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	sin_n	wage_n	12,499	5	11.2125	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77231	Death disarmed: the grave buried: or, The Christians future triumph through Christ over death, and the grave. Delivered in a sermon at the interrment of Mr. Henry English; at Salerst in the county of Sussex. Decemb. 10. MDCXLIX. By Iohn Bradshavv Mr. of Arts, preacher of Etchingham.	Bradshaw, John, 17th cent.	1650 (1650)	Wing B4152; Thomason E602_5; ESTC R206407	30,926	37

home to visit his Family and Death prevents him arresting him by the way and claps him into Prison We must cease to hope when we cease to be c Our dance is turned into mourning Lam. 5.15 Septuagint 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To our joy and mirth When we are merry amongst our Friends sporting or feasting oftentimes in comes newes that such a dear Brother such a near Friend such a courteous neighbour is deceased and this damps all our jollity and often turnes our dancing into mourning our laughter into weeping our feasting into fasting our pastimes into pensiveness d Mors est recessus animae a corpore Aristot Mors hominis non est nisi separalio animae a corpore hac enim anima a corpore separata totum compositum moritur quia de●init esse compositum caro moritur quia privatur forma quae essentialiter est vita Vnde impossibile est animam esse et non vivere sicut impossible est animam esse et non esse animam Gabr. di 21. q. unica etc. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Isid Pelus lib. 3. epist 248. To our very subsistence it divides matter and form it separates soul and body An Enemy to Gods Workmanship in the World a tearing a devouring Enemy So that the dying man may well say to Death seasing on him as Ahab to the Prophet Hast thou found me O mine Enemy Object But many men finde it to be a Friend 1. The extremely miserable man who had rather Nature should die in him than Misery should live in him Job 3.20 21 22. Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery and life to the bitter in soul wh ch long for Death but it cometh not and dig for it more than for hid Treasure which rejoyce exceedingly and are glad when they can finde the Grave So also a The Septuag much otherwise 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iob 7.15 16 So that my soul chooseth strangling and death rather than my life I loath it I would not live alway for my dayes are vanity Yea Solomon sayes The day of our death is better than the day of our birth Eccles 7.1 2. It may seem a friend to a true godly man because at once it seems to do many good offices for him and to set him free from many incumbrances being as welcome to him that he may begin his felicity as to the other that he may end his misery It is the bridge by which he b Finis malorum janua ad vitam et c. Cyprian Mors piorum mors non est sed vita miseria hominis moritur non homo passes into a better life it sets him free from mortality it enters him into a state of immortality It puts an end to his labours it is the beginning of his reward It is the end of his tears it is the beginning of his joy It is the Goal-delivery of his soul the enlargement of his better part Resol To the first Branch Either the miserable man is in the way of righteousnesse or unrighteousnesse a childe of light or a childe of wrath an heir of everlasting promises or an object of everlasting anger a vessel of honour or a vessel of dishonour If the latter so Death is an Enemy as it puts an end to his finite miseries to begin his infinite it exempts him from temporal wrath to immerse him into eternal wrath and this is not the part of a friend but an Enemy If the former we must distinguish there is a natural enmity and an accidental enmity Naturally Death destroyes even a righteous man it at least keeps the body in Prison The fruit and wages of sin cannot absolutely naturally per se be a Friend but an Enemy if by this a godly man be dispossest of his Troubles yet is he not possest of his joys The excutioner of a Martyr sends him out of this world yet is not said to send a Martyr to heaven It is his work and so the work of Death to destroy it is the work of God to save and glorifie a Mors quando a te muliere scilicet provisa est tunc lamentandi materia fuit nunc vero facta est virtutis occasio quia tunc ad paenam peccati data est nunc permissa est resuscitantis ad gloriam tunc tartarus invenit hominem nunc amittit Chrysolog Serm. 63. Discamus recte judicare de divinâ providentiâ non ipsa mala facit sed quae fiunt à malis bene administrat Paraeus in Gen. 45.8 If therefore it be a Friend to any man it is per accidens per se it is an Enemy to every man at least to the life and being of man To that of Eccles 7.1 Solomon speakes onely of the present vanity of the World b In vitâ nostrâ copia tribulationis inopia consolationis August that a man meets with so much evil and so much vain good in the World that it is better for a man not to be born Chap. 4.2 3. explaines it The full Answer therefore is this b look upon the vanity c Mors transit est de laborem ad refrigerium de expectatione ad praemiuus de agone ad brabium de fide ad notitiam de peregrinatione ad patriam de mundo ad patrem Bernard misery and iniquity in the World so Death is a Friend at least to a good man But consider life is sweet and every thing desirous to preserve it self so it is an Enemy in the former sense a Friend by chance in the latter an Enemy absolutely Look upon the Troubles incident to the flesh the frailties our wearisomnesse and paines and griefes and maladies so it is a Friend as being ex duobus malis minus of two evils the least but as it keeps down the body and tyrannizes over the same till the Resurrection so it is an Enemy in the former regard it is a Friend for a need in the latter regaed it is an Enemy for a long continuance Vse 1. Stand then upon your d Vt dum semper ignoratur semper proxima esse credatur et tanto quisque in operatione sit ferventior quanto est de vocatione incertior Greg. Moral Watch against Death as against an Enemy You know not at what time or how soon it may come you know not in what place or how near it may be you know not whether it will meet you at home in your house or abroad in the field whether it will come in the day or in the night whether it will take you sleeping or waking You know not whether it will come in the second Watch or in the third Watch. It becomes you to be watchfull least you prove your selves to be wastfull of your own soules So look for it as to expect it every day Die dayly in expectation that you may die any day in fit preparation 2. Stand upon your Guard Be sure you have