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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	body_n	life_n	power_n	6,331	5	4.8831	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15393	Eliah's vvish a prayer for death. A sermon preached at the funerall of the Right Honourable Viscount Sudbury, Lord Bayning. By Ro: Willan D.D. Chaplaine to his Maiesty.	Willan, Robert, d. 1630.; Spencer, John, d. 1680.	1630 (1630)	STC 25670; ESTC S120043	16,811	52

by a supernaturall dowry of the soule God endewed the first soule with such a powerfull vertue as enabled it to preserue the body whereto it was vnited from corruption as a Candle enlightens the lanthorne wherein it is contained So the blessednesse of the soule reflecting vpon the body should haue kept it in perpetuall vigour and health That was a free noble innocent liuely life But man being in Honour forgot his God and lost this life What is the life we now enioy take a short view of the seuerall ages of the seuerall estates of the inseparable adiuncts of our life and you will finde meerely to liue is no great happinesse First an Infant that 's a life of pitty tenne months close prisoner in the dungeon of the wombe not beholding the light which when hee comes into how sadly he salutes it presaging his hard welcome shaming that hee is naked lamenting that hee is borne repining that he is borne to misery then if his cradle proues not his coffin hee liues a child that 's a life of folly in his speech thoughts and actions youth succeedes that 's a life of sinne reason is weake passion strong concupiscence itcheth lust rageth sinne reigneth Manhood the flower of all is a life of vanity Man in his best estate is altogether vanity Lastly an old man that 's a life of death The Apostles word is of Abraham Sarah when they were old they were as dead the head is gray the face withered the skinne wrinkled the limmes stiffe the stomacke weake the memory frayle the body crooked the vitall powers decayed the spirits spent this is the life in ages what is it in callings Man liues eyther single and that is a free life but vncomfortable or he takes a wife wedlock is the schoole of Patience demure Sarah chid with Abrabam bleare-eyed Leah wrangled with Jacob scornefull Micol scoffed at Dauid stubborne Vashtai will not come at Ahasshuerus call and t is no better in the men Discreet Abigail lights vpon a churlish Nabal Pilat was as vnkind a husband as an vnrighteous Iudge denying his wife the life of our blessed Sauiour This life is eyther priuate or publike the priuate is simply the best Joseph saw it when hee aduised his brethren rather to continew Shepheards then to stay with him in Pharoahs Court Old Barzillay found it refusing Dauid his courteous offer and would not exchange his priuate Roguel for tumultuary Jerusalem The Oracle accounted him the most hapy man of his time who liuing vntill hee was purely old neuer did see any house but his owne Whether we eate the bread of carefull industry or the sweete vnswet-for bread of an vnacquired patrimony in the most retired quiet plentifull condition something still falles out verifying that of our Sauiour Sufficient to the day is the sorrow of it The publike life is eyther in Church or Common wealth The Churchman whether in Chayre or cure leades a laborious an enuious a dangerous life his labour neuer at an end Dauid tunes his Harp to driue away Sauls Melancholy and hee darts his Iauelin at him a liuely Emblem of the Pastor most people When Elias prayers haue procured a blessing from heauen his best reward is a Caue in the wildernesse St Augustine wept when hee tooke holy Orders they were Prognosticating teares forerunning his infinite paynes in washing Blackmores whose sowles were more tawny then their hides His perpetual bickerings and encounters with Hereticks for such was God his especiall prouidence that hee and Pelagius should come into the world much about one yeare that the Antidote might be contemporall to the poyson His wearisome employment in determining secular causes for then very good Christians beleeued their suites could not be happily ended vnlesse they came through the cleare and sinceare hands of vpright Church-men T was a graue witty conceyt of one of the Pope Vrbans who putting his Rochet on wondred that being made of so light stuffe it was so ponderous weighty Aboue all affrighting is that speech of Chrysostome Of all men sayes hee I could wish there were no day of iudgement why so Others shall answer for themselues alone but I for my people as Judah was pledge for Beniamin so many Talents as God giues so many torments if they be not well employed There is but one comfort in that calling they doe cooperate with God in reducing soules vnto himselfe In the Commonwealth great places are like Pictures fairest furthest off looke vpon them at a neere distance and there lyes vnder the thinne skinne of Honour and dignity a vaste corps of trouble and vexation Let all Histories be searched diuine humane Moses the first Gouernor of Gods people so tyred with the cumber of his place as he desires to be rid of his life Kill mee Lord and I will accompt it for a fauour Augustus had relinquished his Soueraignty as soone as he obtained it but for the pride of his wife Liuia Dioclesian did surrender it and turning Gardiner found his Plants more pliable then his people and Charles the fifth enioyed more sweete repose in a Monastery then in a Monarchy As in Supreme so in subordinate Gouernors Hee that with care and conscience doth execute the duties of his place although hee liue vpon drowsie Poppies and stupifying Mandragora's shall hardly get time for secure rest but bee like the Roman who in all his life had neuer leasure to keepe Holiday You Pethahiahs who are at the Kings hand in matters concerning the People did it become modesty to rifle your secret thoughts you haue your share in Elias his prayer when iust commands are more questioned then obeyed and sincere Actions meete with sinister interpretations when common and easie burthens are not borne with dutifull chearefulnesse nor publike cares sweetened with benigne acceptance nay when all possible endeauour that people may lead godly quiet and peaceable liues is performed and requited with murmuring instead of blessing is not this enough to produce Elias Wish Euen the poore beasts when they are weary make haste home Thus passeth Man's life in the callings The Adiuncts of life are two Sinne Misery In my priuate meditations vpon this Point I purposed to describe vnto you the Actions wherewith the sinfull life of man is distained but when I surueyed the liues of wicked men so many sinnes presented themselues that I knew not where to ranke them so vgly in shape as I durst not looke vpon them and when I considered the liues of the best and the woe denounced vnto the most laudable life of men that the whole life of a deuoutbSaint was but sinne and barrennesse I stood amazed vntill I remembred there was a veyle to couer them the Integument of Christ his Righteousnesse and a Sponge to blot them out God his meere Mercy and mans true Repentance What a Torment is it to a good Soule to be perpetually strugling with