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	lord_n	soul_n	15,609	5	5.1843	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57640	Balaams better wish delivered in a sermon / by William Rose.	Rose, William, fl. 1647-1648.	1647 (1647)	Wing R1940; ESTC R25527	34,950	42

coll 3. for of a truth the Christians life is hereafter though in the ordinary phrase of speech a man is sayd to live while here he is and to dye when he makes an end of dying death being not the end of life but the end of death and our birth day unto eternall blisse for if it be accustomably sayd a man childe is borne when he breaks forth out of the wombe of his mother into this light may not he be as rightly said to be borne who loosed from the bonds of flesh is brought forth into the land of the living it had obteined a custome in the Church that the day in which holy men departed this life they called it the day of their nativity and the usuall solemnities they called them b Beda hom in Ioh. 16. not funeralls but birth day feasts to raise this to a higher speculation God is the life of the soule as the soule is of the body While here we live our soule is separated from its life which is God which St. Paul hints While we are present in the world we are absent from the Lord 2 Cor. 5 6. It is true he cherishes us with the breathings of his spirit he streams the rayes of his grace into our hearts but we enjoy not his glorious presence which gives fulnesse of life and vigour into the soule Again the state and condition here we are in being so transient our life but a blast but a bubble such a nothing deserves not the title of life but that state of incorruption to which death transmits us that fixed immortality that and that onely is life indeed 5 Death is gaine unto the righteous It is the end of the day when they receive their penny the reward of that faithfull service they have yeilded unto their God c Bene moritur qui cum moritur lucrum facit Sen. he dyes well says the moralist who makes a gain by his death that does the righteous man he exchanges this cottage of clay for a mansion in the new Jerusalem a house not made with hands eternall in the heavens he exchanges his poore possession for a glorious inheritance he changes this fading miserable for an ever blessed life he d O preclarum diem cum ad illud divinorum animorum con cilium caetumque proficiscar cum ex hac turba colluvione dis●edam Cic. de Senect changes the company and fellowship of sinfull men for the blessed society of God and his holy Angels by whom he shall be most lovingly entertained e Suet. in Aug. Augustus at the Epilogue of his life desired his friends about him to give him a plaudite as if conscient to himselfe that he had acted his part well upon the stage of this World the righteous man shall have his plaudite from a better Theatre God the Father entertains him with a well done thou good and faithfull servant Mat. 25.21 God the Son entertains him with come yee blessed children of my Father Mat. 25.34 The whole hoast of heaven congratulate him for if there be joy in heaven at the repentance of a sinner Luk. 15.7 what exultation will there be at the entertainment of a righteous man into blesse if they rejoyce when he is but set in the way what will they doe when he comes to heaven 6 Death to the righteous is his marriage day in which he is conjoyned to his espoused Lord Christ Death is but the Paranymphus which presents the faithfull soule unto her bridegroom Oh happy meeting of a happy day to be evermore happy in the imbraces of her loving and beloved Lord f Suet. Augustus tooke the farewell of his life at the lips of Livia and dyed in the complement so he left her whom he loved The righteous man dyes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Deut. 34.5 at the mouth of God g In osculo Domini Virg. in Apoc. 14. at a kisse of Gods mouth but it is a kisse of welcome and friendly entertainment of him in whom his soule delighteth as the indulgent mother takes her little one into her armes when it is about to sleepe So God takes his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his little righteous ones when they sleepe in death into the armes of his mercie and kisses them with the sweet imbraces of his love and favour and though a while he may lay them by to rest in Abrahams bosome while the number of the elect shall be gathered together yet his eye is ever on them and they enjoy his presence in which is fulnesse of joy If I should adde no more is not this enough to make good and to give us to joyne issue with Balaam Let me dye the death of the righteous but we will follow him to the ultimate period of his wish and let my last end be like his Though death be the end of all yet not the last that betideth man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and let my afterwards or let it be to me after death as to him We will consider then what follows death 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 9 27. after death judgement The punctuall circumstance of time is not limited by any verbe neither 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so that whether it shall follow presently or in a longer tract the Text leaves undetermined and the terme after may as well signifie the precedencie of things done and order as reference to any particular time h In loc Aretius would streighten it by altering the preposition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 upon that I like not this liberty with the sacred Text in the least Iota neither will that conclude it For circumstantiall notes of time as were easie to evidence are in Scripture largely or more streightly taken for yeares before or after and it is not peremptorily to conclude from the Apostles phrase It may be more easily resolved if we consider man according to his essentiall principles the judgement of the soule follows presently upon the dissolution that receiveth sentence and is carryed by the Angels into Abrahams bosome a place of rest and happinesse or thrust into torment the body is to expect its doom while that great day of the generall judgement these two being now separated we will take some liberty to speake of some things though of lesser note and might not so fully lie in Balaams wish that betide the body after death There being some small difference observable 1 The grave What ever the humerous Cynicke thought i Laert. in vita Diog. who cared not what became of his corps when hee was dead yet the wiser man said that an untimely birth was better then he that had no buriall Eccles 6.3 it was the curse of that wicked woman the dogs shall eat Jezebel by the walls of Jezreel 1 King 21.23 and she shall be as dung upon the face of the field 2 King 9.37 it was the doom of Jehojakim that he should have the buriall