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	power_n	soul_n	11,029	5	5.2663	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50961	The svvord-bearer, or, Magistrates charge a sermon preached in the Chappell of Guild-Hall, at the election of the Lord Mayor / by Mathias Milward ...	Milward, Matthias, fl. 1603-1641.	1641 (1641)	Wing M2187; ESTC R14639	13,535	27

would know the reason Quia ego dominus tu servus obedientem te volo non contradicentem I am thy Lord thou my servant I will have thee obedient not repugnant Much more now are lawes necessarie yea new lawes according to occasion either for prevention to stop a mischiefe ensuing or for subvention to remedy evils past They are like waters that receive their tincture and tasts from the soyles through which they runne and so change according to the regions and governments where they are planted yet they proceed from the same fountaine of justice They ought not by multitude of constitutions to be snares to good minds nor by the quirks of mercenarie wits to be perverted to bad purposes Lawes should command not dispute The people of Aegina did impose a pecuniarie mulct upon him that had occasioned a new Law Amongst the Athenians there was but one new Law made for an hundred yeares and that was procured by one that was monoculus and the Law was this That hee should lose both his eyes who had put out his that had but one For our part God be thanked wee have good Lawes no Kingdome better and whether there be any need of more that must be left to the wisdom of the Estates If I have herein exceeded my bounds I cry pardon of the Lawyers I am sure the lesse wee have to doe with their Law the better men will like of our Divinity Only with old father Latimer I hope it is no harme to wish one Law more to be made which might be like that of the Medes and Persians unalterable namely for execution of those Lawes that are to be made For Lawes only made and not executed are like the Sword in the scabbard I come therefore to the second point which is the Sword drawne and that 's upright judgement To cleare this passage foure obstacles must be removed Feare Covetousnesse Hatred and Favour Feare dares not draw the Sword Covetousnesse will not Hatred must not and Favour may not of each of these some thing Feare was Pilats fault hee sought many meanes to deliver Jesus but feare of Caesars displeasure hindered him If thou let this man goe thou art not Caesars friend said the Jewes then he condemned Christ Iohn 19.12 If he had said Vivat Rex currat Lex God blesse Caesar and let the Law have his course he had beene a good Judge There is a Signe in Heaven called Virgo betwixt Leo and Libra Pierius in his Hieroglyphicks compares Justice to this Signe for Justice is a pure intemerate Virgin never corrupted by those too shamelesse Sollicitors Nimium Parum Excesse and Defect shee hath Leo on the one side because a just man is bold as a Lion Prov. 26.1 and Libra a paire of Ballances on the other side weighing out to every man his right which he cannot doe equally if he feare any mans displeasure He must remember Gods encouragement to Josua Be valiant and of a good courage Feare is forbidden by our Saviour Christ Mat. 10. Feare not them that can kill the Body A three-fold reason is there given first in regard of mans impotence for his power reacheth no further than the Body which is but the Bellowes of the Soule through which she breathes Anaxarchi follem tundis non Anaxarchum said he when he was maul'd to death Secondly in regard of Gods providence which extendeth it selfe to the lives of unreasonable creatures without which a Sparrow falls not upon the ground If the life of a Sparrow be governed by Divine Providence the price whereof is not a farthing shall not the life of the Just much more the price whereof is the blood of Christ Thirdly whatsoever becomes of our Bodies not an haire shall be missing at the Resurrection The haires of your head are numbred saith Christ Non est timendum de majoribus ubi est cura de minimis si sic custodiuntur superflua tua in quanta securitate est anima tua If God care for our superfluities much more for our necessaries the Soule especially Feare not therefore saith our Saviour Christ The Magistrate that beares the Sword must be magnanimous Certainely God hath set such an impression of Majestie in the face of lawfull Authoritie that wickednesse is confounded in it selfe to behold it For if from hence the Power that is visible were not more feared than the invisible God the world would be over-run with outrage Therefore a good Magistrate like a wise Physician feares not to let out the corrupt blood of Malefactors to save the life of the State for the Body of the Common-wealth cannot live unlesse her bad Members bleed This requireth fortitude and Feare dares not draw the Sword The second impediment is Covetousnesse and that will not draw the Sword The Prophet Osee complaineth Their Rulers love to say with shame Bring yee Os 4.18 It was the fault of Samuels sonnes they did not walke in their fathers wayes Why so Dilexerunt munera they loved Gifts nay Bribes that was the right name What followed Perverterunt judicium 1 Sam. 8.3 Then God tooke away the Government the people chose Saul King and those bribing Judges were cast off Aristophanes jeasting upon Cleon as Plutarch hath it saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This man can skill of no straine but the Dorick alluding to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 muneribus corrumpi the bribing straine rightly so called for a wicked man saith Salomon taketh a gift out of the bosome to wrest or straine the wayes of Judgement Many a heavie Curse hath God layd upon this sinne Woe be unto them saith the Prophet Esay that joyne house to house and field to field till there be no place Es 5.8 not speaking against honest purchasing but wicked compassing till there be no place no place for a neighbour to live by them Saint Ambrose complained in his time of such greedie encroachments Rich men cannot dwell alone upon earth sayes hee beasts herd together birds flock together fishes swim in sholes together nec damnum ducunt sed commercium vivendi They finde a kinde of commerce no dammage in it Solus tu homo consortem excludis includis feras struis habitacula bestiarum destruis hominem Man alone shuts out the companion of his life and emparketh beasts When Alexander sent Phocion an hundred talents he asked why amongst so many Athenians the King sent gifts unto him because saith the Messenger he heares that thou onely art a just man then Phocion Quin igitur posthac me bonum esse permittat Let him suffer mee to be so still for this is the way to make me stark naught What is the glory of a Citie not sumptuous buildings and stately pallaces but where the three faire daughters of Themis doe flourish Eunomia Dice Eirene Equity Justice and Peace Or as Persa the Captive virgin said of Athens being asked if it were not a goodly strong fenced Citie answered Si incolae bene sint morati