Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	body_n	life_n	natural_a	5,868	5	6.7181	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29933	Harvest-home being the summe of certain sermons upon Job 5. 26 : one whereof was preached at the funeral of Mr. Ob. Musson, an aged Godly minister of the Gospel in the Royally licensed rooms in Coventry : the other since continued upon the subject / by J.B. D.D, ... ; the first part being a preparation of the corn for the sickle, the latter will be the reaping, shocking and inning of that corn which is so fitted.	Bryan, John, d. 1676.	1674 (1674)	Wing B5244; ESTC R19928	23,363	60

not feel the stroaks death daily giveth We must needs die and be as water spilt Upon the ground involv'd in Adams guilt That they shall die the living know full well The Grave 's the house where all ere long must dwell This is the way of all the earth Decreed It is by God the Worms on all shall feed Natural Causes may be given why All bodies perish necessarily The elements striving daily to Supplant Some one in time will be predominant Next the first matter burning with desire Of new forms longs th' old subject may expire And fresh succeed Thirdly the Radicall Moysture consuming still threatens a fall After it s pass'd the height of augmentation And wasted needs must follow dissipation Fourthly the Blood as it grows old grows thick By slow degrees and so corrupteth quick The Spirits also natural in the veins And vital in the Arteries by means Whereof the life 's maintain'd and animall In nerves whereby Sensations made these all By use and labour wast These causes cry All humane bodies must consume and dy 2 Cor. 4.7 Eccl. 9 2. Heb. 13.2 Testaceous Vessels and obnoxious To casualties that are most various Two ranks of men there are some good some bad Deaths Cannon plays against them both 't is sad To think why these must die that they may go To their own place Acts 1.25 to live in endless woe Death is to them an entrance into Hell Not so to those who study to do well Yet they must die that being freed from sin And death by death they may have entrance in To heavenly mansions and be ever there With God and Christ loving without all fear Receiving their reward of Gods free grace With joy beholding his most glorious Face The point is prov'd the reasons rendred why All as well good as bad must doubtless dye The circumstances where and when and how Are onely known to God and we must bow To his good pleasure First for time it is Determined by a Decree of His The criticall and punctual time Before Which none shall part with life on any score Beyond it shall not live a moment Whether The term of life be fixt or altogether Moveable Job hath stated some i th' womb After a short dark life do find a Tomb A thousand Sculls found in one Nunnery Some born alive die in their infancy In Childhood Youth and Man-age very many The rest filled with years Death spares not any The Poem stil'd Mortification Transcrib'd may prove edification How soon doth man decay When Cloaths are taken from a Chest of sweets To swaddle Infants whose young breath Scarce knows the way Those Clouts are little winding sheets Which do consign and send them unto Death When Boys go first to bed They step into their voluntary Graves Sleep holds them fast onely their breath Makes them not dead Successive nights like rolling Waves Convey them quickly who are bound for death When youth is frank and free And calls for Musick while his veins do swell All day exchanging mirth and breath In Company That Musick summons to the Knell Which shall befriend him at the hour of Death When man grows stay'd and Wise Getting a house and home where he may move Within the Circle of his Breath Schooling his Eyes That dumb inclosure maketh love Unto the Coffin that attends his death When age grows low and weak Marking his Grave and thawing every Year Till all do melt and drown his Breath When he would speak A Chair or Litter shews the Bier Which shall convey him to the house of Death Man ere he is aware Hath put together a Solemnity And drest his Herse while he hath breath As yet to spare Yet Lord instruct us so to dy That all these dyings may be life in Death We all are full of holes and take in Water At many breaches made of brittle matter At any time may be depriv'd of breath We know not when God knows our hour of death And as the Time the Place is known alone To God scarce any of us but can own The place where first we took our breath but where We shall breathe last this doth to none appear But him whose breath gave us both life and shape The place assign'd by him none can escape That strives to shun't Th' infants of Bethlehem Crying in Cradles Souldiers murther them Eglon is kill'd in 's Parlour In the field King Saul is slain His temple would not shield Sennach'rib from dying in 't Ishbosheth Upon his bed bereaved is of breath Joab at th' very Altar As the place Uncertain is where we shall end our Race So is the manner how A thousand ways There are whereby men terminate their days By sicknesses most ordinarily Of other ways there is infinity The Children of Jerusalem do dye By famine Sodom's by Saturity Some dye by Bears 2 Kin. 2.23 24. so Children that did jeer The new seen baldness of the Zealous Seer And some by Lions so that Prophet dyed 1 King 13.24 Who did obey not God but him that lyed Herod by worms gave up the Ghost Acts 12.23 Job 1.18 19. Jobs Sons And Daughters had their dissolutions In midst of feasting by the sudden fall Of that House where they fed together all Corah Numb 16.31 32 33. and his Complices Swallowed were By th' earth that opened so they payed dear For their rebellion By a broken Stone Cast from a Tower Judg. 9 53. 2 King 16 18. Abimelech is gone Two Captains and their fifties were by Fire Call'd for and sent from heaven forc'd t' expire Zimri was burnt in his own Palace 1 King 16.18 by A Fire himself did kindle wittingly Some dye by Dogs Euripides did so Some by a Fly a seeming silly foe So did a Pope of Rome A Counseller Of the same City strangled with an Hair Tullus Hostillius was with lightning struck Homer because he at a riddle stuck Propos'd by Fisher-men dyed with grief And Sophocles with joy being judged chief By one voice onely in a prize of learning Wherein he shew'd a judgment best discerning A Raisin stone did stop Anacreons breath Thus numberless have been the ways of death O by how small a thread does our Life hang When such small things can give a deadly pang In what shape death unto him will appear No man can tell these are to none made clear Time place and manner of mens dying known Are unto God and unto him alone These being secrets hid i' th breast of God Let us not search them but while our abode Is here below and while we move within The circle of our breath let us begin To school our eyes and minds at length and try What use to make of deaths necessity SECT III. An Enquiry why men decline fitting themselves for that Death that is thus certain Three Reasons of it assigned directions how to overthrow any force that is in them an Exhortation to dye dayly and the way