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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89680	Truths defence against lies. In a brief answer to a book, intituled the Worcestershire petition defended; set forth by one (of Englands blind guides) who calles himself a minister of Christ, yet pleads altogether, that the friars, abbots, bishops, deans and chapters lands, which the papists set forth to maintain their idolatrous worship, are of divine right and institution, and were given to the maintaining of the Church of England, which he calles the Church of Christ, and complains of the sin of sacriledge, against those who have, or shall take any of the aforesaid lands or tithes, from the clergy, which he calles the Church, &c.	Nicholson, Benjamin.	1655 (1655)	Wing N1107; Thomason E843_1; ESTC R202142	4,373	7

TRUTHS DEFENCE AGAINST LIES In a brief Answer to a Book intituled the Worcestershire Petition defended set forth by one of Englands blind guides who calles himself a Minister of Christ yet pleads altogether that the Friars Abbots Bishops Deans and Chapters Lands which the Papists set forth to maintain their Idolatrous Worship are of Divine right and institution and were given to the maintaining of the Church of England which he calles the Church of Christ and complains of the sin of Sacriledge against those who have or shall take any of the aforesaid Lands or Tithes from the Clergy which he calles the Church c. THou Fowler who snares for others madest art in them found fast thy self and for thy lies art cas● into the pit from whence thou shalt never rise until thou be made to cry out against them and own thy own condemnation and there wait until all thy lies be cast forth of thee who art with the light which Christ hath enlightened his Children withall seen to be one of Sathans Ministers transformed into the Ministers of Christs likeness and yet thy mouth full of lies And begins in thy first answer to the first Query where thou sayst All the Ministers in England whom that Petition doth mention are given to the Church for the perfecting of the Saints c. and yet thou sayst But it doth not follow that the Ministers of this Age must bring the Saints to perfection Here thou utterest forth thy lies and confusion and art for condemnation with the light for if thou with thy Brethren be given to perfect the Saints as thou sayst and further as thou sayst the Saints cannot be made perfect by you in this age then you accomplish not the work whereunto you are sent so are found unfaithful and unprofitable Servants and must give an account of your Stewardship and out of your own mouths be condemned and for your unfaithfulness be cast out of your service 2. Thou sayst Perfection will be at Christs second coming and your Resurrection when soul and body shall be joyned in felicity here thou utterest forth thy folly and confesseth thy ignorance in the knowledge of Christs coming in spirit in thy flesh and of thy Resurrection and holiness in Christ showing thy selfe to be dead and in the grave of sin unraised from corruption not having put on Christ where no imperfection is and yet darst call thy self a Minister of Jesus Christ Oh blush for shame thou that hates to be reformed and thy Brethren who hast a Whores forehead and sits in the high-wayes and corners of streets in the twigh-light and night of your iniquities to intise the ignorant and foolish ones to commit adultery with you and to act fornication with strange lovers and all are strangers to God and strangers from the Covenant of grace and are gone from the Lord the true lover and from the light and into the night and darkness leads where you all dwell and have your portion 3. Thou sayes You chearfully accept of Christs wayes and yet sayes you know not what it is for he never covenanted with you as thou sayes you never capitulated with him but what he offers you shall be sure of in the life to come here thou shews thy self ignorant of eternal life and art without faith for he that believeth in Christ hath everlasting life dwelling in him Jo. 6.47 and if thou hadst everlasting life dwelling in thee what other life would be desired or what life would be wished for more than life eternal but thou and all who here live not in the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ are without God and Christ and lasting joy and happiness and are in darkness death and hell shut up as thou plainly declares thy self to be and hast nothing to do to talk of God or Christ or Scripture for from them art thou shut out and from thee they are lockt and sealed up the Gulf is betwixt you and woe is thy portion and all they who are joyned to thee whilst you live there for under the wrath of God you are and are accursed from off the earth which fruit to God doth bring forth with your Father Cain and you vagabonds strangers wandering from God and from the light of God and are afraid of destruction by every one who findes you out as thou expresses in thy 11th Query saying If the publick maintenance be taken away the Ministry will not continue long and so thou wouldst tie as thou callest it Gods Ministry to depend on an outward publick means and here thou art a blasphemer and knowes not the Ministry of Gods spirit and art for condemnation by the Ministry of the spirit and all such liars and blasphemers as thou art who go about either by speaking or printing to deceive the world and to cast aspersions on the sure truth and draw poor Creatures from the light of God within them to follow your and their own imaginations in a voluntary humility and will-worship preaching and hearing for Doctrines the precepts of men crying out against all who speak forth the living Oracles of God calling them Hereticks and deluders but let all who desire to know the truth as it is in Christ Jesus seriously consider whether we who direct to walk by the true light the spirit of truth in every ones measure and to be guided by it and to do as the true anointing teacheth them or thou and thy Companions who draw from the light to observe outward forms be the deceivers and seducers All that thou and thy fellows in all your writings against truth and in all your answers to any thing propounded is but to gull the people of the Nation and to perswade them that God hath left you onely as teachers of them and that you must have a maintenance from them if they will not pay you you cast out hard words against them and so if they put not into your mouthes you prepare warre against them and keep the people under and you Priests bear rule by their means and hold up the filthy and horrible thing preaching for hire and the people love to have it so but what will you do in the end thereof which will come upon you at unawares And thou who accounteth thy selfe a Minister of Christ saith it is sufficient for thee that Christ hath commanded that men should not muzzle the mouth of the Oxe that treadeth out the Corn and the Labourer is worthy of his hire c. did thou never yet sow spiritualls and therefore can have no right to temporalls for the seed of God is hid in thee the witness lies slain in thy streets and as thou sayst in thy answer to the first Query Christ is not come to thee the second time to salvation and the Resurrection of the dead body or seed that lies dead is not yet come to thee therefore to the light in thy conscience I speak how canst thou or any of thy fellows have a

face to plead for temporalls but that you are brazened when by your own confession you have no spiritualls to administer to them or seed of God to sowe in them Thou sayst and I have heard many of thy fellows say that the new birth is not in this life but the Scriptures witness that the Saints of God had passed from death to life and they witnessed their turning from darkness to light and their translating into the Kingdom of Christ Col. 1.10.13 14. and all who are called to be Saints now in the measures witness the same Thou sayst if we so far prevailed as to take away the establisht maintenance of the Ministry you are resolved to preach never a Sermon the lesse But none who knowes thee will believe thee or any of thy Generation for if your mouths be not filled you will not nor cannot bark for your barking consisteth in the bit as in Isa 56.10 11. and as thou thy self saith in thy 11th Query of thy Book that if the publick maintenance be taken away there is but little likelihood of a Ministry longer her To thy face thy lies are laid open as all that read in thy book may see Oh shameless and filthy Generation lying deceiving and being deceived how long will ye resist the power of the holy one and yet profess your selves to be the Ministers of Christ be ashamed and confounded come down thou Daughter of Babylon and sit in the dust and humble thy self if it may be the Lord may take pitty upon thee and spare thee for the hand of the Lord is stretched out over Babylon to destroy it and none shall hold it And for answer to the rest of thy Book all who read it may see if they be not blind thy shame and nakedness laid open by thy selfe and needs no other to unmask thee but thy selfe all which strives to prove that the maintenance which was given to Friars Abbots Bishops c. by the Pope are of divine right and institution and was given to the Vniversities as thou calles them and to the rest of the Churches in England calling it the Church of Christ In thy fifth Query laying open thy folly to all eyes who will see thou sayes is it not a fearful hardning to the Papists when they shall observe that those of their Religion give to the Church and that these of ours take it away so here thou and thy Church and the Pope Rapists and their Church are all one by thy own words and further thou complains against King Henry for taking away part of the means and against this present Power for taking another part of the Churches means And thou saist we will not leave any All who knows what part Henry King in England sould of the Churches means knowes what he sould was of the Friars and Abbots Lands O see thy shame and filthiness thou Beast who dare so plead for the Popes right to be thine and the Church of Englands right but all who in the light dwell sees thee and the Church of England that thou pleads for and the Pope and his partakers to be Members of the body of Antichrist and with the breath of Christ and his bright appearance in his Saints shall be consumed Thou likewise sooths up the ignorant and poor people and sayes the common people may easily be perswaded that the Religion which teacheth men to rob God counting it a robbing of God to fell the Fryars Abbots Bishops Deans and Chapters Lands is not so good as that which teacheth them to give to him and his worship But wo is all your portions you cannot escape the hands of the Lord and though you hide your selves never so secretly you are found out and all your lights and subtle devices whereby you lay in waight to deceive the simple are uncovered and with the light are to be condemned And so Reader read but the Worcestershire Petition defended which this man who calles himself a Minister of Christ writ in answer to certain Queries which was put forth to those who put forth the Worcestershire Petition to be answered by them and thou shalt see himself laying open his own folly and nakedness and making his own shame to appear and lastly how he confesseth that they he and his brethren have been too much mindfull of the things of this life and preferring their own rights more then the rights of Jesus Christ thus out of thy own mouth are they condemned with thy brethren you sloathful Servants weeping and wailing shall be your portion without you speedily repent and turn to the Lord for with the light you are found out and by the light you are condemned and cast out from God and from the fellowship and Communion of the Saints in God with the abhominable and defiled to have your portion in the lake which cannot be quenched without you make haste to meet the Lord Repent therefore and come out of Babylon for he who in her abides shall pertake of her plagues take warning by one who your soul loves and desires to see your welfare in God and return from Babylon BEN NICHOLSON And many more unsavory words there is in thy book which be not worth mentioning But this is given forth that the fool should not boast himself in his folly amongst the ignorant for the ignorants sake this book was written and sent forth FINIS