Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	child_n	father_n	life_n	5,155	5	4.4801	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29602	A clear voice of truth sounded forth, and as an ensign lifted up and displayed in answer to the proceedings of the Christians by name in Asia, by way of controversie and expostulation : together with savoury and wholesome admonishments, which may become of good use and profitable to all that read with a single eye, and understand with an upright heart : also the same somewhat tends by way of gentle reproof to their hasty and inequitable proceedings against the innocent servants, messengers and living witnesses of the living and true God : yet with tendernesse of an upright heart and spirit (not onely of a free born English-man, but also of a true Christian) from the same hand its principally directed to the Lord Embassasdor (so called) in Constantinople, and to the English Company of Merchants and Factors in Smyrna, with somewhat to the merchants in Genoa, tendred again by way of visitation, and that from God, for them and others in Italy to consider and not reject to their own hurt.	D. B. (Daniel Baker), fl. 1650-1660.	1662 (1662)	Wing B482; ESTC R22863	27,445	38

Ambassadours of peace Wherefore in the fear and tender love of the God of Heaven is this to be laid before thee to warn thee as thou art in thy place of Authority which we own esteem and honour in the Lord one of us being two having a message from the Lord of Heaven to the Prince or Emperour of the Turks and well will it be with the men of our own Nation if they be not found setting themselves against the service of God his Truth and People whom he alone will make a blessing to Nations that shall surely prosper without Bow or Sword or visible Weapons of war the Lord hath spoken it and the Prophesie shall as surely be fulfilled in its time or season So the Lord give thee wisdome and a Noble understanding according to his determinate Counsel therewith to honour him in thy place of Judicature and so my Spirit saith Amen Smyrna the sixth month of the Year 1661. I am thy Friend and so to the whole Creation of God Daniel Baker Richard Scostrope NOw it was so that after this was sent we notwithstanding sought daily for passage convenient to Constantinople and at last it presented by way of a Dutch Ship and we spake to the Commander for the same end on board the said Vessel but before She sailed away a Warrant was forthwith given out and sent from the Kings Embassadour to Smyrna which men of high degree gladly received and prosecuted the same against us to expell us from their Coasts and separate us from their company all be it we were not in any wise chargable unto them neither did eat any mans bread for nought A Coppy of the Warrant which came from the hand of the Kings Ambassadour and prosecuted by the English Nation in Smyrna in Asia against two servants and witnesses for God and his Truth and People called Quakers WHereas we are informed that there is lately arrived with the Zant Frigot one Daniel Baker with his companion commonly called by the name of Quakers with intention to come up to this Port And because we have had experience that the carriage of that sort of people is ridiculous and is capable to bring dishonour to our Nation besides other inconveniences that may redound to them in particular and to the English Nation in general We therefore will and require you to give a stop to the said Quakers from proceeding any further in their journey either to Constantinople or the present Court of the Grand Signior or to any other place where our Authority extends Shipping them away either directly for England or any other parts where they shall chuse to Imbarque And we do herely require all Officers and Members of the Factory and Masters and Officers of Ships to be ayding and Assisting to you herein and for so doing this shall be your Warrent Winchelse Given under our Hand and Seal at our Court at Pera at Constantinople the 19. day of July 1661. For our Loving Friend Anthony Isacson Esquire Consul for the English Nation in Smyrna by his Excellencies Command Paul Kecaut Secretary And they sent a Turks Jannesary together with a Drugger-man the Consuls Officer and Hamalls Porters to our lodging and sent us away as Prisoners To the Lord Ambassadour so called and to the English Nation in Constantinople and Smyrna Friend I am honestly perswaded viz. If that the Nobility of thy understanding were not vailed or darkned with prejudice so that thou hadst a perfect understanding of what thou hast done and if it were to do again it would be a hard thing for thee then to do the same wherefore blame me not if I tell thee in truth and plainness saying Behold how thou hast turned thy hand against the just Lord and set thy self also against his Work his Truth and People and the mighty everlasting terrible God that lives for ever in whose hand thy breath is he will certainly plead with thee for the same yea and with them also who with one consent have joynd together with thee herein who are but a man that shall die and come to judgement as it s appointed for all men and lo God hath given thee a day of visitation of Salvation but behold how thou hast put the same far away from thee and he that liveth for ever so far hath tryed thee together with the English Nation in Asia in thy place of of Authority and Judicature in giving thee also a plain and certain warning by my hand through me concerning somewhat of the work and counsel of the Everlasting Light who is the Living and true God and Father of all Truth over all blessed for ever Amen before thou didst intermeddle or proceed either to the right hand or to the left to the end that thou might take heed and beware of being instrumental in stopping the work and service of the Everlasting And lo thou hast rejected and made light of the same as doth appear and turned thy hand against the Just the Harmless and Innocent and guiltless and also reproached the Living God inasmuch as the same is done to his Friends and Messengers that have drawn so near thee in peace good will and uprightness of heart and in love unfained without self-ends but with its denyal according to the commandment of our Lord and Master even Christ The light of the World which lighteth every man that cometh into the World in the work and service of him who is the Lord God of Judgement with our pretious life also in our hand have we thus come not loving our lives to the death for his Names sake for his Peoples sake for his Gospels sake who freely laid down his pretious life for us leaving us an example who came not in our own name will or time but have herein forsaken Country Kindred and Fathers House Wife and Children and what else our God that liveth for ever knoweth right-well as our Fathers of old did God knoweth the uprightness of our hearts also concerning this and much more which for the Truths sake might be declared but at this time it is not convenient and our message which from man we received not of life and salvation was and is to give a certain sound of the great and mighty day of the Lord at hand and also of the same life of the holy Prophets and Apostles of Christ the Lord of life that 's arisen from the dead with his saving health in the midst of us to the Nations that are involved in thick darkness and wallowing in obscurity to awaken them and also that they may assuredly know that the mighty terrible and glorious and dreadful day of the eternal God is come and at hand and that the same hath also begun to dawn and to spread forth its shining beams of eternal brightness in the North parts of the World even in England first the which is manifesting it self and shining forth over all Nations to the condemnation and destruction of wickedness and also