Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	blood_n	flesh_n	meat_n	9,640	5	9.2298	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10062	The eagles flight or six principall notes, or sure markes for euery true Christian to soare vp to the euerlasting nest of Gods eternall kingdome. As it was deliuered in a most godly and fruitfull sermon at Paules Crosse. By Maister Price of S. Iohns in Oxford.	Price, Henry, 1566 or 7-1600.	1599 (1599)	STC 20307; ESTC S100876	32,251	86

Gentils 1. Cor. 6.15 tels thee that thou art a member of this bodie And then bethinke thy selfe what honor is due to thy bodie How ill it will beseeme thee to pollute it with any sinne which hee who was without sin hath vouchsafed to accept as his own flesh Thy Sauiour is a body remēber this and with all That in this body he shal returne to iudge the earth For it was the son of man whom the high Priest was promised one day to see in the Clouds Mat. 26.64 And no other but very him whom they preached vndertakes Iohn vnto the soldiers they should behold Iohn 19.37 And to the sonne hath the father giuen the power to iudge and by this title as to the sonne of man Ioh. 5 27. And then say whether that speach of Paule vnto Agrippa Act. 26.2 will not be fitter for thy mouth than it was euen for his I thinke my selfe happie sweete Sauiour if I shall answere this day before thee Chiefly because thou hast knowledge of all customes whether they bee the aduersaries who is busie in assalting or this fleshes who is false in betraying or this poore soule which is weake in resisting That flesh of mine which Iudas-like with a kisse to thy Deity deliuered thee into the hands of so many Temptations hath giuen thee experience of them all I see the woundes yet bleede which were taken for my sins and loe my nature is assistant in iudgement to assure mee it shall be pattaker in glorie Gen. 43 34 Is my Ioseph thus greate then shall not his brother Beniamins entertainement bee small And if Hester be so deare to Assuerus sure her kinsman Mardochy shall haue his day Hest 6 1. There is in store for him a robe and a ring and a horse and a crowne and a traine to proclame his sauour Thus shal it be done to the man whom the king will honour Thy Sauiour is a bodie remember this withall that which himselfe hath auerred in the sixt of Iohn That this bodie and flesh of his is meate indeede and then neuer doubt but thou shalt haue wherewithall to strengthen thine heart Let the windowes of heauen be shut that the raine cannot fall to moisten let the face of the skye bee darkned that the Sunne cannot breake out to ripen let the poores of the earth be locked that the fruite cannot spring forth to feede thee yet art thou prouided for thy diet Thy Sauiour his bodie shall bee to thee the widdowes Barrell and Cruse neuer shall this meale if I may so terme it of his flesh 1 King 17 16 nor this Oyle of his blood faile thee The meate that hee will giue thee endureth vnto euerlasting life So saith himselfe Iohn 6.27 The water that hee will giue shall be to him that drinketh of it a Well of water springing to euerlasting life so vndertakes himselfe Iohn 4.14 Findes the Fowle her prey delightfull when she tyres vpon it Bee ruled by Dauid Come and tast of thy Lord and thou shalt finde him more than so no lesse than euen sweete Finds the Fowle her prey hartie Heb 10 22 and growes shee high by tyring vpon it Bee aduised by Saint Paule Drawe neare thy Sauiour with a pure heart in assurance of faith and thou shalt finde him more than so Such fulnes shalt thou meete with in him wherof not thou but wee all both may doe receiue and what receiue wee no meaner things than very grace and it not mincingly But so thinke Iohn 1.16 as grace for grace or as some interpret grace vpon grace or grace in the necke of grace Pro Legis gratia Gratiam Euangelij as Augustine speakes In time past the grace of the lawe but it not seruing to bring vs to God In the fulnesse of time the grace of the Gospell and with this one grace as with one hande manie fingers how many graces The grace of Redemption for to purchase it vnto vs he giues himselfe who is this bodie 1. Tim. 2.6 The grace of spirituall growth for both is his age The measure and his Spirite The meanes of this growth of ours The grace of Sanctification for this that hee might conferre on vs Ephes 4.13 fanctified hee himselfe The grace of Glorification for to harbing as it were Iohn 17.19 to prepare for our instalment therein is hee before ascended into heauen so that sparing is his commendations of our sauiour as the Psalmist Iohn 14 2 Psal 45 2 full of grace are not his lips only but his whole bodie also In whatrespect Christ is termed a bodie you see why a deade one let vs now inquire May it bee in regarde of the estate wherin he either now is or hereafter may bee No hee hath had his ●●persedeas for death euer since his resurrection Christ once rysing from death Rom 9 6 dieth no more death hath no more dominion ouer him And though himselfe confesse that he was deade yet addes he that now the case is altered For why he is aliue that not for a time but for euermore Amen Reue 1 18 The tearme therefore of being deade which here the Euangelist giues him hath relation to a state of his which is past For hee was indeede as you haue heard de ade Exo 12 46 witnesse the souldiers who because they foūd him so vnwittingly ful filled the scripture whilst they saued the needlesse paines Iohn 19 33 as they tooke it of breaking his legges And had he not so beene hard of digestion would our weake-stomackt faith haue found him For as in the lawe Leuit 17 13 were it beast or fowle that was taken by trauell such as for his kinde might lawfully bee eate●● yet must the bloode of it bee shed a●● couered with dust ere it were eaten 〈◊〉 in the gospel were this Lambe which we had not caught indeede Gen 27 20 but which as Iacob saide of his venison the Lord our GOD hath brought it into our hands neuer so cleane and indeede without spot of sinne was it yet must his side be opened with the speare and his body hid in the dust of the graue before he coulde be diet for our soules Phisitions both in their directions in diet prescribe the flesh of the doue as wholsome and in their practise applye the bloode of it a soueraigne against certaine diseases of no baser parts than the eye and the braine For Galen in his tenth booke of the vertue of Symples giues it against the bruses called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which make euery thinge wee looke on seeme redde And Iul. Alex. liber 12. Capite 4. salubrium commendeth it as a most speciall baulme to bee dropped vpon the corners off the Braine called Pia and dura mater in the woundes of the heade which though they doe yet in the feare of inflāmation councell they a kinde of diuorce of these two so wholesome parts and wish this birde to

Christ Iesus vpon the dore-post as I may terne it of your houses that is in each of your viewes that it may serue to secure you frō the destroyer For as in the full of the Moone where the landlord of light the Sunne and his freeholder the Moone be farthe stasūder the Sun is no sooner set but you looke and are not decieued the that Moone should straight arise Euen so in the fulnes of time in which your sinnes had seperated as the Prophet speaketh beetweene you and your God the Lord of your life Esa 59.2 no sooner set in the West of his deth but he drew vp al you that are lightned by him into the Ascendēt of your new life Now therefore as it is written of the Elephants 1. Mac. 6.34 that they grow fearce by the sight of the blood of the grape spilt before them so will it bee expected at all your hands that this bloode of your Sauiour which is the true vine thus powred out before you put stomach in all you against the power of darknes and that you follow where you General hath led marching to life if it were to death and dying to sinne since bee hath died for sinne Letting vanitie vnderstande you haue not an eare to heare it and leasing you haue not a tongue to speake it malice you haue not a hart to conceine it pride you haue not an eye to admit it and gluttony you haue not a stomach to banquet it and a bride you haue not a hand to receiue it sin you haue not a minde to commit it You reade in the Psalme of the death of a Saint whith is pretious in the sight of the Lord Haec est illa mors saith Leo why this is the death GOD hath in so high regard Vbi h●mo occiditur in mundo non terminatione sensuum sed fine vitiorum when a man dies before hee dies and shakes handes not with his sences but with his sinnes This of the deade bodie or marke at which this flight is now of the flight it selfe Thither shall the Eagles bee gathered togither And therin First of the ende of their flight Then of the choyce of the fliers And last of the manner of their flying The ende whither they shall make Thither The flyers who they shall be Eagles Their flights In what manner it shal be Thither shall these Eagles bee gathered together Thither both aloft into the ayre to meete their Iudge and aboue into the heauens to raigne with their God Thither for their doome for there they shall receiue that Patent for a kingdome Come ye blessed c. Thither for the crowne for where himselfe is euen there is that our Sauiours will there whome his Father hath giuen him bee they Iohn 17. where an Angell shall bee the Clarke Messias the Iudge Saints the Iurie Innocent the verdict Receiue a kingdome the sentence Thither shall the Eagles bee gathered togither Where the glorie of their God whose brightnesse they shall se their safety from their foes whose ruine they shall behold the comfort of the Saints whose company they shall enioy the receipt of a kingdome vpon receipt of which they shall enter the Fee simple of life which they shall neuer loose the temper of their ioy which shall satisfie and yet not glut shall ioyne and stryue to fill them with happinesse Thither shall c. Where is a citie and the gates of it Pearle and the streetes of it Golde and the Walles of it Pretious stones and the Temple in it the almightie God and the light of it the Lambe and the Vessels to it Kings of the earth Thither shall c. Where is a riuer and the spring of it the Throne of God and the water of it Christall and the Bankes of it are set with the trees of life Thither shall c. Where the cheere is ioy the exercise singing the city praise the Subiect God the Quire Angels Thither shall c. Where there shal be no more neede to feare least either the eyes be dimmed with teares or the soule surprised by death or the heart damped with sorrow or the eares a frighted cries or the sences dosturbed with paine For from thence whither these shall bee gathered shall all they depart farre away Where they shall bee good and not persecuted happy and not enuied rich not robbed kings and not flattered Thither shall c. Where they shal haue possessiōs without inpeachments Seignories without cares length of years without decay of strēgth loue of all without ielousie of any greatnes of state without conscience of corruption Thither shall c. Where they shal be togither in the same instant rauished with seeing satisfied with enioying and secured for retaining Thither shall c. O then how happie they who shal bee gathered thither coulde this heart conceiue it or this tongue tell it or these cares heare it then were they translated thither O then how had pie they who shal bee gathered But who they Non qualiscunque saith Origen not ot euery fether I wisse Wee haue Peacoks all whose glory is their Plumes they are all readie but too too square they shal not do well to spred They are not they Wee haue Vultures all whose Tenure is in their pompe they are all ready but too too high they shall not do well to towre They are not they Wee haue sparrowes all whose sporte is in their lust they are all readie but too too pleasant they shall not doe well to Chirpe They are not they We haue Ostriches all whose feeding is on mettels they are too too ouercloide they shall not doe well to stretch In Mat. tract 30 They are not they We haue Cormorāts whose God is their belly they are all readie but too too fed they shall not doe well to gape They are not they All they to this Thither are Scarabees or Beetles and it to them a Rose It is so sweete it kils them The breath of man if you marke it hath this propertie at the same instant to warn that which is neere it and to coole that which is farre off So fares it with the Lord of Hostes Is one neare him Psal 85.9 and so is euery one that feareth him then warme lights the breath of this Thither vpon him and so cordiall is it Wisd 1.3 as is no confection of the Apothe caries But let one be farre off him and lesse thā so cānot any be who lodgeth wicked thoughts for they seperate from God then bleake comes it to his heart a very shaking sends it through his bones Then sownds Thither to the graue as to the goale to iudgement as the Assise to Hell as the place of execution Then where is a iudge and his presence worse to bee endured than the waight of Mountaines it is so fearefull where are thousands of home-borne witnesses and their euidences against thee al are so cruel where a