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	lord_n	time_n	9,107	5	3.5822	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73560	The bloudy mother, or The most inhumane murthers, committed by Iane Hattersley vpon diuers infants, the issue of her owne bodie & the priuate burying of them in an orchard with her araignment and execution. As also, the most loathsome and lamentable end of Adam Adamson her Master, the vnlawfull begetter of those vnfortunate babes being eaten and consumed aliue with wormes and lice. At east Grinsted in Sussex neere London, in Iuly last. 1609.	T. B. (Thomas Brewer)	1610 (1610)	STC 3717.3; ESTC S124650	11,587	24

against the will of God All his meanes were wast and consumed for he neuer left consuming till he was consumed to skinne bone and so lamentably ended his dayes about the begining of Nouember last Yf we looke well into this lamentable end of his we shall finde a lesson worth the looking into and that is this that though he could by mony and freinds or some false colour and couering 〈◊〉 his desert from the hands of men yet the Lord would not let him passe this world without a punishment that like the 〈◊〉 burst out through the Fogg● cloudes of his dissembling and priuie contriuing to shew the world that he was not the innocent man that he would haue seemd to be Many that haue wit to shift and craft to couer thinke themselues wise but the Lord knowes they are fooles so makes their end shew them But to that we cast not an eye but alas being set in the race of our owne ruine we runne like the Onagrie or wild Asse of Mauritaunia with such dexteritie and strength that till we are breathlesse we stoppe not till we are breathlesse indeed for til our breath leaues vs we leaue not sinning O could we imitate him as well in the path of pietie we should haue heauen in our bosomes I meane such consciences as after this life would assure vs of the euerlasting beatiatitude of Angelles An exhortation IF the Apostle Peter illuminated by the spirit of God in his time determined the consumation of the world to draw nigh and like the Lord of Hosts his loyall Herault proclaimed thervpon to all the faithfull Now the end of all things is at hand If godly Cypryan many yeares after iustly thought and taught that the end of the world did hang ouer his head sweete Laotantius sighed in spirit said it could not lack aboue two hundred yeares and holy Ierome that obserued a iournall watched the houres of his life had so certaine a perswasion of the suddennes and nearenes thereof that he euer seemed to heare the sound of the Troump of the latter day sounding this heauy note in his eares Surgite mortui venite ad iudicium That is Arise ye dead and come to iudgement all no doubt incited thereunto and inlightened by the holy Gohst certes we 〈…〉 good cause that liue in these latter and dangerous dayes stedlastly to beleeue for many causes and especially these three that the second comming of Christ cannot be farre off First for that all the prophesies of the Patriarkes and Prophets of all the auncients yea and of the Iewes themselues who yet idlely and ignorantly expect another Meslias so concordantly agree with this our after age that the Orthodoxes so long since deceased may seeme now to liue and beholde the state of the dayes instant Secondly for that all those prodegies and tokens foretolde by our Sauiour in the Gospel are now vniuersally fulfilled in the worlde and autentiquelly importe an vniuersall dissolution of the world Thirdly for that in the same place our Sauiour promiseth to shorten those dayes and surely if as there he promiseth for his elects sake those daies were not shortned scant any flesh should be saued for if we narrowly looke on the course of time the manners of men the sta●ting vp of false Christs the vprise of counterfeyte Prophets the contempt of Religeon and vntowardnes of all things we shall assuredly finde that this our old writhen world is altogether like to vnfruitfull and drie stubble or chaffe apt for nothing but to be consumed with fire or as the Apostle Peter saith the heauens and earth that now are kept by the same word in store and reserud vnto fire against the day of iudgement Lord it is time yea it is full and due time fit were thy blessed will and pleasure that thou come to iudgement Come thou Alpha and Omega thou first and last come Lord Iesu come quickly For sinne ouerfloweth Iniquitie aboundeth Faith fayleth Hope fadeth Loue freeseth in steade whereof Paganisme Despaire and Murder are founded and generally wickednesse flourisheth and vertue falleth But omitting all the rest this wilfull murderiug of Innocents is iudged a most heynous iniquitie in the sight of God and amongst all good men counted principall of those sinnes whose lamentable clamours ascend vp before the maiestie of God incessantly yell out greedily thirsting for reuenge Let vs therefore take warning by those Cruell bloudy and libidinous bad liuers whose horrid sinnes calles vengance from heauen and let vs desire almighty God to hasten the latter day to the comfort of his elect and glory of his most holy name Amen The names of the witnesses Maister Andrew Sackuill Edward Paine George Drury Steeuen Price And Edward Duffield in whose orchard the bones of the murthered Infants were found Goodwife King Goodwife Foord Goodwife Paine Goodwife Pulman Goodwife Kent FINIS