Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	able_a	body_n	life_n	3,824	5	4.8967	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32022	The happinesse of those who sleep in Jesus, or, The benefit that comes to the dead bodies of the saints even while they are in the grave, sleeping in Jesus delivered in a sermon preached at the funeral of ... Lady Anne Waller, at the new church in Westminst[er], Oct. 31, 1661 : together with the testimony then given unto her / by Edm. Calamy ...	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1662 (1662)	Wing C255; ESTC R1658	30,610	40

are perished The Apostle speaks of such who had been long in their graves and yet all that while were asleep in Christ. The bodies of the Saints in the grave though turned to dust are yet notwithstanding united to Christ and Members of his Body and though separated from their Souls yet are not separated from Christ Even as the Body of Christ while in the grave was even then united to his Divine Person Though soul and body were separated one from the other yet neither of them were separated from the Divine Person So the Body of a man in Christ though separated by death from his Soul yet it is not separated from Christ. Though it say to Corruption Thou art my Father and to the VVorms Thou art my Mother and my Sister yet it may say also to Christ Thou art my Brother and to God Thou art my Father And therefore the Saints even while they are in their graves are said to be Christs 1 Cor. 15.23 Afterwards they that are Christs at his coming And are said to be dead in Christ 1 Thes. 4.16 Not only to die in Christ but to be dead in Christ that is to continue in Christ even while dead And that they do so appears further by these two Reasons Reas. 1. Because the Union between Christ and a true Christian is spiritual and everlasting 1. It is spiritual and therefore needs no vicinity of place to preserve it A Husband and Wife a Father and his Child are really united together though a thousand miles distant 2. It is everlasting Hos. 2.19 I will besroath thee unto me for ever c. Herein it exceeds the Union between a Man and his Wife which is only till death them do part But the Union between Christ and a true Christian is not separated by death Once in Christ ever in Christ Joh. 8.35 Reas. 2. Because Death is Christs purchase and part of the Saints Ioynture The Apostle tells the Corinthians All things are yours whether Paul or Apollo c. or life or death c. and ye are Christs c. These words teach us these two lessons 1. That Death is part of the Saints Magna Charta as well as Life Death is the Believers rich Portion and peculiar priviledge 2. That Christ hath purchased death for his children as properly as life He hath made over death for their joynture and rich portion as much as Paul Apollo or Cephas nay as much as heaven it self Christ hath altered the nature of death insomuch as that now it is become our best friend next to Iesus Christ For we shall never be rid of sin nor perfected in grace nor see God face to face till we dye It is become a gate to heaven an outlet to all misery and an inlet to everlasting happiness Now then if Death be Christs purchase and a part of the Saints Ioynture without doubt it doth not separate us from Christ for then it would be but an ill purchase and joynture obtained not for our good but our great hurt contrary to the express words of the Apostle and also contrary to Rom. 8.28 All things work together for the good of those that love God Et mors praecipue and especially Death as St. Austin saith The second thing propounded is To shew what those glorious benefits and advantages are which the bodies of the Saints enjoy while they are in their graves asleep in Jesus For answer to this you must know That as soon as ever the soul departs out of the body the body presently loseth all its beauty and comliness and becomes a rotten and stinking carkass It goeth down to the house of rottenness to the dungeon of darkness and is layed in the cold earth dust to dust ashes to ashes And yet even then it hath a six-fold benefit by being asleep in Jesus 1. Though the body be turned to dust yet that very dust is pretious in Gods sight As the death of the Saints so also their dust is precious to God There is a twofold dust that God loves 1. The dust of Sion 2. The dust of his Saints First The dust of Sion Psal. 102.13 14. Secondly The dust of the Saints The golden Ore in the Mine is not so pretious to us as this golden dust is to God Iob tells us That out of the earth comes the dust of gold but I may truly say That in the earth there is golden dust even the dust of Gods Saints As Balaam saith concerning the people of Israel Who can count the dust of Iacob and the number of the fourth part of Israel So may I say Who can sufficiently express the love that God bears to the dust of Iacob and to the bodies of his people while in their graves The Apostle tells us That neither life nor death is able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Iesus our Lord. God loves the bodies of his Saints as well as their souls and their bodies when turned to dust That very dust is part of Gods election for God hath elected the bodies of his Saints unto eternal life as well as their souls and it is part of Christs Redemption and the Spirits Sanctification O what a comfort is this to a dying Child of God! Though all his friends will forsake him when brought to the grave the Husband will leave his dear Wife and the Children their dear Father yet God will not forsake him but go down to the grave with him and the watchful eye of his providence will be over his dust and ashes And as Rispah kept the dead bodies of Sauls seven Sons and spread a Tent over them so as the birds of the air could not hurt them by day nor the beasts of the field by night So will God keep the dead bodies of his Saints and spread the Curtain of his protection over them and as he took care of them while they were in the sepulchre of their Mothers wombe so he will also take care of them while they are in the sepulchre of their Mother earth He that loved them in Sepulchro uteri will love them in utero Sepulchri 2. They that sleep in Iesus have this benefit by it That Christ by his burial hath sanctified the grave and sweetned it and perfumed it insomuch that though in its own nature it be as loathsome prison a house of rottenness and a place of terrour yet to a man dead in Christ the nature of it is altered and to him it is as a soft bed wherein he is laid down quietly to take his rest and there to remain asleep free from all cares fears and troubles till the Resurrection of the dead Though the grave in its own nature be a dreadful place a stinking charnel-house and a rotten prison to the wicked and ungodly where they lye waiting for the Great Assizes yet to the Children of God Christ hath made it a Magazin and Store-house to keep their