Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	let_v	life_n	lord_n	9,881	5	3.8577	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37900	The censors censured, in a brief discourse to which is adjoyned the authors letter to an anti-episcopal minister concerning the government of the church : written in the year 1651, but not printed till now.	Edmonds, Hugh.	1661 (1661)	Wing E178A; ESTC R36147	7,054	17

perpetration thereof can adapt him to justice Repentance though it may be too soon ended can never bee too late begun he that lives like St. Lukes judge on the bench neither fearing God nor regarding man may have the grace to die like the Jewes theef on the Crosse with profession of both for that power which expresly denyeth forgivenesse to one sin onely doth implicitely conceede a possibility of pardon to all others On this consideration it would be worth their paines to translate their Petition for Presbytery into a Suit for Indempnity and publickly to acknowledge his Majesties Declaration which is the proof of his grace to be an argument of their guilt who like cunning fencers that aim at the legs when they intend to veny the pate under a reformative pretence of destroying those revenous beasts which worry the people begg'd leave of their master to hunt the kingdome which being granted they took liber●y of themselves to make him their chief game for it is well known from Dan to Beersheba that the credit of their false doctrine was the very leaven wherewith the people were first moulded into a sowre lump of armed malice against their Sovereigne And I may truly say it was the unlucky Boutefen which not only yielded smoak to smother all Treaties into a nullity of successe but that gave light also to clear the way for more active instruments then themselves to take off the Head of our eternally renowned Saint Charles together with the Government from his soulders for although they entred not the Stage with those miscreants that personated Pilate in the fifth Act yet because they appeared with others who playd the parts of Annas and Caiphas in the first Scene of the Tragedy we may justly christen them the Grandfathers in law of that bloudy fact which being unmatchable in humane stories may be in some sort compared to the crafty complement of the cruel wolfe in the fable who told the sheep Da mihi potum ego mihi dabo cibum meaning to eat him up for his courtesie A fact which as former ages have not been so learnedly wicked to invent so I hope the future will be more honestly wise than to imitate A fact which may schoole our Kings of England into a use of the Italians prayer to be delivered from their friends whom they trust as well as from their enemies whom they fear and inform the people with the Spaniards soul rather to sheath their swords in one anothers bowels upon private quarrels than to draw them against their Sovereign in open war But if the Recognition of such an execrable murder be not caution enough for subjects to restrain them from Rebellion let the memorable example of the Amalekites punishment be their exhortation to obedience 2 Sam. 1. 13 14. who though a stranger to Sauls kingdome and by them requested to conclude his pain with the inference of death was by Davids command for touching the Lords anointed instantly condemned to loose his life If Kings lives then are so precious in Gods account that they may not be touched in the heat of proclaimd hostility what a cursed sin must that be which justifieth those who take them away in cold bloud By these animadversions I hope the whole host of spirituall officers who have fought against the Regiment of the Church will be victoriously fens'd into a unanimous Iudgement that it is far better for them to have the Apostles doctrine in their hearts then the Scots discipline in their hands to be content with that estate wherein they have been then to covet that wherein they ought not to be to submit to the King in causes Ecclesiastical rather then by calling his power in question to abuse their own authority in the Gospel to give Caesar his will be no substraction from their due had not our Saviour paid for himself and Peter it might be doubted whether the Clerks of this age like the old Egyptian Priests would not plead their estates untributary as well as their offices unsubj●ct to the King With what tenure of spiritual power they are invested Jure divino none but those Laicks whom the Popes Mandate hath screen'd from the Sun-shine of Gods word can be ignorant The officious Acts of Jehoiada to Jehoash and Nathan to David are not only presidents to warrant the right but boundaries to limit the extent of their claim they must instruct Kings as the one and may reprove them as the other did which was not executed by an excommunicative scourge to make David do pennance for his offence but with the monition of a meek spirit to give him a penitent sense thereof for as the act of reproof argued the King to be Gods subject so the mode of reproving maintain'd him to be the Proph●ts Sovereign And thus I believe Azariah withstood Vzziah by no other force save that of the tongue whose aim was to strike at the fact not the person of the King to induce him into a consciousnesse of his fault not to require his submission to punishment which because immediately inflicted of God supposeth him priviledg'd not to receive it from man so that rebus sic stantibus our ministerial Guides have little reason and lesse grace to pride themselves in their Ghostly authority of reb●●ing Kings such verbal Reprehensions being no more then religious servants not adventuring beyond the sphear of their calling may lawfully practise towards their ungodly masters for as it is the Resolve of Divines that in case of neccessity Quil●bet Christianus est sacerdos so it is not only the liberty but the duty of every one in Gods case boldly to reprove an offending brother as I think my self bound to tell the associated brethren that they have highly wronged the Majesty of God the King both by their orall and manual prolusions to introduce a new fangled government in the Church that it will be more safe for them to observe the duty of looking into their own then the false commission of overseeing their superiours actions the performance whereof might happily make that saying ex culpa sacerdotum ruina populi to be as well known to themselves as felt by others and convert the hypocrisie which some do into the sincerity of obedience which all should professe for though none of them be puritanized into Donatisme but can protest it their necessary obligation to reverence the Kings person yet most are so far sublimated from the drosse of superstition that they cannot without defiling their consciences vaile to the train of his ceremonious Titles they can easily concoct supream Governours dryly swallowed but with the sawce of Ecclesiastical causes it quite nauseates their stomacks and the name of head is more offensive to their palates then perfumes are to the nostrils of those that are grieved with an Histerical passion a monstrous straw for such mighty men to stumble at which may be put in the same ballance with that of their schismatical Predecessours