Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	antichrist_n	holy_a	zion_n	26	3	8.9278	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59044	Animadversions upon a book entituled Inquisition for the blood of our late soveraign &c., and upon the offence taken at it wherein in order to peace the ground, reason, and end of our wars are discovered, the old cause stated and determined, the late insurrection animadverted, and a way of peace propounded / by William Sedgwicke.	Sedgwick, William, 1609 or 10-1669?	1661 (1661)	Wing S2382; ESTC R25203	133,070	314

and fill the mind with more enmity and consequently with more blindness How much is poor man to be pittied whose zeal for God and the worship of God is so miserably distracted and misled as to be made use of only to destroy one another And that Religion which is the Law of love peace and salvation should become the great engine of death wrath and destruction and no remedy against it Sure it will be considered That truth is one in Christ That Jesus is the head of man and that mans nature reason and understanding is his own body and spouse That Religion unites and binds this head and body in a Covenant of marriage That love life and truth are only in this union And that therefore truth life and love are together and they that leave one they leave all If so then they that love not err from the truth and they that by their opinions are taught to hate and kill live neither in love nor truth but in death and darkness Error and enmity do destroy and they that do destroy are most in destruction because to them may be applyed that title given to Satan Heb. 2.4 he that had power of death for they that in malice inflict it have power of it All truth is most beautiful and lovely even unto the reason of man and all errour is a lye and monstrous even to the mind of man both in it self and in the foul and devilish effects of it When the light shall shine forth to manifest this men will of themselves fly from errour avoid hatred and love the truth Satisfie your selves therefore you that seem to be zealous for truth of any side or party and know That as mens souls and consciences are the body and Spouse of Christ so they are his care and charge He hath with him a Law wherewith to govern this body and power over all conscience and severe punishment for them that are proud and rebellious He hath a spiritual Court and a spiritual Law with power and authority to execute Spiritual judgements And conscience is most sensible of his strokes and most easily subjected to him and therefore will be ruled by him To him it doth belong to do it and to him alone and he will do it Upon these grounds I do in my spirit give liberty to all perswasions having a perswasion and reason that comprehends them all in one And knowing that one mercy and goodness upholds saves and forgives all and that one truth and one Gospel is under all and in all And being sensible of that one enemy that doth abuse all by engaging them in zeal for some part of truth against their brethren knowing likewise that light that will scattter this darkness and unite all in one in one heart and in one way These things being true there is reason all should have liberty to challenge and plead their right in order to agreement Which must as certainly have its time as confusion hath had his time There is order in and under this confusion and will arise out of it yea this confusion is to this end that a more large and excellent love and light might come forth to reduce all this into order and harmony And when it doth manifest it self it will not only joyn some parts that are nearest one to another but will unite all I absolutely think it impossible to make any true union betwixt any two or three parties or sects in the Nation leaving out the rest as it is impossible to build an house of some parts of the frame of some posts and pillars excluding and denying other parts There is a Church of England or in England it is I think all one If ever there was one there is still one if there be among us the profession and Faith of Jesus Because the Church is built upon a rock and the Gates of hell cannot prevail against it If hell should take it captive and either carry the Church into hell or hell come forth and possess the Church with all its filthyness wickedness darkness and confusion Yet it would be still the body of Christ and therefore it still is not only safe in all this but beloved and honoured by him Antichrist may and doth sit in the Temple of God and defile this temple of God but it is still the temple of God And the Gentiles may enter into the holy City and trample it underfoot but it is still and ever shall be the holy City If we deny there is or was a Church I am sure no man among us hath power to plant a Church For no Church of God was ever planted in the earth but by power and authority from heaven and by a pattern from the Mount Men cannot so much as repair a decayed Church without an heavenly annointing Therefore if there was no Church there is none For our new Churches challenge not from heaven but from the letter If there be a Church of England then all English men that profess faith in Jesus are members of it Till this Church cast them out till they be judicially proceeded against by the Church her self Be they never so corrupt they are corrupt members of her corrupt body till she recover her power to cast them out And she and all her parts must own them and bear them and all their filth and guilt till they be cut off It is not in the power of any parts except they have the power of the whole to cast out any It is much less in the power of any parts to cast out the whole Church or to unchurch the Church Nor is it in the power of any to dismember himself they may like froward children run away when they are ill used but that doth not dissolve the relation betwixt parents and children nor acquit either from their duty All the separations and abjurations of all the Independants Anabaptists and Quakers doth not make them no members of the Church of England Neither are they thereby no children of the true Fathers of the Church Nor must we therefore cease loving of them instructing of them because they have like the prodigal got a portion and gone from their Fathers house If the relation holds the duties of that relation will be required of Fathers authority wisdom justice and love and of children obedience and subjection And no ill affection or desposition can dissolve a relation An ignorant weak decayed old man is a Father and a forward bold rebellious Son is a Son The way to bring wandring sheep to the fold is to seek them out And the way to reduce prodigals is to suffer them to want There are both these simplicity to be sought out and conceited prodigality and this will starve and come to great want And then if there be bread in our Fathers house they will be compelled to seek it I know certainly they will be in great necessity of spiritual food that spend so prodigally in harlots houses in

immediate conjunction and union And the Lamb is with her dwells in her she is the Mountain of God or the City of the living God 4. She is washed cleansed enlightened and filled with the Spirit of the Lord whereby she is established strengthened guided and kept in even and straight pathes she is adorned and beautified with righteousness wisdom peace honour and salvation and therefore when she appears she will be a praise in the earth 5. She is in all things ordered and ruled by the pure and perfect Law and Word of God whereby she walks steadily surely justly to God to men and to all creatures These things in word and notion are not strange to you that Zion is a Body a Nation a holy People united and compact according to the heavenly pattern joyned unto God sanctified established and adorned by the Spirit ruled by the eternal Word Then consider and compare your state with this Zion where is this body this holy matter or when was this body formed was it in the Parliament at what time though you sifted and purged it yet it was mixed unclean and corrupt and afterward rejected as chaff Or was the Army this holy body with all that vile and filthy rabble If this was the body how came it to be such an offence to you why did it at last cast you off and betray you and your cause Or is it all the godly people why then are you not drawn out united built into a holy Nation or City by your selves Zion and no Union Consistencie or Order No Magistrates nor publick Ministers Can you say when in which of the ten powers that you set up in twelve years you were formed by the Spirit or Word of God which state Oath Protestation Covenant or Engagement was made by the Word of God If all then you were led into contradictions if any one why did not that one judge and condemn all the rest and why doth it not still stand and defend it self and you It grieves my soul to think that you should be so drunk with the wine of your own gifts and success as to need such sensible demonstrations to convince you of the evil of your state We have briefly shewed you the beauty of Zion I can give you a view of your own state possibly you have not observed it as I have done now you have time and opportunity to think seriously of it It is this You are a confused heap raised from the earth by the tumults and commotions of the people being impatient of suffering and full of consultations for self-ease self-safety and advantage actuated and stirred by the Providence of God who can make use of all creatures natures and dispositions And sanctified by and furnished with a spirit and gifts fit to execute his displeasure upon the Nation for their sins Finding success beyond your expectations you grew into high opinions and conceits of your selves overthrew the Government of the Nation break all Oathes and Bonds prey upon the wealth of the Nation enrich and exalt your selves under a name and profession of Godliness for which you are rejected into misery and shame I do feel what effect this may have upon your minds some will think it very hard and severe so think all children when they are beaten Others will rage and gnash their tee●h yet it must be born Others will say this is true but why should it be published to all the world I would avoid it if it were possible but it cannot be otherwise how can one write to a people but all may read that will But alas I see it is most righteous and just that you should bear shame for you have put the Lord to open shame and your iniquities and abominations are discovered in the sight of all the Nations they cannot be hid and publick sins must have publick shame publick confession and repentance Eze. 16.52 Thou that hast judged thy sisters Samaria and Sodom bear thy own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable then they they are more righteous then thou yea be thou confounded also and bear thy shame in that thou hast justified thy sisters And know for certain that till you are ashamed and confounded for your abominations you never can never shall know a better state But when you see God pacified towards you it will make you to remember to be confounded and never more to open thy mouth And then will he lead you into a better state Therefore know this I do not charge all this upon some eminent persons of the Party as some do nor upon the persons of the whole Party as most do My soul pitties you I know you have a sore and grievous burden upon you and your personal sins are punished with personal judgements I do both pitty and forgive you and if I could prevent it I would It was the intent of the other Book and is the intent of this to take you off from your state and spirit of opposition to the power of the Nation from which you have do and will suffer so long as you persist in it The judgement I pass is upon the state in which you stand and the spirit by which you are acted This state which I have discoursed to you it is not Zion but Babylon Her filthiness is discovered in the sight of all the world and can no longer be hid In one hour is her judgement come Great is the Lord that judgeth her Righteous and true are his Judgements and they are made manifest God hath openly shewed what was in you it is seen known and felt that it is Babel confusion Therefore is the name of it called Babel because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth Gen. 11.9 Shall I need to apply it to you Do you not remember how much your language was confounded And do you not now feel how much you are scattered Doth it need to be said This is Babel As to your persons gifts and graces I do admit them to be the Lords and to belong to Zion But it is Zion that dwells with the daughter of Babylon Therefore I do write this to call you forth of Babylon Come out of her my people and be not partakers of her sins that ye receive not of her plagues Sword war blood killing persecuting wrath cursing and destroying are her sins and must be her plagues Neither you not any men can live in them but they will perish by them No man or men can act in them but they must suffer them It is the righteous jugdement of God against the beast and for the Lamb he that takes the sword shall perish by the sword and the meek suffering Lamb only shall reign If you had again or could recover all the power and force you had and an hundred times more you could hold it but one hour with