Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	empty_v	return_v	sponge_n	24	3	15.8883	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B25425	Troposchēmalogia: Tropes and figures; or, A treatise of the metaphors, allegories, and express similitudes, &c. contained in the Bible of the Old and New Testament To which is prefixed, divers arguments to prove the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures wherein also 'tis largely evinced, that by the great whore, mystery Babylon is meant the Papal hierarchy, or present state and church of Rome. Philologia sacra, the second part. Wherein the schemes, or figures in Scripture, are reduced under their proper heads, with a brief explication of each. Together with a treatise of types, parables, &c. with an improvement of them parallel-wise. By B. K; Tropologia. Book 4.	Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.; De Laune, Thomas, d. 1685. Tropologia. aut	1682 (1682)	Wing K101A; ESTC R7039	690,855	608

Caryl to desire with Earnestness And then the Sence is thus rendred My Days are passed away as a Ship of Desire That is A Ship which being laden with rich Commodities the Master and Pilot desire earnestly to bring her speedily to her Port that so they may put off their Commodities and make Sale of such rich Lading 3. The Caldee and others give a further Note upon it deriving the Word Abab from Ebib which signifies a Stalk growing up early from the Earth and bringing forth the first ripe Fruit of any kind and so it is put for any early ripe Summer-Fruit as Plums Apples Cherries c. and then the Sence is My Days are like a Ship which carrieth early Fruit So the Vulgar like a Ship carrying Apples 4. There is another Sence given by those who derive the Word from a Root which signifies to hate and oppose or to be an Adversary and then it is thus rendred My Days pass away as a Pirate's Ship or as a Ship that goes to take a Prey or as a Ship that goes out to take Prizes upon the Sea Now such Ships are the swiftest of all others being prepared on purpose to make way and overtake other Ships their Lading is not Burthen but Ballast that they may be swift of Sail So saith Job My Days pass away like a Ship not like some great Merchant-Ship deeply laden which can make no great speed in the Sea but as a Ship of Piracy that hath nothing in her but Weapons Artillery and Ammunition to oppose those they meet with which sail with every Wind such as are your nimble Frigats Fly-Boats and Ketches which sail with every Wind or Gallies which pass without Wind carried with the Strength of Arms and Oars all being Vessels used to run in upon and surprize a Booty This also is a good Interpretation and so Mr. Broughton translates it My Days do flie away as the Pirat's Ship c. All shew the Life of Man swiftly passeth away The Life of Man compared to an Eagle Job 9.26 As an Eagle hasteneth to her Prey AN Eagle is a very swift Creature but when she hasteneth to her Prey she makes the greatest Speed The Life of Man is not compared to an Eagle in her ordinary Flight but as an Eagle that hasteneth to her Prey when Hunger adds Swiftness to her Wings Thus with swiftness our Days pass away The Life of Man compared to a Weaver's Shuttle Job 7.6 My Days are swifter than a Weaver's Shuttle c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A VVeaver's Shuttle is an Instrument of a very swift Motion and the VVord which is rendred swifter signifies that which is fitted for the swiftest Motion II. VVhen the VVeaver hath finished his VVeb he cuts off the Thread So when a Man hath run out the Length of his Days appointed by the Almighty his Life is cut off c. The Life of Man compared to Wind. Job 7.7 My Life is Wind. Parallels THe VVind passeth away speedily So doth the Life of Man II. The VVind passeth irresistibly you cannot stop the VVind So no Man be he never so strong can hinder the speedy Motion of his Days III. The VVind when it is past returns no more As you cannot stop the VVind or change its Course so all the Power in the VVorld is not able to recall or direct the VVind which way the VVind goes it will go and so soon as it comes it is gone So when a Man's Days are gone there is no recalling of them again Our Days pass and shall not return by any Law or Constitution of Nature or by any Efficacy of natural Causes He remembred that they were but Flesh Psal 78 3● Wind that passeth away The Life of Man compared to a Cloud Job 7.9 As the Cloud is consumed and vanisheth away so he that goeth down to the Grave shall come up no more he shall return no more to his House c Parallels AS the Cloud such a Cloud as you see hanging in the Air is consumed or gradually spent So the Days or Life of Man by little and little is consumed II. A Cloud comes to its Height and then is quickly disperst and vanisheth So Man soon comes to his full Strength and presently is gone III. A Cloud is like a Bottle full of Rain or Sponges full of Water God crushes these Sponges or unstops these Bottles and they are emptied and in emptying vanish away and return no more So Man being emptied of Life vanisheth away and returns not again Obj. But why then doth Solomon affirm the Clouds return again after Rain Eccles 12.2 how then doth Job say that the Cloud vanisheth so Man goeth to the Grave and returneth no more Answ Solomon in that Place of Ecclesiastes gives a Description of old Age and the sad Condition of Man in it he calleth it the evil Day and wishes Men would consider their latter End before those evil Days overtake them Before the Light of the Sun Moon Caryl and Stars be darkned and the Clouds return after the Rain In old Age the Clouds return after the Rain thus as in some very wet Time when we think it hath rained so much as might have spent and quite exhausted the Clouds and drawn those Bottles dry yet you shall see them return again it will rain day after day as fast as ever So in old Age when Rheums disstill so freely that you would think an old Man had emptied himself of all yet the Clouds will return again and Flouds of watery Humours overflow Thus the Clouds of old Age return and in this Sense the Clouds of the Air return after they are consumed and spent into Rain But how doth a Cloud return not the same Cloud numerically that Cloud which was dissolved doth not return the same Sun goes down and vanisheth out of our Sight in the Evening and returneth in the Morning the same individual and numerical Sun but that numerical Cloud which vanished comes not again Thus Man vanisheth and returns as the Clouds return after the Rain that is after one Generation of Men are dead they return again in their Children another Generation springs up but there is no other Returning to Life till the Resurrection they that die shall not live again here they shall not return to their House their Place shall know them no more The Life of Man compared to a Flower Job 14.2 He cometh forth like a Flower and is cut down c. MAN is compared to a fading Flower There are many Rarities and Excellencies in a Flower 1. Sweetness to please our Smell 2. Beauty and Variety of Colour to affect the Eye 3. Softness affecting the Touch c. But Job speaks not a Word of any of these Properties he speaks not of a flourishing but withering Flower not of its springing up but of its cutting down or of its springing up only in relation to cutting down Parallels A Flower comes up in the