Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	body_n	life_n	power_n	13,082	5	5.0974	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67137	The wounds of a friend, or, A letter mentioned by Mr. Love upon the scaffold in his speech a little before his death sent unto him the night before he should have been executed in the moneth of July, which is upon the occasion of the said mention thereof published / by John Price, of Colemanstreet, London.	Price, John, of Colemanstreet, London.	1651 (1651)	Wing W3664; ESTC R9250	4,693	10

if the arms of Christ do bear you up above these troubled waters and not windy bladders but it is very rare considering your Cause the projecting promoting actual producing a new bloody War a War between Saints a War against Saints a War to restore a wicked a bloody Family so signally and eminently dethroned by the vindicative Iustice of Almighty God so decryed so imprecated with such zeal expectation and confidence by your own self in publike in private and you not so much as touched with the guilt of a busy-Busiy-body in all your Tryal and sufferings how ever you have valu●d or undervalued your precious life yet let not Bassilix eyes destroy your Soul viz. an ambition to be look'd at and admired It is now high time to recollect your self your Breeding your Education * at whose charges from what sort of Professors you have received mercy and favour all your life and how you have requited them at the last by not only not doing the least thing for them but striving to undermine them in their Liberties and failing therein to cut them off by a bloody War I should have been glad had the due consideration of your miscarriages wrought you to an ingenuous and Christian acknowledgment in due season for your life sake I should now rejoyce might it be yet considered for your Souls sake Do you plead your Conscience If it be so indeed consider the strange hand of God upon your Judgment not much unlike his hand upon the late King in whose Cau●e how ever palliated you must yeeld up your life who could not submit to the Power that tryed him for his Conscience sake That a Minister of Iesus Christ should intermeddle with the State and Condition of several Nations so as to involve them in a bloody war yea to strive to subvert that Government under which he might live a peaceable and quiet life in all godliness and honesty a thing never practised by any of the Prophets of old by Christ his Apostles or Successors that your self have judged faithful except you judg Iesuits to be such should do all this not only without hesitansie but with a zealous Conscience argues a great hand of God upon such a Judgment Again do you plead Conscience and therefore cannot subject to a Christian Consession of your miscarriage though it might have saved your life and that for Conscience sake See here another strein of divine Iustice you endeavored to bring in a Power though by an Army to compel mens subjection against their Consciences and your self now must perish upon the same accompt But once more Consider is it Conscience indeed Is it not rather Popularity then Conscience Shall I submit now Will not the world say 't is base 't is dishonorable c. Well Sir consult God and plead not Conscience against Conscience it is bad to live but worse to dye with an ill Conscience especially under the vizor of a good Conscience an ill Cause yea and an ill Conscience may be slily palliated with many good prayers Scripture phrases and a zealous shew of a very tender Conscience and to dye stoutly in such a Cause may be reputed Martyrdom amongst men and just punishment with God it may have a shew of pure Christianism with man but it is pure Atheism with God the more close secret and spiritual any sin is the more dangerous and noxious it is unto the sinner Sir I do not judg you but I fear you I would I had no cause if I am mistaken it is well this can do you no hurt if I am not mistaken this may do you good that is my aim and the desire of my Soul for if I know my heart I could willingly part with my right hand in Gods way for your life and with my very life in that way for your Soul That the Lord of Life and Glory would so communicate himself yet unto you before you go hence that having a due sense of the riches and freeness of his grace in our dear Lord Iesus Christ and so rest peace and fulness of satisfaction upon that accompt and also a due feeling of your own miscarriages in all your ways and chiefly of that that hath brought you to this precipitated end that you may yield up your life as becomes such a sense and that eternal life may second your temporal is the hearty prayers of Sir Your very faithful and truly affectionate Brother in our Lord Jesus Christ JOHN PRICE Coleman street London Iuly 14 1651. REader Thou hast the Letter truly and faithfully committed to thy strictest view and examination and submitted to thy Judgment if thou findest any thing of an insulting nature therein nay any thing but love and faithfulness unto Mr Love most certain I am thou reapest that which was never sown by me nay it past a strict examen by a judicious godly man one of Mr Loves very good friends and acquaintance and very zealously industrious for his Pardon before it was sent unto Mr Love for indeed I feared Mr Loves sinister interpretation and misconstruction of it who was very importunate with me to send it unto him but it is true which Solomon saith That a froward heart findeth no good All that I shall say of Mr Love is this His sin vanity and folly have found him out and pursued him to his grave but I hope shall follow him no further As for my self I cannot with my self better in wishes of this nature then to desire God to g●●e me as ●●●●●ful a friend in the day of my departure from this world as I did desire to approve my self to Mr Love and a better heart to improve the same Farewell FINIS * Very tamperable for such a purpose being of a rash furious hasty violent popular temper disposition a Whose altum silentium when their dying brother vented such bitter invectives against the present Authority bespeaks either their own minds and judgments in the same or themselvs very unfit ghostly fathers at such a time * 〈…〉 〈…〉