Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	eternal_a	life_n	temporal_a	7,350	5	8.5475	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95610	The souldiers commission, charge, & revvard both of the deceitfull and negligent, and the faithfull & diligent in the Lords work. Opened in a sermon preached in Christ-Church Dublin, May 14. 1642. Before the state and chief of the Army, upon occasion of the interring of Sir Charles Coote knight, and one of the honourable Privy Council in Ireland. By Faithfull Teate D.D. then lecturer there, now preacher of the gospel in East-Greenwich in Kent.	Teate, Faithful, b. 1621.	1658 (1658)	Wing T616; ESTC R232310	29,273	35

instantly of weak he became strong and to all mens admiration went forth in confidence of assistance of the most high and by Faith put to flight those that rose up against him and who saw not that God was with him First he discomfited the Rebels in Wicklow he burned Clantarf a place neer this City filled with rapine and blood he took in the Garrisons of the Naaz and Trim he expeld the enemies out of the Navan and then he encountred with the whole body of the enemy at Kilrush in a pitcht battel and routed their vast multitudes and would have pursued them if he might have had his will with such heat and vigor that they should have had little leasure or opportunity to rally any more but he was called back and the number of his desired victories being made up with some overplus in his last battel near Trim he was slain being shot as it is verily conjectured by one of our side into the body having a little before with three or four Troops chased three or four thousand almost two miles and left about four hundred dead on the place Thus died this honorable Patriot and Champion in the Lords work and victorious in the sixty fifth year of his age Cic. de Senect wherein as Cato Major saith of Q. Maximus Hic bella gerebat ut adolescens cum plane grandis esset he was like Caleb for strength Jos 14.11 as able for the war both to go out and to come in as he was the day when he was first sent over having about a quarter of an hour before his fall slain with his sword a Rebel of great stature hand to hand But now as David said of Abner may I say of him A great man is fallen in our Israel in whom the Lord hath bereaved us at once of the mighty man and the man of war the prudent and valiant Captain the honorable man and the Counsellour c. 3.2 as the Prophet Isaiah speaks The greatnesse of our adversaries rejoycings at his fall proclaimeth aloud the greatnesse of our losse but nothing hath befallen him or us but what hath befallen the dearest of Gods Servants Sampson is reckoned in the Catalogue of Believers Heb. 11. who slew more ar his death than in all his life yet he perished among the Philistines by the Philistines sword gracious Jonathan afterwards fell upon Mount Gilboa 2 Sam. 1.20 which occasioned much triumph to the daughters of the uncircumcised Faithfull Uriah was also betrayed by Joab at the Kings Command and cut off by the sword of the children of Ammon Adde to these godly Josiah to whom there was none like before or after among all the Kings of Judah yet was he slain by the sword of Pharaoh Necho The sword devoureth one as well as another and all things befall all alike him that feareth God and him that feareth him not Yea Aristotle calleth this kind of death the most beautifull of all other Ethic. l. 3. Offic. l. 1. de somnio Scipionis c. 6. The Orator affirmeth that no good man will doubt to die for the profit of his Country This our deceased Champion accounted to be most eligible for such as lay down their lives for the brethren eminently shew forth their love to God and his Church 1 Joh. 3.16 as Gods love is apparently seen in his sons laying down his life for us And wise men in all ages agree upon this maxime Decet Imperatorem stantem mori And God gave him his option he was taken from us by this eligible beautifull honourable death for he deceased on Hors-back being upheld by his Son riding behind him till he had brought him to his quarters The Lord convince and humble us all for all our sins which have brought this judgment upon us Not one but many Achans have thus troubled our Israel for I know no kind of sins which are not predominant among us It is the Lords mercy we are not all consumed The Lord help us to look up to Jesus Christ whom our sins have also pierced Isa 55.4 for him hath God given to be a leader and commander to his people who once died that by his death we may have life and by his life salvation temporal and eternal for now though other Commanders die he liveth for ever and when other helpers may be far off he is ever present with all his people who alone can help when as without him all help of men is in vain as when the Spirit departed ttom valiant Sampson he became weak like other men This hath he commanded us to do and promised salvation to all them that so do Isa 45.22 And then shall our sorrows be all turned into joy and our enemies rejoycing shall vanish then shall the Lord who hath the residue of the spirit in the room of this one Heroick Patriot now gone to his rest raise up many deliverers endued with wisdome counsell and might and the fear of the Lord who may fight our Battels tread down our enemies as mire in the Streets restore poor out-casts to their rightfull possessions again and settle peace and truth in all the borders of this sinfull and bloody Land to the comfort of all true Israelites and his own everlasting glory Amen FINIS