Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	law_n	sin_n	spirit_n	23,097	5	6.5373	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90819	An alarum of vvar given to the army and to their high court of justice (so called) revealed by the will of God in a vision to E. Poole, (sometime a messenger of the Lord to the Generall Councel, concerning the cure of the land and the manner thereof) foretelling the judgements of God ready to fall upon them for disobeying the word of the Lord in taking away the life of the king : also a letter to the congregation, in fellowship with Mr. Kissin, in vindication of E.P. ...	Poole, Elizabeth.	1649 (1649)	Wing P2809; ESTC R203189	14,208	17

to lay down your lives in the field SIRS I Have considered the agreement of the people that is before you and I am very jealous lest you should betray your trust in it in as much as the Kingly Power is faln into your hands in giving it up to the people for thereby you give up the trust committed to you and in so doing you will prove your selves more treacherous then they that went before you they being no wayes able to improve it without you You justly blame the King for betraying his trust and the Parliament for betraying theirs This is the great thing I have to say to you Betray not you your trust I have yet another Message to shew you I know not what acceptance it may finde with you yet I am content here it is let it finde what acceptance it may I leave it with you The Message is as followeth Dear Sirs HAving already found so free admission into your presences it hath given me the greater incouragement though more peculiarly the truth perswading me thereunto to present you with my thoughts in these following lines I am in divine pleasure made sensible of the might of the affaires which lye upon you and the Spirit of sympathie abiding in me constraineth me to groan with you in your pains you may remember I told you the Kingly power is undoubtedly fallen into your hands which power is to punish evil doers and to praise them that doe well Now therefore my cumble advice to you is that you stand as in the awfull presence of the most high Father acting your parts before God and man you stand in the place of interpreters for many hard sayings present themselves to you and will do look for it wherefore see That you give unto men the things that are theirs and unto God the things that are his it is true indeed as unto men I know I appeale by the gift of God upon me the King is your Father and husband which you were and are to obey in the Lord and no other way for when he forgot his Subordination to divine Father-hood headship thinking he had begotten you a generation to his own pleasure and taking you a wife for his own lusts thereby is the yoak taken from your necks I mean the neck of the Spirit and Law which is the bond of your union that the holy life in it might not be prophaned it being free and can not be bound For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath freed us from the law of sin and of death for the letter of the law which speaketh to the flesh killeth therefore you must suffer of men in the flesh for the Lords sake that so dying to your own bodies that is to all self interest in divine will your might also receive your resurrection for you must dye before you can rise you must loose your lives Interests Liberties and all before you can save them casting your Crowne at the feet of the Lamb who only is worthy yet still pleading for them with men for they are your due with them a share they may not deny you Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord for they rest from their labours and their works doe follow them From your own labours I wish you rest in the Lord that the fruit of your labours which is the life of your faith may follow you to prison and to death know this that true liberty either is not bound to any thing nor from any thing for it is subject to this or that neither this nor that in divine will neverthelesse as from the Lord you have all that you have and are so to the Lord you owe all that you have and are for his own name sake So from the King in Subordination You have all that you have and are and also in Subordination you owe him all that you have and are and although hee would not bee your father and husband Subordinate but absolute yet know that you are for the Lords sake to honour his person For he is the Father and Husband of your bodyes as unto men and therefore your right cannot bee without him as unto men I know and am very sensible that no small straight lyeth upon you in respect of securing his person for the manifold conceived inconveniences following and necessities of evill event in respect of raising more wars and also other things well known to you which will present themselves unpossible for you to avoid neverthelesse this is my humble and hearty prayer to the everlasting Father which I present to you in words that you may bee edified thereby Remember I said everlasting Father for so we shall best know him for our consolation that it might please him of his infinite eternall life and goodnesse to grant you a sure and certaine knowledge of this that all things which are impossible with men at the utmost extent of impossibillity are possible with him who only saith it and it commeth to passe the Lord of hoasts the God of the whole earth who commandeth all hoasts of men Angels and Devils whose eyes run to and fro throughout the face of the whole earth To shew himselfe strong in the behalf of all those that trust in him wherefore put your swords into his hands for your defence and fear not to act the part of Abigail seing Nabal hath refused it by Appropriating his goods to himself in relieving David and his men in their distresle it was to her praise it shall be to yours fear it not Onely consider that as she lifted not her hand against her husband to take his life no more doe ye against yours For as the Lord revenged his own cause on him he shall do on yours For vengeance is mine I will repay it saith the Lord who made him the Saviour of your body though hee hath profaned his Saviour-ship Stretch not forth the hand against him For know this the Conquest was not without divine pleasure whereby Kings came to reigne though through lust they tyrannized which God excuseth not but judgeth and his judgements are fallen heavy as you see upon Charles your Lord Forget not your pitty towards him for you were given him an helper in the body of the people Which people are they that agreed with him to subject unto the punishment of evill doers and the praise of them that doe well which law is the spirit of your Union And although this bond be broken on his part You never heard that a wife might put away her husband as he is the head of her body but for the Lords sake suffereth his terrour to her flesh though she be free in the spirit to the Lord and he being uncapable to act as her husband she acteth in his stead and having the spirit of Union abiding in her shee considereth him in his temptations as tempted with him And if he will usurpe over her she appealeth to the Fatherhood for