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	son_n	5,341	5	5.7345	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77280	Innocency and the blood of the slain souldiers, and people, mightily complaining, and crying out to the Lord, and the people of the land, against those forty knights and burgesses, or thereabouts, that sit in the House of Commons. For the violation of our capital fundamental laws and liberties, and those capital obligations mentioned in this my letter, in capital letters. Or a letter to an eight yeers speaker of the House of Commons. / By Cap. William Bray, from his indurance, illegal, un-Christian, and cruel gaol in Windsor Castle.	Bray, William, 17th cent.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4304; Thomason E568_12; ESTC R206251	25,812	21

persons And the corruptions of his heart and Government and of his evil Councellors caused jealousies and fear of his own life and honor whereas he might have had both if he would have stooped to the Laws and Liberties of the people and the peoples Representatives and free Parliament but his heart was hardened as Pharaohs for judgment It is a sad thing when a man hath committed injustice or murther contrary to the plain inbred Light of Nature and the Laws of Scripture and Nations and goes on to commit more and more murther and injustice for his personal safety whereas a Christian had rather die in his innocency then commit murther or out of design to do injustice The Law of England is said to be extream tender and favorable of a mans liberty and freedom See Sir Edward Cooks 29. Chapter of Magna Charta 2 part Instit sol 42. also 189 515. Because the Gaol in the eye of the Law is a bad or hard mansion or dweling 4 Edw. 3. cap. 3. They that will unjustly and arbitrarily imprison they are in a forward way to adde to their impiety and to commit murder upon the people Injustice is a Tyrants rode way to murder and the harbenger of Tyrants in all ages And I shall desire you for your own sakes to avoyd that Rock of Injustice and Oppression for there are many eyes upon you besides the eyes of the eternal Majesty of God And the sin of blood is of a Skarlet Dye and of a crying Nature Gen 49.6 7. O my soul joyn not thou into their secret unto their assembly mine honor be not thou united for in their anger they slew a man and in their self will th●y digged down a wall Cursed be their anger for it was since and their wrath for it was cruel I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel Though Davids wound was healed by remission yet the blemish remained that blood should never depart from his house for the blood of one Vriah Num 35.31 33 Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer that is guilty of death but he shall surely be put to death Blood defileth the Land and the Land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein but by the blood of him that shed it 1 Kings 2.5 6. Moreover thou knowest what Joab the son of Zerviah did to me and what he did to the two Captain of the Hosts of Israel unto Abner the son of Ner and unto Amasa the son of Jether whom he sl w and sh●d the blood of war in peace and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loyns and in his shooes that were on his feet Do therefore according to thy wisdom and let not his hoary head go to the grave in peace Exod. 21.14 If a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor to slay him with guile thou shalt take him from mine altar that he may die And Doctor Stoughton or Doctor Sibbs as I partly remember I have read speaking of it saith How sweet is life to those that have been prod●gal of the blood of others No subject saith he had murdered more then Joab When Proclamation was made in Israel That who ever should smite the Jebusites first should be the chief and Captain Joab was the man no man was more constant to the Weal of Israel non so successful in victories yet he was called to reckon for his old sins and must repay blood to Amasa and Abner Murder in Authority is the greatest murder and the violation of Laws and Liberties by Authority is the greatest violation But concerning the Act of Grace and Favor Forgiveness and favor is good in its due place and in truth is acceptable to God and men but out of its place it s a delusion of Antichrist and a lie An Act of favor and grace is indeed shewn when a man is an offender in the eye of the Law Reason and Christianity but surely a man is not an offender in the same thing wherein he is offended and destroyed in his Liberty or Right contrary to Law Reason or Christianity when he is denied the benefit of Justice a Hearing or Tryal as I have been and how destructive this is to the Rights of the Nation let the world Judg. If a Law had been made to that end it had been unjust in it self and voyd but no Law being made it s supersuperlatively Tyrannical contrary to Law and Scripture Deut. 11.3 8 Numb 15 30. Rom. 4.15 and contrary to the pretended Agreement of the General and General Councel of Officers pag. 23. in four or five particulars by the Law of England The faith and reputation of the General is violated that I have not Justice any Act or Agreement against the Laws of God or Nature is a meer nullity Master Solicitor Cook in King Charls his Case citing also E. L●ci●sters Case Page 23. and 1 part of the Book D●clarations pag. 207 690. Those things that are evil in their own nature cannot be the subject of any command or order any obligation of obedience upon them by any Authority whatsoever When you should do a man Justice you wrong him and to hinder Justice and hide the wrong in the peoples eyes you pretend a Politique Act of Grace and Favor Is not this Politique Tyranny in grain Mercy and Justice are two glorious attributes of God and they ought to be truely imitated and resembled by men that are true Governors or pretended ones And the not walking up to it makes a man guilty of prophaning the attributes of God and his Ministrations to men and for a man to have an Act of favor or grace before he is legally and judicially convicted of a crime If I were an offender indeed yet unless I was an offender in Law and Reason it would be but Injustice to grant an Act of Pardon for an offender must die in Law and Judgment before he can be said to be capable of Mercy But I am in Law a freeman as I have shewed you though I am by force and arbitrariness a prisoner and I am a prisoner in walking in an undeniable Christian warrantable legal and fundamental Right of the people and of just Government How improper is it and contrary to the Nature of just Iudgment and Reason And how contrary to the nature trust and very name of a Parliament which very name doth hold forth That it ought to do things according to the rational unbiassed and deliberative discourse of the Minde without fear favor or affection Fabritius and Cato would not swa●ve from the Rules of Iustice and Vertue You profess your selves Christian Common-wealths men But as for the Act of Favor and Mercy I wish those had it that stand in need of it And let me tell you in my oppression Honor would t●uly be seen in that But indeed there is no honor but dishonor in falsly stiling the glorious attributes of God