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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	body_n	death_n	separation_n	20,420	5	10.8447	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12178	The Christians portion Wherein is unfolded the unsearchable riches he hath by his interest in Christ. Whom injoying hee possesseth all things else. By R. Sibbs D.D. and preacher to the honorable society of Grayes-Inne, and master of Catherine Hall in Cambridge. Published by T.G. and P.N.	Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; Nye, Philip, 1596?-1672.	1637 (1637)	STC 22486; ESTC S117304	16,083	102

considerations against the time of neede the diseases of the body the guilt of sin the losse of imployment the stripping of us of all earthly comforts they will all meete in a cen ter in a point at death a man had neede to gather the greater comfort against that houre and can we have a greater comfort then this that now it is become our friend that it is ours now Blessed bee GOD for Iesus Christ that hath made in him even death the bitterest thing of all to bee sweete unto us Or things present Whatsoever is present serves us whatsoever it be good or evill all is yours but the most difficult is in Things to come For what assurance have we of things to come Things to come are ours whether they be Good or Evill For good Death is to come and that is ours and for judgement that is ours for our Head our Saviour and our husband he shall be our judge And at the Day of judgement wee shall judge the World and thenafter judgement Heaven is ours immortality is ours happines is ours all is ours then Indeede the best is to come this is the best part of the portion for if wee had nothing but what we have in this World we were of all men most miserable alas what have we if things present only are ours but things to come also are ours and the best is behind that for which CHRIST came into the World is behinde that which he injoyes in Heaven is ours he will take his Spouse where Himselfe is into his owne House and he will finish the marriage which is begun in contract and then we shall be for ever with the Lord. The things to come are the maine things that which our Faith layes hold of that which we raise our selves and comfort our selves by are especially things to come neyther eye hath seene nor eare hath heard nor hath ever entred into the hart of man to conceive those things that GOD hath prepared for his children indeede it s a part of Heaven to know them and therefore the full knowledge of them is deferred for that time The very judgement of the wicked and the eternall sentence of them it is the Churches why It adds a luster to Gods mercy in advancing his owne as it is Rom. 9. 23. God magnifies his mercy to the Vessells of mercy by this by punishing a company of Reprobates in whom he hath noe delight by reason of their sins his mercy much appeares by that even by the eternall sentence and punishment of wicked men So all serves to set out the glory and excellency of Gods people St. Paul in Rom. 8. that Heavenly discourse of his towards the later end of the Chapter saith triumphantly Nothing shall separate us from Christ neyther Life nor Death nor things present nor things to come It s a great comfort that nothing to come can doe us hurt but this is a degree of comfort higher that all things to come are ours so then this Text affords an exuberancy of comfort above that it is excellent comfort that nothing shall separate noe not Death it selfe but this is more death is ours and in being so it shall not onely not separate us from Christ though it separate soule and body but joyne us to him I beseech you take it as a Notion that may heple against the terror of that separation that is a meanes of conjunction the dolefull separation of soule and body Two old friends joyne better friends together the soule and Christ so things to come are ours even all things taken in the largest sense the bitterest of all things even death it selfe is ours There are severall Vses but the grand Vse which the Apostle manely intends is That a Christian is as sure of the time to come as of the time past or present we are sure of what we have had and what we have but a Christian is in soe firme a condition and state that he may be as sure of what is to come as of what he hath because God and Christ are not onely Alpha but Omega also Christ is not only hee was and is but is to come he is Jehova the same for ever And therfore as things past could not hurt us from being elected and called and things present cannot hurt us but they are ours so are things to come because God and Christ who is the Mediator under GOD hath the command of all things to come and therefore we may be as sure of things to come as of things present what comfort is this to a Christian what should become of me if times of trouble and publique calamity should come or personall to my selfe what idle forecasts are these why things to come come what will come all shall be for the best all things to come are ours even all things to come are ours whatsoever The Apostle goes on and wrappes up all as it is the manner of inductions to save labour for it is in vayne in that manner of reasoning that we call inductions to goe over all particulers because there is the same reason in all as if he should say Paul and the World and all things are yours what should I say more I should but trouble you and my selfe to name particulars All things are yours But yet we must understand this with some limitts wee must therefore unloose some knotts and answer some cases of conscience first It may seeme there is no distinction of propertyes if all be a Christians and if every Christian may say all is mine then what is one mans is anothers and there will bee noe proprietie I answer undoubtedlie there is a distinction of properties in the things of this life though all bee ours because it is spoken of in another sense all is ours to helpe us to Heaven all is ours in an order to comfort and happinesse but for propriety so all things are not ours for you know the distinction some things are common jure naturae by the Law of nature as the Sunne and ayre and many such like things and some jure gentium by the Law of nations it is but some things are common jure gentium but then there are some that by particular municipall Lawes are proper The distinction is established both by the Law of God and the Law of man Now not to stand long in answering this question though there be some franticke people that are a little troubled with those things Anabaptists and the like we see in Scripture a distinction of estates Religion takes not away the distinction of Master and Servant and therefore it takes not away distinction of goods which is lesse It is a great burden to be a servant but the Scripture stablisheth the distinction of Master and Servant and therefore it establisheth distinction of goods The Scripture stablisheth Bounty and Almes If there be not a distinction

shall not be laide to his charge all his deeds to a cup of cold water shall be set on the score And he shall be rewarded there is not a sigh not a teare but it is regestred the longer a man liveth if hee should live Methushelah his days the richer he should be in good workes and the more rich he is in good workes the more he shall have his part and share in glory after and therefore Life is yours The longer he lives the happier the time in which he lives is for his good and he makes the time happy and it is happier for himselfe the more rich he is in good workes the more rich hee shall be in glory after These things being so we should be very thankefull that God yeelds to us this life for besides an advantage of doing good It is a preparative to a better This life is as it were the seminary of Heaven Heaven indeede is the true Paradice of all the Plants of God but they must have a seminary to be planted-in first and therefore the Church is called the Kingdome of Heaven because wee are first planted here Now this life is an advantage we are planted here in the Church to grow a while untill we be taken from your semina ry the Paradice of the Church to the Paradice in Heaven So Life is ours for that end I will not further inlarge the point it is cleare Or Death As life is ours So death is ours It is astrange thing that death should be ours that is a destroying hostile thing to nature The King of feares as the Scripture calls it and that terrible of all terribles as the Philosopher the last enemy as Paul saith that death should be ours Death is ours many wayes you see here it is a peice of our joynture for these words containe the joynture of the Church The Church is Christs Spouse all things are Christs and therefore all things are the Spouses and among other particular gifts given to the Church death is ours It is a strange thing that death should be given to the Church and yet so it is and we shall see this if we consider how death in the Gospell is turned into another thing it is a harmelesse thing in the Gospell the sting is pulled out it hath lost all its venome in Christ. now death is a passage to another World it is the gate of glory death nothing but divests us of these rayments that we have here on our bodies and puts us into garments of glory it puts off these ragges and puts us into a better condition that is all the hurt it doth it ends all that is ill and all is determined in death it is the last evill and it is the beginning of all that is good that is everlastingly good that is spiritually good eternally good for by death we are freed both from the labour of sin which is a labour irkesome to Gods people by reason of a principle of corruption which they have in them that accompanyes them till they be in their grave death is the accomplishment of mortification in death there is an end of the labour of sinne and of all other labours whatsoever for death is a sleepe and all labours end in sleepe as after sleepe the spiritts are refreshed so after death we shall be more refresht then we can conceive now so death is ours It ends all labours of sinne and all labours of the body and it frees us from all contagion of wicked men and from all greife from wicked men and it sets us cleare out of Satans reach Satan hath nothing todoe with us when we are dead once because here the World is the Kingdome of Satan but when we are gone hence Satan hath nothing to doe with us and that is a great priveledge so death is ours it frees us from all that is evill our death is our birth-daie indeede we never live till wedie for what is your life alas it is a dying life Every day we live a part of our life is taken away we die every day The more we have lived the lesse of our life we have to live this is but a dying life There are three degrees of life The life in 1. The Mothers Wombe 2. The World 3. Heaven The life in Heaven begins at death death is the birth-day of that life Deaths day is the birth-day of imimmortality VVhen Christ came to die to purchase life he came not to die to purchase a sorry life on earth but he came to die to purchase immortall glory that is the life that Christ came to die for and to purchase The day of death is the first birth-day of that life and for our bodies they are but refined by death and fitted as Vessells cast into the fire to be moulded and fashioned to be most glorious Vessells after so our bodies are fitted by the grave till body and soule be for ever happy at the day of Resurrection so that death is ours and here upon it is that the Wiseman saith that The day of death is better then the day of birth When we are borne we come into miserie When we die we goe out of misery It is better to goe out of miserie then to come into misery If the day of death be better then the day of birth to a Christian certainly then death is theirs and blessed are those that die in the Lord saith the Spirit A voyce from Heaven saith so and therefore write saith hee it may be written if the Spirit saith it it is testimony and argument enough Blessed are those that die in the Lord they rest from their labours and their reward followes them They rest from all that is evill and their reward followes them all that is good their workes follow them so that if all evill cease and all good follows I hope death may well be said to be ours Death is ours it is our preferment why should we be afraid of that that is a part of our portion as the Apostle saith here Death is yours I beseech you therefore let us lay up this against those darke times wherein death will be represented to us as an uglie and grimme thing it is so to nature indeede but to faith death is my friend it is become amyable indeede there is nothing in the world that doth us so much good as death for its the best Physitian it cures all deseases whatsoever of soule body it frees us from all And indeede to shut up all this point death is the Death of death it is the destruction of it selfe forafter death there is noe more death so it consumes it selfe by death we overcome death Wee can never die more wee are freed from all death to be afraid of death is to be afraid of life to be afraid of victory For we never overcome death till we die Lay up these