Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	become_v	sword_n	zion_n	18	3	9.5672	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85109	The phanatiques creed, or A door of safety; in answer to a bloody pamphlet intituled A door of hope: or, A call and declaration for the gathering together of the first ripe fruits unto the standard of our Lord, King Jesus. Wherein the principles, danger, malice, and designe of the sectaries, are impartially laid open.		1661 (1661)	Wing F402; Thomason E1055_14; ESTC R208007	10,041	16

THE PHANATIQUES CREED OR A Door of Safety In Answer to a bloody Pamphlet INTITULED A Door of Hope OR A CALL and DECLARATION for the gathering together of the first ripe Fruits unto the STANDARD of our Lord KING JESUS Wherein the Principles Danger Malice and Designe of the Sectaries are Impartially Laid open London Printed for Henry Brome at the Gun in Ivy-lane 1661. THE PHANATIQUES CREED OR A Door of Safety c. ALthough That Party might very justly be deny'd the common Benefits of Indulgence and Protection that Declares it self against the Common Rules of Religion and Society Yet His Majesty is rather pleas'd by a gentle Interdiction of their Private meetings for the Future to Prevent more Mischief then by a Total Extirpation of the whole Faction so Principled to Punish the Outrages they have already Committed God grant they abuse not This Mercie too as they have done That already by virtue of which they doe at this Instant enjoy their Lives and Fortunes Never was so Foul a Villany Seconded by an Equal Madnesse For a Small Poor Rash Divided Hated and Despised Party to Invade the Numerous Potent Sober and United Interests of the Nation A People that enjoy'd all the Privileges of Englishmen and Citizens without any Provocation either from Necessity or Oppression These are your Men of Tender Consciences your streight-lac'd Christians The Spirits that some Twenty years since were Raised to Call for Justice upon Delinquents and Taught to Tumult for a Gospel-Ministry The Crosse the Surplice and the Common Prayer are an Abomination but Rebellion Blasphemy Murther Sacrilege Spilling of Christian Bloud like Water Playing the Devil in the Name of Jesus This they call Following of the Lamb. Rising against the séed of the Serpent In fine they ascribe to a Divine Impulse the lewdest Actions that ever proceeded from Corrupt Nature To Reason with them were to doe too much honour to their Grosse Wilde Opinions and Time Lost to oppose Argument against pretended Revelation It shall suffice me to expose their Principles and leave the World to judge whether they favour more of Christ or Belial To that end I have extracted the summe of the Phanatique Creed from one of their own Pamphlets Intitled A Door of Hope OR A CALL and DECLARATION for the gathering together of the first ripe Fruits unto the STANDARD of our Lord KING JESUS NOw your Attention to the Language of the Saints After an Invocation of the Holy Spirit Thus doth our Libeller discourse of his late Glorious Majesty Page 1. This beginning of Reformation and the honest Party engaged in this Quarrel however by far the less number God did abundantly own and witness too from heaven by opening his Salvation and making bare his own Arm against the late King who was justly out off as a Murtherer see Decl. of Parl. 11. Feb. 1647. Tyrant and Traytor c. Soon after in the same Page he goes on Neverthelesse God hath now taken away all our bancks and permitted this old Enemy to come in upon us as a flood Isa 59.19 And now C. S. the Son of that Murtherer is Proclaimed King of England whose Throne of Iniquity is built on the Blood of precious Saints and Martyrs and on the Blood of all our Brethren in the late Wars c. Not to trouble the Reader with his Nauseous Calculations and forc'd Glosses upon Texts in favour of his Delusion my Businesse is in as Few words as may be to shew how Dangerous to the Civil Magistrate and to the Publique Peace People of this perswasion are Their Dreams of Zion and of Babel and their setting Daniel and the Revelation together by the Ears about the Number of the Beast concern not me Those tedious Fooleries omitted as beside my Purpose I passe on to his second Page where speaking of the Royal Party he proceeds in these Terms For as he raised up Pharoah so hath he them to shew his Power in them and that his Name may be declared throughout all the Earth Rom. 9.17 They are brought as Foxes into the Snare and as Birds into the Net We say when we consider these things we are so ●ar from being dejected that we cannot restrain from singing and prais● knowing that this will make much for Gods Honour our good and this Works advantage and they shall not be able to touch one hair of our head nay we were very much confirmed in our hopes of the sudden appearance of this Work by the coming in of their poor wretched King at whom as the Daughter of Zion did at that great boasting Assyrian we laugh and have them in derision And when we consider the great opinions of this year the wonderfull effects it is like to produce the sweet harmony and agreement of the Prophecies the visibility of those things therein foretold to fall in the time of the Witnesses death the great likelihood of the Witnesses Resurrection the great New Covenant-Promise of the spirit made to this Work the wonderfull undeniable signs of the times and how miraculously we have been cut out and preserved for this Work of which we shall speak in a brief Treatise by it self And also having our hearts broken with the Love of Christ and boiling over and having tasted through choice distinguishing grace the Preciousness Power and Love of a soul-endearing Jesus we are mightily awakend and stirred up and that Fire that has been hid under our Ashes will break out into Flames n●d that Fountain of the Rivers of Living Waters into Streams as the bubbling Springs that searcheth the ground and finding entrance gusheth out Our Lives and every thing else that is dear unto us upon a worldly account we despise as a mean thing in comparison of the glory of that Name which is to us as precious Oyntment and we lay all down at the feet of our Lord Jesus resolving if we perish to perish there His Zeal growes now a little warm in these words Page 3. We therefore freely of a ready mind and with a most chearfull heart accounting it an Honour too great for us poor worms who are the meanest of Men the greatest of Sinners and the least of Saints to gird on a Sword for Christ Give up our Lives and Estates unto our Lord King Jesus and to his People to become Souldiers in the Lambs Army abhorring Mercenary Principles and Interests And for this works sake we desire not to love our lives unto the death neither will we ever if we may speak so great a word with reverence in the fear of God sheath our Swords again untill Mount Zion become the joy of the whole Earth a Mountain of holynesse and a habitation of justice untill Rome be in Ashes and Babylon become a bissing and a curse the border of wickednesse and the people against whom the Lord hath indignation for ever there being left unto her neither Name nor Remnant Son or Nephew For that we are not purposed when the Lord shall have