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	lord_n	righteousness_n	1,638	5	7.1307	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93761	A word to both houses of Parliament.	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1692 (1692)	Wing S5150; ESTC R184567	7,112	4

A Word to both Houses of PARLIAMENT THERE is a very great Malignity considering which see Rom. 1.29 for it arises from all Vnrighteousness Covetousness Maliciousness Envy Murder Debate Deceit there mentioned when people will not Obey God and they refuse to come into the way of his Commandments And this is so much the more provoking and worthy of sorer Punishment by much the longer and more continued it is So that Let none hence think that we recede or go aside from what we have received of God nor do we hereby make that part of his Word which is committed to our Ministration low and precarious Nor yet do We use it as an artifice or trick to get them off sooner from their Rebellion when we make that Proposal and Overture of a General Act of Oblivion and Indemnity to all the Workers of Iniquity See my Books Entituled Things Plain and Weighty c. The Mystery of Iniquity somewhat laid open c. That they shall be every one forgiven for whatever They have done as to Man's Punishment Which offer they think that we therefore make because we have not Power or Numbers to subdue them But this is to suppose and talk after the manner of Men for strong is the Lord God Almighty who will Judge them Nevertheless because Sentence against an evil Work is not executed speedily therefore the Hearts of the Sons of Men are fully set in them to do evil and they do in the mean while take up Proud Pharaohs Method and Resolution as to lay more Burden and Oppression on the true Israelites that they may Suffer if they will not sin and cast in their Lot among us and they think or say Let us not regard vain words Exod. 5.9 But they are not vain Words for though the Kingdom of God is in Word and is called the Weakness of God 1 Cor. 1.25 It is also in Power and in the Holy Ghost and in much Assurance that it shall be all found me For whatever some would imagine or desire not one tittle thereof shall fail until all be fulfilled Hereby is evident and also seen that God is stronger for He doth continually send forth his Messenger u●…on the Pale Horse whose name is Death which notwithstanding all their Multitude and Power doth●●…est them severally to bring them before his Judgment Seat Is not this laid up in store with me 〈◊〉 sealed up among my treasures To me belongeth Vengeance and Recompence their foot shall slide in du● time observe that for the day of their Calamity is at hand and the Things that shall come upon them make haste Deut. 32.34 35. Dearly beloved Avenge not your selves but rather give place unto Wrath for it is written Vengeance is mine I will repay saith the Lord Rom. 12.19 In these things Man hath nothing to do to take Vengeance or proceed to Punishment and yet if any should be so Presumptuous as to intermeddle with this sealed Treasure and Prerogative of Almighty God He will again recompence to such Person or Persons accordingly So that whereas the People of this Nation did call their King to Account and punish him with Depri●…tion for those unlawful things He is supposed and charged to have committed which yet by the La●… God and of this Realm they ought not to have done I thought at that very time He was driven a●… from his Kingdom That this Act of theirs would somewhat take off and lessen from what He 〈◊〉 unto in the Future Account in that God would so over-rule this Malice and Rebellion of M●… to change it into a Temporal Chastisement and Punishment of his Iniquity if He hath accepted it as such Levit. 26.41 As indeed to live in outward Mirth and Recreations or to seek to recover his Kingdom again by Blood is not consistent with that state of Humiliation and Waiting on the Lord He should have been in all along and He should be in yet Our God doth once more seem to shew forth th●… shedding of Blood is not his Way and Method of bringing back his Anointed as appears somewhat b●… the late Victory had over the French Fleet. But if still God is pleased to devise other means that h●… banished be not expelled from him 2 Sam. 14.14 and He cause Judgment to return to Righteousness And this be done not by Power nor by Might but by his Spirit and the Manifestation of his Truth which every Son and Daughter of God ought to strive to the utmost that it go forth continually and every Soul that will not yield Obedience unto it shall be Miserable for ever Here again great heed is to be taken that the last Errour be not like unto the first for the Wrath of Man worketh not the Righteousness of God and therefore this hath nothing to do or inflict And though our Nature as it is Corrupt may meditate of Vengeance and as it is wise according to the Flesh It may think some Punishment necessary as to Future Security and Prevention of the like Things yet the Language of Faith and the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the Lord saith on this wise that the more We let alone and refrain from these Men they will meet a more severe Judgment from the Lord and there can be no such sure Establishment for the time to come as by Righteousness and to Order it with Judgment and with Justice according to the Rules and Directions of God's Word If any part hereof doth seem somewhat strange or unintelligible so may any any Truth when it is first brought to our sight and apprehension or when that is throughly and clearly manifested which was but imperfectly and confusedly Thought of before A Word to the Members of the Privy Council as they do Sit to Advise and give Orders in Matters of War It is written that after Herod killed James He proceeded further to take Peter also Acts 12.2 3. and of one who strengthened himself in his Wickedness Psal 52.7 Which is done only by committing the several successive and repeated Acts thereof for thus they are the more confirmed and hardened yet and encouraged in an evil Matter There is in Men by Nature an awful Apprehension of God and they are at first fearful to offend againg him But when they see others provoke him and no harm happen unto them Yea commonly These Vngodly do prosper in the World They increase in Riches then they take heart by little and little to Sin against him especially if they find no hurt upon themselves as presently they do not and when they are some what habituated and accustomed to it They go on to Transgress more and more As it is said in the Proverb Over Shoes over Boots when once they are throughly in they think that must and they do go on in the same When an Army is once blooded as we say then they are more desperate and cruel and they having been used to so much Murther already they do not refrain