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	life_n	resurrection_n	4,766	5	8.4135	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42359	The true and perfect speech of Mr. James Guthrey, late minister of Sterling as it was delivered by himself immediately before his execution on June 1, 1661 at Edinbrough.	Guthrie, James, 1612?-1661.	1661 (1661)	Wing G2267; ESTC R30329	5,897	16

The True and Perfect SPEECH OF Mr. James Guthrey LATE Minister of Sterling As It was delivered by himself immediately before his Execution on Iune 1. 1661. at EDINBROVGH Sent from Edenburgh And printed for publick satisfaction and to prevent the disperssing of false Copies 1661. THE SPEECH OF Mr. Iames Guthrey LATE Minister of STERLING Men and Brethren I Fear many of you come hither to gaze rather then to be edified by the carriage and last words of a dying man but if any have an ear to hear as I hope some of this great Confluence have I desire your audience as to a few words I am come hither to lay down this earthly tabernacle and mortal flesh of mine and I bless God I do it willingly and not by constraint I say I suffer willinglie if I had been otherwise minded I might have made a diversion and not been a prisoner but I being conscious to my self of nothing worthy of death or bonds I would not stain my conscience with the suspicion of guiltiness by my withdrawing Neither have I wanted opportunity nor advantages to escape since I was a Prisoner Not by the fault of my Keeper God knows but otherwife But neither for this had I light or liberty least I should reflect upon the Lords Name and offend the Generation of the Righteous And if these men have not been mistaken or dealt deceitfullie in telling me so I might have avoiced not onlie the severity of the Sentence but also had favour and countenance by complying with the course of the times But durst not redeem my Life with the loss of my Integrity God knows I durst not And that since I was a Prisoner the Lord hath so held me by the hand that he never suffered me to bring to debate in my inward thoughts muchless to propound or hearken to any Overtures in that kind I did judge it better to suffer then to sin and therefore I am come hither to laie down my life this day and I bless God I die not as a Fool not that I have any thing wherein to glorie in my self I acknowledge I am a Sinner yea one of the vilest and greatest that hath owned a profession of Religion and one of the most unworthiest that hath preached the Gospel my Corruptions have been strong and manie and hath made me a sinner even in all things yea even in following my Dutie And therefore righteousness have I none of my own but I do beleive that Iesus Christ came into the World to save sinners whereof I am the chief through faith in his righteousness and blood have I obtained mercie and in him and through him alone have I the hope of a blessed conquest and victorie over sin and satan and hell and death and that I shall attain unto the Resurrection of the just and be made a pertaker of eternal life I know whom I have beleived and he is able to keep that which I have committed to him against that day I have preached Salvation through his name and as I have Preached so I believe and do commend the riches of his free grace and faith in his blood unto you all as the onely way whereby you can besaved and I bless God as I die not as a fool so also I die not for evil doing not a few of you may hapily judge that I suffer as a Thief or as a Murderer as an evil Doer or as a busie-body in other mens matters that was the lot of our Lord Jesus Christ himself and hath been the lot of many of his precious people and servants to suffer by the World as evil doers and as my soul stirs not at that but desires to rejoyce in being in conformity to my blessed head and so blessed a company in these things so do I desire in prayer that I may be to none of you to day on this account a stone of stumbling or a Rock of offence Blessed is he that will not be offended in Christ and his poor servants because of their being condemned as evil doers by the World God is my record that in these things for which sentence of death hath passed against me I have a good Conscience I bless God they are not matters of Compliance with the Sectaries or designes and practices against his Majesties person or Government or the Person or Government of his Royal Father my heart I bless God is Conscious of no disloyalty nay Loyal I have been and commend it to you all to be Loyal and Obedient unto the King true piety is the foundation of true loyalty a Wicked man may be a flatterer and a time server but he will never be a loyal Subject but to return to my purpose Matters for which I am condemned are matters belonging to my calling and function as a Minister of the Gospel such as the discovery and reproof of sin and pressing the holding fast the Oath of God and the Covenant in preserving and carrying on the work of Religion and Reformation according thereunto and denying to acknowledg the civil Magestrate to be the competent Judge in matters Ecclesiastical that in all these things which God so ordering by his gracious providence are the ground of my sentence and death I have a good conscience as having walked therein according to the light and rule of Gods word as doth become a Minister of the Gospel I do also bless the Lord that I do not dye as one not desired I know that of not a few I have never been nor am desired It hath been my lot to have been a man of contention and sorrow but it is my comfort that for my own things I have not contended but for the things of Jesus Christ and for what relates to his Interest and Work and well being of his people in order to the preserving and promoting of these I did protest against and stood in opposition to those Assemblies at St. Andrews and Dundee and Edenburg and the publique resolution of bringing the Malignant party to judicature and Armies of this Kingdom as conceiving the same contrary to the Word of God and to our Solemn Covenant and Ingagement and to be an inlet to defection and to the ruine and destruction of the Work of God as it is now manifest to this day to mens Consciences I have not therein been mistaken and was not fighting against the man of straw I was also desirous to have some poor Indeavour to have the Church of God purged from insufficient scandalous and corrupt Ministers and Elders For these things I have been mistaken by some and hated by others but I blesse the Lord as I had the testimony of my own conscience I am there in a approving and in the conscience of many of the Lords people and precious servants and how little soever I may dye not desired by some yet by these I know I dye desired and their approbation is of more value to me then all the contradictions and