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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	battle_n	great_a	wing_n	1,355	5	9.0851	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56656	Divine arithmetick, or, The right art of numbring our dayes being a sermon preached June 17, 1659, at the funerals of Mr. Samuel Jacomb, B.D., minister of the Gospel at S. Mary Woolnoth in Lumbardstreet, London, and lately fellow of Queens Colledge in Cambridge / by Simon Patrick ...	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1659 (1659)	Wing P792; ESTC R11929	59,678	90

every breath to look upon him as the Sun that continues the shadow of our lives and likewise we should look upon our graves more then upon our houses or any thing else For as Lipsius well saith our houses are but Inns Cent. 4. Epist 30. and our graves are our houses 2. Yet let us count those things that may put an end to our dayes by greater numbers Or thus Let us reckon that there are more enemies to life then one Though we can tell but by ones when we number our dayes or moments rather yet we may tell by twenties or hundreds when we number those things that may conclude and put a period to our time Look over a Bill of mortality and there you may tell thirty or forty diseases Then add forty more to them and two or three hundred more to that forty and so proceed untill you come near to a thousand For according to the account of some of the Jews there are nine hundred and three diseases in the world * This they gather from the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Psal 68.20 the numeral letters of which are 103. And let us be sure in this account to put down more wayes to the grave then from a sick bed And above all take heed of that dotage to think that we must die of old age for there are fewer die of that disease then any other in the world We must think that our lives may suddenly be snatcht away and not carried off leisurely by the steps of many days ilness Some diseases do no sooner appear then we vanish and disappear An enemy sometimes gives no warning but strikes us dead at one stroak And our sickness doth not alwayes lay seige to our strength wherein we trust but we are blown up in a moment as the Israelites were ver 5.6 Thou carriest them away as with a flood c. They were swept away with plagues they fell before their foes they went qu●ck into the pit and were gone out of the world as soon as a dream out of our mind And so still we see some are drowned in the water others are strangled suddenly in their own blood and a world of contingencies and casualties there are besides so that ten thousand things besides these nine hundred diseases may put an end to our days Anacreon the Poet was choaked with the kernel of a grape Aeschylus by the shell of a Tortoise which fell from an Eagles Talons who mistook as was thought his bald Head for a white Rock An Emperour died by the scratch of a comb Essayes l. 1. cap. 19. and a Duke of Britany as Lord Mountaigne tells us was stifled to death in such a throng of people as is now in this place one of the Kings of France died miserably by the chock of an Hogg and a Brother of that Lords playing at Tennis received a blow with a Ball a little above the right ear which struck him into his grave What serious considerations would these things breed in us if we thought of them we should often say in our mind What if now the house should fall What if my foot should slip what if I should be trodden under foot in this press or drowned in this sweat what if the Boat should overturn or the Horse should throw me What would become of me if my meat should choak me or my drink should quench my life What then if I be not well provided I go down in a moment to Hell And therefore I must alwayes live well that so I may never die suddenly V. Locman The Cock in the Arabick fable because he had overcome in a battle against another of his neighbouring Cocks thought he had now no enemy and therefore he got upon a top of the house and began to crow and clap his wings in token of his triumph when behold on a sudden a Vultur comes and snatches this great Conqueror away Just such is the state of silly man he overthrows some disease and gets the better of it he escapes in a battle and rejoyces as if now he were out of danger when some accident or other lies in ambush for him and strikes him dead upon the place We must not therefore be secure at any time the strong man must not glory in his strength nor the great man in the honour of his family and numerous progeny for all may be cut off in a moment I can not but here remember how three hundred of the Fab●i in Rome were slain in one day and but one man of the Family left that was not extinct And about five hundred years agone the whole family of the Justiniani in Venice perished in defence of their Countrey against Emanuel the Greek Emperor except one only who was a Priest B●b● Comes Abusinu● And Aventinus relates of a Count in the time of Henry the second Emperour that had thirty Sons besides eight Daughters who attended on him to the Emperors court and were all preferred to offices by him and all died in a very short space of time And so in Scripture we find all Gideons children slain at once except one and the like of Ahabs a wicked family whom God intended to root out And yet which of us thinks that if we have nine or ten children they may all die before us Or who thinks that they may all die in a day nay we are apt to imagine not only that we may stay in the world till we have done all we design but that we shall go out of the world the ordinary way and not be let out at any new gate Let us reform this error and be verily perswaded that there is a vast uncertainty of life and all worldly things and that death is drest in a thou sand shapes and may be in every thing we see in the world 3. Make account that there is no greater enemy to life then sin Sin is not to stand for one thing in our account but for a thousand for all the miseries and evils that can be reckoned up The Stone the Gout the Plague c. all the pains and stinches and noisome evils that were ever heard of are in the Womb of sin and therefore reckon a sinfull life to be of all other the most uncertain and that which provokes the holy God to shorten our days So you read ver 7 8 9. of this Psalm that they were consumed in Gods anger and their dayes passed away in his wrath when he took notice of their rebellions and saw how heinous their crimes were If you will believe the wise man the years of the wicked shall be shortned Prov. 10.27 Or if you will believe his Father God shall shoot at them with an arrow suddenly shall they be wounded Psal 64.7 Or the Prophet Malachi by whom God saith I will be a swift witness against the Sorcerers and Adulterers and against false swearers and against those that oppress the hireling in his