Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	heart_n	lord_n	soul_n	18,529	5	5.0289	4	true

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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

that fragrant Flower springing from the Clefts of its Bud and at first it was fair as the Morning and filled with the Dew of Heaven as a Lambs Fleece but when a ruder Breath has forced open its Virgin Modesty and dismantled its too youthfull and unripe Retirements it becomes sullied and begins to put on Darkness and to decline to softness and the Symptoms of a sickly Age and then sheds its Leaves and fades away even so is the State of Life which is attended by innumerable Casualties as we see the brave and valiant that if it was possible would out-face the King of Terrors and trample upon his gloomy Dominion are nevertheless subject to his stroke he sends a Bullet in War with a Commission to summons the most undaunted Spirit to yield himself a Captive to the Grave and this fatally executes it Errand and will have no denial snatching as soon the Darling of a Kingdom as the meanest Slave or perhaps a thrust with a Sword or a Pike may effect as much Death has inumerable ways to seize our Breath on him a thousand Diseases wait like so many destroying Angels to prey upon our Lives and hurry us into the silent Dust and so to Eternity never to return more to our Houses Possessions or Relations in an Estate of enjoying temporal things for neither Youths Riches or Beauty will profit in the Grave Kings and the Sons of Kings must mingle in the Regions of Death as we see frequent Instances abroad and at home no power nor might nor riches or honour can prevent it for though they are termed Gods on Earth yet nothing can hinder but they must at one time or other when the great and wise disposer of all things thinks fit dye like Men and then it is the Voice that Saint John heard can bring them comfort I heard says he a Voice from Heaven saying unto me write from henceforth blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord even so saith the Spirit for they rest from their Labour Rev. 14 13. This is a blessed Change to leave a troublesome World for a place of transcendent Joy and Felicity where flow the Rivers of Life and an eternal Spring of Blessedness remains where Crowns of Life and Glory are to be had incorruptible Crowns that cannot fade nor have end the thoughts of which should be enough to raise our Spirits with a longing desire after Christ and his Kingdom and with St. Paul to dye daily to Sin that we may live unto Righteousness that so without fear we may look Death steadfastly in the Face and desire to be dissolved that our Souls with holy David may pant and thirst after God as the Hart panteth after the Water-brook This is the only way to conquer Death that conquers all so that although sorrow should happen for a Night joy will assuredly come in the morning here indeed we are in a Vale of Tears but there we shall be in a Paradice of everlasting Pleasure and think Death friendly id setting us free when we shall find as the wife Man says A good name is better than precious Ointment and the day of Death than the day of ones Birth it is betters to go to the House of Mourning than to go to the House of Feasting for that is the end of all Men and the Living will lay it to his Heart Eccles 7.12 so that we see O let us consider these things and work whilst it is day for the night cometh wherein no Man worketh that is the night of the Grave and Darkness from whence we can only expect a bright Morning of the Resurrection that will make us amends for all the various Misfortunes of this Life even when the Trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed for this corruptible must put on incorruptible and this mortality must put on immortality so when this corroptible shall have put on incorruption and this mortality shall have put on immortality then and not till then shall be brought to pass the Saying Death is swallowed up in Victory O Death where is thy Sting O Grave where is thy Victory The which that we may all find and so be happy we implore for the fake of him that has overcome Death and triumphed victoriously even our Lord Jesus Christ who is become the first Fruits of those that are risen and has given us a sure Earnest of the Resurrection to Life everlasting Amen A Prayer sutable to the Occasion O Most Gloruios Lord God in whom alone is the power of Life and Death on whom our being and well-being depends teach us so to number our days that we may apply our Hearts to Wisdom we confess O Lord most mercifull Father of Spirits that by reason of our many Sins we are unworthy so much as to lift up our Eyes unto thee but thou hast commanded us to humble our selves before thee that thy Wrath and Indignation may not sit heavy upon us for when thou art angry all our days are gone we bring our years to an end as it were a Tale that is told Keep us O Lord we beseech thee in the way of Uprightness and save us from sudden Death that through fear or surprize our Faith may not fail but that we may have a steadfast reliance en thy Mercy at all times in Peace and War through Jesus Christ our blessed Lord and Salviour Amen FINIS