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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	appear_v	glory_n	hide_v	4,143	5	8.4140	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11247	Resurgendum. A notable sermon concerning the resurrection, preached not long since at the court, by L. S.	L. S., fl. 1593.	1593 (1593)	STC 21508; ESTC S120772	19,781	36

day holdeth vp the heads of Gods children in the middest of infinite miseries of this life and sweeteneth the bitter tast of sundry afflictions in this world and breedeth a sound ioy in the hearts of them that haue eyes to see so farre August Psal 147. Quare non gaudes cum venerit iudicare te qui venerit iudicari propter te Why art thou not ioyfull of his comming to iudge thee who came to be iudged for thee The carelesse carnall man hath no sence or sight of this day but as the oxe is fatted in the pasture and the bird singeth sweetely and feedeth without feare and sodainly the one is carried to the slaughter the other taken in the snare So the worldlings are drowned in securitie and seldome thinke of much lesse wish for the comming of this Sauiour Some fewe who are stong with sinne and force the wrath of God against them do tremble and feare at the remembrance of this day and wish it might either not be at all or else be deferred and some foolishly perswade themselues that it is farre and say as the euill seruant doth in the Gospell my maister will deferre his comming But the godly crie Lord Iesus come quickly nowe they are wardes then shall they come to their owne now they are in the skirmish then shall they be in the victorie now they are in the tempestuous sea then shall they be in the quiet hauen now in the heate of the day then shall they be in the rest of the euening now in place they are absent from Christ though in affection they be present with him then shall they follow him whither soeuer he goeth nowe their life is hidde with Christ but when Christ shall appeare they also shall appeare with him in glorie In the eight chapter to the Romanes and nineteenth verse Paule saith that all the creatures of God haue a feruent desire for the reuealing of the sonnes of God much more should the sonnes of God them selues desire that day In the fourteenth of the Reuelation the word of God is likened to the sound of many waters to the thunder to harping with harpes because in the hearers it hath diuerse effectes as this particular point which now I haue in hand For when the comming of Christ to iudgement is spoken of to carnall men it is an idle sound as if Neptune were mouing the sea to other it is terrible and fearfull as if Iupiter threwe his thunderbolt amongst them these be wounded but want the medicine But to the elect it is sweete musicke as if Apollo played vpon his harpe I will iudge none but the word which I speake will touch euery one our owne consciences will accuse vs as carelesse and fearfull of Christs comming or excuse vs as ioyfull therof Let euery one make choise of his companie and sit him downe with his owne fellowes either with the carelesse who neuer thinke of it their case is dangerous vnlesse God reuiue them or among the fearfull of whom there is no hope vnlesse God heale and cure them or with the faithfull who are in blessed state because their redemption draweth neare This is the chaunge in the soules of the godly which must go before that other of the body as Augustine saith Anima debet prius resurgere per gratiam quam corpus resurgat ad gloriā the soule must rise againe in newnesse of life by the grace of God before the bodie shall rise to glorie Of the which change of the bodie I will now intreate in the same order as I first pointed it out Our bodies they are vile base full of infirmities and therefore in the Scriptures compared to weake meane things to grasse to the flower of the field Esa 40. to dust and ashes Gen. 18.27 to houses of clay Iob. 4.19 to earthly houses of this tabernacle 2. Cor. 5.1 Our bodies when they are young are weake twigges when they are olde are doting trees in the best age as vessels of glasse yea more brittle as Augustine saith for by carefull looking vnto glasses are kept a long time after their death who made them and vsed them Euerie creature liueth of his owne but man for the maintenance of his vile bodie hath a licence to begge and craueth the helpe of euerie creature The Sunne lendeth him light the ayre breath the water drinke the beastes birds and fishes and foules feed him with their flesh and cloath him with their haire wooll and skin The rich man in the Gospell who was cloathed in purple whence had he it but of the sheepes fleece for the matter and of the shell fish for the colour His fine linnen which nowe beareth all the viewe for bands like windmill sailes which may not vnfitly be so termed because mens heads are caried about with euerie wind and blast of vanitie whence and what is it but the barke and as it were the skin of the line and flaxe The silke wherein euen meane persons do ruffle is but the excrements of the wormes The golde and pearles wherewith this bodie is attyred are the guts and bowels of the earth yea some do borrow the haire of the dead We came naked into this world and should so continue if we had not help of the creatures who lend vs their feathers to couer vs as in the end naked we must returne to the earth They that be come of noble houses borne of honorable parents descended of the kings stocke and blood royal yet haue their bodies vile as Paul here meaneth as subiect to diseases as needing all helps for health as vnable to endure labour heate cold to abide hunger thirst as vnable to want sleepe rest as other men Therefore if they that be great haue their bodies vile much more we that be wormes and no men Alexander was perswaded by flatterers that he was the sonne of Iupiter a god and no man but by want of sleepe when he was wearie and by smart of body when he was wounded confessed that he was mortall as others be The same Alexander with a proud minde sayling vp Nilus intending to find the spring thereof which yet neuer could be knowen was perswaded by an old man to returne who gaue him a pearle of this propertie that being layd in ballance with anie mettall it was to heauy but couering it with dust a feather was heauier then it By which was meant that Alexander him selfe who in his life time was too strong mightie for all the world being dead was as weake as other men So that sicknesse and death are incident to the greatest of all whereby is plaine how vile and base our bodies are This cutteth downe the pride of all the world where euerie man kisseth his owne handes and thinketh too well of him selfe for his birth strength youth beautie We must remember that we were made of the slime of the earth and must returne to the dust euen the best and highest of vs all must confesse