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	life_n	resurrection_n	9,018	5	8.6668	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59956	The universality of the light which shines in darkness asserted, and the notions & opinions of Jeremiah Ives (divulged the 24th of the 2d moneth, 1674, in the market place at Crayden in the county of Surrey) detected &c. written and published ... by William Shewen.	Shewen, William, 1631?-1695.; Stubbs, John, 1618?-1674.	1674 (1674)	Wing S3426; ESTC R21692	18,539	30

are Divine but not one That which is Divine in God becomes Natural when given to men Some in the World are without Christ therefore some in the World are without the Light of Christ I noted these at the Time and Place aforesaid in Short-Hand and I know not that I have wronged thee if thou judgest otherwise I desir● to hear from thee suddainly W. S. THE UNIVERSALITY OF THE LIGHT ASSERTED AND THE Notions and Opinions OF JEREMIAH IVES DETECTED c. Opinion THe same Body that is now the Habitation of the Soul and Spirit shall rise again and enter with the Soul united into Everlasting Joy or Torment Answer The Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Just and Unjust in the Day of Judgment and their future Estate in Joy or Torment was alwayes asserted by us in Scorn called Quakers though wickedly insinuated and divulged to the contrary by our Opposers And this whole Nation may be convinced by our Conscientious Suffering for bearing witness to the Truth we have received that we believe a Future Estate Else why should we suffer to keep our Consciences void of Offence If we were of the number of those then might we say Let 's eat and drink and take our fill of Pleasure in the things of this World to day for to morrow we shall dye And let us run down with the Stream of the Times we live in and be Men Pleasers and so preserve our selves from Suffering But our Conversation hath not been on this manner but quite the contrary and impartial People may see that it is great Ignorance if not Wickedness and Emnity imour Enemies both Professors Prophane to endeavour to father and fasten such a Doctrine upon us But we pitty their Blindness knowing that it is the Work of that old Adversary the Devil which rules in the Hearts of the Children of Disobedience on purpose to make us odious and hateful to the People who have a gross Traditional Faith concerning the Resurrection as of other Truths of the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Now the Mystery of Godliness is great and the Mystery of Iniquity is great also and they are reveal'd to the Babes and Sucklings and hid from the Wise and Prudent of this World the Wit and Cunning of men finds it not out neither can the Wisdom of the World comprehend it the Busie High-minded Puffed up Contentious Corinthians would be prying into things not made known to them by the Spirit of the Lord but Paul the aged dealt wisely and gravely with them giving them many sharp Reproofs for their high Conceits telling them 1 Cor. 4.3 18. He could not speak to them as unto Spiritual Men but as unto Carnal and could not minister Strong Meat to them but Milk having Envyings Strife and Divisions among them he concludes they were Carnal and walkt as men wise and puft up in their own conceits But saith he to them If any among you seem to be wise in this World let him be a Fool that he may be wise for the Wisdom of this World is Foolishness with God c. 1 Cor. 3. And in most of his Epistle he reprehends them for their Failings and Errors Now some among them broached this Error also That there was no Resurrection of the Dead Many weighty Arguments he urges to convince them of their gross Ignorance 1 Cor. 15. If there be no Resurrection of the Dead then is not Christ risen so on to the 19th verse where he also saith If in this Life only we have Hope we are of all men most miserable c. For since by Man came Death so by Man came also the Resurrection In Adam all dye in Christ shall all be made alive he that reads let him understand Some also among them might after they were convinc'd by his Arguments enquire how the Dead were raised and with what Body come they forth To such he saith O Fool that which thou sowest is not quickened except it dye and that which thou sowest thou sowest not that Body that shall be c. to the end of the Chapter And now if the curious Enquirers of this Age would know further and presume above what is written out of the Sense and Knowledge of the Holy Spirit which moved Holy Men to write they are to be answered with Judgment and sharp Reproof for the puffed up Spirit and busie Mind which aspires to know much before-hand leads men to neglect the doing that good which they already know therefore it was very well said by Geo. Whitchead when the Dispute was like to continue about the Resurrection That it would be more profitable and necessary for People to hear a Discourse that may tend to inform them how they may be fitted and prepared to be one of that number which shall rise in the Resurrection to enjoy Everlasting Felicity and to avoid the contrary and not at present to contend about the Sameness of the Body that shall rise and what Matter and Form it shall have and how and when the Soul and Body shall meet and be united and how they shall be entertained in Heaven c. About these things the vain Thoughts and Imaginations of men are many and some that count themselves able to teach others are as ignorant of the Resurrection as Nicodemus was of the New Birth And this busie Mind and unsubjected Spirit which learns not at the Feet of Jesus has great Conceits and Imaginations what God hath done of old in Generations past and what he is able to do Thousands of Years to come but is ignorant and unacquainted with his Power at present believes little of his Power and Ability in their own Particulars in this present time wherein they are to know him by his Mighty Power to raise them out of the Grave of Sin and give them Victory over it and so to witness their part in the first Resurrection This is of more absolute Necessity then to enquire what manner of Bodies God will raise in the Last Day and how he will provide and entertain the Soul and Body in Heaven when time shall be no more They that know God do believe in him and can trust him and do resign up their Bodies Souls and Spirits into his Hand in this World and in that which is to come also and have no doubt but he will provide well for them if they persevere in well doing to the end Opinion It may be in the great Day of Judgment God may receive the Heathen to Glory but it is more then they know whether he will or no For those People that have not the Scriptures among them in common have no Knowledge of their future Estate Answ What God will do with the Heathen it seems thou knowest not but art in thy Thoughts or may bees about it They that walk in the Light in which God dwells know more of his Mind However thou mayst read in the Holy Scriptures of God's Love and