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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
B05935	A sermon preached in S. George's Church Southwark, at the funeral of that pious and worthy gentlewoman, Mrs. Frances Fenn. / By R. Sparke ...	Sparke, Robert.	1679 (1679)	Wing S4819; ESTC R184509	20,356	36

a never dying death for eternal glory or eternal ignomy Oh therefore all ye that are careless and remiss know and call to mind in time that if ye be found without faith and repentance and holiness but a moment after death ye are miserable and undone for ever for Ab infernis nulla redemptio After death all ways all means all hopes and helps fail there is no wisdom no work or device in the grave Eccl. 9. God will then be implacable and irreconcileable thy self unpardonable heaven not attainable and your souls lost irrecoverably There is no repenting in the Grave nor working out of Salvation with a filial fear and trembling no Prayers no Sermons no Ministers there It is in the time of Life that you are to labour and make preparation for Death and know that delays breed danger Take heed it is a fearful thing to neglect the offers of Grace and the sweet invitations of Divine Love and Mercy Remember prophane Esau who for one morsel of Meat sold his Birth-right but afterwards when he would have inherited the blessing he was rejected for he found no place of Repentance though he sought it carefully with tears Heb. 12.17 So the foolish Virgins through their procrastination lost their admission into the Bride-chamber and fruition of the Bride-groom when the door was shut then they knockt crying Lord Lord open unto us but it was too late for said the Bridegroom I know you not Mat. 25.12 It was procrastination that did undo them Delay is the Rock the Shipwrack the Destruction of many Souls No doubt but there are many in Hell which had a meaning in their life time to receive Christ to believe in him and to honour him as their Saviour but God in his justice hath cut them short and deprived them of that which when they might they refused to accept of It is reported of the Prophet concerning the People that neglected the re-edifying of the Temple Hag. 1.2 The People say that the time is not come that the Lords House shall be builded So many think it is not yet time for them to look Heaven-ward youth must have its course the covetous bag must be filled the pleasures of the flesh must be fully tasted ambition must come to its height then it will be time to retire then it will be time to look towards Heaven to repent of sin and to prepare for death Nam mora damnosa est Deferring is dangerous Qui non est hodie cras minus aptus enit He that is unfit to day makes himself the more unfit to do it on the morrow by his procrastination The more the Sun declines to the West the less we feel the heat of it for as the Sun sets the Air cooleth So the nearer an Unbeliever draweth to his Grave the more his heart freezeth and the beams of Grace have less power and force upon his Soul Oh therefore that we would be wise to take our time and not neglect those blessed opportunities which God affords us There is a time coming and we do not know how near it is in which many shall seek to enter into the Kingdom of God and shall not be able Oh what woful yelling what pitiful crying and earnest knocking there will be then at the Gates of Heaven with Lord Lord open unto us when that heavy doom Depart from me I know you not shall be their portion Behold now is the accepted time now is the day of salvation 2 Cor. 6.2 Say not therefore anon anon or to morrow we will repent and believe why not to day why not even now seeing now is the appointed time Let me desire you to be up and be doing while it is day The night will come when no man can work Joh. 9.4 Then to your Christian task with all speed industry and dilgience work out your salvation with fear and trembling while your Candle is burning your Sun shining Will you loiter and see your Glass running your selves dying and your souls perishing Are you resolv'd to seek and secure the Kingdom whilst ye have time or will you bestow nothing but the infirmities and imperfections of decayed old age upon God and your immortal souls Oh that ye were careful in this your day to know the things that belong unto your peace before they be hid from your eyes 4. The fourth and last consideration to move us to prepare for death seeing it is the general condition of all men is to consider that it is the most dreadful astonishing spectacle on this side Hell to see a graceless wretch an unbelieving and prophane worlding breathing out his last There are many lamentable and sad sights in the world as to see a man starving and languishing for want of food or in violent pains for want of a Physician or Chirurgeon or drowning for lack of a Boat or some other help to receive him or to see a dead carcase a body without a soul Ah but how sad unutterrable and amazing sight is it to behold a wicked non-repenting sinner in his cold sweats and dying groans with his precious and invaluable soul standing on his pale cold and trembling lips O miserable case when suddenly the senses fail the body languisheth when thou shalt feel the sting of thy sins tormenting thy soul and see the flames of Hell flashing in thy face thy heart-strings ready to burst asunder and the ghastly apprehensions of speedy and hellish horrour shall dog thy conscience Death at thy elbow to prey upon thee and the infernal Lake wide open and ready to swallow thee up Who in this estate would not value a minute of repentance to a Monarchy of wealth O woful condition of those godless men and women whose belly is their god whose Heaven is their pleasure whose cursed jollity is but a feeding up to an eternal slaughter The day is coming wherein every minute of their sinful unsatisfying joys shall be repayed with a Thousand thousand Millions of years frying in that unquenchable fire and when the damned Ghosts shall forth of their incessant flames see the celestial and glorious reward and remuneration of the penitent and pensive Souls which they have despised and unworthily abused then shall they gnash their teeth and tear themselves and horridly utter that too too late recantation We fools thought their lives madness and their end without honour but now they are accounted among the Children of God and have their portion amongst the Saints but we with demoniacal and hellish spirits Let me therefore beg of you all to exempt your selves from all supine and carnal security And seeing you must die and your time short and that a thousand chances may every day bereave you of your lives make such conscience of all your ways words and works as if you were presently to give up your accounts to him that lives for ever Qui consider at qualiter erit in morte pavidus providus erit in operatione He that considers always of