to him to returne to thinke rather of his graue then of a Princes Court and therefore let thy seruant turne back againe old men should think not how they may liue but how they may die godly they should prepare in life for death and then death to them will be a passage to life Reas 2 Many aged persons are weary of the world because the world is so full of troubles they so full of paines and griefs Especially if they feare God for then euery houre is a day euery day a week euery weeke a yeere they liue They desire to be dissolued to be with Christ which is best of all Phil. 1.23 They loue to remoue out of the body and to dwell with the Lord 2. Cor. 5.8 They be from home as long as they are on earth here strangers vsing this World as if they vsed it not setting their minds vpon that Countrey which

for this time and when I haue conuenient time I will call for thee Act. 24.26 But Foelix was remooued Festus put in his roome and Paul continues bound still So young men say to goodnesse to grace and to God goe your wayes for a time and when wee are old and sickly then we will send for you but God will turne away Sathan will come in place and yong men wil be left in their sinnes First how knowest thou thou shalt liue till thou be old doe not many die in their youth And why not thou If thou dost what will become of thy soule Secondly if thou liue till thou be old how knowest thou whether then thou shalt remember God or no Is it in thy power Noe because men forget God being yong he forgets them and makes them forget him being olde Thirdly if thou doest remember him what great matter doest thou offer it to thy Prince will he accept it That which is vnfit for the World is it good enough for God Wilt thou offer him thy old age thy dote-age a bagge of drie bones Will not hee haue the first fruites of thy Corne and the fat of thy flocke and wilt thou giue the cleane corne of youth to the Deuill and the huskes and chaffe of old age to God wilt thou sacrifice the fat of thy Flock to the Deuils and the leane to God wilt thou forgiue thy enemies when thou canst hurt them no longer wilt thou giue thy goods to the poore when thou canst keepe it no longer wilt thou leaue sinne when sinne leaues thee and wilt thou serue God when it pleaseth thee is God at thy command is he bound to thee not thou to him It is a reproofe of those that are the Proctors and Vse 2 Patrons of sinnes of youth They say what shall youth doe shall they be mortified so young shall not youth be merrie and iouiall shall they bee sober aâ—d graue so young then you will haue no life in them belike Others say a young Saint an old Deuill A young Deuill may become an old Saint but a young Saint can neuer become an old Deuill Others say youth is youth and youth must haue a swinge Others of a ragged colt comes a good horse a knauish boy becomes a good man Either Solomon was not wise or they are starke fooles in so saying he saith Remember God in thy youth Let young men learne by Elies children how they were cut off ere age came To put off such things to old age is as if a carrier hauing many horses should put all his carriage on the weakest and poorest hauing many better Young men haue many better dayes and yeeres to repent in Delaying of repentance is dangerous deadly and damnable If a wound bee not cured before it rot it becomes oftentimes incurable If the fire be not quenched in time it becomes vnquenchable and if flesh be not salted before it stinck it becomes so vnsauorie that it cannot bee mended If a mote fall into the eye or a thorne sticke into the foot we take them out without delay but in things pertaining to the health of the soule delay is much more dangerous Satan seekes but a delay God craues present repentance It was offered by Moses to Pharaoh when shall I pray for thee and he answered to morrow Exod. 9.10 It is offered by the Lord to man when wilt thou that I haue mercie on thee many answere when wee are old Miserable was Pharaoh who delayed Moses but one day but more miserable are many men who delay the Lord for many yeeres Some will first burie their Fathers as the Disciple would Math. 8.21 Some will first go and kisse their Fathers that is delight yet a space in the pleasures of this life God will haue men now to turne God will haue the present time Bee wise now Psal 2.10 Now therefore feare the Lord and serue him Iosh 24.14 Therefore also now saith the Lord Ioel 1.12 Consider this now yee that forget God Psal 50.22 When Abraham was bid to circumcise his Familie he did not deferre it but circumcised them the same day Gen. 17.23 As soone as Cornelius was willed to send for Peter hee sent immediatly Act. 10.33 That thou wilt doe doe quickly in thy youth for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth Pro. 27.1 Hee that is not now willing may hereafter bee more vnwilling I know no difference betweene the wise two Virgins and the foolish but that the one did it in time which the other would faine haue done out of time and could not The most prophane men of the world are forced in death to make their refuge to the Lord. Then the eye and the hand are lifted vp vnto him Then they crie for mercie and desire all others to pray for them If men were wise they would doe that in time which many would do and do at length when God sent laborers into his vineyard he that was bad goe in the morning did not deferre till noone hee that was called at noone did not deferre his comming till night Art thou called to day deferre not till too morrow to day if thou wilt heare his voice harden not thy heart Heb. 3.15 To day is Gods voice to morrow is the deuils giue God to day that is thy youth It is one of Satans pollicies to perswade men to repent when they are old till all the time bee past wherein Men should repent This brings many to damnation that where in their young yeares they will not repent in their olde age they cannot the affections through long custome of sinnes waxing strong euen then when the bodie is weake Marke Satans deceit and put not off thy remembring of God to thy old age for thy yeeres may bee shortned thy faith weakened Satan aduantaged thy heart hardned and it may be God in iustice and the deuill in malice will not suffer thee to remember thy Creator How fearefull a thing is it to fall into the hands of God who is a consuming fire Heb. 12.29 As fire consumeth stubble so the most seuere God will consume and destroy the wicked contemners of his Word Thinke of it whiles there is hope you young men that forget your Creator heauen and hell least you misse the one and come into the other where there is no redemption no hope of ease or end which is that that makes hell hell indeed If all the paines of hell might haue an end were it after million and millions of yeeres as many as there bee Sands on the Sea-shoare it might nourish some miserable comfort of a release in the long ruine But this night hath no day this Ague no intermission this death no death to end it withall Text. Before the euill dayes come The dayes voide of all delight will come all ioy will faile and sorrow vpon sorrow befall There are good dayes that is a blessed and happie life wherein many good things befall vs. If any Man loue

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