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	lord_n	power_n	8,674	5	4.5803	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80117	The araignment of hypocrisie or, a looking-glasse for murderers and adulterers; and all others that profes religion, and make show of holiness, yet deny the power and practice thereof in their lives and conversations. Being a fearfull example of Gods judgements on Mr. Barker, minister of Gods word at Pytchley two miles from Ketterin in Northhamptonshire; who for living in adultery with his neer kinswoman, and concealing the murder of her infant; was with his kinswoman and maid-servant executed at Northampton. With the strange manner of the discovery of that horrid murder; and their several speeches immediately before their deaths.	J. C.	1652 (1652)	Wing C52; Thomason E1290_3; ESTC R208987	8,267	16

sinful waies and stumbling at the falls and infirmities of Gods Servants your taking offence at the falls of the Saints will break your necks into Hell as it hath done mine if the Lord be not infinitely mercifull to me for Christs sake And that woe that falls on me will fall on you to your everlasting perdition Oh but I have been the cause of the death of these two already dead of a thousand thousand soules which I fear will take liberty presumptuously to sin by my evill example Oh for Gods sake as you love your precious soules do not I charge you speak evill of the truth of God for my fault Speak as bad as you will of me for you cannot speak bad enough but let me tell you thus much and I speak the truth that all those whom the world calls Puritan-Preachers Puritan-Professors are the best people in the world however the world doth esteem of them and judge them I tell you my grievous fall was for want of true Grace for want of imbracing the Truth for the love of Truth Know therefore thus much That although holiness and holy men be scoft at yet without holiness yee shall never see God you must walk in the Truth and abide in that way that is called Puritanisme or ye shall never come to Heaven but shall certainly be damned therefore do not say in dislike of Religion that it is naught or that Gods wayes be not right do not say the Sacraments Preaching Prayer Meditation Gods Ordinances holy Duties are naught and they are naught that use them and that because I am scandalously fallen do not say they are all such No let it be far from you let the burden lye upon me I codfess I was naught and so are all such Hypocrites as I am but I beseech you speak not evill open not your mouthes against the Gospel or Profession Gods pure Worship and Service for my being a wretch Gods Service is holy his wayes good safe and delightfull and full of Honour and it is better to be his servant then to be servant to the greatest Monarch on earth I pray you then labour to be his Servants and to obey his Will and Commands set down in his Word go you by that Rule I have swerved from Oh that I was assured of being his Servant How would it comfort my heart and cheer up my spirit in the great straight I am now in Oh that the Lord would lift up the light of his countenance that I might have som● little glimpse of his favour Oh that the LORD would open one little crevise to mee that might apprehend his love Oh what is one drop of Christs Blood worth what would I give to have it He was answered He might have it for nothing the Brazen Serpent Jesus is set forth Now whosoever can by faith apprehend his love and apply it to themselves are justified and sanctified before God Oh then said he pray for me as for your own souls you that are in Covenant with God your prayers are prevalent Oh pray that this hard heart of mine may be softned Oh pray that the Lord would bee good unto mee or else I shal be damned presently I am now going whence I shall not returne even into eternity of glory or torment Oh what shall I doe it had bin good for mee I had not bin borne Death is terrible to all out of Christ and the Lord is not reconsiled to me in Christ hides him selfe from mee Then pulling downe his hatt over his eies hee mournfully said Hath God forgotten to be gratious hath he shut up his tender mercies in displeasure will the Lord cast off for ever will hee be gratious no more These his complaints occasioned much mourning and bewailing his estate Then said Mr. Ball Mr. Barker I have told you that you have so much dishonoured God that it may be the Lord will not honour you so far as to manifest his love to you he reserves that till afterward Then said he I have done with the first my foul sin of uncleanness Now for the Murder of which I do here upon my death profess I am not guilty neither in act ●or in consenting to the death of that Infant the Lord forgive and so do I my violent persecutors with all their bitter and malicious intendments and proceedings against me indeed I confess that many murderous thoughts have gone thorow my soule but these although they deserve death by Gods Law yet mans Law takes no hold of them yet for these bloudy thoughts and my lustfull filthy unclean life I have deserved this death and a worse too and herein I desire to magnifie the just hand of the Lord in bringing to light my shamefull foul offences and I desire to magnifie all his holy Attributes his Mercy Justice wisdome Power Truth Goodness and the rest of them in that he hath now let me have experience of them all that in as much as I have dishonoured him he most justly hath dishonoured me and brought me out and made me visible by such a Correction as this for other Chastisements that were more gentle would not serve nor stay me from my greedy pursuit and going on in this vile course of life exceeding vicious I that taught others did not learn my self for which I earnestly crave pardon of Almighty God which he did very fervently and I hope effectually Then he sung the 31. Psalm some of all the three Parts as much as was convenient for that occasion When that was ended it was demanded of him that if he had no hand in the Murther but were guiltless why and for what end he made the Grave He answered when he made the hole it was his Maids and Kinswomans opportunity for they told me said he it was to receive such things as modest men and women may easily conceive what Then he was asked why he did not diligently inquire further having such a just cause of suspition He answered I confess my self too blame and faulty herein Then he was asked Why he had a hand in procuring Savin for his Kinswoman whom he loved so well and from whom he had received so much good and to wbom he endeavoured to do so much good He answered therein he did but as he was requested and intreated and for it he was but a Messenger for both of them his Kinswoman and Maid told him that if she had some of that to take it would bring down those things which used to come monethly the stopping whereof made her so ill as she said But said he here is the just hand of the Lord that hath not and will not spare sin in any no not in his own but will severely punish it in all first or last as here you may see I am brought to an end unbeseeming a Minister I blame not the Judge nor the Jury nor the Prosecutors but my self and therefore good People do not think the worse of God or of