Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	work_v	world_n	wrath_n	91	3	6.9894	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95842	An antidote against sorrovv, in order to the obtaining of sanctified joy. An excellent treatise first written in French by N. Vedelius, then translated into Latine by Gallus Pareus, and now into English, by Cadwallader Winne, M.A.	Vedel, Nicolaus, 1596-1642.; Winne, Cadwallader, b. 1622 or 3, translator.	1650 (1650)	Wing V167; Thomason E1421_1; ESTC R209478	59,453	229

touching his businesses it is certaine it disturbs yea overthrowes his best and most profitable and necessary endeavors It obscures his mind with innumerable sad thoughts which as darksome vapours ascend to the understanding and darkon the cleernesse thereof whence arise so many erratas or faults disordering his endeavours and employments and involving him in new difficulties as wee shall presently make it appeare For misery and afflictions it augmenteth them five manner of wayes First it represents not calamities in their native colours but aggravates them by what is evill therein increasing and what is good depressing so that it displaies the former which should bee concealed and conceales the latter which should bee discovered further it is the cause of many grievous calamities which but for it would never happen for while one by the suggestion thereof erres manifoldly it cannot bee but evill and misfortune should befall him Secondly it makes him suspicious froward unastable in his conversation and intollerable to his neighbour whereby not seldome he incurres some great calamity whereof King David affords us a notable example 2 Sam. 19.23,4,5,9,7 who having obtained victory over his sonne Absalon by whom hee was put off his Kingdome yet by reason of his death he became exceeding sorry which ushered him into a notable errour for by giving himselfe to sorrow hee neglected his faithfull constant and obedient subjects by whose magnanimity hee obtained that notable victory and recovered his Kingdome and was well-nigh intangled in new troubles and like to fall into greater afflictions then befell him all his life long even as Joab did most wisely warn him for he was well-nigh forsaken of all his people and like to lose his Kingdome which not long before hee recoverd In briefe sorrow is like a spider which if it begins to spin his owne bowels will not cease till it hath woven a whole web of mischiefe Thirdly it heaps not upon him onely present calamities but draws upon him future miseries which otherwise would never have fallen out so that he stayes not for such evills as come of their owne accord but runs to meet them and curiously and ingeniously invents them for feare whereof he is so sad and pensive being ignorant that sufficient to the day is the evill therof Mat. 6.34 Fourthly as though those evills and grievous reall and vehement discommodities which come of their owne accord and that by intervall of yeares lodge with us to wit losse of goods honours children and such as are dear unto us as also banishment and imprisonment did not sufficiently torment him he miserably vexes himselfe as hath been said for small slight and ridiculous occasions which at every moment well-nigh and ordinarily fall out and are taken hold of the miserable man with great griefe of mind Hence it happens that all his life long well-nigh hee becomes his owne executioner being vexed with sorrow and griefe whereas if hee would set light by such occasions hee might joyfully passe away his life Fiftly it increases the discommodities of this life in that it abuseth those blessings which God hath conferred upon him making of them that use whereunto they were not designed and causeth him to set light by all such things as should exhilarate him or to forget or extenuate Gods benefits conferred upon him and to take a surfet of them changing all their sweetnesse into gall and wormwood so that it may be compared to that little venemous creature which turneth the juice of the sweetest flowers into poison or a bad stomack by whose ill constitution the choisest and best food is turned into phlegmatick and hurtfull humours In respect of his whole person it brings him into a most miserable condition for heavinesse in the heart of man makes it stoop and by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken Prov. 12.25 Prov. 15.13 for it corrupts his understanding and senses deprives him of wisedome whereby hee is disabled from attending his businesses It makes him to bee a vile abject spirit it so blunts the vigor of his mind as it cannot even in the least degree resist evill it takes away the inclination of the will to performe any good or noble act redounding to his owne or neighbours good and renders him uncapable of putting in ure good and profitable employments In a word it dissolves him like pearlin vinegar neither doth it lesse weaken the body for heavinesse of heart breaketh strength and a broken spirit drieth the bones Eccles 38.19 whereupon hee cannot sleep or take his rest in the night time as may be seen in Antiochus in whom griefe was more and more and he made account that he should die wherefore he called for all his friends and said unto them the sleep is gone from mine eyes and my heart faileth for very care in what tribulation am I come and how great a flood of misery is it wherein now I am 1 Macch. 6.10.11 It breeds deadly diseases as is manifest in the same Antiochus who layed him downe upon his bed and fell sicke for griefe 1 Macch. 6,8 hereof comes horiness and untimely old age Envy and wrath shortens the life and carefulnesse bringeth age before the time Eccl. 30.24 as also death for sorrow hath kill'd many and there is no profit therein Eccl. 30.23 saith the wise man And againe of heavinesse commeth death Eccles 38.19 and Saint Paul saith the sorrow of the world worketh death 2 Cor. 7.10 Hereof was the patriarch Jacob afraid as the rest of his sons were conveying his sonne Benjamin downe to Aegypt yee shall saith he bring downe my gray haires to the grave with sorrow if mischief befall him Gen. 44.29 Now of all the effects it produceth death is the best it being better to die than undergo the continuall torments thereof death is better than a bitter life saith the wise man Eccl. 30.17 and by destroying him it gives a deadly blow to it selfe The vessell being broken the liquor must needs run to waste and perish so that by his ruine it being farre more pernicious falls to destruction Thus much of the temporall miseries which attend it as for spirituall evils which are farre more grievous than the former it is evident that one through sorrow doth grievously offend God provoking him to anger through disobedience impatience distrust ingratitude and brutish stupidity which moves God to forsake and leave him wholly to his cares and anxieties and to speake to him as it were thus what dost thou endeavour through thy carefulnesse to rob me of the honour whereby I care for all things Be it so torment thy selfe as long as it pleaseth thee thou shalt see what it will availe thee Being then left to himselfe hee runnes into most grievous enormities wherein hee is altogether involved by Gods judgement and by meanes whereof fals into more grievous calamities It deprives him of the testimony of adoption and the certainty of the right of Gods children for whosoever is borne of God overcommeth the