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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	solicit_v	young_a	youth_n	25	3	8.2504	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02531	Contemplations, the sixth volume. By Ios. Hall D. of D.; Contemplations upon the principall passages of the Holy Storie. Vol. 6	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1622 (1622)	STC 12657A; ESTC S103671	93,503	467

sweet varietie healing the diseased raising the dead casting out the Deuill calling in the Publican and shall raise your heart to adore that infinite goodnesse Euery helpe to our deuotion deserues to be precious So much more as the decrepit age of the world declines to an heartlesse coldnesse of pietie That GOD to whose honour these poore labours are meant blesse them in your hands and from them to all Readers To his protection I heartily commend you and the right vertuous Gentlewoman your worthy wife with all the pledges of your happie affection as whom you haue deserued to be Your truly thankfull and officious friend IOS HALL The Widowes Sonne raised THE fauours of our beneficent Sauiour were at the least contiguous No sooner hath he raised the Centurions seruant from his bed then he raises the Widowes sonne from his Beere The fruitfull clouds are not ordained to fall all in one field Nain must partake of the bountie of Christ as well as Cana or Capernaum And if this Sunne were fixed in one Orbe yet it diffuseth heat and light to all the world It is not for any place to ingrosse the messengers of the Gospell whose errand is vniuersall This immortall seed may not fall all in one furrow The little citie of Nain stood vnder the hill of Hermon neere vnto Tabor but now it is watered with better dewes from aboue the doctrine and miracles of a Sauiour Not for state but for the more euidence of the worke is our Sauiour attended with a large traine So entring into the gate of that walled Citie as if he meant to besiege their faith by his power and to take it His prouidence hath so contriued his iourney that he meets with the sad pompe of a funerall A wofull widow attended with her weeping neighbours is following her only sonne to the graue There was nothing in this spectacle that did not command compassion A young man in the flowre in the strength of his age swallowed vp by death Our decrepit age both expects death and solicites it but vigorous youth lookes strangely vpon that grim sergeant of God Those mellow apples that fall alone from the tree we gather vp with contentment we chide to haue the vnripe vnseasonably beaten downe with cudgells But more a young man the only sonne the only childe of his mother No condition can make it other then grieuous for a well-natu'rd mother to part with her owne bowells yet surely store is some mitigation of losse Amongst many children one may be more easily missed for still we hope the suruiuing may supplie the comforts of the dead but when all our hopes and ioyes must either liue or die in one the losse of that one admits of no consolation When God would describe the most passionate expression of sorrow that can fall into the miserable he can but say Oh daughter of my people gird thee with sack-cloth and wallow thy selfe in the ashes make lamentation and bitter mourning as for thine onely sonne Such was the losse such was the sorrow of this disconsolate mother neither words nor teares can suffice to discouer it Yet more had she beene aided by the counsell and supportation of a louing yoke-fellow this burden might haue seemed lesse intolerable A good husband may make amends for the losse of a sonne had the root beene left to her intire she might better haue spared the branch now both are cut vp all the stay of her life is gone and she seemes abandoned to a perfect miserie And now when she gaue her selfe vp for a forlorne mourner past all capacitie of redresse the God of comfort meets her pitties her relieues her Here was no solicitor but his owne compassion In other occasions he was sought and sued to The Centurion comes to him for a seruant the Ruler for a sonne Iairus for a daughter the neighbours for the Paralyticke here he seekes vp the patient and offers the cure vnrequested Whiles we haue to doe with the Father of mercies our afflictions are the most powerfull suitors No teares no praiers can moue him so much as his owne commiseration Oh God none of our secret sorrowes can be either hid from thine eies or kept from thine heart and when we are past all our hopes all possibilities of helpe then art thou neerest to vs for deliuerance Here was a conspiration of all parts to mercie The heart had compassion the mouth said Weepe not the feet went to the Beere the hand touched the coffin the power of the Deitie raised the dead What the heart felt was secret to it selfe the tongue therefore expresses it in words of comfort Weepe not Alas what are words to so strong and iust passions To bid her not to weepe that had lost her only sonne was to perswade her to be miserable and not feele it to feele and not regard it to regard and yet to smother it Concealement doth not remedie but aggrauate sorrow That with the counsell of not weeping therefore she might see cause of not weeping his hand seconds his tongue He arrests the coffin and frees the Prisoner Young man I say vnto thee arise The Lord of life and death speakes with command No finite power could haue said so without presumption or with successe That is the voice that shall one day call vp our vanished bodies from those elements into which they are resolued and raise them out of their dust Neither sea nor death nor hell can offer to detaine their dead when he charges them to be deliuered Incredulous nature what dost thou shrinke at the possibilitie of a resurrection when the God of nature vndertakes it It is no more hard for that almightie Word which gaue being vnto all things to say Let them be repaired then Let them be made I doe not see our Sauiour stretching himselfe vpon the dead corps as Elias and Elisha vpon the sonnes of the Sunamite and Sareptan nor kneeling downe and praying by the Beere as Peter did to Dorcas but I heare him so speaking to the dead as if he were aliue and so speaking to the dead that by the word he makes him aliue I say vnto thee arise Death hath no power to bid that man lie still whom the Sonne of God bids Arise Immediatly he that was dead sate vp So at the sound of the last trumpet by the power of the same voice we shall arise out of the dust and stand vp glorious this mortall shall put on immortalitie this corruptible incorruption This bodie shall not be buried but sowne and at our day shall therefore spring vp with a plentifull increase of glorie How comfortlesse how desperate should be our lying downe if it were not for this assurance of rising And now behold lest our weake faith should stagger at the assent to so great a difficultie he hath alreadie by what he hath done giuen vs tastes of what he will doe The power that can raise one man can raise a thousand a million a world no