Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	work_n	world_n	worthy_a	125	3	6.2266	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66445	The blovdy tenent, of persecution, for cause of conscience, discussed, in a conference betweene trvth and peace vvho, in all tender affection, present to the high court of Parliament, as the result of their discourse, these, amongst other passages, of highest consideration.	Williams, Roger, 1604?-1683.; Cotton, John, 1584-1652.	1644 (1644)	Wing W2758; ESTC R2405	232,471	275

and scope The beloved Spouse of Christ is no receptacle for any filthy person obstinate in any filthynesse against the purity of the Lord Jesus who hath commanded his people to purge out the old leaven not only greater portions but a little leaven which will leaven the whole lumpe and therefore this Hereticke or obstinate person in these vaine and unprofitable questions was to be rejected as well as if his obstinacie had been in greater matters Againe if there were a doore or window left open to vaine and unprofitable questions and sinnes of smaller nature how apt are persons to cover with a silken covering and to say Why I am no Hereticke in Fundamentalls spare me in this or that little one this or that opinion or practice these are of an inferiour circumstantiall nature c. So that the coherence with the former verses and the scope of the Spirit of God in this and other like Scriptures being carefully observed this Greek word Hereticke is no more in true English and in Truth then an obstinate and wilfull person in the Church of Creet striving and contending about those unprofitable Questions and Genealogies c. and is not such a monster intended in this place as mo●● Interpreters run upon to wit One obstinate in Fundamentalls and as the Answerer makes the Apostle to write in such Fundamentalls and principall points wherein the Word of God is so cleare that a man cannot but be convinced in conscience and therefore is not persecuted for matter of conscience but for sinning against his conscience CHAP. XIV Peace NOw in the second place What is this Self-condemnation Truth The Apostle seemeth to make this a ground of the rejecting of such a person because he is subverted and sinneth being condemned of himselfe It will appeare upon due search that this selfe-condemning is not here intended to be in Hereticks as men say in fundamentalls only but as it is meant here in men obstinate in the lesser Questions c. First he is subverted or turned crooked 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a word opposite to streightnesse or rightnesse So that the scope is as I conceive upon true and faithfull admonition once or twice the pride of heart or heat of wrath drawes a vaile over the eyes and heart so that the soule is turned loosed and from the checks of truth Secondly he sinneth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is being subverted or turned aside he sinneth or wanders from the path of Truth and is condemned by himselfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is by the secret checkes and whisperings of his owne conscience which will take Gods part against a mans selfe in smiting accusing c. Which checks of conscience we finde even in Gods owne dear people as is most admirably opened in the 5 of Cant. in those sad drowsie and unkinde passages of the Spouse in her answer to the knocks and calls of the Lord Iesus which Gods people in all their awakening acknowledge how sleightly they have listned to the checks of their owne consciences This the Answerer pleaseth to call sinning against his conscience for which he may lawfully be persecuted to wit for sinning against his conscience Which conclusion though painted over with the vermillion of mistaken Scripture and that old dreame of Iew and Gentile that the Crowne of Iesus will consist of outward materiall gold and his sword be made of iron or steele executing judgement in his Church and Kingdome by corporall punishment I hope by the assistance of the Lord Jesus to manifest it to be the overturning and rooting up the very foundation and roots of all true Christianity and absolutely denying the Lord Iesus the Great Anointed to be yet come in the Flesh. CHAP. XV. THis will appeare if we examine the two last Quaries of this place of Titus to wit First What this Admonition is Secondly What is the Rejection here intended Reject him First then Titus unto whom this Epistle these directions were written and in him to all that succeed him in the like work of the Gospell to the Worlds end he was no Minister of the Civill State armed with the majestie and terrour of a materiall sword who might for offences against the civill state inflict punishments upon the bodies of men by imprisonments whippings sines banishment death Titus was a Minister of the Gospel or Glad tidings armed onely with the Spirituall sword of the Word of God and such Spirituall weapons as yet through God were mighty to the casting down of strong holds yea every high thought of the highest head and heart in the world 2 Cor. 10. 4. Therefore these first and second Admonitions were not civill or corporall punishments on mens persons or purses which the Courts of Men may lawfully inflict upon Malefactors but they were the reprehensions convictions exhortations and perswasions of the Word of the Eternall God charged home to the Conscience in the name and presence of the Lord Iesus in the middest of the Church Which being despised and not hearkned to in the last place followes rejection which is not a cutting off by heading hanging burning c. or an expelling of the Country and Coasts neither which no nor any lesser civill punishment Titus nor the Church at Crete had any power to exercise But it was that dreadfull cutting off from that visible Head and Body Christ Iesus and his Church that purging out of the old leaven from the lumpe of the Saints the putting away of the evill and wicked person from the holy Land and Commonwealth of Gods Israel 1 Cor. 5. where it is observable that the same word used by Moses for putting a malefactor to death in typicall Israel by sword stoning c. Deut 13. 5. is here used by Paul for the spirituall killing or cutting off by Excommunication 1 Cor. 5. 13. Put away that evill person c. Now I desire the Answerer and any in the holy awe and feare of God to consider That From whom the first and second Admonition was to proceed from them also was the rejecting or casting out to proceed as before But not from the Civill Magistrate to whom Paul writes not this Epistle and who also is not bound once and twice to admonish but may speedily punish as he sees cause the persons or purses of Delinquents against his Civill State but from Titus the Minister or Angel of the Church and from the Church with him were these first and second Admonitions to proceed And Therefore at last also this Rejecting which can be no other but a casting out or excommunicating of him from their Church-societie Indeed this rejecting is no other then that avoyding which Paul writes of to the Church of Christ at Rome Rom. 16. 17. which avoyding however wofully perverted by some to prove persecution belonged to the Governours of Christs Church Kingdom in Rome and not to the Romane Emperour for him to rid and avoyd the World of

Church make him a Delinquent at the Bar yet by their confession God hath made him a Iudge on the Bench. What blood what tumults hath been and must be spilt upon these grounds Peace Deare Truth No question but the Church may punish the Magistrate spiritually in spirituall cases and the Magistrate may punish the Church civilly in civill cases But that for one and the same cause the Church must punish the Magistrate and the Magistrate the Church this seemes monstrous and needs explication Truth Sweet Peace I illustrate with this Instance A true Church of Christ of which according to the Authors supposition the Magistrate is a member chooseth and calls one of her members to office The Magistrate opposeth The Church perswaded that the Magistrates exceptions are insufficient according to her priviledge which these Authours maintaine against the Magistrates prohibition proceeds to Ordaine her officer The Magistrate chargeth the Church to have made an unfit and unworthy choice and therefore according to his place and power and according to his conscience and judgement he suppresseth such an officer and makes void the Churches choice Upon this the Church complaines against the Magistrates violation of her priviledges● given her by Christ Iesus and cries out that the Magistrate is turned Persecuter● and not prevailing with admonition she proceeds to Excommunication against him The Magistrate according to his conscience endures not such profanation of Ordinances as he conceives and therefore if no advice and admonition prevaile he proceeds against such obstinate abusers of Christs holy Ordinances as the Authors grant he may in Civill Court of justice yea and I adde according to the patterne of Israel cuts them off by the sword as obstinate usurpers and prophaners of the holy things of Christ. I demand what helpe hath any poore Church of Christ in this case by maintaining this power of the Magistrate to punish the Church of Christ I meane in spirituall and Soule-cases for otherwise I question not but he may put all the members of the Church to death justly if they commit crimes worthy thereof as Paul spake Acts 23. Shall the Church here slie to the Popes Sanctuarie against Emperours and Princes excommunicate to wit give away their crowns kingdomes or dominions and invite forraigne Princes to make War upon them and their Territories The Authors surely will disclaime this and yet I shall prove their Tenents tend directly unto such a practise Or secondly shall she say the Magistrate is not a true Magistrate ' because not able to judge and determine in such cases This their confession will not give them leave to say because they cannot deny unbelievers to be lawfull Magistrates and yet it shall appeare not withstanding their con●ession to the contrary their Tenents imply that none but a Magistrate after their own conscience is a lawfull Magistrate Therefore thirdly they must ingenuously and honestly confesse that if it be the duty of the Magistrate to punish the Church in spirituall cases he must then judge according to his conscience and perswasion whatever his conscience be and then let all men judge into what a wofull state they bring both the civill Magistrate and Church of Christ by such a Church-destroying and State-destroying Doctrine Peace Some will here say in such a case either the Magistrate on the Church must judge either the Spirituall or Civill State must be supreme I answer if the Magistrate be of another Religion First What hath the Church to judge him being without 1 Cor. 5. Secondly If he be a member of the Church● doubtles the Church hath power to judge in spirituall and Soule-cases with spirituall and Church censures all that are within 1● Cor. 5. Thirdly If the Church offend against the civill peace of the State by wronging the bodies or goods of any the Magistrate bears not the sword in vaine Rom. 13. to correct any or all the members of the Church And this I conceive to be the onely way of the God of Peace CHAP. LXXXVI The third head concerns the End of both these Powers FIrst the common and last end of both is Gods glory and Mans eternall felicitie Secondly the proper ends First of Commonwealth is the procuring preserving increasing of externall and temporall peace and felicitie of the State in all Godlines and Honestie 1 Tim. 2. 1 2. Secondly of the Church a begetting preserving increasing of internall and spirituall peace and felicity of the Church in all godlinesse and honesty Esay 2. 3 4. and 9. 7. So that Magistrates have power given them from Christ in matters of Religion because they are bound to see that ou●ward peace be preserved not in all ungodlinesse and dishonesty For such peace is Satanicall but in all godlinesse and honesty for such peace God aymes at And hence the Magistrate is custos of both the Tables of godlinesse in the first of Honesty in the second for Peace sake Hee must see that honesty be preserved within his jurisdiction or else the subject will not be bonus Cives Hee must see that godlinesse as well as honesty be preserved else the subject will not be bonus vir who is the best bonus cives Hee must see that godlinesse and honesty be preserved or else himselfe will not bee bonus Magistratus Truth In this passage here are divers particulars affirmed marvellous destructive both to godlinesse and honesty though under a faire ma●ke and colour of both First it will appeare that in spirituall things they make the Garden and the Wildernesse as often I have intimated I say the Garden and the Wildernesse the Church and the World are all one for thus If the Powers of the World or Civill State are bound to propose externall Peace in all godlinesse for their end and the end of the Church be to preserve internall Peace in all godlinesse I demand if their end godlinesse● bee the same is not their power and state the same also unlesse they make the Church subordinate to the Common-wealths and or the Commonweale subordinate to the Churches end which being the governour and setter up of it and so consequently the Iudges of it it cannot be Now i● godlinesse bee the worshipping and walking with God in Christ is not the Magistrate and Commonweale charged more by this tenent with the worship and Ordinances of God then the Church for the Magistrate they charge with the externall peace in godlinesse and the Church but with the internall I aske further what is this internall peace in all godlinesse whether intend they internall within the Soule which onely the eye of God can see opposed to externall or visible which man also can discerne or else whether they meane internall that is spirituall soule matters ma●ters of Gods Worship and then I say that peace to wit of godlinesse or Gods worship they had before granted to the civill State Peace The Truth is as I now perceive the best and most godly of

honoured with that mysticall and glorious Title of the Anointed 〈◊〉 Christ of the Lord Lam. 4. 20. the Breath of our Nostrils the Anointe● of Iehovah was taken in their pits c. Which anoynting and title however the Man of Sinne together with the Crowne and Diademe of Spirituall Israel the Church of God he hath given to some of the Kings of the Earth that so he may in lieu thereof dispose of their Civill Crownes the easier yet shall we finde it an incommunicable priviledge and prerogative o● of the Saints and people of God For as the Lord Iesus himselfe in the Antitype was not annointed with materiall but spirituall oyle Psal. 45. with the oyle of Gladnes and Luke 4. 14. from Isa. 61. 1. with the spirit of God The spirit of the Lord is upon me the Lord hath annointed me to preach good tidings c. So also all his members are annointed with the holy spirit of God 2 Cor. 1. 21. 1 John 2. Hence is it that Christians rejoyce in that name as carrying the very expresse title of the Anointed of the Lord which most superstitiously and sacrilegiously hath been applied only unto Kings Peace O deare Truth how doth the great Searcher of all Hearts finde out the thefts of the Antichristian World how are men caried in the darke they know not whither How is that heavenly charge Touch not mine Anointed c. Psal. 105. common to all Christians or anointed with Christ their Head by way of Monopoly or priviledge appropriated to Kings and Princes Truth It will not be here unseasonable to call to minde that admirable Prophecie Ezek. 21. 26 27. Thus saith Iehovah God Remove the Diadem take away the Crowne this shall not be the same exalt him that is low and abase him that is high I will overturne overturne overturne untill he come whose right it is and I will give it him The matter is a Crown and Diadem to be taken from an Vsurpers head and set upon the head of the right Owner Peace Doubtlesse this mystically intends the spirituall Crowne of the Lord Jesus for these many hundreth yeares set upon the heads of the C●mpetitours and Corrivals of the Lord Iesus upon whose glorious head in his Messengers and Churches the Crown shall be established The anointing the title and the crown and power must returne to the Lord Iesus in his Saints unto whom alone belongs his power and authoritie in Ecclesiasticall or Spirituall cases CHAP. CXVII Truth I Therefore proceed to a third difference between those Kings and Governours of Israel and Iudah and all other Kings and Rulers of the Earth Looke upon the Administrations of the Kings of Israel and Iudah and well weigh the Power and Authoritie which those Kings of Israel and Iudah exercised in Ecclesiasticall and spirituall causes and upon a due search we shall not find the same Scepter of Spirituall power in the hand of Civill Authoritie which was setled in the hands of the Kings of Israel and Iudah David appointed the Orders of the Priests Singers he brought the Arke to Ierusalem he prepared for the building of the Temple the patterne whereof he delivered to Salomon yet David herein could not be a type of the Kings and Rulers of the Earth but of the King of Heaven Christ Iesus for First David as he was a King so was he also a Prophet Acts 2. 30. and therefore a type as Moses also was of that great Prophet the Son of God And they that plead for Davids Kingly power must also by the same rule plead for his Propheticall by which he swayed the Scep●er of Israel in Church affaires Secondly it is expresly said 1 Cron. 28. 11. 12. 13. verses that the patterne which David gave to Salomon concerning the matter of the Temple and Worship of God he had it by the Spirit which was no other but a figure of the immediate inspiration of the spirit of God unto the Lord Iesus the true Spirituall King of Israel John 1. 49. Rabbi thou art the Son of God Rabbi thou art the King of Israel Againe What Civill Magistrate may now act as Salomon a type of Christ doth act 1 King 2. 26. 27. Salomon thrust out Abiathar from being Priest unto Iehovah Peace Some object that Abiathar was a man of death ver 26. worthy to die as having followed Adonijah and therefore Salomon executed no more then Civill justice upon him Truth Salomon remits the Civill punishment and inflicts upon him a spirituall but by what right but as he was King of the Church a figure of Christ Abiathar his Life is spared with respect to his former good service in following after David but yet he is turned out from the Priesthood But now put the case suppose that any of the Officers of the New-England Churches should prove false to the State and be discovered joyning with a French Monsieur or Spanish Don thirsting after conquest and dominion to further their invasions of that Countrey yet for some former faithfull service to the State he should not be adjudged to Civill punishment I aske now might their Governours or their Generall Court their Parliament depose such a man a Pastour Teacher or Elder from his holy Calling or office in Gods House Or suppose in a partiall and corrupt State a Member or Officer of a Church should escape with his life upon the commission of marther ought not a Church of Christ upon repentance to receive him I suppose it will not be said that he ought to execute himselfe or that the Church may use a Civill sword against him In these cases may such persons spar'd in civill punishments for some reason of or by partialitie of State be punished spiritually by the Civill Magistrate as Abiathar was Let the very Enemies of Zion be Judges Secondly If Salomon in thrusting out of Abiathar was a pattern and president unto all Civill Magistrates why not also in putting Za●●k in his roome ver 35. But against this the Pope the Bishops the Presbyterians and the Independents will all cry out against such a practice in their severall respective claimes and challenges for their Ministries We find the Libertie of the subjects of Christ in the choice of an Apostle Act. 1. of a Deacon Act. 6. of Elders Act. 14. and guided by the assistance either of the Apostles or Evangelists 1 Tim. 1. Tit. 1. without the least influence of any civill Magistrate which shewes the beauty of their liberty The Parliaments of England have by right free choice of their Speaker yet some Princes have thus farre beene gratified as to nominate yea and implicitely to commend a Speaker to them Wise men have seene the evill consequences of those influences though but in civill things how much farre greater and stronger are those snares when the golden Keyes of the Sonne of God are delivered into the hands of civill Authority Peace You know the noise