Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	world_n	worth_a	worth_n	71	3	9.1751	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09850	A looking-glasse for the soule, and a definition thereof. Written by Edward Popham Gentleman	Popham, Edward, gentleman.	1619 (1619)	STC 20115; ESTC S102083	11,412	70

maine crop to the diuell and set God to gleane the remainder of the haruest or gorge the diuell with the fairest fruits turne God to feede on the filthy scraps of his leauings How great a folly were it when a man pyneth away in perillous languor to prouide gorgious Apparell and take order for the rearing of stately buildings and neuer thinke of his owne recouery but let the disease take roote in him Chrysostome saith When mans Soule hath surfeited in all kinde of sinne and is drenched in manifold diseases they pamper the body with all possible delight Where as the Soule should haue the soueraignty and the body follow the sway of her directions but seruile sences and lawlesse appetites rule her as superiour and so make her as a Vassall or seruile in her owne dominions What is there saith S. Augustine in thy meanest necessaries that thou wouldest not haue good Thou wouldst haue a good house good furniture good apparell good fare good cattell and not so little as thy Hose and Shooes but thou wouldst haue it good onely thy Life and poore Soule thy principall charge of other things the most worthiest thou art content should be nought by cankering and rusting in all kinde of euill Oh vnspeakeable blindnes to preferre our shooes before our Soules refusing to weare an vnseemely shooe and not caring to carry an vgly Soule Alas let vs not set so light by that which God prized so high let vs not rate our selues at so base a worth being bought to so peerelesse a dignity The Soule is such that all the gold in the world nor any thing lesse worth then the body bloud and death of the Sonne of God was able to buy it If not all the treasures of the world nor any thing that wit can deuise but onely Gods owne pretious body was by him deemed a fit repast to feede it If not all the creatures of the world nor Millions of worlds if so many were created but onely the illimitable Maiesty and goodnesse of God can satisfie the desire and fill of the capacity of it who but one of lame iudgement or peruerse will yea who but of incredulous minde and pittilesse spirit could set more by his olde shoes then by his Soule and suffer so noble a Paragon so long time to be channelled in ordure and myred in sinne If wee see our seruant sicke wee allow him a Phisition if our Horse be diseased we send for a Leach nor our garment torne but we seeke to amend it and yet maligne our own Soule and let it dye for want of Cure and being mingled with so many vices neuer seek meanes to restore it to the former integritie If any should call vs Epicures Atheists or Rebells wee should take it a reproach and thinke it a most disgracefull and approbrious calumniation yea but to liue Epicures to finne like Atheists or like violent Rebells to scorne Gods commandements and daily with damnable wounds barbarously to stabbe in our vnfortunate Soules we account no contumelie but rather register it in the vaunt of our chiefe praises O yec sonnes of Men how long will you carry this carelesnesse of heart following Vanity and seeke after Lyes how long will Children loue the follies of Infancy and sinners run wilfully to their owne ruine and destruction You keepe your Chickens from the Kite your Lambs from the Wolfe you will not suffer a Spider in your bosome nay scarce in your house And yet nestle in your Soule so many Vipers as vices and suffer it to be long chewed with the poysoned Iawes and Tuskes of the Diuell And is your Soule so vaine a substance as to be had in so little estimation Had Christ made shipwracke of his wisedome Or was he but in a fit of passion when hee became a wandering Pilgrime exiling as it were himselfe from the comfort of his godhead and passing three and thirty yeares in paine penury for the behoofe of our Soules Or was he surprised with a distempered spirit when in the Tragedie of his Passion so grieuously in flicted patiently endured he made his body as a cloud to disolue into showers of most innocent blood and suffered the dearest vaines of his heart to be launced to giue full issue to the prize of our Soules redemption But if as indeed Christ did not ere or deeme amisse when it pleased him to redeeme vs with so excessiue a ransome Then what shall we deeme of our most monstrous abuses that sell our Soules to the Diuell for euery vaine delight and rather venture the hazard thereof then the silly pittance of worldly pelfe Oh that a creature of so incomparable a price should be in the demaine of so vnnaturall keepers and that which in it selfe is so gratious and amiable that the Angels and Saints delight to behold it alas if the care of our owne Soule moue vs no more but that we remaine negligent of the better portion of our selues let vs at least feare to doe iniury to an other very careful iealous ouer it who will neuer indure so deepe an impeachment of his interest to passe vnreuenged Wee must remember that our Soule is not onely a part of vs but also the Temple the Paradice and Spouse of Almighty God by him in Baptisme garnished stored and endowed with most gratious ornaments And how thinke ye he can brooke to see his Temple prophaned and turned into a den of Diuels his Paradice displanted changed into a wildernesse of Serpents his Spouse defloured and become an Adulteresse to his vtter Enemie If Man offering such vsage to one of meane estate for feare of the law and popular shame forbeareth to effect the same shall not then the reuerend Maiesty of God and the vnabated iustice of his angry sword terrifie vs from offring the like to his owne Spouse shall wee thinke God either so impotent that hee cannot or so base and sottish that hee will not or so weake witted that hee knoweth not how for to wreake himselfe on such daring offenders Will he so neglect and loose his honour which of all things hee claimeth as his chiefe peculiar Will he that for the Soules sake keepeth a reckoning of our very haires which are but the excrements of our earthly weed see himselfe so much wronged in the principall passe by it without demonstration of his iust indignation Oh let vs remember that the Scripture termeth it a fearefull thing to fall into the hands and iustice of God who is able to crush the proud spirit of the obstinate and make his enemies his foote-stoole Let vs then wrastle no longer with the cries of our owne conscience and the forcible inspirations of the Holy Ghost Let vs I say embrace his mercy before the time of rigour and like penitent children returne to the obedience of his will lest hee debarre vs of his Kingdome And as the members of one body wherof Christ is the head let vs liue in humble