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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	death_n	sin_n	sting_n	14,249	5	13.0300	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87150	Abners funerall, or, a sermon preached at the funerall of that learned and noble knight, Sir Thomas Lucie. By Robert Harris, B.D. and Pastor of the Church at Hanwell, Oxon.	Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.	1641 (1641)	Wing H869; Thomason E132_27; ESTC R21249	21,519	42

senses and see a decay there Or if you will abroad improve this double instance See here a Noble Paire and establish your selves in this truth by the testimonie of two mouths two bodies both not long before their ends valiant both vigorous both presenting as well and promising as much as we can and now both lie Dead before you Nay seeing Examples knowne and at hand worke best and the Eye of senses most affects the heart See here under view a Man accomplished and made up of all the Contributions of Art and Nature a Man in whom concurred all those things Pythagoras which the Philosopher could thinke to beg of his God to wit Beautie Riches firme Constitution of body and mind D. Baz●● Such a Braine such an Heart as the most learned Physitian never saw And thence inferre that There is no Redemption from the Grave For certainely if greatnesse of wit of learning of spirit of riches of friends of allies if greatnesse of care in servants of atendance in Yokefellow of skill in Physitians of affection in all could have kept off Death wee had not been thus overcast and clouded this day But no outward greatnesse will doe it Mors sceptra liga●ibus aequat aequo pede pulsat c. quae sequentur passim Death knowes no measures no distances no degrees no differences but sweepes away all and either finds or makes them Matches To you then O yee sons of the mighty is my message Set your houses in order for you must dye You are left behinde to make ready Oh prepare for death for any death nay for sudden death for why may not you fall in your strength in your Journie aswell as Abner Say then Are ye ready now ready is your Will made your Pardon sealed could you dye this houre in this place If so happy yee in case you Stay for death not death for you But if as yet you bee not Shot-free and Death-proofe what doe yee meane why doe ye defer What Doe yee thinke that death feares greatnesse or will bee answered with Complements Or doe yee thinke that greatnesse of spirit of meanes of chearfullnesse of Titles can beare you out Or that it is all one to die in a Bravado and in cold blood Or that death is the same in the hand of a man and of GOD Or that a Lord have mercy or two an houre or two before you are all dead will serve the turne No no it 's a worke of works to Die that is Actively and Cheerfully to resigne life The best who have been about it all their life finde all provisions little enough And therefore doe not thinke to slight and to outlooke that King of Feares that top-gallant but feare before hand that you neede not feare at any hand And yet let me advertise you of another extremity and that is base-feare for that will barre up the doores against all thought of death Vitellius trepidus dein'temulentus Tac. and set you either on Drinking with him in the storie or on some other Diversion therby to drowne or to forget your feares There is as elsewhere I have discoursed 1 A Spirituall Feare of death There is 2 A naturall Neither of which may bee disswaded The Feare I give warning of is 3 A Base Cold Carnall Feare which will make a man creepe into an Augre-hole swallow any sin admit of any slaverie which will kill one daily because he must once die and keepe him a perpetuall slave Heb. 2. and prisoner This the feare I would not have you Cowed by and this feare you may competently overcome if you will set right the 1 Judgement 2 Conscience 3 Heart The Inward man Things upon another occasion lately spoken to not here to be rehearsed At present this is all Mistake not Death 1 It is not in it selfe the greatest of evils As there be better things than this poore life GODS favour GODS image the Life of CHRIST Eternitie c. Vid. Animadversions of Bish of Sarum on Gods Love to Mankind So are there worse things than this death Hell is worse Sin is worse GODS Curse is worse Corruption worse Morall Sinfull Evils worse than this which is painefull and evill only to Nature And reason we have to grieve more for being in a possibilitie and proximitie of sinning than of dying 2 This Death is not so simply and intrinsecally evill as that no good can be made of it Nay this may be improved and death may bee the death of all our deaths of deadly diseases corruptions temptations of all Thus simply considered it is not so formidable as that we must fling away our weapons desert our station and fly Excessum dix Tert. contra Valent Cypria Ep. 3. as once Israel at the voice of this Goliah But now Death to a Christian becomes another thing It hath lost its name Luk. 2.29 and hears a Departure Phil. 1 23. a Dissolution a Change a Sleepe Iob 14.14 c. and we should take up GODS language Ioh. 11.11 Passim Aliud demutatio aliud perditio Tert. de resur c. 55. It hath lost its Nature and Relation t is not to such an one Penall but Medicinall destructive but fetching its denomination from its terme perfective Looke upon it under a new Notion Plin. Nat. hist lib. 7 55. and then you will not be of poore Plinies minde Hic rogo non ●uror est ne moriare mori Mart. lib. 2. Epigram That It doubles ones paine and death to Forethinke the issues of it No it doubles your strength and makes your courage redoubted therefore view it and spare not but view it thus 1 Look upon it not as destructive tending to ruine but as a meane and way to life Looke beyond it See what stands behinde it A Crowne of Glory of Life of Blisse And this end will sweeten and smooth the way it will dare amica●ilitatem mediis 2 Looke upon it as a Rod in GODS hand This as other strokes is moderated by him and hee can make a Rod a Staffe Psal 23. yea turne Moses serpent into a Rod and worke with that Rod Wonders Death is a cup in our Fathers hand as well as sicknesse and workes wonders 3 Looke upon Death in CHRIST Hee hath conquered it in his Person and will in his Members See how unable death was to separate him from the Godhead and shall be us from GOD Rom. 8.38 Rom 8.38 See how hee hath intercepted and cut off Deaths succours Whereas death borrowed its Sting from sinne 1 Cor. 15.56 and Strength from the Law and Curse CHRIST hath disarmed them all of all their destroying killing power and cald us with S. Paul to set our foot upon their neckes and to sing O Death O Sinne O Curse O Hell where 's your power c. Yea see him having kild Death and buried the Grave fetching Honey and sweet out of the