Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	accusation_n	accuse_v	accuser_n	43	3	10.4977	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12481	Sermons of the Right Reuerend Father in God Miles Smith, late Lord Bishop of Glocester. Transcribed out of his originall manuscripts, and now published for the common good; Sermons	Smith, Miles, d. 1624.; Prior, Thomas, b. 1585 or 6.	1632 (1632)	STC 22808; ESTC S117422	314,791	326

starre and will helpe such to right that suffer wrong What if they haue in one hand a cup of trembling the dregs wherof they cause the wicked of the Land to drinke off and sup vp yet in the other they haue Manna and a white stone and of the fruit of the Tree of life that is in the middest of the garden as it is in the Reue. and the same they reach forth vnto the innocent and will not suffer a haire of their head to perish And can such men be terrible vnto any they are not but onely to those whom their owne conscience doth first terrifie Prima est haec vltio quod se Iudice nemo nocens absoluitur that is This is the first torment that euill members doe suffer that their owne conscience doth first scarre them and set before them the things that they haue done and then you know what Saint Iohn saith If our heart or conscience condemne vs God is greater than our heart and knoweth all things and Saint Paul God bringeth to light the hidden things of darkenesse and maketh manifest the Counsels of the heart and then euery man hath praise of God 1 Cor. 4. It is meant euery man that doth well hath praise of God It is written of Alcibiades that hearing that a shrewd inditement was framed against him when he was abroad in the seruice of his Country he betooke himselfe to his heeles and being encountred and demanded by a friend of his What hee meant to shame himselfe and wrong his Country Will ye not said he commend your cause to your Country and trust it Indeed said Alcibiades I le trust it farre but when my life lies vpon the stake I will trust neither 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 neither neither my natiue Country nor my naturall mother lest in stead of a white Counter she should cast a black-one into the bag and so helpe to cast me away Alcibiades though he had beene much honester than he was yet might misdoubt the sequell of a tryall in Athens where the state was popular and where matters were carried many times rather according vnto passion than according vnto merit Manus sustulerunt Psephisma natum est and then away with him away with him So the worthy Romane Orator that had made his Country as much bound vnto him for sauing it from destruction as himselfe was bound to his Country for his breeding and bringing vp might well be allowed to flee out of it when his capitall enemy ruled the rost and was Tribune the Tribunes of Rome being of that Soueraigne authority that agreeing together they might command the death of the greatest and most Peerelesse Peere as appeareth by Plinie lib. 7. cap. 45. where he speaketh of Metellus Macedonicus This was a pittifull Estate where they that were appointed for the safegard and protection of the vertuous proued many of them authors of their bane and ruine But yet it was not so bad as vnder Marius when he returned from banishment for being attended and accompanied by a company of Cut-throats he gaue them this watch-word that whomsoeuer he spake not vnto or nodded at least when he met him they should repute him for an enemy and kill him without mercy or iudgement Who would care to liue vnder such a gouernment where liuing neuer so well his life might so easily and so wrongfully be taken from him This may moue vs beloued to blesse God for our times for our godly Gouernours for our wise Gouernours vnder whom if they may haue their will nothing but a mans owne offence can condemne him If they may haue their will I say for sometimes there arise vp false witnesses which depose things they know not and which were nothing so and so bring a true man to his end Was not Naboth the Iezrelite ouerthrowne by such a practice 1 Reg. 21 Was not Stephen by the like Acts 6.7 I forbeare to recite Athanasius and Narcissus with many other out of the Ecclesiastike Story which were some of them brought vnto their death other-some endangered by false witnesses There is scarcely any that heares me this day so void of experience or so young but he hath heard of some that suffered for a supposed offence which not they but others had committed and confessed so much at their end else-where This is much to be lamented but cannot by any meanes be remedyed for that which is past nor preuented for the time to come except there were a Law made that whosoeuer either by forswearing himselfe or procuring others to doe the like shall be the cause of death to an innocent man shall suffer the punishmēt that he brought vpon the other This is that which is expressely commanded Deut. 19. Life shall goe for life eye for eye c. where he speaketh of the punishment due vnto false witnesses I read that in Tenedos a small Iland but there was sharpe Iustice it appeareth there was a Law or Custome as strong as Law that he that accused another of a capitall crime should haue a naked Axe holden ouer his head wherewith he was to be beheaded if he did not proue his accusation Now this was very hard that it should be death to accuse one wrongfully for it is necessary that there be accusers in a State that they which be perfect may be knowne and they that are faulty may be found out as it is very behoouefull that there be dogs about a house to giue warning of theeues or suspected persons yet as these if they catch a true man by the bosome deserue not onely to be rebuked but also to be banged yea and to haue their legs broken so it is not vniust that the very accusing of a righteous man if it be prosecuted with eagernesse and vpon no probable ground should be chastized and fined deepely but now when a man shall aduisedly and maliciously forsweare himselfe and procure periury from others to compasse and procure the death of the innocent whereby the said innocent perisheth then methinkes it were pity that he that was the author of death vnto another should himselfe suffer lesse than death for he commeth within the compasse of the eternall Law of God mentioned in Genesis Hee that sheadeth mans blood by man shall his blood be shed By man By what man A priuate man No but gnal meimar daijanaija that is By the word or commandment of the Iudges as the Chaldy Paraphrast doth rightly vnderstand it and it is the voyce of nature 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If a man suffer according to that which he hath done much good may it doe him Thus much Adoni-bezeck a man out of the Church confessed Iudges 1. that is As I did to others so God hath requited me I cut from others their thumbes and great toes and therefore I am iustly serued to haue mine cut off And therefore no maruell if Samuel told Agag As thy