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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	eternal_a	life_n	soul_n	14,602	5	5.1897	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19297	The worldlings aduenture discouering the fearefull estate of all earthwormes, and men of this world, in hazarding their pretious soules for the enioying of worldly happines / deliuered in two sermons before the worthy visitors of the right worshipfull Company of the Grocers, at the visitation of their free grammar schoole at Oundell in North-Hamptonshire, by Thomas Cooper, Batchelour in Diuinity, imployed in that businesse.	Cooper, Thomas, fl. 1626.	1619 (1619)	STC 5710; ESTC S3391	41,588	88

the kingdome of heauen and the righteousnesse thereof these outward things may encrease and be sanctified vnto you that so you may continue without offence as you haue begun proceeded hitherto in all fruitfull bountie and mercifulnesse to the Houshold of faith to the happy fealing vp of your saluation in this life and to the hastening and accomplishing of the same in the life to come And thus humbly requesting your Worships to accept of this liuely Touch-stone to try your Estates by walking contrary thereto with my euer vnfeigned acknowledgement of your loue towards me I heartily take my leaue commending your Worships and all yours to the Grace and Mercie of our blessed God through Iesus Christ our Lord In whom I rest Your Worships poore Remembraucer at the Throane of Grace TH. COOPER Math. 16. 26. For What shall it profit a man though he should win the whole world and lose his owne soule IN these words the holy Ghost layeth downe a reason why we should not for the sauing of this present and momentany life decline afflictions namely because the sauing of life present in this regard is the next way to endanget the life eternall and if so then no profit will redound thereby no though we might liue to enioy the whole world For hauing in the 21 verse adioyned the doctrine of his particular suffering to the former doctrine of his Kingly office in gouerning and preseruing his Church that so the wise temper of these seeming contraries might confound carnall wisdome and exercise the faith of his disciples because the harsh newes of his suffering gaue occasion of offence to Peter as dreaming in his carnall reach of a temporall Kingdome he thereby takes occasion from the particular doctrine of his owne suffering to gather a generall conclusion That whosoeuer will be his disciple must also deny himselfe and take vp his Crosse and follow him which bitter pill that it might be the beter digested he wisely remoues the maine barnd hinderance of enduring afflictions namely the loue of life and that by a strange paradox to the confounding of reason triall of faith affirming that the sauing of life for a time by auoyding the Crosse was the next way to lose it eternally and so to encourage the rather to the vndergoing of afflictions he affirmeth contrarily that the enduring of afflictions for his sake though it were to the losse of life temporall was the meanes to procure the life eternall if not also for the preseruation of this present life Now because life were not desirable of the carnall man but for those pleasures and profits sake which the world supplies thereto for otherwise these fayling life is but a burden and death a most desired hauen therefore the spirit of God proceedeth in this verse to root out of our hearts this loue of the world and that by propounding the danger that accompanies the same namely that hereby the pretious soule is fearefully ensnared and endangered And concludes the folly of such a match when we pay so deere for worldly things namely that they profit nothing So that in these words we haue a discouery of an ordinary Bargaine vsually made by men of this world that as they conceiue to great aduantage namely that they be contented for gayning of the world to lose their soules Their soules is an ordinary price to compasse the pleasures and profits of the world In which Bargaine there are couched these particulars First the ground or occasion of the bargaine namely their greedy and vnsatiable desire of earthly things implyed in these words of extent Though he should gaine the whole world As if the holy Ghost had therein discouered that Roote of al mischiefe namely a couetous and vnreasonable desire to compasse all to be satisfied with nothing but the whole world Secondly we haue heere the driuing of the Bargaine namely this couetous desire is that which giues way to Satan to fetch ouer the soule Thirdly heere is the Bargaine it selfe namely that the soule is lost for the gaining of the world Lastly here is the Iudgement and censure of the bargaine namely that their is no profit in it Of these in their places And first of the ground or occasion of the bargaine This the holy Ghost discouers to be an vnsatiable desire of earthly things teaching vs thereby that naturally the minde of man as it is immortall and not to be fadomed so it is restles and neuer satisfied And therefore affecteth vnmeasurably the things of the world gladly would engrosse and appropriate all things to it selfe It cannot brooke a share in it happines it endures not to be stinted and measured therein So saith the spirit The eye is not satisfied with seeing nor the eare with hearing and therefore much lesse the minde So is the practise hereof discouered They ioyne houses to houses and land to land till there be no place and the reason hereof is added that they may liue alone vpon the earth And the generall conditions of all estates discouers no lesse no man is contented with the place and calling wherein God hath placed him euery one aymes at the highest subiection is a burthen and disgrace and soueraignty tickles with the conceit of deity where the soule finds no rest in God how can it be but restles in hawking after shadows where pride is a chaine how can bondage or subiection be any whit brooked And seeing happines is conceited in these outward things if Caine be cast out of Gods presence he must eternize his name in building of Cities compassing the world Who would not enioy the most of all those things that he may haue greatest happines Can there be a greater plague to the wicked then still to be desiring what they compasse And may not this turne about to turne them home againe that as the Doue whē she found no rest for the sole of her foote in the world returned againe to the Arke from whence she was sent forth so the poore soule being tyred in the compassing of these earthly things and confounded in the pursuit thereof may be forced to turne the current of her desires to the true obiect and to seeke for happinesse in her God onely Oh that we were wise to discerne the euill sicknes and therein to take notice of the power of corruption Are we sick of the world and neuer satisfied therewith How doth this discouer our barrennes of grace how doth it conuince our bondage vnto sinne Where grace hath taken roote we dye vnto the world where God is preferred there Mammō hath no place How doth this discouer an impossibility in nature to obtaine grace by it owne power seeing the glory and wisdome of nature is enmity against God exalting the world and it shadowes aboue the true substance of euerlasting happines making the wedge of gold it hope and it belly it God Why do worldings