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heart_n	part_n	spirit_n	vital_a	3,441	5	10.7507	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48314	A moniter of mortalitie in two sermons, by a consideration of the manifold and uncertaine surprizalls of death, guiding the pace and passages of a temporall life, towards the obtainement of life eternall, occasioned by the death of that hopefull young gentleman John Archer Esquire, sonne and heir to Sir Simon Archer, Knight of Warwickshiere and by the death of Mistris Harpur, a grave and godly matron, (wife to Mr. Henry Harpur of the city of Chester,) and of the death of their religious daughter Phabe Harper, a child of about 12 years of age / by Iohn Ley.	Ley, John, 1583-1662.	1643 (1643)	Wing L1884; ESTC R228694	42,269	56

lives ‖ Arist Hist Animalium 11.6 cap. 22. being 30. yeares and what effects this affection worketh in the flesh when it is too fleshly Solomon partly sheweth Prov. 5.11 where he forewarneth the wanton of the consumption of the flesh by that meanes whereby though death approach with a slow pace yet it breeds a disease more painefull then death more shamefull then hanging and sometimes killeth as sodainely as the sharpest Sword when it is thrust to the heart whereof the † Plin. Hist cat lib. 7. cap. 53. Naturall Historian giveth for instance the example of Cornelius Gallus who had beene Lord Pretor and of T. Aetherius a Romane Knight both dying in the very act of unchastity Contrary to Love are Envie and Wrath yet as if they were reconciled for mans ruine they both concurte with it to impaire his health and to hasten his death Envie is a disease in the inward parts fretting asunder the heart-strings and eating into the very bones Prov. 14.30 which how unjustly soever set against anothers good for the dislike of that whether it be in deed or in appearance sets it on worke hath in this respect some affinity with justice since it joyneth the * Carpitque carpitur una suppliciumque suumest Ov Met punishment and sinne together for while an envious man repines at others he pines away himselfe and so is Eliphas his saying made good upon him to his hurt Envy slayeth the Ideot Job 5.2 Of Anger he giveth the same deadly sentence in the same place which is sometimes executed on the sodaine not only by a transient violence upon another but by an immanent vehemence upon the person of the Angry as a * Magirus against Galen Phi. 1.6 c. 16. late learned Philosopher sheweth confuting the opinion of an antient and famous Physitian and wondring that he holdeth otherwise and the reason he giveth of this deadlinesse of Wrath is because saith he it forceth the vitall spirits out of the heart without which a man cannot live Hope is another passion under which man is many times passive for hope deferred maketh the heart sick saith Solomon Prov. 13.12 and if utterly disappointed it turneth that sicknesse to death for as the Proverbe hath it but for hope the heart would breake so the hope being quite lost the heart is not likely long to hold out especially if the object of hope were a matter of moment Feare hath likewise a deadly force upon feeble spirits for ″ Causa multis moriendi suit morbum suum nosse Senec de brevit vitae ca. 18. pa 180. some have dyed for feare they should dye as a Gentleman at the siedge of S. Paul in France ″ Bishop Hall of Chistian moderation li 1. Sect 14. p. 158. fell downe starke dead in the breach without any stroake or touch save what his heart gave him by a fearfull apprehension of danger neere hand For sorrow how killing a passion that is we may learne by the plea of Judah with Joseph for the reducing of his Brother Benjamin back to Jacob It shall come to passe saith he when hee seeth that the Lad is not with us that hee will dye and thy servants shall bring the gray haires of thy servant our Father with sorrow to the grave Gen. 44.31 which though it usually kill by degrees inward griefe wearing the heart as teares doe the cheekes without yet sometimes it is such as slayeth outright upon the sodaine as * Charron of wisdome lib. 1 cap. 31. pag. 103. 1 Sam 4.18 some have observed and this appeareth by the holy story for that was it which smote old Eli to the heart before he fell downe and brake his neck for when a Messenger from the Warres brought sad tydings of the victory of the Philistimes against the Israelites hee fell backward and broke his neck upon the mention of the taking of the Arke which is particularly noted in the Text 1 Sam. 4.18 as the worst part of that ill newes and which set such a sad weight of sorrow upon his heart as bore him downe to the ground from whence he was never able to rise againe If any passion or affection be a friend to nature it is Joy yet that may prodigally dissipate the vitall spirits as the story of the Queene of Sheba sheweth 1 King 10.5 and what enemy more deadly then that when as * Plin. Nat. Hist l. 7. c. 53. Pliny noteth a Woman that thought her Son dead at the Battle of Canna dyed with an excesse of Joy at the sight of him could she have sped worse in the middest of the Battle ″ Ibid. so did Sophocles and Denis of Cicely being overjoy'd upon tidings brought unto them that they had won the best prize among the Tragicall Poets Besides the diseases of the body and passions of the mind within a man which in their excesse doe violently chase and force the soule out of its rightfull possession there come upon him many killing mishaps from without for very small matters may be of great moment to hasten the dispatch of death There is an ¶ In Nubia quae est Ethiopia sub Egypto venenum est cuj●● grani unius decima pars hominem vel unū granum decem homines c. Dan. Senect Hypomnem Phys Hypom 2. cap. 2 pag 47. Ethiopian poison whereof one graine will kill a man in a moment and being devided into ten parts will kill ten men in a quarter of an houre and as mans life is a vapour so he whose breath if he would have formed it into a doome of condemnation might have been deadly to many had his breath stopped his life taken from him by the vapour or sent of a new white-limed Chamber It was * Hier. Epist Tom. 1. pag. 40. Jovianus the Emperour and the ‖ Bucholz Ind. Chronol Iud. Chronol ad An. 1574. p. 638. Cardinall of Loraine was lighted to his lodging and to his long-home both at once by a poisoned Torch and a lesse thing then a Torch a Candle lesse then a Candle the sent of the Snuffe of it may put a Woman into † Plin. nat hist lib 7. cap. 7. an untimely travaile and put her to pangs of Child-birth and of death both together The second generall cause of mans short and uncertaine life is bloody hostility for there are many men of blood and Belial and some are so mad upon desperate adventures that as the Wise man saith they lay waite for their owne blood they lurke privily for their owne lives Prov. 1.18 but more for the blood and lives of others who say unto their associates Come with us let us lay waite for blood let us lurke privily for the innocent without cause ver 11. We shall finde all pretious substance wee shall fill our houses with spoile v. 12. who out of greedinesse of gaine take the life of the owners thereof v. 19. and as out of greedinesse of gaine