Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	day_n	die_v	eat_v	5,786	5	6.8715	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44798	The measvring rod of the Lord stretched forth over all nations and the line of true judgment laid to the rulers thereof wherein all governours and rulers, potentates and powers are measured, and all governments and lawes weighed in the true weight : wherein they all may see how far they are degenerated from the law of righteousness, and the rules of wisdome, which was in the beginning, before tyranny, and persecution, and rebellion had shewed it selfe : also shewing the end that will come upon all those rulers and governments, rulers and lawes that have been made in the apostacy, which is to all overthrown ... : also an advertisement to all the rulers upon the earth ... : published for the information of all the rulers upon earth ... / by one who waits to see the kingdoms of the world to become the kingdomes of the Lord ... Francis Howgil.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1658 (1658)	Wing H3171; ESTC R6600	23,099	33

gets head and is set up as a rule and the law of God both in the Ruler and the ruled is throwne behind their back and so deceit leadeth and the changeable mind acteth it self out in every thing that it hath to do withall and so tyranie and opression spreads over a whole Nation and the just suffers in it And hence it is that there are so many several Laws Ordinances and Constitutions and Traditions and Customs among men in many Nations and Countreys and Regions one differing from another and heaps of confusion that hardly in any Nations or few in a Nation knows what is Law there is so much variableness and changeableness amongst the Lawmakers one while setting up another while pulling down and as deceit advanceth it self in any particular Ruler then there must be a Law made and a penalty upon the non-performance as death banishment tortering whipping racking prisonment fining to the utter destruction of many and all the ground of this is because the Rulers are gone from that of God in themselves and then acts in their own wills and by their craft and deceit which stands in the Ground which is cursed and calls this Christian pollicy and wisdom and cruelty becomes a Law and the Devil keeps his Dominion in the Earth and deceit gets a Cover and hides it self Now it was not so from the beginning For as God is one and his Name one his Law is one which is pure and equal and unalterable and indures for ever and ever Now man being made in Gods own Image answered the pure Law of God and being Gods Image was one with the Law and the Law was not against him but was his life and joy and he had power to obey it for he was of its own nature for as God is pure and holy and the Image which he brought forth man in was pure and holy and that which was mans guide and rule was pure and holy here was unity and purity and he that created and man that was created was in unity and then there was no woe no condemnation no sorrow no death no tribulation nor anguish nor wrath revealed against man who was the Image of God and he stood in the Dominion of God and had dominion over that which was contrary here was no tyranie here was no cruelty no prisons no envie no persecution no killing nor destroying no defrauding no jarre no strife no devouring but all Gods creation at unity and man at unity with God being partakers of his Dominion whereby all the Earth was in order and in that wisdom which changed not and here man had dominion and power and ruled in Gods authority and was guided by the higher power and while he was subject to it death had no power over him now this was before sin entered and before death entred before enmity had appeared in the Earth but now was the Lord King and Law-giver and Judge who ruled in righteousness and man being subject to him there was no Law against him nor no guilt of any thing for transgression was not known in the Earth and there was no curse but all was in unity and peace no changeableness but all was in the covenant all the workmanship of his hand was united unto him and all that he had made was blessed and all the Creation were partakers of his blessedness and all stood in the covenant by which every Creature received power virtue and dominion here was one mind and here was no double no variation no mutation nor change but the dominion of the everlasting God was felt which indures for ever and ever and any other thing was not seen in the Earth but man crowned with honour dominion and dignity wherein could be nothing but rejoycing and pure peace and joy now no evill was known neither was there any such thing but goodness possessed the whole Earth and righteousness breathed forth it self in all things in the circumference thereof and all the works of his hends pleased him and man made partakers of his pleasure and was accepted and not rejected thus in part I have shewed unto you the state of the Earth and of mankind and the glory of Gods Creation and the blessedness thereof but if I could declare unto the whole World from years end to years end I should fall short and words would be wanting to express the felicity and happiness in which man was brought forth in neither shall any be able to see into those things or to declare certainly of those things who come not beyond time to him who is eternal who gave them a being But after man had taken of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evill and had eate of the fruit thereof and consented to the beguiler and to the Serpent sin entered and death by sin man lost his dominion and became subject to another and another had power over him and now the course of nature was set on the fire of Hell the curse entered and man dead while he lives and in that day he eate did die and death breathed forth it self in the Earth and Cain is brought forth in his own Image to wit in the Image of him who was gone out of Gods Dominion and he became a murderer and slew him that was accepted of God and here appeared now the enmity and its life was to destroy and to murder and to kill Abell who believed and offered up a sacrifice and Cain offered in the unbelief and was not accepted so Abell who was just lived by Faith but Cain who was in the envie and in the wrath this life was death to him and to his nature and so all who are out of the Faith are dead while they live Now after the transgression in process of time when the seed of fallen Adam began to increase in the Earth being driven out from the presence of the Lord they spread over the whole Earth and sought many inventions being gone from that of God in themselves by which they were united unto him having broken his covenant and joyned in covenant with death death acts forth it self against the seed which is not of its nature and alwaies sought to imbondage it and to kill it as Cain did Abell and Esau Jacob and Ismael did unto Isaack and unto his seed Now the seed unto which the promise was received the Law from the mouth of the Lord and they that persecuted the seed invented and made Laws of their own according to that nature in which they lived and so became heathenish in their Fashions and Laws and Customs and cruelty grew up as it was nourished and leavened into its own nature and unbelief grew into a mighty stature and monsters was brought forth in such a strange shape in every thing that the enmity did appear in as had not been seen in the Earth before and and so man being gone astray from the life of righteousness every thing is abominable and of a stranger nature