Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	body_n	death_n	suffer_v	13,060	5	6.8266	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34427	Christian supports under the terrours of death	Cooke, Shadrach, 1655?-1724?	1691 (1691)	Wing C6035; ESTC R27915	14,420	34

such extravagant convulsions cold sweats deadly faintings short breathing distraction of the Eyes and other dreadful Agonies that attend it For if these and the like which we observe in daily Spectacles of Mortality are dreadful to behold What must they be to those poor Creatures that do and to us that shall suffer under them And therefore a good man that is not afraid of death can't but shrink and tremble to think of the way to it that is beset with such horror and distraction in every particular O my God may be the language of the most pious Soul I am willing to die and prepared for thee being desirous to depart and to be with Christ which is better than a continuance here but my greatest concern is how to come to thee on the other Shore there is a great Gulf between us I must be toss'd on a boysterous Sea and wrack'd by dreadful Waves and Tempests Is there no way to Canaan but through a desolate Wilderness and must I go through the valley of the Shadow of Death to that Land which flows with Milk and Hony that Heavenly Jerusalem These are things contrary to Flesh and Blood and such as will make the stoutest courage faint and tremble the pains and terrours of death can't be exprest or conceiv'd by any but who are past or under them And doubtless the holy Spirit of God doth in some measure intimate to us the sadness of them when it mentions it as a great blessing to men that it is appointed to them but once to die and that there shall be no more death in the other State One undoubted priviledge whereof is that there shall be no more of those dreadful forerunners or concomitants of it where are sorrows so severe and terrible as endanger the safety of our Souls as well as Bodies by urging us to impatience distrust and the like thence says our Church suffer us not at our last hour through any pains of death to fall from thee Our greatest troubles and most dangerous conflict in this World is usually our departure out of it so that to this case also we may apply that of the Prophet The great day of the Lord is near it is near and hasteth greatly even the voice of the day of the Lord the mighty Men shall cry therein bitterly That day is a day of wrath a day of trouble and distress a day of wasteness and desolation a day of darkness and gloominess a day of clouds and thick darkness Thus the Pains and Agonies of a dying State render it most terrible and dreadful Secondly It will appear again to be so FROM MENS MISGIVING THOVGHTS OF THEIR AFTER STATE I do not mean their doubtfulness of it for I am apt to think that the greatest pretenders that way are sufficiently convinc'd when they come to die and the sence oft hat their languishing Condition will soon rub up their belief of another Life but now most or all Men are under no small distress and perplexity from the conviction and consideration of that future Life for which none is sufficiently fitted and prepared but hath reason especially from himself to have some diffidence some distrust or suspicion of his condition in it and it is what becometh a prudent and a good Man for an over-weening opinion of our selves and a confident presumption of our preparation for Heaven may be ill grounded and mistaken and seems to be inconsistent with a truly devout and penitent Soul Be not high minded but fear is the Rule that such go by even in these circumstances We must be sensible and ought to be especially so when we come to die That we have had a great work to do in a little time and being that God now calls us to give up an account of our Stewardship it must put us into very great fear and consternation to think with our selves what we have done and whither we are going and how can we but suspect our condition when we consider that we are not able to answer God one word in a thousand must it not then most deeply concern and mightily affect our Souls to consider that near approach to their endless and unalterable State and the best of Men may have some fear or suspicion at least of their Condition in it This now is their grand Affair and if they fail and miscarry here they are irrevocably gone and lost for ever Who then can avoid being concern'd at this great and weighty change when he thinks with himself that he is now hasting into another world and at the gate of Eternity tho he fears not death yet the apprehensions of another State must strike a damp into his Soul and make him hugely ferious and perplexed in his thoughts Mens hearts failing them for fear of what may become of them in another State Nor is it blamable or unchristian to be so for besides what Reason the best of Men may have to suspect themselves such a temper as this will dispose us for all due care and circumspection in that most solemn time and season and such an humble distrust of our selves may and will have better effects than a very daring confidence and presumption For the comfort of good Men at the most depending upon hope doth shew that at the best they lie under some donbtfulness and insecurity And therefore as you see Mens misgiving thoughts as to a future State is no small trouble and perplexity to them in their dying circumstances Thirdly Their trouble herein doth further arise FROM THE THOVGHTS OF PARTING WITH ALL THE PLEASVRES AND ENJOYMENTS HERE BELOW Men that have lived in the World must needs have some interest and affections fix'd in it and there is scarce any that do or can sit so loose to these secular Affairs as to bear the removal from them with an even and undisturbed Spirit nay so far is it from this that these frequently prove the most pungent considerations or reflexions in that dismal state Have I saith one laboured all my life time for nothing but vanity and vexation of Spirit for I find it to be so now I am to be removed and to be taken from it For this have I beat my brains wearied and molested my self for this have I cheated and purloin'd for this have I overreach'd or supplanted my Brother wrong'd or oppress'd my Neighbour and must I be depriv'd of all in a moment What sorrow like to my sorrow will the Worldling say And those pleasures that others have too much in dulged will but the more perplex their thoughts when they are thus forc'd from them nay even the moderate and lawful enjoyment of these things will occasion in us no small trouble and vexation of mind at this final parting with them Tho it behoves us to do it with Christian courrage and Resignation yet we cannot without extream sorrow and concernment say at that time Farewel Wife farwel Children farewel Friends farewel the World