Selected quad for the lemma: scripture_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	ghost_n	holy_a	inspire_v	2,844	5	10.2489	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14108	A plaine discouerie of ten English lepers, verie noisome and hurtfull to the Church and common wealth setting before our eies the iniquitie of these latter dayes, and inducing vs to a due consideration of our selues. Published by Thomas Timme minister.	Tymme, Thomas, d. 1620.	1592 (1592)	STC 24418; ESTC S118801	68,904	98

law which he wil haue remaine inuiolable namely Thou shalt not kill The which is the second commandement of the second table and yet the first of the negatiue sort By the which commandement the killing of brute beasts is not restrained Whose life or death God hath referred vnto mans will as appeareth in Genesis but the killing of man is vtterly forbidden that no man be so hardie as to kill himselfe or any other The reason is because man both as touching the bodie and the soule is the most excellent creature of God For albeit he made his bodie of the slime of the earth yet made he his soule of nothing after his owne image Gen. 2. placing the same in the bodie when he had breathed into his face the breath of life Moreouer forsomuch as man is immediatly subiect vnto God therefore God reserueth vnto himselfe the power of mans life or death insomuch that it is vtterly vnlawfull for one man to kil another and therefore Christ said vnto Peter who had a purpose to kill Matt. 26 Put vp thy sword into thy sheath for whosoeuer striketh with the sword shall perish with the sword Notwithstanding they which in a iust warre are souldiers armed by their prince to fight for the liberties of their coūtrey against any forreigne enemie that shal come to inuade the land are not murtherers in shedding their bloud and in killing such enemies 1. Sam. 18 1. Sam. 25 but the Lords souldiers fightting the Lords warre and the Lords battailes as may appeare by manie testimonies out of scripture As when the Syrian king had gathered his power against Iehosaphat Iahaziel the Leuit being inspired with the holy Ghost came to Iehosaphat after hee had made his prayers and gaue him this incouragement saying This is the warre of God not of men 2. Chro. 20 They therfore which fight the Lords battails haue this promise made vnto thē by God himselfe Leuit. 26. One of you shall chase a thousand and ten ten thousand Because the Lord himselfe as the Prophet Dauid speaketh will teach your hands to fight Psal 144. and frame your fingers to the battaile The souldier therefore in this action which fighteth vnder the standard of a Christian prince for the defence of Gods true religion against idolatrous Papists and proude Spaniards which with fire and sworde are readie to inuade need not to feare and stand in doubt their quarrell is Gods and therefore vndoubtedly good Let such therefore take vnto them a good courage and play the men The more blood they shed of such miscreants the more holy are their handes consecrated vnto the Lorde Exod. 32. and the greater blessing they shall receiue from him In like maner the magistrate which punisheth malefactors by death dooth not offende against this cōmandement but doth kill according to the prescript rule of Gods law where he saith Thou shalt not suffer a malefactor to liue The Iudge himselfe should sinne against God Deut. 18. if he should suffer such euill persons notoriously knowne lawfully conuented before him to liue Saul lost his kingdome and procured vnto himselfe the wrath vengeance of god 1. Sam. 15. because he slue not those sinners the Amalechites In like maner when the Lord had deliuered into the handes of Achab Benhadad the king of Assyria Achab entring into league with him let Benhadad go Then came to him one of the Prophets in the worde of the Lord saying 1. King 20. Because thou hast deliuered the man worthie of death out of thy hand thy life shall go for his and thy people for his people Which came accordingly to passe For within a while after he fighting with the Assyrians was slain Hereby it doth euidently appeare that magistrates doe highly displease the maiestie of God which punish not murtherers and such like malefactors being therevnto by God called ordained For what is the cause that many cruel and horrible murthers are committed but the impunitie of such wickednesses For murderers many times find friends which for money wil procure a pardon But when through such facilitie of remission pardon a second murther by the same malefactors is committed what else are such friends to bee accounted but buiers and sellers of bloud Wheras God to the contrarie hath said Ye shal take no recompence for the life of the murtherer Num. 35. which is worthy to die but he shal die the death Therefore those magistrates doe highly please god which administer iustice against such bloody mē according to the law of God man Thus much concerning the letter of the commaundement Thoushalt not kill By giuing the which precept the Lorde is not onely carefull to haue obedience from our hands but also from our hearts and tongues so that both thoughts and words as well as actions must come vnder subiection vnto him that neither of them be infected with malice which the Lord so hateth and abhorreth For we must interpret the law according to the nature of the law-giuer Man by reason that he onely seeth the deed and cannot discerne of the heart maketh lawes for the outward doings and punisheth them alone without proceeding further But the Lord who searcheth the very heart and reignes maketh lawes for it and punisheth euen the consent of heart going against his law For inasmuch as the Lord hateth the euill it selfe he cannot but abhorre it wheresoeuer he shall find it whether in hand heart or tongue Of the sinne of adulterie Christ saith Who soeuer beholdeth a woman and lusteth after her Matt. 5. hath alreadie committed adulterie in his heart And Saint Iohn sayeth also Whosoeuer hateth his brother is a man-slecr For as Saint Hierom sayeth Quiodit fratrem suum qui occidit pari poena digni sunt Hee which killeth and hee which hateth his brother deserueth one and the selfe same punishment Whereby wee see that not onely grosse euils come into reckoning before the Lorde but euen hatred setled in the heart although the hande hath neuer beene stretched foorth to execute the same Neither commeth it before him as some trifling thing which dooth not greatlie displease him but appeareth monstrous hauing no other shape vppon it nor lesse account made of it then of murther Thus must we thinke of hatred consented vnto in the heart that it hath a blouddie face in the sight of the Lorde and therefore is to be abhorred and loathed as the crueltie of murther Saint Augustine sayth that the Iewes no lesse killed Christ then the Romans did although the Iewes layde no violent hands vpon him Whereunto also accordeth Saint Hierom writing vpon Isai Thou sayth he hast not killed with the sword but thou hast killed with the will And God in his law pronounceth a curse agaynst this secred murther saying Cursed is he that smiteth his neighbour secretly Therefore sayth the Lorde Deut. 27. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart Hatred ouerruleth