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	hell_n	sin_n	6,037	5	4.6569	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25483	Annus Sophiæ jubilæus, The sophick constitution, or, The evil customs of the world reform'd a dialogue between a philadept and a citizen concerning the possibility of the sophick transmutation, the probability that there are adepts in the world ... : to which is added, A summary of some conferences with an artist, &c.		1700 (1700)	Wing A3248; ESTC R18888	53,097	90

my Wife and Children my Brothers and Sisters to go plain as the Quakers to see no Company but what I liked to forbear playing at any Game Dancing at least with Persons of different Sexes c. I would oblige them to keep such hours in the House as I thought best to receive no Visits before two nor after six of the Clock in the Afternoon and not to make the Business of Visits to consist in eating and drinking without need to accustom themselves to instruct their Servants exactly in the Christian Religion and to take delight in a grave and useful Conversation I would make them promise that in case I succeeded and gave them a considerable Sum they should not alter this way of living they should not use any Ostentation they should not consume their abundance in keeping a dainty Table they should not give any Liveries to any Servant they should educate their Children and oblige them to live after the same way bringing them up plainly without any Vanity and Superfluity accustoming them to serve others using them to work and labour and causing them to learn some Trade that they might not altogether depend upon their Estate but might be able in case of necessity to live of themselves they should teach them to fear God to love other Men as their Fellow-Creatures and to have always before their Eyes that all Men in most respects are equal without which there can be no Charity But in the first place I would make them oblige themselves that they should not enquire nor seek to know what I did and in case they hapned to perceive and discover the least thing or any part of it that they should ever keep it inviolably secret And in fine I would make many useless Operations and work often upon some wrong Matters purposedly to blind and to try them Cit. But what if you were to work with some Partners Phil. I would not chuse for that young and undiscreet Persons nor would do like some People who tell every Body what they design to go upon because they hope they may be a little helpful to them these Men how erroneous soever their Fancies be are as much guilty as if they had prostituted and made publick the Elixir for that which they divulge may be the way to make it for ought they know They should consider how enormous and of what fatal consequence is their Guilt and that they shall be answerable to God for all the Mischiefs that may ensue They should not forget how much secresie Adepts require I wish they knew what I have been told That an Adept not long since addressing himself to a Person in Town to whom he shewed his Powder offered to communicate to him the Secret on no other condition than that he should sacredly promise to chuse to die rather than reveal to any Body the least thing concerning it about which the other making some difficulties the Adept left him and taught him nothing They might remember what honest and pious Daulton did He said Lord Jesu blessed Thou be Methinks I have been too long from Thee A Science Thou gavest me with full great charge Which I have kept without out-rage I found no Man yet apt thereto To be mine Heir when I am go Wherefore sweet Lord now I am fain To resign this Thy Gift to Thee again Norton giveth a reason of this Secresie This Sience must ever secret be The cause whereof is this as ye may see If one evil Man had hereof all his Will All Christian Peace he might hastily spill And with his Pride he might pull down Rightful Kings and Princes of Renown Wherefore the Sentence of Peril and Jeopardy Vpon the Teacher resteth dreadfully Thus we see Sir George Ripley making these Conditions with Edward IV. the which probably were never agreed unto That to your self ye shall keep it full secretly And only it use as may be to God's Pleasure c. Thomas Charnock had these Terms offered and imposed upon him by his Master Will you with me to morrow be content Faithfully to receive the blessed Sacrament Vpon this Oath that I shall here you give For ne Gold ne Silver as long as you live Neither for love you bear towards your Kin Nor yet to no great Man Preferment to win That you disclose the Secret that I shall you teach Neither by Writing nor by no swift Speech The like Caution should be used with all Partners in the work in case any were taken and such Counsels and Exhortations as those of Bloomfield should be often given them to persuade them to Moderation and confirm them in all Piety and Vertue Be you Holy therefore Sober Honest and Meck Love God and your Neighbour to the Poor be not unkind Overcome Satan God's Glory see you seek My Son be gentle to all Men as a Friend Fatherless and Widow have alway in thy Mind Th' innocent love as Brothers the wicked eschew Let Falshood and Flattery go lest thou it rue Devoutly serve God call daily for his Grace Worship him in Spirit with Heart contrite and pure In no wise let Satan thy Prayers deface Look thou be stedfast in Faith and trust most sure Lay up Treasure in Heaven which ever shall endure These Words of Isaac Holland in his Work of Saturn should also be often remembred If God give you this Stone look diligently to it that you keep your self from offending God that you make not this Stone on Earth to be your Heaven govern and rule your self to God's Glory and to the Comfort of poor People that God's Praise may be augmented to the Defence of the Christian Religion and to the Relief of poor exil'd Christians I tell you My Child if you use it otherwise God will leave you here a little while to your own Will but afterwards he will speedily send a Punishment either you shall be struck dead or die by a Fall or die some other sudden death and go Body and Soul to Hell and be damned eternally And in another place Do not undertake this Divine Work if you find your self in deadly Sins or that your Intent be otherwise than to God's Glory and to perform those Things which I taught you before I tell you truly you may see the Work but I am certain you shall never accomplish it not enjoy it God will order it so one Disaster or other will happen After all things ought to be so ordered by a skilful Artist that his Partners or Fellow-Work-men if he take any may know little or nothing of the Process and be bound upon Oath never to work separately from him in this Art nor to communicate any manner of ways to any Person any thing they shall discover or shall think to have discovered of his Process that is of his manner of working or of the Materials he worketh upon Cit. If there was no such thing as the Philosopher's Stone as I know not whether there be yet I find