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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	life_n	spiritual_a	6,851	5	6.9124	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56313	A modest account from Pensylvania of the principal differences in point of doctrine, between George Keith, and those of the people called Quakers, from whom he separated : shewing his great declension, and inconsistency with himself therein : recommended to the serious consideration of those who are turned aside, aud [sic] joyned in his schism.	Pusey, Caleb, 1650?-1727.	1696 (1696)	Wing P4248; ESTC R40087	25,043	138

firmly believe there shall be a Resurrection both of the Just and of the Unjust the one to Eternal Life the other to Condemnation and that herein it is that we exercise our selves to have a Conscience void of offence towards God and towards Man And that if in this life we have hope only we are of all Men most miserable Yet I say though we firmly believe this according to Scripture we do not think it a necessary business to be curiously prying into the manner of it neither do we find the Primitive Christians come to any express Result about what their bodies should be For First If it was the common belief of the Primitive Christians That the very same Matter and Substance of this corruptible body should be the body that is raised why should any among themselves especially have asked such a needless Question as With what body do they come Secondly But then such a Question ●eing asked would not the Apostle think you who was ready to give every Man an answer of the hope that was in him have answered more to the matter and said Thou Fool what dost thou ask that for Inasmuch as it is our common belief that it is the very same body for Matter and Substance which is buried in the Grave The Matter and Substance whereof being in common acceptation the same Flesh Blood and Bones But instead of that said he Thou Fool that which thou sowest is not quickened except it die And thou sowest not the Body that shall be So that as a Grain sowed in the Field is not quickened except it die So Mankind on whom through the envy of the Devil came Death being sown in the Field of the World as unless he first come to die unto sin is not quickened or raised to the Life of Righteousness here in this World so nor until he come to die the bodily death is he raised to the State of Glory with such a Spiritual body as it shall please God to give in the World to come And so that which is sown is not quickened except first it die Thirdly Because as to what body it shall be he answers in the Negative to wit That which thou sowest is not that body that shall be but bare Grain c. and then concludes that God gives a body as it pleaseth him and yet to every Seed it s own body so that none shall be invested with anothers body but it s own proper yet a Spiritual body and such a one as it shall please God to give with whose good pleasure I desire my Soul may rest satisfied in all things as long as I have a Being viz. Concerning what bodies he will be pleased to give at the Resurrection of the Dead Now Friends methinks you may easily see what a strange Babel G. K. is a building And why was not the Almanack-Maker so Ingenious and Impartial since he would needs be doing and medling with things so impertinent to an Almanack and instead of such silly idle stuff he there puts in to have taken notice of some of the confused work which G. K. hath made of late amongst us also but it is a true saying Prejudice blinds Men. But now farther as to the Almanack-Maker I shall take a little notice of the noise he makes therein concerning some Quakers at Philadelphia who he said persecuted their Brethren about a Religious difference c. A high Charge but sooner said than proved For all Men that are brought before Magistrates and Courts are not sufferers for Religion though true it is Men on the one hand may be Petsecutors for Religion and yet pretend other matters for their doing so on the other hand Men may be Abusers of Christian Liberty by doing things under pretence of Conscience and Religion for which the Magistrates may be Justifiable both to call them to an Account and if occasion be to punish them for it This surely G. K. will not deny for doth not he himself in his late Answer to Cotton Mather when speaking of a Woman that went stark naked into a Publick Assembly say That we meaning the Quakers all judge that any such Practice doth deserve Corporal Punishment and that she deserved much more punishment than Imprisonment for it yet this Woman pretended Religion for what she did Now admit the Magistrates here had been full as bad in other matters as you have rendered them to be yet that would not justifie them in abusing of them in those matters for which they were called to an Account nor did I ever read that I can remember That any were Recorded as Sufferers for Conscience sake when it was for abusing and belying of Magistrates both in Print and otherwise as these did at Appeal it in the 2● c. p. ● Philadelphia Printing that the Magistrates not only countenanced the hireing of Men to fight but also gave them a Commission so to do Signed by Three Justices of the Peace whereof one was a Preacher and that the Worldly Government was here engrossed by the Ministers in all which are these falshoods against the Magistrates First That they Signed a Commission to fight This falshood was of very bad tendency thus to Print abroad to the World That the Magistrates and that Quakers too signed a Commission to fight for this is more than they had Power to do being Civil Magistrates for that Power was given by the King to none but the Governour his Captains or Officers so that they might have been called to an Account for it and rendered ridiculous to the World about it The second falshood was That it was Signed by three Justices of the Peace whereof one was a Preacher whereas it being but a Warrant of the Hue and Cry Signed but by two Justices and neither of them a Preacher The third falshood was That the Ministers here had ingrossed the Worldly Covernment for there were many that were not Ministers nor Quakers neither then in Government And doth not the Almanack Maker say himself That there were then Justices who were not Quakers Consequently the Government was not ingrossed by them Neither did I ever read That any were Recorded as Sufferers for Conscience sake when it was for falsly insinuating against Magistrates as That one should be carried to Bed Drunk and another to be as Drunk that he could scarce get over the Ships side he was in and that he Waged his Horse with John Slocam but being Drunk the said Slocam would not take the advantage of the Wager against him Now though he may say This was but by way of Quaery yet to insinuate such gross and false things especially against Magistrates though by way of Quaery surely is not justifiable For as Will. Penn saith in his late little Book It were intollerable to be a Minister of State if every body must be Accuser and Judge Let therefore saith he the false Accuser no more escape an examplary punishment than the guilty Minister for