Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	flesh_n	sin_n	spirit_n	9,310	5	5.5605	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60501	These few lines are to all such as have an hand in persecuting the innocent people of God (called Quakers) for the exercise of their pure conscience towards God, whom Christ Jesus the Light hath redeemed ...	Smith, Mary, prisoner at Middlewich.	1667 (1667)	Wing S4130; ESTC R220731	4,310	7

THese few Lines are to all such as have an hand in Persecuting the Innocent People of God called Quakers for the Exercise of their pure Conscience towards God whom Christ Jesus the Light hath redeemed a●d is redeeming by the blood of Cleansing into that spiritual Worship which he bore testimony to in his day when he was in the flesh and all other Worships we deny but that which stands in Spirit and in Truth and redeems up to God out of Sin and Iniquity and brings to know the Translation from Death to Life and so leads to the new birth which gives an Entrance into the kingdom of heaven and so we coming to know a measure of the Son of God to live and bear rule in us we come to inherit substance and therefore can we not go with you to sit down in your dead Forms nor be content with those empty shadowes nor feed upon those Husks because there is no life in them For the Lord hath brought us to know the living bread which came down from heaven which bread is sure unto us And he causeth us to feed upon the hidden Manna blessed be his name for ever for he is large in his Mercies and plenteous in his Redemption to our souls And if we should deny him before men then might he justly deny us before his Father and deprive us of his living refreshments which we enjoy and of his presence which is better than life un●o us and so cause him to pour down his fierce wrath and indignation upon us and for ever to blot our names out of the book of l●fe And so for these Reasons do I declare unto you in the fear of the Lord dare we not bow to your Law which is made against Consc●ence For Conscience is Christs Throne and none ought to usurp Authority there So Bind not the Spirit of the Lord nor limit the holy one of Israel unto a Form But in love to your souls I adv●se you to let the Lord alone prescribe him not a Way but leave the work to himself for he is the only wise It is he even he that confounds the Wisedom of the wise and turns the Counsel of the prudent backward For Is not the wisdome of this world foolishness with God In the fear of the Lord therefore oh friends take heed what you do for the Lord will be too hard for all flesh Bryars and Thorns cannot stand before him in battle when he That is a consuming fire arises to plead the cause of his suffering seed Oh be warned whilst you have a day and remember hard-hearted Pharaoh who would not let Israel go free but their God wrought their deliverance through the destruction of their enemies And did he not reprove Kings for their sakes saying Touch not mine Anointed and do my Prophets no harm And is he not the same God and changes not Or do you think that he hath forgotten to be gracious Or is the sighs of the poor and the groans of the needy hid from him Nay surely he is the same as ever he was and will assuredly deliver his people in his own appointed time in this day as ever he did in the dayes that are past Therefore consider well these things all ye that forget God lest he vex you in his wrath and consume you in his sore displeasure when there is none to deliver Ah! Why should you bend your b●owes and make your Arrows ready to shoot at an innocent people whose God is the Lord who never harmed nor wished evil to you but seeks the Lord on your behalfs and supplicates him with brokenness of spirit that you might not perish in your gain-saying but that you might turn unto him that smites wounds and reproves you in secret and lets you see all the outgoings of your minds and vain imaginations of your hearts when no eye sees you nor ear hears you This is he that would gather you up to God Oh friends resist him not any longer he hath long born your Iniquities and long waited over you to be gracious to you Oh turn turn at his Reproof Why will ye die in your transgressions Of a truth He delights not in the death of a sinner Why should his head be wet any longer with the dew and h●s locks with the drops of the night Oh that you could feel the breaking of my bowels over you and the travel of my soul for you that you might come to believe in Christ Jesus the Light of the world for he is near you in whom the treasures of life are to be found How soon would he shew mercy to you and heal your backslidings and though your sins were as red as scarlet he would wash you and cleanse you he would purge you and purifie you and make you vessels of honour and then would he open of the rivers of life to your souls and make you taste of the pleasures which are at his right hand for evermore Oh friends feel the bowels of an infinite God to you whose mercies are unutterable they cannot be declar'd Oh how doth my soul earnestly invite you to Come and taste and feel how good the Lord is that so you might come to comprehend with his people what is the length and height and breadth and depth of this Love of God which we enjoy in Christ Jesus My Counsel therefore and Advice unto all where this may come is That you lay aside all your carnal Weapons and seek not by them to force us from our Beloved for you never shall be able the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it so in vain do you expect it for the Lord hath determined to exalt his Christ the Light of the world and to set him upon his holy Hill For no weapon formed against him shall prosper because he is the Heir of all things and it is he that shall rule the Nations with a Rod of Iron And though he now be trampled upon as an enemy and his face more mared then any mans and no beauty nor comliness to be seen in him yet to him shall the gathering of the Nations be and the Isles afar off shall come to the arising of his Glory and though now his people be led as sheep to the slaughter and given dayly into the hand of the Devourer and Dest●oyer and not thought worthy to live nor tread upon English ground Yet the Lord of Hosts is our strength the God of Jacob is our Refuge And though you feed his people with the bread of Affliction and water of adversity yet the Lord forgets them not And though it seems nothing to you to lay Families waste and separate Wife from Husband and Husband from Wife Parents from Children and Children from Parents not considering that the Lord sees you and whatsoever ye do to his Members he takes as done unto himself yea surely the Lord sees you he laughs at you he hath you in dirision and where will you appear when he