Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	earth_n	heaven_n	life_n	8,760	5	4.3162	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56200	Sad and serious politicall considerations touching the invasive war against our Presbyterian Protestant brethren in Scotland, their late great overthrow, and the probable dangerous consequences thereof to both nations and the Prorestant [sic] religion which may serve as a satisfactory apology for such ministers and people, who out of conscience did not observe the publike thanksgiving against their covenant, for the great slaughter of those their brethren in covenant.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1650 (1650)	Wing P4058; ESTC R5356	63,285	75

he be afraid because Wars and miseries rage in all Coasts of the world For this is the eternal Law of Creatures which the Creator imposed upon them at first that the Birth of one thing should be the Death of another and that the order of Nature should be preserved by the vicissitudinary course of alternate Mutability And why should we be offended at warres amongst men when there are daily and continual Conflicts between the Elements themselves Cities Republiques Empires and Families are mortal as men have their states of Birth Infamy Growth and Old-age as well as they Glory Majesty Arts and Soveraignty began in Asia by the Assyrians from them departed to the Medes and Persians and from them before they had well tasted the sweetnesse of them translated to the Grecians and next to the Romans The Glory of the Roman Empire was eclipsed and humbled by the barbarous Inundations of Goths Huns Vandals and other savage Nations who being themselves once civilized and mollified by the Effeminacies of Italy and the West were in 560 years space overthrown by the Potency of Charlemain and the Germans Germany hath now fully possessed the Imperial dignity 790 years and before fifty years moe be past shall be made a scorned Servitor of the King of the North whose Power and Religion shall transcend the utmost Confines of East and West In the beginning of which Empire Venice shall not brag of being inaccessible by the circumfluent Ocean and London Paris Antwerp and Prague the IV Ladies of Europe shall be humbled to sit in the dust of eternal Destruction The consideration of this must teach men humility in prosperity carefulnesse to know God and keep his Commandments seeing every Plant which he hath not planted shall be plucked up and nothing can be permanent but by his favour and protection XV. Thou therefore the eternall and incomprehensible Father of lights the indivisible God of peace and unity look down at length upon the afflicted estate of thy Gospel and mournfull face of thy Church clouded with sects and schisms rent by civill combustions dying by the wounds which her sons have given and wallowing in that gore which was shed by the hands of her own children Though our sins have deserved that we should for ever be cast out of the sight of thy countenance yet respect thou the bloud of thy Sonne crying better things then that of Abel and be once at one again with thy inheritance● Abraham knows us not Israel is ignorant of us but thou art our Father and in thee shall be all our a●fiance with whom even the worst of men have found mercy Extend the light of thy loving-kindenes to the Tribes of Iacob and return to the many thousands of Israel for the time to build up Zion is come and the daies of restoring Jerusalem cannot be prolonged For why Thy servants think upon her stones and favour the very dust thereof But remember Edom O Lord as thou remembredst Babel which have cryed so oft Down with it down with it to the very earth Pour thy-vengeance down upon the Beast of Rome and the red Dragon of Constantinople who never knew thy name that so the sorrowfull sighings of the Prisoners may come before thee● and thy servants be preserved that are appointed to die Let thy work be upon the MAN of thy right hand and upon the Son of man whom thou hast made so strong for thy self that Pharaoh Elam Mesheck with the sonnes of Tubal may fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword and may descend into the midst of hell with all that help them even the whole multitude of the Uncircumcised whose Lot is to goe into the nether parts of the Earth There shall they have their beds with the Uncircumcised near those Valiants which are gone down to the grave with their weapons of war and have laid their swords under their heads because they were the fear of the mighty in the Land of the Living But what shall be said to the Captain of the Nations or to the Angell destroying Edom and Babylon Even this That the Lord hath founded Zion and the poor of his people shall trust in it He will leave an afflicted people and they shall trust in the name of the Lord He shall give them a pure Law that they may pray to him with one consent He shall open the doors of darknesse the gates of obscurity shall he break down that the world may be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the Sea O thou sower of discord and Captain of iniquity how long wilt thou delight to murther spoil and pursue the distressed Knowest thou not that it will be bitternesse in the end Command the people to return every man from pursuing his brother for lo a Nation is risen against you a mighty Nation and terrible from the East whose horses ace fire and his Chariots flames of fire to devour his men are as swift as the Eagle who will have no compassion on the fruit of the womb nor shall their eye pity They shall encompasse ●hy Tents with an intent to lay all waste before them but neverthelesse be con●ident and bold in the Lord of Hosts for fire shall come down from Heaven and return their wickednesse upon their heads and their doings upon their own pates O thou worship of Israel how wonderfull art thou in thy doings toward the children of men● Bringing light out of darknesse strength out of weaknesse and making Justice the mean to the manifestation of thy goodnesse and glory As for me I will expect him who is as well the King of Salem Peace as Melchised●ck the King of Justice all my daies and will heartily pray for his coming who shall bring every work into judgement and every thing to a legall triall whether it be good or evill He is the Lamb upon the white Throne before whose face Heaven and Earth shall fly away and the Sea be no more found Death and Hell shall give up the dead that are in them and every Name that is not written in the Book of Life shall be cast into the Lake of fire For which time all the Creation groaneth crying out to be delivered from the Bondage of Corruption and restored to the glorious Liberty of the Sons of God Even so come Lord Jesus come quickly that sin may be destroyed for ever and righteousnesse eternally established in stead thereof Amen FINIS For●itan hunc aliquis verbosum dicere librum Non dubitet forsan multò praestantior alter Pauca reperta pu●et quùm plura invenerit ipse Des●s impatiens nimis haec obscura probabit Pro capt●● Lectoris habent sua fata Libelli Sed me juditij non p●enitet haec benè vobis Commis● quibus est amor sapientia juxtà Et Labor in studijs ijsdem celebratus inhaeret Vos sequar in vestro satis est examine cautum * Exact Collection p. 663.666

summa Reddet Occasum sub leges mittet inermem Thus Englished Alas ill race to dismall Fates reserv'd By whom dire Beasts are tamed and preserv'd See what thou wert and art Thy first issue Inclines to War Plague doth the next subdue But Lion fierce sprung from the Northern shore Shall bring from deepest Hell and waves that rore A blasing Army he shall men o'rerun Cities and cattel yea the Moon and Sun Shall he remove and Father-like the least Make highest and give Laws to the weak West Yet he that returns back in reviewall of the conjunctions and fiery Triplicities may see how they have in part prognosticated the present troubles and and distractions of Europe with the Common-wealths of England and Scotland Anno 1603 in the first great conjunction of Saturn and Iupiter in the fiery triplicity K. Iames came to the Crown of England and so was fulfilled that Prophecie which an holy Anchoret made 890 years agoe English men for that they wonneth them to drunkeinesse to treakson and rechlesenesse of Got's house firsten by Dancs thenth by Nortmans and the thrid time by Scots whom they holden lest worthen of all they shallen be overcompn Then the world shallen be unstable and so various and diversable that the unstablenesse of thoughts shallen b● betookeineid by many manner diversity of cloathing This could never be fulfilled but by a Scottish King swaying the English-scepter and therefore never came to passe till the Union of the two Kingdoms under the said King As the second Conjunction Anno 1623. found Germany and most of the West involved in civil Wars and as the third An. 1643. found the King and Subjects of England in the field one against the other so the fourth Conjunction An. 1663 in Sagitarius shall begin those destructive Combustions in Italy which shall allure the Protestant Armies to make a third all-conquering Party in the same and the fifth An. 1683 in Leo shall bring forth the Conversion of the Jews but the sixth Conjunction happening in Taurus An. 1703 shall behold that which many glorious Saints and children of God have read of and ●ejoyced and desired to see and yet could not see them For now Revel 22.1 ●hall the Sea that is the miserable estate of the World by Wars Desolations and Sicknesses be destroyed and no more extant Now shall the time of Tribulation War and desolation the time of torments temptation heresie and persecution be utterly abolished from the memory of men For a new Heaven and a new Earth a renovated Church purified Saints shall succeed in the room of those Wolves who in sheeps-cloathing devoured the Flock of Christ. These are the dayes for the hope of which the stones of ●ion cry day by day though little esteeming seven thousand deaths in regard of that precious assurance g●aven in their Brests that they shall then and in that day behold the Lord which hath mercifully gathered them from all Nations and hath so wonderfully preserved them from the sorcery of Babylon which hath destroyed all the Earth that leadeth them in and out bef●re Pagans Hereticks and Idolaters before the covetous and foolish-wise of this world so prudently and so invisibly that they seeing are not seen and living are not known But from these low things let us ascend up to Scripture further to prove the certainty thereof Daniels Image as it gave the first so it gave the fullest Knowledge of this great Mystery of the Church of God Dan. 2. per tot In which Image is described in brief the Estate of the World from the very day God revealed this to Daniel and he to Nebuchadnezzar to the full and final End and Conclusion of time By the golden Head silver Arms brazen Belly and iron Legs we must understand the Chaldean Persian Macedonian and Roman Monarchies which successively one after another tyrannized over mankinde by cruelty and by cruelty came to as miserable Destructions in the end The feet part of Iron and part of Clay denoted the declining Estate of the Roman Empire after that indiscreet Division of it under Charles the Great into the Eastern and Western under the present Papacy and now-vulturizing house of Austria which hitherto doth and shall continue until An. 1694. Therefore the Stone cut without hands in the 34 verse which smote the Image on his feet that were part of Iron part of Clay and so brake them to pieces that the Iron Brasse Clay Silver and Gold became as chaff of the Summer-flowers that the winde carried them away and no more place was found for them And the Stone that smote the Image became a great Mountain and filled the Earth must needs be understood of a glorious Monarchy of the Church of God upon Earth which by the Conversion of the Universal Nation of the Jews shall overcome all her Enemies and reign triumphantly in all Nations under Heaven in universality uniformity integrity and inn●cency of life and conversation This blessed and happy estate of Christs Church upon Earth after the aforesaid battel of Gog and Magog described Ezech. 38. and 39 Chap. of which enough before is graphically deciphered in the nine last Chapters of the same Prophet beginning at the 40 where under a specious and large type of restoring the old Jewish Temple with the Sacrifices chap. 40. the measuring ordering and disposing of it in every thing thereto belonging chap. 41. as the chambers of the Priests in the Temple the holy Utensils chap. 42. the glory of God filling the house chap. 43. his paternall upbraiding the Israelites for their antient Idolatry and demonstrating his great and affectionate love to them for the present chap. 44. is contained as I said before a pithy discourse how powerfull and magnificent these new converted Christians shall be how holy learned and unanimous their Ministers should be how ardent and studious they shall be in communicating the Gospel of Christ to such as yet sit in darknesse and in the shadow of death chap. 45. how vigilant their Princes and Magistrates shall be in being keepers of the house of God that is in incouraging the Ministers tam praemio quàm paenâ to instruct the people in the knowledge of the truth that so both Ministers and people may render due obedience to their common Saviour in love to God and charity toward men And again the reserved portions of Land for the Temple City Priests and Princes all in just measures and dimensions the waters issuing out of the Temple ever increasing in Latitude and Profundity the severall divisions of the particular lots of Priests Temple Levites the City and the Princes secondarily repeated in the 45 46 47 and the last Chapters evidently declare the undoubted certainty and verity of this wonderfull mystery that the Jews shall repossesse their antient possessions and severall inheritances in the Land of Iudea how devout pious and chearfull they shall be in the worship and service of God intimated by