Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	great_a	life_n	love_n	7,775	5	5.2746	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09836	The commendation of matrimony, made by Cornelius Agrippa, [et] translated into englysshe by Dauid Clapam; De beatissimae annae monogamia. English	Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486?-1535.; Clapham, David, d. 1551.	1540 (1540)	STC 201; ESTC S104364	10,765	48

aged yea and to those that be decrepite and in whō there is no might of generation no hope left of propagation it is neuerlesse laufull to mary and if a man may say it often tymes nessary wherby they maye passe forthe the later dayes of theyr lyfe in the companye of theyr well be loued wyfe with more ioye suertye and lesse care Wherof Dauid verye olde with the Sunamite maide is an example For what felowshyp mought happen amonge men more holye and pleasaunte what more surer what lesse careful what more chast then the lyfe of manne and wyfe when eyther of theym is the same that the other is in one agreable mynde two bodyes in two bodies one mynde and one consent Only man and wyfe one enuieth not an other they alone loue eche other out of measure in as moche as eyther of them hole hangeth of the other and hath quietnes and reste in the other one fleshe one minde one concorde one heuynesse greueth them bothe one myrth equally reioyseth bothe the verye same and euen lyke wyl is in both theyr wynnynge is common to both the same ryches the same pouerte like dignitie and worthynes they be alwayes of one chaumbre and at one table they kepe company together nyght and day in sleping nor in wakynge they departe not the one frome the other but theyr lyfe is conioyned in all actes labours ieoperdyes and in euerye chaunce the one serueth the other as longe as they lyue they kepe company together to theyr lyues ende they neuer departe without they dye and the one beinge dead the other canne scante lyue Soo great is wedlockes loue that vneth deathe can set a sonder those whom lyfe hath knytte together Suche is the perseuerance of matrimony suche is the vnitie that one husband shuld haue one wife and one wyfe one husebande For one rybbe at the begynnynge was turned in to one wyfe And there shal be saith god two in one fleshe He sayth not three or mo And in the arch of Noe god commaunded no mo women to be preserued then men that for one man there shuld be but one wyfe For where a man hath many wyues or a womanne many husbandes there the vnitie of matrimony faylethe Therfore her alone that a man hath taken to his wyfe the same let hym kepe without violation of kyndenesse to the last ende of his lyfe in a perfecte loue and continuall remembrance Let the father gyue place the mother gyue place the chyldren the brothers and systers let al the heape of frendes gyue place to the swete beneuolēce and entier loue of man and wife and that for great skyl For the father mother chyldren brethern systers kynsfolke be the frendes of nature and workes of fortune man and wyfe be the mistery of god And the man had a wyfe the wyfe a husband before father mother brother or chyldren And therfore it was commaunded to the man to leaue father and mother systers brethern and chyldren and cleaue to his wyfe that aboue all other thynges he shuld kepe to his liues end that thynge whiche was fyrste of all gyuen vnto hym nor that one of them shuld at any tyme be with out the other of whome the one was not made without the other Wherfore the chyldren to departe from theyr parentes and the parentes to leaue theyr chyldren no lawe forbyddeth sometyme necessitie compelleth profyte styrreth consideratiō moueth the children often tymes be dymissed from auctoritie of theyr parentes they ofte chalenge to them selfe lybertie by religion often tymes in straunge countreys they get they lyuynge in other places seke theyr dwellynge but the wyfe from her husbande or the husbande from his wyfe no lawe no necessitie no pro fyte no consideration no deuorse no religion no licence no absence dothe permytte to departe For whiche of theym that leaueth or neglecteth to kepe company together the same as forsaken and solitary alone must of necessitie lede a lyfe moste wretched destitute of all gladnesse and helpe bycause the helpe that was made for hym of god and the companion of ioye and gladnes to hym gyuen he neglectynge depyseth to take or contemptuousiy is bolde to leaue and forsake ¶ The seconde cause of matrymo ny we shewed to be for propagation of chyldren as it is red where god blessed Adam and Eue sayinge Encrease and multiply and replenyshe the earthe Which blessynge after the floudde was euen freshe agayn renewed by the same wordes The effect wherof is that man shulde render to nature that he had borowed of her and to the image of god shulde brynge forth and nourysshe chyldren lyke hym selfe and restore the comon felowshyp of mankinde with a certayne successiō and to kepe it perpetual which blessinge he that dyd not regarde in the old lawe was counted of all men cursed and most vnhappy as it is wrytten Cursed is she that hath not sede in Israell and blessed is he whose sede is in Syon Whervpon Abraham for the meryte of his fayth was blessed in his generation and Sara beinge then olde and past chylde bearynge dyd put awaye the maledictiō of her barennes with this blessing of generation For in this sacrament it is not the meryte of nature to conceyue chyldren but the blessynge of almyghtye God and a mistery far passynge the merytes of nature Whiche thynge was not vnknowen to Jacob the Patriarch the whiche when his wyfe Rachel thought that the accompanienge with her husbande was to gyue chyldren said to him Gyue me chyldren or elles I am but deade Jacob answered Am I then in goddes stede which kepeth the fruite of thy wombe from the And Isaac made intercession to god for his wyfe bycause she was bareyn whiche harde his petition and made her to conceyue For they knewe that the frutes of matrimony were of god not of nature And of this the bastarde children be called naturall but those that come of matrimony be onely laufull And therfore he is not admitted to holy orders whose mother is not knytte to his father by laufull copulation in this mooste worthy sacrament of matrimony for a bond of perpetual felowship For a bastarde shall not enter into the churche of god Which bastard also is straytely prohybited bothe by humayne lawes and constitutions of wyse men to be the heyre of temporal landes and goodes For they haue no laufull heyre whiche by neglectynge and despising matrimony at the wanton and entysynge luste of the fleshe vnlaufully take theyr congresse And it is the common sentence and iudgement of lawiers that he hathe an vncertayne father and a naughty mother whiche is not borne in matrimony For he is base borne and is the sonne of the people yea rather the sonne of no man which is the chylde of a woman not laufully maryed But he is the true heir and trewe sonne whose mother without the infamy of sinne without the blame of kynsfolke without the offence of god