Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	cause_n	law_n	sin_n	5,768	5	5.5206	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96763	Prosopopœia Britannica Britans genius, or, good-angel, personated; reasoning and advising, touching the games now playing, and the adventures now at hazard in these islands; and presaging, also, some future things, not unlikely to come to passe. / Discovered, by Terræ-Filius (a well-knowne lover of the publike-peace) when the begetting of a nationall-quarrell was first feared. Expressed in two lections, or readings.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1648 (1648)	Wing W3183; Thomason E1149_2; ESTC R204086	62,569	119

any thing to furnish-out the same Belonging to that race except a Name And here shall end that Prophesie unlesse It further be fulfild through wilfulnesse If he who ownes that name shall harken to Their counsell who will tell him what to do That name at last much like that stump may be Which was preserved when the Royall-tree Once representing Nebuchadnezzar Was felled downe And as he did appeare In former Glorie when he had confest His failings and the living God profest So shall it be with Charles if he repent God will the ruine of his House prevent Restore him to his Throne and make his fame To grow the fairer through his present shame But if he shall defer till 't is too late Let him prepare for King Belshazzars fate And let all those who shall to him adhere Expect in his sad dooms to have a share As Samuel did for Saul till God did sling That Tyrant off and chose another King So shall I pray for him with mourning too Till I perceive what GOD and he will do And therefore touching him I will before I speake to others utter somewhat more By no externall symptoms can I find That he doth yet begin to change his mind But so in his first march proceedeth on As if he wrongs receiv'd but none had done And whereas GOD for penitence doth call Doth seem to think there needeth none at all But rather that his people if not heav'n Should supplicate to be of him forgiven For suffring such an Innocent as he So scandalized and so wrong'd to be Yea and the people as it is their guize When some offender at the gallowes dies Whom they themselves brought thither do begin To look more on the streight that he is in Then on the reason of it And as when A Township having seized guilty men Who had much wrong'd their servants stole their goods Devour'd their cattell sometime shed their bloods And threatned their destruction in a rage They force them to the stocks or to the cage Or to the Justice and are like to teare The Rogues in peeces too ere they come there But when they are examin'd and when they Must at their Parish charges them convey Unto the Goale be bound to prosecute Take paines and spend some money in the suit That Justice may be done the Land to free From such a plague as those were like to bee Then if the Rascals whine as they will do And make their moane they fain would let them go Thus fares it with the people they complain'd Against the King of wrongs by him sustain'd And of worse like to come They saw he drew The Sword upon them therewith to pursue His Vsurpations and they were compel'd To arme and to oppose him in the field Where GOD the victory bestow'd on them And in their owne defence they conquer'd him Then finding that this Conquest drew on charge And that it further would their cost inlarge To keep what they have got lest all the cost And blood already wasted should be lost And worse things follow they impatient grow And are discourag'd and besotted so That they begin to pity his estate More then themselves to scandalize and hate Ev'n their Deliverers to underprize GOD'S mercies their own safety to despise And to behave themselves as if they had An inclination in them to be mad About next Moone in June Or had their Doome In spight of their Defenders to become Perpetuall slaves And this base Generation Foes to themselves and to their owne salvation Have so confirm'd the Kings obduracy By their imprudence and apostacy That he perhaps perswades himselfe there needs No penitence for any of his deeds Against the publike Rights and that his ends To compasse this vaine Rout will yeeld him friends Now therefore all excuses to prevent Though I have shew'd whereof he should repent Informed how and in some part of what Yet here I le touch a little more of that That He and they who think him without blame May somewhat now consider of the same Deserves it no repentance to invade Those priviledges which his people had And those proprieties which they injoy'd In their estates unjustly to make void Or from their ancient freedomes them to thrust Or from their due possessions for his lust Or maintenance for luxury and pride By other mens undoings to provide And then by Proclamation to pretend Some necessary and some publike end Which could be manifest to no mans view And which was generally knowne untrue VVas it no sinne by base Monopoles To raise the price of most commodities To take away free Trades and occupations To vex men with perpetuall Molestations By Courts and Officers devis'd for nought But that men into bondage might be brought To his Prerogatives and by degrees By new exactions Services and Fees Be screw'd up through demands appearing small Till he hath got a seeming-right in all For if that be his due which was receiv'd So is the rest if Priests may be believ'd VVas it no fault deserving penitence To take away the meanes of their defence From his most faithfull Subjects to ingrosse And raise the price of powder to their losse And their apparent danger to disarme Their persons who intended him no harme To put them under the Command of those Who are their knowne Oppressors and their Foes To make them lend what he ne're meant to pay To make them buy what he should give away To make them give who had no list thereto To make men sell what they would not forgo To act what may of all their dues deprive them And to deny them that which should relieve them Deserves it not a sigh that in his Court Prophanenesse and Oppressions were but sport That Judges were compell'd to wrest the Lawes Divines the Scriptures to maintaine a Cause Which GOD abhorres that all oppressions should Be there upheld and sin be uncontrold That Schoole-boyes not arriv'd at years of reason Should suffer death as culpable of Treason For childish words as if Kings grew afraid Through guiltinesse of what young Infants said Deserves it not bewailing to repaire By fines unjustly rais'd the House of Prai'r To punish men of merit with disgraces Dismembrings Stigmatizing of their faces Imprisonments exiles and separations From friends wives children yea from all relations For things not capitall or deemed crimes By Law or blamable in better times Was nothing done whereof he might repent When ev'n the speaking of a Parliament Was made a crime when Members were confin'd For doing what by duty was injoyn'd When all their Priviledges were so broke That some should violently have been tooke Ev'n from their Sanctuary which of old To violate no Tyrant was so bold And for which act alone this free-born Nation Would quite have ruin'd all his Generation In former times if they had ere obtain'd So great advantages as now are gain'd Deserves it no repentance to bestow Those honours which to virtue he doth owe On