Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	word_n	work_n	worm_n	16	3	8.5874	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87570	A ministers mite cast into the stocke of a weake memory: helpt by rules and experiments. VVith a winter night schoole tutoring discourse to generous youth.	Jerome, Stephen, fl. 1604-1650.	1650 (1650)	Wing J681CA; Thomason E1361_1; ESTC R209182	21,533	64

fellow Pu. One Caesar in Rome one Generall in a Campe as one Master Bee in a Hive one Master in a house one friend like Jouathan Socrates or Crates the Thebane to converse with one Plato in stead of all one Cato to consult with one Fedus Achates to walke with one wise Abigail or patient Grizel or Willobeyes Avisa or Overburies Wife described to live with and that Wife to have but one good tongue to talke with many tongues of Dutch French Spanish Italian Latin in a woman being suspitious to be all good oft breeding a Babels confusion Pr. What is the first thing that lives in Man Pu. His heart which is also sayd to be the last that dies as in some women the tongue is the last which moves aut metiuntur Poetae Pr. What is the tamer of all shrewes Pu. Not words nor swords nor blows which quiet a Zantippe as stones throwne at an angry dog or red colors Turky cocks and Unicornes but Morpheus or Mors death or deadly sleep which makes a shrew a sheep a sounding vowell as silent as a Turkish mute Pr. What creatures begin their workes in the midst Pu. All Birds and Swallowes their nests the silke wormes their clewes the bees their honey-combes and the spiders their webs as in generation God first framed the heart in the midst of man and in regeneration infuseth grace into that midst as was seene in the Jewes pricked and repentant and in the Aethiopian Eunuch beleeving first in their hearts ere grace was knowne and showne in their lives Rom. 10. v. 10. Pr. What is it for meere Legall Preachers to preach and presse duties to bee done and sinnes to be left and loathed to carnall Auditors ere ever they know or feele the power of Fayth or Evangelicall Repentance the roots of duties and the conque●●rs of corruptions Heb. 11.6 John 15.1.2.3.4 1. John 5.4 Pu. This is to require an apple ere there be an ingrafted tree an egge where there is no hen breathing where there is no soul yea to expect sucking and crying in a dead child Eph. 2.1 Musicke in Organ-pipes where be no blowing bellowes feeling in a woodden leg and an eye of glasse where there is no participation of vitall and animall spirits and to looke for fruit of dead trees dried up cut downe and withered this meerely sets the cart before the horse the effect before the cause and will needes bring forth a son to God to beleeving Abraham Gal. 3.7 and a daughter to Sarah ere there be any mother or any regenerating immortall seed 1. Pet. 1.21 in which most of our strict stearne Legall and austere Ministers who neither experimentally know Christ nor how to reveale him to others goe in a tract to convert soules as if they should walke with their heads downward and heeles upward or reare up a firme house without a foundation urging morall duties to unbeleevers which honest Pagans Jewes and Turkes have done and may doe to no purpose without a Christ Acts 4.12 Matth. 15.13 Acts 10.43 Pr. What is the best knowledge in a Preacher Pu. As in a Physitian that which is experimentall drawing that which he preacheth and presseth to others as the spider her webs and the silkeworme her clew out of the bowels of his owne experience without which he talks as a Parret by rote connes by heart his part and his Quew like a Player patcheth up as a Taylour his shreds what he can scrape and snap from Polyanthea Granateusis his Silva and every Author and often as the eccho of Mr. Perkins Smith Bisiald Taylour Bayne Greenham Dike Deering repeats as good Sermons or homely Homelies as any hee can buy for money Pr. What 's the best Embleme of a Preacher Pu. A Cocke first clapping his wings to awaken himselfe then crowing to awaken others like that Cocke which preacht Christs rehearsall Sermon to Peter peceant and penitent Pr. What 's the best Embleme of a good Hearer Pu. First to be as swift to heare as slow to speake and as studious to meditate as the Scholars of Pythagoras or Thomas Aquinas of a long time called Bos mutus a dumbe Oxe for his silent Soliloquies as is sayd of yong Nightingales that they sit solitarily on boughes and repeat by themselves what notes and tones they heare from the old ones Camerarius reports the like of Elephants musing on their Masters lessons directing their dancings on hard stones to the sound of musick Pr. What helps did I prescribe you for Memory with the reasons that most remember Sermons no better Pu. First want of attention their wandring eyes or walking tongues carrying their hearts a woolgathering from their eares whereas a History Musicke and Sermons should have strict attention Luke 4.20 21. Secondly the seed of the word is choaked with the thornes of carking cares Luke 8.7 or drowned in the bogges and quags of lusts or washt out of their minds with the lutulent waters of sensuall thoughts or overgrowne with weeds of wrath James 1.21 Thirdly one nayle drives out another the rusty nayle of the world the golden nayle of the word carnall discourses causing forgetting of that in the Church-yard which they got in the Church their streams turned into other torrents makes their hearts so dry their lives so barren and their braynes so shallow Fourthly want of love to the word for had a man as many children as Ahab and Prianus a schoolemaster as many scholars as Jo. Scotus Erigona or Orbilius once or Ramus they would bee remembred because all are loved it being no marvel that Cynus Mitloridates and Scipio remembred their souldiers names so well because their hearts were upon them and they loved them as well as Alexander and Caesar their souldiers whom they called their Commilitones fellow-soldiers Fisthly want of compunction because their hearts are not pricked nor their consciences wounded in hearing nor cut with the sword of the spirit Heb. 4.12 Jer. 22.29 more then the Smiths Anvile or the scales of a Dragon harder for beating and hammering being unmelted with the fire their hearts take no print for a man remembers where when and how hee was wounded by pike sword or pistoll all the dayes of his life Sixthly want of practice the souldier scarce forgetting the postures he hath learned to practice Seventhly there is oft most fault in Preachers 1. eyther in their dull and dead preaching without light life or power which charmes them asleepe as Mercuries pipe did Argus 2 or stupifies them as Henbane doth payned teeth 3. Or clawes them like Tygers to a tamenesle 4. or sowes pillows under their elbowes for the drowsie naps of security 5. or by their immethodicall luxate and unoynted preaching they lose themselves and hearers method being the mother of Memory 6. or by too high and sublime preaching they intangle their hearers in intricate Laborinths and Meanders out of which they cannot unwinde themselves 7. or their truantly reading their Sermons like words from a faint sick man making