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	soul_n	spirit_n	17,497	5	5.6554	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04922	An answer to a letter of a Iesuit named Tyrie, be Iohne Knox; Answer to a letter of a Jesuit named Tyrie.	Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.	1572 (1572)	STC 15062; ESTC S106716	35,936	92

vnto yow in these moste dolorous dayes And good hope I haue that my petition shall not be repelled but for Christ Iesus sake accepted and graunted albeit not in suche sort as yow and I most gladely wold yet I dout not but in suche sort we shall obteane it as his glorie and our Euerlasting comfort and proffeit requyreth It hes not bene without the most speciall prouyde n●e and fauoures of God that these many dayes by past yow haue bene greuously t●●pted and sore assaulted to reuolt turne back agane to that abhominable and blaspheamous Idolatrie which now in G●odes anger is erected before the vtterm●st of his plaigues be pow red furth vpon t●e stubburne and inobediēt which neuer wold delyte in y ● treuth of his word And therfor of his iust iudgmentes most iustly hes he giuen thē ouer according to there heartes desyre to delyte in lies to their eternall cōdempnatiō In the dayes I say dearely beloued Mother that no apperance there was y ● euer such abhominationes should haue taken place so suddanely within this Realme of England yow wer tempted and assaulted to turne back agane to Idolatrie which● tempting spirite God our heauēly Father permitted to trouble yow partly for that he wold haue yow exercised in the battel before the great danger approched least perchance that ye might haue bene ouerthrowen if inprouydedly bothe occasion and temptation at ones had assaulted yow and partly that by continuall ●epugnance ye might learne how odious is all kynd of Idolatrie in y ● sight of God For Sathan vseth seldome to tempt but in those thingis where with he knoweth god moste to be offended as pryde lust couetousnes ad●lterie idolatrie such others the committers whereof and continuers in the same pronunces Paule to haue no portion in the Kingdome of God This is my hope beloued Mother That in zour continuall battell so far ye haue profited that in this case almost ye nead no admonition of me But becaus it is my bounden dewtie not only by a common Christiane cheritie but also for that moste vnfeaned familiaritie and tender loue according to godlynes that we haue kept sence our first acquentance to do the vttermoste of my power for your cōfort By pen therefore will I wryte becaus the bodyes be now put a sunder to mete agane at Godes plesure that which by mouth and face to face ye haue often hard If man or Angell sh●ll l●ubour to bring yow back from the professiō that ones ye haue giuen let thē in that behalf be accursed and in no part cōcerning your faith religion obeyed of yow if any trouble yow aboue measure whether they be Magistrates or c●rnall freindes they shall beare their iust condempnation onles they suddanly repent But whosoeuer it be that shal prouoke or solist yow to that abhominable Idol resist yow all such boldely to the end learning of the holy Gost not to defyle the Tēple of God with Idolles nether yet to giue your bodylie presence vnto them but obeying God more then mā auoide all apperance of iniquitie The n●cessitie that all man hath so to do that willingly will not deceaue him self I remit partly to y ● which oft yow haue hard and partly to a generall letter by me written in great anguissie of heart to the Congregationis of whome I hear say a great part vnder pretense that they may kepe faith secrete in the heart and yet do as Idolaters do be ginneth now to fall before that Idoll But ô allace blinded and deceaued are they as they shall knowe in the Lordes sharpe visitation which so assuredly as our god liueth shall sho●tly apprehend those back starters amongis the myddes of Idolaters With the verray greaf of heart I wryte Better it had bene vnto thē neuer to haue knowen the treuth thē so suddanely with Godes great dishonour to haue returned to their vomet God of his infinite mercy grant vnto them suddane repentance for if the sin sleap long I feare it shall a walke to their perpetuall confusion But now deare Mother cōfort yow my heart God grant ye may in this my great afflictioun and dolorous pilgramage Cōtinew stoutly to the end and bow yow neuer before that Idoll and so will the rest of worldlie troubles to me be more tollerable With my owen heart I oft common yea and as it wer comforting my self I appeare to triumph that God shall neuer suffer yow to fall in that rebuke Sure I am that bothe yow wolde feare and eshame to commit that abhomination in my presence who am but a wretched man subiect to s●n and miserie lyke to your self But ô dear mother though no earthlie creature should be offended with yow yet fere yow the presence and offence of him who present in all place searches the verray heart and raynes whose indignation ones kendilled against the inobedient and no sin more inflāmeth his wraith then Idolatrie doth no creature in heauen nor yet in earth y ● only is creature is able to appease the same And therefore deare mother auoide and fle from it euen as from the death Euerlasting Verray loue and carefull sollicitude whiche God knoweth my heart taketh for yow compelleth me so oftentymes to dowble and rehearse one thing being vncertane when God shall graunt any opportunitie to visite yow agane But the spirite of the Lord Iesus shall by his owen omnipotēt yet inuinsible power supplie in yow that w t lacketh of worldly comfort that the glorie may be knowen to be Godes alone who for a tyme vseth to comfort susteane fead one creature by another but in the end he draweth vs his owen Image vnto him self that by him alone without the help of all other we may liue reioyce regne triumph as he hes promysed by Iesus Christ his sone One thing will I not conceale from yow deare Mother That nether are we sure nether yet in our heartes can we glorifi● God as our dewtie requyreth so long as that we haue the carnall cōfort defence of creatures with vs. The hole man in body and saule shall euidentlie proue this coclusioun For that body that liueth by meat drink sleap clothing nurishemēt we se it subiect to infirmitie yea to mutabilitie and sin as the finall death of all mā declareth and the saule euen of Goddes verray elect liuing by the liuely worde of the heuinly father hauing a teacher that caries fleshe is alwayes flowing and troubled with some feare as in Christes Apostles and many others most manifestly we ar instructed But when all earthly creature ceases then shall the sufficiencie of Godes spirite wirk his owen work And therefore beloued Mother feare not the battell that ye susteane nether yet the infirmitie that ye find either in fleshe or spirite only absteane from external iniquitie That yow make not your members seruandes to sin and your