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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	death_n	die_v	life_n	17,942	5	5.0592	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40518	Yadidyah or, The beloved disciple A sermon preached at the funerall of the Honourable Sir Robert Harley, Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath; at Brampton-Brian in Hereford-shire. December 10. 1656. By Thomas Froysell, minister of the Gospell at Clun in Shropshire.	Froysell, Thomas, d. ca. 1672.	1658 (1658)	Wing F2249; ESTC R202027	40,790	144

things He would repeat often saying He knew no such Cordialls Thirdly His Victory over Sathan It pleased God about two years since to permit Satan to buffet him severall times once he lay all night and slept not and he was heard to say often Lord rebuke the Tempter Lord give Victory Lord be Gracious with these Expressions he spent five or six hours in the morning he spake very chearfully and said he would be laid to sleep and having taken quiet Rest he awaked and said that all the sins of his life had been laid before him that night and those things he said that he had long forgotten he then Remembred He said the Tempter had been very busie but blessed be God I did not sleep untill I had made my peace with God through Jesus Christ Then he chearfully said a little while after God may let Satan buffet us for a time but he shall never prevaile after this his chearfulnesse continued without interruption Fourthly His willingnesse to die He was wont to say Many wish to live over their lives againe that they might mend what had been amisse I would not be to live over my life again least I should make it worse I would not for all the world be young again because I would not be so far from Heaven And he would say to his Children when he had them about him I have taught you how to live and I hope I shall teach you how to die Fifthly His patience under his sharp sufferings His disease was Stone and Palsie and they that know these must look for Tortures yet in his sharpest Pains and Torments he would mollifie them with this consideration That is Best which God cloth He would often say The will of the Lord be done above all and in all for that is best of all and he would support himselfe under his sharp pains with this Meditation Heaven will make amends for all and sometimes when asked how he did he would answer Poor but going to Heaven as fast as I can his lips like an honey combe would drop such sweet Expressions as these If the Lord see it best for me that the stone in the Bladder should be the way to bring me to Heaven his will be done It is better to die of the stone in the Bladder than of the stone in the heart Thus if you observe he fed his Patience under the divine hand with divine arguments That place of Scripture I Cor. 10. 13. There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man but God is faithfull who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able He did often mention with joy saying it was the first place whereby God gave him Comfort and some few days before his death when he was in much pain he said Blessed be God who brings this place with comfort to me whereby I had received first joy and so repeated those words There is no Temptation c. adding further Blessed be God Blessed be what comes in the the name of the Lord Lord be gracious Thus you see his Admirable Patience Sixthly His love to the Glory of God and the Church of God To joy under great afflictions is a hard matter water quencheth fire yet his joy in that which concern'd God his affliction could not extinguish he was wont to pray constantly since the ruines and desolations of Brampton that God would restore the Gospel hither and two days before his death he rejoyced exceedingly when he was told that this Place of Publick worship was finished About three days before his Death when he arose and went to prayer as he constantly used to do though not able to Enlarge in Prayer because of weaknesse he Prayed for the Ruine of Antichrist for the Churcher of God beyond Sea naming Savoy Switzerland Germany Upon the Fifth of November though very weak and under great pains yet he blessed God for the Great mercy of that Day to the Church and the Nation and to himself who was of the Parliament when the Powder Plot was intended for the many Mercies God had vouchsafed him to see since that time in the Church and in his own Family for his Lady the mother of his children who he said was gon to Heaven before him and for his Childrens Children and for his Hearing which being lost God restored him perfectly Thus the day before he dyed he kept A day of Thanksgiving to God for all his former mercies oh what spiritual and Angelical Elevation of heart was this his soul was Musical like the Swan he sang before his death which leads me to another Branch Seventhly his faith assurance a godly Minister speaking to him concerning his dissolution he said what matter is it if my poor cottage be falling here below I am sure of a fair house upon the Top of yonder hill A day or two before his Death the 5 of Job being read to him in course he said he that hath been with me in six troubles will not leave me in the seventh And lastly having like good old Jacob given his blessing to all his Children that were then at home and to his Grandchildren desiring the Lord to blesse and sanctifie them particularly I say having don this about an hour before his death though under Extream Pain he said Blessed be God for this quiet Peace Thus his Peace with God shined like a Candle in his heart till his lamp of life went out with these last words I die Lord be Gracious In the flame of these words his soule like the Angell of God that appeared to Manoah ascended and went up to Heaven Thus this Glorious Saint went up to Glory In the best times there were few or none better in these declining times he hath left almost none like him among us I pray God to double the Spirit of deceased Elijah upon his surviving Elisha The Lord repair the Ruines of this Castle and build up this Great Family for the Glory of his Name in these Parts Before I leave I cannot but tell you how God hath taken Three brave men of late from us The First upon whom the lot fell was Mr. Richard More of Linley the next was Mr. Humphrey Walcot of ●alcot and now it hath fallen upon Renowned Sir Rubert Harley I mention them here together because these Three were the Triangles of our Country and whilst they lived were special friends and of one heart for God in the concernments of his Gopell And now I have done onely to put you in mind a little of your selves you see you are dying creatures oh then Consider your later End The consideration of our last End should be the Exercise of our First thoughts to consider our end would be the end of our sins and the Resurrection of our Repentance Ashes keep fire alive so this consideration that we are Dust and Ashes will keep our Graces alive FINIS