Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	blood_n	lord_n	shed_v	1,770	5	9.8115	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95610	The souldiers commission, charge, & revvard both of the deceitfull and negligent, and the faithfull & diligent in the Lords work. Opened in a sermon preached in Christ-Church Dublin, May 14. 1642. Before the state and chief of the Army, upon occasion of the interring of Sir Charles Coote knight, and one of the honourable Privy Council in Ireland. By Faithfull Teate D.D. then lecturer there, now preacher of the gospel in East-Greenwich in Kent.	Teate, Faithful, b. 1621.	1658 (1658)	Wing T616; ESTC R232310	29,273	35

all other Heb. 12.25 2. The New Testament condemneth making leagues with Idolaters as much as the old Read 2 Cor. 6.14 15 16. 3. The Gospel no waies protecteth wilfull murtherers but calleth for justice upon them as the Law requireth Mat. 26.52 and Revel 13.10 They that take the sword saith our Saviour shall perish by the sword he that killeth with the sword saith his Apostle John must be killed with the sword and yet the worst is behind for after this life ended both Murtherers and Idolaters shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death Rev. 21.8 And is not all this new Testament Obj. But you are Ministers of the Gospel of peace you should preach peace bloody preaching and bloody praying should be far from you Ans Parcius ista viris Shall you plead for rebels and murtherers and condemn us for crying out for justice to the righteous Judge and his substitutes 2. Do we pray any otherwise than the soules under the Altar even of them that were slain for the word of God did who cryed with a loud voice saying How long O Lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth Rev. 6.10 And although you condemn these our prayers our Lord Jesus assureth us that his father will hear them Luk. 18.6 Where he is pleased to demand both of you and us Shall not God avenge his owne elect which cry day and night unto him though he bear long with them I tell you that he will avenge them speedily Obj. 4. But the seven Nations are expresly nominated whom God enjoyneth Israel to destroy Deut. 7.2 You have no such particular rule Ans You have heard Christs expresse Command that all that take the sword shall perish by the sword and a particular rule is given how Anti-Christ is to be dealt with in Rev. 18.6 Reward her as she rewarded you and double unto her double according to her works See then what these Popish conspirators Anti-Christs limbs have done to the Protestants being instigated thereunto by Romes Emissaries Priests Friers and Jesuits you may do the like to them yea it is just to render to them double for God hath so commanded it should be Obj. But what if they had the Kings Commission for what they did Ans So they pretended * Sr Phelim Oneale at his execution confess'd that they gave out at their first rising they had the Kings cōmission for what they did but took it upon his death it was false for their owne excuse But were it so indeed Had not Doeg I pray you the Kings command to smite Ahimelech with the City of the Priests 1 Sam. 22.18 The King said to Doeg turn thou and fall upon the Priests And Doeg the Edomite fell on the Priests and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linnen Ephod yet because this was unjustly done the Kings warrant would not excuse him but the Prophet threateneth him in the name of the Lord Psal 52.5 saying God shall likewise destroy thee for ever he shall take thee away and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place and root thee out of the land of the living Selah Obj. But Doeg exceeded his Commission for he smote not the Priests alone with the edge of the sword but men and women also children and sucklings and Oxen and asses and sheep and therefore was he thus punished Ans Did Doeg exceed his Commission therein also have these Irish Edomites exceeded him their little finger hath been heavier than his loins and therefore must expect a farre heavier punishment 2. He destroyed only the City Nob they left but few undestroyed in the whole Land and their intent was if their design had proceeded in surprizing this City of Dublin and the Castle to have left in this land not one man woman or child of our Religion alive Remember O Lord these children of Edom who cryed in the day of our Jerusalem rase it rase it even to the ground Aug. de civit Dei l. 1. c. 7. Quòd innsitatâ rerumfacie immanitas barbara mitior apparuit ut quidam parcetentur hoc Christi nomini tribuendum Absit ☞ Ut prudens quis quam hoc feritati imputet ●arb●●orum Obj. 7. If they had been so savage and mercilesse as you would render them they might have destroyed many more when they had them in their hands who yet survive Ans Blessed be the Lord whose hook was in their nostrils to preserve a remnant alive as it is this day but sure we are the tender mercies of the wicked were cruel for when some being stripped in frost and snow others being wounded also thought it impossible to travel 40 or 50 miles in that case and so chose death rather than life these Hamans usual answer was no they would not shew them so much favour as to kill them for then they should put them too soon out of their pain whereas on the other side if they perceived any to be fearful of death and to beg for life such they cut off incontinently no intreaties would prevail Call you this pity in requitall whereof a Cessation should be granted them upon their first demand My Lords till meer necessity enforced them they never sought it when any advantage shall be given them they will never keep it Sad experiments of their former perfidiousnesse from every quarter can witnesse this Say unto them therefore as Jehu did to Jehoram what have you to do with peace so long as your wilful murthers and execrable blasphemies remain blood defileth the land and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein but by the blood of him that shed it Numb 35.33 Now the Lord hath armed you with power put on Davids resolution and say we will early destroy all the wicked of the land Psa 101.8 He that should punish capital offenders and doth not when he may * Corn. à Lapide in locum is as guilty before the Lord as if he himselfe had perpetrated all that they have done * Plutarch in Lacon moral Hoc est sceleratos ad malcsicia armare Nazianzen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yea more he shall be guilty of all the wickednesse that ever afterwards they shall commit I have read how a King of France complained that one man had been pardoned twice for murther and yet he had slain a third man his jester standing by sayd to the King nay my Liege he killed but one and you slew the other two for if you had caused him to have been executed for the first fact * Si primum non condonasses reliqua non perpetresset erat Ludovic XI rex Franciae he had never lived to have committed the second and third So may I say to you some of these Rebels and more of their ancestors have rebelled thrice within these 47 years space had they then