Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	body_n	soul_n	unite_v	6,137	5	9.8589	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02538	Heauen vpon earth, or Of true peace, and tranquillitie of minde. By Ios. Hall.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1606 (1606)	STC 12666; ESTC S119001	38,487	228

aduersarie Seest thou the Chaldean Tyraunt beset with the sacred boules of Ierusalem the late spoiles of Gods Temple and in cōtempt of their owner● carousing healthes to his Queenes Concubines Peires singing amids his cups triumphant carols of praise to his molten carued Gods Wouldst thou euer suspect that this hie courage could be abated or that this sumptuous presumptuous banquet after so royall and rocond continuance should haue any other conclusion but pleasure Stay but one houre longer and thou shalt see that face that now shines with a ruddy glosse according to the colour of his liquor looke pale and gastly stayned with the colours of feare and death and that proud hand which now lifts vp his Ma●sie Gobl●ts in defiance of God tremble like a leafe in a storme and those strong knees which neuer stooped to the burden of their laden body now notable to beare vp themselues but loosened with a sudden palsie of feare one knocking against the other And all this for that death writes him a letter of summons to appeare that night before him and accordingly ere the next Sun sent two Eunuches for his honourable conueyance into an other world where now are those delicate morselles those deepe draughts those mery ditties wherwith the palat eare so pleased themselues What is now become of al those chearful lookes loose laughters stately port reuelles triumphs of the feasting court Why doth none of his gallant nobles reuiue the faynted courage of their Lorde with a new cuppe or with some stirring iest shake him out of this vnseasonable Melancholy O death how imperious art thou to carnall mindes aggrauating their misery not onely by expectation of future payne but by the remembrance of the wonted causes of their ioy and not suffering them to see ought but what may torment them Euen that monster of Cesars that had been so well acquainted with blood neuer had found better sport them in cutting of throates when no wit came to his owne ru●ne how effeminate how desperately cowardous did he show himselfe to the wōder of al readers that hee which was euer so valiant in killing shold bee so womanishly hartelesse in dying Sect. 16. THere are that fear not so much to be dead as to dye the very act of dissolutiō frighting them with a tormenting expectation of a short but intollerable painfulnes which let if the wisedome of God had not interposed to timorous nature there would haue beene many more Lucreces Cleopatraes Achitophles good lawes should haue found little oportunity of execution through the wilfull funeralles of malefactors For the soule that comes into the body without any at least sensible pleasure departs not from it without an extreamitie of payne which varying according to the manner and meanes of separation yet in all violent deathes especially retayneth a violence not to be auoyded hard to bee indured and if diseases which are destin'd towardes death as their end bee so painfull what must the ende and perfection of diseases bee Since as deseases are the maladies of the body so death is the maladie of diseases There are that feare not so much to dye as to bee dead If the pang bee bitter yet it is but short the comfortlesse state of the dead strikes some that could well resolue for the act of their passage Not the worste of the heathen Emperors made that monefull ditty on his death-bed wherein he be wrayeth to all memory much feeling pittie of his soule for her doubtfull and impotent condition after her parture How doth Platoes worldling bewaile the misery of the graue besides all respect of paine Woe is mee that I shall lye alone rotting in the silent earth amongst the crawlinge wormes not seeing ought aboue not seene Very not being is sufficiently abhorred of nature if death had no more to make it fearfull But those that haue liued vnder light enough to show them the gates of hell after their passage through the gates of death and haue learned that death is not onely horrible for our not being here but for being infinitely eternally miserable in a future world nor so much for the dissolution of life as the beginning of tormēt those cannot without the certaine hope of their immunity but carnally fear to dy and hellishly feare to bee dead For if it bee such paine to dye what is it to bee euer dying if the strayning or luxation of one ioynt can so afflict vs what shall the racking of the whole body and the torturing of the soule whose animation alone makes the body to feele and complaine of smart and if men haue deuised such exquisite torments what can spirites more subtile more malicious and if our momentany sufferinge seeme long how long shall that be that is eternall and if the sorrowes i● differently incidēt to Gods dear ones vpon earth be so extreme as sometimes to driue them within sight of despayring what shall those bee that are reserued onely for those that hate him and that hee hateth None but those who haue hearde the desperat complaints of some guilty Spyra or whose soules haue beene a little scorched with these flames can enough conceiue of the horror of this estate it beeing the policie of our common enemie to conceale it so long that wee may see and feele it at once least wee shoulde feare it before it be too late to bee auoyded Sect. 17. NOw when this great aduersary ●ike a proud Giant comes stalking out in his feareful shape and insults ouer our fraile mortality daring the worlde to match him with an equall champion whiles a whole hoast of worldlings show him their backs for feare the true Christian armed onely with confidence and resolutiō of his future happinesse dares boldly en counter him and can wound him in the forehead the wonted seate of terror and trampling vpon him can cut off his head with his own sword victoriously returning can sing in Triumph Oh death where is thy s●ing An happy victory we die are not foiled yea we are conquerors in dying wee could not ouer come death if wee dyed not That dissolution is well bestowed that parts the soule from the body that it may vnite both to God All our life here as that heauēly Doctor wel termes it is but a vitall death how aduantageous is that death that determines this false dying life and beginnes a true one aboue all the titles of happinesse The Epicure or Saducee dare not dye for feare of not being The guiltye and loose worldling dare not dye for feare of beeing miserable The distrustfull and doubting semi-christian dare not dye because he knows not whether hee shall bee or bee miserable or not bee at all The resolued Christian dare and woulde dye because hee knowes hee shall bee happye and looking merrily towards heauen the place of his rest can vnfainedly say I desire to bee dissolued I see thee my home I see thee A sweete