Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	according_a	spirit_n	zion_n	64	3	9.4998	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90389	An eccho from the great deep: containing further inward openings, concerning divers other things, upon some whereof the principles and practises of the mad folks do much depend. As also the life, hope, safety and happiness of the seed of God, is pointed at; which through many dark, dismall, untrodden paths and passages (as particularly through an unthought of death and captivity) they shall at length be led unto. / Through Isaac Pennington (junior) Esq;.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1650 (1650)	Wing P1163; Thomason E618_1; ESTC R206346	113,201	142

even his own garden of delight Wise man could never know God could never learn the way to God could never be acquainted with the Life of God that which he calls so is vanity But Gods fools shall know him Those that are indeed stripped and made naked by him shall indeed be clothed with him Those whose old life old eye old heart is slain dead and buried shall be raised with a new life a new eye a new heart and that life shall live in God that eye see God and that heart embrace God This feed which hath so long layn dead in the grave when it is raised by that Almighty Power which slew it shall love the Lord its God with all its heart and live Therefore Say not O Jacob nor complain not O Israel saying My way is hid from the Lord God takes no notice of what befalls me My Judgment that Salvation which God himself hath judged suitable to my condition is passed over by my God for he will shew himself as skilful to vent his mercies and compassions which all miseries tend to stir as he hath been to cause grief As he hath been exceeding skilful in making such a wound in thee as none can administer any thing to heal or mitigate the smart of so he will likewise approve his skill in providing balm himself and in applying it to effect a perfect cure None could grieve thee but he none could touch thy life but he he hath touched thy life to purpose so as thou never suspectedst None can refresh thee none can restore thee but he stay wait see what he will do and if he do not satisfie thee with life and Salvation spare not to blame him The Ruine Destruction and utter Desolation of Babylon FROM REVEL 18. Vers 21. And a mighty Angel took up a stone like a great milstone and cast it into the Sea saying Thus with violence shall that great City Babylon be thrown down and shall be found no more at all BAbylon is the chief fabrick the great master-peece of the spirit of man the City that man buildeth to dwell with God in to enjoy God in yea the great City which all the will wisdom and power of man have contributed towards to the utmost to make it glorious and sumptuous to make it pleasing to and taking with the spirit of man The City that God builds is Sion the City that man builds is Babylon The City that God erecteth is spiritual he doth it by his own Spirit with his own spiritual Wisdom The City that man erecteth is carnal from and according to the measure of his own carnal mind That which he sets up for the Will of God for the Worship of God is but according to his own carnal apprehension and imagination That which he worships for God is not God but Bell or Merodach his own Idol an Idea which his own wisdom hath framed which he sees and apprehends to be God with the eye of his understanding but will prove but emptiness and vanity in the presence and light of the true and living Substance In this Babylon in this great City there are many streets and in them many houses and in them many rooms of several heights or stories There is much beauty much riches much sweetness much pleasure Their worship of their Idol is glorious their enjoyments high their pleasure great their raptures sweet There is somewhat in one street or other in one room or other to allure and entangle the spirit of man in what dress soever it be she hath wares suitable to the spirit of man be it in what state or posture it will and hereby she prevails to draw the whole Earth after her In Sion there 's a God a Will a Worship a Light a Purity that will not bend one jot to humour the will or wisdom of man in the least and therefore the ways of Sion mourn poor Sion is desolate But Babylon is suited to the wisdom and will of man there is somewhat in her to take every one with and therefore all the trade and traffique runs that way O the beauty of Babylon O the excellent order in Babylon to the eye of man the unity the uniformity the harmony the decency Sion is a poor mean thing not worthy to be compared with Babylon nay hardly worthy to be the footstool of Babylon But O the filthiness of Babylon O the confusion of Babylon to the eye and in the light of God! and O how beautiful is Sion there In Babylon there are two eminent things to be taken notice of There 's their own Image their own way their own worship their own knowledg their own light adorned beautified presented as very taking and enforced upon all all must acknowledg and do reverence to this Image some way or other They must worship in some street in some house in some room though not all in one and the same And then there 's the holy Seed and the vessels of the House of the Lord in Captivity the true Life the true Power is hampered and kept under there The people of God lie there among the pots defiled besmeared made slaves and put to nothing but drudgery in the Land of their enemies No loveliness appears in them but all the glory shines in and about Babylons brood They appear poor and wretched the rich ones the great ones are the children of Babylon Sion mourns pants fetches breath for life is destitute afflicted tormented Babylon hath pleasure lives deliciously lightsomness is in her countenance and sorrow far from her heart I fit as a Queen saith she and shall never see widowhood The Babylonians they have a glorious God and a glorious Worship all things magnificent But Gods people they are like lost sheep like sheep turned away upon the mountains like sheep running astray having none to take care of them God doth not look after them now so as he did while they were in their own Land nor do they know how to find out their God but wander up and down from mountain to hill having forgotten their resting place In the destruction of Babylon there will be the Redemption the rescue the delivery of this Seed the defacing of all her glory the discovery of her paint and the lothsomness of that underneath which she thus painted and the clothing of Sion with Life and Salvation with true Beauty and Glory She Babylon shall have torment in stead of pleasure How much she hath glorified her self and lived deliciously so much torment and sorrow give her The voyce of the Bridegroom and of the Bride shall be heard no more at all in thee Darkness in stead of light The light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee Howling in stead of musick The voyce of Harpers Musicians c. shall be heard no more at all in thee Desolation in stead of such abundant traffique No Crafts-man of whatsoever craft he be shall be found any more in thee and