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	word_n	8,769	5	4.5336	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84939	The gale of opportunity. Or, A sermon preached (at Lidbury-North) at the funerall of the worshipfull Humphrey Walcot, of Walcot, Esq. June 8, 1650 and now published, by Thomas Froysell, Minister of the Gospell at Clunne in Shropshire.	Froysell, Thomas, d. ca. 1672.	1652 (1652)	Wing F2249A; ESTC R177209	46,742	52

opinion alwayes pleaded on the other side that it was for the good of the Romane Common-wealth that Carthage should stand At last Cato on a day brought a green Fig into the Senate among them and told them that this Fig was growing in Carthage but three dayes agoe and thereby warned them that a Navy might within three dayes arrive from Carthage and lay fiege to their City When they heard this The neernesse of the danger made such impression on their thoughts that whereas before they could never be won upon to assent now they voted not to give over till they leveld Carthage to the ground And shall not eternity affect us the neernesse of it write deep Characters of feare and care upon our hearts Within three dayes and death may lay siege to our City to our Soul beware of evill at hand of death at hand of Judgement at hand Thou Fool saith Christ This night thy Soule shall be required of thee ah then let us Act betimes let not the night take us in a night let not the night of Death take us in a night of sin and security then we shall have a double night at once upon us 3 Opportunities are very precious Every one according to the objects they lay out for value their opportunities ther 's no Prince or great person in the world hath more Clients and attendants then opportunity hath All sorts Court her and wait with humblest service on her The Husbandman waits opportunity to plow and sow and reap The Tradesman attends opportunity to make his bargains at lowest rate and sell off his wares at highest price The Ambitious man stands at the door of opportunity to raise himselfe All but fools according to their occasions runne out to meet and bow the knee to opportunity and shall not the dearest opportunities be precious to us shall we not take the best opportunity by the hand Opportunity to gaine the most precious things is the most precious opportunity opportunity to get the best treasures is the best opportunity Godlinesse is great gaine Heaven is the highest advancement The Soule is the Crowne and Master-piece of man surely then the opportunity to get and save these should be counted precious opportunity All things here that are of the world are but nothings but Idols and shadows of the best things and an Idol is nothing Time is 1 Cor. 8. 4. Tempus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but the Idol of Eternity and things Temporall but the Idol of things Eternall Our estate and our dayes here are but an Idol Ther 's no divinity nor immortality in them but God is an absolute and eternall Being the spring of all Divine satisfactions They that live in him live at an high rate and live for ever How can he complaine to want light that lives in the midst of the Sun How can he complaine of Thirst out of whose belly flow rivers of living water Surely then opportunity to injoy God is the most precious opportunity John 7. 38. Your Importunity hath setcht out this Sermon of Opportunity from me and I have given you here more then I preach't the time being too narrow to deliver all at once and therefore I was faine to omit many things in the Pulpit which I had in my papers The Spirit of the Lord Preach it all over againe to our hearts I commend you to the Lord Who am Yours most deeply obliged to Honour and Serve you Tho. Froysell Clunne Octob. 8. 1651. To his highly HONORED Mr. John Walcott of WALCOT Esquire SIR In publishing this Sermon Preached at your Fathers Funerall I could not but publish your Name to it or it to your Name you beeing so neer to him for Every Child is the Father multiplied He loved you dearly for his and your owne sake I cannot but love and honour you highly This Sermon was Preached for him but it was Preached to you and therefore God looks that it should worke upon you For at that time you had two Preachers at once Preaching to you the Preacher in the Coffin and the Preacher in the Pulpit He preacht to you that you must dye This Sermon preach't to you how you must live His Death preach't to you that time will be gone This Sermon Preacheth to you how you should improve your time As Death is the way to eternall life so an holy life is the way to an happy death Your Good Father dyed old and you may dye young as God writes some mens life in words at length so sometimes God is pleased to write in short-hand and cut a long life into a small Monosyllable and therefore turne and winde your present stock of time to the best and grow rich in grace upon it Remember 1 You cannot begin too soon to serve Jesus Christ One may begin too late but he can never begin too soon to serve Christ Where should the Flower of your Age grow but in the Garden of his service Bp. Hall It is the Policy of the Devill to discourage Early holinesse He that goes out betimes in the morning is more like to dispatch his Journey than he that lingers till the day be spent 2 You can never doe too much for Jesus Christ Religion know sno a Religio non potest habere excessum secundum quantitatem absolu am potest tamen habere excessum secundum quantitatem proportionis prout scilicet in cultu divino fit aliquid quod fieri non debet Aqui. 22ae q. 92. a 1. ad 3. excesse you cannot savour too much of holinesse as there be some persons that cannot beare the smell of Muske and sweet perfumes it fils their brains and makes them sick so Hypocrites and they are Hypocrites that cannot abide the smell of holy precisenesse and the sent of strictnesse Paul bids us be servent in spirit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is seething hot serving the Lord Quinon zelat non amat He that hath not zeale for Christ hath not love to Christ True zeale is a Seal of our Election Strictnesse and exactnesse is the beauty and lustre of Religion I say you cannot doe too much for Jesus Christ be hath done so much for us And what doth Christ require of you but he did the same for you Is hee not upon equall termes with you Nay before hand with you If he cals you to bear the Crosse for him did he not bear a greater Crosse for you Grace puts no limits to Holinesse Sus non potest ferre rosas amaracum Franz Plin. Rom. 12. 11. Iracundi sunt qui amant Lucian in dial Merc. Maij Finis appetitio non habet limites defini o Aristot Finis praescribit media sed ipsi fini non praescribitur Eccl. 7. 29. Gen. 1. 26. He that makes God his End thinks he can never have enough of God or bee too holy for God And though his actions of Holinesse and his forwardnesse in them over-run his Credit or