Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	david_n	king_n	saul_n	5,115	5	10.1244	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66760	A memorandum to London occasioned by the pestilence there begun this present year MDCLXV, and humbly offered to the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and commonality of the said city / by George Wither ; thereto is by him added, a warning-piece to London, discharged out of a loophole in the tower, upon meditating the deplorable fier, which consumed the house of an eminent citizen, with all the persons and goods therein, at the beginning of most joyful festival in December 1662 ; also, a single sacrifice offered to almighty God, by the same author in his lonely confinement, for prevention of the dearth-feared, and probably portended, by immoderate raines in June and July, 1663, morever, in regard may have reported and believed this author to be dead, we have annexed his epitaph, made by himself upon that occasion.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1665 (1665)	Wing W3170; ESTC R11869	36,976	81

poor Out acted have transgressors heretofore Children are left so loose to speak and do What their corruption doth incline them to And ill example teach that if their course Continue long we shall at last grow worse Then Sodom and Gomorrah which GOD knows I do not mention as some may suppose To scandalize this City or this Nation But to provoke them to a Reformation To that intent so far forth as it shall Concern this City speedily let all Who are in power with prudence and in love The strength of their Authority improve Them to indulge and keep from violence Whose conversations are without offence And by their executing of the Law In purity strive to keep those in awe Who either shall malitiously transgress By an infringment of the publick peace Or wilfully commit abet or teach What of the Moral Law may be a breach That nothing may by you be done unto Another which you would not have him do To you if in his case search what you find That may on you be charged in that kind And heartily repent it That moreover You may faults which will else lye hid discover Consider whether you have not with gladness Insulted over men opprest with sadness Afflictions heaped up upon Afflictions Or added Cruelty to due corrections By seeking more to satisfie your Lust Or Vengeance then to execute what 's just For Justice sake or else to please their Foes Condemned Innocents their lives to lose Your waies examine search out what crimes You have of late more then in former times Been guilty of As whether you have been Or not defiled with that scarlet sin Which in times past your City did abhor As being a peculiar heretofore Of that Malignant City where the Whore Bestrides the Beast be heedful also whether It be not partly or else altogether His work to be in cruelties delighted To see meek honest harmless men dispighted For Conscience sake inhumanly exil'd Husbands from wives the parent from the child Imprison'd to the loosing of their lives Their little Children their beloved Wives And their whole Families expos'd thereby To that unspeakable extremity Of wants and sufferings which no flesh and blood Can bear without immediate help from GOD. Whose will is thereby wilfully withstood And why all this not for transgressing Laws Of GOD or Nature but alone because These could not condiscend the world to please By an infringment of their consciences Heed what this may deserve if you desire To stop the Plague begun lest else the fire Which may be kindled in your habitations Do quite consume them ev'n to their foundations For GOD of his Prerogatives is Jealous To vindicate all those he will be zealous Who suffer for his sake although perchance They may be blamable through Ignorance Or other humane frailties for where he Sees Faith and Love their sins he will not see As for their Persecutors though he may His just Avengments for a while delay The patience of his people he doth mind And they who shew no mercy none shall find Examine whether since you made your peace With GOD the renovation and increase Of wilful sins deserved not renewing Of Plagues removed and of worse ensuing It is not without cause that God now hath Such complicated Judgements in his wrath On thee and thine inflicted when grown great In hopes thou thoughtst thy happiness compleat Nor is it hidden from thee altogether For what sin GOD sends this or that plague hither In truth all Plagues are due unto each sin When with Impenitence persisted in Yet frequently the ROD's wherewith we are Corrected shew forth in Particuler What we offended in For Superstition Was Gideons Family brought to perdition King Davids pride made manifest in him By numbring of the people brought on them A Pestilence GOD visited the earth For wilful breach of Covenants with Dearth And as to Zedikiah and to Saul It did for that provoking sin befal The chief offenders and their Children too Stand liable to death for sinning so Oppression Cruelty and Idolizing The Creature or things of our own devising Have been chastiz'd with servitude and fear And when Will-worshipings imposed are On others with inhumane violence Injustice acted with such impudence As Jezabels and Ahabs rarely shall Such scape from that which did to them befal But when that Hipocrites by lying hid As Annanias and Saphira did Till GOD discover'd them may possibly Obscure the grouth of Infant Piety When they who Truths foundations overthrow When her malitious persecutors grow So mighty that the Saints unable are To calm them or their furious rage to bear Or when Prophaness and Abhominations Like Sodoms wholly hath corrupted Nations Or Cities till there shall appear in men Nor will nor power them to reclaim agen GOD in such cases to himself alone Assumes the punnishing of what 's misdone And very frequently doth punish too In such a mode as mortals cannot do Sometimes by Sudden Death when they are in Their Jollity or in the Act of sin Sometimes by sicknesses that long endure Whereof no man can find the Cause or Cure Sometimes by that which till their provocation Of GOD had been a means of preservation Sometimes they of their lives have been bereaven By Lightning or by Thunderbolts from Heaven And otherwhile struck with d●spaireful fears Are made to be Self-Executioners This gives a Hint of that which more affords Then fully is expressed by my words To make it plain but either thou no doubt Or some for thee will search and find it out Or by the the searching after it discern Somewhat which thee as nerely will concern Take heed of neighbours and familiar friends Who fawn upon thee for their own base ends And love thee not though they respect profess By many shews of hearty friendliness For some of them already cause have bin Of adding much both to thy Plagues and sin But specially of thine own self take heed For thence thy greatest dangers will proceed Consider therefore by thy self alone What thou omitted hast and what misdone Whether thy folly falsehood fickleness Apostacy from what thou didst profess Falling from thy First Love by mis-advice Thy Luxury thy sordid Avarice Or some vain hopes deserv'd not deprivation Of that whereof thou hadst an expectation Heed whether to have cured or prevented One Plague thy self thou hast not complemented Into a score at least to stop one curse Indanger'd drawing on thee many worse Observe if ever Beggery and P●ide Did both together upon one horse ride So frequently as now through every street Or walk so often on the self-same feet And whether mischiefs which at present fall On some will not at last extend to all Mind well what thou art doing what is done What is designed but not yet begun For what thou both with words and sword hast pleaded What thou hast most affected or most dreaded What thereon follow'd or might have succeeded What factions thou hast favor'd and what still