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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	law_n	sin_n	sting_n	14,375	5	12.1860	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30854	The life of the Right Reverend Father in God, Edw. Rainbow, D.D. late Lord Bishop of Carlisle to which is added, a sermon preached at his funeral by Thomas Tully, his lordship's chaplain, and chancellor of the said diocess of Carlisle; at Dalston, April the 1st. 1684.	Banks, Jonathan.; Tully, T. (Thomas), 1620-1676.	1688 (1688)	Wing B669; ESTC R13606	38,322	158

grace and perfection of the Will Could they but secure unto us the Vnum necessarium the blessed Hopes of an immutable Felicity in the next World when we leave them behind us and bid them Adieu for ever which is the only Foundation whereupon we may build a firm peace and uninterrupted comfort I grant they were richly worth all the Care Anxiety and Toil we expend in the prosecution of them But alas they are meer Emptiness and nothing so phantastical and airy that they delude our Embraces when we think to enjoy them most As for Riches the Eye is not satisfied with them Eccles 4. 8. thô we labour and bereave our Souls of good first to procure and then to keep them and after the Poor Wretch hath spent himself in drudging for them he shall leave them in Jer. 17. 11. the midst of his days and at his end shall be a Fool. And pray what is Honour that Idol of Worldly men We know that an Idol is nothing in 1 Cor. 8. 4. the World so is Honour too too thin and too airy to yield any solid real satisfaction It puffs a man up indeed and blows him a little bigger than his Neighbour but the Timpany renders him uneasie both to himself and others and when God sends him a Thorn in the Flesh it pricks the Bladder and the gawdy Bubble vanisheth This is Pharaoh and all his multitude Ezek. 31. 18. And as for Pleasures such I mean as the Voluptuary calls so why grant the Epicure which yet he rarely meets with a lucky concurrence of all that can possibly advance a delight the Spirits are presently exalted into a Rapture and so the goodly Transport dies in a moment leaving Penitential Nature to repair the damage and Prodigal expence of a short Extravagance What profit then hath he that hath Eccl. 5. 16. laboured for the Wind So little Satisfaction can the Creatures afford which themselves groan and travel in pain under the bondage of Vanity the primitive Curse of Sin. Indeed had Man been created like the Angels in Heaven all Soul and Spirit and not tyed to the cumbersom luggage of a Body he had then been free from all the Troubles and Calamities which attend a Mortal State. But since we are doom'd to dwell in these Houses of Clay whose foundation is in the dust Every man in his best Estate is altogether Vanity And yet while we do Sojourn in these tottering Tabernacles the Natural Respect we bear to the Noble Guest that lodges in them puts us to a vast expence and trouble in Repairing the Decays and patching up the Ruines of them This indeed is but good Husbandry But when I observe the prodigal and luxurious Ornament some bestow upon this mean Cottage I can hardly hold from asking them Socrates his Question What do you mean to make your Prison so strong And yet when they have done all the Tenure of them is but for life under an Arbitrary Lord and how soon that Lease may expire we none of us know perhaps this Night may our Souls be required of us However at the furthest the Age of Man is threescore years and ten or if he Psal 90. 10. come to fourscore years yet is his strength then but labour and sorrow so soon passeth it away and we are gone Thus much concerning the Blessedness of their Estate who dye in the Lord in their being delivered from the Toyl and Fatigue the Emptiness and Dissatisfaction of things below The second and last Topic I purposed to shew it from was that positive and superabundant satisfaction that glorious recompence of Reward which they shall meet with in another World couched in these words and their works do follow them When Man apostatized from the Allegiance he owed his Maker he fell under the Power and Dominion of Sin and Sin delivered over the Captive Rebel to the Bondage and Tyranny of Death which gnawed revengfully upon his Flesh in the Grave and tortured his polluted Soul upon the Eternal Rack of Anguish and Despair in Hell Hell originally prepared for the Arch-Rebel of Heaven the great Leviathan of Sin and his Accursed Train but now become the common Gaol of Men and Devils Such a Prince of Terrors is Death when arm'd with the poysonous Sting of Sin. But the Captain of our Salvation has conquered Death and disarm'd it of that power it had got over us by Sin. See how the Apostle triumphs over it in the Lesson appointed for this Solemnity O Death 1 Cor. 1● 55 56. where is thy Sting O Grave where is thy Victory The Sting of Death is Sin and the strength of Sin is the Law i. e. There is nothing makes Death like a Serpent able to hurt us but Sin without which the Grave is but a Bed wherein we take a long Lethargic Sleep And that which impowers Sin to do us mischief is the Law which prohibits it and consequently involves us in the Curse due to our Guilt But thanks be to God who giveth us Ver. 5● the Victory thrô our Lord Jesus Christ Blessed be the Father of Mercies who by what Christ hath ●one for us hath gotten us the Victory over Sin and by this happy Conquest has made Death only a Silent passage to a glorious Immortality where they who dye in the Lord shall for ever for ever enjoy such Divine Transports of Soul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which it is not lawful for a man to utter 2 Cor. 12. 4. said the Eloquent S. Paul when the over flowing sense of them rapt him into Extasie Blessed Souls which always behold the Face of God in whose presence is fulness of Joy for evermore A sight even a bare sight able to transform us into his own likeness and make our Faces like the face of Moses too bright and dazling for any mortal Eye to look upon We shall be like him for we shall see him as he is 1 Joh. 3. 2. Blessed are those that-stand before the Lamb of God in his Throne of Glory that are admitted into the Society of the Cherubims and Seraphims those sprightly Choiristers of Heaven where nothing is heard but the voice of Joy and Gladness There 's no Sin to stain their white Robes of Purity or eclipse the glorious Emanations of Light which they receive from the Sun of Righteousness no Jealousies or Fears to disturb their Enjoyments neither can any imperfection taint that state where God shall be all in all 1 Cor. 15. 28. Surely now the Blessedness of dying in the Lord is so ravishing a Contemplation as even to make S. Johns Wish the language of all our Souls Come Lord Jesus come Rev. 22. 20 quiokly And indeed the happiness of our future Life is not fully and sensibly revealed unto us but seems on purpose to be hid with Christ in Col. 3. 3. God that we might not be too restless and impatient under the burden of Mortality