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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
head_n	ephraim_n	hand_n	left_a	2,932	5	12.0419	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11608	Death's summons, and the saints duty Laid forth first summarily in a sermon on 2. King. 20.1. in the cathedrall of St Peter in Exeter, Ianu. 24. 1638. at the solemne funerall of a well-deserving citizen. Since somewhat enlarged for the common good, by William Sclater, Master of Arts, late fellow of Kings Colledge in Cambridge, now a preacher of Gods Word in the city of Exeter.	Sclater, William, 1609-1661.	1640 (1640)	STC 21849; ESTC S116829	73,769	170

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is the same what Agur desired Pro. 30.8 9. Give me neither poverty nor riches feed me with food g Pro. 30.8 9. convenient for me lest I be full and deny thee and say who is the Lord or lest I be poore and steale and take the name of my God in vaine Well then my Beloved let not us with old Toby suffer our eyes to be blinded with the Swallows dung of this world nor dare to make a willing shipwracke of conscience for the venture of a little ballast of gaine wherein at last there is no more solid well-savouring taste than there is as Job adviseth me in the white of an egge h Job 6.6 or else true light in the Cimmerian and the blackest darknesse But especially let us be wary that we shake hands with these kind of affaires before we come as Hezekiah here to be summoned to our dissolution and forced on our death-beds to be rid of them or of our soules surely then these things will be just as Sauls Armour was upon the shoulders of David i 1. Sam. 17.39 too bigge and cumbersome Then at that season a man if ever should be as St Bernard once gave counsell to his Monke that he should be as another k Bern. in speculo Monachor in fine fol. 340. M. Melchizedech without Father without mother without Genealogy Nec patrem sibi vocet super terram neither let him call any man father upon earth imò sic se existimet quasi ipse sit solus Deus yea let him so esteeme himselfe as if God alone and himselfe were onely by themselves together for assuredly in such speciall times of distresse Satan is much like to Pharaoh the Aegyptian Tyrant to the Israelites in Goshen when he thinkes the soule is going l Exod. 5.7 Tunc Diabo●●s graviores tentationes homini ingerit dum finem ejus appropinquare prospicit quem viventem blandiendo decepit morientem saeviendo capit Claudius off from his subjection and kingdome he doubles the Bricks and yet would not have any * Eph. 6.16 straw allowed them that is doubles the force of his temptations but yet would have nought but stubble allowed the Sts. no solid matter to make up a firme wall or bulwark of comfort to dead the gunshot of his * Viexmontius Institut ad Poenitent part 1. cap. 2. fiery most fierce temptations of despayre the cares of this world then God are apt as Paul Barnabas to fall out and separate yea to divide betwixt the Soule and God our Saviour hath therfore expressed the m Matt. 13.22 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 care of the world by such a word as doth signifie as it were a parting of a thing in sunder Matth 13.22 once more The cares of this world then will deale with the heart of man as the Levite did with his n Judg. 19.29 Concubine shread it into many parts or as king David did with the people of o 2 Sam. 12.31 Rabbah put it under sawes and harrowes and axes of iron grievously afflict with difficulties and torments even to make a tearing and a pulling of the Soule in peeces surely good thoughts in death are like to Jeremie's basket of good figs p Jer. 24.2 very good and evill ones on the other side as his bad figs very bad and naughtie before you q Psal 62.10 set your heart upon your Riches when they were encreased now bee assured they will set themselves upon your heart old friends cannot well part on easie termes Wherfore if with the Prodigall you hope to feast it at home with your Father in Heaven with joy you must first resolve to returne home to your selves by thoughts of Repentance and throughly resolve to forsake the r Luke 15.16 husks of all earthly contentments with men of a swinish disposition here belowe aforehand else in vain shall we hope for a wel-come home or a kisse from our heavenly Father In a word the manner of old Jacob's Benediction of Manasseh and Ephraim the two sons of Joseph on his Death-bed is a lively platforme of all our demeanor in our Death-beds Jacob first ſ Gen. 48.13 14. crosseth his hands in the giving of his blessing and this was to shew that either the whol vertue of his Benediction was to issue from the crosse of Christ who was after to issue from his loynes or else that all blessings in this life were mixed with their crosses as I shewed before and then he purposly laid his right hand upon Ephraim the youngers head his left hand upon Manasseh though the elder brother all which Hugo de sancto victore thus moralizeth by Jacob is represented Christ by Joseph Man by Ephraim affection by Manasseh oblivion by the right hand things eternall by the left hand things temporall now observe Joseph he puts his eldest son Manasseh towards Israels right hand that is Man sets oblivion towards things eternall but Ephraim his younger son towards Israels left hand that is sets his affection towards things temporall but Jacob doth quite otherwise and crosseth this disposition and so must a true and a godly Christian set his affection mainely upon things eternall and heavenly but oblivion and forgetfulnesse to things temporall and earthly so St. Paul as we read when he was about to presse hard outwards toward the marke of perfection u Phil. 3.13 14. forgot those things which were behind Thus must we do likewise we shall then finde these outward things as he did in comparison of the spirituall things of the x 1 Pet. 3.4 hidden and of the y Eph. 3.16 inner man to be but even as z Phil. 3.8 dung and dirt or as St Austin styles it Res transitoria quodammodo a Augustin l. 10. de Civitate Dei c. 25. K. lutea faelicitas and St. Hierom also in epist ad Nepotian Divitias lutum putabimus As therefore we would find peace and comfort first in our owne particular souls let us be earely and seriously exhorted betimes even whilest it is called to b Heb. 3.13 day even whilest we have time and no time is ours but the very instant that we breath in let us I say whilst we have time and c Gal. 6.10 opportunity herein prize our own peace and happinesse of Soule in death to order the affaires of the world to dispose of our estates by will and legacy or gift we shall find much rest to our Soules hereby and if yee shall happily suspect that your posterity as two many gracelesse and undutifull of-springs are too often will be fingring before hand then let this satisfie that feare where a testament is there must also of necessity be the d Heb. 9.16 17. death of the testator for a testament is of force after men are dead otherwise it is of no strength at all while the