Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	dead_a	sin_n	15,745	5	5.5153	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40264	The spiritual man Christ Jesus the blessed seed, light of life, purger of conscience, healer of nations, and restorer of mankind / by G. Fox.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1677 (1677)	Wing F1918; ESTC R37830	4,880	9

the earth and not with Christ in Heaven And again all the while your poor and blind and lame creeples and women and children are crying up down your streets and Steeplehouse-doors and alleys and corners after you that call your selves Christians and yet they Christians as well as you and so members of the same body so you may say Be clothed be filled be warmed and be such a people the Apostle speaks of yet let them be crying up down the Streets not provided for so this is to hang gold on one arm and let the other go bare or hang gold on the back and let the leg go bare for all are members of one body the poor as well as the rich and this declares that you are out of the law For the Lord took the tythes and gave them to the strangers and fatherless and widows and gave all enough that there was not a beggar in Israel among them Now judge your selves and see how short you come of them in life and practice which say you are Christians and profess the Gospel these things are a grief to many sober people in the City to see that Magistrates hath no more feeling of these things and yet so much profession of Religion and preaching among them and so much riches that men never knew want of and thereby many comes to be hardened which they might think if it were but to keep the honor of their City they would not let above all things blind men and creeples and lame people and poor fatherless children make a noise up and down the streets and Steeplehouse-doors but out of their abundance they would lay a little aside and have a place provided that all the poor blind lame creeples should be put into and Nurses set over them and looked to cherished and seen unto that they do not want and thus them that could work to work and this would be a good savour of the City and of the Magistrates Aldermen and Merchants of the City and to the sober people and to the Lord God that there should not be seen a beggar walk up and down the streets but that there might be a place where they might be maintained with a little out of their superfluity yea before there should be such a noise with the poor the blind the lame and the fatherless every one lay by a little out of their abundance and spare some off of their backs in gold and silver lace or their chains and rings for who considereth not the cry of the poor but turneth his ear from them them their Maker will not regard and all who do not visit the fatherless and the poor and the sick and feed the hungry and clothe the naked and are of a profession of Religion and makes a talk of Christs words and the Prophets and Moses such are in the wisdom below which is earthly sensual and devillish not preservers of the Creation not in the wisdom that is from above which is gentle easie to be intreated by which the creation is to be preserved by which it must be ordered again to the glory of God you going in your gold and silver yea in your very shooes laced and the poor want bread want stockings shooes you your many dishes change of dishes and that you call novelties and the poor cannot get bread spare one of your dishes and let it be carryed to the place for the poor and do not let them come begging for it neither but let them have a place where they may be kept and that will be for your honour and renown for consider what abundance of riches is in this City what good you might do with it or how soon you may be taken from it or it from you by fire or sea and yet for all this ye will not consider your poor brethren which are made of the same blood and mould to dwell upon the face of the Earth Therefore mind truth that makes free from deceit and from all cozening and dissembling and wil bring you to a word in all your common occasions and to so say and so do and to worship God in the truth and to worship God in the spirit that the Devil is out of come to the pure Religion which is to visit the fatherless to visit the sick and relieve the hungry and clothe the naked that brings you to practice and to do the will of God and give over your living in words and your hearts afar off surseiting in riches iniquity and deceit but come to honesty and plain dealing mercifulness take heed of pride and loftiness and wantonness and haughtiness and walk humbly before the Lord that you may come to the life the Saints was in the Prophets Christ and the Apostles were in For the mighty day of the Lord is coming wherein every one of you must give account of his deeds done in the body and every mans work must be tryed by fire and every mans works shall be brought to the light and manifest by it So your day is not past while you have time prise it G. F. The End has defiled his Heart his Soul his Mind his Conscience his Spirit that which purges this out of him is the Blood of Christ who by his Blood and fiery Baptisme hath purged out our sins and sanctifies us So they that be without understanding Pharisee like knows not that which purges all meats for whatsoever goes into the mouth and so into the belly and so into draught the Purger of all meats And also knows not Christ and is without the understanding of him who purges with his Blood the Mind Heart Soul Spirit and Conscience with his Blood through which they come to serve the Living God And all they that pleads for a Purgatory when they are dead to purge them they that pleads for a body of Death and Sin to the Grave and forbids meats as if they should defile them that goes into the belly and so into the draught the Purger that purges all meats they are as blind as the Jewes chief Priests and Pharisees and are as ignorant of the draught which purges all meats and of Him that purges the Conscience to wit Christ Jesus the Seed in whom all Nations is blest and therein Sanctified and Reconciled to God and all things in Heaven and all things in the Earth and receives his Blessing and Promise in the Seed and sees all things is blest and clean to them as they were in the Beginning by Christ Jesus the 7 th 1676. the 7th Month 1676 G. Fox