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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	womb_n	year_n	youth_n	23	3	7.8535	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36093	A Discourse of eternitie, collected and composed for the common good being necessary for all seasons, but especially for this time of calamitie and destruction.		1646 (1646)	Wing D1597; ESTC R14406	48,185	170

God crown us here with the blessings of his left hand the comforts of this life and length of years yea though all things favour our longer continuance in this world yet in the end time and age will ruine us We shall bring our years to an end like a tale that is told and shall vanish away like a shadow Though we live many years and in them all we rejoice yet in the end we shall remember the daies of darknesse saith Solomon and the time shall come that the eye which saw us shall see us no more * Soles occidere redire possunt nobis cum occidet semel brevis lux nox est perpetuò una dormienda Cat. The sunne sets and riseth again but we alas when our glasse is runne and the short gleam of our summers day is spent shall never return till our last summons when the dead shall hear the voice of the Sonne of God and they that heare it shall live and come forth of their graves they that have done good to the resurrection of life and they that have done evil to the resurrection of condemnation both to Eternity and then shall follow that large day that shall never shut in that infinite continuation of time that shall never end that unlimited Eternity which ever hath been and is and will be the same for ever when the Sunne shall no more yeeld her light by day nor the Moon her brightnesse by night but God shall be our light and the Lord our glory But oh the unhappy condition of our age who is there that ponders these things with a digested meditation that looks into the state of his soul with a serious eye and considereth his wayes That endeavours to lay a good foundation for the time to come we stand at the door of Eternity and while we live we are every day entring into it it s but a stroak of death and we are gon even in a moment and whither from our short and fading delights to an endlesse easelesse gulfe where our worme shall never die nor our fire shall never out Now let all those who swim in the streams of their voluptuousnesse putting far from them the evil day who labour to expell from their hearts and to stifle in the bud the sad consideration of their approaching infelicities let them I say know that they may fall into this vast gulf of Eternity when they least suspect it into which when once they have unhappily plunged themselves they may desire redemption but shall not finde it * Postquam istinc excessum fuerit nullus poenitentiae locus nullus satisfactionis effectus Cyp It shall be one of their torments to know they shall never be out of torment All the gold of Ophir cannot purchase them one minute of relief from their unexpressible miseries But now even now is the jubile now is the accepted time now is the promulgation of pardon there remains nothing for our parts but to sue it forth we need not many hundred of years or number of dayes to redeem our mispent time and to wash out our contracted pollutions no one day will through Gods gracious favour and loving indulgence procure more mercy here then Eternity of time can obtain hereafter one sigh from a true sorrowfull heart here shall prevail to discharge more debts then infinite ages shall acquit or satisfie for hereafter Here God with patience expects our repentance but if we abuse his forbearance and come not in hereafter with trembling we shall abide his judgement Let us therefore be wise in time remember our Creatour in the dayes of our youth before the evil daies come and the years approach wherein we shall say we have no pleasure in them before our dust returne into the wombe from whence it came and our lungs be locked up into the breathles earth before that black and gloomy day the day of death and dissolution appeare to us the which if our timely repentance here prevent not our doom will seal up our souls to eternall darknesse Let us consider that wheresoever we are whatsoever we goe about Immanifestu● omnia autem manifestans per omnia apparet in om●ibus we stand every minute of our time in the glorious presence of an * incomprehensible majestie whose bright and most piercing eye is ten thousand times clearer then the Sunne who knows all hearts sees all actions understands all counsells views all persons there 's not a word in the tongue not a thought in the heart not a spark of lust in the flesh though never so softly blown and secretly kindled but he beholds it altogether he is all ear to hear all hand to punish and when and where he please all power to protect and all grace to pardon he that findes not his mercy shall feel his fury and who amongst us can dwell with devouring fire who amongst us can dwell with everlasting burnings CHAP. III. Expressing how all men doe naturally beleeve this Eternity VVIthin these hundred years many nations have been discovered and many are discovered still which were unfound in former ages Amongst them some have been found to live without law without King but yet none without some knowledge of God and of some everlasting being in the world to come What moved the Brackmans in India and the Magies amongst the Persians to begin and end their undertakings with prayers to God What moved Publius Scipio never to enter into the Senate house before he had ascended the Capitol avowing that principle as constantly in his practice as he did in his knowledge A Jove principium What made Caligula which threatned the aire if it rained on his game-plaies yet to runne under his bed and wrapp his cap about his head at a clap of thunder What moved Attillius Regulus who had no other teacher then a naturall illumination to preferre the obligation of his oath before the safety of his life and rather then he would break his ingaged word and promise to the Carthaginians expose himself to all the torments that the cruelty and malice of his enemies could inflict upon him What moved the Saguntines a people of Arragon to that undaunted resolution of theirs who having plighted their faith and loyalty by solemn oath to the Romans chose rather to entomb themselves voluntarily in a fire which they made in their Market place then to break their faith to the said Romans which they had so solemnly swore and sacredly avowed under their protection what I say could move these meer naturalists to such a fear of an oath to such a trembling at Gods judgements to such austerity and care and censorious circumspection in all their waies and actions but that they naturally apprehended what they truly and distinctly understood not viz. Some immortall happinesse and everlasting being and this they conceived was beyond the mountaines or above them or in some other world they knew not where according as their severall fancies led