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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	body_n	death_n	soul_n	7,226	5	5.8870	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49502	Death the sweetest sleep, or, a sermon preach't on the funeral of Mr. William Hiett, late citizen of London by Tho. Lye ...	Lye, Thomas, 1621-1684.	1681 (1681)	Wing L3531; ESTC R5710	14,347	36

ye beloved of the Lord and know that the time is shortly coming when ye shall lie down quietly in your Beds and not have one waking moment or distracting dream When once you are gone down to this bed the grave when the Curtains of darkness ar drawn about you you shall never open your eies any more till the Morning of Eternity dawns and breaks forth in lustre on you Behold to your Everlasting comfort That which is To others 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A King of Terrors to you is the King or chief of Comforts what is DEATH to others is but A SLEEP a sweet sleep to you You may safely play on the Hole of this Asp on the Den of this Cockatrice nay handl this Asp it self This Death that was once A Serpent is now none or if it be 'T is a Serpent without A Sting T' hath left its sting in the side of Christ 1 Cor. 15.55 56 57. What that foolish Agag cracks out falsly you may in holy Triumph cry out Truly surely The bitterness of Death is past 1 Sam. 15.32 See how Death it self is even embalm'd and clothd in such soft and silken Language that It carries even A sweetness and beauty in it 'T is A sleep no more than A sleep 2. Sleep tho' it chains up the senses for a Time yet it dissolvs not the union between the Soul and the Body So neither doth Death the Spiritual mystical union betwixt Christ and Tru Believers nor indeed betwixt Believers themselves I. Not between God in Christ and Tru Believers Tho' Abraham Isaac and Jacob be dead To others They are not so to God Mat. 22.32 God is not the God of the dead but of the living The Relation of God to Abraham and of Abraham to God was as strong when dead as living The Sleep of the Wife breaks not the Marriage Knot between her and her Bridegroom The union betwixt Christ and Believers out-lives Death Tho' Death triumphs over the Natural union between the Body and the Soul yet not over the mystical union between the Soul and Christ Let them liv they liv in and to Christ Let them dye they die to and sleep in Christ 1 Thess 4.14 Living and Dying they are the Lords Ro. 14.8 II. Nor yet between Believers themselvs As Faith is the Evidence of things not seen Heb. 11.1 that are future So It is a clear Reflection on things that are past By Faiths ey we may easily look on the pale face of the first Martyr Heb. 11.4 and with Faiths ear Tho' he be dead yet hear him speaking Is a Godly Sarah dead 'T is possible for her surviving spiritual Daughters to convers with her as tho' aliv mark her outward dress her inward ornaments how she Trusted in God and obeyed her Husband 1 Pet. 3.1 to 7. There is not A Saint of God that dies but leaves A glass behind him in which when ere you pleas to be Truly serious you may behold their face and conversation The succeding Jews did so nearly convers with Jacob that was dead 2000 years before that they thought themselvs to be present with him and his God at Bethel Hos. 12.3 4. By his strength he had power with God yea he had power over the Angel and prevailed He found him in Bethel and there he spake with us The Holy Exampls of the dead what ar they but the Spiritual Heb. 12.23 lively monuments of the Spirits of just men made perfect now living 3. Sleep is A refreshing reviving Enjoyment A man lies down in weakness sleeps and rises up in Strength Like A Giant refresht with Wine mounts up like an Eagl runs and is not weary walks and faints not 'T is Reported of Antaeus A Giant of Italy that as oft as he was weary he would but touch the Earth and immediately he rebounds and rises with renewed strength The Death of a Believer is like the Death of a grain of Corn. It dies only to spring up in more lustr beauty fruitfulness Joh. 12.24 if It dy it bringeth forth much fruit As by sleep A Believers Body is refresht so by Death his Body is refin'd 1 Cor. 15.42 43. It is sown in corruption It is raised in incorruption It is sown in dishonour it is raised in glory It is sown in weakness It is raised in power Use 4. OF EXHORTATION TO TRU BELIEVERS in General Is your Death no more than a sleep 1. Away then with all inordinate immoderate slavish sinful (a) Heb. 2.15 fear of Death 'T is Tru Job 18.14 Death to Nature is the King of fears and it hath its poisonous sting with which it will wound the wicked whom it ushers into Hell But now To prop you up against this sinking fear of Death Know 'T is no wors to you than FALLING ASLEEP Even Gods own peopl ar too too much like foolish Children afraid to put off their cloaths and go to bed in A dark Chamber All this while we utterly mistake the case of our dissolution We take it for An Enemy it provs a Friend There is no littl pleasure in that wherein we suppose the greatest horrour Who is afraid after the weary toiles of the day to take his rest by night Or what is more refreshing to the spent Traveller then a sweet sleep It is our infidelity and unpreparedness that makes Death any other than advantage I grant indeed A bloody Cain A foolish Nabal an Apostat Saul An intemperate Felix and that Ranting company mentioned Rev. 6.15 16. may justly fear Death The Conscience of Unregenerate men brings in A black Bill of Inditement against them and convinces them of Rebellion against their Lord and Soverain and then no wonder if as arraigned and condemned Malefactors they live in continued fear of the Ax or Gibbet 'T is no wonder If their evil Conscience be To them like the hand-writing on the Wall to A Carousing Belshazzar Dan. 5.5 6. and makes their countenance to change to caus the joints of their loins to be loosed and their Knees to smite one against another But Believers Through infinite Mercy That 's not your case Death to YOU is not A summons To Eternal Death but A gentl Lullaby and softer Hush To A Sweet sseep and that in order to A Resurrection An Awaking to An Eternal Life 2. Adore bless lov the Lord Jesus for his infinite lov and mercy To you and All other sound Believers in that by his Painful shameful Accursed Death he hath pluckt out the sting of Death and alter'd both its Name and Nature That which once was death is now but A SLEEP A Cooling A refreshing shadow of Death and no more Heb. 2.14 15. 1 Cor. 15.55 56. 3. Carry it so while you liv that your Death may be A sleep A sweet sleep when you die Eccl. 5.11 The sleep of A Labouring man is sweet The sleep of A diligent Servant of A Laborious Husbandman of A painful Tradesman O how sweet is it