Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	enter_v	sin_n	world_n	17,813	5	5.6780	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67765	The prevention of poverty, together with the cure of melancholy, alias discontent. Or The best and surest way to wealth and happiness being subjects very seasonable for these times; wherein all are poor, or not pleased, or both; when they need be neither. / By Rich. Younge, of Roxwel in Essex, florilegus. Imprimatur Joseph Caryl.	Younge, Richard.	1655 (1655)	Wing Y178A; ESTC R218571	77,218	76

as abundance of examples that I could give you sufficiently prove namely Alexander and Crassus and Licinius and Marcus Crassus and Ahab and Haman c. But CHAP. VIII THirdly to this is added as a further judgement that as the more he hath the more he coveteth so the neerer he is to his journeys end the more provision he makes for it Other vices are weakned with age and continuance onely covetousness and that odious sin of drunkenness grows stronger As the covetous wretch increaseth in yeers so he increaseth in covetousness What Pline writes of the Crocodile is fitly appliable to the miserly muckworm other creatures grow up to their height and then decay and dye onely the Crocodile grows to her last day The aged worldling though he have one foot in the grave yet his appetite to and persute of gain are but new born Yea though he hath out-lived all the teeth in his gums the hairs of his head the sight of his eyes the tast of his palate have he never so much yet he hath not enough and therefore would live to get more and covets as if he had a thousand generations to provide for He so lives as if he were never to dye and so dyes as if he were never to live again He fears all things like a mortal man sayes Seneca but he desires all things as if he were immortal Had it not been for sin death had never entered into the world and were it not for death sin especially the Misers sin would never go out of the world Lust is commonly the disease of youth ambition of middle age covetousness of old age And Plautus maketh it a wonder to see an old man beneficent But what saith By as covetousness in old men is most monstrous for what can be more foolish and ridiculous then to provide more mony and victuals for our journey when we are almost at our journyes end Wherefore remember thou O old man yea O remember that your Spring is past your Summer over-past and you are arrived at the fall of the leaf yea winter colours have already stained your head with gray and hoary hairs Remember also that if God in justice did not leave you and the Prince of darkness did not blinde you and your own heart did not grosly deceive you you could not possible be so senceless as you are in these three last mentioned miseries Thus three of the covetous mans woes are past but behold more are coming for God inflicts more plagues upon him then ever he did upon Pharaoh I 'le acquaint you only with seven more CHAP. IX FOurthly his thoughts are so taken up with what he wants or rather desires for he wants nothing but wit and a good heart that he not once mindes or cares for what he hath as you may see in Abab 1Kings 21. 4. and Haman Hester 5. 13. and Micha Judges 18. 24. What the covetous man hath he sees not his eyes are so taken up with what he wants yea the very desire of what he cannot get torments him and it is an heart-breaking to him not to add every day somewhat to his estate besides not to improve it so many hundreds every yeer will disparage his wisdom more to the world then any thing else he can do as I have heard such an one allege when I have told him my thoughts about perplexing himself But see the difference between him and one that hath either wit or grace whose manner it is even in case of the greatest losses to look both to what he hath lost and to what he hath left and instead of repining to be thankful that he hath lost no more having so much left that he might have been deprived of But sottish sensualists have a duller feeling of many good turns then of one ill they have not so sensible a feeling of their whole bodyes health as they have of their fingers aking nor are they so thankful for twenty yeers jollity as displeased for one dayes misery Whereas an humble and good man will see matter of thankfulness there where the proud and ingrateful finde matter of murmuring And so much of the fourth particular onely let me add as a sure rule He that in prosperity is unthankful will in adversity be unfaithful CHAP. X. FIftly the Devil by Gods just permission prevails by his temptations to make them think that the forbidden fruit is the sweetest of all fruits as he did our first parents Nor will any other content him each thing pleaseth him better that is not his own And as Publius observes other mens goods are far more esteemed by him Plines Woolf is a true emblem of this avaritious beast whose nature it is when he is eating his prey though never so hungry if he sees another beast feeding to forsake that which he is about to take the prey from the other Ahab was such a Wolf who could not content himself with his own though he injoyed a whole kingdom but he must wrest Naboths inheritance from him The commandment is express Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors house thou shalt not covet thy neighbors wife servant Ox Asse nor any thing that is thy neighbors Exod. 20. 17. and all that fear God observe it but nothing more cross to the grain of a wicked mans heart to whom stoln waters are most sweet and hid bread the most pleasant Prov. 9. 17. For one so insatiably covets after another mans estate or office that he is never the better for his own Another so loves his neighbors wife that he even loaths and contemnes his own Thy neighbors wife to thee to him thines fairest sayes the Poet Hence hath that cursed speech issued from one too great to name That he could love his wife above any other if she were not his wife a word sufficient to rot out the tongue that spake it Solomon was a wise man and had tryed all things Oh that men would be so wise as to take his counsel and injoy their own with joy and gladness of heart drink waters out of their own Cistern and rejoyce with the wife of their youth so as her brests may satisfie them at all times and they be ravisht alwayes with her love rather then deprive themselves of that happiness by inbracing the bosom of a stranger and coveting that which is anothers Prov. 5. 15. to 21. Oh that thou wouldst be convinc'd that thy present condition what ever it is is the best for thee hadst thou but the wit to see it and that onely good use gives praise to earthly possessions that there are no riches comparable to content for this is the gift of God then surely thou wilt not much remember the dayes of thy life because God answereth the joy of thine heart Eceles. 5. 17 18 19. But no matter they love misery lose the comfort of their own brest and all outward blessings together with the tuition of God and they shall have it for he that makes