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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	life_n	live_v	think_v	8,106	5	4.3475	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03753	A sermon, preached at the funerall of the right vvorshipfull Sir Robert Boteler Knight of Wood-hall: In the parish of Watton in Hert-ford-shire, the ninth of Ianuary, 1622.	Howell, Thomas, fl. 1623.	1623 (1623)	STC 13873; ESTC S118143	14,895	34

and this wee learne out of the Scripture When they had trauelled ouer all that Microcosme that little world Man and curiously obserued all that was in it when they had made an exquisite suruay an exact description of euery Country euery climate his generation and his natiuity and his infancy and his child-hood and his adolescency and his mans estate and his middle age and his old age when they had passed ouer all these yet when they came once to that same Mare mortuum that dead Sea the graue there they sate them downe and set vp a pillar as Hercules did they wrote vpon it Nil vltra Further they could not goe for they thought there was no further being But Christianity hath taught vs that there is Plus vltra wee haue discouered another world besides this and a farre greater then this whereof this earth is but the Center Wee know that the graue is Diuersorium non domicilium it is but an Inne wherein the flesh must soiourne for the while not the house wherein it must dwel for euer The Scripture sayes that the dead doe sleepe in the dust If so then the graue is a bed wee know that we shall lie in this bed but one night but a St. Lucies night and when that great and glorious day of Iudgement shall once beginne to dawne we know that then we must lie there no longer Now in this abundance and plenty of knowledge what remaines but that we commit it to the good Ioseph of the land the memory that if haply there doe fall out a famine of grace in the soule she may find whereby to sustaine her selfe Memorare nouissima sayth the Sonne of Syrach Remember thy end and thou shalt be sure not to doe amisse Hee that will guide a Ship well must put himselfe into the hinmost part of it the Sterne so likewise he that will shape the course of his life aright according to the carde compasse of Faith and Hope that finally he may arriue at the land of liuing must conuey himselfe to the hindmost part of his life by a continuall meditation of Death That great tempest mentioned in the Gospel wherein the disciples were like to be cast away it rose as the text sayes there while Christ was asleepe in Puppi in the hinmost part of the Sip so likewise the tempests of Gods iudgments and the stormes of the Deuils temptations wherein many a soule doth suffer Shipwracke they rise whilest we sleepe too in Puppi in the hinmost part of the Ship the latter end of our life whilst we are secure and carelesse thinke not of Death T is true there is no man so brutish as to thinke that hee shall neuer die but yet alas how many are there so Godlesse that they neuer thinke they shal die So strangely doth the Deuill blinde their eyes that they may not see that ditch that deepe infernall ditch into the which he leades them But as Christ in the Gospell restored that blind man to sight by applying to his eyes a playster of spittle clay so must we doe in this case too we must take spittle that is the teares of repentance and clay that is the consideration of our owne frailty and temper these two well together and apply them to the eyes of our Soule and then we shall easily discouer any danger that is before vs and preuent it too Pliny writes of Bees that when they swarme and fly vp into the ayre if you doe but cast a little dust amongst them they will quickly come downe When vaineglorious and ambitious and aspiring thoughts doe swarme in our hearts let vs learne to doe so too That is to intermingle them with the meditation of that dust into which we must one day be dissolued and then they will soone fall from that pitch to humility and mortification I haue heard that it is a present remedy to asswage a swelling in the body if you rubbe it with a dead mans hand when there riseth vp any tumor of pride in thy heart doe thou so too rubbe and chase it well with this consideration that Caro foenum Flesh is but as grasse that the body which thou dost so much tender and value at so high a rate shall at length become a liuelesse and a stinking carkas and surely thy proud heart will quickly downe So vsefull and so operatiue and so soueraigne is the meditation of our mortality that as Dauid s●ake of Goliabs sword so may we of it Non est ei altera simili● There is no other like vnto it Yet notwithstanding how little doe the world makes of it in these dayes I shall shew you by a homely comparison I confesse and yet sutable enough to the disposition of most men When a Hogge is kill'd it is an vsuall thing for the rest of the Hogges to runne together and to make a great noise a grunting for the time but anon they goe all away and returne euery one to his mire and to his wallow againe So likewise when a neighbour dyes it is a common custome for people to flocke about his Corse to follow it to the Church and perchance some lamentation is made some good thoughts are entertain'd for the time but when the solemnity is once ouer they all part and returne euery one to his owne home to his old sinne againe as if there had bin no such matter But I hope better things of you who haue at this time not only a text and a precept to put you in minde of your mortality but an instance also and an example the example of a worthy Gentleman vnto whose memory we doe now offer vp this last act and sacrifice of our loue In which loue I hold my selfe to be so farre interessed that I cannot but ascribe vnto him those termes and titles of worth which all you doe know better then my selfe to be but his due As he was descended of an ancient and worthy family so did he entertaine those dispositions and those affections whereunto men of such a race doe commonly encline so humble hee was and so affable and so inoffensiue in his behauiour so vpright and so conscientious in his dealings so liberall and so bountifull in his hospitality so euen and so equall in his temper but aboue all so well deuoted to religion as will appeare by some speciall euidences that now nomen eius quasi vnguentum effusum his name is like a sweete oyntment powred out the box is broken and the fragrancy of it is dispersed ouer the wholehouse And those tokens those euidences of his piety were these 1. He was quite out of that common fashion which too too many of his quality are in that is hee was no swearer he hated it in himselfe and he hated it in others too 2. Hee was so tender and so chary ouer the truth that he could not abide to heare it toss'd and tumbled vp and downe in a controuersie least peraduenture heate