Selected quad for the lemma: end_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
end_n	oath_n	strife_n	swear_v	3,032	5	9.0688	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91564	A few words to all judges, justices, and ministers of the law in England. From Anthony Pearson.	Pearson, Anthony, 1628-1670?	1654 (1654)	Wing P988; Thomason E231_6; ESTC R7991	8,003	10

A few Words To all JUDGES JUSTICES and MINISTERS of the LAW in ENGLAND From ANTHONY PEARSON TO the Judges of life and death and Judges of Nisi prius as they call it who give oathes to Justices Juries and witnesses and Justices that give oathes to Constables and others To the light which Christ Jesus hath enlightned you withal I speake that with it you may see you are out of the doctrine of Christ who saith Swear not at all in all your communications let your yea be yea and your nay be nay whatsoever is more is evil So you that swear are in the evil and with the light of Christ Jesus you may see that you be out of the doctrine of the Apostle who said my brethren swear not at all not by heaven nor by earth nor any other oath lest you fall into condemnation of the divel so you that swear are fallen into the condemnation of the divel and you that cause others to sweare or compel them or imprison them or fine them if they will not you are out of the doctrine of Christ and the Apostle your selves and seek to bring others out of his doctrine into the same condemnation of the divel where you are Praised be God with the light which comes from Christ you are seene to be no brethren of Christ who are out of his doctrine and doth not doe his will I am the light of the world and doth enlighten every one that comes into the world saith Christ now every one loving this light which Christ Jesus hath enlightned you withal it will bring you to doe his will and know his doctrine and then in all your communications you will be kept to yea and nay and never an oath shall be heard in the land for the land mournes because of oathes Now you that hate this light which Christ Jesus hath enlightned you withal you swear and compel others to sweare and with this light you are to be condemned who are out of his doctrine To the light in all your consciences I speak which shall witnesse me eternally and condemne all you that hate it and is the light of Christ which shewes your sinne and evill deeds From him who is a lover of your soules and your eternal good that with the light you may see the way to salvation to Christ from whence the light comes Concerning oathes The word of the Lord the living God to all you who be out of the doctrine of Christ swearing and doe swear and compell others to swear when Christ saith swear not at all and the Apostle saith swear not at all by any oath least you fall into condemnation of the Devill so yee that sweare and compel others to sweare are fallen into the condemnation of the Devil And seeke to bring others into the same condemnation of the Devill and Christ saith whatsoever cometh above yea and nay cometh of evill who saith swear not at all and you that swear and compell to swear are in the evill now if ye alleadg Jacob sware Joseph sware Christ Jesus reignes over the house of Jacob and Joseph who saith swear not at all this is the Sonne of God hear him who teacheth true doctrine and they that teach men another doctrine or gospell to swear they all be accursed yea if an Angell from heaven Now if you alleadge that Abraham sware who saw the dayes of the Sonne and rejoyced and if you alleadge that Moses sware who wrote of Christ who said God would raise up a Prophet like unto him him should the people heare Christ Jesus the Sonne of God who saith swear not at all here the Sonne of God is come whom Abraham saw Moses wrote of who saith swear not at all whom yee must hear Acts 7. and him you doe not hear that sweares the Sonne of God but with the light you are condemned which comes from the Sonne of God who saith swear not at all Now you that say Solomon sware and the Priests sware under the Law and the Prophets sware My answer is Christ Jesus the Sonne of God who is the end of the Law and the Prophets and a greater then Solomon the unchangeable Priest saith swear not at all but in all your communications let your yea be yea and your nay be nay for whatsoever is more is evil Now if you alleadge that men in strife sware and the oath was the end of controversies and strife among men which the Apostle brought as a figure as God swearing by himselfe who could not finde a greater who saith verily men swear by the greater My answer is this where men are in strife in that nature they be out of the doctrine of Christ and are evill and do not heare Christs doctrine who saith swear not at all Now if you alleadge the Angell sware in the Revelation My answer is this I bring my first begotten into the world saith the Lord let all the Angells worship him the Sonne of God who saith swear not at all but in all your communication let your yea be yea and your nay be nay for what is more is evil and this sonne of God is above Angells and men that are in strife and the end of the Prophets and the end of the Law and the first covenant and Priest in it and this Sonne of God reignes over the house of Jacob and Joseph a greater then Solomon or David who swore for he called him Lord whom Abraham saw the Sonne of God who saith swear not at all This is he who brings peace on the earth and good will towards men and the sword in the earth he that hath ears to hear let him hear Moved of the Lord from the Spirit of the Lord a lover of your soules and your eternall good for the establishing of righteousnesse and the doctrine of Christ and cleansing the Land of evill doers and for establishing the Gospell and a lover of the Creation Concerning Vagabonds THE word of the Lord to you powers of the earth Judges and Justices who have called them and given them the names of Vagabonds which the Lord hath sent forth to declare his word who hath forsaken their outward habitations as the Prophets and Apostles many of them did which went to speak the word of the Lord freely and did abide in his commands these were no vagabonds Cain was the vagabond who did not obey the command of God for saith the Lord to him if thou dost wel shalt not thou be accepted He did not wel disobeyed the command of God he was wroth his countenance fell he was a vagabond and a fugitive and was not accepted So all you that turne from the commands of God and are wroth whose countenance fall which doth not well you are not accepted of God You have no habitation in the Lord Caines way is your way Certain vagabond fellows rise against the Apostle and bound themselves with an oath to put him to death these had no habitation in the