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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
king_n	bishop_n	knight_n	pawn_n	87,032	5	16.4436	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93889	Catholique divinity: or, The most solid and sententious expressions of the primitive doctors of the Church. With other ecclesiastical, and civil authors: dilated upon, and fitted to the explication of the most doctrinal texts of Scripture, in a choice way both for the matter, and the language; and very useful for the pulpit, and these times. / By Dr. Stuart, dean of St. Pauls, afterwards dean of Westminster, and clerk of the closet to the late K. Charles.	Steward, Richard, 1593?-1651.; H. M.	1657 (1657)	Wing S5518; Thomason E1637_1; ESTC R203568	97,102	288

the defect of fewel it vexeth them that their sins forsake them that through the impotency of their limbs and faculties they cannot run into the like excess as in former times Their few dayes before death are like Shrove-tide before Lent they take their fill of flesh and fleshly desires because they suppose that for ever after they must fast from them Thus they spur on their jadish flesh now unable to run her former stages saying Let us crown our selves with Rose-buds for they will presently wither let us eat and drink for to morrow wee shall dye Respice sepulchra vide quis servus quis dominus quis dives quis pauper discerue si potes vinctum a rege fortem a debili pulchrum a deformi Aug. l. de nat grat THe hand of a dead man stroaking the part cures the Tympany and certainly the consideration of death is a present means to cure the swelling of pride in any form in this life many things make odds between men and women as birth education wealth alliance and honour but death makes all even Respice sepulchra saith St. Austin Survey mens graves and tell mee then who is beautiful and who is deformed All there have hollow eyes flat noses and gastly looks Nereus and Thirsites cannot bee there distinguished Tell mee who is rich and who is poor all there wear the same weed their winding sheet Tell mee who is noble and who base and ignoble the worms claim kindred of all Tell mee who is well housed and who is ill all there are bestowed in dark and dankish rooms under ground If this will not satisfie you take a sieve and fift the dust and ashes of all men and shew mee which is which I grant there is some difference in dust there is powder of Diamonds there is gold dust and brass-pin dust and saw-dust and common dust the powder of Diamonds resembles the remains of Princes gold dust the remains of Noble-men pin-dust the remains of the Tradesmen saw-dust the remains of the day-labourer and common dust the remains of the vulgar which have no quality or profession to distinguish them yet all is but dust At a game of Chesse wee see Kings and Queens and Bishops and Knights upon the board and they have their severall walks and contest one with the other in points of state and honour but when the game is done all together with the Pawns are shuffled in one bag In like manner in this life men appear in indifferent garbs and take divers courses some are Kings some are Officers some Bishops some Knights some of other ranks and orders But when this life like a game is done which is sometimes sooner sometimes later all are shufled together with the many or vulgar sort of people and lye in darkness and obscurity till the last man is born upon the earth but after that Erunt ipsis quoque fata sepulchris The grave which hath swallowed up all the sons of Adam shall bee swallowed up it self into victory Theodoro parum interest huminc an in sublime putrescat Erasmus ALthough the heathen Philosophers made little account of Burial as appeared by the speech of Theodorus to the Tyrant who threatned to hang him I little pass by it whether my carcass putrifie above the earth or on it And the Poet seems to be of his mind whose strong line it was Coelo teg●tur qui non habet urnam which was Pompeys case and had like to have been Alexanders and William the Conquerors yet all Christians who conceive more divinely on the soul deal more humanely with the body which they acknowledge to bee membrum Christi and templum Dei a member of Christ and temple of God If charity commands thee to cover the naked saith St. Ambrose how much more to bury the dead When a friend is taking a long journey it is civility for his friends to bring him on part of his way when our friends are departed and now going to their grave they are taking their last journey from which they shall never return till time shall bee no more and can wee do less then by accompanying the corpse to the grave bring them as it were part on their way and shed some few tears for them whom wee shall see no more with mortal eyes The Prophet calleth the grave Miscabin a sleeping chamber or resting place and when wee read Scriptures to them that are departing and give them godly instructions to dye wee light them as it were to their bed and when wee send a deserved testimony after them wee perfume the room Indeed if our bodies which like garments wee cast off at our death were never to be worn again wee need little care where they were thrown or what became of them but seeing they must serve us again their fashion being only altered it is fit we carefully lay them up in Deaths Wardrobe the grave though a man after hee hath lost a Jewel doth less set by the casket yet hee who loves much and highly esteemeth of the soul of his friend as Alexander did of Homer cannot but make some reckoning of the Desk and Cabinet in which it alwayes lay Wee have a care of placing the picture of our friend and should wee not much more of bestowing his body If burial were nothing to the dead God would never have threatned Coniah that hee should have the burial of an Ass nor the Psalmist so quavered upon this doleful note Dederunt cadaver servorum tuorum coeli volucribus O God the heathen are come into thine inheritance thy holy Temple have they defiled and made Jerusalem an heap of stones the dead bodies of thy servants have they given to the fowls of heaven Mors non est exitus sed transitus temporali itinere decurs● ad aeterna transgressus Cyp. de mortal VVHich is verified from Rev. 14. 13. And I heard a voice from heaven c. From whence wee may learn first That if all that dye in the Lord are blessed from the very moment of their death and this blessedness is confirmed by a voyce from heaven Let us give more heed to such a voyce than to any whisper of the flesh or devil Whatsoever Philosophy argueth or reason objecteth or sense excepteth against it Let us give more heed to God than man to the Spirit than to the flesh to faith than to reason to heaven than to earth although they who suffer for the testimony of the Gospel seem to bee most miserable their skins being flayed off their joynts racked their whole body torn in peeces or burned to ashes their good confiscate their arms defaced and all manner of disgraces put upon them Yet they are most happy in heaven by the testimony of heavven it self the malice of their enemies cannot reach so high as heaven it cannot touch them much there much less awake them out of their sweet sleep in Jesus Secondly If the dead are blessed in comparison of the living