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

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81152	Englands plus ultra both of hoped mercies, and of required duties : shewed in a sermon preached to the honourable Houses of Parliament, the Lord Major, Court of Aldermen, and Common-Councell of London, together with the Assembly of Divines, at Christ-Church, April 2, 1646 : being the day of their publike thanksgiving to Almighty God for the great successe of the Parliaments army in the West, especially in Cornwall, under the conduct of his excellency Sr. Thomas Fairfax / by Joseph Caryl, minister of the Gospel at Magnus neer the bridge, London, and a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.	1646 (1646)	Wing C752; ESTC R43612	28,502	54

of great danger to escape death or to come off with our lives It is a mercy not to live in times when God visits a people only to punish their sinne and therefore some of the good Kings of Judah were promised that they should die before such troubles were borne even Balaam Numb 24. 23. prophecying of the sore calamities of divers Nations breaths out in compassion Alas who shall live when God doth this Who would desire to live in such a time The righteous is taken away from the evil to come Isa 57. 1. But to live in times when God visits a people for the purging of their sins this is a great mercy To live in such times and to get thorow them though but with an escape is a mercy But to get thorow those times with a conquest is a great mercy It is an honour to live in troubles which overcome us while we are contending for truth and righteousnesse But to live in troubles where contending for truth and righteousnesse we overcome is our happinesse To be in deaths often is an honourable life but often to conquer deaths is an Heroicall life Right Honourable and Beloved this is Englands mercy Life is the richest commodity of this life Life among Naturals is next in value to the soul and it is in value above all Civils Satans estimate may be taken in this point Job 2. Skin for skin and all that a man hath will he give for his life Life is sweet life is a treasure And there hath been much digging for this treasure We have gone thorow fire and water variety of dangers we have walked for four or five years not only in a valley of tears but of bloud in the very valley of the shadow of death and yet we are not dead but alive What though it hath cost much to preserve these lives who would die to save charges what though estates be shortned yet life is lengthned what though some of the lading hath been cast over-board in this storm yet the vessell is safe We are not dead but alive We if ever any may say it with a mixture of wonder and thankfulnesse England is not dead but alive There were many who looked upon her as dying and gasping out her last breath Many hoped and many feared England would have been in her winding-sheet before this time How often have we like Israel at the red sea been talking of our graves How often have we waxed strong in unbelief and concluded as David once did we shall one day perish yet we may say England is not dead but alive And what a mercy is it that we can read this text to the Parliament of England Ye are not dead but alive The Parliament hath had death standing at their doors death looking thorow the key-hole scarce suffering the door to shut lest if called it should not come in fast enough and yet we may say The Parliament of England is not dead but alive And which is most considerable as in it's greatest swounings and convulsions it alwaies retained life in it self and lived in the hearts and prayers of the faithfull in the land so it now liveth in the tongues and pens I know not in what state it is in the hearts of those with whom it was reckon'd among the dead The Parliament of England hath been praied to death cursed to death drunk to death devoted to death and voted to death I am sure a civil death in deepest consultations and yet it is alive and lives in the mouths of many whose throats were once an open sepulchre to swallow it up and bury it forever Let this mercy be remembred as that which is the mother-mercy or the instrument the parent of all our Nationall mercies The Parliament of England is not dead but alive For the City of London this great and renowned City what a mercy is it that we can say London is not dead but alive Death hath been hovering about your wals death waited when it should be admitted to look in at your windows Yea the death of this City hath been breeding in it's own bowels Some members have been contriving the death of the whole body and have themselves justly died for it And that which the Prophet speaks Lam. 4. 12. concerning Jerusalem The Kings of the earth and all the inhabitants of the world would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entred into the gates of Jerusalem may be inverted concerning London The Kings and Nations about us would not believe but that the enemy would have entred in at the gates of London before this time yet notwithstanding secret underminings and open threatnings This great City which holds much of the life of the whole Nation is not dead but alive This City hath not had so much as a mount cast up nor an arrow shot against it Lastly How many are there in this Honourable Audience who have gone forth with their lives in their hand who have as it were conversed with death Some I believe are here who have led Armies in the field who have been in the head of them in times of greatest danger and hottest assaults who have seen pale death on every side who have heard the groans and beheld the wounds of the dying let them all blesse God that they and we can say They are not dead but alive A great King 1 King 20. 32. made it his request and would have been glad of the grant I pray thee let me live Esther makes the same suit to Ahashuerus Chap. 7. 3. Let my life be given me at my petition and my people at my request And all that God himself promised some very good men in a time of common calamity was That they should have their lives for a prey as for great things they were not to be look'd for Jer. 39. 18. 45. 5. That we can say thus much we are alive is a mercy if we could say no more But if we can say more if we can say we are not only alive that is numbred among livers but we are alive that is numbred among rejoycers this would rise to a high prized mercy That 's a second Note which I shall briefly touch For a people after they have runne thorow great dangers to live enjoying great comforts and successes is an amazing mercy Not to be dead but alive is mercy but to be alive and prosperous what a mercy is that This calleth as much for admiration as thankfulnesse It was much that the Bush burned and was not consumed Exod. 3. 2. but that a Bush should burn and at that time blossom and bear fruit how admirable were that When Josephs brethren Gen. 45. returned and told their father Ioseph is yet alive had the report ended there Iacobs heart had been exceedingly revived but when they tell him Ioseph is yet alive and he is Governour over all the land of Aegypt how did this amaze the spirit of old Iacob