Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	according_a	heart_n	lord_n	1,440	5	3.6316	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77638	The naked vvoman, or a rare epistle sent to Mr. Peter Sterry minister at Whitehall; desiring him to shew the causes or reasons of his silence, in that he neither by his ministeriall office, charged the magistrates that were present to redresse, nor so much as shewd any sign of grief or detestation, as became a sincere Christian; against that most strange ans shamefull late act of an impudent woman, in the midst of his sermon on a Lords day at Whitehall chapell, concerning the resurrection, before the chief states of this nation. A satisfactory answer he returned; which with a lving acceptance thereof, are here also printed; very worthy the observation of all, both sexes and degrees of people in these nations.	Brown, David, fl. 1650-1652.; Sterry, Peter, 1613-1672.	1652 (1652)	Wing B5014; Thomason E681_20; ESTC R206796	18,211	23

quite discharged and also that great Timber barn in the Palace of Whitehall it self demolished which was erected for the vile exercises of masks and playes and those to be alwayes in the night season even crossing the Ordinance of God which he hath appointed for people to rest and in the day to travell yea and the deluge of Gods temporall judgements were so abundantly powred out in these bloody cruell durable and destructive Wars throughout all the three Nations for the great abominations and crying sins thereof even when they were ripe for the sickle and by which the former State being quite overthrown there remained no more excuses of any intestine opposition to hinder a thorough and full Reformation both in matters spirituall and temporall so that long before any forraign troubles began there might and should have been far better seed proceeding from a godly sorrow not only sowed but sprung up that there might have been a joyfull reaping before this time than any more such of the Enemies tares though of other kinds as he wanteth not a magazine of temptations as God hath of judgements to have been either in our own days or the posterities which now do begin of fresh so to spring up and flourish that if they and their blossoms be permitted to bear seed and ripen untill another harvest then doubtless the last error will be worse than the first for that will highly provoke God in his justice to powr out both more remarkable and inevitable judgements than the former We have upon holy record for our learning or at least for rendering us the more inexcusable abundance of examples whereof for avoyding prolixity I will only mention two of the most pregnant and pertinent as both times do change and we also change in them some being advanced to the skyes and others humbled to the ashes the First is That because the people of Sodom and Gomorrah who being overcom by four Kings and through Gods providence in using Abraham and his Family as his instruments both to destroy those Kings and bring back the prisoners and spoil of those Cities did not walk answerable unto such undeserved favors but did wax much worse in all kind of voluptuousness and wickedness afterwards than ever they themselves or those their friends and neighbours who were destroyed before their eyes did not the same righteous God then punish them to the full even by an extraordinary extirpation of them all saving one Family from off the face of the earth at last as both he did the whole world in the dayes of Noah and the Amalekites for their cruelty to his own own people in their distress which wonderfull visitatious are sufficient enough to terrify us and all posterities from following those wicked people in their most hainous sins if our hearts were not hardned I much fear as both theirs and and King Pharao's were unto the day of destruction So that the Sodomites slight punishment at first by so many thousands who doubtless were as guilty as the rest being freed according to the Lords usuall remembring mercy in the midst of his judgments and yet that so great and undeserved mercy to those who so much enjoyed it not being in any the least measure regarded but rather their hearts so much the more hardened presuming if such another visitation should come again that they should have the like escape and upon that false ground they most ungratefully and undutifully not at all considering the goodnesse of God towards them both increased and multiplyed all their former abominable wickednesses and therefore it may be justly said that that gentle visitation by so many thousands of as guilty people as the rest escaping which at first in much mercy they had was no preservation and far lesse any allowance of them either in their former or latter abominations whereby in the least either so suddenly or at all to have grown secure and much lesse to have proceeded in wickednesse neither was the victory which God gave them over their enemies any sure token of his favour to them above their brethren in evil whom he had destroyed but it was rather a reservation of them unto a more generall inevitable compleat remarkable and extraordinary judgment And the second Example is that when certain men told our blessed Saviour of the Galileans whose blood P●lat had mingled with their sacrifices he answered and said unto them Suppose ye that those Galileans were greater sinners than all other Galileans I tell you Nay but except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish Or think ye that those 18. men upon whom the Tower in Shilo fell and slew them were sinners above all that were in Jerusalem I tell you Nay but except ye amend your lives ye shall all likewise perish Sir I could even in this most rare accident as well as in other matters which are frequent much enlarge my self both from the word of truth and occurrences in our own dayes yea and besides the dear buying of some experience in other kinds I have not been at small both charges and travels besides other great losses and troubles of persecution in being driven by wicked men with my Family oftentimes from our habitations and possessions even from one Nation to another whereby to gain some experience also in this kind For I have not only been divers times Excommunicated in Nationall Churches by the Priests of the high places and their Lords the late Bishops even for witnessing against their manifold evils either by word writing not countenancing their antichristian worship or refusing to maintain them in such indirect courses by paying Tythes or other exactions which they call duties they neither being Christs servants nor content with his wages although I was not a member of any National Church these 35 years which is about the half of my few and evill dayes but likewise I was once Excommunicated in a Church in London where I was a Member indeed in obedience to Gods Word which I esteemed to be of totall separation from all kind of such evills and to walk in the order and purity of the Gospell even because I protested first against the owners of a disorderly boy between 3. and 4. year old whom both they and all other their confederat members saving one allowed as it seemed to trouble the exercise both on first days fast days and other days of weekly meetings for the space of divers moneths I being the oldest in years of any Member saving one Woman who had no liberty to speak and for which as I heard by one of themselves that if I insisted to have such peace silence and order observed that they had resolved I should be Excommunicated Secondly because I witnessed against the evils of divers false doctrines which were by Samuel Chidley one of their Teachers delivered and by the ignorant members received And Thirdly because I both discovered and after privat dealing with him brought famous Witnesses to prove many haynous