Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	eternal_a	life_n	suffer_v	4,097	5	6.1063	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90972	Tyrants and protectors set forth in their colours. Or, The difference between good and bad magistrates; in several characters, instances and examples of both. / By J.P.	Price, John, Citizen of London.	1654 (1654)	Wing P3349; Thomason E738_18; ESTC R203206	41,217	58

one of their houses to dinner and observing the Ladies naked back and brests said to her to this purpose Madam it is time to shut up your shop-windows upon which she presently cast a vail upon her neck and shoulders and never was observed to appear so afterwards Lust not after her beauty neither let her take thee with her eye-lids Prov. 6. 25. some render it neque te capiat splendoribus suis let not her glitterings gain thee lest she ruines thee Flagitium flagellum sicut acus filum Misery succeeds iniquity as the thred the needle they are linked together with chains of Adamant We need not mention the licentiousness and lusts of the persons and Courts of Augustus Julius Tiberius H●l●ogabalus Caligula Commodus Domician Proculus and others of the Roman Emperors who as they exceeded in pomp state and greatness so this sin of wantonness and lasciviousness did reign amongst them for almost all Princes or Courts of Princes in Christendom have been observed to indulge if not even to court that wasting wickedness I have heard of a Kings Court not far off where it was said to be held a kind of a piece of gallantry and a thing in fashion for the Noble men falsly so called to know no difference between their own and their fellow-Courtiers Ladies and the Ladies the like in respect of other men and no great matter of offence to the husband or wife that it should be known because it was then the fashion and that it too much favored of Puritanism to be confind within the bounds of Matrimony May we not well remember the English Court Ladies paintings their pa●chings their crispings their curlings their caps and feathers the cocking of their beavors their stilletto's their man-like apparel their slasht sleeves their jetting their strutting their leg making with the rest of their antique apparel and postures O how many families bodies and souls have perished by them how did they rejoyce to do evil it was their meat drink and sport to be merry with the Devil Those light Asses are said by Solomon to flatter with their lips their lips were nets their hands bands their words were coards to draw men as calves to the slaughter Her house inclineth to death Prov. 2. 18. Terence calleth harlots Cruces quia invenes macerant affligant It was said of Pope Paul the fourth as a by-word Eum per eandem partem animam profudisse per quam acceperat Pope John the twelfth being taken with an Adulteress was stab'd to death by her husband Alexander the Great and Otho the third lost their lives by their lusts Her paths are unto the dead viz. where those hell●sh Sodomites are giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh shall suffer the vengeance of eternal fire The harlot is a deep ditch a narrow pit Prov. 23. 27. and whoredom and wine and new wine taketh away the heart Hosea 4. 11. that is bereave a man of his noble principles of wisdom knowledg understanding Hence Adulterers are said to be voyd of understanding Prov. 6. 32. a wound and dishonor he gets he s●abs his name his family his conscience his body his soul that sin renders men past feeling Rom. 1. 28. of a dead and dedolent disposition Ephes. 4. 18. 19. yea impudent and impenitent Hence it is that neither the strange woman nor he that goeth unto her return again Prov. 2. 19. that is very rarely if ever Are not these the very characters of many of our late wanton Courtiers men and women of d●baucht consciences and conversations impudent impenitent ●●aring mocking and s●●ffing at all means of recovery wasting their precious times in Plays Pastimes Masks and such fool●●ies spending their wits and parts in Complements and Courtships rising up in the morning wreaking from their beds of lusts no sooner up but their lustful drinks are tempered for them then to their powdering trimming and tiring then to their devotion to their bellies I mean their gluttonous dinners then to Black-fryers or other places to see Plays to offer up their evening sacrifices to the Devil then to their junkets and jollities and then again to their beds of lusts and thus they wheel'd about their time de die in diem These wretched female wantons what were they but as one wittily said of the Italian women Magpies at their doors Goats in their gardens Devils in their houses Angels in the streets and Syrens in their windows where they sit in their whorish attire as Solomon hath it with their subtil heart or as some render it trussed up about the brests with their upper parts naked Prov. 7. 10. Erat nudo collo pectore corde tenus c. with their bare necks and brests Nudato pudendo ut ad concubitum homines accenderat which I forbear to engglish by means whereof how many men have been be witched making them become voyd of understanding even as brutes Nos animas etiam incarnavimus said one as if their very souls reason and consciences were even turned into a lump of flesh though these seem pleasant a while yet the end thereof is death Lust blears the understanding making men beleeve there is sweet sence in sinning but is it any other then as a man fast asleep and in a sweet and pleasant dream on the top of a steep Rock or Clift who starting suddenly for joy falls down and dasheth himself in pieces by his unexpected fall These men and women will come at last as some of them doubtless have upon their death-beds to see and say that not only this is vanity but vexation of spirit When this sin hath brought home its reward a diseased body a p●rplexed conscience a distressed soul then the guilty person cries out too late filling the ayr with doleful cries as one said Totum vitae meae tempus perdidi quia perdite vixi How have I lost the chief of my time the flower of mine age the strength of my body the marrow of my bones the vigor of my spirits the whole of my estate and eternal life for a few sinful pleasures and sensual delights It is said of the Mole how true I know not that he begins to see when he is about to dye and not before Oculos incipit ap●rire moriendo quos clausos habuit vivendo Those mole-ey'd Minions may see too late their miserable condition their pleasure will be gone their pain lasteth Principium dulce est sed finis amoris amarus Laeta venire Venus trist is abire solet The pleasures of sin are but for a moment like the crackling of thorns under a pot much noise l●ttle fire much light little heat a blaze soon blasted before the pots can feel the thorns They and their p●easure are sna●cht away together their Sun goes down at noon day Mettals in the fire are most glaring when nearest melting The fishes swim merrily down the streams of Jordan but fall suddenly into the