Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	word_n	write_v	writing_n	140	3	9.0529	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91254	A letter of due censure, and redargvtion [sic] to Lieut: Coll: John Lilburne: touching his triall at Guild-Hall-London in Octob: last. 1649. Wherein if there be contemper'd some corrosive ingredients, tis not to be imputed unto malice: the intent is, to eat away the patients proud, dead flesh, not to destroy any sincere, sound part.	Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.	1650 (1650)	Wing P405; Thomason E603_14; ESTC R205827	37,997	43

a wide difference in words yea in the same words that some words signifie more then others and at sometimes sound forth greater matters then at others For example words in writing are more permanent then words spoken and words written are of a more transient nature then words printed forasmuch as they intimate lesse of purpose and premeditation and the same words spoken written or printed by a discontented man or at the point of death or directed unto persons aggrieved carry much more weight in them and use to make deeper impression then they would if they had been utter'd by another person upon another occasion unto men of another condition Therfore the Prophet who regards some mens words no more then the crackling of thorns under a pot or croaking of frogs in a pudle yet likens other mens words to sharp arrows and poyson'd darts yea and other mens counsels to the venome of asps and to the eggs of cockatrices Adonijah had a request to present to his brother Solomon and for the more reverence sake He would use the mediation of Solomons mother therein the matter also of his request was onely for a wife for a wife of ordinary parentage who in Law could have no pretension to the Crown Howsoever Solomon who found a great danger wrapped up in this plausible supplication distinguishes further neverthelesse and by the sentence of his oraculous breast that same designe which deserved death and was treasonable in his brother supplicating was simple and altogether inoffensive in his mother interceding Achitophel was onely of Counsell with Absolom we finde not that He furnisht Horses and Arms or raised men with his manifestoes yet doubtlesse his words were more pernitious to David at such a time then the swords of ten thousand other Revolters and David was more earnest with God to disappoint the inductions of Achitophels tongue then to rout and defeat all the other brigades and stratagems of his Son Absolom Tarquin when his Son consulted with him about the destruction of a neighbour State conveighed his fatall subversive plots by signes and dumb gestures for even by doing execution with his staffe upon the highest grown and fairest Lilies in the garden He sufficiently taught and instructed a young Traytor to despoil a Common-wealth of its most potent and most politick Grandees What Tarquin did without words or writings against a forrein Enemy may be practisde neerer at home by an intestine conspirator to the ruin of his own Countrey and shall we say that no Law ought to take hold of such a conspirator because his treasons did not amount to so much as words or writings Good Sir study the superior Laws more and the inferior lesse at leastwise when you have attained skill enough to render to every private man what is his due in chattels reall and personall make a further progresse and strive to satisfie your self in that which is the due of the whole State and concerns our generall preservation Mounsiur Du Bartas as He is Englished advertises well you may finde Law in verse sometimes as well as in Litleton Treasons are like the Cockatrices eye If they foresee they kill foreseen they dye The story of the Basilisk perhaps is not to be credited in Physicks yet it affords us this wholsome mythologie in Politicks that when we come within any neer distance of Traytors where their designs like poysonous beams of the eye may possibly reach us we must expect to surprize or be surprized to anticipate or be anticipated Away then with all your niceties in Law wherby you retard justice if our safetie cannot be provided for without some incommodity of yours nor the absolute Empresse of all Laws be served and obeyed without infringing some priviledge of yours you must give us leave to prefer the being of England before the well-being of any Englishman nay the well-being of England before the being of any Englishman whatsoever Two whole dayes are now consumed in one issue of yours whether such books were yours or no and 2. whole months had been consumed if all your Arguments of dilation and respite had been hearkned unto but if such a priviledge be indulged to every prisoner in cases of Treason what unprofitable uneffectuall things will justice and judgement become in England how will Treasons like Hydraes-heads spring forth whilest one Delinquent is upon his triall ten more will start up in his place and either there will not be found Judges enough or the Judges will not find time enough to arraigne any considerable part of them If words could not amount to Treason Achitophel and Adonijah would as easily purge themselves as you can and so will a thousand other delinquents but if you will grant that Adonijah might couch Treason in an humble Petition for a wife and Achitophel do the like in his advices to his Masters sons grant also that the Laws of England may be as severe against such Traitors as the Laws of the Jews were And for all your other subterfuges except you think your self a better pleader then that Gilonite was you may well think his would have been as legall as yours are grant him such a Triall as you claim and as much prolongation of time and he will make his cause as fair as yours nay leave him to be his own Judge as you in effect challenge to be and he will justifie Absoloms defeated Army and prove them as holy Martyrs as you do your Burford brethren Consider also that there is now more Law against you for seditious books then there was against Adonijah for petitioning his brother and consider withall that the Laws of England now are not therein more rigid then they were in former times You professe your self exact in all the body of our English Law except only in the practical formalities of it therfore I question not you have read Burtons Case in the 10th of H 7. the Duke of Norfolks Case in the 13. of Eliz together with Owens Case in the 13th of K James and you know these with divers others cited against the Earl of Strafford since the beginning of this Parliament do inform you sufficiently that many have suffered for meerly traitrous words even when no further traitrous act or intent was proved against them Correct therfore at last your own impudent arrogance by taking notice that there is nothing due to you but what is due to every man in England and that if every man in England shall baffle Law as you do and therefore accuse the present Government of Tyranny and usurpation because it refuses to be baffled there remains nothing but that we all dissolve into our first chaos of confusion Your 8th help or strength upon which you rest is the power of your 12 Jurors For you first pull down the Judges from their Tribunall as meer ciphers and as Clerks that have nothing to do but to cry Amen and then into their seats you promote your 12. men wherupon you grow confident