Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	dead_a	die_v	lord_n	6,321	5	4.0478	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65154	A healing question propounded and resolved upon occasion of the late publique and seasonable call to humiliation in order to love and union amongst the honest party, and with a desire to apply balsome to the wound, before it become incurable.	Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662.	1656 (1656)	Wing V69; ESTC R38388	16,135	28

of the people For whose safety and good government it self is ordained by God not for the particular benefit of the Rulers as a distinct and private interest of their own which yet for the most part is not onely preferred before the common good but upheld in opposition thereunto And as at first the Conqueror did by violence and force deny this freedome to the people which was their natural right and priviledge so he and his Successors all along lay as bars and impediments to the true National interest and publique good in the very National Councils and Assemblies themselves which were constituted in such a manner as most served for the upholding of the private interest of their Families And this being challenged by them as their Prerogative was found by the people assembled in Parliament most unrighteous burdensome and destructive to their liberty And when they once perceived that by this Engine all their just rights were like to be destroyed especially being backed as it was with the power of the Militia which the late King for that purpose had assumed into his hands and would not upon the peoples application to him in Parliament part with into the hands of that great Councill who were best to be entrusted with the Nations safety this was the ground of the quarrell upon a civil account between the King and his party and the whole body of adherents to the cause of the peoples true liberty whereof this short touch hath been given and shall suffice for the opening of the first Branch of this Cause The second branch which remaines briefly to be handled is that which also upon the grounds of natural right is to be laid claim unto but distinguishes it self from the former as it respects a more heavenly and excellent object wherein the freedome is to be exercised and enjoyed that is to say matters of Religion or that concern the service and worship of God Unto this freedome the Nations of the World have right and title by the purchase of Christs blood who by vertue of his death and resurrection is become the sole Lord and Ruler in and over the conscience for to this end Christ died rose and revived that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living and that every one might give an account of himself in all matters of Gods worship unto God and Christ alone as their own Master unto whom they stand or fall in judgement and are not in these things to be oppressed or brought before the Judgment-seats of men For why shouldest thou set at nought thy Brother in matters of his Faith and conscience and herein intrude into the proper office of Christ since we are all to stand before the Judgment-seat of Christ whether Governours or governed and by his decision onely are capable of being declared with certainty to be in the right or in the wrong By vertue then of this Supream Law sealed and confirmed in the blood of Christ unto all men whose souls he challenges a propriety in to bring under his inward rule in the service and worship of God it is that all Magistrates are to fear and forbear intermedling with giving rule or imposing in those matters They are to content themselves with what is plain in their commission as ordained of God to be his Minister unto men for good whilest they approve themselves the doe●s of that which is good in the sight of men and whereof earth●y and worldly Judicatures are capable to make a cleare and perfect judgement In which case the Magistrate is to be for praise and protection to them In like manner he is to be a Minister of terrour and revenge to those that doe evill in matters of outward practice converse and dealings in the things of this life between man and man for the cause whereof the judicatures of men are appointed and set up But to exceed these limits as it is not safe nor warrantable for the Magistrate in that he who is higher then the highest regards and will shew himself displeased at it so neither is it good for the people who hereby are nourished up in biting devouring wrathfull spirit one against another and are found transgressors of that Royal law which forbids us to doe that unto another which we would not have them do unto us were we in their condition This freedome then is of high concern to be had and enjoy as well for the Magistrates sake as for the peoples ●ommon good and it consists as hath been said in the Magistrates forbearing to put forth the power of rule and coercion in things that God hath exempted out of his Commission So that all care requisite for the peoples obtaining this may be exercised with great ease if it be taken in its proper season and that this restraint be laid upon the Supreme Power before it be erected as a fundamental Constitution among others upon which the free consent of the people is given to have the persons brought into the exercise of Suprem Authority over them and on their behalf and if besides as a further confirmation hereunto it be acknowledged be the voluntary act of the ruling Power when once brought into a capacity of acting legislatively that herein they are bound up and judge it their duty so to be both in reference to God the Institutor of M●gistracy and in reference to the whole Body by whom they are entrusted this great blessing will here●y be so well provided for that we shall have no cause to feare as it may be ordered By this meanes a great part of the outward exercise of Antichristian Tyranny and bondage will be plucked up by the very roots which till some such course be held in it will be alwayes apt to renew and sprout out afresh under some new forme or refined appearances as by late yeares experience we have been taught For since the fall of the Bishops and persecuting Presbyteries the same spirit is apt to arise in the next sort of Clergy that can get the ear of the Magistrate and pretend to the keeping and ruling the conscience of the Governors Although this spirit and practice hath been all along decried by the faithful adherents to this Cause as a most sore oppression and insufferable yoke of bondage most unrighteously kept up over the consciences of the people and therefore judged by them most needfull to be taken out of the way And in this matter the present Governors have been willing very eminently to give their Testimony in their publique Declarations however in practice there is much of grievance yet found among us though more in probability from the officiousnesse of subordinate Ministers then any clear purpose or designe of the chief in power Having thus shewed what the true freedom is in both the Branches of it that shines forth in the righteous Cause wherein the good people of these Nations have so deeply engaged It will not be improper in the next place to