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	soul_n	13,842	5	4.8651	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66865	To the King and both houses of Parliament sitting at Westminster, and to every particular member thereof this is a timely warning that they do not make laws against the righteous and innocent people of the Lord called Quakers, as the unrighteous rulers whom God overthrew before them, did / by Humphrey Wolrich.	Wollrich, Humphry, 1633?-1707.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3302; ESTC R15082	13,107	16

as women was it not when they begun to bind the Consciences of men would take upon them the seat of God in the Conscience prescribe the Spirit of the Lord a way and dead form to worship in did they not whip persecute and imprison as ye have done the Servants of the Lord for not swearing and because for Conscience sake they could neither hear nor maintain a false Ministry in giving them the tenth of their labours and when the Lord had given them rest from all those whom they called oppressors and tyrants did they not then settle upon their lees and establish themselves and take upon them as great things if not greater then these things which before they had so long fought against as tyranical did not the Lord become their enemy then and was not all their might which they had lest mightily to confound and overturn one another were they not then restlesse and silled with disorder and did they not seek themselves and that which they called The good old Cause was wholly neglected did not oppression wax strong and the cry great in the Land and did they not begin to get up into the seat of God as ye have done by making unrighteous Laws against the innocent Did not God arise then as a mighty man and rob them of their strength and their strength was wholly to betray and destroy one another so that no man could trust scarcely his Brother with whom in the day of their straits and when as one man they cryed to the Lord against oppressors they could as one man joyn and engage together And their lives gold and silver lands wives and children were not dear unto them in that day But alas alas how do I pity them and in the day of their prosperity when afterwards they kicked against the Lord how did the servants of the Lord mourn over them and oftentimes warn them precept upon precept line upon line of a dismal day that was coming upon them but alas they would not believe for their hearts were waxed grosse so that this Proverb may be truly taken up against them how hath the oppressor ceased the golden City ceased the Lord hath broken the staffe of the wicked and the Scepter of the Rulers And now Friends this will be your condition and a lamentation may truly be taken up for you if you go on as you have begun God was merciful unto you in bringing you to the Government in peace without bloudshed and his mercy and loving kindnesse should have engaged you to have been merciful to them which were cut off by you did the Lord God of Israel bring you from so great a captivity that you should go on in a way of cruelty towards them whom the Lord delivered into your hands Friends I take my life in my hand and testifie in the name of the Lord that the foundation of your Government should not have been laid in bloud but in mercy and righteousnesse would your dayes have been prolonged and your Throne would have been established as long as the Sun the Moon endures but you have reasoned against your own souls Amend your waies seek judgment love mercy that the Lord may repent him of the evil that is near you and a sudden destruction as a whirlwind from the Lord which will fling you out of your place T is mercy peace when they meet together causeth truth and righteousnesse to embrace each other but violence and cruelty cryeth for vengeance and the bloud and oppression of the innocent for a sudden destruction now this I testifie in the faith of our Lord Jesus for whose sake I am willing to suffer the loss of all and from whose love wherewith he hath loved me I am perswaded neither death nor life principalities nor powers shall be able to separate me This I believe therefore I speak Kingdoms shall be rooted up Parliaments shall not prosper Councils of men shall be confounded by the Lord and come to nought that would bow the Consciences and souls of men to worship a strange God or the true God in a false manner or in any other way but what his holy Spirit leadeth unto God will dash the pot sheards and kingdoms of the earth one against another until he make a way and a way be prepared for the Government and Kingdom of Christ in the Consciences of 〈◊〉 people and this I say if you continue in persecution of the innocent that have done you no harm The Lord will bind you in chains of utter darknesse and in the dark places of the earth will he shut you up together who make Laws to bind the Consciences of his people which to you and the King have done no harm for you are not of the same mind in these things as Moses that Magistrate and Law-giver was who said when complaint was made to him as it is against us for prophecying and speaking as the Spirit of the Lord leads us he answered those envious accusers and said Would God all the Lords people were Prophets and that he would put his Spirit upon them all Now these are enemies who are accusing us to you as the false Prophets and Priests Jer. 26. who said Jeremy was worthy to dye even these are you establishing by a Law which the Lord will break and persecuting the accused which are innocent and as greatly wronged as ever Ieremy was them are ye preparing war against and making unrighteous decrees which the Lord himself will break in the day wherein he maketh inquisition for the bloud of the innocent and brings out the prisoner and such as be oppressed out of the prison-house And as for those Merchants of Babylon who make a trade of the souls of men for dishonest gain and bare rule by your means and laws made for their bellies And whoever it be that puts not into their mouths they prepare war against him I have seen with the eternal eye of God their destruction is near to come and their day shall not be prolonged I have seen them as a wall whose covering is taken away every storm turning of the wind shall shake them to pieces as a rotten fence because they have provoked the Lord to jealousie and by grieving his Lambs and Children and as for persecution and cruelty there is none like them in this Nation The Lord hath said and he will most certainly bring it to passe righteousnesse shall be established as in the day when God created man upon the earth in which Dominion man was to rule with God and for God and not against God and his Children as ye do who hath heard of such a thing in Christendom as is brought to passe in England that so many thousands should be imprisoned indangering the utter ruine of their Families and the destruction of their outward lives and yet the breach of no just Law either of God or man can be justly proved or charged against us but onely because we cannot make shipwrack of our Consciences by violating the righteous command of Christ who saith Swear not at all but love your enemies pray for them that persecute you and despitefully use you Consider is this to love your enemies to persecute your friends is this to be subject to God the higher power your selves to persecute imprison and spoil them which cannot break the commands of the Son of God O let not such a thing be published in Askelon nor declared in the streets of Gath any more by Christians O how have you caused the uncircumcised in heart to rejoyce and let loose a Sea of cruelty and persecution over this Nation May not we truly say as David did concerning Saul I say may not we say the same being innocent as he was whom do you and your King come out against with all these weapons of cruelty and war is it not against worm in Jacob whom God hath blessed As Saul came out against David who in spirit said I am a worm and no man Were not the Promises of God sure to David that he would build him a sure house and did not the Lord say concerning his seed which is Christ Sit thou at my right hand until I make thy enemies thy footstool Is God changed now and is not the seed unto which all the promises are the same yesterday to day and forever blessed of the Lord chosen of the God of Jacob from generation to generation What have we done either against you or the King that we have had no other place in the Land of our Nativity but Holes Prisons and Dungeons Are not we called by the Name of the Lord and doth not our subjection to you in all lawful things declare that we are innocent Why then are we numbred by you as Christ was by the Jews amongst Transgressors THE END