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death_n	good_a	life_n	time_n	10,018	5	3.6095	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03597	A remedie against sorrow and feare, delivered in a funerall sermon, by Richard Hooker, sometimes fellow of Corpus Christi College in Oxford	Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 4-1600.; Jackson, Henry, 1586-1662.; Spenser, John, 1559-1614.	1612 (1612)	STC 13722; ESTC S121049	7,781	18

because it is secret shall we thinke they goe vnpunisht because no apparent plague is presently seene vpon them The iudgements of God doe not alwaies follow crimes as Thunder doth Lightning but sometimes the space of many ages comming between When the sunne hath shined faire the space of six daies vpon their Tabernacle wee knowe not what cloudes the seventh may bring And when their punishment doth come let them make their account in the greatnesse of their sufferings to pay the interest of that respect which hath beene given them Or if they chance to escape cleerely in this world which they seldome do in the day when the heavens shall shrivell as a scrole the mountaines moue as frighted men out of their places what Caue shall receaue them what mountaine or rocke shall they get by intreatie to fall vpon them What court to hide them from that wrath which they shal be neither able to abide nor to avoid No mans miserie therefore being greater then theirs whose impiety is most fortunate much more cause there is for them to bewaile their owne infelicitie then for others to bee troubled with their prosperous and happy estate as if the hand of the Almightie did not or would not touch thē For these causes and the like vnto these therefore bee not troubled Now though the cause of our heavinesse be iust yet may not our affections herein bee yeelded vnto with too much indulgencie and favour The griefe of compassion whereby we are touched with the feeling of other mens woes is of all other least dangerous Yet this is a let vnto sundry duties by this we are to spare sometimes where we ought to strike The griefe which our owne sufferings doe bring what temptations haue not risen from it What great advantage Sathan hath taken even by the godly griefe of hartie contrition for sinnes committed against God the neere approaching of so many afflicted soules whome the conscience of sinne hath brought vnto the very brink of extreame dispaire doth but too aboundantly shew These things wheresoever they fall cannot but trouble and molest the mind Whether wee bee therefore moved vainely with that which seemeth hurtfull and is not or haue iust cause of griefe being pressed indeed with those things which are grievous our Saviours lesson is touching the one be not troubled nor overtroubled for the other For though to haue no feeling of that which meerely concerneth vs were stupiditie neverthelesse seeing that as the Author of our Salvation was himselfe consecrated by affliction so the way which we are to follow him by is not shrewed with rushes but sette with thornes be it never so hard to learne wee must learne to suffer with patience even that which seemeth almost impossible to be suffered that in the houre whē God shall call vs vnto our tryall and turne this hony of of peace and pleasure wherewith wee swell in that gall and bitternesse which flesh doth shrinke to tast of nothing may cause vs in the troubles of our soules to storme and grudge and repine at God but every heart be enabled with divinely inspired courage to inculcate vnto it selfe Be not troubled in those last and greatest conflicts to remember it that nothing may be so sharp and bitter to be suffered but that still we our selues may giue our selues this encouragement Even learne also patience o my soule Naming patience I name that virtue which onely hath power to stay our soules from being over excessiuely troubled a virtue wherein if ever any surely that soule had good experience which extremitie of paines having chased out of the Tabernacle of this flesh Angels I nothing doubt haue carried into the bosome of her father Abraham The death of the Saints of God is pretious in his sight And shall it seeme vnto vs superfluous at such times as these are to heare in what manner they haue ended their liues The Lord himselfe hath not disdained so exactly to register in the booke of life after what sort his servants haue closed vp their daies on earth that he descendeth even to their very meanest actions what meat they haue longed for in their sicknesse what they haue spoken vnto their children kinsfolke and friends where they haue willed their dead Carkases to be laid howe they haue framed their wills and testaments yea the very turning of their faces to this side or that the setting of their eies the degrees whereby their naturall heat hath departed from them their cries their groanes their pantings breathings last gaspings he hath most solemnly commended vnto the memory of all generations The care of the living both to liue and to dy well must needs be somwhat increased when they knowe that their departure shal not be folded vp in silence but the eares of many bee made acquainted with it Againe when they heare how mercifull God hath dealt with others in the houre of their last need besides the praise which they giue to God the ioy which they haue or should haue by reason of their fellowship and communion of Saints is nor their hope also much confirmed against the day of their own dissolution Finally the sound of these things doth not so passe the eares of them that are most loose and desolute of life but it causeth them sometime or other to wish in their hearts O that we might die the death of the righteous and that our end might bee like his Howbeit because to spend herein many wordes would bee to strike even as many wounds into their mindes whom I rather wish to comfort therefore concerning this virtuous Gentlewoman only this little I speak and that of knowledge Shee liued a Doue and died a Lambe And if amongst so many vertues harty devotion towards God towards poverty tender compassion motherly affection towards servants towardes friends even serviceable kindnesse mild behaviour and harmelesse meaning towards all if where so many virtues were eminent any be worthy of special mention I wish her dearest friends of that sex to bee her neerest followers in two things Silence saving only where dutie did exact speech and Patience even then when extremitie of paines did enforce griefe Blessed are they which die in the Lord. And concerning the dead which are blessed let not the harts of any living be overcharged with griefe overtroubled Touching the latter affection of feare which respecteth evils to come as the other which we haue spokē of doth present evils first in the nature thereof it is plaine that we are not of every future evill afraid Perceaue we not how they whose tendernesse shrinketh at the least rase of a needles point do kisse the sword that pearceth their soules quite through If every evill did cause feare sinne because it is sinne would bee feared whereas properly sin is not feared as sin but only as having some kind of harme annexed To teach men to avoid sin it had beene sufficient for the Apostle to say fly it But to make