Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	bring_v	great_a	king_n	4,380	5	3.4622	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54453	A voice from the close or inner prison unto all the upright in heart, whether they are bond or free.	J. P. (John Perrot), d. 1671?.	1662 (1662)	Wing P1640; ESTC R217888	16,893	23

sees no corruption whose light shines in the very darkest of mankind though they comprehend it not but when that Light which is the same also of them that love and live in it shines by good works as it ought before meer men that as yet remain in darkness then they may be induc'd to glorifie the heavenly Father of Spirits and Lights of all degrees or measures as well that rule by night as by day or of seven dayes together gathered into the glory of one 'T is love even love universal that hath imbreathed and its beauty inamoured the soules of some that are but few of many whereby they do as it were burn with holy desires to live in union with all mankind yea with the whole Creation and not an Oxe or an Asse or any other Creature that groanes and travels together in pain till now but as it waits for so it rejoyces in this glorious liberty of the sons of God who will ere long be better known among the sons of men than heretofore even by going forth and growing up as Calves of the stall not to be markt out for slaughter as they have been but by treading down the wicked things and persons like ashes under the soales of their feet when the Lord shall by fire and his spiritual sword plead with all flesh and the slain of the Lord rather then of his People in whom he shall be admired will be very many because now the weapons of the Saints warfare will appear daily not carnal but more and more spiritual inabling them to single out and encounter those spiritual wickednesses in the high places of their own hearts and others thereby bringing down the mighty from their seats and exalting them that are of low degree and all this without any destroying in that holy mountain of God where they converse which in this respect is lifted up above all others and will suddenly fill the whole earth O ye Victorious Army of the Lamb who on white horses as Emblems of Peace and Love and in linnen white and clean which betokens the innocence and righteousnesses of Saints have followed him that is now gone forth conquering and to conquer glorious is and will be the triumph by the death of the Cross over all created excellencies as well as impure defilements by abandoning the adultrous spirit of this world O ye that witness the conquest of desire to any carnal pleasure which tends but to stupifie the immortal soul of man and bring it into the sleeps or slumbers of eternal death great is your wisdom in determining to know nothing but Christ and him crucified and in standing alwayes delivered up to death for Jesus sake that the life of Christ might the more be manifest in your mortal flesh great is your power and authority in the world as you appear already risen with Christ by seeking those things that are above as ye are living witnesses of the first Resurrection mystical so you tell the world that the literal is not far off and therefore what Prisons or Inquisitions can longer hold you what outward Chains can bind you that are inwardly free who is it that will harm you that are followers of good but eschew the evil in every appearance O ye that have chosen the most solitary paths that an earthly pilgrimage could yeeld therein to meet your Beloved whose love is better than wine that does but refresh and exhilerate for a season and then the natural man that is served becomes as heavy as before 't was tasted but the pleasure of your love and espousals with the Lamb knows no end it grows in you and you in it with such divine increases till it swallowes up words and thoughts as those narrow medium's which are far below and too strait for the expression of that loving life which is incapeable of any confinement but enlarges it self freely in and unto all that entertain it You that have conquered the great and last enemy and that by yeelding daily to it what other enemies but either are or will be at peace with you because you fear not them but love and fear him that commands all hearts and hands yea the very stones of the street and beasts of the field will be in league with you not to offend but defend you though because your munition of rocks and wall of fire is never wanting all other help from without is wholly needless and such as offer it do rather express their own love than your desire of any guard or regard but what alwayes comes from heaven before you call or ask it Your Wisdom is from above What Serpent can beguile you you are redeemed from the Power of all things below What Scorpion or deadly Poyson can hurt you ye are past the Fear of Pain no Tyrant can torment you yea you have past thorow Sorrows Sighs and Tears beyond them you are neither to be exalted or abased by any thing which Flesh can give or take your Life Peace and Joy is endless because your Love is stronger than Death Who will not bend or yield to you and take hold of your skirts O ye inward Jews circumcised in heart and be called by your New-name for all your Names are given by Him whose Name is One that no man knows but he that hath it Your Language one and not divided Your Church but one and not rent in Schisms Sects or Divisions And therefore not Carnal but Spiritual unknown invisible to the World but well known to Christ your Head and one another O ye that admit no Buyers or Sellers in your inner Man the Lord's Temple but are freed from Cares and Cumbers of this World having sold all your Possessions personal to gain the real and therefore have not spent your Money for that which is not Bread and does not satisfie but laid it all down at the great Apostles feet with a free willing mind to quit all single selfish property that is from beneath for that universal equal Liberty that is from above and as well to distribute or communicate your Wealth of good Works to an Enemy or poor Stranger as unto a Friend or Brother What man or sort of men under the Sun when they see you walk by this Principle but will desire your ruling with if not over them You are the Governours of Judah that rule with God because God rules in you and alwayes checks the entrance of any other that is strange or forreign to his All-pure impartial Spirit you that have learn'd of Shiloh the prosperer to heal Breaches and restore Paths to dwell in What People Nation or Language will not ask your Help to new lay their Foundations renew their Land-marks to re-build the wast Places and Desolations of many Generations All Government in things spiritual you yield to Christ onely in things temporal to Him and the Nations whereof he is as well King as of Saints yea the Heathen are his Inheritance and the utmost parts

is come that the Bondwoman and her seed are to be cast out the true Heirs or Children of the Free must now inherit who have hitherto stood still in an obedient Child-like freedom to be offered up as Sacrifices yea slain all the day long for the Lamb's sake and led as sheep to the slaughter For although the Sons of Concubines have been sent away into the world with gifts whereby they have as rich and full publish't their own glory rather than in the Cross of Christ Jesus yet the more enduring Substance that fades not away or the Inheritance which can never be lost or alienated belongs to those Free-born Children of a greater than Abraham who like Princes have wrestled and prevailed because annointed with that spirit which suffers no foyle but by being in deaths often and willingly receiving the sentence thereof in themselves are grown too strong for the King of Terrors and much more for all petty Kings or Rulers on earth that must yeeld to him You are the regenerate Generation of just and upright ones who have dayes and nights in prisons holes or corners made it your work to become true learners of your gentle Lord and Master to be meek and lowly and by bearing his easie Yoke of self-denying love are become bound in Spirit not to avoid but freely embrace all others bending your minds to that holy stillness and silence wherein ye are instructed to commune with your own hearts and by doing so have escaped the flattering inticements of the strange woman whose wayes are moveable to hinder the simple in heart from pondering the path of Life and having countermin'd the subtil evil one in all his secret coverts of the self-loving nature and by renouncing all hidden leagues with the lustful bondage of corruption have let the immortal oppressed seed of God in you go free Behold even in that true freedom of the Son you are become free indeed Free from all creature-intanglements that would engage and anticipate your affections and hinder your minds from making those continual ascents and descents which only concern the will and work of your heavenly Father Free I say to follow the holy innocent patient Lamb of God wheresoever he goes even into those untrodden pathes of daily death to eternal Life which uncrucified flesh may boggle at and account uneasie and all this to no other end than that by straitning your selves by this fiery Baptism and contracting your selves within the narrow gate of self-denial your hearts and soules may become the more inlarg'd in universal love to God and good will to men in true bowels of pity mourning over the poor blind and their blind-leaders as also willing to direct them both in all humility to him that is ready to lead them as he hath you by a way unknown till it be tried and telling them with a brotherly kind of tenderness that this glorious liberty wherein you are new made and free-born Christ hath purchased and obtained for them also if they will but accept it in his obedience O ye Free-born Citizens of the New-Jerusalem your time is come to awake and come out of the dust where ye have lain long among the pots put on your beautiful garments of praise lay aside your sack-cloth O ye slain but now living Witnesses of Christ who is the Truth and Life and in this cloud that now arises of earthly trouble coming upon all Nations and Countries previous to the much longer calme and quiet which will follow ascend into the highest heavenly conversation while your enemies shall behold you yea ascend so as to descend no more but for his sake whose voice draws and calls you up thither even Christ who is your Life who as he appears in you so will you with him not in a vain but real glory even that glory upon which there is a defence both night and day a defence of Lambes from Wolves but offensive to none save onely such as in stead of yeelding or casting themselves into that gentle warming and nourishing heat of Divine Love which should cleanse and purify them from enmity and all other uncleanness do but kindle a fire of lustful wrath to devour their own soules whereby they intended to consume others It hath been the great joy of present and past ages to such as by Faith which is the evidence of things not seen by the carnal eye or darkened understanding could take a pleasing prospect of the New-creation-glory as well as the restitution of the old before it is to passe away the mystery whereof hath been alwaies hid from the wise and prudent in Christ who reveals himself to babe and sucklings These things were beautiful and lovely in their root but much more as they grow manifest in the branch of righteousness the very leaves of which shall heal the Nations and recover all that are not incurable by reason of their fixt and irreconcileable enmity against him that is unchangable in his love and goodness whereby a good time of refreshing shall come now no less to answer the longing expectance of the weary oppressed Creature which remaines as yet subject though not willingly to bondage then to raise and heighten the spiritual glory of such as are renewed in the spirit of their minds an earnest of which redemption both general and special all you have received who have willingly quit what is old and are contented it should pass away that you might be made new to all things and all things new to you both within and without you O you to whom this changable world yeelds no content in its most alluring smiles or flatteries nor terrour in its frowns but have still amidst all its variety sought for the one true unchangable being and an unchangable union with it behold now all vails and coverings will be worn away the shadows must fly apace and the true substance appear so as every eye shall see him though at present he comes in clouds even he whom the earthly kindreds and breed of but seeming Saints and sinners have pierced but they shall mourn because of him who shall be admired in all them that wait for and believe in him The force of Armes nor Armies nor yet the carnal Policy or Grandure of this world can any longer withstand that work which now is to be wrought in the fight of all nations not by might nor by power but by the spirit of the Lord which work is neither outward or inward singly but both even the one as well as the other and therefore room no further remains for craft or subtilty to practise and prosper no inchantments against Jacob nor divination against Israel shall hurt the remnant that is redeemed from the earth undefiled in the way but the wicked shall be insnared in the work of his own hands and the righteous whom they plot against even by standing still in pure obedience to the will of God abstracted from all self-motions or desires shall see