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	life_n	time_n	5,144	5	3.3520	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06971	The teares of the beloued: or, The lamentation of Saint Iohn, concerning the death and passion of Christ Iesus our sauiour. By I.M.	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.	1600 (1600)	STC 17395; ESTC S109860	14,592	41

of old sweete Esay did foretell And when thy pangs appeard fresh to approch Thou hadst a care foes should not vs reproch Attend ye pastors that your flocke should feede How that our Lord did say he none had lost Your charge is great ye dayly prayer neede To cheere those soules bought with so royall cost They are Christs flocke his blood thē bought indeed My lambs good Peter O my sheepe still feed Before that Peter heard these words thrise tolde He was couragious ere he saw the fight His sword he drew like to a champion bolde And Malchus eare he cutteth off outright Into thy sheath thy sword put vp let be Shall I not drinke that cup preparde for me Thus said our Lord who by this checke so kinde Would take from Peter his no small offence From priuate men the vse of sword to binde Except that Kings arme subiects for defence And for Religion gladly should we fight That cause is good and God will aide the right But Peters fault appeareth now the more For sharpe reuenge belongeth vnto God Too saucie he Gods taske to take therefore Him to resist is to procure his rod For spirituall warre are weapons of that kinde Search we the word and there we shall them finde And now the band the captaine with the rest Our Sauiour tooke and fast they do him binde His inward griefe I moand now is exprest The outward anguish that my Lord did finde They had no might his person to assaile He suffred them and then they did preuaile Not one but many then began their spight Inflam'd with wrath incensed with great yre Their masters would them now in blood delight And they deuise how to increase that fire If high estates against Religion frowne They shall haue mates to cast it hedlong downe Ah wicked Iudas this was thy consent Vsing all meanes that might our Lord betray Lay holde on him were words with fury bent No maruayle then if these from reason stray Thy words and workes so treasonfull descry Vnder greene grasse a serpent foule may lye The father in law of Caiphas was the first Annas I meane to whom my Lord was led He and the other ye all for blood did thirst Not one I saw as yet with pittie sped Their violent wrongs proued so huge a streame Suppressing right their dealing was extreame There I espied how cruelty with deceight Had this pretence to stop the common fame Matters of slate and those of no small weight Were laid to Christ for which they do him blame Their high account which all in them esteeme Must beare then out whatsoe're men should deeme Besides let Christ with wisdome him defend And them confute this they did all agree The Romanes should his life soone bring to end Thus were they bent no more to set him free Here may ye see the force of Enuyes spight Glutted with gall and doth in death delight Caiphas was he to Iewes that counsell gaue How it vvas meete that one for them should dye A visage fowle a vizor faire doth craue Sathan vvould not that all his craft should spy Oh such preuaile oft times vvho faire pretend But giue me him that faithfull proues in end I do not muse so much how natures kinde Appeareth changed in so corrupt a man For God I know euen from his foes will finde Matter of worth fit for his will to scan So Balaams Asse against his proper kinde Once checkt his Lord when he remained blinde There was no cause O Caiphas thou shouldst feare How that our Lord would take from thee thy state This Lambe of God which all our sinne did beare Did much abhor his extreame foes to hate Malicious man whom Enuy so did blinde To vrge his guilt in whom no guilt ye finde Peter did follow so did I like case But I was knowne and went into the hall Without stoode Peter then I left my place And had great care my fellow in to call I spake to her who there the dore then kept To shew him fauour who in boldly stept The selfe same woman vnto Peter said Of this mans schollers art thou not now one The fearefull man to lye was not afraid Boldly to say of them that he was none Art thou the man which with our Lord wilt dye And all in haste dost flatly him deny The officers and seruants of that place Stoode there also for they had made a fire The extreame cold with heate away they chace Peter and they to warme themselues desire It 's not amisse Gods graces should be vsed So in the vse his grace be not abused Then the high priest doth these two things propound Vnto sweete Iesus of his disciples first Next of his doctrine two demaunds profound The vvolfe vvas dry and after blood did thirst The hypocrite one thing in shew doth minde But is another in his proper kinde Our Sauiour said nothing of vs at ●●l One him betraid another him denide The rest did slee from Christ being in thrall Small was the solace in so sad a tide And for his doctrine the vvorld might testifie What Truth he taught was spoken openlie The Synagogue and Temple for resort To all the Iewes ye euery one can tell Who did me heare let such of me report Aske these I pray and then thou shalt do vvell Herein Christ moued him vvho did faire pretend Vnmasking his malice and his doctrine did defend Note the proceeding in a cause vniust An officer there smote Iesus with his rod Our high priest thus to answere now thou must O great oppression hatefull indeed to God! Such blinde presumption mortall man to please So great outrage the highest to disease If I quoth Iesus haue spoken that is ill Then witnes beare vnto the ill thy selfe But for good speech thy sury to fulfill Why smitest thou me what is it hope of pelfe For earthly gaine men oft times runne astray For stoare of gold men will whole lands betray Annas had now Christ bound to Caiphas sent And Simon Peter stoode himselfe to warme Thus to and fro they lead the innocent Who still did good must suffer extreame harme But Peter once being tangled in the snare The second time to deny our Lord doth dare What not content our Life twise to deny For high priests seruant and a kinseman neere To Malchus said Did I thee not espie With Christ in garden 't is a case most cleere Peter euen then denied our Lord againe Fraile is our flesh if faintnes we retaine The crowing cocke must Peter put in minde Of his offence for thus our Sauiour said And he remembring Sathan did him blinde Poasteth away his guilt made him afraid He that euen now a firme faith could not keepe Pries for a place with bitternes to weepe And now they lead Christ to the common hall For day appear'd high priests not thither went For being defil'd yet were to sinne a thrall And for to eate the Passouer they ment See how great sinners not

so great would seeme Making moats moūtaines moūtains moats esteeme For Pilates place he being vncircumcizde Would them defile but not the innocents blood Their soules their tongues with murther were surpriz'd They vs'd all meanes to haue the truth withstood Great sepulchers without are painted fayre But hold within all stench and lothsome ayre Pilate perceiued himselfe must take some paine To goe to them who frighted were with spight Tell me he said of Christ sith ye complaine So shew the wrong that I the same may right They then reply VVere not his doings ill We would not vrge that thou his blood shouldst spill Pilate then said Then man vnto ye take Doome him to death as your law shall permit The Iewes that time then vnto Pilate spake This thy resist doth not our humors fit It is not lawfull for any of our traine To kill a man we must from blood refraine This speech of theirs had also this effect For he who knew the secrets of mankinde Knew long before vve did the Iewes suspect His bitter death and thereof eke the kinde He vvould not faile our ransome now to pay Vs to redeeme though hell would him gainsay Let those that list into their dealings pry These vvicked men the rulers and the rest False counsell sought vvith vvhich they meant to try Their great vntruth that Iesus thus opprest So foule offenders might be clear'd from blame Thēselues thus clear'd vvere they not neerer shame As if a vvretch incensed from deepe hell Should kill a friend that saued once his life And seeing on sleepe the wretch vvith fury fell In sleepers hand should fast the blooddy knife And then abroad with outcries should maintaine His slaughtered friend was by the other slaine False witnes sought but none then found at all Though many came laden with vntruthes stoare At last came two into the high priests hall These were the last like bulles prepar'd to goare Who said that Christ the Temple would deface And reare it vp againe in three dayes space The louely sweete hereat did hold his peace Then the high priest incensed all with yre By the liuing God did charge Christ should not cease But answere make to that he would require Art thou the Christ of God art thou the sonne Herewith he hoapt Iesus should be vndonne Iesus to this replies Thou it hast said But neuerthelesse hereafter ye shall see The Sonne of man when ye shall stand dismaid All glorious seated on Gods right hand to be I then will come with glory great might Guarded with millions compast with clowds most bright Now thinke ye see vpon this answere prest The high priest doth his cloathes in sunder rent Christ hath blasphem'd on witnesses to rest I see 't is vaine that longer time be spent What thinke ye now ye heare his blasphemy They answere all He worthy is to dye The fowle-mouth'd monsters spit vpon his face Which face the angels to behold are glad They buffit him and yeld him all disgrace Smote him with rods hereat I waxt most sad This to inlarge as Peter much did moane So what insues must force th' offender groane The extreame spight shewed to Gods deare sonne Was for our sinnes our sinnes caused this spight Vexe him not fresh now that the Iewes haue done Such vexe him still who in their sinne delight All armed foes cannot such paines procure That wilfull sinners for euer shall endure This will I proue in one example plaine When Iudas sawe our Lord condemn'd to dye When he beheld him led with cursed traine When in each place he did all violence spye The sence of sinne assailes and fresh doth fray He yeldes and said I did my Lord betray Let presse in sight the kindnes of this Lord In choosing me vnto so high estate In trusting me euen of his owne accord In louing me that did deserue all hate Ah brutish beasts are thankfull in their kinde I much more brutish his fauors did not minde I others taught my selfe I did not teach I wonders wrought and now haue wrought a wonder Accursed houre I after gaine did reach Woe to my selfe God doth with vengeance thunder Who lookes on me with this will me vpbraid There goes the wretch his Master that betraid I there 's the sting that frets me to the gall For ranckerous Iewes excuse them from my spight I Christ betraid on me all vengeance fall I am condemn'd that did in sinne delight With graue forecast why did I not preuent This monstrous sinne for which I thus am shent Now must I looke vpon my present losse And what is that but an Apostles place That but brings more I gaind a little drosse And thus lose heauen the looking on Gods face Ye greedy gripes that feede on liuing men Hasten to hell my lothsome dark'ned den Ye monstrous sinners to my talke attend Seducing Sathan snarde me with his baite Faire words I had but these and deedes did bend My couetous mind on treason now to waite If euery sinne should in their kinde appeare Ye would detest siluer to buy so deare I seele my sinne a cause my selfe to hate I haue no sence I should for mercy cry My sinne exclaimes accursed is my state Iustice is iust this course I minde to try These thirty pieces of siluer now at last I will againe to priests and elders cast Good worke this is but wanteth loue and faith What helpeth it to say I did offend The diuell prest vnto my soule then saith 'T is true thou speakst despaire and life now end Thus he that first did me to mischiefe traine Doth much reioyce at my perpetuall paine I sinn'd a sinne betraying the innocent blood O innocent blood with cryes that doest affright Affright me not why am I thus withstood Withstood with wrath and with my tainted spright One mischiefe doth vpon an another heape 'T is good ye looke before the ditch he leape VVhat 's that to vs see thou to these things looke So said these guides making of me a scorne No one I found that pitty on me tooke For I became indeede a wretch forlorne A strangling coard made end of all my doubt I hangd my selfe my bowels gushed out Suffer my speech who suffer now with griefe Death void of death for death here liueth still Barr'd from all hope shut out from all reliefe Most sad complaints my hearing now doth fill I haue no rest but in vnrest remaine No tongue or penne can well declare my paine Now to returne to Pilate who like case To the common hall had entred now with speede Who tendring much Caesars and his disgrace Did aske of Christ if he were King in deede For rebels wrought the Romanes much vnrest Which caus'd great care to haue such wrongs redrest He questioned much if Christ then were a King But no aduantage of his words could take Our Sauiour so about his state did bring That of his kingdome thus in briefe he spake My kingly state it is no