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death_n	die_v	good_a	see_v	5,253	5	3.2614	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55504	The sovles life exercising it selfe in the sweet fields of divine meditations and prayers. Collected for the comfort of all those who willingly adventure their lives for the defence of the Gospel, in these blood-thirsty times of war.	Portman, Richard.	1645 (1645)	Wing P3001B; ESTC R220485	26,310	146

many that scarce make any conscience how they come by their wealth they will cousen their friend their kins-man nay their owne father if it lye in their way and will venter both soule and body rather then faile of their desires What delight doe they take in the sight of their musty bags and what pleasure have they ●● their gold no musicke in the world is so delightfull to them as the chinking of this fine dirt But what saith our Saviour Where your treasure is there are your hearts also and againe How hard is it for a rich man to enter into the Kingdome of heaven it is easier for a Camell to go through a needles eye then for a rich man to come there if it be so have a care thou worldling that thou art not snatched away from thy riches before thou hast made thy peace with thy God Set not thy heart too much upon those things thou canst not keep and remember that God sent thee not into the world to serve only thy selfe and thy covetous desires but to doe him service and to lay up treasure in Heaven for thy soules good I dislike not an honest and lawfull gain and true it is that it is a glory to a Nation to bee rich they may doe much good with it both to King and Kingdome they may build Hospitalls Schooles and Almes-houses they may erect houses to set the poore on worke they may relieve the widow the fatherlesse and all that stand in need If they imploy it thus they doe well but let them have a care they get their wealth honestly and conscionably otherwise all this will doe them no good Therefore be sure thou covetous man to preferre God and his service in the first place for otherwise thou robbest him of his honour and endangerest thine owne soul which Christ died for MEDITAT XVIII Meditations of the feare of death O God! with what dread do men expect death how loath are they to quit this their earthly Tabernacle Methinkes it is an ill signe either that they have not lived so well as they should have done or they love the world too well to part with it For mine owne part I see nothing in the world that should so invite mee to imbrace it I meet with nothing but care trouble vexations sorrow and a world of miseries O God I certainly know that the thing I most delight in I am weary of on a suddain and I find it a burden to me Perhaps some will say I have riches in abundance so that I can purchase all the delights the world can afford But what saith Solomon that exceeded all the world in wisdome riches honour and all delights whatsoever All is vanity saith he and vexation of spirit Suppose thou dost enjoy all these things they cannot last long they are but moment any either they are taken from thee or thou from them for David saith Thine age is but a span long therefore thou canst not possesse them long It may be this day thy soule shall be taken from thee nay perhaps this night it may bee this very houre therefore there is no cause why thou shouldest bee unwilling to part with that which thou art not sure of one houre and if thou hast lived well surely the very thought of death will be a great comfort to thee and death it self a welcome guest For certainly all the life of man is but labour and sorrow and where a man enjoyes one comfort he hath a thousand discomforts for it and there is no true comfort nor perfection in this world Consider therefore that thy dayes are few and thy griefes many wherefore then wouldest thou live O God! who would not exchange a miserable wretched world for a heavenly Kingdome who would not bee willing to leave the society of wicked and ungodly men to enjoy thee who would not gladly leave his riches honour and vaine delights to enjoy him who is the fountaine of everlasting riches honour and delight and to bee among the Angells and Saints of God where is all joy and no sorrow where thou shalt bee satisfied with all things thou desirest and there shall be no end of thy happines thou shalt follow the Lamb wheresoever he goeth and shalt bee ravished with exceeding great joy and delight in him that liveth for evermore MEDITAT XIX Meditations on the same Subject with satisfaction to him that fears death THou O man what soever thou art that feares to dye what canst thou say for thy selfe perhaps thou wilt say thou fearest the pangs of death or that thou art unwilling to leave thy profits pleasures and delights of the world or it may bee thou art doubtfull whither thy soule shall goe after death To rhe first I answer That true it is the pangs of death are great but they endure not long I am perswaded that there are many torments in this world that are as great and are of a longer durance as for example a fit of the stone or gout or the paines of a woman in her travell These I conceive are no lesse torments of longer continuance and this is certaine that many men dye with lesser pain then any of these inflict for I have observed they lye quietly seldome or never complaining and so depart without either groane or sigh if this be true as I am sure it is thou hast no cause to fear death Then thou wilt say thou art unwilling to leave thy profits pleasures and delights of the world Certainly there can bee no profit pleasure or delight here that can be compared to those in heaven where thou shalt have the Kingdome of heaven for thy possession a Crowne of glory for thy reward with true pleasures and blisse for evermore The profits of the world are but for a short time but those are for eternity and surely if the profits and delights of this world please thee so much as that thou art unwilling to leave them without all question those in heaven will much more delight thee and they must needs be far exceeding these where God himselfe is in a more speciall manner then upon earth Perhaps thou wilt say my soule is safe here but when it shall depart from my body I know not whither it goeth Thou vaine man how hast thou spent thy time hast thou served thy God as thou oughtest hast thou visited the fatherlesse and widow in their afflictions hast thou kept thy selfe unspotted of the world If thou hast done these things thy soule shall as surely goe to heaven even as sure as thy body is here upon earth for the Scripture saith He that beleeveth in me althogh he dye yet shall he live And Iob saith My Redeemer liveth and I shall see him with these eyes O thou vaine man now hast thou no excuse for thy selfe thou needst not feare the pangs of death nor be unwilling to leave the profits and pleasures of the world neither needs thou doubt whither thy