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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	great_a	time_n	town_n	5,945	4	6.0551	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58412	A tender visitation of love to professors and profane, but especially to the inhabitants of the town of Waymouth. With some directions how they may try themselves, whether they are yet in their sins, or whether they are come to him that makes an end of sin. Also a warning to all sorts of people, that they may repent of the evil of their wayes whilest the day of mercy lasteth, least repentance be hid from their eyes. Howl ye inhabitants of the earth, for the day of vengeance is at hand, the Lord will stain the glory of all flesh. Being written from the breathings of life, by a hand-maid of the Lord, S. R.	S. R.	1661 (1661)	Wing R77; ESTC R219656	10,437	16

shall feed his people with knowledge and with understanding but such as go on in their lyes which makes Merchandize of the Just and starves the souls of many which deceives the simple and causeth the weak to err in Judgement a day of bitter torments is prepared for them endless misery shall come upon them Babylon the Mother of Harlots she with all her Merchants and their Merchandizes shall fall and her downfal must be great she that hath long sat as a Queen which said she should see no sorrow she I say must be thrown down and all her goodly Children with her which lean upon her knees they must be taken Captive together she hath Captivated and killed the Saints and hath drunken the blood of the Innocent she must be led into captivity she that hath led others she must have blood for blood as she hath done to others others must do to her her very lovers shall loath her none of them shall pitty her the fire of Gods wrath shall consume her flesh shame shall cover their faces who have taken pleasure in her beauty her fame shall be taken away her glory shall utterly be defaced her Foundation shal be rooted up her Memorial shall utterly rot and be consumed from off the face of the whole Earth the Lord God Almighty hath spoken it and it shall come to passe and be fulfilled in its season Therefore howle all you that dwel on the Earth I say howle all you who are yet in your sins be you afflicted and mourn and weep let your laughter and singing be turned into mourning and your Joy into heavinesse let shame cover your faces you proud wanton ones is it not high time for you to consider your wayes and to cease from that which is evil O return whiles you have yet a day remember you are but flesh and all flesh is as grasse or as a flower of the field who appeareth beautiful for a time and in a moment is changed or withered away and you must dye You know not how soon it may be before the Lord may call you to an account and then what will you say for your selves You who have spent your time in Wantonnesse Pride Vain laughter and foolish talking in singing of Songs and Ballats and telling of Stories and taking Gods holy Name in vain in Swearing Lying and Drunkennesse to the abusing of the Creation of God and many other lascivious actions Take warning O be perswaded prize your time make better use of it whiles the day of mercy lasteth let a true Reformation be known amongst you Repent Repent put sack-cloath upon your loyns and wallow in ashes let a true mournful state in the sight of the Lord God be known witnessed amongst you that the Lord God may take pitty and compassion on you Nineveh that great City who went on in wickedness for a time was warned by one of the Lords Servants as you may read in Jonah and they received the Lords message without questioning of it and the Nenivites repented before the Lord for the evil of their wayes and the Lord was intreated by them and he took pitty upon them and spared the City And now O Inhabitants of the Town of Waymouth there is a necessity laid upon me at this time to warn you because of the evil day which must assuredly come upon all the workers of iniquity but you have made leight of the many warnings of the Lord and of his Messengers and some of them you have requited with cruel mockings and Imprisonments and other ill usage O people consider of these things the Lord doth not usually bring destruction or sore judgements or plagues upon a People or Nation but he first warns them of the evil that is to come upon them unless they repent Sodom and Gomorab had a day wherein the Lord warned them of the evil that was to come upon them but they sleighted the Lords warning O read sudden destruction came upon them How could I take up a lamentation over thee O Waymouth Waymouth How could I take up a sore lamentation over thee How could I mourn over thee O Waymouth Lamentable is thy state mournful is thy dayes I am bowed down for thee I have mourned for thee many times as I have passed through thy streets tears have trickled down mine eyes to consider the sad estate and conditions of many of thy Inhabitants the Lord God hath a controversie against you the cry of oppression is found amongst you O I have born the weight and burthen of many of your iniquities upon my own shoulders the yoak of oppression have lain heavy upon my neck I have born a great burthen for you dayes without number O the Seed of God lies opprest in you all Professors and Prophane O the Seed of God the Immortal Babe the Begotten of God lies opprest in you all not heeded nor regarded although it cries aloud in you and often groans by reason of your wickedness O you bruise the tender Principle of God in you all and you put him to open shame daily he who was the man of sorrows who was well acquainted with grief whose visage was mared more then any mans he is oppressed in you all and by you Read the little Babe the begotten of God he was laid in a Manger in the worst place of the Inn the beast fed over the Babe it lay in the Manger I speak near to you all the beastly nature which was the first forward nature is not yet cast out of many of you the Babe lies under in you the first nature lives above it and this nature makes merry over the just the little one that is low whom you tread over And now in the fear of God I warn you all who ever you are that are out of the Truth of the living God come down come down to the true witness of God placed in you all which makes manifest sin and evil in the hearts and consciences in every man and woman and this is pure of God which makes manifest every man and womans state and condition and this is not of man nor of woman although it is placed in man and in woman but this stands in every man and woman as a faithful Witnesse for God against sin and evil and this witness cannot consent to any thing that is evil which men and women does although men and women acts and walks contrary day after day to the leadings of this true witness and where this true witness which God hath placed to be man and womans guide I say where and in whomsoever this true witness is not obeyed loved nor believed in by such it is crucified and slain and so Scripture comes to be fulfilled as it was said in a certain place in Sodom and Aegypt spiritually called was our Lord Jesus crucified and slain and this shall be every mans and womans great condemnation that light is come into the world and men love darknesse rather then