Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	earth_n	high_a	lord_n	11,163	5	3.8462	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42022	Three general epistles for the whole body of Friends 1 from William Caton, 2 from R. Greenway, 3 from Christopher Bacon.	Caton, William, 1636-1665.; Bacon, Christopher.; Greenway, R. (Richard)	1662 (1662)	Wing G1864; ESTC R26437	11,728	17

Three General EPISTLES FOR THE WHOLE BODY O● FRIENDS 1 From William Caton 2 From R. Greenway 3 From Christopher Bacon Printed in the Yeer 1662. Three General Epistles c. Amsterdam the 15 th of the 11th Month 1662. MY dear Brethren and Beloved Sisters in the pure holy and heavenly Relation who are sons and daughters of one Father and heirs of one Kingdom begotten through the one Eternal Word of Life which lives and abides for ever With the salutation of my dearest love do I greet you all and with strong and vehement desires to the Lord do I wish that love and life joy and peace grace and mercy may be multiplied among you all to the filling of every of your earthen Vessels to the refreshing of every weary soul and to the making glad of every sorrowful heart among you I hope my dearly beloved you are not forgetful of the wonderful kind Love of our God which he manifested to us in the day of our visitation how he sought us out that were as lost sheep going astray that he might bring us unto himself who is the chief Shepherd and Bishop of our souls how he took us as perforce from our Lovers that our hearts and affections might be set upon him and that our souls might love him above all how he broke us that he might bind us up how he blinded us that he might make us see how he wounded us that he might heal us how he impoverished us that he might make us rich how he weakned us that he might make us strong and how he proved and cryed us as gold that is seven times tryed in the fire that we might finally become his Jewels though then we knew not whether that we should become Vessels of honor or dishonor And since that day of blessed Visitation how hath his endlesse love abounded towards us how plentifully hath his Wisdom and Power been manifested amongst us And what wonderful things have we seen him since bring to passe by the Arm of his Power not onely to our admiration but also to the astonishment of his Enemies And oh how hath he brought down Principalities and shaken powers inwardly and outwardly how hath he overturned overturned that which hath been exalted inwardly and outwardly that that which hath been abased might be exalted how hath he confounded the wisdom of the wise and brought the understanding of the Prudent to nothing how hath he scattered them that were gathered and not by him that he might gather that which was scattered from him Oh the Wonders that he hath wrought in the Earth they are innumerable And the noble acts that he hath done in the Earth who can declare them to the utmost Neverthelesse we will be speaking of them when thereunto moved by his spirit that we thereby may shew forth his praise who through his making us Witnesses of them hath made truly glad our hearts and souls which have cause to rejoice in him notwithstanding his trying of us with many tryals and his proving of us through many temptations and tribulations vvhich many have been exercised in and that divers manner of vvays Yet let us not faint nor let slip the confidence that vve have in him for as certain as vve have seen his Wonders in the Earth so certainly hath he vvrought several of them for good towards us and as certainly as he hath dealt gently and favourably vvith us so assuredly hath he loved us And as certainly as his glorious Work is begun in the Earth so assuredly will he make known his Name and Povver even unto the ends of the Earth And as certainly as his adversaries oppose him and his Truth so assuredly shall they be broken as the potsherds of the Earth and as certainly as his lambs and babes novv mourn and are aff●cted so assuredly shall they rejoice and be comforted And as certainly as the Wicked are novv set up so assuredly shall they fall And as certainly as iniquity abounds so assuredly shall it have an end And as certainly as the name of the Lord is blasphemed and dishonored so assuredly shall it be glorified and exalted in the earth And as certainly as Gods Truth is now trampled upon and rejected by thousands so assuredly shall it be advanced and received by ten thousands and though my eye should not see the fulfilling of these things yet I will rejoice and do rejoice in the Testimony that J have that these things shall come to pass And my soul inviteth you my dear brethren and sisters to come and rejoice with me in the assurance which God giveth us of the certainty of these things which shal as certainly be fulfilled as it is certain that the things before mentioned are come to pass since the Lord omnipotent first visited us Wherefore my dearly beloved look not out at the present blackness and darkness which represents it self upon the face of the Earth by reason of the many clouds which hang over the Earth But look at the Day-star which is a risen in your hearts which precedes the sons of righteousness which though he yet seem to be darkned yet as certainly as the Lord Iehovah is in the highest Heavens so assuredly shall this Sun of Righteousness arise and shine gloriously in the hearts of the sons of men and then shall just Judgement be set up in the Earth and the Inhabitants thereof they shall learn righteousness then shal Wickedness and Oppression have an end Cruelty and Tyranny shall have no place and Deceit and Unrighteousness shall wither and the Works and Workers of iniquity shall go to decay And then shall the joyful song of deliverance be sung by the ransomed ones of the Lord then shall the voice of joy and gladness be heard in our Land then shall babes and sucklings learn the song of Zion and the sons and daughters of the Most High shall make a heavenly pleasant melody and great wil be the joy and delight of the Lords chosen even such as that their present sufferings shall not be worthy to be compared to the same Therefore O ye my suffering Friends be ye comforted be ye comforted of the Lord and comfort ye one another with the assurance which God hath given unto some of his servants of the certainty of these things coming to pass of which I believe some of you wil be eye-witnesses and partakers with the Saints in Light and my confidence is That neither principalities nor powers shall be able to deprive you thereof though they should be permitted to deprive you of your liberty of your estates and of the society of Friends And if your Heavenly Father should suffer such things to come to pass for the trial of your precious Faith be not ye therefore dejected as if you were altogether left comfortless and should so perpetually remain For I testifie unto you That our Heavenly Father hath re●erved enough in store not onely to comfort you withal in this life but also in the