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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
B05769	A seasonable preparation for death and eternity, or, Funeral considerations, &c. Being the substance of a discourse occasionally on the D. of G------, a noble peer, who received his mortal wound at the siege of Cork in Ireland. With a prayer suitable to the occasion.		1690 (1690)	Wing S2238A; ESTC R183658	6,909	17

A seasonable PREPARATION FOR Death and Eternity OR FUNERAL Considerations c. Being the Substance of a DISCOURSE Occasionally on the Death of The D. of G a Noble Peer Who received his mortal Wound at the Siege of CORK in IRELAND With a PRAYER sutable to the Occasion Licensed according to Order Printed for P. Brooksby J. Deacon J. Blare J. Back A Seasonable Preparation for Death and Eternity OR FUNERAL Considerations layed down In the Uncertainty of Man's Life and the various Chances and Misfortunes that attend us in our Progress through this World to the Heavenly Jerusalem and what a necessity of an early Repentance is required and the danger of the least Delay in the Contemplation of Mortality and Vnsecurity c. Being the Substance of a DISCOURSE Occasionally on the Death of The D. of G a noble Peer who received his mortal Wound at the Siege of Cork in Ireland With a Prayer sutable to the Occasion Printed for P. Brooksby J. Deacon J. Blare J. Back A Seasonable Preparation for Death c. Psalm 39.5 Behold thou hast made my days as a span long and my Age is as nothing before thee c. IF we truly consider the short duration of Life and the many Casualties that attend it we cannot but conclude that Riches Honour and Prosperity are but frail things and all he Glories of Life are compared to the most sading and transitory things considering neither strength beauty wisedom or power can secure them from the various Chances that attend Mortality This occasioned Authors to compare them to things that are exceeding momentary things that may be said to vanish almost as soon as they appear Some have compared the Life of Man to a Bubble alluding therein That the World is but a storm and Men rise up in their several Generations like a Bladder of Waterfilled with Air and some of these sink into the Deluge of their first Parents and are hidden in a sheet of Water having no other Business in the World but to be born that they may be able to dye others perhaps float up and down for a while and suddenly disappear there being no certainty of a lasting Life however Man may flatter himself therefore we ought always so to live as if we were on the brink of the Grave for those that live longest continue but in a restless motion or alluding to our first Simile of the frailty of a mortal State those that continue longest dancing on the Su●face of the Water are at last crushed with a drop from a Cloud into flatness so Man coming into the World if he spring up and grow gay to the Joy of many he is notwithstanding exposed to innumerable hazards and chances and in the end turned into Dust for all earthly power and glory must set at length in the Grave and no Man adds a moment to his Life beyond the Will of that God that gave it in whose hands is all the Breath of Life and in whose power it is to do whatsoever pleaseth him for altho' for a time the young Man may flourish like the flower of the Field and shine as it is termed like a Doves neck or the Image of the Rainbow which borrows its glorious Colours from the Sun by Reflection yet one thing or other frequently interrupts his Felicity for as we find it Psalm 39. Man walketh in a vain shadow and disquieteth himself in vain he heapeth up riches and cannot tell who shall gather them̄ so that we cannot promise to our selves no certain assurance Sickness Casualty War and many other things give us a Pasport to another World but here lies the main stress so to live that we need not at any time be afraid to dye for he that lives unto Christ for him to dye is gain I am says he the Resurrection and the Life he that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live and whosoever liveth believeth in me he shall never dye John 11 25.26 this is the hidden Manna and Water of Life that nourishes us to Eternity and puts us beyond the fear of Death unstinging or disarming even the King of Terrors and renders us capable of out-facing him in his most affrighting shapes I know says holy 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 J see God whom I shall see for my self and mine Eyes shall behold and not anothers Job 19 25 26 27. here is the glorious Hope of a Christian whereby he triumphs in his Death and puts him beyond all possibility of fear notwithstanding the brittle Foundation of a mortal Life which Homer calls a Leaf the smallest and weakest part of a short-liv'd and unsteady Plant and Pindar terms it the Dream of a shadow another the Dream of the shadow of Smoke but St. James who spoke by a more excellent Spirit says our Life is but a Vapour and that is a thin Matter drawn from the Earth by a Coelestial Influence made of Smoke or the lighter parts of Water tossed by every Wind and moved by the motion of a superiour Body without power in it self lifted up on high or left below a mere Phaenomena like the shadow that departeth or the T●le that is told or like the Dream when one awaketh what then should move us to hope the laying up a Security upon Earth since here we are but Pilgrims and Strangers and have no tarrying City but ought to look for one not made with hands in the highest Heavens It was usual amongst the wise Men of past Ages to order their being put in mind of Mortality even in the midst of their most joyfull Entertainments as having the Skulls and Skeletons of Men presented at their Feasts and at the Coronation of the Emperours of Constantinople a Mason presented them with a Model of their Tombs to let them know in the midst of their Glory and Grandeur they were but mortal Men We brought says Job nothing into the World and it is certain we can carry nothing out The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away blessed be the Name of the Lord this is our only Reliance in Life and Death God is sure and certain to those trust in him it we dye in our Beds or in the Field whether our Graves be made in our Mother Earth from whence we were originally taken or in the watry Womb of the Sea whether we are laid up in the Repositories of the Dead amongst Peasants all is one in the Morning of the Resurrection all is one if we have a sure Interest in Christ who is the Resurrection and the Life of those that in Faith rely on him For now says St. Paul is Christ risen from the dead and become the first Fruits of them that slept as we find it in the 15th of the 1 Epistle to the Corinthians For as in Adam continues he all dyed