Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	hand_n	lord_n	zion_n	1,188	5	9.7879	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70012	An alarm to the priests, or, A message from heaven to forewarn them of the dreadfull day of the Lord which will suddenly overtake them, unless by speedy and unfeigned repentance they return to the Lord ... / by a follower of the Lamb, one whose eye sees the down-fall of Babilon, and waits for the exaltation of Sion, Tho. Ellwood.	Ellwood, Thomas, 1639-1713.	1660 (1660)	Wing E612; ESTC R19407	8,257	8

AN ALARM TO THE PRIESTS OR A Message from Heaven To forewarn them of the dreadfull day of the Lord which will suddenly overtake them unless by speedy and unfeigned repentance they return to the Lord With a Call to all people to come out of Babilon least they be made partakers of her plagues By a follower of the Lamb one whose eye sees the down-fall of Babilon and waits for the exaltation of Sion Tho. Ellwood The Preface MAny yea very many have been the warnings and admonitions which the Lord hath given unto the Priests of this generation yet have they not repented and turned unto him but have hardned their hearts against his reproof and have gone on in their disobedience and rebellion against him even provoking him to pour down his Judgements upon them and utterly to cut them off from being a people any more for ever Long hath he waited upon them to be gracious unto them and long hath he born with them that at length if it were possible they might see and be made sensible of their great unkindness and monstruous ingratitude wherewith they have continually repaid his great goodness and loving-kindness unto them and yet how loath hath he been to stir up all his anger against them how unwilling to destroy them And now once more hath he stretched out his golden Scepter unto them and hath raised up his Spirit in the meanest of his servants uttering his mighty voice through an earthen vessell that all the glory may be unto himself to warn them yet once more of the eminent perill which hangs over their heads and will suddenly drop upon them except they repent and return unto him O that they would hear that their souls might live for nothing but speedy and unfeigned repentance can divert the wrath of God from falling on their heads The Lord hath in tender mercy unto them given them a day to work in but alas they have wrought the works of darkness he expected they should bring forth fruit unto him but they have been fruitfull in nothing but in doing evill He visited them in his tender love and would have gathered them under bis wing as a hen doth her chickens but they would not Hitherto they have slighted the many offers of his love unto them and have not regarded the day of their visitation but now their day flitteth away apace and the short Span of time which yet remains to them passeth away as a shadow and will soon be gone over their heads and then will they feel the Lord to be as just in punishing as mercifull in so long sparing them for he will arise in his might and visit them in his fury and their place shal be found no more The persecuting Spirit is a notable badge of Antichrist This Spirit hath all along accompanied them They have run out of one form into an other and out of that into a third and still this Spirit hath gone along with them It appeared in the Bishops against the Non-conformists it appeared in the Presbyters against the Lord's people here in England and it appeared in the Independents against God's faithfull servants in New-England Antichrist hath long sate and still doth sit as God in the Temple of God I do not mean in the outward Temples although he sits there also but now is the day coming and the hour is even at hand of the manifestation of the righteous judgements of God upon all the wicked and upon all the disobedient and then shall that wicked one be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the Spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming He that testifieth these things saith surely I come quickly Amen even so come Lord Jesus The Word of the Lord which came unto me even unto me his servant as I lay in my bed waiting upon him in his pure peaceable Spirit saying thus shalt thou say to the Priests of this nation HOul houl you Merchants of Babilon for the time is coming wherein none shall buy your merchandize Houl and roar you children of Babylon for your mother the false woman the great harlot the scarlet Whore shal shortly be stripped out of all her false coverings out of all her harlots attire and shall be discovered to the eyes of all people nakedness and shame shall be upon her and horrour and torments upon all her children Lament and mourn you sons of Belial shriek and cry you Priest of Baal for sudden destruction is coming upon you and utter desolation shal speedily overtake you except you speedily and unfeignedly repent and turn to the Lord with all your hearts from whom you have gone a whoring even from the least to the greatest I say except you speedily repent and turn from the wickedness of your hearts and hands you shal utterly be cut off and that right soon for the Lord is arisen to fight for Sion and hath stretched out his mighty arm to deliver his people from the cruelty rage and oppression of all their enemies and persecutors Yet a little while and the cry shall be Babilon the great is fallen is fallen the fall thereof shall make a great noise the sound thereof shal go through the earth and shal strike terror to all those who admire and love her beauty fear amazement astonishment of Spirit shall seize on all those that traffick with her fire shall consume her inward parts howlings and roarings shall bee heard in all her quarters the Priests her Merchants shall wring their hands for grief and gnaw their tonges for pain and anguish for now shall their trade be utterly lost now shal their merchandize utterly fail them the great Whore their mother shall be stripped and her nakedness shall appear to their shame and torment Houl houl you Idol-shepherds for utter desolation is coming upon ye yes sudden destruction shall overtake ye even as an armed man shal it come upon ye and as travail upon a woman with child and there shall be none to deliver ye For thus saith the Lord God of power I even I will take vengeance upon ye and will recompence upon your heads the reward of your doings for you have erred from my pure fear and have daily grieved my pure spirit you have crucified the Just in your selves and in others and have hardned your hearts against my reproof refusing to let my people go to worship me according as I have commanded them How often saith the Lord have I warned ye by my Prophets rising up early and sending them unto ye yet have you rejected my counsel and would have none of my reproof but have dealt despitefully with my messengers beating and stoning some imprisoning some dismembring some and slaying others Yea you have often rebelled against me saith the Lord and have even kicked the heel against me you have sold your selves to act wickedness and to commit fornication with the Whore of Babilon you have run with delight into her bed of