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	drink_v	eat_v	5,781	5	7.4332	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96691	Fire in the bush. the spirit burning, not consuming, but purging mankinde. Or, The great battell of God Almighty, between Michaell the Seed of Life, and the great red dragon, the curse fought within the spirit of man. With severall other declarations, and testimonies of the power of life. / By Jerrard Winstanly.	Winstanley, Gerrard, b. 1609.	1650 (1650)	Wing W3043_pt2; Thomason E1365[1]; ESTC R12363	3,676	8

A VINDICATION OF THOSE Whose endeavors is only to make the Earth a common treasury called DIGGERS OR Some Reasons given by them against the immoderate use of creatures or the excessive community of women called Ranting or rather Renting FIrst those that are called Diggers doe looke upon the Ranting Practise to be a Kingdome without the man which moth and rust doe may and will corrupt and which thieves may break through and steale away It is Kingdome that lies in objects As in the outward enjoyment of meat drinke pleasures and women so that the man within can have no quiet rest unlesse he enjoy those outward objects in excesse all which are vanishable Therefore it is the Devills Kingdome of darknesse and not the Kingdome of heaven nor true peace within Secondly this outward life in the abundant eating and drinking and actuall community with variety of women is the onely life of the five sences which is the life of the Beast or living flesh And fights against reason who is the seed or tree of life or the righteous man that is within For when the sensitive power which is the sonne of bondage rules then Reason which is the sonne of freedome is trod under foot and in the absence thereof the whole body whole Families nay whole Nations are distempered But when Reason rules in the house or heart not suffering the sences to runne into excesse in any action then the whole body enjoyes quiet rest and peace Therefore that immoderate ranting practise of the Sences is not the true life of peace Thirdly the Ranting practise is the proper Kingdome of Covetousnesse or King Lust of the flesh which is the Kingdome of darknesse full of unreasonablenesse madnesse and confusion it is the land of darknesse bringing forth nothing but miserie to the Inhabitants thereof for Fourthly it is destructive to the body house or Temple wherein Reason or the spirituall power dwells it brings diseases infirmenesse weaknesses and rottennesse upon the body and so ruines the house about the mans eares that he cannot live in quiet peace for diseases of body causes sorrow of mind And as moderation in any action brings peace so excesse brings diseases and death Therefore the unrationall ranting practise is not the life of rightnesse nor peace Fifthly it brings vexation to the mind or man within for when you want your delight in the excessive copolation with Women and in the super abundant eating and drinking which is the wastfull spending of the Treasures of the Earth As the Ranting practise is Then Angar rage and varietie of vexations possesses the mind and inflames their harts to quarrelling killing burning houses or Corne or to such like distructivenesse Sixtly The Ranting practise is a peace breaker it breaks the peace in Families and rents in peeces mankind for where true Love hath united a man and woman to be Husband and Wife and they live in peace when this Ranting power or king lust of the flesh comes in he seperates those very friends causing both sides to run into the Sea of confusion madnesse and distruction to leave each other to leave their Children and to live in discontent each with other It pretends love to all men and women But yet he is a beast that respects persons for the richest and fairest must be his associate Seaventhly This excesse of Feminine society hinders the pure and naturall Generation of man and spills the seed in vaine and instead of a healthfull groth of mankind it produces weaknesse and much infirmnesse through immoderate heat so that either the Mother hath much more paine in child bearing or els the child is fild with such infirmnesse that it proves a burden to the Mother or nurse or through deseases he brings with him into the world he proves either not long lived or a foole or else a sickly weakly thing that is a burden to himselfe So that this moderat Ranting is not a health full builder up of the creation man but a violent waster and destroyer of the health and strength of man This false generating fire is the foundation of much lamentation for children begotten through this forced immoderat heat of lust proves furious and full of rage it is a breeder of much distemper Warres and quarrells It is one cause if not the chief of the rising up of the hairie man which is a destroyer of himselfe and others And the mother and child begotten in this manner is like to have the worst of it for the m●n will be gone and leave them and regard them no more then other woemen like a Bull that begets a Calfe that never takes care neither for Cow nor Calfe after he hath had his pleasure Therefore you women beware for this ranting practise is not the restoring but the destroying power of the creation Eightly The Ranting practise is the support of Idlenesse for they that are the Sons and Daughters of that unrationall power neither can nor will work but live idle like wandring bussi bodies expressing and cheating others that are simple and of a civill flexible nature so that by seeking their owne freedom they imbondage others which is the selfish but not the universall Love for true Love seeks the preservation of others as of one selfe or else for want of food and rayment through an inward proud sullennesse either sterves their owne bodies or else through an inward rage endeavours the ruine of others Ninthly This Ranting power or god is full of sutletie to deceive others of what they can and is a nurse of hardnesse of heart against others when he hath deceived them for this is his nature to gets what he can from others labours to eat up other and make them poore and then to laugh and rejoyce in others poverty Tenthly The Ranting power would make this Covenant with all men to put out their eyes or suffer him quietly to put them out and to s●e by his eyes and to walk by his legges and then he calls them high lighted creatures otherwise he tells them they live belowe them and is in the dark and rather then proud civility would be counted ignorant it will yeeld and first stands looking and saying I can say nothing against this ranting practise and then afterwards yeelds and then is ensnared and taken by the suitle devcaring Ranting Beast But now he that obeyes reasons Law of righteousnesse within shall escape that snare Eleventhly This Ranting power is the resurtection of the uncleane doggish beastly nature ●t is the resurrection of the filth unrighteouse power in all his branches and it is high now but will rise higher for it must rise to the hight to shew himselfe a compleat man of darknesse that he may come to judgement and so be cast out of heaven That is out of mankinde For as he is upon his resurrection so the man of pure life reason and righteousnesse is upon his resurrection too Who is rising to purge and to restore the ereation and