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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	death_n	sting_n	victory_n	6,058	5	10.0485	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39578	A love-token for mourners teaching spiritual dumbness and submission under Gods smarting rod : in two funeral sermons / by Samuel Fisher M.A., late preacher at Brides London, now at Thornton in Cheshire ; unto which is added, An antidote against the fear of death, being the meditations of the same author in a time and place of great mortality.	Fisher, Samuel, 1616 or 17-1681.	1655 (1655)	Wing F1059B; ESTC R42024	52,647	250

in that doleful time where they were under the continual expectation of arrest I. DEath is the common lot of all men Every man must die once There is no discharge from that warre The best that lived have trod this path When I die I shall go but the same way that other men have gone before me farre better then my self the same way that Adam Noah Abraham David Paul yea that Christ himself went Shall I not be willing to follow when so many and such excellent ones have gone before II. My times are in Gods hands The term and date of my life is set the way and manner of my death determined I cannot out-live that date and nothing shall shorten that date to prevent my life Every thing is beautifull in its time and so shall death be to me when my time is come When corn is ripe it is seasonable to cut it down I shall not be cut down till it be seasonable And how can I wish to stand any longer III. Death is that which I as Job have waited for all my dayes Do I not live with expectation to die It should neither be strange nor unwelcome when it comes which a man looks and waits for it before it comes IV. There is nothing but vanity under the Sunne nothing that a man can please himself with take comfort and contentment in but it hath a worm in it like Jonah's Gourd A man while● he hath it is in danger either to be deprived of it or vexed with it Why then should I be troubled at death which will case me of the trouble of ●●y life V. A mans life hath very little that is desirable in it It is a life 〈◊〉 of cares troubles temptations fears 〈◊〉 sicknesses losses and which is worst of all of sinfull weaknesses and inward perplexities Not my body onely but my soul my darling labou●● under sore burthens many times My thinks death should be sweet unto thee O my soul when life it self is so troublesome VI. Jesus Christ hath tried the strength of death and conquered it By ●ying he overcame death and him that had the power of death which is the Devil There Satan was out-shot in his own Bow and catcht in his own Snare What hath he got by bringing Christ to the Crosse to the Grave By getting he hath lost the victory A happy Paradox Death shook the Lord Jesus with its sting but lost its ●●ing by striking of him Oh death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory The sting of death is sinne the strength of sinne is the Law But thanks be to God who hath given us the v●ctory See my Soul Christ hath not only gotten the victory but hath given us the victo●y which he hath gotten What Shall a conquered enemy disanimate the Conquerour VII Nay Jesus Christ hath not only conquered death and disarmed it but hath blessed death and sanctified it He hath made it not only Not an enemy but a friend a priviledge to beleevers Come my soul and play with death by faith Esteem it as a priviledge be not ●fraid be not troubled at 〈◊〉 as if it were still an 〈◊〉 VIII Whiles I am 〈◊〉 the body I am absent ●rom the Lord and so I ●ust be till I die Shall 〈◊〉 not desire at least be ●ontent to die that I may 〈◊〉 present with the Lord Oh my Soul Love to Christ should constrain thee to be willing to passe 〈◊〉 gulf to come to thy be●oved IX When death comes 〈◊〉 hath only to do with ●y body nothing to do with my soul. And if it ●et my soul alone which 〈◊〉 my better part I would ●ot be troubled for that ●hich it can do at my ●●esh my body which is but the worser part X. For my body though it be but the grosser part of the man yet because it is a friend of my soul and a piece of my 〈…〉 despise it not Therefor● I take comfort that though my body shall die yet i● shall not be lost It shall be united to Christ●in 〈◊〉 grave as my soul to Christ in Heaven Death cannot destroy the union betwixt Christ and the beleever in any part of him Though worms destroy my flesh or it be turned to dust yet my dust shall be precious God shall bring all together after the many changes raise up my body at the last day give it meeting with my soul and then with these eyes 〈◊〉 shall see my Redeem●● XI Though I shall die yet I shall die but once The second death shall 〈◊〉 no power over me There is no condemnation 〈…〉 that are in Christ Iesus He hath satisfied for me and justified me by his bloud who shall condemn Since I must die once what a mercy is it that it is not the worst the second death XII Death is the last enemy that is to be destroyed in that sense that a believer may call it an enemy when that is over all the worst of a believers state is over Oh my Soul be willing to die that thou maist 〈◊〉 back and say Thanks be 〈◊〉 God Now I am past 〈◊〉 worst XIII For the 〈◊〉 death Whether I 〈◊〉 the Pestilence of 〈◊〉 other disease or by 〈◊〉 hand of violence there 〈◊〉 no great difference ●●thing ●●ll betall me 〈◊〉 that which is common 〈◊〉 other Saints All dea●● are much alike to a me●ber of Christ all 〈◊〉 sting'd all sanctified 〈◊〉 Plague indeed shuts the man up from his friend●● but it doth not shut 〈◊〉 out from the man and where God is he makes a Palace of a Pest-house However it is but death The Plague cannot make it another thing and deaths a friend XIV For the pains of death I should not be troubled God can make death easie Some feel lesse in death then in other diseases and commonly more in the sicknesse before death then in death which follows the sicknesse But 〈◊〉 the worst though sharp yet they are short and not intollerable All the Saints have endured them and therefore O my Soul do not give back for a little pain That God which hath carried so many through this gulf is able to carry thee with faith and patience thorow Say with the holy Singer Though I walk thorow the valley of the shadow of death yet will I fear no ill for thou art with me Lord be with thy servant in that hour that I may not fear XV. There may be sore temptations and on-sets of Satan at that time when the body is weakest And indeed some precious Saints have been in great darknesse before their death and it may be so with me It is true O my Soul and thou hast deserved the withdrawings of God at such a time because thou hast not improved his presence in former times If thou fearest this let it be th● warning Now take heed of grieving the Spirit But consider though some of the faithfull have been called out to such Conflicts before death