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death_n	grave_n	sin_n	sting_n	4,163	5	11.3993	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14860	A posie of spirituall flowers taken out of the garden of the holy scriptures, consisting of these sixe sorts: hearts ease, true delight, the worlds wonders, the souls solace, times complaint, the doom of sinners. Gathered for the encouragement of beginners, direction of proceeders, meditation of good hearers, consolation of true beleeuers, expectation of Sions mourners, confusion of irrepentant sinners. By George Webbe, minister of the word.	Webbe, George, 1581-1642.	1610 (1610)	STC 25164; ESTC S102126	70,373	214

so vile a subiect as the world shall I be staied from the noble seruice of my God for the loue of any earthly vanities No no all these I will trample vnder feete and reckon of them no better then they are And now my soule mount vp aloft vnto the place where all thy treasure lieth I will lift vp mine eyes to the hils from whence commeth all my help Psal 120. Luke 17.37 Eagle like will I soare aloft where my soules food is and fixe my thoughts on none but Christ he is the center from whence all my cogitations are drawne and the circle to which they tend let the Marthaes of this world comber thēselues about many things ful well I know there is but vnum necessarium Luke 10.41.42 one necessarie thing God graunt mee with Mary to chuse the better part As for other pleasures I count them but bitter sweetes in regard of the ioyes of heauen where is fulnes of pleasures for euermore As for other riches Ephes 1.18 I count them all trash in respect of the glorious riches of the inheritance of Saints all other honour I esteeme as base in respect of my glorious calling in Christ Iesus all other nobilitie I count obscure in respect of new birth and regeneration by the holy Ghost Iohn 44. all other beautie I esteeme but foule Psal 84. in respect of the beautie of Bethel which is made by Christ Iesus without spot or wrinkle all other buildings I deeme as ruines in respect of that building which is not made with hands 2. Cor. 5.1 but eternal in the heauens Matth. 10.37 Father and mother sister and brother sonne and daughter must needes giue place to the loue of Iesus or else I were not worthie of him my Sauiour Let others reioyce in their wit and policie my reioycing shall be the testimonie of a good conscience that in simplicitie and godly purenes and not in fleshlie wisedome but by the grace of God I haue had my conuersation in the world 2. Cor. 1.12 Let others be puft vp with knowledge of humane Arts and Sciences yet I esteeme no knowledge to the knowledge of Christ Iesus and him crucified 2. Cor. 2.2 by which knowledge I may be able to comprehend with all Saints Ephes 3.18.19 what is the breadth and length and depth and height and to know the loue of Christ which passeth knowledge Stoope downe all earthly happines to this in regard wherof all other gaines are but losses all other priuiledges are but trifles yea doubtlesse I think all things but losse for the excellent knowledge sake of Christ Iesus my Lord Philip. 3.8 for whō I haue counted all things losse and doe iudge them to be dung that I may winne Christ and might be found in him O sweete Iesu how great and innumerable be the gaines which I finde in thee Psal 42.1 As the Hart braieth for the riuers of water so panteth my soule after thee O Christ my Lord my God my Sauiour and my Redeemer Psalme Whō haue I in heauen but thee and who is there on earth that I desire in comparison of thee Cantic 1.2 Thy name is as an ointment powred out Isai 9.6 therefore the virgins loue thee Thy name is Wonderfull Counsellor the mightie God the euerlasting Father the Prince of Peace Reuel 1.5.8 Thou art that faithfull witnesse that Prince of the Kings of the earth that Alpha and Omega the first and the last which hast the key of Dauid Reuel 2.7 and openest and no man shutteth Reuel 1.18 and shuttest and no man openeth yea the very keyes of hell and of death Heb. 13.8 Iesus Christ yesterday and to day the same for euer O thou whom my soule loueth Christ the true gaine Philip. 1.21 my only gaine Christ Iesus thou art to mee both in life and death aduantage In life for thus I liue and yet not I but Christ liueth in mee In this life and in that I now liue in the flesh I liue by faith in the sonne of God Galat. 2.20 who hath loued me and giuen himselfe for me So that here what expert Arithmetician can reckon vp my gaines euen in this life receiued by him Remission of sins Ephes 1.7 By him I haue redemption through his blood euen the forgiuenes of my sinnes according to his rich grace Imputation of his obedience for our iustification He is made vnto vs of God wisedome righteousnesse sanctification and redemption and his full perfect and alsufficient obedience is made a gaine to me sillie simple vile and sinful creature by imputation By him we haue accesse through faith vnto his grace Accesse to God Rom. 5.2 wherein we stand and reioyce vnder the hope of the glorie of God Adoption Rom. 8.15 By him I am adopted to be the childe of God yea heire of happinesse and eternall blisse By him I doe recouer backe againe that right and title to his creatures Right vnto the creatures Ephes 2.15 which was lost by Adam By him the curses of this life are turned into blessings Afflictions good Rom. 8.26 for all things worke together for the best to them that are in him And what shall I say more All that we haue wee haue in him who is made all in all vnto vs hee hath taken our pawne and left vs his seale he hath taken vpon himself our sinnes Ephes 2.16 Reuel 1.6 and inuested vs with his merits he hath made vs Kings and Priests vnto God and euen in this life hath giuen vnto vs the earnest of his spirit Matth. 28. with a full assurance that hee will neuer faile vs. But if in this life only wee had hope in Christ Christ is ourgain in death 1. Cor. 15.19 we were of al men the most miserable Blessed be he the author of our blessednesse who as he is our gaine in life so is he also our gaine in death in as much as he hath taken away the sting of death and hath changed the condition of it by making it of the gate of hell the priuie portall of eternall life O death 1. Cor. 15.55.56.57 where is thy sting O graue where is thy victorie the sting of death is sinne and the strength of sinne is the law but thankes be vnto God that hath giuen vs victorie through our Lord Iesus Christ Yea after death in him doth rest our chiefest gaine for then shall we finde the vertue of his resurrection in raising vp our dusty bodies into flesh again which neuer shall corrupt who shall change our vile bodie Philip. 3.21 that it may be fashioned like vnto his glorious bodie according to the mightie working whereby hee is able to subdue all things to himselfe And euen then when all other gaines shall proue mens losses he to his will proue the onely gaine For what shall it profit a man to win

But what should I speake of the losse of these toyes and trifles they must part with life it selfe Iob 2.4 Skinne for skinne and all that a man hath will hee giue for his life But all the wealth and riches in the world cannot purchase one houres lease of longer life Death will claime his due an inexorable creditor which when it cannot chuse but breede an horror in the heart of him that lieth a dying so will it fill his soule with direfull griefe to call to minde the vaine attempts of his forepassed life whē they shall sigh for griefe of mind and say within themselues O senselesse we and more then frantick fooles We haue wearied our selues in the way of wickednesse Syracides 5.1.3.7.8.9 and wee haue gone through dangerous waies but we haue not knowne the way of the Lord. What hath our pride profited vs or what profit hath the pomp of our riches brought vnto vs all those things doe passe away like a shadow 2. Cor. 5. and as a post that passeth by At that day will God be knowne of them to be a terrible God and dreadfull Hee will then write bitter things against them Iob 13.26 and make them possesse the sinnes of their youth The conscience will come in then with her bill of accounts and shew many old reckonings and arrerages of sinnes and Satan will shoote foorth many millions of canons of desperation against the sicke besieged soule and lay before his eyes the large bedrole of their sinnes which when the guiltie conscience cannot denie O how it filleth the heart with horror and souseth the dreadfull soule with feare How bitter and lamentable is that parting farewell which they make to their departing soule Aelius Adrianus Animula vagula blandula quae nunc abibis in loca pallidula frigida nudula c. like that of Adrian the Romane Emperour when he was now a dying My darling soule poore soule poore fleeting wandring soule my bodies sometimes best beloued ghest and equall whither art thou now going pale wanne and naked into places vgly dismall full of horror and tribulation Yet happie yea thrice happie were it The wicked haue no peace after death if death were the Catastrophe of the sinners Tragedie and the end of their being might come with the end of their earthly liuing Their soules posting to hell happy were it for them if like to dogges and toads and beasts they might perish and bee no more but loe their chiefest woe is yet to come for when they lie in the graue like sheep Psal 49.14 Iob 19.26 death gnaweth vpon thē whiles wormes destroy their carkase hell fire seaseth vpon their soules and vexeth them with torments What shall I heere recount the sudden dreadfull passage of their soules from the bodie to their doome dragd downe by furious fiends of hell vnto their place of torment 2. Pet. 2.4 Iude 6. where they shall be in euerlasting chaines vnder darknes vnto damnation and to the finall iudgment of the great day At which day good Lord what horror amazement will affright them when the vngodly whose bodies are rotten in the dust of the earth The horror of the wicked at the day of resurrection Matth. 25. shall on a sudden be roused from their deadly sleepe by the Trumpet of an Angell and like guiltie malefactors they shall come foorth of the filthie dungeon of rottennes to appeare at the tribunall for their triall 2. Cor. 5. What a dreadfull day will that bee for those that haue passed their time securely here in this world how will they be amazed at the suddennes of this their rousing vp from the bed of death What a sea of miseries and terrors shall rush vpon them when on a sudden being raised vp Matth. 24.30.31.32.33.34.35.36.37 and apparelled with the same robes of their bodies so long laid vp in the wardrope of the dust they shall heare about their eares so hideous a noyse of Trumpets sound of waters motion of all the elements when they shall see the earth reeling and tottering the hils and dales skipping the Moone darkned 2. Pet. 3.12 the Starres falling downe from heauen the firmament shiuered in peeces and all the world in a flaming fire If Adam Gen. 3.8 after his eating of the forbidden fruite would faine haue hid himself from God walking in the garden at the coole of the day how shall the desperate forlorne sinner then abide the presence of the Iudge 2. Thess 1.7 not walking in the coole of mercie but comming in flaming fire and sitting in his throne of Maiestie Matth. 25.31 Reuel 20.12 when the books shall be opened when not onely they shall be called to account for their grosse and hainous sinnes Matth. 12.36 but shall be compelled to giue account for euery idle word Rom. 2.16 and their verie secret thoughts shall be brought to iudgement 1. Cor. 1. Alas what wil those wise people doe then that now liue in delights and count a christian conuersation foolishnesse What shift will they make in those extremities what will they answere for themselues doubtlesse they shall not be able to answere him one of a thousand Iob 9.3 whither will they then turne themselues Will they hope that the Bill of their Inditement may be lost Reuel 2.23 They haue small hope of that for he who is their Iudge searcheth the heart and reines yea all things are naked and open to his eyes Hope they that their greatnes shall countenance them out Behold he findeth no stedfastnes in the Angels Iob 4.18.19 how much lesse then in them that dwell in houses of clay and whose foundation is in the dust Doe they perswade themselues that they can bribe the Iudge Loe Prou. 11.4 Matth. 16.16 riches auaile not in the day of wrath and what shall a man giue for a recompence of his soule Doe they hope vpon a Psalme of mercie or a pardon There was a time indeed when that was offered vnto them if with repentant mindes they would haue accepted of the same but now there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin Heb. 10.26.27 but a fearfull looking for of iudgement which shall deuoure the aduersaries Good Lord then what will the wretched sinner doe at that most dolefull day what shift will he make He shall euen drie vp for very feare Matth. 24. Hee shall seeke death and death shall flie from him Reuel 6.15.16 He shall crie to the hils to fall vpon him and to the mountaines to couer him But all in vaine for there shall hee stand a desperate forlorne caitise wretch vntill he receiue that dreadfull and irreuocable sentence Matth. 25.41 Goe thou cursed wretch into euerlasting fire prepared for the Diuell and his angels Which finall sentence once pronounced The endlesse miserie of the wicked after the day of iudgement me thinks my heart doth quake to thinke