Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	infancy_n	young_a	youth_n	26	3	7.2327	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66465	Poetical piety, or, Poetry made pious by rendering into its method observations arising from various divine subjects, useful for these prophane and enormous times : to which is added, a brief alphabetical expositor, explaining the most intricate words made use of in this book, to the conception of a mean reader, and may serve as a remembrancer to the imperfect memory / by William Williams ...	Williams, William, of Cardigan.	1677 (1677)	Wing W2785; ESTC R8078	64,141	220

Eternity contain So great will be mans weal so great mans wo None ever did or shall on Earth it know Exceeding mind surpassing memory Transcending reason is Eternity Observation XV. What metaphor or figure can be found Whereby Eternity for to expound Save Sun and Moon Globes Circles Sphears and Rings Lustres Olimpaids Jubile's which things Are all uncertain that none can descry By transcient things what is Eternity Observation XVI Eternity does evermore abide And there are no Eternities beside For were there more Eternities to be Time with Eternity would thus agree Beginning and of end it would admit But it is only one that 's Infinit Observation XVII Thus much is said and now I know no more To say unless what I have said before Of this Grand Subject which secludes mans heart Deluding Humane Reason Wit and Art To search its nature where confusion's found Impossibilities so much abound Observation XVIII Eternity some knowledge now I have Of thee thou dos't reside beyond the grave Thou art not to be found this side the same Thy natur'es there although we have thy name Thou art mens Portion they must thee possess Beyond the grave in wo or happiness Observation XIX Terrour thou art to some to others joy Aud thus thou canst both comfort and annoy Because thou dost for ever more abide Where sorrow and where solace is beside Where sorrow is thou dost augment the grief And that is Hell from whence is no relief Observation XX. Of vast Eternity I this can tell What thing it is not that I know full well But what it is my Reason do's extend It s boundless limits do my thoughts transcend Though 't is resembled oft to this or that It s true resemblance is I know not what SUBJECT III. Of Time and Death with the Vncertanty And the Certanty of them both Both Death and Time are certain things to be Yet make my life uncertain unto me WHen God began all Creatures to Create The space of Time did these Anticipate Or else God could not properly begin For to Create had no beginning been And this beginning was the very prime Or first production of the space of time This modicum of Minutes Hours and Dayes God made for to perpetuate his praise And for the greatest Creation he requir'd But six dayes space the more to be admir'd Accomplishing what things himself thought best In these Six dayes the Seventh day to Rest Time is an Infinite thing for time began Not long to be e're God Created man And has a termination to decay With man again at Gods great Judgements day Without permission to endure for aye Time is that space or circumstance wherein Angels and men acquaintance got with sin 'T was in this space both Heav'n and Earth did err That Adam fell and lofty Lucifer All good and evil acted is in Time Which will diminish or increase mans Crime This time although a pittance or a span Yet 't is a mercy lent to mortal man When man in Time against God did rebel He might have turn'd Man from Time to Hell But God who did Eternally decree The great Messiah of mankind to be Forbore this rigour and exalted Man The universal Metropolitan And gave man means whereby he might repent And through Repentance to be Innocent Thus for this end this interim of time Enjoyes fall'n man to make him more sublem But so uncertain's Time not one can say With safety he shall see another day Time steals away and takes its flight with speed Of transient Time may Mortals take more heed It is a Thought a Shadow and a Dream A Bubble that soon glides along the Stream So short is Time its length is but a Span And yet of greatest consequence to Man God oft sollicits man Time to redeem As if Time precious were in Gods esteem From which we might derive this inference Time is regain'd by double diligence That is by taking care and minding more The things of God hereafter then before He that does thus no doubt but every crime By him committed perish with his Time And when the Term of Time Man thus expires Eternity compleats all his desires What 's Time but Finite and do's soon decay As when the Sunshine drives the shade away With some declining thing I might it stile To be and yet is not within a while Minntes and Hours Dayes Weeks Months Years It spends it self and yet has not to spare declare And when it 's fully spent no more appears This season to supply the place of years Methinks the true description of Time is A circumstance in a Parenthesis It seems to be beset as in this kind Eternity before it and behind And yet the stile remaining still the same Eternity nor Time will bear the Name * God Created some things in the space of time which shall in duration exceed some other things though from all Eternity Though God in Time did every thing Create Some things with Time shall never terminate As Angels and Mens Souls these shall exceed What God from all Eternity decreed Some things God did before Times space ordain Which after Time were never to remain There were decrees e're time which did relate To man in Time with Time to terminate For instance God appointed Christ to be Mans great Messiah by Divine Decree For sin to suffer on a Cursed Tree His merits may be pleaded during Time But afterwards they expiate no crime Marriage ordain'd has been e're Time began But there 's no Marriage after Time for man And thus I prove some things to be decreed Eternally yet shall not Time exceed * Some things there are that have neither beginning nor ending as God himself Again some things there are and these admit Of no beginning nor of end to wit As God himself Eternally to name From everlasting evermore the same Eternity it self is God alone He no beginning had nor end has none And hence we learn time's temporality Bears no proportion to Eternity But is so short a space describ'd to man Its Longitude and Latitude a span And this small Circumstance of Time has bin The stage of mans transactions and mans sin And will be while that mortals do traverse The great Theatre of this Universe By wilful Sports and Comick Tragedies Or other mischiefs which from sin arise Until the final fatal overthrow By Death and Time of mankind here below Death is uncertain and 't is sure no doubt Times torch-light wasts and quickly will be out Both Death and Time unconstant are to men In every Circumstance how where or when That still at unawares men are bereav'd Of life and so by Time and Death deceiv'd * Death varies oft and is full of uncertanties As for example he that is but Young So surely dyes as he that lived long And thus we see mortality presage Our Infancy Youth Manhood and old Age. Somtimes our sinful Lives we do expire In floods of waters or in flames