Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	life_n	live_v	love_n	9,426	5	5.6923	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54013	A short vvarning to all persecutors of the innocent but more particularly to the bailiffs and officers of Kingston upon Thames, and the justices and officers of the towns near thereunto. Being an alarm from the Lord God, to warn them, that they repent, and turn from the evil of their doings. By Henry Penfould.; Short warning to all persecutors of the innocent.	Penfould, Henry, b. 1643 or 4.	1670 (1670)	Wing P1142A; ESTC R217507	4,445	9

the Lord God of this you shall be possessors all your dayes in your middle and older age with the Displeasure and Wrath and Indignation and Vengeance and Curse of the Lord ye shall be heavy loaden to your Graves this shall be your Store this shall be your Treasure which ye shall carry with you which ye shall leave behind you to your Wives and Children and Childrens Children even the Wrath and Indignation and Vengeance and Curse of God if ye do not repent ye shall certainly carry this along with you and leave this behind unto your Children though you leave them nothing else Gods Wrath and Indignation and Curse and Vengeance to be sure ye shall make them Heirs and Inheritors and Possessors of though of nothing else this shall be as the Plague of Leprosie unto ye that shall creep up your Houses and stick fast by your Walls that shall get up into your Beds of ease that shall lodge with ye that shall get into all your pleasant and delectable and comfortable things it shall get into your Basket and mix it self with all your Store your Trades and your Callings shall be ruined by it it shall cleave to your Flesh and your Skin and stick fast by your Bones ye shall not wipe it off ye shall not purge it out ye shall not acquit your selves and be rid thereof except ye repent and rent your hearts and wash your hands of these things and turn from the evil of your doing unto the Lord God who is pitifull and mercifull that delighteth to shew Mercy and pardon transgression and sin and willeth in no wise the death of a Sinner but that all may turn to him and live But if ye do not mind your selves yet even for your Wives and tender Childrens sakes leave off the evil of your doings and count it not your boasting and rejoycing to procure the Wrath and Indignation and Curse and Vengeance of the Lord God and make him your Enemy even for your Wives and tender Childrens sake O why should they have cause to curse ye and wish that ye had been cut off and destroyed that ye had been rotten in your Graves before ever ye had set your hands to such a work as this to persecute and destroy and spoil the Innocent O why do ye strive to make your Name rotten stink among sober men while ye live and loathsom and stinking in Generations to come after ye be dead Are ye indeed ignorant or have ye not read of such cruel wicked bloody minded men of old that persecuted and spoiled and destroyed Harmless Honest men for Serving and Worshiping God according to their Consciences contrary to their way Have not their names rotted Do they not stink Are they not loathsom even the remembrance of them Have ye not read how the state of such men hath been miserable while they have lived and when they have died worse O Repent and turn to the Lord God that be may pardon your transgression that it may not be so with you O why will you let your own tender Children bear the weight of your transgression O what have they done that they should be punished for your iniquity O why should your Children say The Wrath and Curse of God hath consumed my Father and all that he hath all is gone besides and that is left and descended to me O unnatural O cruel Father that had no more love that had no more affection that hath left me only such a Legacy that hath gotten only such a Treasure and hath laid up such a Store Vials full of Wrath with many Dreggs of the Wrath and curse of God to make me Heir and Inheritor and Possessor of especially should I follow his sinful steps See ye here now I have laid before you Life and Death the Blessing of the Lord God Almighty and Cursing that same that will bring ye to true Peace and that which will be a perpetual Anguish and Horror and a never dying Worm gnawing upon ye continually So why should ye now be angry with me Why should ye gnash your Teeth upon me What because I have told ye the truth I have sought to do ye no wrong hereby but it is in love unto ye and your Posterity also and by a necessity from God to warn ye to flee from the wrath to come that so I may be clear of your blood and if ye perish by the Hand of the Lord by your evil doings as certainly ye shall if ye do not repent then your blood shall be on your own heads and I shall be clear So now I have told ye before hand and indeed I only tell ye or rather desire ye which to choose but the choise is in your selves altogether as for me for ye may chuse whether ye will Life or Death Blessing or Cursing the unchangeable Love and Peace of God or the Wrath and Curse of God of which when ye would acquit your selves ye shall not be able unless ye turn and repent in time which is the true desire of my soul that all may repent and turn and live and none of ye may perish no not one who am howsoever accounted your Friend Hen. Penfould From the Stock-House in Kingston where I am under close Confinement with three more Honest and Harmless and Quiet and Peaceable men until we give security for our good Behaviour Written the 26th of the 4th Moneth 1670. Christ saith Love Enemies and love one another And is it your Priests and Bishops that teach you to persecute one another THE END