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	world_n	worse_a	41	3	7.9563	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87090	A divine prospective: representing the just mans peacefull end. In a funerall sermon preached at Katharine Creechurch, Aug. 14. 1649. at the enterrement of the remaines of the Right Worshipfull and truly religious, Sir John Gayr, Knight: deceased July 20. 1649. / By Nathaniel Hardy, M.A. and preacher to the parish of Dionis Back-Church.	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1649 (1649)	Wing H715; Thomason E574_8; ESTC R206287	27,124	35

remaineth a rest to the people of God saith the Apostle Heb. 4. 9 And Reliquiae sunt saith the Vulgar here there is a remainder of blissefull recompence to the peaceable Man To end this therefore Quarite pacem ut inveniatis pra●…ium let Peace be our work that Glory may be our wages ever remembring that while the rough Esaus of the time hunt after Venison it is the smoothplain-hearted and quiet Jacob that carries away the Blessing But to handle the words according to our Translation as being most consonant to the Sense and sutable to the Originall The end of that man is peace A clause wherein each word is Emphaticall and deserves a serious View The end indeed the beginning and middle of the upright mans dayes are full of trouble but his end is rest The life of a Saint is a continued warfare with Satans temptations his own Corruptions the worlds persecutions but at his death he shall enter into peace For the present none under worse slavery then the Good but at the last there shall be a year of Jubilee We are here in this world as upon a Sea continually subject to stormy Winds and rouling Waves but when we come to the Haven there shall be a serene Calme It is not unworthy our observation that the Hebrews use this word in the Text to signifie both a reward and an end thereby intimating to us that the reward is not given till the end when the evening was come then the labourers received their Wages and at the end of our lives shall be the collation of our Recompence Of that Man to wit exclusive of him and none but him Fine discernuntur reprobi ab electis it is the end makes the difference between the wicked and the good Indeed Solomon affirmeth That there is one event to the Righteous and to the Wicked to the Cleane and to the uncleane to him that Sacrificeth and to him that Sacrificeth not but that respects the matter not the manner of their end both end by death but not alike and though the one as well as the other must die yet the one doth not die as well as the other Indeed to the Bad Primum optimum to the Good Vltimum the Wicked mans Wine is best at first the Good mans at last the Devill deals by the one as Jaell by Sisera speaks them fair at first til he hath lulled them asleep in security and then he involveth them in misery But God doth by us as the Hebrew was to doe by the Captive Woman which he Marryed at first he appointeth us a time of mourning but afterwards he vouchsafeth us the fruition of himself in Glory The freshest rivers of carnall Pleasure shall end in a salt Sea of dispairing Tears whereas the wettest Seed-time of a pious Life shall end in the sun-shiny harvest of a peacefull Death In a word the Transgressour how pleasant soever his beginnings be his last shall be dolorous but the upright how troublesome soever his Life be his death shall be joyous for the end of that man Is peace This word Peace you may please to look upon in a double acception 1. More specially for the particular blessing of peace which ever accompanies the upright Mans end Indeed both Victory and Peace wait upon the just Man at last What Cyrus said of Abradatus when he saw him lie dead in the Field that his end was Honourable {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} because he dyed a Conqueror is true of the Christians end who dyeth a Victor over all the powers of Darknesse Sinne and Satan Hell and Death being all subdued under him and as his end is Victory so Peace The Verb {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} from whence the Noun {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in the Text comes signifies in Pi●el both perficere and retribuere the perfect Man shall be recompenced In Kal both perfici and pacem habere qui perfectus fuit pacificus erit the perfect Mans recompence shall be Peace Peace with God who is reconciled to him in the Bloud of the Lamb Peace with men no out-cries of the oppressed upon him Peace with himself no perturbations within him indeed this peace of Conscience he enjoyes in Life but especially at his Death Oh what serenity and calmnesse tranquility and content possesses the dying Saint when being come to his Haven the musick of a well-tuned Conscience welcomes him to the Shore then it is that he becomes {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a teacher of tranquillity to all that behold him then it is that being come to the last act of his life {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} he is filled with sacred exultation in a sense of his reconciliation with God What Saint Bernard saw in holy Gerrard is frequently observable in upright Men Actitus sum ego ad id miraculi videre exultantem in morte hominem insultantem morti I beheld him saith he exulting in Death and insulting over Death Thus do good Men die triumphing in their Victory and rejoycing in their Peace So that what Gregory Nazianzen saith concerning his Sister Gorgonias death may be applyed to every perfect man when he Dieth it is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} his Dying day is his Holy-day and his Funerall his Festivall In a Word what Simeon desired of God and God promised to Abraham is performed to every upright man he departs hence and goes to his Fathers in peace For the end of that man is peace 2. The word rendred Peace in the Text is sometimes taken more generally for prosperity safety and all good things in the extent of its signification it notes perfection to which is required a confluence of all good and in this latitude we may take it here So one paraphrases upon the Text Tandem post varias calamitates eripitur ut sit beatus felix his end is peace That is at length he is delivered from afflictions and invested in an estate of Blisse and Glory Such indeed is the upright mans condition in the end when he shall arrive at that place Vbi nullum deerit bonum nullum aderit malum where there shall be an absence of all evill and a concurrence of all good where that shall be verified which is promised Rev. 21. 4. God shall wipe all teares from their eyes and there shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more paine for the former things are past away In a word where there shall be Vita aterna beatitudo perfecta summa voluptas as Saint Bernard sweetly fulnesse of Joy perfection of Blisse and eternity of Life Vbi juventus nunquam senescit decor nunquam pallescit Amor nurquam tepescit salus nunquam marcessit gaudium nunquam decrescit vita terminum nescit as Saint Austin elegantly Where there is Youth