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	lord_n	soul_n	13,508	5	5.1021	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34136	Common-prayer-book devotions, episcopal delusions, or, The Second death of the service-book wherein the unlawfulness (with advantage) of the imposition of liturgies ... is clearly and plainly demonstrated from the Scriptures ...	C. W.	1666 (1666)	Wing C5572; ESTC R35602	67,445	80

Kings and Princes immediately by himself it is very reasonable to conceive that he giveth it by a larger measure then when he imparts and communicats it by the People For as observing the course of Nature he cannot cause a Sheep to bring forth a Lion although by his unlimitted Power he is able to create a Lion of what stature and strength and fierceness he pleaseth So when he joyneth himself with the People in deriving Authority and Power unto Kings which he always doth when he useth their mediation in the election of Kings he can derive no more of these unto them then what is competent for the People to derive with him yea no more then what he maketh the People willing as well as able to derive with him However as hath been said if he pleaseth to make Kings immediately of and by himself without the People he may invest them with what proportion of both he pleaseth So then the measure or proportion of Authority and Power which was vested by God in and accordingly exercised by the Kings of Judah is no steady ground whereon to warrant the same proportion or measure unto Christian Kings The reason hereof hath been expressed already namely because no King of this denomination received his call unto his Royal Dignity immediately from God as those Kings received theirs but all of them mediante Populo mediately by and from the People and consequently can have no other no more or greater Power then what is or was inherently in the People and lawful for them to part with unto them And certain it is that no person can lawfully or reasonably give a power unto any man to regulate his Conscience about the Worship of God as he pleaseth himself having no power in this kind but onely to regulate it according to the Will and Commandment of God Neither had the Kings of Judah themselves any such power as this given unto them by God as hath been formerly shewed 9. And lastly Notwithstanding all the great power they had from God yet when any of these Kings did cause their People to enter into a Religious Covenant or Oath they did it not against the wills no nor without the consent of their People yea these were as forward and active in the business as the Kings themselves And they King Asa with the generality or Body of his People as appears from the Context both subsequent and preceding entered into a Covenant to seek the Lord God of their Fathers with all their heart and with all their soul That whosoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel should be put to death whether small or great whether man or woman And they sware unto the Lord with a loud voice and with shouting and with Trumpets and with Cornets And ALL Judah rejoyced at the Oath for they had sworn with all their heart c. 2 Chron. 15.12 13 14 15. So that the King imposed nothing upon the People but what they most freely yea most joyfully imposed upon themselves And that is observable by the way that there is no other penalty or punishment any where threatned against any transgressor of any Order Edict or Imposition concerning Religion or the Worship and Service of God published by any of the said good Kings either with or without their People but onely that of death which is the punishment expresly commanded by God himself to be inflicted in such cases I mean upon Idolaters lawfully convicted Deut. 17.2 3 4 5 6. Yea Jehosaphat would not so much as appoint Singers unto the Lord to go before the Army without consultation first had with the People about it 2 Chron. 20.21 See also concerning Hezekiah 2 Chro. 30.2 4 5. They who would compell the good Kings of Judah to invest Christian Magistrates with their power in matters of Religion do very unworthily in restraining them from instructing these Magistrates by their worthy Examples in and about the exercise of this power But I trust that from henceforth these good Kings will be innocent from the great offence of strengthning the hand of Christian Magistrates in oppressing the Consciences of their good Subjects with penal Impositions in matters of Religion Secondly Some plead That God hath admitted Caesar the Christian Caesar into part and fellowship with himself in matters of his Worship so far as with the advice of his Spiritual Senators his Lord-Bishops to make what by-Laws in matters of this nature he pleaseth and to impose any Form one or more of Divine Worship upon his Subjects under what Penalties he thinks fit so that the Worship imposed in these Forms be consonant to the Word of God These men would fain incorporate this notion into the Body of our Faith That the things of Caesar would otherwise be too narrow and inconsiderable for a Person of so august and sacred an investiture unless it be supposed that the Almighty giveth unto him the right hand of Fellowship in ordering the Affairs of his Worship in forming and reforming in changing and altering it at his pleasure yea and in punishing with great severity those that shall not bow down to his present establishment whatever it be Although the spirit of this plea hath been quenched already yet let us take the pains to draw a little more water to cast upon it There sore 1. The Masters of this Plea in pleading the Cause of their Tythes often make use of an Emblem which though colourable onely for that service will be of a real accommodation here The Eagle setting her Nest on fire and so destroying her young ones with a burning Coal which stuck though she minded it not to the piece of Flesh that she had sacrilegiously snatch'd from off the Altar and carried to her Nest upon which the disaster happened is an apt Resemblance of those Calamities Judgements which sooner or later fall upon the Houses and Families of such Kings and Princes and Grandees of the World who intrench upon the Quarters of Him whose Name is Jealous and cannot be content without being adored as Domini utriusque Seculi as having Dominion over the things of both Worlds If men will presume to set their posts too near unto the posts of God he will up with them again and burn them with fire Instances hereof may be found in the premises But 2. It never yet was nor most certainly ever will be proved either from the Scriptures or from any Principle of sound Reason that Kings or Magistrates are by God joyned in Commission with himself to impose Models or Forms of Worship such as they please onely with this Condition That they think or suppose them to be agreeable to the Scriptures upon their fellow-Creatures the Sons and Daughters of Men yea upon such Persons who in all likelihood and according to all experience in like cases know and understand the mind and will of God concerning his Worship much more perfectly then themselves yea and whom God hath commissioned to teach and