Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	destroy_v	devil_n	power_n	8,762	5	5.0803	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34984	An alarum sounded in the borders of spiritual Egypt vvhich shall be heard in Babylon, and astonish the inhabitants of the defiled and polluted habitations of the earth. And the power of the Prince of Darkness called into question; and he himself examin'd by the truth, how he came to raign over mankind; and how long his time shall be, till he comes to be cast out of his dominion, and the creature be deliver'd from under his tyranny; to serve God in spirit and in truth, as Christ, the prince of peace, has order'd them. Also the number of him whom the world hath wonder'd after, found out; and demonstrated to be near at an end: and withal, that it is no wayes unlawful, nor in vain, both to hope, and to expect the utter desolation, and destruction of sin in this life, and the setting up of perfect righteousness in the souls of men, where sin has too long raign'd. Written in a testimony to the truth, and against the false position of the devil, and his servants; by a servant of God, Steven Crisp.	Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.	1671 (1671)	Wing C6922; ESTC R215182	35,940	50

Elizium-Feilds after they are dead Lucillius said know ye not what grevious Punishments and Torments the wicked and evil men are to suffer after this life or in what great happiness the good men shall live The Heathen Epicarmus said If thou art godly in thy mind thou shalt being dead not suffer evil and many such sayings are among them But these fallen Christians who plead a necessity to serve this spirit whom they call the Devil whose place they will confess is in Hell and in the everlasting Fire yet they notwithstanding without doing good expect to injoy their Elizium to wit a Heaven where God and the holy Angels dwell forever Now let us examine a little what reason there is for this great mistake First They say that Sin is rooted and planted in the Nature of Man yea so that a Man must cease to be a Man before he can come to cease from being a Sinner Answer That Man in his Natural state is so united with Sin as that he thereby is seperated from God I do not deny and also that there is a natural inclination in man to commit Sin is also true to wit as long as they remain in their natural state and condition And if these Champions for the Devil's Kingdom had blotted out out of that which they call their Rule all those Pretious sayings that make mention of a state of Grace of being under Grace of being Changed or Translated of being Redeemed and made Free of being Washed Clensed Sanctified perfectly in Soul Body and Spirit and many more such places then they had had a Plea for their Prince But seeing there is such a large Testimony of the Mercy and goodness of God and of his Power and Al-sufficiency to Redeem and Save therefore it is worthy to be pleaded before we allow the Devil such an unlimitted Power in and among yea over all the Sons and Daughers of Men. And therefore as concerning the first part of this Objection to wit That Sin is rooted in the Nature of Man How came it to be rooted there Whose Work was it to make it so was it the Work of God or hath he ordered it that it should be so If so Why is any Man or Woman punished or condemned for its being so seeing it could not be otherwise But none else but such as are wholly blind from a true sence of God will dare to say so For then the manifold calling of Sinners unto Repentance to Wash them to Cleanse them to put away the Evil from them to Cease to do Evil c. must all be against his will and ordering and so consequently but a mockery But God forbid that any Man should say or think so Well if it was not by the ordering or appointment of God but that God has made Man Righteous in his Nature Will and Affections yea in the Image of God he Created him Then it must needs be another that has wrought this great Work to plant Sin in his Nature and when it is examined it will appear that it is the work of a cursed Out-cast an Unclean Lying Treacherous Spirit who was rejected of God and had no place in the whole Creation but by framing a lye he brought a poor Woman from her Integrity and Obedience and so from that came a great alteration to be in her and a Ground or Foundation was laid for the Devil to build upon and from that time he has alwayes had a Rule in the hearts of the Children of Disobedience But now that this Rule and Government should not onely be Universal but also Irresistable and unalterable yea though God Almighty stretch forth his Power to Redeem any out of this Kingdom to bring them into the Kingdom of his dear Son yet they say it is impossible for him till he dies It is as much as to say If God will have any Man to serve him perfectly he must first kill him and then he shall have him to his service in another World Oh Horrible Ignorance of the Power of God and of the end for which Christ came into the World namely to destroy the Divel and his Works Now when his Work is destroyed which has a tendancy to corrupt man's nature then the nature of Men and Women come to be ag●in holy clean and pure and Man comes to be Restored to his first Image and the Glory of the first Body is again known of which all the Bond-slaves of the Devil are Ignorant and this Power to restore the nature of Man again is the Lord 's alone it was the Devil that corrupted it and it is God that sanctifies it again and delivers it by the Spirit of Judgment and of Burning which the Hypocrites cannot bear Now the manner how the nature of Man came to be corrupted you have heard that it was by Man's joyning with that spirit that was fallen and cast out from God and had onely a power in the Darkness and could not Reign over any thing but over that which he could draw from the Glory of God into the Darkness And God who dwells in the Light being moved with infinite compassion sent his Eternal Son that was with him before the World was that he should be made partaker of the same nature in which Man was Created that by the Vertue of the Eternal Power he might restore him unto God and might minister unto the spirits of all such to whom this Darkness and corrupted state was as a Prison-house And this Jesus received not the nature of Angels that was not his Work but he received the Seed of Abraham which was in Captivity that he might Redeem it from Captivity through Death suffering under the weight of that which oppressed the Creature and caused it to groan after Redemption so that although it could not deliver it self yet it might come to be Delivered through Faith in him who is mighty to save And this Jesus which was of the Seed of Abraham after the flesh purifieth the nature of all those that joyn with him for the Work of the Devil is to bring in corruption and the Work of Christ is to destroy it and instead thereof to bring in Everlasting Righteousness Now where Sin is remaining in the nature there the Covenant with Hell and Death is not broken neither are such in Covenant with God but are yet under the Power of the Prince of the Air whatever they may profess And the death of Christ is yet of no value unto them because they are yet in their Sin and corrupted nature unchanged Untranslated So that those that hold this Plea for the Devil that because he once got a Place in the nature of Man and has corrupted it that therefore Sin must remain so long as the Life or nature remains such are strangers to the Work of God and to his Power by which he worketh and also to Christ Jesus through whom he works and they have more Faith in the Power of the Devil then