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	time_n	zion_n	27	3	8.6394	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91099	A call out of Egypt, (where death and darkness is) into the glorious light and liberty of the sons of God, (where life and peace is.) The Lord fulfilling his promises declared by his holy prophets and Apostles, in these later dayes.	Parker, Alexander, 1628-1689.	1656 (1656)	Wing P378; Thomason E893_3; ESTC R204837	32,992	47

all thy tinne and I will restore thy Judges as at the first and thy Counsellors as at the beginning afterwards thou shalt be called The City of righteousness the faithfull City Sion shall be redeemed with judgment and her Converts with righteousness And now is this day come that the righteous God is pleading his Cause with his Enemies and purging them with the spirit of judgment and of burning And Judgment is begun according as the Apostle foretold for the time is that Judgment must begin at the house of God and if it first begin at us what shall be the end of them that obey not the Gospel of God Woe and misery will be their portion and the destruction of the Transgressors and of the Sinners shall be together and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed for he will be glorified in this his day of Righteousnesse and just Judgement which is now set up in the earth which makes the Inhabitants thereof to learn righteousnesse according to the saying of the Prophet Isaiah The way of the just is uprightnesse thou most upright dost weigh the path of the just yea in the way of thy judgements O Lord have we waited for thee the desire of our soul is to to thy Name and to the remembrance of thee With my Soul have I I desired thee in he might yea with my spirit within me will I seek thee early for when thy judgements are in the earth the Inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness Let favour be shewed to the wicked yet will he not learn righteousness in the Land of Uprightness will he deal unjustly and will not behold the Majesty of the Lord though he stretcheth forth his Hand and calls to come forth of the Land of Darkness and waiteth to be gracious yet all this will not move him nor break his heart but goes on carelesly to destruction and because sentence against an evill work is not executed speedily therefore the heart of the Sons of Men is fully set in them to do evill But now the day of just Judgement is come and woe unto the wicked it shall go ill with them they shall not prolong their Days because they fear not before the Lord the righteous God of Heaven and Earth who loves Righteousnesse and no unrighteous one can have union and fellowship with him And this is he the living pure holy righteous God which the holy men of God did bear Testimony of and the same pure holy God do I bear Testimony of which is Light and in him is no darknesse at all who created man and made him in his own Image and gave him Dominion over all other creatures But all have gone astray and turned aside from the holy Command of God and so have falne from the pure living God and lost his Image and are become aliens and strangers to Him their Maker the God of the world having blinded their minds and stolne away their hearts from the love of the Creator into the Creature and so their love is in the Creature and worships and serves that more then the Creator and their Bodies which was the Temples of God and in which was his image and likeness the same is become a habitation for the Devil and all unclean lusts and so the image and likeness of the Devil who hath gotten possession and sits as ruler and king in the heart and leads the Creature captive at his will to do his work which is unrighteousness And here is the first mans state which is from below of the Earth earthly and mindes Earthly things careing for the things of this life what to eat what to drink and what to put on labouring and striving by all ways and means to get great possessions and to become great in the Earth and to have the honour of the World which is below and lies in wickedness and in this state men and women are striving to come again unto the Tree of life and by their Earthly wisdom which is sensual and divelish goes about to comprehend the things of God but never can it is a mysterie hid and sealed from this wisdom and never can be known there for the World by wisdom knows not God But good and full of love is the Lord the righteous God and by his wisdom hath found out a way contrary to the wit will and wisdom of man and that is of himself for he hath given his son his only begotten son who is the son of his love him hath he freely given for a Covenant of light to bring back again fallen man which is driven from God into the Earth and to reconcile him to his Maker and renew that Image of God again which by his disobedience he hath lost and there is no way but by the Son none knoweth the Father but the Son and he to whom the Son will reveal him And this is he which the Prophets prophesied of and which the Apostles witnessed to be the Light of the world as John testifies who came for a Witness to bear witness of the Light and saith he that was the true Light which lightneth every man that cometh into the world and the same do I bear testimony unto he who is the life and light of men which lightneth every one that cometh into the world and this light is true and pure and stands a witness for the true and pure God against all sin and unrighteousness and all the deeds done in the body though never so closely acted or intended this true light doth not consent but reproves in secret for the secret evils that are conceived in the evil heart against God And when this witness doth arise in the conscience and trouble man for his sin and brings him to some sense and feeling of his miserable condition that he lies under the Curse and wrath of Almighty God and gives him some wound for his sin and and so man comes to see his nakedness with the light of the Sun then fearing the wrath of God doth fly from his presence to actsomething to pacify the wrath of God and so Adam-like makes garments of fig-leavs to cover his nakedness And here is the ground of all the forms and professions of godliness that stands not in the Light but are turned from the Light and fled the judgment and run to the Scriptures without them and so reads and gets a notion of words decking and painting themselves with the sheeps cloathing and so read and pray and sing and goe to hear Sermons and cover themselves with a Covering like the Spirit but is not the Spirit and so Wo is their Portion who are covered and not with the Spirit of the Lord All this will not hide them nor cover their nakedness in the day of the Lord all this doth not cleanse the heart nor reform the inside all this which the world calls Worship and Service of God as Reading Praying Singing and Preaching as it is called or whatever