Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	life_n	live_v	world_n	13,510	5	4.9137	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89933	A new anatomie, or character of a Christian, or Round-head. Expressing his description, excellencie, happiness, and innocencie. Wherein may appear how far this blind world is mistaken in their unjust censures of him.		1645 (1645)	Wing N536; Thomason E1182_4; ESTC R204932	5,297	15

performance of them what he wants here in heaven he naturally loves braverie ostentation riches gentlenesse as well as worldlinesse but that he dares not venture Eternity of Glory for their purchase as some doe He acknowledgeth the beauty of holinesse to be the onely beauty and therefore neither esteems himselfe nor any other to be more happy or wise then they are accounted therewith He knows no man now after the flesh neither regards he any meerly for fleshly but for spirituall excellencie and therefore knowing by himselfe partly what is in man he dares commit himselfe unto no man without triall of him first his passions and affections sometimes would fly out like a tempest but that he hath rules in readinesse how to check and restrain them from being inordinate and in performance of holy duties when perturbances interrupt those Sacrifices of ravenous birds live unto Abraham he drives and scares them away he hath learned in all estates therewith to be contented and grudges not at any crosse which maketh him more holy and teacheth him either more experience wisdome or patience He knows that he is a pilgrime upon earth and like one in a strange Countrey here and therefore whilst hee is upon his journey homewards is not much troubled what his entertainment in strange places shall be or is in which case though the dogs barke and the servants frown yet he cares not so long as he rests assured at length to be welcome unto the master of the house In which case though by the way he be whipt lasht somtimes with the scourge of tongues yet is he contented to beare all knowing that it were woe with him if all men should speake well of him yea that it were but a kinde of infamie to be praised of evill doers Like good Jehosophat you may have him sometime forget himfelfe to be enticed into some Ahabs company but yet even there he is not himselfe but checks himselfe for that adventure and looks out for some further and better direction to have some better warrant for what he is about His actions are all so framed as may further his latter end neither looks he or cares he so much what they are as whether they carry him in all which he hath a designe and plot upon eternitie of heavenly glory hee admits loves and cherishes goodnesse in whomsoever and amongst them the most excellent in whom his chiefe delight is His devotions are constant both in ordinary and extraordinary wherein what he misseth at one time he makes up at another And as for Gods goodnesse and manifold favours and blessings upon him at any time conferred they are so far from lifting him up that they make him the more thankfull end humble the more he seeth God in them acknowledging himselfe to be lesse then the least of all his mercies Hee is most censorious of himselfe and least of others whose faults he loves rather to conceale extenuate cover then farther to display Mercifull loving compassionate and kinde he is unto all but especially unto those whom Religion Nature Kinred or Affinity most strictly hath tyed him unto and is as well moved to help at the sight as at the voice of misery sory that he is not able to relieve and help all Hee is also wonderfull ambitious but it is how best he may come to be partaker of the Divine Nature to be filled with all diffusive goodnesse whereby to help and overcome all others therein In all extreams hee keeps the middle way and lays out for the golden Mean He is contented that God be his purs-keeper who can keep it best lay it out to the most advantage and neither suffer him either to want or be a bankrout Hee knows that all Gods works are beautifull in time and therefore he patiently waits for the issues of Providence Compared with Heaven he undervalues all earthly things and being clothed with this Sun can tread upon the Moone and as Oile swims above all waters so hath he principles in him which make him above and to conquer all crosses In his afflictions crosses and sufferings hee looks more at the hand of God than at the malice of men knowing that if he can but appease the one giving the Messenger his errand that hee shall quickly be rid of the other In all companies hee either does good or takes good at least labours to leave no ill savour by bad example though justification be but once done on Gods part yet he makes it an every days work to renew the same and engrosse further assurance thereof He is thankfull in all things and in all estates because the worst estate hee can be in out of Hell is more then his deserving to further which temper hee looks as well at those under him as at those above him Hee shuns all offences as neer as he can either to give or to take any and as for Revenge hee dares not so much as think of that for fear hee intrude into Gods Office and he makes himself all things unto all that hee may winne some knowing that hee lives not here so much for himself as for others hee is left amongst his slanderers and persecutors to keep off wrath from them whilst they sinning as with cart-ropes pull it upon themselves he knows no happiness but in holiness and therefore accounts this onely worth the looking after to study Maries part most labouring in sum-like unto Christ to do all things well and improve his talent unto the most advantage hee is always best when he is alone though then an Hypocrite be at the worst and never wants work when hee hath time to examine and call to question himself for all his words ways and actions in which course every evening hee cleeres his ●core and makes an even reckoning with the Almighty for all his offences To conclude view him well and we shall finde that there is no creature like him who hath joyes which others cannot intermeddle with Meat which they see not drink which they cannot taste of impenitrable armour which they know not defence and protection wherein they are naked and wanting Apparell more costly than Salomons in all his royaltie with directions from heaven and earth within him and behind him for his safe passage unto glory Being like the Kings daughter all glorious within though hee weare his worst side outmost yet he is more excellent then his neighbour and of all others the most overcomming creature whose eyes are said to overcome Christ himselfe Turne away thine eyes from me for they overcome me hee being the onely true modell of the new creature whose heart is still good and the same whatsoever his actions be A matchless person saved by his God kept by his power unto salvation held in his hand who is the shield of his helpe and the sword of his excellencie The eternall God being his refuge from above and beneath clasping him in the everlasting arms at whose feet Saint-like hee sits down to receive of his words Hee hath a heaven in his heart his thoughts are most of heaven his conversation is in heaven hee sits in his head there in heavenly places and had he wings to flie we should not have him long from thence And the true cause why the world loves him not Is because they know him not and are so blind as they cannot discerne into his excellencies they being veiled in this world as Christs sometimes were But let us lend him but a lease of three things wherein when he fails he is usually deficient heavenly wisdom knowledge and discretion to mingle with his zeal and temper it being thus qualified he is Heavens Darling Earths Paragon the Worlds onely wonder who whilst his Graces are conflicting wrastling and shining as he mounts Heaven-wards out of the wildernesse of this World is justly said to be the wonder of God himself Thus a right Puritan or Round-head is in his most noble right temper or should be qualified and let my Round-head be thus beautified and let mee live his life whatsoever his death be and I dare venter my Eternity with his FINIS