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	kill_v	soul_n	5,768	5	5.6613	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59054	A briefe declaration of the barbarovs and inhumane dealings of the northerne Irishe rebels and many others in severall counties up-rising against the English, that dwelt both lovingly and securely among them : written to excite the English nation to relieve our poore wives and children that have escaped the rebels savage cureltie, and that shall arive safe among them in England : and in exchange to send aid of men and meanes forthwith to quell their boundless insolencies, with certaine encouragements to the worker / by G. S. ...	G. S., Minister of Gods word in Ireland.	1641 (1641)	Wing S24; ESTC R13792	6,780	22

certamina desunt But to hasten In the County of Monnohan Master Richard Cope his Wife and Sonnes Walter Cope Esquire his wife and children Anthony Cope Richard Blany Master Branthwait master Ralph Secum his wife and children with divers others Esquires Ministers and Gentlemen of all sorts have they carryed away into Monnohan goale and there keepe them close prisoners in the nasty and stinking Dungeon threatning every day to hang them or otherwise to deprive them of their lives And their Masse-priests those sowers of Tares working upon the extremities of forlorne men doe by all meanes possible seeke to turne weake Christians to their superstitions both by threats and promises and prevaile with too many But oh yee false seducers Quae vos dementia coepit Will yee not cease to pervert the right wayes of the Lord Helpe Lord deliver the oppressed to celebrate thy praise and power Rescue such as are appointed to dye and in life endure worse things then the most bitter death Lay no more on them then what they are able to beare and in death let Christ be their advantage And you our friends in England our owne flesh and bloud especially you of the honourable and high Court of Parliament and the house of Commons the representative body of the Kingdome be pleased to yeeld your joynt assistance in relieving the poore exiled that commit themselves to your wings for protection And be as ready to relieve us in Ireland as the Saints were to succour the Brethren in Judea Our need is no lesse then theirs was It will bee an heavy indictment one day when Christ shall say to some who have neglected his poore members I was hungry and ye fed me not naked and you clothed me not c. Goe yee cursed c. And for this your owne Backdoore of Ireland for your owne sakes have a care now in most needfull time They are guilty of much innocent bloud and have broken the oath of their God I meanethe oath of Alleagiance towards our Soveraigne King God in his wrath towards us hath remembred mercy If he would have destroyed us to Desolation he would not have discovered the Plot nor shewed himselfe so marvellous on the behalfe of some of us as he hath done God hath promised his Church that they who begin to make warre with the Lambe shall bee overcome by the Lambe Then reward them even as they have rewarded us give them double according to their workes and in the Cuppe that they have filled to us fill them double Reward them we pray as Iehu did Baals priests Or deale with them as Samuel dealt with Agag Hew these trayterous Agags in pieces before the Lord Severity is but Iustice when Lenity puts all in hazard Sometimes to omit the punishment is to commit the offence There is a cruelty in some kind of mercy though there be no mercy in crueltie Our goods by them forcibly taken and detained together with their goods and estates in justice will become a prey to you And feare not them for they shall even be bread for you Their defence is departed from them and the Lord is with us Their sinnes are full ripe it is time for God to put in his sickle Religion is the greatest motive to a Christian mind Let them not ever insult and say we have prevailed Bring not that curse upon your soules denounced Iudges the 5. and Verse 23. Curse yee curse yee them bitterly that came not to the helpe of the Lord against the wicked who have in a trice laid wast those hopefull Plantations in the County of Cavan Farmannagh Tyrone Ardmagh Longford Letrim Monehans with divers others which have beene thirty yeares in Planting and now for the greatest part utterly supplanted They are also out in Rebellion in the Counties of Derry Donogull Downe Louthe and Antrim and the greatest part of the English in all these Counties utterly impoverished by them Also in the Counties of Sligo Resecoman Westmeath East-meath the King and Queenes Counties the English are much spoyled by them So that the Goods and treasure which those Assassinates have taken from the English in the three Provinces of Vlster Lynster and Conaught amounts to a very great invaluable summe True it is that in severall Counties many of the best sort are in restraint with them as Sir Edward Travers Captaine Smith the Lord Bishop of Killmors Blanys Lady and his Sisters the Lord Cafield Edward Philpot Esquire Mistresse Moynes the elder Roger Moynes Esquire his wife and children and very many others And hereupon many thinke if any forces proceed against them that then they will wreake their utmost malice on these But others conceive that in regard they knowing that they cannot possibly now since their plot is discovered long hold out The consideration of this that Lex talionis may be rendred to them And that as they deale with these and others our friends and children the like may befall their owne wives and children will restraine them from laying violent hands on such as are in durance And we know that a haire cannot fall from the head of any one of us without the providence of our Father in Heaven to whom wee leave them that can shew mercy by life or in death in whose hands are our times and not in theirs that may have the custody of our bodies who hath bidden us not to feare them that can kill the body but to feare him that can cast both body and soule into hell To whom be honour and glory now and for ever Amen FINIS Acts ●● Iudges 13 Revel. 17. Revel. 18. ● Kings 10. 25.