Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	action_n	body_n	spirit_n	4,810	5	5.3791	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43966	The sting of death and death vnstvng delivered in two sermons in which is shewed the misery of the death of those that dye in their sins, & out of Christ, and the blessedness of theirs that dye in the Lord : preached on the occasion of the death of the truely noble and virtuous Lady Mildmay / by Leonard Hoar ...	Hoar, Leonard, 1630?-1675.	1680 (1680)	Wing H2200; ESTC R21593	30,404	33

but God takes them to himself Body and soul are taken assunder as the pieces of a Watch out of order not to be lost but to be set together again that they may goe better God is a carefull and faithful keeper of those precious Reliques and will bring them together the word of his Truth is for it Ezek. 37.12 O my people I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves What then though they part asunder since neither of them part nor are disunited from ●he Lord Jesus O happy parting to leave this Cell this crazy earthly ●●bernacle for a glorious Mansion and to embrace a dear Saviour It s but like going to bed at night the body rests and the soul keeps in action while the night time of the grave lasts in this world the bodies of the Saints sleep in Jesus but their souls are in bliss The Souls of just men may bespeak their bodies as the Lord Jesus did his Disciples Joh. 14.3 It is exp●diens ●●r you that I goe away and if I goe away I will we again and receive you to my self The Body like Onesinus is an unprofitable servant for the present Phil. v. 11. therefore departs for a while that it may be received for ever 4. The Sting of Death is taken out in that though the body rot and consume and becomes loathsome yet it is but dissolved it is not destroyed As Christ told Martha Thy Brother shall rise again Joh. 11.23 so the body shall rise again hence the Apostle though he grants that the body doth dye yet it is no otherwise then as a fruitful seed dyeth that it may spring up again v. 36.37 of this Chapter Job 19.25.26 27. For I know saith Job that my Redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the Earth and though after my skin worms ' destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God whom I shall see for my self and mine eyes shall behold and not another though my reins be consumed within me God doth not intend to lose what he leaves behind in this world no but as he brought Israel out of Egypt so will he ransome us from the power of the Grave and redeem us from Death Hos 13 14. he will not leave an hair nor a broken bone nor a dust behind All that are in the graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth Joh. 5.28 29. Christ shewed a Type of it at his own Resurrection Mat. 27.52 c. And the Graves were opened and many bodyes of Saints which slept arose which shall be fully accomplished in all the Saints in the general Resurrection The Grave shall then be found to be a chamber of Repose and a bed of Rest Christ having made it so to the Saints And as for the soul of a child of God it shall not see corruption It s not so much as dissolved but released and set at liberty Sin here makes its motion towards heaven and its progress in grace flow The body is a weight pressing down but when Death shall rid us of this the souls motion and pass into heaven shall be quick and speedy like the Thief on the cross no sooner crucified and dead but glorified This day saith Christ thou shalt be with me in Paradise Let who will dream of the souls sleep they are asleep that think so saith Calvin No assoon as the vail of the body is removed we with open face behold the Glory of the Lord. The spirit shall return to God that gave it 5. The Sting of death is taken away in that all the dolorous accidents 〈◊〉 attendants of death are by Christ qualified sanctified What are pains agonves of Body but the putting down of this earthly Tabernacle i● order to the raising of a spiritual and everlasting Building the breaking off of our chains fetters in our being released hence While the bodies of the Saints are filled with pains their souls are filled with the comforts of God Our friends lament but Angels rejoyce though we must now part from them yet there is Gods Host the Life guard of heaven ready to accompany us thither Suppose a Saint going to his grave and the mourners by trains going in the streets could the departed utter a word would it not be that of Christ to the danghters of Jerusalem Luk. 23.28 Weep not for me but weep for your selves and for your Children 6. The Sting of Death is taken out in that though the purposes of a godly man in death are destroyed yet his main purpose and his chief design stands and abides his main purp ose and design was to glorifie God and save himself his own soul Now he that hath walked with God that hath traced the wayes of holiness that hath studied the mysteryes of the Gospel that hath laboured and not fainted and that is found so doing that hath committed his soul into the hands of God and is able to stand at the appearing of Christ he doth not miss of nor lose his purpose I have fought the good fight I have finished my course saith Paul did henceforth is laid up for me a crown of righteousness 2 Tim 4 7 8. What though men gather no more of the wealth of this world Heaven is inheritance enough What though they gain no more repute here Their Record is on high What if they attain not the end of their labours Yet their reward is with the Lord. What though their worldly affairs be discomposed if their eternal concerns be fixed What if their dayes be cut off since their work is done It would not avail a man any thing to win the world and lose his soul its profit enough if a man save his soul though he lose the world It was a sad thing for the Mariners to cast over their goods Acts 27.18 but when Paul told them that no life should be lost v. 22. they are comforted So here though we leave our stuff and lose our worldly labours yet our lives 〈◊〉 safe the main Chance is secured 7. The Sting of Death is taken away in that the Saints are dead ●●nd mortified to the world they glory in nothing more then in the cross 〈◊〉 Christ be which they are crucified unto the world and the world un●●●● them 〈…〉 11. Hence they enjoy this world as though they enjoyed it not 〈…〉 Hence while they live in the world and upon the neces●●ry com 〈…〉 they live above it Hence it s no hard matter for them to dye and 〈◊〉 out of the world The world will have no great miss of 〈◊〉 and I shall 〈◊〉 no great miss of it Things dead have no seeling or sence of any parting from each other Wicked men think the Saints not worthy to live in the world Acts 22.22 and God thinks the world not worthy of them Heb. 11.38 nor doe they esteem the world worthy to be desired the time past of their lives in this

you may observe as the temptations of dying Christians are stronger so the breathings of their souls the sense of Gods love the relish of spiritual things the ready and apt application of Scripture are more vivid and copious with them then than in all their lives before even as the Spirit of God and of glory hath been wont to rest upon the Martyrs when they were called to great and em●nent Susserings so here there are those supplyes of the Spirit and 〈◊〉 grace to help in this time of need that takes away the sting God suffe●● Satan sometimes to draw out his strength like God Magog to the batter and stands himself as it were aloof for a while that he may give him th●● more sudden and fatal overthrow I may therefore conclude this par●● lar with the words of Christ Luk. 12.32 Fear not little Flook and of the Apostles 1 Job 4.4 Greater is he that is in you then he that is in the wor●● 10. Deaths sting is taken away in that how unavoidable soever it is or 〈◊〉 den unalterable yet its welcome to the Believer he is reconciled 〈◊〉 1. Though it come inevitably yet its welcome he doth not 〈◊〉 desire to avoid it as to meet with it t is the fruit of the promise the end of his desire the answer of his Prayers and an ease to all his sufferings They rest from their labours Rev. 14.13 If in this life only we have hope saith the Apostle v. 19. He doth not therefore desire to avoid death Mors si non bona est finis tamen●●lla malorum saith Cato Hence Job hate his life and would not live alwayes Job 7.16 The Saints are even glad when they can find the grave they don't dye as those that must dy but as those that upon deliberation and choice desire to dye Luk. 2.29 Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace Hence Paul is so far from flying from it that he pursues it Act 22.13 As it is said of Cato Quasi morion di●eccasionem se nactum esse ganderet 2. Enough it come suddenly its welcome for it is not sudden to them that wait for it all their lives Job 14 14. All the dayes of my appointed time will I wait till my change comes They may dye sooner then they thought for but not sooner then they would they may dye too soon for others but not for themselves their own comfort and profit Yea even the child in Christ dyeth an hundred years old Isa 65.20 When I hear Job cry as Job 14. 13. O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave and and see the good old Patriarch break off from blessing and saying as Gen. 49 18. I have waited for thy salvation O Lord. Those that have the first fruits groaning as Rom 8.23 bearing a part with the whole creation and with the Bride Rev. 22.20 I rather think they dye too leisurely and slower then they would Doe not tell me of a sudden death where there hath been a setled course in a godly life Nemo parùm diu ●ixit qui virtutis perfectae profecto functus est munere He comes in like a shock of corn in its season Job 5.26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in full 〈◊〉 like as a sh●ck of corn cometh in in his season now the season is never 〈◊〉 with being too sudden It was sudden we say of this and the other death but he was throughly ripe first and where there was suffici●ney of life there cannot be suddenness of Death God knows when 〈◊〉 cut his harvest when to call in his labourers Yea but he lived but a 〈◊〉 ●ort time therefore his death was sudden Not so for some live more 〈◊〉 one year then others doe in many and for the true Christian he is alwayes ready Act. 21.13 I am ready to dye 3. Though it be unalterable yet it is welcome its certain the hours yesterday will never return again and he that is once gon off the stage 〈◊〉 ●turn no more There is no shooting of the Gulph of Eternity Lazarus cannot come as a Messenger to Dives his brethren He that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more But as there is no alteration so the Saints desire no alteration it s the best flower in their crown that their state of happiness is everlasting 1 Thess 4.17 So shall we ever he with the Lord. Do you think to scare the Saints with this you cannot tell them more joyful Tydings than that their joyes shall be for ever The Rivers of pleasures at Gods right hand flow alwayes The tree of life never fades The robes of glory never sully nor admit of spot or wrinkle or any such thing they doe not wax old Serving God instantly day and night will not weary nor will the light of heaven grow dim like a candle nor goe down as the sun the Lord shall be our light and our God our glory Isa 60 19. Set a man in such a condition as it cant be better with him and tell him it shall never alter nor be worse with him it will not much grieve him So it is with the Saints in light the chang is unalterable you shall dye no more nor be sick nor sorrow nor doubt any more nor sin no more nor want any more as Moses said to the Israclites so may it be said to the Saints The Egyptians whom you have seen to day you shall see them no more for ever as Exed 14.18 Well may Believers breathe our their souls in tryumph and say O Death where is thy sting Let that be our station where there is no alteration let the better part be ours which shall never be taken away For simple is the best of titles and that only is heaven in all other things we are but Tenants for life and hat at the will of our great Lord. 11. The sting of Death is taken out in that the Saints know whither and into what estate they enter after Death The wicked walk in darkness and know not whither they go as he said Anxius vixi dulius morior heu quo vado They leap as it were from an high hill into a dark and deep pit not knowing where they shall light But the Saints know in whom they have believed how far and for what and are begotten again to a lively hope of the inheritance of glory they have their eyes upon it all their lives have a certain assurance of it and have the clearest apprehensions of it at Death Job 14 4. Whither I goe ye know and the way ye know 2 Cor 5.1 We know we have a Building of God 〈◊〉 house not made with hands eternal That which the Saints are ignorant of is the transcendent exellency of the glory they are going to 1 Cor. 2.9 Eye hath not seen But we know when he shall uppear we shall be like him 1 〈◊〉 3.2 Our friends to us are as water spilt upon the ground but with 〈◊〉