Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	faith_n	law_n	sin_n	6,700	5	5.1939	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89482	Temporis Angustiæ Stollen houres recreations. Being meditations fitted according to the variety of objects. By Tho. Manley, jun. gent. and student, anno. ætatis 21mo.	Manley, Thomas, 1628-1690.	1649 (1649)	Wing M449; Thomason E1374_1; ESTC R209219	34,225	131

Nation of whom it will be reported that blessings happinesses have seated themselves among us to conclude let us serve God truly and love our brethren and neighbours heartily so shall our peace be blessed and lasting and our happinesse infinite and eternall Amen MED 2. On the shortnesse of mans life THat the most lasting and durable things if sublunary are but fraile I am sure no man will or can deny the greatest Prince as well as the meanest beggar are subject equally to the stroake of death the lofty Cedar as well as the inferiour shrubs are lyable to be rooted up by stormy blasts Craesus with all his wealth Aristotle with all his wit and all men with all their wisdome have shall perish turne to dust One being asked what the life of man is turned round and went away shewing thereby that it is lesse then a vapour as we are young and may live so we are mortall and must dye Phylosophers accounted it the chiefest felicity never to be borne the next soon to dye The oldest man living if he but take away the time spent in sleeping and in idlenesse for the measure of life is not length but honesty and the study of vertue neither doe we enter into life to the end we may set downe the day of our death but therefore doe we live that we may obey him that made us imploy the time and talent he bestowes well and with wisdome and to dye whensoever he shall call us I say let him but abstract those times he will finde no length of time whereof to brag It is true Age is the gift of God yet it is the messenger of death no man can promise himself life for a moment how great use might we make of this meditation what manner of persons ought we to be in all godlinesse and honesty alway to be prepared against the day of our death for every mans deaths-day is his dooms-day which we know not how soon may happen for Old men must die young men may die soon We see the time 's not long 'twixt night and noone MED 3. WHo would ever trust him that loves to break the trust reposed on him and will never do any good unlesse it be to satisfie some private ends some selfe interest as such men deserve not to be trusted so neither ought they to live for in stretching my conscience to harme others I deceive my self and while I strive by wicked and sinister ends to rob others of their hoped and sought earthly good I barre my self from an everlasting by shutting heaven against my self As I would not promise more then I mean to perform break my faith so I would not do more then I could with conveniency least regard of my faith breake me MED 4. REbellion is as the sin of witchcraft saith the Scripture we know that witchcraft is doomed to death by the lawes of God men by humane laws with death here by divine with death if we may judge certainly without Gods great mercie everlasting necessity and want of friends shall never make me take sin for a refuge I had rather go the narrow way alone then accompanyed the broad one I had rather go to heaven by my self then to hell with a multitude and if I must make a Covenant yet it shall not be with death and hell least while I vie iniquity with the devill I buy the devil with hell to boot for my iniquity MED 5. HOpe is one of St. Pauls Cardinall vertues which comforts us endures us with patience to wait the Lords leasure for the fulfilling all his gracious promises to us as despaire on the contrary taints our purer part the soule with a rash presumption against and charging God with a breach of promise Hope well and have well saith the proverb I will therefore hope well that I may have well and never dispaire of not obtaining that which I have no sure way to loose but by not seeking MED 6. REsolution and policy are the two chiefest things that make up a perfect souldier policy to lay designes for themselves and countervaile their enemies and resolution to put them proposed in execution policy layes the ground work the foundation resolution builds finishes the structure policy without resolution building good for little resolution without policy a building without a foundation good for lesse but joyn them and there comes forth a goodly building excellent wayes to obtaine both a victory single or absolute conquest and I am sure I shall never attaine the Jewels locked up in the chest of resolution unlesse I am able to attaine the key of policy MED 7. THe childe that is now born cries assoone as it is entered into the world as foreseeing the miseries that he must undergo therein and indeed what is the whole life of man but a compound of miserie since there is nothing here in which he may joy whereon he may settle his happynesse the greatest pleasures bring the greatest cares if his head be adorned with a crowne his shoulders shall surely beloaden with cares every day increaseth our sorrow he therefore is most happy that dyeth soonest Our time passeth away and we know not how I will therefore alwaies be prepared against that time which shal come I know not how soone may come presently will come at last since I know every step brings me nearer to my journies end and every day brings me nearer to my death I will pray Lord prepare me for he that may dye every day doth as it were dye daily MED 8. AS he cannot be a just man that contrary to the lawes of nature infringes another mans right by violence and injury so he cannot be a good Christian that contrary to the laws of God with a malicious heart doth that to another which he would not have done to himself he that knows not how to obey deserves not to rule for an imperious subject will certainly prove an insolent Tyrant I will give to every man his due to avoid the staine of injustice and I will do to all men as to my selfe to gaine the title of a Christian I will learne to obey here that I may be admitted to rule hereafter which I may with Gods grace attaine knowing that for Christs little flock there is a Kingdome prepared MED 9. LOve as it is the badge of a Christian so it is the note of a man because it is a passion too noble for any irrationall creature to be subject to For God having given man a more divine part the soule then any other creature so his passions are higher then that they should be subjected by any thing but reason but of all this is most excellent as alwaies aiming at some good for a lovers eye is most peircing his wit of greatest maturity his tongue of greatest eloquence all his inward parts commonly most excellent which he hath most need of because vertue and good are placed