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	writing_n	year_n	39	3	4.1197	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41543	A fair prospect shewing clearly the difference between things that are seen & things that are not seen, in a sermon preached at the funeral of the Honourable Lady Judith Barrington at Knebworth in Hertfordshire / by Tho. Goodwin ...	Goodwin, Thomas, d. 1658.	1658 (1658)	Wing G1270B; ESTC R40911	26,888	78

might be happy for many mens soules if one tenth part of that time labour and pains which is spent about things temporal were spent about things eternal Consider with what shame and torment of spirit you will stand before God at the Day of Judgement under this remembrance what profit of all my labour under the Sun None none at all your labour was misplaced it was about perishing things In stead of profit behold nothing but anguish and vexation of Spirit 3. Men of this world are such all whose treasure estate and portion lies in this world 't is all visible consisting only of things which are seen As we say of some men they are great men in their own Country their estate lies altogether in one Country there they have great Command great interest and Respect many Tenants and retainers great Alliance they beare all the sway but out of their Country they are No body they pass to and fro unregarded so is it with many who in this world bear a great sway through their worldly greatnesse by their purse and power they can have any thing and do any thing here below But Alas you see all all lies on this side the Holy Land here lies all their estate they have no treasure nor inheritance in heaven their friends dwell all on earth in heaven there 's none cares for them they have much kindred and acquaintance on earth but strangers to heaven God ownes them not Abraham is ignorant of them and Israel will not acknowledg them one stroke of death utterly undoes them and bereaves them of all at once In a moment in the twinkling of an eye they are thrown out of all they are cast down and shall not be able to rise Psal. 37. 35 36. I have seen the wicked in great power and spreading himself like a green Bay-tree yet he passed away and lo he was not I sought him but he could not be found Death like a Bayly or Serjeant comes with a writ of arrest seizes upon all and carries them away to prison where they must be for ever without any hope of Redemption This will be the end of men of this world O Sirs me thinks you should sit trembling under all your enjoyments to see this one word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} For a while written upon the forehead of them all For a Souldier to have an honourable sword of Knighthood girt about him as one once had and a piece of match of a few inches lye by him burning with which his life must extinguish and end also where would his eye think you be most on his sword or his burning match would not this more dismay him than that could rejoyce him This word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} for a while lies like a piece of match burning by all your enjoyments thy goodly Houses rich Lands Portions Jewels pleasant Gardens stately Parks Dear Relations are all within a few inches of going out at once and thou thy selfe shalt be left in utter darknesse 4. Lastly men of this world are such whose hearts are wholly set on things of this world Their projects and designs are all for the world nothing goes neer their hearts to affect them or afflict them but things of this world worldly losses and crosses worldly gaines and advantages if they rejoyce 't is in corne or wine or some worldly good if they mourn and walke heavily 't is under some worldly loss and disappointment Me thinks this should be heart-breaking News to you to hear of all at once thus suddenly departing from you It goes to your hearts now to part with a little of your wealth though to cloath the naked or feed the hungry how will you beare the loss of all how painful is the plucking out but of one tooth that stands fast in the flesh To have all knockt out together is intolerable you whose hearts sticke so fast and cleave so close to the world weep and houle for the miseries that are coming upon you who must have all at once rent and ●orn from you It is storied of a German Prince that being admonished by Revelation to search for a writing in an old w●ll which should neerly concern him he found one containing one●y these two words Post sex After six whereupon the Prince conceived his death was foretold that after six dayes it should ensue which made him pass those six dayes in Continual preparation for death but those six dayes being past without the event he expected he persevered in his Godly Resolution six weeks six moneths six years and on the first day of the seventh year the Prophecy was fulfilled but otherwise then he interpreted it for thereupon he was chose Emperour of Germany having before gotten such a habit of Piety that he Continued in that Religious course for ever after Brethren that writing in the wall did no more concern the Prince then this in my text does you all whose hearts are set on the world Ponder and meditate seriously on this word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} for a while this estate is but for a while these pleasures but for a while these treasures this Husband Wife Children are but for a while the Princes while was Post sex after six Thine may be Ante sex It may be as the Rich fooles in the Gospel was Luke 12. 20. Hâc Nocte this night so little may the while be that those things which are seen will abide with thee Oh that you would take up some wise Resolutions from this Consideration namely these two 1. Regulate and moderate your affections towards them let this meditation allay the heat of your affections towards worldly things Let not things of so short a duration take so deep a rooting in thy affections Love the world and the things of it as thou dost the good accommodations of an Inne not as thy home Facilitate thy parting with them Considering them often under this Representation of being Temporal but for a season for a while I have read of a Roman Senator that having a very curious Cupboard of Glasses in which he took much delight they being all upon the occasion of a great feast he made brought forth and set upon a table while he was pleasingly viewing of them it came into his thoughts what brittle Commodities they were and how easily broke broke they would be one by one servant another by another and the breaking of one would more anger him then they were all worth he to prevent this evil layes his hand on the cloth on which they stood and by one pluck himself breaks them all at once Sirs all our Creature-enjoyments consisting of things which are seen are like a Cupboard of glasses fair to the eye but very brittle and fadeing Inter peritura vivimus A glass is not easier broken then all worldly things beside and break they all will Fire comes and breaks one sick ness another violence another