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 work_n 1,535 5 5.1853 4 false
View all documents for the selected quad

Text snippets containing the quad

ID Title Author Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) STC Words Pages
A54962 The Plague checkt, or, Piety will either prevent or alter the property of the plague ... together with sundry other things in a letter written by a friend to sundry of his godly friends ... with respect to the present times ... 1665 (1665) Wing P2336; ESTC R8032 44,854 85

There is 1 snippet containing the selected quad. | View lemmatised text

minds of others of old Ezek. 8 verse 12. for they say the Lord seeth us not the Lord hath forsaken the earth The like we have in Psalm 94. verse 6. 7. They break in pieces thy people O Lord and afflict thy herritage Yet they say the Lord shall not see neither shall the God of Jacob regard it Would ye have the Mighty and most holy Jehovah so to un God himself with Reverence be it spoken and so to carry as if he had cast off the Government of the World and regarded not which end went forward or as if he were now grown old and impotent disabled for mannaging affairs as formerly or such a God as Elijah in way of holy Sarcasm and Scoffingly propounds Baal to be 1 King 18. v. 27. Cry aloud for he is a God either he is talking or he is pursuing or he is in a Journey or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked surely there is no gracious spirit in the World can endure that the most blessed God should be under such reproach and scorn but rather that he should awake up and shew himself in a way of vindication of his own name and glory which is better then all the Angels and men in the world The Church of old hath made lively discovery of an excellent spirit to such a purpose Psalm 94. verse 1. O Lord God to whom Vengeance belongs O God to whom vengeance belongs shew thy self Esai 60. verse 1 2. Ob that thou wouldest rent the heavens that thou wouldest c●me down that the mountains might flow down at thy presence As when the melting fire burneth the fire causeth the waters to boyle and wherefore all this mark what follows to make thy name known to thine adversaries that the nations may tremble at thy presence And let God alone to plead his own cause be sure he will look to his name and glory mark what he speaks by the prophet Psalm 50. v. 21. These things hast thou done and I kept silence thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thy self but I will reprove thee and set them in order before thine eyes So likewise the Prophet Isaiah chap. 4● ver 13 14. The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man he shall stir up jealousie like a man of War he shall cry yea roar he shall prevail against his enemies I have long time holden my peace I have been still and refrained myself Now will I cry like a travelling woman I will destroy and devour at once So that a man shall say verily there is a reward for the righteous he that seeth cause so to say shall see a like cause to say as verily there is a reward for the wicked even as verily as there is a God that judgeth the Earth Psalm 58. 11. We have somwhat of Justification hereof at this day among our selves the sword of Pestilence as I said before is wakened and the terrible God is causing his terrour to manifest it self the great men of the earth do reckon it to their honour to appear very formidable and dreadfull and to raise up and cause their terrour to be known in their Dominions and to those that are under their Government We finde in Ezekiel chap. 32. That five or six times in few verses it is thus expressed Such and such caused their terrour in the Land of the living but at last themselves were brought to the pit and slain with the Sword uncircumcised as they were and while they had their swords under their heads they had their iniquities upon their bones verse 27. and then this account is given of them the terrible God who sometimes manifests himself terrible to Kings and Princes and Nations he comes in speaking thus verse 32. I have caused my terrour as if he had said they have taken their times and turns to shew themselves terrible and I will take my time with them and make it appear that I can cause as much terrour as any of them God can carry and act as men do excepting their sinfull actings as in the 18. Psalm With the mercifull thou wilt shew thy self mercifull with the upright thou wilt shew thy self upright with the pure thou wilt shew thy self pure with the meek thou wilt shew thy self meek with the humble thou wilt shew thy self humble But with the froward thou wilt shew thy self froward and with the terrible thou wilt shew thy self terrible The Lord carries at this day as if he had seen and heard somthing I referr to that expression in Zechariah chap. 9. v. 8. when the Lord speaks by the Prophet thus I will encamp about my house c. for now have I seen with mine eyes Surely God hath seen somwhat that is not very gratefull to him for it is now more then the burthen of the word of the Lord no It s the burden of the wrath and judgment of the Lord not in the denunciation of it but in the execution of it I have signified in part already what is the proper work for us all in such a day and I am now turnd upon the same point again And what if it be as of old according to what the Prophet Esaiah speaks Precept upon precept line upon line here a little and there a little You my dear Friends and others with you will not be offended and as for others be they who they will that are curious captious and critical if any such should come to the view hereof If they be not pleased I passe not nor shall I be displeased I am at a point I 'le trouble them as little as I can and it may be never more in this kind If you and the rest to whom this is intended accept and reap any benefit by what I have performed for your sake in a paraenetical and perswasory way it is enough for me I have my ayme Our common work besides other is to pray but for what That God would remove his heavy stroake true but with all that he would sanctifie it and do us much good by it knowing that Covenant affliction and Judgments sanctified are better much better then common mercies Pray that God would purge away our Drosse and take away our Tinn what there is of drosse in point of Doctrine Discipline and Worship and Morals and in our own hearts that he would purge all this away Pray that the Plaister may lye on till in some measure it hath eaten out proud excrescences Fruit of Judgments is better then freedom from them There are it seems some hopes at the present while I am Writing that the strength of the storm is over that there will be a great abatement this week and so for the future And it s said that our busie Astrologers who I wish do not make too bold with God encourage this hope I would say as Jeremiah speaks concerning the vessels of the Temple when Hananiah the son of Azur the Prophet which was in Gibeon spake unto him in