Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	sin_n	sin_v	wage_n	4,962	5	11.1880	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29117	Elijah's epitaph and the motto of all mortalls in the other reason in the text, perswading him into a willingness to dye, in these words, I am no better then [sic] my fathers, I Kin. 19, 4 / by Thomas Bradley, D.D. one of His Late Majesties chaplains and præbendary of York, and preach't in the minster there, and in his rectory of Ackworth, 1669, Ætatis suæ, 72.	Bradley, Thomas, 1597-1670.	1670 (1670)	Wing B4131; ESTC R34264	17,583	51

Eyes then Funerall Sermons can doe unto our Eares Dayly we heare the Tollings of the Passing bells calling us to our long home Dayly we see the bones and skulls of our friends deceased rak't out of the Grave dayly we see others following after them and the mourners about the streets It strikes me deeply into the meditation of mortality when I doe but look over the Register Book to see in the turning over of how few leaves I finde the same man Baptized Married Buried Thus one Generation passeth away and another succeedeth and hasteth after it as we after them till we all lye down in the Dust of Death For we are no better then our Fathers But to draw to an end I will onely shew you some Reasons proving not onely the certainty but the necessity of dying that so we may make account of it look for it and provide for it and so conclude this Observation also And there are six Reasons which make it not onely certain but necessary that we should dye First Because we are all sinners And the wages of sin is Death Rom. 6.23 And in the fifth of the Romans ver 12. By one man sinne entred into the World and death by sinne and so death went over all men in whom all men have sinned Secondly The Sentence of Death is gone out against all mankind not to be reverst This Sentence was pronounc't in Paradise and dayly put in execution ever since In quo die commederis morte moriêris In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt dye the death Thirdly The matter whereof we are made necessitates it the meane and corruptible dust of the Earth And of this God puts us in minde from the very beginning of our being Pulvis in pulverem Dust thou art and to Dust thou shalt return Fourthly From the continuall conflict that is between the foure contrary qualities that are in us Of Heate and Cold Drought and Moysture one against another These being the prime qualities of the foure Elements of which we and all compound or mixt bodies doe consist are found in us in one degree or other all which being contrary the one to the other are in continuall fight one with another which never ceaseth but with the dissolution of the compositum the compound body wherein they are Where here these qualities are in aequilibri● equally ballanc't and in some due proportion mingled in the body there the body is healthfull strong of an excellent temper and of long continuance which was the happiness of Adam in his first Creation and of the long-lived Fathers before the Flood in a great measure But where one of these qualities doth predominate and get the upper hand over the other there follows a distemper and upon that sickness and weakness which by the Art and care of the skillfull Physitian may be helpt at least in some measure and for a time if he be skillfull in these two things First to find out and to discover which of the qualities it is which hath the predominancy And secondly How to correct that quality and to relieve the other which is oppressed by it and so to set them in some equall proportion and due temper again But this can no Art of man doe so as to keep them alwayes in an equall ballance but the qualities being so diametrally opposite one to the other the fight will still be renewed again and the conflict continued till the one hath destroyed the other upon which must needs follow the dissolution of the whole body so that in these very Elements that we consist of we carry Death about us we onely stay while the one hath gotten the mastery of the other and so bring us down to our dust Fifthly There is a nocessity that we should taste of death and be turned to our dust again that so our gross and corruptible bedies being first putrified may be purifyed and refined and defaecated from all those dreggs and terrestriall groseness which was in them while they lived here in the Flesh and so be raysed again spirituall and incorruptible This Reason Saint Paul gives 1 Cor. 15.36 Thou foole that which thou sowest is not quickened except it dye And ver 53. This corruptible must put on incorruption but before it put on incorruption it must put off corruption and that must be done by death It shall be raysed spirituall but first it must lay down that which is carnall in it this is done by Death and the Grave where the body is first putrified and turn'd to Dust that so as the Phaenix out of it 's own Ashes so the body may be raysed out of it 's own Dust and renewed out of it 's own Materialls that so becoming incorruptible spirituall and immortall it may be fit to enter into the Heavenly habitations and to be partaker of the inheritance with the Saints in glory Sixthly and lastly It is necessary that all men should dye and be layd up in the Earth in order to the great Assizes the great and generall Judgement to come that so they may be all brought forth together to their tryall for the greater honour of the Judge our Lord Jesus Christ the greater glory of the solemnity and the greater state of the proceedings in that high Court and in that great day This is the Reason the Apostle gives of the necessity of all mens dying before the generall Judgement And in order to it Heb. 9.27 It is appointed for all mon once to dye and after that to come into Judgement Some particular judgements we see dayly executed in the World in which God doth punish some particular sinnes by Judgements Nationall Locall and Personall that men may know There is a God that Judgeth the Earth and that sinne shall not alwayes goe unpunished But these are but as petty Sessions in respect of the Great Assizes to be holden at the Generall Judgement of the Grat Day That 's the Day indeed the Day of all Dayes called The Day of the Lord the Day wherein the Lord will be glorified in the sight of Men and Angells good and bad when they shall see the Sonne of Man comming in the Clouds with power and great glory and all the holy Angells with him with flaming fire rendring vengeance to them that would not know him nor obey his glorious Gospel when all Nations shall be gathered before him and all the Generations of men which have been upon the Earth from Adam to the end of the World when the Angells shall gather the Elect from the foure Winds from all quarters of the World and the Sea shall give up her dead and the Earth shall give up her dead and they shall all great and small appear before the Throne and be set in two mighty bodies the one on the right hand and the other on the left and there stand to heare their finall doome Those on the right hand the Sentence of Absolution Venite benedicti Come ye