Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	eternal_a	jesus_n	life_n	9,949	5	4.6444	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41513	A just and sober vindication of the observations upon the thirtieth of January, and twenty ninth of May by J.G.G.	Gailhard, J. (Jean)	1694 (1694)	Wing G122; ESTC R24345	52,426	80

of them And all things saith Paul are naked and opened unto the Eyes of him with whom we have to do And there is not saith David a word in my Tongue but thou knowest it altogether In answer to these words of mine After Acts of Oblivion for such things are passed the Memory thereof ought to be forgotten He saith P. 21. Is he assured that that Act is Ingrossed in the Book of Life Or that an Omniscient Mercy hath Recorded our Indemnity By what Angel Yea Sir I am assured of God's Infinite Mercy He is slow to Anger ready to Forgive and plentious in Mercy and if we doubt of it we are Unbelievers he is a God Forgiving Sins and passing by Transgressions and when he hath given us Repentance unto Life whereby we are delivered from Eternal Death and Damnation surely if he thinks it good for us he will also deliver from Temporal Punishments But the ready way to have the Act Ingrossed and the Indemnity Recorded is to put on Bowels of Charity and leave off Hatred Variance Emulations Wrath Strife and other Works of the Flesh We have an Instance of God's Mercy in a case of Murther infinitely more Abominable than yours I mean the Death of his Son the Lord Jesus who is God Blessed for ever God ingrossed in the Book of Life the Act of Pardon and his Omniscient Mercy Recorded the Indemnity of many of those who had Crucified the Prince of Life This God hath declared but with much Assurance I can say That if you continue in your Hatred and desire of Vengeance there is no Pardon for you and if you ask me by what Angel I came to know so much my answer is ready By the Angel of the Covenant who hath declared in the case of the Servant who would shew his Fellow no Mercy wherefore he was delivered to the Tormentors So likewise shall my Heavenly Father do also unto you if ye from your Hearts forgive not every one his Brother their Trespasses Let us but have a care to forgive those by whom we think our selves to have been offended and trust God's Mercy provided you do not become unworthy of it for your Pardon for God is not Angry for ever he visits the Iniquity of the Fathers upon the Children but unto the Third and Fourth Generation But have a care not to take any Pretence to continue in your Animosity or do any thing tending to Superstition You would require of Men more than God doth namely to repent of a Sin which they have not committed I already said those who put King Charles to Death are dead themselves they that now are had no hand in it if in some things they differ from you know your Carriage towards them is in part the cause of it but have a care not to attribute to the Work of that day any thing whereat God may be offended Repentance ought to be daily and continually and not Anniversary of the first we have a Command and we have Sins enough of our own and National to Mourn for but of an Anniversary Repentance we have no President in the Word of God which in such things ought to be our Rule He asks P. 2. Is the Sin expiated Is the Crime attoned for I suppose he meaneth of the Guilty for God never punisheth the Innocent for the Gullty for the Soul that sinneth it shall die It were contrary to his Justice to think otherwise so they that are Innocent are in no Danger as to that they need no Expiation nor Attonement but for the Guilty either they now have or shall never have it a Temporal Judgment hath been executed upon several of them how after this Life God hath dealt with them we are not to inquire after nor concerned But Must future Ages have no nobler Tradition of his Goodness and Justice than what Execution can convey P. 22. Why raise Monuments and Mausolees write his History get his Statues in Brass and Marble Medals of him in Gold and Silver his Head ingraved on Precious Stones several of his Pictures copied and dispersed abroad by that means the Memory of Alexander and of the Cesars hath been transmitted to Posterity I suppose what he seems most to Lament is his loss and not for the Sin of those who condemned him to Death if it be his loss he might have been killed in a Battel died in his Bed of Sickness or of Age he was not Immortal we ought in that case as we must in this have submitted to the Will of God he is Happy better in Heaven than upon Earth why so much and so long to Fret and Vex and be Ingenious to Torment our selves and others and be Angry with those that will not Weep as long or as much as we Parents Relations and Friends must be content with the Loss of any thing near and dear when it pleaseth God it should be so St. Paul would not have the Thessalonians to Sorrow for those that are asleep as others which have no Hope I think that after all these Considerations to continue such an Anniversary is to retain Occasion of Trouble and Matter of Division I find something I said makes him uneasie for he repeats it more than once 't is this To Mourn for King Charles 's Death once had been enough He saith His Tongue tyed Malice would not let him speak out to have celebrated the Martyrdom with a Devotional Remembrance I thank God I am thus far able to command my Tongue as not to let it speak against my Mind 't is not out of Malice for I speak of him and his Memory as reasonably as may be expected from one who is not doting upon a Dead Man but for me to have said Celebrated the Martyrdom c. it had been a Lye and contrary to my Thoughts I own no Martyrdom much less with a Devotional Remembrance my Devotion is only wholly and directly for my God he is graciously pleased to allow me coming to him at any time without any Introductor or Master of Ceremonies I declared I thought his Death unlawful I approved once Mourning for it and one Humiliation-day but not for ever But Why not twice saith he Nay for once or twice more I would not stand out with him if only occasionally but once every Year at a certain fixed day turneth it into Abuse once is no Custom one Act may be Harmless when an Habit makes it a Sin and of all Sins the Customary ought to be avoided But why once for all saith he My answer is Once because our Nature may be allowed to vent out her Sorrow 't is an Infirmity of Humane Nature to be grieved for Losses and Crosses and it easeth one to unload himself of that Affliction whereby the Heart is affected Thus a Father or a Friend may express a Trouble for the loss of a dear Son or of another Relation as I instanced in the case of Jacob and Joseph