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	word_n	9,286	5	4.0695	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42007	A general epistle to the whole flock of God wheresoever scattered upon the face of the earth who are among men called Quakers, whether in prisons or sentenced for transportation or in any other tryals or temptations whatsoever unto you and for your sakes ... / Thomas Green.	Greene, Thomas, 1634?-1699.	1665 (1665)	Wing G1843; ESTC R28046	10,984	18

A GENERAL EPISTLE To the Whole Flock of God Wheresoever scattered upon the face of the Earth who are among Men called QUAKERS whether in Prisons or Sentenced for Transportation or in any other Tryals or Temptations whatsoever unto you and for your sakes this is given forth by the compassionate life in perfect love to you all who are the Children of the most high God through one that wisheth Grace Mercy and Peace may always abound among you and that the glory of the Lord may always rest upon you By him who is one with you all in Tribulations and also in Rejoycings Your Brother in the Truth that never changeth Thomas Green If I forget thee O Jerusalem let my right hand forget its cunning Psal 137. 5. Epaphras who is one of you a servant of Christ soluteth you alwaies labouring frequently for you in prayers that you may stand perfect and compleat in all the will of God Col. 4. 12. I thank God whom I serve from my fore-fath●rs w●th pure conscience that without ceasing I have remembrance of you in my praiers night and day 2 Tim. 13. Printed in the Year 1665. DEarly beloved of the Lord my love is with you and my life reacheth unto you and with it I salute you all who are gathered and chosen from amongst the families of the earth to be a people to the praise of our God who created and formed us in the womb and hath brought us forth in this present age and hath made us witnesses of his eternal power and as spectators of his heavenly and glorious appearance in this his blessed day and all this and more then can be by word declared hath the Lord to many of us made known since the day we first received the light of his Son Christ Jesus which he caused to shine in our hearts and consciences by which we have been brought into true fellowship and unity with God the Father even we who once were strangers unto him as were our fathers all and as Pilgrims in a strange land and as Captives in a far Country and as Mourners without true faith or hope being tossed to and fro with every wind of Doctrine by the slight and cunning craftiness of men And thus were we tossed not knowing an Anchor to stay us yet there was a cry in us as was in the Spouse in the days of old who said Tell me O thou whom my soul loveth where thou feedest and where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions In this state did the Lord find us even lost as in a way-less weary Wilderness without the true knowledg of him though there was something cryed in us for want of his presence not knowing the Messenger of peace was so near even he that did shew us our wants and our present state but of that we could not learn not knowing from whence it came neither could we understand the end of its cry at which cry we were many times troubled but where that should be manifest that should satisfie it we knew not O then then was the time of the Lords infinite endless love extended unto us even when we sate in darkness overshadowed with death and the life in us was buried then did the Lord cause his Word to be heard and did utter his voice as the noise of Thunders and as the sound of many Trumpets which Voice the dead heard and the Lord breathed upon the slain and said to the earth in our hearing Thou shalt no longer cover my Royal Seed whose Nature is heavenly for now will I manifest my power and make known my mighty strength by raising up my seed even the seed of Abraham my servant unto whom the Gospel was Preached by my Spirit in his day That in his Seed should all the kindreds of the earth be blessed and this will I perform for my Name and Glory sake saith the Lord God Almighty who changeth not And when the Lord did bring us out of the many wayes into the truth the immortal seed in which the blessings are manifest then did he open our understandings by his light that did before shine in our dark hearts but we rather choosing darkness could not comprehend the light but was alwayes willing and ready to entertain any thing and from any one that would deny or lightly esteem that which did judg us in our hearts and conscience And from this we would have hid our selves many a time and would endeavour to heal the wound that this would give us but this was privy to all our actions whether they were good or evil and in due time it was manifest That that which reproved in the conscience for sin and iniquity was the way of life and above all things to be minded and it being believed in and turned to and received of a little remnant the good effect of it was soon known and that which was heard in the ear was preached as upon the house top and that which was known of the work of the Lord in the heart was uttered forth in the demonstration of the spirit of God by which many were turned from darknesse to light and from Satans power unto the power of the true and living God and so was brought to the beginning of the work of the Lord in our own particulars for we had been too long keeping others vineyards and our own we did not keep neither knew the vine-dresser but now are brought to a waiting in the light by which secret things are made known and hidden things revealed but when we first received the light the truth the spirit of God oh then what a striving was there in our hearts even with they two in the womb the seed which was elected before the world began and that seed whose kingdome is of this world whereby the creature in whom this war and combat was came into a great straight and much trouble and watching till they or he knew the election to obtain and the seed of Jacob to arise over all as a valiant Prince who wrestle with God till the promise was obtained This is the royal seed at this day and this is the light of life by which the hidden things of Esau are searched out and his rough and prophane nature known And no sooner were we turned to the light and were joyned unto it in it to be one with the heavenly seed which was elected before the world began but the Dragon Beast and false Prophets were in a great rage and began to do their utmost in casting out their flouds of cruelty and persecution to make an end of us even as Herod in the time of Christs birth according to the flesh so was this generation at his appearance in his people and his leading of us by his spirit who as Gog and Magog and as Goliah the Philistim and as Balak king of Moab consulted against Israel have