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
A96820	A plaine, and good advice to the Parliament-men, and officers of the army, of the common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Given forth in the name, authority, and by the command of the Lord of Host, for them to read, and consider ...	Wollrich, Humphry, 1633?-1707.	1659 (1659)	Wing W3297; ESTC R224336	4,817	1

A Plaine and Good ADVICE to the Parliament-Men and Officers of the Army Of the Common-Wealth of England Scotland and Ireland Given forth in the Name and Authority and by the Command of the Lord of Host for them to Read and consider in th● 〈◊〉 of the Day O YE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND by whom I most Unjustly suffer because it is in your Hands but not in your Hearts to this very day to let the Oppressed go free And though the Lord God hath by putting this power into your Hands tryed you once more to see whether ye would do as ye have often said and performe the Vowes which ye have uttered before the Almighty God and good Men when ye were in trouble But alas in this case ye have not dealt faithfully but like Ephraim ye have turned back in the Lords Battell and turned aside like a deceitfull Bow Therefore is the Lord arising in his Jealousie and in his Anger against you as he hath done against yours and his Enemies And will the Lord disown one Persecuting Government and save another which are walking in their steps Nay he will not And though he hath wonderfully been with you and in your Loe condition hath he many a time remembred you and saved you out of their hands that have been too strong for you And if ever Israel had cause to say You much more Had not the Lord been on our side We and our little Ones should have been a Prey and utterly perished by our Enemies Moreover the Lord hath saved you and ye are not only a People saved by the Lord from outward Enemies and your Lives and the lives of your Wives and your little Ones given you for a prey but he hath given you also the Necks of your Enemies and those that hated you come Bending before you and he hath given you goodly Houses which ye did not build and Fields for which ye did not labour not because ye were better than others but because ye should be a shelter to his People and let his Out-cast dwell with you But thus saith the Lord the Lord God Almighty Ye also have wasted my heritage and instead of breaking the Jawes of the Wicked and delivering the Iland of the Innocent and saving the afflicted and delivering them that were appointed for Destruction instead hereof saith the Lord Almighty Ye are setting up them that are smiting at you and such as God would have had you to have thrown down rather than strengthen them by your oppressing Lawes which are yet by you maintained and not thrown down And though ye have done well in delivering some out of Prison that for Conscience towards God could not maintain a false and deceitful Ministry yet ye have not like Caleb and Joshua gone through with the work but ye like Israel of old have been afraid of the People whom the Shield and strength of the Lord is departed And ye have not in this thing done wisely but very foolishly and your hearts have not been upright neither have ye wholly followed the Lord God of Israel and many Popish Laws are yet in force and not Repealed by you by which Laws them whom ye have set at liberty may by their persecutors suffer again when they please And so Friends this is not to do the Lords work faithfully but deceitfully so We by You are not preserved in the liberty of a pure Conscience but rather reserved for a day of Destruction at our Enemies pleasures And what have we done or wherein have we been Treacherous against this or any Government but that we who have been of all people of this Nation Faithful and have done you good that of God in you shall bear us witness for this your Evil dealing towards us that we of all men can have little Justice from you And this ye have done against the Lord and against his People and after all Gods goodness to you in Hypocrisie ye Proclaimed a day of Feasting and Thanksgiving and there you hearkned to one of your Teachers that falsly accused the Lords People to you and cries to the Magistrate as the old Persecutors did in the days of the Apostles Help men of Israel these men turn the world upside down And so your Feasting is not much better than Ahabs Fasting for ye suffered three of us at your THANKSGIVING-SERMON to be Beaten only for speaking a few words in the Name and Authority of the Lord and two of us lie in Newgate now and ye were Eye-witnesses of this thing who of all others should not suffer such things to be yet ye suffered us to be beaten before your Eyes and none of you so Valiant for the Lord as to stand up and desire to understand this thing but after we were beaten contrary to all Law we were violently carried to Newgate and not so much as Queen Maries Law broken by me by which Law so many of us have lost both our lives and liberties being Imprisoned till Death as if this were not enough but your Teachers are still stirring you up to turn the Sword against the Innocent And will ye call this a Day of Thanksgiving or a day Acceptable to the Lord Nay nay God will find you out and as for Us we are in Gods hand and if he command us to cry in the Kings Chappel or against the Heads and Mountains of Israel we love not our lives to the Death and whether we ought to obey God or Man judge ye with the spirit of the Lord in your Consciences And though we are rejected and our necks under Bondage and our lives liberties and goods Spoiled by you it being in your power to break in pieces all Persecution Yet know the Lord is Our strength and Our shield and the Voice of a King is amongst Us though ye have with Feasting and Fulnesse shut both your hearts and ears against him and we know the Rock of Ages and though our lives by you may be made bitter to us yet against the tried Stone shall ye never prevail and though ye are building your own Houses and Honouring one another and rejecting him that receives not honour of Men yet the Lord will honour him when all your honor lieth in the dust for the Lord will yet overturn overturn untill he Raign whose right it is to Raign for Righteousness of a truth doth not yet raign among you neither is the Name of the Lord exalted in England to this very day after all your large Engagements for a GOSPEL-REFORMATION And who that fears the Lord can be silent to see what grievous Oppression and wicked Tyranny is found in your Prisons for within this three weeks there is three poor debtors in Newgate perished for want of Bread while you after all your Vows and Promises to ease Oppression are consuming many hundreds in Feasting And in this Prison where men are cast pretending that they shall pay their Debts which thing ought to be done but the Lord hath a