item: #1 of 49 id: A01446 author: Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. title: The historie of life and death With observations naturall and experimentall for the prolonging of life. Written by the Right Honorable Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. date: 1638 words: 34121 flesch: 68 summary: Softnesse , is 〈◊〉 worke of the Spirits , 〈◊〉 by heate , whereby the Spirits enlarging not venting , 〈◊〉 pierce into , and moysten 〈◊〉 thicker parts , making 〈◊〉 soft and limber , as Fire 〈◊〉 Mettalls , and Waxe ; for 〈◊〉 and other stiffe 〈◊〉 are of a matter fit to 〈◊〉 the Spirits , and keep 〈◊〉 from venting . 1. IT is a certaine Position , that all Bodies which may bee touched , have a spirit with tangible parts , covered and 〈◊〉 being the originall cause of dissolution and consumption , prevented by detaining of the spirit . keywords: age; ayre; bee; birds; blood; bodies; body; cold; cooling; creatures; death; doe; doth; drinke; drynesse; dyet; explication; fire; flame; flesh; good; heate; hee; hot; kind; life; like; liv'd; living; making; man; motion; moysture; nature; new; nitre; nourishment; operation; oyle; parts; sleepe; spirits; strong; substance; trees; water; wine; yeeres; youth cache: A01446.xml plain text: A01446.txt item: #2 of 49 id: A01454 author: Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. title: Historie naturall and experimentall, of life and death. Or of the prolongation of life. Written in Latine by the Right Honorable Francis Lo. Verulam, Vis-count St. Alban date: 1638 words: 50290 flesch: 65 summary: Plaine , moderately dry ; 〈◊〉 yet not over-barren , or 〈◊〉 nor altogether without 〈◊〉 and Shade ; Is very 〈◊〉 for Length of Life . 31 Inequality of Aire , ( as 〈◊〉 even now said ; ) in the 〈◊〉 of our Dwelling , is 〈◊〉 But Change of Aire by Traveling , after one be used unto good : And therefore great Travellers have beene Long Liv'd . 〈◊〉 , that they drive not off , 〈◊〉 their Bodies bee utterly 〈◊〉 out , and Diseased ; For 〈◊〉 such Bodie , all Mutation , 〈◊〉 to the more Benigne , 〈◊〉 Death : The other , 〈◊〉 they surrender not themselves to a Sluggish Ease ; But 〈◊〉 they Embrace something , which may entertaine their Thoughts , and Minde , with Contentation : keywords: age; aire; aliment; bee; best; bloud; bodies; body; canon; cold; creatures; death; diet; doe; doth; explication; fire; flame; flesh; good; hath; heat; hee; kinde; length; lesse; life; like; living; man; mans; matter; men; motion; nature; new; nourishment; operation; oyle; parts; selfe; spirit; substance; things; time; touching; use; water; way; wee; wine; yeares cache: A01454.xml plain text: A01454.txt item: #3 of 49 id: A07761 author: Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623. title: A discourse of life and death: written in French, by Phil. Mornay. Done in English by the Countesse of Pembroke date: 1608 words: 12917 flesch: 69 summary: 2002-11 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2002-12 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2003-01 Judith Siefring Sampled and proofread 2003-01 Judith Siefring Text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A DISCOVRSE OF LIFE AND DEATH : WRITTEN IN French , by PHIL. A DISCOVERSE OF LIFE AND DEATH , WRITten in french by PHIL. keywords: age; bee; death; feare; god; good; hath; haue; hee; himselfe; life; man; men; neuer; rest; selues; themselues; thou; time; wee; world cache: A07761.xml plain text: A07761.txt item: #4 of 49 id: A08273 author: Norden, John, 1548-1625? title: An eye to heauen in earth A necessarie watch for the time of death, consisting in meditations and prayers fit for that purpose. With the husbands christian counsell to his wife and children, left poore after his death. date: 1619 words: 53182 flesch: 72 summary: So gracious is God , as he giueth greater things , then man can conceiue by his promises : & although I cannot as yet sufficiently conceiue , much lesse speak of the surpassing excellencie of that glorie ; yet will I meditate thereupon : the more to make the pleasures of this life of no account , and the more to kindle in me a desire to be dissolued , to enioy that vnspeakable glorie , which cannot be attayned vnto , but by death . I will indeuour to satisfie all men their due , and my desire shall be in all good conscience , to discharge mine vttermost dutie , and then I doubt not but God in his Christ will excuse all my enforced defects , and although man will not , God will accept the will for the deed . keywords: bee; beleeue; bodie; children; christ; day; death; desire; doe; euen; euer; euill; faith; father; feare; glorie; god; godly; gods; good; hath; haue; heart; hee; holy; life; liue; lord; loue; man; mee; men; moneth; owne; patience; selfe; sinne; soule; spirit; thee; things; thou; thy; thée; time; true; vnto; vpon; world; yee cache: A08273.xml plain text: A08273.txt item: #5 of 49 id: A09387 author: Perkins, William, 1558-1602. title: Deaths knell: or, The sicke mans passing-bell summoning all sicke consciences to pr[e]pare themselues for the comming of the grea[t] day of doome, lest mercies gate be shut against them: fit for all those that desire to arriue at the heauenly Ierusalem. Whereunto are added prayers fit for housholders. The ninth edition. Written by W. Perkins. date: 1628 words: 5706 flesch: 58 summary: If ●hou wert now laid on thy departing Pillow , wearied with waiting , pinched with paine , drowned in dolour , oppressed with the heauy load of thy fore-past committed sinnes , wounded with the sting of a guilty crying conscience : if thou feltst the force of death cracking thy heart-strings asunder , ready to make the sad diuorce of thy soule and body : if thou layest panting for shortnesse of breath , sweating a fatall sweat , and tyred with strugling against deadly pangs ; O , how much then wouldst thou giue for a dayes contrition , an houres repentance , or a minutes amendment of life ? Then worlds would be worthlesse in comparison of a little time , which now by whole moneths and yeeres thou lauishly mis-spendest . wouldst thou not then thinke one life too little , to repent for so many iniquities , the least whereof is strong enough to hurle thee irrecouerably into these vnspeakable torments ? Betimes then deuote the residue of thy dayes , to make an atonement with Iehouah , the generall Iudge , and so endeuour to set free thy soule from such confusion , as by sinne thou art sure to fall into . keywords: god; good; life; lord; sinne; soule; tcp; text; thee; thou; thy; vpon cache: A09387.xml plain text: A09387.txt item: #6 of 49 id: A09461 author: Perkins, William, 1558-1602. title: A salve for a sicke man. or, A treatise containing the nature, differences, and kindes of death as also the right manner of dying well. And it may serue for spirituall instruction to 1. Mariners when they goe to sea. 2. Souldiers when they goe to battell. 3. Women when they trauell of child. date: 1611 words: 28974 flesch: 73 summary: Death at the first brought forth sinne , but death in the righteous by meanes of Christs death , abolisheth sinne , because it is the accomplishment of mortification . Death in the law is a curse and the downe-fall to the pit of destruction : in the Gospel it is the entrance into heauen : the lawsets forth death as death , the Gospel sets forth death as no death , but as a sleepe onely : because it speakes of death as it is altered & changed by the death of Christ ; by the vertue whereof death is properly no death to the seruants of God. keywords: againe; bee; body; christ; day; death; die; doe; god; good; hath; haue; hee; himselfe; life; liue; lord; man; meanes; men; saith; second; sicke; sinnes; soule; thou; thy; time; vnto; vpon; wee cache: A09461.xml plain text: A09461.txt item: #7 of 49 id: A10215 author: Hawkins, Henry, 1571?-1646. title: The sweete thoughts of death, and eternity. Written by Sieur de la Serre date: 1632 words: 76282 flesch: 71 summary: I belieue it is impossible to tast pleasures without thinking of death , in regard these delights are continually a flying away , and incessantly dy with vs : in such wise , that if we cannot ressent the contentments but within their fruit , & in running alwayes after them ; they are rather displeasures , then pleasures , and therefore we hold there are no greater delights , thē those of thinking of Death , as being the only meane to make them eternall . And what more great may a man admit , thē that , to neuer thinke of death , since it is the end where all our actions receiue their prize or payne ? Remember thou Death ( the Wisemā sayth ) and thou shalt neuer syn . keywords: alwayes; ashes; beene; body; corruption; day; death; delights; diuine; dye; dying; earth; end; eternall; eternity; euen; euery; eyes; feare; forth; glory; god; good; greatnesses; happy; hart; hath; haue; heauen; heere; hell; himselfe; life; light; little; liue; loue; lyfe; man; moment; nature; neuer; pleasures; riches; seeme; selfe; selues; soule; spirit; thee; thereof; thē; things; thinke; thou; thy; tombe; tyme; vanity; vertue; vnto; vpon; world cache: A10215.xml plain text: A10215.txt item: #8 of 49 id: A10914 author: Rogers, John, of Chacombe. title: A discourse of Christian watchfulnesse Preparing how to liue, how to die, and to be discharged at the day of iudgement, and so enioy life eternall. By Iohn Rogers minister to the Church of Chacombe in Northampton-shiere. date: 1620 words: 78102 flesch: 69 summary: In which 3. poynts wholly standeth the glory of God and mans welfare , so much as of man can be sought for , whervpon for effecting of the premises , 〈◊〉 , at this instant can thinke of nothing more behoofull , then to stirre vp your hearts to Christian watchfulnes , for the time present , and for the day of death , and of our appearing before the Sonne of God at the generall iudgement . For heare it fareth with men liuing , as with beasts dying , which anone putrifies , scrawle with wormes , stinke and serue not for mans vse , vnlesse in due time they be wisely and carefully salted , so man when by sinning he looseth the life of God : and becommeth wholly earthly minded , hee forthwith begins to stinke , and to scrawle with the wormes of carnall lusts and sensualitie , with beastly and diuellish affection , which not only fill the heart and soule , but withall most fearefully come out at the mouth , in scurilous filthie talke , horrible and bl●sphemous oathes , and cursings , and at the hands , feete , and whole body , in most vngodly gestures , actions , and behauiour . keywords: bee; blessed; body; children; christ; church; comfort; comming; conscience; day; death; die; doe; elect; end; eternall; euery; faith; farre; father; feare; fire; giue; glory; god; godly; gods; good; hand; hath; haue; heart; heauen; hee; heere; hell; himselfe; holy; house; iudgement; king; life; like; liue; lord; luke; man; mans; math; mercy; ministers; neuer; ouer; owne; people; place; psal; sauiour; seeing; set; sinne; sleepe; soule; spirit; thee; themselues; things; thou; thy; time; vnto; vpon; vse; watch; wee; wicked; workes; world; ● ● cache: A10914.xml plain text: A10914.txt item: #9 of 49 id: A12821 author: Stafford, Anthony. title: Staffords Niobe: or His age of teares A treatise no lesse profitable, and comfortable, then the times damnable. Wherein deaths visard is pulled off, and her face discouered not to be so fearefull as the vulgar makes it: and withall it is shewed that death is only bad to the bad, good to the good. date: 1611 words: 22141 flesch: 73 summary: O stupidity of man ! to come at the becke of a woman , stoop at her frownes , hold his 〈◊〉 ●rom ●ence 〈◊〉 those 〈…〉 For the first , they ( finding through their daily discourse with men , that their words are esteemed Oracles , nay , articles of faith ) do challenge to themselues such a freedome of speach , as to vtter that without shame , which the standers-by are both ashamed & abashed to hea● . The tongue alone of man is able to worke mans condemnation , without any notorious action . keywords: age; bee; bodie; body; christ; death; doe; earth; eyes; giue; god; good; hath; haue; heart; heauen; hee; himselfe; king; life; lord; man; mee; men; minde; nature; neuer; non; onelie; owne; saith; selfe; shee; soule; text; thee; things; thinke; thou; thy; time; vertue; vnto; vpon; way; wee; woman; words; world; ● ● cache: A12821.xml plain text: A12821.txt item: #10 of 49 id: A13075 author: Struther, William, 1578-1633. title: Christian observations and resolutions, or, The daylie practise of the renewed man, turning all occurrents to spirituall uses, and these uses to his vnion with God I. centurie : vvith a resolution for death, &c. / newlie published by Mr William Struther ... date: 1628 words: 63785 flesch: 70 summary: Our heart is euer opē to God , let vs opē it to mā also , the words & deeds of a single heart , make it visible to man : Except they be possessed of Satan , they cannot but loue that heart , that is ful of the loue of God : The wicked labour to hyde his thoughts , but the godly affect to haue them knowne : Why may he not byde the tryall of man , who hath already sustained the sight , & findeth the approbation of God , to the honesty of his heart ? Both the vprightnes of the hart , & testimony of that vprightnes are knowne of God alone , and the vpright heart that hath them . keywords: bee; bodie; body; calling; care; christ; conscience; corruption; day; daylie; death; desire; doe; earth; end; euer; euill; feare; glorie; god; god himselfe; gods; goe; good; grace; hand; happinesse; hath; haue; heart; heauen; hee; himselfe; know; life; light; lord; loue; man; mee; men; naturall; nature; new; owne; peace; power; rest; sathan; selfe; sense; sinne; soule; spirit; spirituall; thee; themselues; things; thou; thoughts; thy; time; vnder; vpon; way; wee; worke; world cache: A13075.xml plain text: A13075.txt item: #11 of 49 id: A13179 author: Sutton, Christopher, 1565?-1629. title: Disce mori. = Learne to die A religious discourse, moouing euery Christian man to enter into a serious remerbrance of his ende. Wherein also is contained the meane and manner of disposing himselfe to God, before, and at the time of his departure. In the whole, somewhat happily may be abserued, necessary to be thought vpon, while we are aliue, and when we are dying, to aduise our selues and others. date: 1600 words: 56710 flesch: 80 summary: I w●s very loath ; ( respectinge my owne weakenesse ) to make that knowne vnto others , which is best knowne vnto my selfe ; vntill at last , being ouer entreated by some speciall friendes , from the vniuersitie of Oxford , whose sober , iudicious , & very learned aduise , I knewe not howe to gainesay : I was induced to let this presente tracte goe forwarde in the name of GOD. Esau that lost the blessing , was hunting abr●●d ; but Iacob that had the blessing and the inheritaunce too , kept at home . keywords: amen; apostle; bee; cause; children; christ; christian; condition; course; dauid; day; dayes; death; departure; die; doe; doth; earth; ende; euery; father; feare; gen; giue; god; gods; good; grace; hath; haue; heauen; hee; himselfe; holy; hope; iesus; iob; life; liue; looke; lord; loue; luc; man; manner; meane; men; mercie; minde; neuer; ouer; owne; peace; people; prophet; psal; remembrance; rest; resurrection; saith; selues; sicke; sinnes; sonne; soule; state; thee; themselues; thou; thy; time; vntill; vnto; vnto god; vpon; way; wee; world; y ●; ● e; ● ● cache: A13179.xml plain text: A13179.txt item: #12 of 49 id: A13926 author: Jones, William, b. 1581 or 2, attributed name. title: A pithie and short treatise by vvay of dialogue, whereby a godly Christian is directed how to make his last will and testament to dispose well and wisely of his temporall goods; and how to prepare himselfe to the Lord, to depart this world peaceably and comfortably, committing himselfe in soule and body, into the hands of God, his faithfull Creatour. date: 1612 words: 5570 flesch: 70 summary: I am glad to see you so strong in the Lord , deare brother , and most willingly I will do that you request ; but I must tell you by the way , that you haue done full euill , in not making your will in the time of your health , seeing your old age so to approach , that by the course of nature your daies could not be long : and if God should haue taken you away sodainely , as he doth in mercy some of his deare seruants , then should you thereby haue bene perhaps the Author of bitter strife and contention amongst your children ; which is one of the things so abhominable & hateful in Gods sight , namely to raise contentions among brethren . I do most heartily thanke you , and God for you ; and now I will craue your fauour and further assistance , to do all this that you haue shewed me : and I pray you , if I do faile in any thing , helpe me and assist me ; for through my paine , or weakenesse of memory , or distraction other waies , I may , and shall surely do amisse . keywords: children; christian; father; god; haue; lord; minister; thou; thy; word cache: A13926.xml plain text: A13926.txt item: #13 of 49 id: A13996 author: Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657. title: A discourse of death, bodily, ghostly, and eternall nor vnfit for souldiers warring, seamen sayling, strangers trauelling, women bearing, nor any other liuing that thinkes of dying. By Thomas Tuke. date: 1613 words: 36291 flesch: 83 summary: I answere thus , Death is a punishment , or at the best , and to the best a triall , a correction , a passage to a better life : now God ordaines and appointes death , not simply as it is a destruction , but eyther as it is a punishment of wicked men , or a correction and triall of the godly , and as a meanes of deliuerance to his elect from worldly and wicked miseries . Thus much for the time and number of death : I will adde heere moreouer two things : first that it is an easie thing for a man to be depriued of his life : secondly , that as death doth leaue vs , so the iudgement of God in the latter day shal find vs. Of the easinesse of deaths comming we neede no long discourse : keywords: bee; bodie; christ; day; dead; death; death doth; die; doe; doth; dye; end; eternall; euer; euill; feare; fire; god; god doth; gods; good; grace; hath; haue; hee; hell; himselfe; life; liue; lord; man; men; nature; non; note; owne; quest; reason; saint; saith; sinne; sol; soule; thee; themselues; things; thou; thy; time; vnto; vpon; wee; wicked; world cache: A13996.xml plain text: A13996.txt item: #14 of 49 id: A16614 author: Bradshaw, William, 1571-1618. title: A meditation of mans mortalitie Containing an exposition of the ninetieth psalme. By that Reuerend and religious seruant of God Mr. William Bradshavv, sometime fellow of Sidney Colledge in Cambridge. Published since his decease by Thomas Gataker B. of D. and Pastor of Rotherhith. date: 1621 words: 20861 flesch: 75 summary: 2. We should admire the goodnesse and grace of God , that his wrath being so universall vpon all the sonnes of Adam , yet in this wrath he should remember mercy , and raise those againe to life , even to eternall life , that in anger he hath wounded to death . 4. This should make the children of God that haue any grounded hope for life to come , to lessen their stay on and delight in this life ; and delight in their hope and meanes of that life , wherin never a day shall passe away in wrath , but all in loue , fauour , and glory ; and wherein the dayes of our life shall not be a returning to death , but a going on from life to life , and ioy to ioy ; when we shall liue to liue ; and the longer wee shall liue , the longer we shall haue to liue ; and that in all happinesse and glory , which daies and times shall never wast . keywords: away; bee; children; dayes; god; gods; hath; haue; hee; life; liue; lord; man; meanes; time; vnto; wee; wrath; yeares cache: A16614.xml plain text: A16614.txt item: #15 of 49 id: A17129 author: Benlowes, Edward, 1603?-1676, attributed name. title: A buckler against the fear of death; or, Pious and profitable observations, meditations, and consolations: by E.B. date: 1640 words: 22258 flesch: 79 summary: Sure these bad courses cannot choose but hurt us ; They mak● D●aths looks more ghastly , and his sting Mor● piercing : but our wealth cannot support us 'Gainst small 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fears that Death will bring . In these sacred urns What lies but royall dust ? Mortality Happens here : and I know no man B●t ●ath p●wer to hold his breath As 〈◊〉 , and is free from Death As much as the noblest Romane . keywords: bloud; bring; care; children; comfort; day; death; doth; earth; ease; face; fear; god; gods; good; grave; hath; heart; heaven; king; life; lord; love; man; meditation; men; sinne; soul; thing; thou; thy; time; way; wealth; world cache: A17129.xml plain text: A17129.txt item: #16 of 49 id: A17386 author: Byfield, Nicholas, 1579-1622. title: The cure of the feare of death Shewing the course Christians may take to bee deliuered from these feares about death, which are found in the hearts of the most. A treatise of singular use for all sorts. By Nicholas Bifeild, Preacher of Gods word at Isleworth in Middelsex. date: 1618 words: 19606 flesch: 81 summary: Amongst other things I was vehemently inclined to study the Cure of the Feare of Death ; both because it may be vsually obserued , that the most men are in bondage by reason of these feares ; as also because I am assured , that ourliues wil become more sweet ; yea , and more holy too , when the feare of death is remoued : And the rather was I incited hereunto , because I haue obserued some defect about this point , in the most that haue written about Death . Death was the daughter of Sinne , and in death shall that be fulfilled : The daughter shall destroy the mother . keywords: bee; body; christ; death; die; feare; god; good; hath; haue; life; liue; man; men; thee; things; thou; thy; vnto; vpon; wee; world cache: A17386.xml plain text: A17386.txt item: #17 of 49 id: A17422 author: Byll, Thomas. title: A godly song, entituled, A farewell to the vvorld, made by a godly Christian, named Thomas Byll, being the parish clerke of West-Felton, as he lay vpon his death-bed shewing the vanitie of the world, and his desire to be dissolued. To the tune of, Fortune my foe date: 1630 words: 1975 flesch: 75 summary: I 〈…〉 I thée offended haue , 〈◊〉 am not worthy pardon for to craue , But 〈◊〉 with thée all mercy is alone , To whom my Soule for mercy now is flowne . O God which framedst both the earth and skye , With speed giue eare vnto my wofull crye , Receiue my Soule with thée for to remaine , In Angells blisse , where thou O Lord dost reigne . keywords: lord; soule; tcp; text; thy cache: A17422.xml plain text: A17422.txt item: #18 of 49 id: A17866 author: Campbell, Ninian, 1599-1657. title: A treatise upon death first publickly delivered in a funerall sermon, anno Dom. 1630. And since enlarged By N.C. Preacher of Gods word in Scotland at Kilmacolme in the baronie of Renfrew. date: 1635 words: 24095 flesch: 64 summary: So that seeing he is nourished with perishingthings , he cannot according to the maximes of Philosophy but perish himself too , being corruptible in his conception , of frothing sperme ; corruptible in his mothers belly , of excrementitious bloud ; corruptible on her breast , of vaporous milk ; corruptible in his whole life , of earthly food ; but most of all corruptible in his death , from the which he is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , in latine mortalis , that is , subject to death : and this is so experimented by man , that one premonisheth another , our forebears our fathers , and they us , and we our posteritie , to our journeys , pilgrimages , warfares end , Death . The third word is , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Adam ; and this word is almost one with Enosch ; for it signifieth weak , feeble , impotent man , and so it is distinguished from Isch : As in greek , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 differs from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , Psalme 49. keywords: bee; body; christ; church; day; dayes; dead; death; die; divine; dust; earth; end; ere; eyes; face; father; fear; glory; god; gods; good; grave; hand; hath; heart; heaven; house; jesus; king; life; living; lord; love; man; men; nature; nec; non; number; place; qui; reason; rest; saith; sea; self; selves; soul; spirit; subject; sun; tcp; text; thee; things; thou; thy; time; use; way; wee; world cache: A17866.xml plain text: A17866.txt item: #19 of 49 id: A19158 author: Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver. title: La dance machabre or Death's duell. By W.C. date: 1632 words: 15573 flesch: 65 summary: 8 The life of man is tripertite , the first Of nature , which is lyable to death , The second , after which all good men thirst , Of same , commencing with our vtmost breath , The last eternall , consummates our bliffe , Whither for Death there no admittance is . Didd'st thou discouer stratagems of State How this fell in the nicke and that too late Then might'st thou goe with confidence to Court And be applauded there for doing hurt , So for the rest , but thou shalt welcome be Only to men in want and miserie With such perhaps thou maist some houres beguile And from amidst their sorrowes force a smile : Or in some Hermits melancholy Cell Reside awhile . keywords: age; art; bed; breath; day; death; die; doe; doth; giue; goe; good; graue; hath; haue; heauen; know; life; liue; lord; man; men; nature; nere; neuer; owne; selfe; shall; soule; tcp; text; thee; things; thinke; thou; thoughts; thy; time; vnto; vpon; wanton; world; youth cache: A19158.xml plain text: A19158.txt item: #20 of 49 id: A19491 author: Cowper, William, 1568-1619. title: A defiance to death Wherein, besides sundry heauenly instructions for a godly life, we haue strong and notable comforts to vphold vs in death. By Mr. William Covvper, minister of Gods Word. date: 1610 words: 39260 flesch: 61 summary: Where it were better for vs to doe , as did the Ambassadours of Dauid , who being abued by the King of Ammon , who cutted their garments to their hips & shaued their beards ; at the counsell of Dauid their King , tarried still in Iericho , the border of their land , till their beards were grown again , and their garments were prepared for them : so wee if we follow the counsel● of our King and Lord Iesus Christ , should tarry heere vppon earth , which to the Godly is the border of heauenly Canaan ▪ for no other end but that the shame which Satan hathdone vs , by deforming our face , in spoiling vs of the image of God , may be taken from vs , and therefore it ●hould ●ee farre from vs. to make o●r shame any more by new sinnes , but rather by grouth in godlines , to recouer againe our former Image , otherway if we still abuse the patience of God , we iustly deserue , that tribulation , & anguish of spir●t , feareful shame and confusion should be vpon vs , and if wee preuent it not , we may certainly looke for it , Quo enim diutius expectat Deus , eo districtius ind●cabit . B●t this is no way comparable to these mani●old prooffes which God hath giuen vs of his louing kindnesse , for many a time hath he visited vs in this campe of our warfare , and alas hath found vs sleeping , when wee should haue been waking , and hath not taken vs away in our sinnes to slay vs ▪ but onely hath taken from vs those thinges , wherein we placed ou● strength , and maintenance of our life , yet so that he hath graciously restored them vnto vs. But alas how many is th●re among vs , who are no other way wakned with all this working of God , then Saul was with the working of Dauid , for it wroght in him a temporall repentance , and no more : incontinent hee returned to his old sinnes , & no better is it with many of vs , ●or a while after our recouery from sicknes , or deliuerance out of othe● troubles ▪ we are somewhat religious , but shortly after our repentance vanishes , like the morning dewe , and wee returne againe to our old manners , as the Sow to the puddle , and the Dogge to his vomit , this is but to abuse the time of Gods patience . keywords: againe; apostle; bee; bodie; body; building; children; christ; come; comfort; death; desire; doe; earth; earthly; faith; feare; glory; god; godly; gods; goe; good; grace; hath; haue; heauen; hee; himselfe; holy; house; life; light; lord; loue; man; men; nature; o ●; owne; place; second; soule; spirit; things; thou; thy; time; vnto; vpon; way; wee; word; ● e; ● t; ● ● cache: A19491.xml plain text: A19491.txt item: #21 of 49 id: A20871 author: Drummond, William, 1585-1649. title: Flovvres of Sion. By VVilliam Drummond of Hawthorne-denne. To which is adioyned his cypresse groue date: 1623 words: 21312 flesch: 55 summary: Those Hands , those sacred Hands which hold the r●ines Of this great All , and kept from mutuall warres The Elements , beare rent for thee their Vaines : Those Feete which once must trade on golden Starres , For thee with Nailes would bee pierc'd through and ●orne , For thee Heauens King from Heauen himselfe ●ebarres : This great heart-quaking Dolour waile and mourne , Yee that long since Him saw by might of Faith , Yee now that are , and yee yet to bee borne . TO spread the azure Canopie of Heauen , And make it twinkle with those spangs of Gold , To stay the pondrous Globe of Earth so euen , That it should all , and nought should it vphold ; To giue strange motions to the Planets seuen , Or Ioue to make so meeke , or Mars so bolde , To temper what is mo●st , dry , hote , and colde , Of all their Iarres that sweet accords are giuen : keywords: aboue; beautie; bee; beeing; day; dayes; death; doe; doth; earth; eternall; euerie; eyes; farre; forth; glorie; god; good; hath; haue; heauen; hee; heere; life; light; loue; man; nature; neuer; paine; place; selfe; soule; sunne; thee; thing; thou; thy; time; vnto; wee; world; yee; ● ● cache: A20871.xml plain text: A20871.txt item: #22 of 49 id: A22663 author: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. title: Saint Austins, care for the dead, or his bouke intit'led De cura pro mortuis, translated for the vse of those who ether haue not his volumes, or haue not knowlige in the Latin tungue date: 1636 words: 12335 flesch: 54 summary: Whence it was that in my first bouke o' the Citie of God , I spake that which , as I suppose , is sufficient to stop their mouthes , who imputing to Christian times that barbarous ruine especially which Rome suffered , obiecte that vnto thē , that Christ did not thier succore his owne people : who , when it is anserd them that , the soules of those his fidelious people were receued by him according to the merits o' their Faith , then they insulte about their insepulcherd bodies . But if those things which are necessarie to the sustenance o' the liuing , as ar victuals & apparell , althou ' they be wanting with great difficultie , yet they violate not virtue in goud people , nor extirpate pietie out o' the mynde , but reuiue it , & make it more abundant , how much lesse doe those matters which vse to be exhibited for performance of the funerals , & burials of the bodies of the deceased , when they are wanting , make those misera-ble whoe are a'redie quietly placed in the secret seates o' the pious . keywords: anie; bodies; cause; ded; deth; god; haue; knowe; liuing; lord; matters; nether; owne; people; place; present; sliepe; thiese; things; whome cache: A22663.xml plain text: A22663.txt item: #23 of 49 id: A23803 author: Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681. title: The whole duty of mourning and the great concern of preparing our selves for death, practically considered / written some years since by the author of The whole duty of man, and now published upon the sad occasion of the death of our Most Gracious Sovereign Lady Mary the II, Queen of England, &c. of blessed memory. date: 1695 words: 34243 flesch: 65 summary: Death hath his several Instruments to accomplish his Ends ; sometimes we are taken away by Violence and secret Influence , by the Aspect of a Star , and the stink of a Mist , or by the sending out of a Cloud , and meeting of a Vapour ; Accidents has happened , by the Fall of a Chariot , a sinking House , or a high mettled Horse to cast his Rider ; others by the stumbling at a Stone ▪ the scratch of a Nail or Fin , by a full Meal , or an empty Stomach , by watching at the Wine , and drinking of it in full Bowls and Glasses , the Healths of others , when in the mean time they destroy their own : Some by too great Study and Watching at Prayer , others is blasted by the Sun , or Planet-struck by the Moon ; sometimes Death's Harbingers are Heats or Golds , watchfull Nights , or slumbring Days ; by Water turn'd into Ice , or thaw'd into the Flouds of a River ; sometimes by a Hair , or a Ra●sin ; by violent Motion , or sitting still ; by Severity , or Dissolution ; by God's Mercy , or his Anger ; by every thing in Providence , and every thing in Manner , Nature , and Chance . and though he bring them back again , yet is this done by the Almighty for a Memorial of Death : God brings Men into such Extremities , that nothing but Death is to be expected , they receive the Sentence of Death in themselves , and despair of Life , 1 Cor. 8.9 . and are free among the Dead , in their own and others Judgment , Psal. 88.4 , 5. and thus many times they are in Deaths often , 2 Cor. 11.23 . keywords: almighty; body; chap; christ; city; come; cor; day; dead; death; earth; end; glory; god; good; grave; hath; heart; heaven; job; john; life; lord; love; man; men; psal; rest; says; self; selves; sin; soul; things; thou; time; world cache: A23803.xml plain text: A23803.txt item: #24 of 49 id: A26805 author: Bates, William, 1625-1699. title: Sermons upon death and eternal judgment by William Bates. date: 1683 words: 48517 flesch: 67 summary: The Body is dead because of Sin : And what is more becoming the wise and holy Providence of God , than that as by Sin Man was at first made subject to Death , so by Death Sin dies entirely for ever . Now herein the Wisdom of God is wonderful , that Death which by the Covenant of Works was the deserved penalty of Sin , by the Covenant of Grace should be the Instrument of Immortality . keywords: affections; angels; apostle; body; christ; conscience; day; death; die; divine; earth; evil; faith; father; fear; glory; god; good; gospel; grace; heart; heaven; holy; judgment; justice; law; life; light; lord; love; man; nature; power; present; saints; saviour; sin; sins; son; soul; spirit; state; things; tho; time; wicked; works; world cache: A26805.xml plain text: A26805.txt item: #25 of 49 id: A27048 author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. title: A treatise of death, the last enemy to be destroyed shewing wherein its enmity consisteth and how it is destroyed : part of it was preached at the funerals [sic] of Elizabeth, the late wife of Mr. Joseph Baker ... / by Rich. Baxter ; with some few passages of the life of the said Mrs. Baker observed. date: 1660 words: 45535 flesch: 68 summary: THE Introduction , p. 1 What is meant by [ an Enemy , ] and how death is an Enemy to Nature , p. 6 , 7 How Death is an Enemy to Grace , and to our salvation : discovered in ten particulars , p. 15 How Christ conquereth this Enemy , p. 35 Four Antidotes given us against the Enmity of Death , at our Conversion , p. 39. DEATH is the occasion of this dayes meeting : and Death must be the Subject of our present meditations . keywords: christ; day; death; doth; earth; end; enemy; faith; fear; flesh; glory; god; grace; hath; heaven; holy; life; lord; love; man; men; resurrection; saints; self; sin; soul; thee; things; thou; thy; time; use; work; world; ● ● cache: A27048.xml plain text: A27048.txt item: #26 of 49 id: A27061 author: Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. title: Two treatises the first of death, on I Cor. 15:26, the second of judgment on 2 Cor. 5:10, 11 / by Rich. Baxter. date: 1672 words: 43788 flesch: 71 summary: Use 3. To teach us that man hath now a need of Grace for difficulties , which were not before him in his state of innocency , p. 47 Use 4. To inform us of the Reasons of the sufferings and death of Christ , p. 50. Use 5. To rectifie the mistakes of some true Believers , that think they have no saving Grace , because the fears of Death deterr them from desiring to be with Christ , p. 53. Use 6. To teach us to study and magnifie our Redeemers conquering Grace , that overcometh Death , and makes it our advantage p. 62. Use 7. To direct us how to prepare for Death , and overcome the enmity , and fear of it ▪ p. 71 Direct . DEATH is the occasion of this days meeting : and Death may be the Subject of our present Meditations . keywords: christ; day; death; doth; enemy; faith; fear; flesh; glory; god; grace; hath; heaven; holy; life; lord; love; man; men; resurrection; self; sin; soul; thee; thou; thy; use; work; world cache: A27061.xml plain text: A27061.txt item: #27 of 49 id: A31080 author: Barrow, Isaac, 1630-1677. title: Practical discourses upon the consideration of our latter end, and the danger and mischief of delaying repentance by Isaac Barrow ... date: 1694 words: 31172 flesch: 61 summary: On the contrary there we have Esau condemned and stigmatized for a profane and a vain person , who ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ) for one little eating-bout ; one meis of Pottage ( for a little present satisfaction of sense , or for the sustenance of this srail life ) did withgo his birthright , that embleme of spiritual blessings and priviledges . I might add to the precedent discourses , that Philosophy it self hath commended this consideration as a proper and powerfull instrument of vertue ; reckoning the practice thereof a main part of wisedom ; the greatest proficient therein in common esteem , Socrates , having desined Philosophy ( or the study of wisedom ) to be nothing else , but ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ) the study of death ; intimating also ( in Plato's Phoedon ) that this study , the meditation of death and preparation of his mind to leave this World , had been the constant and chief employment of his life . keywords: care; consideration; day; days; doth; evils; future; glory; god; good; hath; hearts; life; lord; man; men; mind; nature; present; psal; reason; saith; self; selves; set; sin; soul; state; things; time; vertue; way; work; world cache: A31080.xml plain text: A31080.txt item: #28 of 49 id: A34427 author: Cooke, Shadrach, 1655?-1724? title: Christian supports under the terrours of death date: 1691 words: 7994 flesch: 70 summary: 4. Yea tho I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death , I will fear no evil , for thou art with me . THat mighty and continual care which the Divine Providence hath over us , is very gratefully represented by such soft and tender expressions , and characters of God , as do bespeak an abundant Affection and regard for us , giving us all the assurance and security imaginable of an infinite kindness and compassion constantly ingaged for us . 3. He restoreth my Soul , he leadeth me in the Paths of righteousness for his Names sake , and which is more , when they are under the most unpromising circumstances , in that sad and doleful condition , which we must all come to and lie under , the dismal pressure and stroke of Death ; even herein the People of God are relieved and supported by this extraordinary Divine care and goodness ; Yea , tho I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death I will fear no evil , for thou art with me . keywords: circumstances; condition; death; doth; god; lord; men; shadow; state; text; thou; time cache: A34427.xml plain text: A34427.txt item: #29 of 49 id: A34428 author: Cooke, Shadrach, 1655?-1724? title: Christian supports under the terrors of death a sermon preached to Sir John Friend in Newgate, preparatory to his sufferings / by Shadrach Cooke ... date: 1696 words: 8207 flesch: 69 summary: 4. Yea tho I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death , I will fear no evil , for thou art with me . THAT mighty and continual care which the Divine Providence hath over us , is very gratefully represented by such soft and tender expressions , and characters of God , as do be speak an abundant Affection and regard for us , giving us all the assurance and security imaginable of an infinite kindness and compassion constantly ingaged for us . 3. He restoreth my Soul , he leadeth me in the Paths of righteousness for his Names sake , and which is more , when they are under the most unpromising circumstances , in that sad and doleful condition , which we must all come to and lie under , the dismal pressure and stroke of Death ; even herein the People of God are relieved and supported by this extraordinary Divine care and Goodness ; Yea , tho I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death I will fear no evil , for thou art with me . keywords: circumstances; condition; death; doth; god; lord; men; shadow; state; text; thou; time cache: A34428.xml plain text: A34428.txt item: #30 of 49 id: A35858 author: Standfast, Richard, 1608?-1684. title: A dialogue between a blind-man and death date: 1686 words: 2819 flesch: 84 summary: eng Death -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Dialogues. 2008-05 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-06 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-07 John Pas Sampled and proofread 2008-07 John Pas Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A DIALOGUE Between a Blind-Man and Death . keywords: death; dye; eebo; man; tcp; text cache: A35858.xml plain text: A35858.txt item: #31 of 49 id: A41843 author: Gray, Andrew, 1633-1656. title: The mystery of faith opened up, or, Some sermons concerning faith (two whereof were not formerly printed) wherein the nature, excellency, and usefulnesse of that noble grace is much cleared, and the practice thereof most powerfully pressed : whereunto are added other three sermons, two concerning death / by Mr. Andrew Gray ...; all these sermons being now carefully revised, and much corrected. date: 1669 words: 64385 flesch: 68 summary: And it hath two great aggravations from th● words which I have read ; The first great aggravation in that word of the Text , Great Salvation , as if he had said , if it were not Great Salvation , yee might have some clo●● or excuse for your slighting of it : but se●ing it is such a great and eternal Salvation● there is now no cloak left for your sin . AMong many weighty and soul pierceing Sentences that you will find in these following Sermons , this is one● ; That the Professors of this ●ge , whether they go to heaven or hell , they will be the greatest debtors that shall be in ●ither place● : keywords: answer; bee; christ; christian; come; day; death; desire; doth; exercise; faith; forth; god; gospel; grace; hath; heaven; hee; hope; imbrace; life; lord; love; man; salvation; sin; soul; speak; th ●; thee; things; thou; thy; time; way; wee; word; y ●; yee; ● d; ● e; ● f; ● hat; ● nd; ● o; ● s; ● t; ● ● cache: A41843.xml plain text: A41843.txt item: #32 of 49 id: A43816 author: Hill, Thomas, d. 1653. title: God's eternal preparations for his dying saints discovered in a sermon at Paul's, May the 7th 1648 / by Thomas Hill ... date: 1648 words: 14976 flesch: 65 summary: Were it my portion onely to bee thus injured , I should suspect my self ; but my reverend Brethren , who deserve much better then I can , fare as ill from som , when one of them lately was forced by a violet fit of an ague , being preaching at the Universitie-Church , to break off not long after hee began ; it would make one tremble to hear what language was spoken thereupon aaginst him , for the holy hand of God upon him , which might have befallen an Apostle ; and against others of us engaged as Masters of Colledges with him . O never let it bee forgotten how God snatched Cambridge out of the fire , in staying the plague these two last years ; should not you now provoke your Magistrates more to minde the sanctifying the Lord's day , to restrain by their power those profane pollutions which cry for another more sweeping plague ? keywords: bee; christ; com; eternitie; god; good; hath; heaven; hee; house; life; mee; men; non; roman; saints; som; souls; spirit; things; thou; wee cache: A43816.xml plain text: A43816.txt item: #33 of 49 id: A44693 author: Howe, John, 1630-1705. title: A sermon on the much lamented death of that reverend and worthy Servant of Christ Mr. Richard Adams, M.A. sometime fellow of Brazen-Nose Colledge in Oxford, afterwards, minister of St. Mildred Breadstreet, London, more lately, pastor of a congregation in SOuthwark, who deceased Febr. 7th, 1697/8 preached, February the 20th, 1698 / by John Howe. date: 1698 words: 8936 flesch: 68 summary: Christ was not at this time in his State of Humiliation ; he was not now in the form of a Servant ; he was not now going to Die , and Sacrifice himself upon an ignominious Cross , as it was mention'd he had done , in the next Chapter , Who being in the form of God , thought it not Robbery to be equal with God ; he made himself of no Reputation , and took upon him the form of a Servant , and was obedient to Death . If we are Children , then Heirs , Heirs of God , and Joint-Heirs with Christ ; that if we suffer with him , we might be also glorified together . keywords: christ; desire; glory; god; good; object; spirit; state; things; world cache: A44693.xml plain text: A44693.txt item: #34 of 49 id: A45276 author: Hyde, Edward, 1607-1659. title: A Christian legacy consisting of two parts: I. A preparation for death. II. A consolation against death. By Edward Hyde, Dr. of Divinity, and late rector resident of Brightwell in Berks. date: 1657 words: 82250 flesch: 54 summary: Thou wilt there also see a grea●… Manquake , the keepers of the sepulchre●… the Roman Souldiers , trembling and shaking for fear of the Angel , though ( poo●… mercenary Souls ) they were soon afte●… bought out of their Fright , and as soo●… bought out of their Faith : A little pa●… more then ordinary made them forg●…●…eir Fright , and forgo their Faith : It mad●… them turn Preachers , though it kept them ●…rom turning Christians : but their Do●…trine was accordingly fit for Mammons Chaplains , fit for money Preachers , It was ●…he denying of Christs resurrection ; when ●…we meet with such Preachers , we have rea●…on to be afraid of such Doctrine . Though the merit of my sufferings cannot advantage them ( for the sa●…vation is in and of Christ Jesus , not in a●… of his servants , but onely for them ) yet t●… example of my sufferings may advantag●… them ; my sufferings can do them litt●… good , but I that suffer may do them muc●… good ; And indeed we cannot doubt , and therefore may not deny , but that God ●…oth oftentimes visit his choisest servants with the sharpest afflictions both in health ●…nd sickness , meerly for others sakes : that ●…hose whom before they had examples of ●…iety , they should now have examples of ●…atience ; that those who had followed Christ so far , as they had most benefited others by their doings , ( for he went about doing all manner of good ) might also follow him a little further , even to his Cross , and most benefit others by their sufferings : A thing in it self very desirable to attain , and therefore very comfortable when attained ; For any man may in some sort advantage his Brother by his doings , but onely the good Christian by his sufferings : the doer may be the saviour of the body , but it is ●…hiefly the sufferer that is the saviour of ●…he soul ; God having appointed three wayes for man to benefit his neighbour ; By speaking , by doing , and by suffer●…ng ; but as speaking is out-vied by doing , so doing is out-passed by suffering . keywords: body; christ; come; comfort; conscience; day; death; desire; doth; earth; faith; father; fear; flesh; glory; god; gods; good; grace; hast; hath; heart; heaven; holy; hope; jesus; judgement; life; live; lord; lord god; lord thou; love; man; mans; men; mercy; o lord; o ●; righteousness; saint; salvation; saviour; self; shall; sin; sins; son; soul; spirit; t ●; th ●; tha ●; thee; thine; things; thou; thou god; thy; time; way; whiles; world cache: A45276.xml plain text: A45276.txt item: #35 of 49 id: A45559 author: Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670. title: The pilgrims wish, or, The saints longing discussed in a sermon preached in St. Bennet Grace Church at the funeral of Mrs. Anne Dudson ... who departed this life the 4th day of January, 1658 ... / by Nath. Hardy ... date: 1659 words: 9315 flesch: 73 summary: But let St. Chrysostome suffice instead of all , and that in this place , where he saith , the just after Death are with Christ , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , or as a late Writer conceiveth it should be , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , Not beholding him through a glass by faith , but face to face . My work now is not the Confutation of Errors , but a Consolation of the Mourners ; nor can there be a better ground of comfort then this Meditation that our godly friends , being departed are with Christ , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , saith St. Chrysostome , Let us rejoyce over the just not only living but dying . keywords: body; christ; death; depart; departure; desire; god; good; heaven; life; man; non; paul; shee; soul; text; world cache: A45559.xml plain text: A45559.txt item: #36 of 49 id: A47131 author: Keith, George, 1639?-1716. title: The Christian Quaker: or, George Keith's eyes opened Good news from Pensilvania. Containing a testimony against that false and absurd opinion which some hold, viz. that all true believers and saints, immediately after the bodily death attain to all the resurrection they expect, and enter into the fullest enjoyment of happiness. And also, that the wicked, immediately after death, are raised up to receive all the punishment they are to expect. Together with a scriptural account of the resurrection of the dead, day of judgment, and Christ's last coming and appearance without us. Also, where, and what those Heavens are into which the man Christ is gone, and entred into. By George Keith. date: 1693 words: 6464 flesch: 65 summary: And that very first Promise that God gave to Mankind after the Fall , did relate to this Victory over Death , That the Seed of the Woman ( which is Christ Jesus ) should bruise the Head of the Serpent : for tho the Head of the Serpent was inwardly bruised , as in respect of the inward Redemption , Salvation and Deliverance of the Souls of all the Faithful in all Ages of the World , both before and after Christ came in the Flesh ; yet until they attain unto the Resurrection of the Body , the Head of the Serpent is not in all respects bruised , because the last Enemy that is to be destroyed is Death , who is not fully destroyed until the Bodies of the Saints be raised from Death : for by Adam's Fall , Death both of Soul and Body came upon him and his Posterity , ( as is at large demonstrated in another Treatise of G. K's ) and by Christ's Death and Resurrection , to all who sincerely believe in him and obey him , that twofold Death is removed , the Death of the Soul , thrô Faith in him , and that inward quickning , and being raised with him , who is the Resurrection and the Life , now in the mortal State , but the Death of the Body at the Resurrection of the Dead , [ see this twofold Resurrection , the one of the Soul , the other of the Body , expresly mentioned , John 5. 25 , 28. I answer ; As it was that in part , so it was not only that , but all that Felicity and Happiness that should come unto them by the Coming of Christ in the Flesh , and his Death and Resurrection , to wit , the perfect Victory over Death , which is not fully obtained until the Mortal put on Immortality , and the Corruptible put on Incorruption , as it is written , So when this Corruptible shall put on Incorruption , and this Mortal shall have put on Immortality , then shall be brought to pass the Saying that is written , Death is swallowed up in Victory : keywords: body; christ; day; dead; death; god; resurrection; saints cache: A47131.xml plain text: A47131.txt item: #37 of 49 id: A47293 author: Kettlewell, John, 1653-1695. title: Death made comfortable, or, The way to dye well consisting of directions for an holy and an happy death : together with an office for the sick and for certain kinds of bodily illness, and for dying persons, and proper prayers upon the death of friends / by John Kettlewell ... date: 1695 words: 61061 flesch: 84 summary: But if in this change thou dost shew Displeasure against me for my Sins , Lord teach me , that it is my Part humbly to submit my self to thee , and not to be angry or impatient under thy Correction of me , but to † accept my Loss with quietness as the punishment of mine iniquities . Lord , enable them to consider my weakness , and to Pity and bear with it ; and enable me to watch against it , and not to fall any more into it , Amen . And let him think it is now his work and Task , to shew an example , of Humility , Patience , Quiet Resignation to the Hand that smites him , and of comfortable Hope and trust in God , and a thankful Sense of all his past and present mercies , to all visitants . keywords: amen; art; blessed; care; christ; comfort; death; father; friends; god; good; hast; jesus; life; lord; mercy; patience; prayers; self; sickness; sorrows; soul; spirit; thee; things; thou; thro; thy; time; trust cache: A47293.xml plain text: A47293.txt item: #38 of 49 id: A47613 author: Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704. title: A summons to the grave, or, The necessity of a timely preparation for death demonstrated in a sermon preached at the funeral of that most eminent and faithful servant of Jesus Christ Mr. John Norcot who departed this life March 24, 1675/6 / by Benjamin Keach. date: 1676 words: 17666 flesch: 79 summary: Thirdly , the Scripture shews , that at death the body goes one way , and the spirit goes another , namely , to God that gave it : we may judge also of the nature of the spirit or soul of man , if we consider how nothing but God himself can satisfie it , lives upon divine and immortal food , and therefore sure must be of like nature : what does shew more clearly that our bodies are earthly , or made of earth , as the consideration of their being fed , and sustained from the earth , so say I on the contrary hand in respect of the soul ; 't is sed with spiritual and immortal food , ergo such is its nature ; but not to trouble you with things of this kinde further , Reader , let it be thy Chief care to prepare for thy eternal state , for be sure it will be but a little while , and thou wilt find either to thy everlasting joy and comfort , or else to thy everlasting wo and sorrow : the truth of this doctrine of the Souls ; Immortality , and the effects thereof ; And that this broken Sermon may prove , through Gods blessing , someways for thy Souls advantage and profit , is the sincere desire of Thy Affectionate and Cordial Friend and Servant in the Lord Jesus B. K. An ELEGY on the Death of that most Laborious and Painful Minister of the Gospel Mr. JOHN NORCOT , who fell asleep in the Lord the 24th of this instant March 1675-76 . When you read of soul as that which rejoyceth in God , delights in God , longs and thirsts after God , lives and feeds upon God and Christ , and united to and hath communion with God , cloathed and adorned with the holy Spirit ; it alwayes holds forth the glorious spirit or soul of man : let me onely direct you to one or two Scriptures upon this account , Luke 1. 46. keywords: body; christ; day; death; doth; god; good; grave; hath; heart; jesus; lord; man; men; sin; soul; spirit; thee; thou; time cache: A47613.xml plain text: A47613.txt item: #39 of 49 id: A50157 author: Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. title: Right thoughts in sad hours representing the comforts and the duties of good men under all their afflictions; and particularly, that one, the untimely death of children: in a sermon delivered at Charls-town, New England; under a fresh experience of that calamity. date: 1689 words: 13079 flesch: 76 summary: It is by Affliction that we are brought to see the Soveraignty of God , and to lie before him as Clay in the Hand of the Potter ; to see the Righteousness of God , and to own that he punisheth us far less than our iniquities deserve ; to see the Holiness of God , and to Reverence him as one that is of purer Eyes than to behold Evil ; to see the Power of God , and to think , that nothing is too hard for the Lord ; to see the Goodness of God , and to find him a rewarder of them that diligently seek him ; in a word , a little more Affliction will bring thee to say , Lord , I know thy Name , and I will put my Trust in thee . 2. The Lord Humbled them , that what was in their Hearts might be known : God will have us to see our own Follies and be Ashamed . keywords: affliction; children; death; god; good; hath; heart; lord; man; men; people; self; soul; thee; things; thou; time; world cache: A50157.xml plain text: A50157.txt item: #40 of 49 id: A59840 author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707. title: A practical discourse concerning death by William Sherlock ... date: 1689 words: 75152 flesch: 38 summary: There are two or three places of Scripture , which are urged in favour of the contrary opinion , 14 Job 5. Seeing his days are determined , the number of his months are with thee , thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass . 7 Job 1. Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth ? are not his days also like the days of an hireling ? Which refer not to the particular period of every Man's life , but as I observed before , to the general period of humane Life , which is fixt and determined , which is therefore called the days or the years of Man , because God has appointed this the ordinary time of Man's life ; as when God threatens , that the Wicked shall not live out half their days , that is , half that time which is allotted for men to live on Earth ; for they have no other interest in these days , but that they are the days of a man , and therefore might be their days too . Man , who is so long a Child , and by such slow steps arrives to the use of Reason , and by that time he has got a little Knowledge , and is earnestly seeking after more ; by that time he knows , what it is to be a Man , and to what purpose he ought to live , what God is , and how much he is bound to Love and Worship him ; while he is ennobling his Soul with all Heavenly Qualities and Vertues , and Coppying out the Divine Image ; when the Glories of Humane Nature begin to appear , and to shine in him , that is , when he is most fit to live , to serve God and Men ; then I say , either this mortal Nature decays , and dust returns to its dust again , or some violent distemper or evil accident cuts him off in a vigorous age , and when with great labour and industry he is become fit to live , he must live no longer . keywords: baptism; bodies; body; christ; day; death; dying; faith; fear; god; good; grace; happiness; heaven; life; lives; man; men; nature; pleasures; present; reason; repentance; sin; sins; soul; state; things; time; world; years cache: A59840.xml plain text: A59840.txt item: #41 of 49 id: A61834 author: Strode, William, 1600 or 1601-1645. title: A sermon concerning death and the resurrection, preached in St. Maries, at Oxford, on Low Sunday, April the 28. 1644 before the committee of the members of the honourable House of Commons / by W. Strode ... date: 1644 words: 7737 flesch: 64 summary: For we are no sooner enterd into Life , but we are Dead , dead and buried with Christ in Baptisme ; no sooner dead to the World but new borne to God through the same meanes ; when we are thus borne againe , ( notwithstanding this spirituall Parenthesis , ) we still proceed in a naturall course of Death ; no sooner dead so , but our Life is hid with Christ in God . So that my Text affords a contrary Assurance in two contrary Cases ; Assurance of Death while ye Live , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} for ye are Dead , and Assurance of Life when ye Dye , for your Life is hid with Christ in God : the first is the Death of Life , the second the Life of Death ; that passing sure , for ye are surer of nothing on Earth then of yourselves , and yet howsoever ye are , ye are Dead , the second surer yet , for God is surer then your selves , your Life is hid with Christ in God . keywords: christ; dead; death; god; hath; life; man; meanes; non; power; resurrection; text; thou cache: A61834.xml plain text: A61834.txt item: #42 of 49 id: A62286 author: Scaife, Isabel. aut. title: A short relation of some words and expressions that were spoken by Barbara scaife in time of her sickness, a little before she departed this life she was betwixt fifteen and sixteen years of age, daughter to William and Issabel Scaife of the Blacksike near Appleby, in the county of Westmerland: in profession of the principles of light and life in Christ Jesus. Which those people commonly called Quakers do bear testimony to, and had fellowship with, from their child-hood, and had a care upon them to bring up their children in the fear of the Lord, and in the knowledge of that truth which they had believed in: and which their children were in their tender age truly acquainted with. date: 1686 words: 3618 flesch: 61 summary: After which for some dayes her exerc●●● becoming more weighty upon her , and her weakness encre●●ing , her voice became very low and weak , several times 〈◊〉 was heard to pray to the Lord , but none could take 〈◊〉 words to make them intelligable . O Lord and all my sins . keywords: barbara; lord; scaife; tcp; time cache: A62286.xml plain text: A62286.txt item: #43 of 49 id: A66214 author: Wake, William, 1657-1737. title: Of our obligation to put our trust in God, rather than in men, and of the advantages of it in a sermon preached before the honourable society of Grayes-inn, upon the occasion of the death of our late Royal Sovereign Queen Mary / by William Wake ... date: 1695 words: 9896 flesch: 66 summary: And therefore , whatsoever Power he has , is confined within those Bounds which the Divine Wisdom has thought fit to set to it : Nor can he Go , the least Tittle , beyond what God has permitted him to Do. And when such is the Advantage of God , in this Respect , above Any of his Creatures ; much more above Man , the Lowest of all the Rational Kind in Power and Dignity : Well may the Psalmist pronounce him Blessed , whose Wisdom and Piety have taught him to fix his Trust there , where Nothing can hinder it from being Beneficial to Him , but his own Neglecting to seek for Help as he ought to Do. keywords: god; good; help; man; men; place; power; queen; tcp; text; thing; trust cache: A66214.xml plain text: A66214.txt item: #44 of 49 id: A66253 author: Wake, William, 1657-1737. title: Preparation for death being a letter sent to a young gentlewoman in France, in a dangerous distemper of which she died. date: 1687 words: 12320 flesch: 63 summary: 6. FOR the last you are infallibly to believe what God has promised ; especially that he will give pardon of sin , and everlasting salvation to all humble and repenting sinners ; and for what refers to your own particular , you are confidently to rely upon his word , that if you perform your part , Christ will never fail in his ; and that therefore you ought to fulfill those duties , which he commands , and to which alone this promise of Reward is given . REPENTANCE is usually defined to be a change of mind , an absolute entire conversion of our Souls from sin to God. keywords: death; duty; god; life; madam; man; self; sin; time; world cache: A66253.xml plain text: A66253.txt item: #45 of 49 id: A67564 author: Ward, Seth, 1617-1689. title: The Christians victory over death a sermon at the funeral of the Most Honourable George Duke of Albemarle, &c. : in the Collegiate Church of S. Peter, Westminster, on the XXXth of April M.DC.LXX / by Seth, Lord Bishop of Sarum. date: 1670 words: 9178 flesch: 67 summary: The true determination of the Question betwixt the Christian Theory and others ( especially that of Epicurus ) concerning the state after Death ( the Mortality or Immortality of the Soul , the Account and Iudgment after Death , the Resurrection of the Body , and the Rewards of Eternity : ) will decide the Questions of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 & , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , Good or Evil , Prudent or Imprudent , Brave or Contemptible in the Lives or Actions of Men. Now the Assertion of the truth of this Proposition , the Explication and particular tractation of the Causes , and the Deduction , and enforcement of the Consequences of it in reference to God and Man , is so Apparently the entire Argument of the Gospel , that it is needless , among Christians , to insist on the proof of the Observation : Briefly ; the Gospel hath delivered to us both the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of it . keywords: body; christ; death; god; hath; lord; man; men; person; resurrection; soul; state; text; world cache: A67564.xml plain text: A67564.txt item: #46 of 49 id: A77759 author: Benlowes, Edward, 1603?-1676, attributed name. title: Midnights meditations of death: with pious and profitable observations, and consolations : perused by Francis Quarles a little before his death. / Published by E.B. date: 1646 words: 21585 flesch: 79 summary: Thou God of spirits , be pleas'd to aw my heart With death and judgement : that , when I would sinne , I may remember that I must depart , And whatsoe're condition I am in When I sink under Deaths hand , ( There 's no penance in the grave , Nor then can I mercy have ) Sure these bad courses cannot choose but hurt us ; They make Deaths looks more ghastly , and his sting More piercing : but our wealth cannot support us 'gainst smallest pains and fears that Death will bring . keywords: bloud; bring; care; children; comfort; day; death; doth; dust; earth; ease; god; gods; good; grave; great; hath; heart; heaven; king; life; lord; love; man; meditation; men; sinne; soul; thing; thou; thy; time; wealth; world cache: A77759.xml plain text: A77759.txt item: #47 of 49 id: A87089 author: Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670. title: Death's alarum: or, Security's vvarning-piece. A sermon preached in S. Dionis Back-Church, at the funerall of Mrs. Mary Smith (daughter of Mr. Isaac Colfe, formerly minister of Gods Word at Chadwell in Essex, and late wife of Mr. Richard Smith of London, draper) who dyed the 9th. day of Novemb. 1653. and was buried the 16th of the same moneth. By Nath: Hardy, Mr. of Arts, and preacher to that parish. date: 1653 words: 11879 flesch: 65 summary: Significatur inextectata & improvisa Chald●●orum in Jerusalem irrup●io ●● ▪ pot● qui n●● per portas , in quibu● sunt vigiles , fed per ●urorum foenestras clan ▪ culum instar furis irrumpant Lapid in H●er . To unfold this riddle , therefore , you must know , that this expression is parabolicall ; and parables , like knives , cut onely in the edge , to wit , the scope : now his aime in likening this advent●o that of a thief is onely to take in the consideration of the time . keywords: christ; cometh; coming; day; death; god; good; hath; himselfe; houre; life; lord; man; men; non; preparation; saith; text; thief; thou; time; ● ● cache: A87089.xml plain text: A87089.txt item: #48 of 49 id: A90278 author: Owen, John, 1616-1683. title: Of the death of Christ, the price he paid, and the purchase he made. Or, the satisfaction, and merit of the death of Christ cleered, the universality of redemption thereby oppugned: and the doctrine concerning these things formerly delivered in a treatise against universal redemption vindicated from the exceptions, and objections of Mr Baxter. / By J. Owen, minister of the gospel. date: 1650 words: 34537 flesch: 67 summary: Will his words bear any other sense ? 3 Whether tantundem and idem in the way of Satisfaction be equivalent to the obtaining the End ipso facto aimed at , ( which he here asserts , though elsewhere constantly denyes couching in this distinction the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} of a great part of his Discourse ) certainly is nothing at all to the Question I there agitated ; maintaining , That it was idem and not tantundum that Christ paid , and so the End of it obtained ipso facto , answerable to the kind of the Efficacy and procurement thereof . And this I place as the Causa {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} of the Satisfaction of Christ , and the whole dispensation of making out Love unto us , through various Acts of Mercy . keywords: baxter; christ; condition; death; doth; faith; god; gods; grace; grotius; hath; law; merit; non; obligation; payment; penalty; respect; right; satisfaction; self; things; truth; way cache: A90278.xml plain text: A90278.txt item: #49 of 49 id: A90298 author: Owen, John, chaplain to Lord Grey of Ruthin. title: Immoderate mourning for the dead, prov'd unreasonable and unchristian. Or, Some considerations of general use to allay our sorrow for deceased friends and relations but more especially intended for comfort to parents upon the death of their children. By John Owen, chaplain to the right honourable Henry Lord Grey of Ruthen. date: 1680 words: 25201 flesch: 46 summary: For though it be common with men to make a Deed of Gift , and to transfer their own right to a thing wholly to another , so as to lose all propriety in it ; yet God does not make the same disposition of his gifts in that absolute manner ; but when he gives us Riches , or Honour , or Children , or any other gifts , he does not make over to us all the title to , and interest in them , but reserves to himself a power of Revocation , so as that he may demand them back at pleasure ; he only gives us the use and comfort of them for a time , but never parts with the propriety , or resigns up all his claim to them : And besides , we should consider , that although God does put those Children into our power , and under our jurisdiction , which he is pleas'd to give us ; yet that Parents have not that absolute power over their Children that God has , nor are they wholly at their disposal , as to the great Issues of Life and Death , which are only in Gods Hands . Children -- Death -- Early works to 1800. keywords: child; children; comfort; consideration; david; dead; death; die; diseases; father; friends; god; good; life; lord; loss; man; mourning; parents; reason; relations; sin; sorrow; tears; thing; time; world cache: A90298.xml plain text: A90298.txt