Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	faith_n	save_v	4,872	5	7.1588	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07629	Contemplatio mortis, et immortalitatis	Manchester, Henry Montagu, Earl of, 1563?-1642.	1631 (1631)	STC 18023.5; ESTC S112815	39,881	132

busied about the paines of the disease I am vigor quasso languent in corpore vires The Physician is then conferring with thee of the state of thy body The Lawyer is consulted with about thy worldly state The Minister touching thy soules health Thy friends are then vnwelcome strangers trouble thee visites offend thee thy owne seruants cannot please thee other mens discourses tire thee to speake thy selfe spends thee and to be silent grieues thee not to bee told how thou doest vexes thee to be told how ill thou art discomforts thee but it most of all afflicts thee to see thy wife children and kindred weeping and lamenting by thee Thus miserably we poore men at this time are distressed and distracted made vnfit for any thing when as God knowes a due preparation to death requires all the faculties and strength of a sound perfect and whole man Euery man naturally when hee comes neere the goale of death euen for some intrinsicall cause though vnknowne to himselfe is then weary of himselfe entertaines life with a tedious dislike Tunc iniucunda est rei poenitendae recordatio distasting euery thing neglecting the very thought of all humane affaires Nec iuueni lusus qui placuere iuuant But then thinkes O how am I straitned till it be accomplished This should haue beene done when strength of vnderstanding serued Nam serum est tunc viuere incipere cum desinendum est The little Bee so soone as flowers spring goes abroad viewes the gay diapry and the diuersitie of the flowerie fields suckes the choisest of them fraights her thighes carries to her hiue makes a cuurious combe and so by times hoards vp honey in Summer against the Winter Why is the winter harder to the Grashopper then to the Ant onely prudencie and imprudency differs them Thinke not thou the winter of thine age a time fit enough for this worke Mauna must bee gathered in the morning it is too late to prepare when time is past before you begin Repentance also begun in the time of sicknesse Repentance when to be practised is commonly as sicke as the party yeelding then when it cannot resist and then preparing and repenting when all other helps and hopes faile Sound repentance and fit preparation must both be timely not then forsaking sinne when sinne forsakes vs and wishing time when time is past Omnis motus naturalis velocior est in fine the end of time affoords little time Holy Iob tels vs If thy bones be full of the sinnes of thy youth they will lie downe with thee in the dust Sed mortantur ante mortem vitia ad iudicium non sequantur Whē death hath folded vp thy dayes all opportunitie is past The Cocke crowed but that Gallicinium so soft a voice could not awake thee Therfore Signicinium lowder musicke must end the Scene It is a great masse of sinnes that we haue wound vp in the dayes of a long mis-led life it will aske long time to vntwist this bottome nay to rauell it out in many ends will aske great labour Great labour and little time suite not Therefore worke while it is day The night commeth when no man can worke Vse not time as ill husbands doe their Farmes let their Lease runne out before they bee e're the better by their Farmes Few and euill are the dayes of the longest liued man and yet to euery man there is a Triduum lent the space of three dayes at least but sleepe not vsque Quatriduum lest it be said Hee hath lyen foure dayes in the graue Iam foetet Flatter not thy selfe by the theeues example who repented but in illa hora. That is not set for imitation but to keepe from desperation It is a strange thing to see that old men wil not see death though it be before their faces nor young men though it stand at their backes The old gray-headed man to seeme young had coloured his haire blacke but the diuell told him hee would not bee so cozened Nō omnes fall is scit te Proserpina canum The common fashion is to put men in mind of their death when we doubt they cānot liue Till the Physician findes some ill symptomes the patient may not bee dis heartened with the name of death But hee is the good Physician of my soule that tells mee of death when he sees me liue in sin There is not any man so wicked who with his good wil would die in his sinnes yet most so liue as if they beleeued permission were the Article of their faith all their life long and the Article of remission of sinnes were reserued till the point of death But terrible will death be when the dying man with griefe for opportunitie lost will repent that euer he liued and count it happinesse enough if then he might die and be no more But that will not be quia Mors est sine morte Semper viuit semper occidit sed nunquàmpraeoccidit That which ends all is without all end Remember the parable of the fiue foolish virgins and the faire warning Christ giues Bee yee readie for the Sonne of Man comes at an houre when yee looke not Ecce venio sicut fur that is when you sleepe best and thinke least of him Now as it is wisedome to bee prepared for death Settlement in Religion the best preparatiue for Death so if you will die with peace of conscience bee well resolued in point of Religion before you die neuer any man was a looser by beleeuing for faith is euer recompensed with glory while thou liuest it is not amisse to make doubts but thou shalt finde it a fearefull thing to die in doubt and the happiest thing vnder heauen to be well assured and cleerely resolued in the trueth of thy faith before thou diest This done then be of good cheere for thou shalt heare Christ say vnto thy sicke soule as he said vnto the sinfull woman Goe in peace thy faith hath saued thee And let all conceited humanists remember what their master Aristotle said when he died Anxius vixi dubius morior O Ens entium miserere mei Now of the way to die well Non est res magna viuere Hoc omnes faciunt sed pauci bene moriuntur Et illi Mors grauis iucumbit qui notus omnibus ignotus moritur sibi Man is readie to die before hee liues and therefore liued in the world that hee might die to the world his yeeres come to an end as a tale that is told his dayes deceiue him for they passe as a shadow by Moone-shine then appearing longest when they draw neerest to an end Wee that now liue liue by death for had not Christ dyed wee had not liued Therefore saith S. Paul My life is not deare vnto mee so as I may finish my course with ioy Doe you desire to liue a long time the sonne of Sirach saith A man that is made perfect in a short time fulfils a