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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	speak_v	true_a	word_n	4,837	5	4.2671	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45553	A looking-glasse of hvmane frailty set before us in a sermon preached at the funerals of Mris. Anne Calquit, late wife of Mr. Nicholas Calquit, draper, who died on the 7. day of April 1659 and was interr'd the 19. of the said month, at the parish church of Alhallows the Less in Thames Street / by Nath. Hardy ...	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1654 (1654)	Wing H729; ESTC R333	18,668	40

the Caldee it is read body and indeed it is mans duration in respect of his body which is said to be as nothing since the soul is immortal Aquila reads it {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the time of the souls imprisonment in the body the Seventy translate it {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which is rendred by the Vulgar Latine substantia but properly signifieth subsistentia and is so to be understood here my subsistence The Hebrew word is most genuinely translated by aevum mine age to wit in this world for that is sometimes the signification of the word Concerning his age David saith it is as nothing If you compare this with the former clause you shall observe a gradation ascending in the subject whereas there dayes here an age which is made up not only of dayes or months but years descending in the praedicate there an hands bredth which is but small here nothing Solomon speaking of the comforts of life seemeth to call them non entities Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not for this reason no doubt because their being is a continall tendency to not being Upon the same accompt the age of Davids life is here said to be nothing because of no continuance the word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is near a kin to {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which commeth from {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} cessavit and so soon doth mans age cease that it is as if it were not at all But yet this must be taken with its restrictions David doth not say mine age is nothing but it is as nothing nor doth he say this positively but respectively in reference to God it is as nothing before thee The Prophet Isaiah speaking of the whole world of mankind saith The Nations are as a drop of a bucket and are accompted as the small dust of the ballance behold he taketh up the Isles as a very little thing but as if this were not full enough a little after he saith All Nations before him are as nothing and they are counted to him lesse than nothing and vanity a small dust a single drop are little things I but they are something the Prophet cannot enough set forth the distance between God and the Nations unlesse he go lower and therefore he saith they are as nothing Nay as if this were not enough he will strain the sence and speak a contradiction rather than not expresse his meaning where he saith they are lesse than nothing then which to speak properly nothing can be lesse And surely if this be true of all Nations well might David affirm it of his age and if you would know the meaning of those words before thee it is explained in that of the Prophet when having said before him he addeth they are counted to him that is in comparison of him Suitable to this it is that the Psalmist having set forth Gods eternal duration and presently after speaking of mans years he calleth them in the language of the Seventy {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which Tertullian reads nullificamina and it is the same in effect with that which goeth before a thousand years are in thy sight but as yesterday which being past is nothing Dei esse est suum esse say the Schools from that of God to Moses I am that I am Gods being is of and from himself yea it is himself he is One undivided unconfined simple eternall and originall being and as there is no being but from him so all other beings are as nothing in respect of him It will not be amiss for the further illustration of this truth to consider the age of Davids life in severall references 1. David might truly have said Mine age is short in respect of Methuselah's the Dayes of Methuselah are said to be nine hundred sixty and nine years the dayes of David by computation of the time when he began and how long he reigned were not much above threescore and ten so that he lived not so many tens as Methuselah did hundreds The life of man before the floud was as a large Volume bound up in folio but since it is contracted to a far lesser volume and is as it were bound up in decimo sexto so that whereas David saith in the former clause my dayes are as a hands bredth he might have said they are as a fingers bredth in comparison of the ancient Patriarchs 2. David might have said Mine age is very short in comparison of the age of the world St. Paul saith of the fashion of this Macrocosm it passeth away but the age of the Microcosm man passeth away far swifter The World was almost as many thousand years old as David was scores in his times that number is now well nigh doubled but mans age is rather shortned How many hundreds of yeares the world may yet continue is not known to us but the ordinary number of the years of mans age now compared with the number of six thousand years is but so much as a week is to a year or a minute to an hour so that whereas he saith my dayes are as a span long he might have said they are not an inch long in respect of the worlds duration 3. David might have said Mine age in this World is exceeding little in comparison of the duration of the other world The age to come is no lesse than an aeternity and though it have a beginning it shall have no end so that whereas the Psalmist saith My dayes are as an hands bredth he might have said they are as an hairs bredth in respect of the continuance of the world to come 4. Finally David might have said Mine age is scarcely any thing before the Angels whose duration began with this world and shall continue in the world to come and so is coaetaneous with both the worlds But all these are far short of this comparison which he here maketh of his age with God who is eternal both a parte ante and a parte post from everlasting to everlasting The utmost imaginable extent of Time in comparison of aeternity is far lesse than an instant is in respect of the longest Time Were it possible to divide aeternity into parts a million of years would not be so much as a ten hundred thousandth part and what then is seventy or fourscore years no wonder if David say mine age is nothing a meer nothing before thee It is an excellent lesson which may here be taken forth by us namely to looke upon our selves in reference to God that so we may be vile and little in our own eyes There are many exeellencies wherein we are apt to glory and whereof to boast which if they would but compare with divine attributes would appear mean and contemptible Wert thou strong as Sampson yet thou mayst say My strength is nothing before thee not