Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	good_a	life_n	sin_n	13,827	5	4.6650	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68047	The Figure of three, or, A Patterne of good counsell gathered for the delight of the well disposed.		1636 (1636)	STC 10865.5; ESTC S883	6,479	22

THE FIGVRE of THREE OR A Patterne of good COVNSELL Gathered for the Delight of the well disposed LONDON Printed for R. B. and are to be sold in S. Laurence lane at the signe of the BIBLE 1636. THE FIGVRE OF THREE OR A PATTERNE OF GOOD COVNSELL THE Knowledge of God is three-fold Generall Speciall and Singular Generall as the Philosophers Speciall as of the Christians and Singular as of them that are blessed The sweetnesse of this Name JESVS consists in three things It is honey to the mouth Melodie to the Eare and joy to the Heart All men are busied about one of these three ●hings Honesty Profit or Pleasure Three abominable sayings of all Epi●ures there is no pleasure after death a ●engeance on him that careth for to mor●ow neither feare the latter day nor wish ●●r it Three things doe study to unite with Pride Power 〈◊〉 Riches All Idols had their originall of three things Superstition wicked Imagination and Flattery Three things to bee considered in the creation of the world Who made it by what he made it wherefore he made it If wee aske who made it Why there is no Author more excellent than God If by what he made it Why no Art of more force then the Word of God If wherefore he made it Why no cause better than this that good should be created of God who is good A good life consist●th 〈◊〉 these things to eschew evill to doe goodnesse and to persevere in godlinesse to the end Three benefits which we haue receive● ought to move us daily and hourely t● giv● God great thankes our Creation ou● Redemption our Justification Three guides to Poverty Gluttonie Sloth and Whoredome Hope is very good for three causes I● is a remedy in adversity wiping tear● from the eyes for Hope onely doth s●●staine th●m whom injurious Fortune do●● most oppresse It nourisheth life promising better successe to morrow It leaveth not a man at his death but exalteth his heart unto immortality Three things not any way to be tolerated a long tongue in a Fooles head a loose life in a godly Professor a proud Heart and a beggers purse Three things be never silent where they be Money in the purse Wantonnesse in the heart Griefe in sicknesse Three sorts of men are evermore very slothfull they that sit long at Dinner they that lye long in Bed when they should rise to their labour and they that come to the Church when the doores are shut up Three things which seldome can bee seene a Broker that never made a lye a Collier which never was blacke and two Hils neere together without a valley A man is most grieved at three things especially To see the Adversities of his Children to heare of the losse of his goods and to see the prosperity of his heaviest enemies We should not be carefull nor curious in three things of good order in another mans house of the divine government of the Almighty nor in the Counsels of great Estates Three causes why men love one another One loveth because he is loved another because he is advanced to honor the third for that he expects a benefit from the hand of him whom he so loveth Three proud creatures a Knave sitting in a Chaire a que●ne riding in a Chariot a r●mping louse in a scabbed Head Three sorts of men are for the most part extreme babblers Barbers Bath-keepers and Victuallers and the reason is this because they deale with Mariners Souldiers and many other calling themselves travellers and are indeed extreame vagrant fellowes reciting many strange tales whereby being as it were infected with their very talke they become in the end great Babblers Three things necessary for the increase of Corne good Seed good ground and Gods blessing Three things in the night which doe importune us to sleepe Darknesse for men desirous to sleepe doe seeke for the darkest places Cold for in winter men sleepe more soundly than in Summer and those that are cold of complexion will sleepe longer than others that are not Moysture for according to all Philosophy moist vapours arise from the Stomacke ascend up into the braine and provoke sleepe Three things are sayd to be very bitter Gall Griefe and Death Three things which Women can doe all at once Spin Weepe and Prattle Three things which for the uncertainty of that which may happen men cannot safely give any counsell to undertake them that is a Wife to travell by Sea to follow the Warres Hope doth comfort three sorts of men of whom all others are past hope him whom the Physicians have given over him that is bound and cast into a deepe dungeon and him that hath suffered shipwracke being tossed with waves yet hope perswades to cast his armes abroad Three things chiefly to be remembred Gods ben fits whereby we are ever to give thankes our sins that we may be sorry for them and our death that we may be carefull to live well Three things manifest GODS Judgements Corporall punishment the sting of an evill Conscience the torments of Hell-fire There bee three things that the bodie is most addicted unto and as it were coveteth Good cheare Sleepe and Merry or pleasant talke and company Also there be three outward properties of the Persons in the Trinity the Father sends and is not sent the Sonne is sent to be made a sacrifice and the Holy Ghost is sent to sanctifie our mindes There be also in our Saviour Jesus Christ three things worthily to be wondred at the examples of his life whereby he edified the envions his words of wisedome whereby hee instructed the ignorant and the marvels of his glory whereby he did convert the unbeleevers Gold as the Learned write thereof hath three outragious properties for first it is the Sna●e for our soules the hooke of Death and the Bait of sinne It is great gaine and also wonderfull pleasure for these three sorts of men to tell lyes Poets Painters and Astronomers All men should suffer these three evils with patience necessary evils such as can neither be altered amended or hindred Accidentall evils which have happened unto us by our owne evill courses and such evils as we have justly deserved As after men behold a Rainebow they are put in mind of three speciall things of the anger of God when he destroyed the world with water whereof the 〈◊〉 colour is a witnesse of the mercy of God who will never us● that punishment againe o● the latter judgement and burning of the world with fire and that doth the red 〈◊〉 fiery colour thereof represent Three things make most men very sorrowfull that he must needes die that he knowes not the time or day when and tha● after death he knowes not where he shal bee Three things there be that are sayd to undoe a man to deferre and prolong hi● businesse to meddle with other mens matters to reject the good Counsell of hi● friend Three things there be very necessary for a sort