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spirit_n	blood_n	body_n	part_n	8,155	5	4.9083	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44186	The father's new-years-gift to his son containing divers useful and necessary directions how to order himself both in respect to this life and that which is to come / written by the Right Honourable Sir Matthew Hale ; whereunto is added, divine poems upon Christmas-day.	Hale, Matthew, Sir, 1609-1676.	1685 (1685)	Wing H246; ESTC R40538	14,741	70

into Covenant with God and to keep it by husbanding thy time for the promoting his Honour observing his Will and keeping his Laws that so thou may'st keep thy own Conscience always clean and thy Evidences for Heaven clear whereby the Malignity of Death will be cured the bitterness of it healed and the fear of it wholly removed And if thou canst but entertain it with such an appeal to Almighty God as once the good King Hezekiah made viz. Remember now O Lord I beseech thee how I have walked before thee with a perfect heart c. it will make the thoughts and the approach of Death no terrible business to thee at all 4. But that which will above all other things render Death easie to thee if thou makest it thy business to enter into a frequent consideration thereof is this That by the help of this consideration and the due improvement of it Death will become nothing to thee but only a Gate to give thee admittance into a better Life it will not be to thee so much the dissolution of thy present Life as it will be the changing of it for a far more glorious happy and immortal Life so that though thy Body die yet thou wilt not for thy Soul which is the most noble part of thee only makes transition from her life in the Body to her life in Heaven not so much as one moment of time intervening between her quitting the one and her entering into the enjoyment of the other And this is the great Priviledge which the Son of God hath obtained for us that by his Death he sanctified it to us and by his Life hath conquered it not only in himself but for us too It is true this passage through death is somewhat streight and painful to the Body which is left by the way but the Soul passes through without the least harm or any expence of time and in the very next moment acquires her estate of happiness and glory In the next place when you have received great Mercies from the hand of God be sure that you return Praise and Thanksgiving to him especially if it be a recovery from some sore and desperate Disease wherein Almighty God brings you down to the very Gates and shews you the Terrors of Death and yet after he hath shown you the Spectacle of your own Mortality wonderfully rescues and delivers you from that danger and gives you a new life as it were from the dead Resolve therefore to live that Life to his Glory that you have received from his Goodness and in order to your doing so I would have you always remember 1. That Affliction comes not forth of the Dust nor doth Trouble spring out of the Ground but from the Wise and Over-ruling Providence of God whose Prerogative alone it is to bring down to the Grave and raise up again 2. That Almighty God being of most Infinite Wisdom Justice and Mercy he hath Wife and Excellent Ends in all the Dispensations of his Providence and that therefore he never sends an affliction but it brings a Message with it his Rod has a Voice a Voice commanding us to search and try our Ways repent of our Sins humble our selves under his mighty Hand and turn to him that strikes us which Voice be sure that you hear and obey 3. How uncertain and frail a creature man is even in his seeming strongest age and constitution of health For even then a Pestilential Air some ill Humour in the Blood the Obstruction it may be of a small Vein or Artery a little Meat ill digested and a Thousand other Accidents may upon a sudden without giving him the least warning plunge a man into a desperate and mortal Sickness and bring him to the Grave 4. That your condition can never be so low but that God hath power to deliver you and you ought to trust in him nor is your condition ever so safe and secure but you are within the reach of his Power also to bring you down and therefore think not that now your turn is served you shall have no more need of him and that therefore you my live as you list 5. That Sickness as well as Death undeceive men and shews where their true wisdom lies When a Young Man especially is in the career of his Vanity and Pleasure he thinks Religion the fear of God and the practice of Piety to be but pitiful foolish low mean and inconsiderable Matters and that those who practice them are a sort of silly brain-sick melancholy and unintelligent Persons that want Wit or Breeding and understand not themselves or the World But on the other side they think themselves to be the only Men that live bravely and splendidly in regard they can Drink and Roar Whore and Swear and Blaspheme without the least fear But so soon as ever a fit of Sickness seizes him death looks him in the Face and tells him he must die that his Glass is almost out and hath only a few Sands left to run then his judgment of things is altered and he cries out of his former Follies and Intemperance as Madness Vexation and Torment and tells you That he now sees plainly that to be truly religious is mans greatest happiness to which he adds many Solemn Promises of Amendment and Reformation if God will be pleased to spare him Be sure therefore that you always keep this in your mind and make conscience of performing your sick-bed Protestattons 6. How pitiful and inconsiderable a thing the Body of Man is and how soon the strength of it is turned to saintness and weakness its beauty to ugliness and deformity and its whole consistence to putrifaction and rottenness and then remember how foolish a thing it is to be proud of such a Carkass and spend all or the greatest part of thy time in trimming and adorning of it or in pampering and pleasing thy Appetite and yet this is the chief business of most young Men in this Age but let it not be thine 7. To avoid intemperance and sinful Lust for although Sickness Diseases and Death are by the Laws and Constitutions of our Nature incident to all Mankind yet Intemperance Whoring Vncleanness and Disorder bring more Diseases and destroy more strong and healthy young Men than the Plague or any other natural or accidental Distempers for they weaken the Brain corrupt the Blood decay and distemper the Spirits disorder and putrifie the Humours and fills every part of the Body with putrifaction And those Diseases that are not occasioned but these Vices yet they are rendred far more sharp lasting malignant and incurable by that stock of corrupted Matter which those Vices lodge in the Body to feed those Diseases and by rendring Nature impotent and not able to resist them 8. That you ought every Morning and Evening upon your Knees with all reverence to acknowledge the goodness of God in his Mercy to you and return him hearty Thanks for it