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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
end_n	day_n	lord_n	resurrection_n	1,450	5	9.0585	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44673	A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto by death some part whereof was preached on occasion of the death of John Hoghton Esq, eldest son of Sir Charles Hoghton of Hoghton-Tower in the county of Lancaster, Baronet / by John Howe ...	Howe, John, 1630-1705.	1699 (1699)	Wing H3021; ESTC R19328	73,289	250

correspondent things to be practised and done which must also suppose dispositions and frames of Heart and Spirit agreeable thereto 1. Let us Live expecting a period to be ere long put to our Life on Earth For remember there are Keys put into a great hand for this very purpose that holds them not in vain His Power is of equal extent with the Law he is to proceed by And by that it is appointed for all once to Die Therefore as in the Execution he cannot exceed so he will not come short of this appointment When that once shall be it belongs to him to determine And from the course we may observe him to hold as it is uncertain to all it can be very remote to none How short is the measure of a Span 'T is an absurd vanity ●o promise our selves that which is in the power of another How Wise and Prudent a thing to accommodate our selves composedly to his pleasure in whose power we are And to live as Men continually expecting to die There are bands of Death out of which when they once take hold we cannot free our selves But there are also bands of Life not less troublesome or dangerous 'T is our great concern to be daily by degrees loosening and disentangling our selves from these bands and for preventing the necessity of a violent Rupture To be daily disingaging our Hearts from an ensnaring World and the too close embraces of an over indulged Body Tell them resolutely I must leave them whensoever my great Lord turns the Key for me and I know not how soon that may be It is equally unhappy and foolish to be ingaged in the pursuit of an impossibility or in a War with necessity the former whereof cannot be obtained the latter cannot but overcome We owe so much to our selves and to the ease and quiet of our own Minds to be reconciled at all times to that which may befal us at any time How confounding a thing is surprizal by that which our selves regret and dread How unaccountable and ignominious must it be to pretend to be surprized with what we have so great reason always to expect And whereof we are so oft forewarned Is it no part of Christian watchfulness to wait for such an hour Tho' that waiting all the days of our appointed time mentioned John 14.14 refers to another change than that of Death viz. as the foregoing and following verses shew That of the Resurrection yet it cannot but be equally requisite upon a no less important reason And the requests that the Lord would make us know our end and the measure of our Days that we may know how frail we are Psal. 39.4 And that he would teach us so to number our Days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom Psal 90.12 are equally monitory to the same purpose as the most express Precepts As also the many Directions we have to watch and wait for our Lords appearance and coming are as applicable to this purpose For whensoever his Key opens our passage out of this World and These Bodies Hades opens too and he particularly appears to us in as decisive a judgment of our case as his universal appearance and judgment will at last give for all The placid agreement of our Minds and Spirits with Divine determination both as to the thing and time of our departure hence will prevent the trouble and ungratefulness of being surpriz'd and our continual expectation of it will prevent any surprizal at all Let this then be an agreed resolution with us to endeavour being in such a posture as that we may be capable of saying Lord whensoever thou shalt move thy Key and tell me this night or this hour I 'll require thy Soul thou shalt not O Lord prevent mine expectation or ever find me counting upon many years injoyment of any thing this world can entertain me with In further pursuance hereof 2. Be not over-intent on designs for this present World which would suppose you to count upon long abode in it Let them be always laid with a supposition you may this way even by one turn of this Key be prevented of bringing them about and let them be pursued with indifferency so as that disappointment even this way may not be a grievance A thing made up of thought and design as our Mind and Spirit naturally is will be designing one way or other nor ought we to attempt that violence upon our own Natures as to endeavour the stupifying of the intelligent designing Mind which the Author of Nature hath put into us Only let us so lay our designs as that how many soever we form that may be liable to this sort of disappointment we may still have one greater and more important so regularly and surely laid that no turn of this Key shall be in any possibility to frustrate but promote it rather The design for the Kingdom of God to be first sought with his Righteousness Mat. 6.33 or which is pu●sued by seeking Glory Honour and Immortality to the actual attainment of Eternal Life Rom. 2.7 may if prescribed methods be duly observed have this felicity always attending it to be ●ucessfully pursued while we live and effected when we Die But this is an unaccountable vanity under the Sun that Men too generally form such projects that they are disappointed both when they do not compass them and when they do If they do not they have lost their labour if they do they are not worth it They dream they are Eating and injoying the fruit of their labour but they awake and their Soul is empty And if at length they think of laying wiser and more valuable designs the Key turns and not having fixed their resolution and begun aright they and all their thoughts foolish or more wise perish together Because there is a fit season for every fit undertaking a time and judgment for every purpose or a critical time such as is by Judgment affixt to every such purpose Eccles. 8.6 and because also Men know not their time c. 9.12 therefore their Misery is great upon the Earth and as Birds caught in a snare they are snared in an evil time that falleth suddenly upon them O miserable miserable Mortals So are your immortal Spirits misimployed and lost Their most valuable design for another World is seldom thought on in season their little designs for this World they contrive and p●osecute with that confidence as if they thought the World to be theirs and themselves their own and they had no ●ord over them This rude insolence that holy Apostle animadverts upon of such as say To Day or to Morrow we will goe to such a City and continue there a ●ear and Buy and Sell and get Gain whereas they know not what shall be on the morrow And What is their Life a Vapour c. So much of Duty and becoming Behaviour is in the mean time forgotten as to say If the Lord will we shall live