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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	affection_n	friendship_n	love_n	1,017	5	5.1675	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35172	Kelaʻ le-dor a compend of the covenant of grace as the most solid support under the most terrible conflicts of death, though arm'd with desertion, decay of grace, and sense of guilt / by Walter Cross.	Cross, Walter, M.A.	1693 (1693)	Wing C7258; ESTC R27629	28,536	34

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A COMPEND OF THE Covenant of Grace AS The most Solid SUPPORT under the most Terrible CONFLICTS OF DEATH THOUGH Arm'd with Desertion Decay of Grace and Sense of Guilt By Walter Cross M. A. LONDON Printed for Henry Barnard at the Bible in the Poultrey 1693. fluence of Example and Praise to make them good and virtuous 3. The Mouths of those are stopt whose Duty it is to take all such Opportunities to recover a degenerate Age from Hopes of Glory or Honour at Death who glory in their Shame when they Live But the Abuse of a Natural and Necessary Duty ought not to remove totally its use it 's engraven on the very Nature of Man to speak well of the Dead By the Jewish Custom a Bride takes place of a King but a Corps takes place of both Lev. 10.18 The Mourning for the Dead takes place of positive External Worship Moses was satisfied when Aaron told him the Reason of not Eating the Sacrifice in the Holy Place was because of his Grief for the Death of his Sons And what is the Language of Morning for the Dead but Praising of them Sorrow is a Passion rais'd from the Apprehension of the Loss of a great good and not to Lament the Dead is next to leave them without Burial as Dung upon the Earth Jer. 16.14 The Dead have not their Justa duely paid them when no Tears are mingled with their Dust the Gospel that wipes away all Tears from all Eyes only mitigates this 1 Thes 4.13 Sorrow not as those who have no hope of ever meeting again Christ himself wept over a Lazarus that he could and did raise again presently but as to more remote Relatives or Friends it enjoyns Sympathy Rom. 12.15 Weep with them that weep Tho' the Egyptians hated Israel they mourned over a dead Jacob Gen. 15.10 so that the Canaanites call'd the Place Abel Mizraim the Weeping of the Egyptians How unnatural are the Affections of those Children and other Relatives that the Possession that they succeed to drowns the Sorrow and prevents the due Performance of Honour to the Deceased who have spent their Lives if not Sold their Souls for an Estate to them Whatever others do they ought to be zealous of keeping their Names savoury and fresh Forreigners Aliens will Commend the Names of their Founders But These four Rules seem to be drawn from the most pure Fountains of Nature guided by the most powerful Conduct of Reason Confutius 1. To shun all Ostentation and Magnificence in Funerals that savours of Pride and Vanity 2. Not to bewail the Dead with Excess or be overcome with Grief that bespeaks want of Reason and more the want of Piety and submission to our Sovereign Lord. 3. Not to extinguish Grief totally or hide the Profession or Expressions of it for the want of Natural Affection is a desperate Condition and no Person can expect faithful Friendship from that Man that can bury his Love and Duty to his Friend or Relative and his Memory and Esteem of him with his Corps 4. That Applauses or Encomiums are the proper Duty of Friends Neighbours or more distant Relations Modesty shou'd suppress it in Husband Wife or Children except to intimate Acquaintance for that is but Praising themselves Others ought not to be silent The Law of God allow'd an Office for it once In this Case the Modesty of Relatives has suppress'd a Name that deserves to be wrote in Letters of Gold but it suited the Person 's Temper that rather would have a Name in Heaven than Fame on Earth and would have it rest with the Dust and be silent as the Grave until that glorious Resurrection A Second Restraint is that it's Ministers Duty to Preach a dead and a risen Christ his Will and Testament is the Gospel we ought to Preach our Office is making of his Funeral Sermons R. 1. Christ is willing that his Saints share of his glory while it is an exalting of his own also The manifestation of Christ's Care of his Saints is much for his Glory Consider the Patience of Job and the End of the Lord. When a Man has been an envi'd persecuted Man for the profession of Truth and dyes in peace leaving his Family in Plenty and Prosperity it is a clear demonstration of Christ's Care of his faithful Servants and his just Resentment of the Indignation done to them when we may observe an invisible Moth consuming the Estates of their Enemies and an invisible Worm gnawing their Consciences 1. Destruction is threatned to them who observe not the Dispensations of Divine Providence Psal 78.3 And 2. Rods have as observable a Nature as any they have a significant Voice that every wise Man should understand Mic. 6. Zeph. 1.14 3. Death is as great a Judgment as can be When Plague Sword Famine come on a Nation or City it 's but Death still but tho' the Death of the Wicked be the greatest Judgment a frequent Death of the Righteous is the greatest Prodigy Isa 57.1 The Righteous perish and no Man layeth it to Heart Not knowing they are taken away from the evil to come 4. The Death of the Righteous at this Day is as determin'd in its Language as ever and more Rev. 14.13 Blessed c. from henceforth I shall give this Paraphrase of it according to my imperfect Scheme of that Book We are now about the time of the Death of the Witnesses which tho' it be a severe stroke to the Militant Church a time of Faith and Patience for the Saints the repeating of that Index Rev. 11.13 a great Earthquake in Sicily is such an Argument for it that I know not how we can disbelieve it without saying God designs to deceive us in his Providence which is the best Comment by fulfillment of these Prophecies for a greater never was The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah tho' it hath some Likeness yet no Equality nor Proportion to it whether we compare the number of Cities People or sulphureous Lakes the Largeness of the place or the Dreadfulness of the Manner beside another Vulcan new erected or a mouth of Hell open'd yet it is an Harvest for the Triumphant Rev. 14.15 God is now gathering all the Righteous out of the Earth that he may set the Earth on flames Rev. 14.18 The Angel that has power over fire This Fire is the Wine-press of Divine Wrath wherein the Wicked are to be trod down Lot must be removed from Sodom before the sulphureous Flames be kindled The Harvest of the Righteous must precede the Vintage of the Wicked the Salt of the Earth must be gone before its Corruption come There was a Spring-time of the Gospel in the Apostles time the Summer of Persecution follow'd Now is the Harvest and the Winter to the Wicked is at the Door But it is more than time to return to my Text the first Verse whereof affords this Doctrine That the Spirit of God doth often immediately pen the