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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	body_n	life_n	soul_n	11,671	5	5.9298	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07761	A discourse of life and death: written in French, by Phil. Mornay. Done in English by the Countesse of Pembroke; Excellent discours de la vie et de la mort. English	Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623.; Pembroke, Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of, 1561-1621.	1608 (1608)	STC 18141.5; ESTC S113371	23,951	146

resolution wee shall not finde any danger or difficultie at all Yet what is the paine that death brings vs Nay what can shee do with those paines we feele Wee accuse hir of all the euils we abide in ending our life and consider not how manie more woundes or grieuous sickenesses we haue endured without death or how many more vehement paines we haue suffered in this life in the which wee called euen hir to our succour All the paines our life yeeldes vs at the last houre wee impute to death not marking that life begun and continued in al sorts of paine must also necessarily ende in paine Not marking I say that it is the remainder of our life not death that tormenteth vs the end of our nauigation that paines vs not the hauen wee are to enter which is nothing else but a safegarde against all windes We complaine of death where wee should complaine of life as if one hauing beene long sicke and beginning to bee well should accuse his health of his last paines and not the reliques of his disease Tell me what is it else to bee deade but to bee no more liuing in the world Absolutely and simplie not to bee in the World is it any paine Did wee then feele anie paine when as yet wee were not Haue wee euer more resemblance of Death then when wee sleepe Or euer more rest then at that time Now if this be no paine why accuse wee death of the paines our life giues vs at our departure vnlesse also wee will fondly accuse the time when as yet we were not of the paines wee felt at our birth If the comming in be with teares is it wonder that such bee the going out If the beginning of our being bee the beginning of our paine is it maruell that such be the ending But if our not being in times past hath beene without paine all this being contrariwise full of paine whom should we by reason accuse of the last paines the not being to come or the remnant of this present beeing Wee thinke we dye not but when we yeelde vp our last gaspe But if wee mark well wee dye euerie daie euerie houre euery moment Wee apprehende death as a thing vnusual to vs and yet haue nothing so cōmon in vs. Our liuing is but continuall dying looke how much wee liue we dye how much we increase our life decreases We enter not a step into life but wee enter a step into death Who hath liued a third part of his yeares hath a third part of himselfe dead VVho halfe his yeares is already halfe dead Of our life all the time past is dead the present liues and dyes at once and the future likewise shall dye The past is no more the future is not yet the present is and no more is Briefly this whole life is but a death it is as a candle lighted in our bodies in one the wind makes it melte awaie in another blowes it cleane out many times ere it bee halfe burned in others it endureth to the ende Howesoeuer it bee looke howe much it shineth so much it burneth hir shining is her burning her lighte is a vanishing smoke her last fire her last wike and her last droppe of moisture So is it in the life of man life and death in man is all one If wee call the last breath death so must wee all the rest all proceeding from one place and all in one manner One onely difference there is between this life and that we call death that during the one wee haue alwaies whereof to die and after the other ther remaineth only whereof to liue In summe euen hee that thinketh death simply to bee the end of man ought not to feare it in asmuch as who desireth to liue long desireth to dye longer and who feareth soone to dye feareth to speake properly least he may not longer dye But vnto vs brought vppe in a more holie schoole death is a far other thing neither need we as the Pagans of consolations against death but that death serue vs as a consolation against all sorts of affliction so that we must not onely strengthen our selues as they not to feare it but accustom our selues to hope for it For vnto vs it is not a departing from paine and euill but an accesse vnto all good not the ende of life but the ende of death and the beginning of life Better saith Salomon is the day of death then the day of birth and why because it is not to vs a last day but the dawning of an euerlasting day No more shall wee haue in that glorious light either sorrowe for the past or expectation of the future for al shal be there present vnto vs that present shall neuer more passe No more shall wee powre out our selues in vaine and painfull pleasures for wee shal bee filled with true and substantiall pleasures No more shall we paine our selues in heaping togither these exhalatiōs of the earth for the heauēs shall be ours and this masse of earth which euer drawes vs towardes the earth shall bee buried in the earth No more shall we ouer-wearie our selues with mounting from degree to degree and from honour to honour for wee shall highly bee raised aboue all heights of the world and from on high laugh at the folly of all those wee once admired who fight together for a point as little children for lesse then an apple No more to be briefe shall we haue cōbats in our selues for our flesh shal be dead and our spirit in full life our passion buried and our reason in perfect libertie Our soule deliuered out of this foule and filthie prison where by long continuing it is growen into an habite of crookednesse shall againe drawe her owne breath recognize her auncient dwelling and againe remember her former glory and dignity This flesh my friend which thou feelest this body which thou touchest is not man Man is from heauen heauen is his countrey and his ayre That hee is in his body is but by way of exile and confinement Man indeede is soule spirit Man is rather of celestial and diuine qualitie wherein is nothing grosse nor material This body such as now it is is but the barke and shell of the soule which must necessarily be broken if wee will be hatched if we will indeed liue and see the light Wee haue it seemes some life some sense in vs but are so crooked and contracted that wee cannot so much as stretch out our wings much lesse take our flight towardes heauen vntill wee bee disburthened of this earthly burthen Wee looke but through false spectacles wee haue eyes but ouer growen with pearles wee thinke we see but it is in a dreame wherein we see nothing but deceit All that wee haue and all that wee knowe is but abuse and vanitie Death onely can restore vs both life and light and we thinke so blockish we are that she comes to rob