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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	body_n	glorious_a	vile_a	2,633	5	9.7400	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76239	An antidote against immoderate sorrow for the death of our friends: taken from an assured hope of our resurrection to life and glory. Delivered in a sermon preached in the parish-church of North-Wraxall in Wiltshire, the 12th. of Aprill 1660. at the funeral of Sr William Button Baronet. By Francis Bayly his houshold chaplain.	[Bayly, Francis, fl. 1660].	1660 (1660)	Wing B1474; Thomason E1026_5; ESTC R208754	22,562	34

prodigal Spend-thrift who dost spend all thy time in hunting after the vanities of this world whose God is thy belly and glory thy shame what felicity what contentment canst thou find in it perhaps son a time thou mayest please thy pallace with some delightful vast delight thine eye with some exquisite Beauty and hug thy self with that Eplcure an Lull●bie ed● bibe lude soul ear drink and take thy rest thou hast much good laye drup for thee for many years but what follows thou sool this night shall thy soul be taken from thee Thou covetous wretch and griping miser thou that are alwayes gaping after the much of this world and knowes no other God but thy wea●● who do's not use but serve the world what foelicity canst thou find in that wherein there is no fulnesse why dost thou 〈◊〉 after that with so much eagernesse which is to be preserved with so much care and trouble why dost thou become thus cruel to thy self that thou mayest be beneficial to thou knowest not whom and heapest up riches and knowest not who shall enjoy them therefore our Saviour Christ to take away this carking and caring out of the minds of Christians having first sent them to School to the fowls of the Air and the Lillies of the field who could read unto them a lecture of Gods providence makes this inference therefore take no thought what ye eat or what ye shall drink or wherewith ye shall be cloathed but seek yee first the Kingdome of heaven and the righteousnesse thereof majora quaeritis ad majora nati ye are born for greater things and therfore seek them upon which saith Chrysologus miserumcui cum detur regnum suspirat panem miserable is that man on whom a Kingdom is bestowed who is still carking and caring for bread that saying of Alexander the great when but a Prince was a notable one and may serve for our instruction who when he was invited by some to run in a race with certain Plebejans replyed regis filio non convenire ut in stadio curreret nisi cum regibus it became not the Son of a King to run with any but such who were like himself Princes Is it for one who is running a race for some rich prize to catch at every fly or to stoop to take up every pebble or for an heir apparent to the Crown to play with toyes or to delight with rattles no the child of God moves in a higher Sphear and fixeth his contemplations on better objects they account heaven their home this life a pilgrimage and themselves but strangers therefore saith our Saviour Christ to his Disciples ye are not of this world the wicked are of this world as well in mind as body the children of God although they live in this world yet they are not of this world for saith St. August Qui non diligunt mundum non habitant in ●o qu●d non diligunt they that do not love the world may not properly be said to dwell in that which they do not affect for our conversation is in heaven saith St. Paul whence we look for the coming of our Lord Jesus who shall change our vile bodyes that it may be made like unto his glorious body Phillippians 3.20.21 Thirdly Use 3 Since the death of the faithful is but a sleep a repose of their bodies in the grave and a rest of their souls in the hands of God why should we thus immoderately grieve and sorrow for the death of our friends for their eternal Good for their Welfare and Happiness Lord if he sleep he shall do well said the Disciple of Christ concerning Lazarus upon which saith St. Aug. Solet enim somnus aegrotantium salutis indicium The sick mans sleep is a fore-runner of his health and Death is no more to Gods Children for it not only mitigates but wholly takes away our griefs Ut remedium videatur non paena St. Amb. de Cain et Abel lib. 2. cap. 10. that it might seeme a remedy and not a punishment Chrysologus tells us that death is therefore called a sleep because no one can so easily raise his friend from sleep as God can us from the grave for saith the Text it is in a moment in the twinckling of an eye But Aquinas on my Text tels us that death is called a sleep because it resembles it in these two things first because he that layes down to sleep doth it spe resurgendi out of an hope to rise again and Death is but asleep somewhat longer then ordinary Man saith Job if he dye shall not be awakened again until the heavens be no more Job 14.12.2 Men usually rise from sleep refreshed with it in a better plight then they were before so saith the Apostle this mortal when it awakes shall put on immortality when I awake up after thy likeness I shall be satisfied with it Psal 17.15 Why then these blubbered cheeks this immoderate Sorrow for the death of our friends since they are but asleep in the Lord and shall be brought with him to glory plangere non est eorum qui spem habent tu autem qui expectas resurrectionem cur luges lamentaris let wretched and hopelesse infidels lament why dost thou grieve that expects a resurrection yea it is the very reason why the Apostle calls death here but a sleep in the Lord because from the hope of the resurrection we might moderate our Sorrow I would not have you ignorant brethren concerning them that are asleep that you sorrow not as men without hope for the godly deceased are not lost for ever but left for a time not gone away from us but sent to heaven before and there secure of their own immortality and sollicitous of our safety desire our society For if that be true that life without Christ is death then this is as true that death in Christ is life for blessed are the dead that dye in the Lord Hast thou then lost a Son or a father a wife or a husband why shouldst thou grieve at their advancement for they have but changed a cross for a crown a vale of misery for eternity of happinesse who could they now speak with us they would advise us with our Saviour weep not for me but weep for your selves I have lost a Clod of earth and inheritance of a Span but I have found an everlasting Crown of Glory Mourn indeed we may so saith St. August Contristemur in nostrorum mortibus we may mourn for the death of our friends because we have lost them but comfort our selves because we shall one day enjoy them Mourn indeed we may for them but moderately so sayes the son of Sirach thus did Abraham for Sarah the Children of Israel for Moses and 't was a custome among the Jews no lesse venerable then ancient man goeth to his long home and the Mourners walk about the Streets Ecclesiast 12.15 't was accounted no lesse then an act of love in