Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	action_n	good_a	work_n	1,044	5	5.6274	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36555	The forerunner of eternity, or, Messenger of death sent to healthy, sick and dying men / by H. Drexelius.	Drexel, Jeremias, 1581-1638.; Croyden, William.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650.	1642 (1642)	Wing D2183; ESTC R35549	116,212	389

flesh by these delays we make a preparation for that Eternall and better life For as the wombe of our mother holds us nine moneths and prepares us not for her selfe but for that place into which we are sent being now fit to take breath and to live abroad so from the space of our infancie to our old age wee are fitting for another birth another spring expects us wee expect another state Wee are not here fit for Heaven but by distance yet here wee are fitted for it Wherefore undauntedly looke for that decretory houre though last to the body yet not to the soule Whatsoever things thou doest here behold looke upon them as bundels of trumperies not worth transportation Wee must passe The day which thou so mightily fearest as thy last is but the birth-day of Eternity The day will come that shall reveale thee and will bring thee out of thy rotten and flitting tent Meditate now on diviner matters Natures secrets shall once be disclosed to thee this darknes shall vanish and light shall shine bright for ever No cloud shall dim or obscure the serenity of that day Heaven shall then perfectly be seen day and night are the courses of this lower Region thou wilt then say thou hast but liv'd in darknes when thou shalt cleerly behold that light which now thou hast but a glimpse off and yet admirest at though afar off What will that ●ivine Light seem to thee when thou shalt behold it in its owne place the thought of this will permit no base or sordid no abjected or inhumane thing to reside in thy minde What can be more holy ô Christians let us always thinke on and medi●ate these things no good man dies ill no ill man well Death is the nearest way to Eternitie § 32. Constantly COnstantly I beseech you constantly there is no patience where there is no constancy but some may say this is the second third fourth or fifth or ninth week in which I have layn sick Anoth●r may say this is the second third fourth ●ifth or ninth moneth since I fell sick There will not want others to object that this is the second third four h fifth or ninth yeare or more that hee hath b●en visited Oh good men it is not the signe of a patient man to call to mind and calculate so exactly his days monet●s and yeares of visitation Endure I pray you Endure and loose not the recompence of reward for a little suffering res rve your selves for better ●hing That 's but a point of time in which I suffer If I looke upon Eternity All our travaile is short our rest is everlasting There have beene those who have been sick all their life long Saint Gregory commends one Servulus who from his childhood to his dying day was troubled grievously with a Palsie so that he could not lift up his hands to his mouth or turn in his bed and yet he got all the Bible by heart by hearing it read to him what was his life but a ling●ing death and as he was daily dying so hee usually had this speech ready God be thanked All his yeeres though so full of misery and pains yet he held them as nothing to Eternitie There was a Virgin at Scheedam called Lydwina who for 38 yeares together was afflicted with divers diseases even as that Beggar was at the fish-poole thou mightest trulyer have said this Maid to have beene dead then alive who spent so many yeares in and amongst so many sorts of troubles and diseases Diversity of torments seemed to have jointly set upon her scarce for those 30 yeers did she eat so much bread as one able man would have done in three days and she was not onely troubled with extream sicknes but also with great povertie and exigencie Yet in her sicknes this Lydwine cried out constan●ly Oh! good Jesus have mercy upon mee She was wont to say that these 38 yeers of sicknes wee nothing reckoned to Eternity But I will record another that past Servulus or Lydwina in the number of to ments and sicknesses One Coleta a Vi●gin of Corbe●a who indured an incredible measure of pains for the space of 50 yeers without intermission patiently and scarce slept one houre in eight d●ys toge●he● she was tormented in her minde as well as in her bodie and that which shee reckoned amongst the kindnesses and favours of the Lord was that her torments were answerable to those of the blessed Martyrs One being still sent upon another she would usually say ô could I at once patiently suffer the furie of all Feavers together This fearfull continuation of diseases for above 50 yeeres did this female creatu●e patiently go under and bore comfort●bly and to her they seemed nothing to Eternitie This blessed Maid said as once Saint Bernard ●y worke is but for one houre or if a little longer I count it ●s nothing for the love I beare to my Saviour That as well the sound as the sick may determine holinesse in their minds and bring it forth in thoir works and actions and from good words proceed to good deeds wee have added ●hese prayers following for the confirming and establishing them in those holy duties A Prayer to be said continually of the sound sick and dying men MOst sweet Lord Jesus Christ in the union of that love by which thou offeredst thy selfe up to thy Father doe I offer up my heart and soule to thee that thy good will and pleasure may be done of me and by me Sweet Jesus I desire and choose thy will to be done let my sufferings be never so great let sicknes and death approach yet I commit my selfe wholly to thy faithful providence and divine will For I hope and entreat that thou wouldst direct me and all that belong unto mee to thy glory and everlasting salvation Amen 2 A Prayer to conforme our selves to Gods will O Lord Jesus Christ which for thy own glory and our salvation minglest j●y with heavinesse and for our progresse in grace dost suffer us to partake of adversity and prosperity I give thanks unto thee that thou of thy goodnesse hast caused mee to be troubled and to beare this affliction I desire thy favour ô Saviour to let such fruit and benefit grow from it as thou approvest and desirest and th●t it may not be hindred by my impatience or unthankfulnesse Strech forth thy hand ô Lord and come and helpe mee ●hy sicke servant as once thou didst stretch it forth and sav'd Peter thy Apostle from drowning in the waves So let I beseech thee thy arme of power save mee from sinking under this present cross sicknes according to thy power so let thy will be ô Lord I entreat thee to let this present bitter Cup so troublesome to flesh and bloud to passe away from me as thou diddest heare and deliver Ezekias when hee cryed unto thee Notwithstanding not my will but thine which is always righteous and holy be done Thou onely