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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	work_n	year_n	young_a	121	3	5.9094	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61834	A sermon concerning death and the resurrection, preached in St. Maries, at Oxford, on Low Sunday, April the 28. 1644 before the committee of the members of the honourable House of Commons / by W. Strode ...	Strode, William, 1600 or 1601-1645.	1644 (1644)	Wing S5984; ESTC R33817	14,393	24

Iob. 7. 7. v. Your dayes a Shadow Iob. 8. 9. v. You see the Dust Raised not the Rising of every Atome the wind Past not the Passage the Shadow removed not the motion and so your dayes slide away without present observation of declining That ye are changed ye feele though not the changing you perceive in your Age a Spring a Summer an Autumne a Winter and happily severall Months of these great quarters for every seaven-yeare brings a sensible Change within the number of 70 yeares which David accounted a full Pitch of Life Solon observed ten Changes for ten times seven Teeth Youth Beard Ability Wedlock Understanding Wisedome Vertue Equity and then Recesse these Changes we plainly discerne at the Stages though not in the course the Items in their summe the granes in their Pounds we easily comprehend but the little moments in themselves passe undiscerned and we are stolne from our selves unawares Sometimes merrily for we bring our yeares to an end as a Tale that is told Psal. 90. 9. sometimes painfully for our dayes are like the dayes of a Hireling Iob. 7. 1. sometimes idly for our Life is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a dreaming shadow halfe of it sheere sleepe and ever we passe them swiftly for our dayes are swifter then a Weavers Shuttle Iob. 7. 6. v. and so runs our thread of Life just so as that from hand to hand so this from Morning to Evening till we come from the beginning of the Web to the Fag from the Wombe to the Grave Howsoever we move still we move forward we never stay the present tense is but a moment that which is past is nothing the Future is not yet What can we call our selves who are changed before the word is pronounced I am is the Name of God the Name of the Creature is I am not We are much deceived if we thinke we die not till the last Gaspe The beginning of Death is our Birth we bring it with us because we bring both Flesh and Sin whereof one makes us capable of Death the other ready to earne it and therefore as our Strength and worke increaseth so doth our wages Death comes on the faster from the first day to the last We thinke sometimes we are growne younger by Recoveries as when we proceed from Creeping to walking from weakenesse to strength 't is not so for the yeare turnes about as well in faire weather as in foule no lesse in Spring then in Autumne and as the Time such is the Timed our very growth leads to decay all addition to Life is but an Abatement Turne your Conceit a little from Time to Motion you shall finde the Pilgrims Life such as his Way which by further progresse whether up-hill or downe-hill growes ever shorter and shorter or lay the Voyage not by Land but by Sea in a Ship whether we stand or sit lie or goe sleepe or wake play or worke on we sayle till we arrive at the Port so is our Life still bound for Death through all Varieties of Posture in Rest or Motion through all changes of Condition by chance or purpose They that tary within dores cannot misse a significant Embleme of their owne Fading All Flesh saith the Prophet Esay waxeth old as doth a Garment which whether it be worne or folded in a Chest is consumed by degrees and as the Cloth such is the Wearer I may adde since every thing farre and neare Preaches the same Lecture as the House also such is the Dweller and as the Meat such is the Eater and as the Thought such is the Thinker in the best Condition ever vanishing but if the Garment be neglected the house unrepaired the meate ill cook'd the Thoughts destructive if the Master too become more ruinous by Sin then by Mortality how swift is the decay of Nature so hastened by wast how headlong is the race of a precipice so impelled by Running To passe over Particulars the whole Generation of men collected is like that of leaves {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the blind Poet could see so much on a Tree still furnished while one leafe waxeth greene another withers while one is in the bud another drops off and every leafe by blasting winde or Age successively vanisheth so follow the Generations of men though the World be ever full yet they that fill it are ever voyding the Roome so you may see the high wayes filled with unabiding Passengers and Channells with fleeting streames Is it so then what Counsell in such a case First be not over grieved for the losse of a Friend by Death considering that thy selfe also doest lie wounded by his side thou dead in Fieri as he in Facto Fish tumbling in the same Net Thou shalt follow him but he shall not returne to Thee and sorrow for necessity must needes be unnecessary Next reckon to thy selfe how Death invades thee know that every gray haire is a summons and that every Ach every Swelling is a Venny or Thrust made at thee take it for a warning Likewise cast thy account how thou art chang'd ever since thy birth or within a certain distance of time then by proportion of declining thou maiest conjecture how near thou art to thy naturall period But thou must further add the various contingence of possible dangers though the way be smooth the Robbers may be rough and many our escape from infinite Casualties if well considered makes every day a Birth day This multiplicity of danger may teach us the warier provision and by provision death may be stav'd off For though we alwayes travell to it yet our travell may be to and fro long in passage of a little space as the Israelites through frequent Meanders were travelling forty yeares from Aegypt to Canaan After sufficient Provision the next Caution must be against Anxiety and Immoderate Pensivenesse for more personall safety then belongs to our share when all the world totters and so many eminent Worthies are dayly sacrific'd by the Sword now to cover a particular Exemption from danger is too much partiality of tendernesse The onely meanes of security is to expect none upon Earth but to stand armed with Patience and Resolution to indure the Lot which God hath appointed The heart being thus setled and prepared for Death nothing else can seem terrible quid ad me quàm magnis moriar ipsum mori non est magnum But the best use is dayly to add to our future life as much as we loose of the present and as fast as we perish here so with all speed to lay the Foundations of Immortality in Heaven selling both profit and pleasure for one inestimable Iewell and making friends of the unrighteous Mammon Since die we must let us learne betimes how to die that we may turne our necessity into Vertue and meet our Destiny not in Horrour but in Honour not as a Losse but as an