Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	exceed_v	righteousness_n	scribe_n	2,764	5	11.0489	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60920	A brief discovery of the cause for which this land mourns, and is afflicted with several remedies to be applyed in order to the removal of the present visitation, given forth the 2d of the 6th month called August, 1665, being the last general fast day, appointed to pray for preventing the spreading, and increase of the infection of the plague / by a servant of the Lord, Thomas Salthouse.	Salthouse, Thomas, 1630-1691.	1665 (1665)	Wing S470; ESTC R2351	5,551	10

A Brief DISCOVERY OF THE Cause for which this LAND Mourns and is AFFLICTED With Several REMEDIES TO BE Applyed in ORDER to the Removal Of the Present VISITATION Given forth the 2d of the 6th Month called August 1665. being the last General FAST Day appointed to PRAY for Preventing the Spreading and Increase of the INFECTION of the PLAGUE By a Servant of the Lord Thomas Salthouse Printed in the Year 1665. A brief discovery of the cause for which this Land mourns and is afflicted With several Remedies to be applyed in order to the removal of the present Visitation OH ENGLAND renouned among the Records of antient daies beautiful for Situation and famous among the Nations a Land flowing with Milk and Honey an Island in which the Light of the Glorious Gospel hath shined and upon which the Lord hath lifted up the light of his Countenance in these latter dayes The day of thy Visitation is come according to Gods determination declared by his faithful servants the Prophets who hath been esteemed in thee as earthen Pitchers and persecuted from City to City and who have been set as signes and wonders in the Land of their Nativity for giving thee good counsel and shewing thee the path of Life and the way of Holiness in which thou hast refused to walk and now is the hand of the Lord lifted up to correct and chastise thy Inhabitants for their envy against the innocent and their oppressing of the poor and needy and the Lord is turning a fruitful Land into barrenness and your mirth into mourning for your iniquities and transgressions which hath provoked him dayes without number Oh! therefore lift up your eyes and look unto him whom you have pierced and let every Family mourn apart and let every particular person be humbled for his own transgression Let the wicked forsake his evil wayes and the unrighteous man his vain thoughts and turn to the Lord for he is gracious and to our God for he will abundantly pardon Wash you and make you clean put away the evil of your doings cease to do evil learn to do well seek judgment relieve the oppressed judge the fatherless and plead for the Widow let all the oppressors and persecutors of Gods people be ashamed because of their envy against the innocent now when the hand of the Lord is lifted up and when he hath undertaken to plead with equity for the meek of the Earth that have long mourned in desolation For this I am moved of the Lord to give forth in the day of your fast that it may be read in the fear of the Lord with the Spirit and understanding and I declare unto you that Persecution is the crying sin for which the Land mourns and in the great City where Persecution and Banishment for worshipping God did begin and where judgment was first turned backward and equity perverted hath the Lord begun to execute his Righteous Judgment and the cry of the Lords Prisoners together with the supplication of the righteous Souls that lieth under the Altar hath entred into the eares of the Almighty who hath taken cognisence of their cause and will with equity plead it on their behalf and every tongue that riseth up in judgment against them shall be condemned and all that gather together against the Lord and his chosen people shall be broken to pieces like a Potters vessel for this is the portion and heritage of the Lords servants who are established in Righteousness no weapon formed can prosper nor no inchantment can prevail against Gods peculiar treasure Wherefore now in the day of your fasting and praying unto which you are injoyned by authority be not like unto the Pharisees and Hypocrites of old who fasted often and did all their works to be seen of men you that profess Christianity should not fast as they did by afflicting your bodies and bowing down your heads in outward appearance for a day by drawing near to the Lord with your mouths and lifting up your voyces on high for verily except your Righteousness exceed the righteousness of the strictest sect of the Scribes and Pharisees you cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven neither will the Lord accept an offering at your hands whilst you are building up Sion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity and whilst you are exercised in oppressing the poor and needy For this is the fast that the Lord hath chosen and which he now requires of you who have injoyned others to abstain from their ordinary food that you fast from sin envy oppression and persecution that you lose the bands of wickedness undo the heavy burthens and set the oppressed free that you deal your bread to the hungry that you visit the fatherless and widows and bring forth the Lords Prisoners out of the Prison houses from among transgressors and malefactors where they lye languishing in nasty holes dismal dens and contagious cottages unto which they are confined for good conscience sake and for worshipping God in the Spirit whilst the proud are accompted happy and they that do wickedly are at liberty living in pleasures upon the earth Oh! therefore you that now bear rule amongst men take councel at the antient of daies and remember what the Rock of Israel hath said do justly love mercy and walk humbly with the Lord rule in love and in the fear of God that your light may shine as a morning without Clouds and that you may be as the tender grass springing up out of the earth by clear shining after the rain then will your health spring up speedily and the Lord will make you as a water'd Garden and as a spring of waters whose waters doth not faile for upon them that fears the Lord and thinks on his name and tremble at the words of his holiness will the sun of righteousness arise with healing in his Wings Cease smiting with the fist of wickedness and if you expect an answer of your Prayers and fasting which you pretend is for removing this dreadful Visitation and to prevent the spreading and increase of the infection now begun in your Metropolitant City where you first began to persecute imprison and transport the people of God out of the Land of their Nativity for their Religion and Righteousness sake Oh then remove those grievous yoaks of bondage which is unjustly laid upon that innocent people who are persecuted and imprisoned under the reproachful denomination of Quakers and let a general Goal delivery be proclaim'd as well as a publique fast and let the Prison doors be set open to all who are in bonds for worshipping God in the spirit and for their obedience to the commands of Christ Jesus and for their Non-conformity to the customs and traditions of men which doth not make the comers thereunto perfect as pertaining to the conscience and do not sell the Saints and servants of the most high as bondmen and bondwomen for their obedience to the Lord and keeping their consciences void of