Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	darkness_n	light_n	shadow_n	7,372	5	9.4624	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85492	A cal [sic] and a vvarning, to all priests, professors and people, vvho have and do profess the Scriptures, that they may try their doctrines and practises by it, and may own condemnation in their doctrines and practises, wherein they are contrary to the Scriptures. And a tender visitation to the whole vvorld, that they may own this their visitation, and may be healed and restored to the Lord; and this may serve for a looking glass, wherein people may see what visage they are of, and how they stand related as unto God. / By a sufferer in Hartford goale, for faithful witness-bearing, against this sinful generation; known by the name of John Gould.	Gould, John, prisoner at Hertford.	1657 (1657)	Wing G1416; Thomason E932_1; ESTC R202329	27,259	37

her shall stand afar off crying Alas alas for that great City which was the glory of the whole earth wherein was so much traffique for gold and silver and needle works and diamonds and pearles and precious stones and silks and velvets and scarlets and fine linnen and all manner of broidered works and whisks and vails and neck-laces and powderings and crispings and platings for in one day is her torment come upon her and the smoak thereof shall ascend up for ever and ever And do ye think the professing of these words will cover ye O ye priests professors and people or that by your meanings conceivings or private interpretations ye can put them off from you or that ye are not meant and concern'd in them who are found in her practises and doing her service and become as a pander unto her to usher in her wickednesse by denying the light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world which convinceth the world of sin and sheweth it plainly that these things are not of God but of the devil envy lying and swearing and drunkennesse and whoredome and pride and vanity and prodigality by which the Merchants of the earth are waxen rich and fat and are become valiant and strong to reproach the living God and slander the footsteps of his Annointed and are ye not found in such practises O ye priests professors and people let the light in all your consciences answer is it not so What mean ye thus to fight against the Lord Will ye set bryars and thorns in battel against me saith the Lord shall I not even passe thorough them and consume ye together or will ye Potsherds of the earth still strive against your Maker Shall I not dash ye to pieces like a potters vessel and rule ye with my iron rod O ye Kings and Rulers of the earth who are joyned together against the Lord and against his Annointed whom ye evilly entreat and despitefully use for my Name sake saith the Lord saying Come let us joyn together to root out the name of Israel from under heaven let us break his bands asunder and cast his cords from us for we will not have this man to rule over us come let us sell him into Egypt let us make strong Lawes and binding against him so we may cast him into prison and into dungeons drive him into dens and caves of the earth even to root out the name of Israel from under heaven for Israel shall not go free saith proud Pharaoh Gods enemy but he that sitteth in heaven laugheth your consultations to scorn and hath you in derision O ye Kings and Rulers of the earth serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling kisse the Son lest he be angry and ye perish in the mid way if his wrath be kindled but a little blessed are all they that put their trust in him for this hath the Lord determined even to exalt and set his King upon his holy hill of Zion who shall rule the Nations in his anger with a rod of iron and shall dash them in pieces like a potters vessel for all those mine enemies saith he that will not that I shall rule over them shall be slain by the edge of the Sword for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it and it shall be accomplished upon your heads for the Lord God is not a man that he should lie or as the Son of man that he should repent but what he hath decreed shall suddenly come to passe and who is he that shall dare to withstand him and say why dost thou so wherefore hear O ye Kings and be instructed O ye Rulers of the earth break off your sins betimes by repentance and your iniquities by shewing compassion on the poor lest I come upon you in my fury as an armed man and cut you asunder and sweep you away with the beesome of Consumption and there be none to deliver you out of my hands saith the Lord for this will be the portion of their cup vvho vvill not be guided and counselled by me in their life-time but running a-vvhoring from me after other gods which have eyes and see not ears and hear not neither have understanding at all they who make them are like unto them and so are all those that put their trust in them therefore consider what you are a doing you who make unrighteous decrees and establish iniquity by a law to oppress the poor and the innocent and to grind the face of the fatherlesse even the fatherlesse the widdow and the stranger and him that hath no helper in the earth for I see you saith the Lord and behold all your thoughts and purposes concerning them in secret and I will declare them openly and reprove them openly and ye shall be ashamed and consounded for all your wickednesse against me saith the Lord and all your private determinations against my holy ones my holy seed the lot of mine inheritance saith the Lord who hath loved them and given my self for them to redeem them unto my self for ever and none shall pluck them out of my hand nor out of my fathers hand for my father is stronger then all I and my father am one wherefore in the dread and power of God I warn you to take heed what ye do and what ye plot and contrive against the innocent for the Lord is their helper lest ye be found fighters against God but let Israel go free that he may do service and worship the Lord his God in the wilderness for to that end hath he caused me to write unto you O ye Rulers of the earth lest ye be made as Pharaoh for the hardness of your hearts against my chosen who is the meek of the earth against whom no weapon formed shall prosper but shall return even as a dart to pierce through the liver of him that formed it for Israel is my battel axe and weapon of war with which I 'le dash the mountains to pieces and scatter them as dust before the whirl-wind of mine indignation which shall blow upon the wicked till they be utterly consumed from off the face of the earth thus shall it be done unto all that will not that I shall raign and that my Son shall rule whom I have sent a light into the world to lighten them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death and to guide their feet into the way of peace wherefore prepare to meet thy God O Israel with fasting and weeping and mourning by putting away thine iniquities from before mine eyes saith the Lord cease from doing evil learn to do well come then and let us reason together saith the Lord though thy sins were as crimson I would make them as white as wool and though they were as scarlet yet would I make them as white as smow and if thou wouldst return my mercy would I not utterly take away from thee nor suffer my truth to fail but if