Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	jesus_n	lord_n	vengeance_n	2,277	5	9.8623	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96214	Questions propounded by the natural man by way of reasoning. And answered by the spiritual man: but the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them: it is written for the use of them that halteth, that they may be gathered: in which reason Babylon is fanned, and her land emptied, for so it is written. Whereunto is added a few lines for the rulers of the land, in love to their souls.	West, Robert, fl. 1683, attributed name.; R. W.	1657 (1657)	Wing W1384; Thomason E910_9; ESTC R207516	11,824	16

and brought up children and they have rebelled against me the Ox knoweth his owner and the Ass his Masters crib but Israel doth not know my People doth not consider THis is thy state O Land thou knowest not the Lord thy Maker neither wilt thou understand but walkest on in darkness all thy foundations are out of course wo is me for thee Wilt thou not be made clean When shall it once be Be instructed O Land least the Lord depart from thee and make thee desolate a land not inhabited for what art thou unto God more then other Nations which was before thee which was made desolate that thou shouldest not bee made desolate Seeing he is no respector of persons a God that changeth not who will by no means clear the guilty as it appeareth by the Scriptures of Truth for the Angels that kept not their first estate are reserved in chains under darkness unto the Judgement of the great day Likewise the old world for their wickedness was drowned Except eight persons Sodom and Gomorrah with the Cities about them for sin suffered the vengeance of eternal fire Israel in the Wilderness for rebelling against the Light oft times was plagued and for forsaking the Commandments of the Lord in the Land of Canaan was carryed away captive by Shalmanezer except the Tribe of Judah onely and that Tribe also for sin was carryed into Babylon and after their return and rebuilding of their City and Temple for sin both City and Temple became heaps and Zion to be plowed as a Field and themselves scattered amongst the Nations unto this day being a prey to the Heathen Now all these things happened to them for insamples and they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come Now consider this all you that are enemies to th● Light in you and that buildeth Temples without where God dwels not and prepares a Table for that Troop and that ●urnish the Drink-offering unto that number for the Lord shall slay thee and ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my choen saith the Lord and I will call my servants by another name because when I called ye did not answer when I speak ye did not hear but did evil before mine eyes and did choose that wherein I delighted not therefore it will be more tollerable for Tyre and Zidon and Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of Judgemeet then for thee O Land except thou repent who have bad so many examples of Gods severity for in thee rhe Prophets prophesie faisly and the Priests bears rule by their means and the people will have it so and as Troops of Robbers wait for a man so the company of Priests murders in the way by consent for they commit lewdness as appeared unto and by the late Jewries who was employed by the Authority to enquire concerning their lives and Doctrines who upon their Oaths testified That they was ignorant scandalous ungodly many of them whose God is their belly who minde earthly things whose glory is their shame and who yet are thy Teachers in many places deliver thy self from them and break of thy sins by righteousness and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poore which thou hast oppressed and imprisoned that the Lord thou mayest come to know and rest with us or else when the Lord shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire vengeance on thee shall be taken that know not God and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his Power 2 Thess 1.8 9. Thus have I cleared my conscience whether thou wilt hear or whether thou wilt not hear I am free from thy blood who am a lover of that Light which reproves thee and if it loveth thee not it will condemn thee Thus thou hast warning by R. VV. These Lines are written that men might learn not to blaspheme the living God whose wayes are upright BLasphemy is a belying the truth and saying that men are Saints when they are not Isa 37.3 Rev. 2.9 13.5 6. Ezek. 35.12 The Principle of it is that in every one which opposeth the Light whether in themselves or in others as will appear by these following lines as it is noted in the Scriptures of truth Matth. 15.19 2 Thes 2.4 Rev. 2.9 First Blasphemy is a belying the truth and this is truth That God decreed no man to destruction but mans destruction is of himelf Luke 22.65 Prov. 6.32 Hos 13.9 Secondly When Adam transgressed and we in him God doth devise means that his banished be not expelled from him that without respect of persons 1 Cor. 15.22 2 Sam. 14.14 Act. 10.34 Deut. 10.17 Rom. 2.11 1 Pet. i. 17. For the Lord hath no pleasure in the death of the wicked nor is he willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance Ezek. 33.11 2 Pet. 3.9 Thirdly That all men might he that gave himself a ransom for all hath tasted death for every man 1 Tim. 2.6 Heb. 2.9 Fourthly He that dyed for all for all was dead hath lighted every man which light is life and came upon all men unto the justification of life 2 Cor. 5.14 Joh. 1.9 Rom. 5.18 Fifthly He that receiveth this gift denyeth himself and findeth life Mark 8.34 Rom. 9.16 Eph. 1.11 Psal 144.10 Hos 13.9 2 Pet. 3.9 Isa 55.7 Eph. 5.13 1 Iohn 3.8 and so it s not of man that willeth nor of him that runneth but of God who worketh all things after the Counsel of his own will and so our salvation is of God but our destruction is of our selves for God is not willing that any should perish but man is not willing to forsake his sins which is the cause of perishing but man would be saved from wrath but not from sin which is the state of wrath Rom. 2.8 9. which the Light doth manifest and would destroy in us if he was not resisted by us Act. 7.51 and 13.46 He that being often reproved hardneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy Prov. 29.1 R. W. A Copy of two Letters as followeth which was sent unto two called Ministers with nine Queries JEffrey Sunkens I being informed that thou on the tenth or eleventh day of Decemb. 1656. at Justice Pierces House dids declare as foleth That the Scriptures are a Christians Rule of life and ground of Faith and that only upon the hearing of this thy affirming it I was moved to write unto thee these my following Queries First Whether Abrahams rule of life and ground of faith was Scriptures and that only seeing there was none as I know if so what Scriptures the whole or part yea or nay Secondly Whether Abrahams rule of life and ground of Faith was not one with Abel and Noah and all the holy men of old if so Whether that one ground was not