Selected quad for the lemma: day_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
day_n	eat_v	lord_n	regard_v	5,035	5	12.1725	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42008	A lamentation taken up for London that late flourishing city, a bitter, yea a bitter lamentation over all her inhabitants yet living within and about her borders, and over all her rulers and mighty men, who are fled from her as from a murtherer, with good counsel and advice, from the spirit of the Lord to all, that they may turn unto him before the vials of his wrath be poured out for their utter destruction. By a lover of truth and righteousness: Thomas Greene.	Greene, Thomas, 1634?-1699.	1665 (1665)	Wing G1844; ESTC R215904	5,803	8

A Lamentation Taken up for LONDON THAT Late Flourishing CITY a bitter yea a bitter Lamentation over all her Inhabitants yet living within and about her Borders and over all her Rulers and Mighty Men who are Fled from her as from a Murtherer with good Counsel and Advice from the Spirit of the Lord to all that they may turn unto him before the Vials of his Wrath be poured out for their utter Destruction By a Lover of Truth and Righteousness THOMAS GREENE Printed in the Year 1665. A Lamentation taken up for London OH London London what Lamentation may I take up for Thee who was of late a flourishing City whose Scituation is by a pleasant River thorough which great Riches in abundance hath been brought to thee by which thy Inhabitants have been made rich thy Pomp and thy greatness thy Excellency and variety of Treasures hath allured many to flock unto thee from one end of the Nation to the other and many have counted themselves happy that could get a convenient Habitation in or about thy Borders A City that was so joyous and counted a place of delight and a Palace for Princes a meeting place for those called the Nobility of the Land unto thee hath the Embassadours from far Countries resorted Oh how is this City become solitary that was full of people she is now left as a widow of youth that was counted the pleasant place of the Nation and as a Princess in the Province for how hath thy great Men left thee and are fled as from a Monstrous woman how are thy Inhabitants a dread to the Country because of the Plague that is broken out in thee Oh my heart hath been in sorrow for thee and a burthen hath layn upon me as concerning thee ever since the Lord began to manifest his displeasure against thee even ever since the Ship called the London was blown up where more then 200. persons were torn in pieces whose Graves were in the Sea this then was the cry of my heart saying think yee they were greater sinners above all men and this was the answer from the Lord Except they repent they shall likewise perish with a mighty slaughter though not in the same way This was signified unto me by the Spirit of the Lord when I was in his dreadful fear overshadowed with his Heavenly power and I waited to see it effected or a return to the Lord by cealing from unrighteousness which most of all I desired that he might have diverted his intended Judgments But Oh how hast thou dishonoured his name and walked after thy own hearts lusts as those that have forgotten the Lord dayes without number and hast not humbled thy self before him but hast regarded iniquity and walked in cruelty against the Lord and his poor people and hast walked proudly so that many of thy Inhabitants scarcely knew what to eat or to drink or what to put on and yet a professing people having on you the name of Christians but are seen of all those whose eyes are open to be in the nature of Heathens Turks or Infidels who are not found in the nature of Christ who came not to destroy mens lives but to save them but on the contrary thy Rulers and Magistrates with their attendance have been found persecuting and imprisoning knocking down and wounding even some unto death a peaceable people that fear the Lord that he hath raised up in these last dayes to be as signes and wonders whose residence and dwelling is amongst you who have but testified against unrighteousness and assembled themselves together as the antient Christians in the dayes of old who feared the Lord and thought upon his Name and when all this Cruelty would not do nor bring them down whom God hath raised up then was invented in thee another way thou didst see thy pomp and greatness would do thee no good while these people called Quakers were among you their Laws being divers from thy Laws their Worship to thy Worship then thou hast concluded with the rest of the Rulers of the Land even as Haman who said it 's not for the Kings profit to let them live among us then this cruel Edict was invented in thy Borders to make such a Law as thou might be sure to find these people transgressors of that thou mightest say as those unworthy Jewes who said Wee have a Law and by our Law Christ ought to die Oh this your Law will not excuse you before the Lord who seeth your insides and will judge you according as your works are not by the sight of the eye nor by the hearing of the ear but he will enter into righteous judgement with you for he is determined to plead with all flesh to bring down the haughty and to lay the lofty low and for all thy transgressions and cruelties God is now risen to plead with thee for thou hast been the womb in the which cruelty without mercy hath been conceived thy Rulers with their Allies have been examples to all cruel minded men thorough the Nation therefore must thou drink a bitter cup and into thy hand hath the Lord first put it for when thou began to banish by that late devised Law those people out of the Land that feared the Lord and durst not mak shipwrack of their faith and of a good conscience then did the Lord begin with thee and poured out his Plagues upon very few as thou beganest first to banish two or three of the people of the Lord Oh that thou hadst considered and made a stop then of that woful sin of Persecution but still thou wouldest go on and didest send away seven more of the servants of the Lord and wouldest not take notice of the encrease of the Plague but still thou hast hardened thy heart against Gods innocent people and sent away eight more though still the Plague encreased in thy borders and as thou hast multiplyed thy cruelty so the Lord hath caused his Plague to encrease and now at last thou hast by force carryed near threescore of the servants of the Lord both men and women on board a Ship in order to their exilement even into an inconsiderable Vessel where is not convenience as becometh Christians the Deck being so low that they are fain to go double between the Decks where they must be forc'd to be lodg as if they were intended to be destroyed And as thou hast sent near threescore more of the servants of the Lord away so hath his Plague encreased to near three thousand by the weekly bill though it 's judged to be more and by many of the Inhabitants of this City here is a cry saying this is that which will encrease the Plague yet still were the hearts of thy Rulers hardened against this innocent people Well they may all know the Lords anger is not yet over but his hand is stretched out still for as thou hast encreased in cruelty so hath the Lord executed his righteous