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	part_n	sin_n	5,392	5	4.9129	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67472	Love and truth in two modest and peaceable letters concerning the distempers of the present times / written from a quiet and conformable citizen of London to two busie and factious shop-keepers in Coventry.	Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683.	1680 (1680)	Wing W673; ESTC R38020	26,280	37

again What if we forget or neglect the tender Consciences of our own Party and comply with yours What security can you or they give us that this shall satisfie them so as to ask no more when this is granted Or that a year hence their Disciples or their Successours shall rest satisfied with what is now desired or granted Really I cannot think any security can be given but that all this being granted yet any man of a melancholly or a malicious or a peevish or a santastical or a wanton Conscience or a Conscience that inclines to get reputation and court applause may call his own a tender Conscience and become seditious and restless if his tender Conscience be not complied with And so no end of their desires nor any more safety by granting what is desired I shall next endeavour to satisfie your desire or rather your challenge why I go so constantly to the Church Service and my answer shall be all in love and in sincerity I go to adore and worship my God who hath made me of nothing and preserved me from being worse than nothing And this Worship and Adoration I do pay him inwardly in my Soul and testifie it outwardly by my behaviour as namely by my Adoration in my forbearing to cover my head in that place dedicated to God and only to his Service and also by standing up at the profession of the Creed which contains the several Articles that I and all true Christians profess and believe and also by my standing up 〈◊〉 giving Glory to the Father the Son and to the Holy Ghost and confessing them to be Three Persous and but one God And secondly I go to Church to praise my God for my Creation and Redemption and for his many deliverances of me from the many dangers of my Body and more especially of my Soul in sending me Redemption by the death of his Son my Saviour and for the constant assistance of his Holy Spirit a part of which Praise I perform frequently in the Psalms which are daily read in the Publick Congregation And thirdly I go to Church publickly to confess and bewail my sins and to beg pardon for them for his merits who died to reconcile me and all Mankind unto God who is both his and my Father and as for the Words in which I beg this mercy they be the Letany and Collects of the Church composed by those learned and devout men whom you and I have t●usted to tell us which is and which is not the written Word of God and trusted also to translate those Scriptures into English And in these Collects you may note that I pray absolutely for pardon of sin and for grace to believe and serve God But I pray for health and peace and plenty conditionally even so far as they may tend to his Glory and the good of my Soul and not further And this confessing my sins and begging mercy and pardon for them I do in my adoring my God and by the humble posture of kneeling on my knees before Him And in this manner and by reverend sitting to hear some chosen parts of Gods Word read in the Publick Assembly I spend one hour of the Lords day every Forenoon and half so much time every Evening And since this uniform and devout custom of joyning together in Publick onfession and Praise and Prayer and Adoration of God and in one manner hath been neglected the power of Christianity and humble Piety is so much decayed that it ought not to be thought on but with sorrow and lameutation And I think especially by the Non-conformists And lattly for I am tedious beyond my intention whereas you and your Party would have the Bishops and Cathedral-Church Lands sold to supply the present necessities of the Nation I say first God prevent the Nation from such necessities as shall make them guilty of so many Curses as have been by the Doners of those Lands intailed with thole Lands upon those men that alienate them to any other use than for the use of those that shall serve at God's Altar to which end the Priests Portion was kept with Care and Conscience till the days of King Henry the Eighth who is noted to make the first breach of those Oaths that were always taken and kept by his Predecessors and taken by himself too to preserve the Church-Lands and it is noted that he was the first Violator of those many Laws made also to preserve them out of which Lands he took at the dissolution of the Abbies a part for himself exchanged a part with others that thirsted to thrive by the dissolution and gave the rest to be shar d amongst the Complying Nobility and other Families that then were in greatest power and favour with him concerning which if you desire a further information I refer you to a little Treatise written by the Learned Sir Henry Spelman called De non temerandis Ecclesiis and especial'y to the Preface before it in which you may find many sad Observations of the said King and find there also that more of the Nobility and those other Families and their Children that then shared the Church Lands came to die by the Sword of Justice and other eminent misfortunes in twenty years than had suffered in four hundred years before the dissolution and for a proof of which he refers you to the Parliament Rolls of the twenty-seventh of that King And to me it seems fit that the Observations of the ruine and misfortune of the other Families that were sharers of the Church-Lands made by that pious and learned Knight since the said twenty years which he left written are not also made publick but possibly they may pare too near the quick and are therefore yet forborn I will say nothing of Queen Elizabeth but for King James I will say he did neither follow King Henry's nor her President and his Childrens Children sit this day upon his Throne And for his Son Charles the First who is justly called the Martyr for the Church He had also well considered the Oaths taken by all his Ancestors and by Himself too at his Coronation to preserve the Lands and rights of the Church and therefore in his Book of Penitential Meditations and Vows made in his sad Solitude and Imprisonment at Holmby you may in that Chapter of the Covenant there find that at that time when he apprehended Himself in danger of death yet that this was then his Resolution The principal end of some men in this Covenant is the abasing of Episcopacy into Presbytery and of robbing the church of its Lands and Revenues But I thank God as no man lay more open to the sacrilegious temptation of usurping them which issuing chiefly from the Crown are held of it and can legally revert only to the Crown with my consent so I have always had such a perfect abborrence of it in my Soul that I never found the least inclination to such sacrilegious reformings