Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	estate_n	heir_n	tenement_n	1,389	5	10.3962	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66758	Meditations upon the Lords prayer with a preparatory preamble to the right understanding, and true use of this pattern : contemplated by the author during the time wherein his house was visited by the pestilence 1665 and is dedicated to them, by whose charity God preserved him and his family, from perishing in their late troubles / ... by ... Geo. Withers.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1655 (1655)	Wing W3169; ESTC R11913	123,479	218

to work in regard the propagation and setling of Truth in the Profession and practice of Religion must be endeavoured by the Spiritual Sword and those Instruments which are not carnal Therefore they who profess Christ whatsoever Piety or Zeal they pretend to his honour and Kingdom and yet seek to force other men to believe and practice as they do by persecuting them in Body or Estate are therein confederates with Antichrist and do not that to other men which they would that other men should do unto them It will concern them very seriously to consider this who are lately made sensible of that in their own persons whereof they were insensible in the persons of their Brethren For uncharitable censurings revilings or an Offensive Sword appertains not to the Saints in any private avengement though at sometimes a Defensive Sword may be more needful then their Garments as appears by the words of Christ Luke 22. 36. and then it may be used for their safeguard not to avenge themselves no not to avenge the blood of their Brethren in such manner as many conceive it may For it is said Revel 16. 5 6. that it is He who IS and WAS and SHALL BE that Judgeth them who shed the blood of the Saints and who shall give them blood to drinks as they have deserved And they whom he shall employ to make use of that Sword to do execution upon the BEAST and the Mother of Harlots so far forth as it will be requisite shall be her own Vassals and Confederates St. John also saith Revel 17. the ten Horns or Kings which received power with the BEAST and being of one minde with him in joyning their powers against the Lamb shall hate the Whore make her desolate naked eat her flesh and burn her with Fire God will put it into their hearts to execute his will upon her though until his time cometh they shall outwardly submit unto the Beast and both they and the Whore which rides her dissemble with each other till the day of her utter desolation and then as it is prophesied Revel 15. 3. the Song of the Saints shall be to this effect Great and wondrous are thy Deeds LORD the Saints Almighty King Righteousness from thee proceeds True thou art in every thing Fear'd and glorified O Lord Thou shalt be of every one And of Nations all ador'd For thou holy art alone And thy Judgements every where Fully manifested are 3. This I conceive to be the meaning of that Prophecy and that the power of Christs Word which is called a Sword proceeding out of his month better beseems the Dignity of the Saints then that which is committed to the Hangman and to every Ruffian-like-Souldier though the use of that Sword is honourable when employed as it ought to be The Saints who are often subject to the ignorances and infirmities common to men should well consider as I believe they will what disadvantage it hath been and may be unto themselves and their Brethren to pretend unto the Civil sword until God puts it unquestionably into their hands and mean while betake themselves to that onely which is proper to their Warfare not supposing all the Actions of the Saints recorded in the Old Testament are to be exemplary Rules to us in every thing wherein they did well For though to Josuah David and others the temporal sword was proper to the work they had to do and to conquer that temporal Inheritance which God had given to his people and to avenge him upon his and their Enemies and is so now in their hands to whom it is given to the like purposes yea though under the Law to take an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth and to give rewards to their Enemies according to their Cruelty yet by the Doctrine of Christs Gospel it is not so lawful in our personal and private quarrels for we are thereby taught to do good for evil To seek their welfare who persecute us and not so much as to pray against their persons but onely against their wickedness much less then are we to plot or combine against the Civil Power whereunto God hath subjected us notwithstanding we are oppressed thereby but must wait patiently for deliverance by him in his own way and in his own time This is my private Judgement which having not without Cause declared I leave those who are contrarily minded unto their own opinions until Gods Judgements or Mercies have wrought it out of them For though some perhaps may think it would strengthen the hands of Persecutors and Oppressors if this were generally professed and practised I know this is agreeable to the patience of the Saints and that they who kill with the Sword in avengement of their own Cause to the scandalizing of their Christian Profession and to the exposing others to a destructive suspition shall at last perish by the sword or by somewhat equivalent thereto either in their own hands or in the hands of those Avengers whom God will animate or permit to execute Justice both against private and publick Vsurpers of the temporal sword how politick powerful holy or secure soever they think themselves to be Revel 13. 10. Therefore as it is written in the last words of that Chapter If any man hath an ear to hear let him hear 4. For Ever This word EVER is of a larger extent in this place then it usually hath and signifies as much as Eternally For the Person to whom this Kingdom Power and Glory appertaineth being External so are also his Kingdom Power and Glory whereas when other Kingdoms or any thing else is said to be For Ever we are not to understand them to be Everlasting without end but to continue so long onely as the persons or their Posterity on whom they are conferred shall continue in being and in performing the Conditions whereupon they are granted or during the Term limited and preordained by the Granter to the things granted and this King Kingdom Power and Glory being as aforesaid without Beginning Limitation or Condition premised are Co-eternal The meaning of this word Ever is here to be thus largely taken and the true Nature of it is rightly understood and made use of in that sence by the Professors of our Common-Law here in England as the meaning of our Law For when Lands or Tenements are given and granted by Deed to any man For Ever he hath an Estate therein but during the term of his life onely that being his personal Ever but when it is given and granted unto him and his Heirs for ever they have all a perpetual Interest of Right thereunto whilst the world lasteth and any Heir of his therein surviveth VVith respect to the particulars expressed in these Meditation I do offer up this Prayer to God implicitely by intention though not explicitely in words at all times and having often spoken it in the Original and in the words of our English Translations in Prose I