Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	day_n	lord_n	terrible_a	1,748	5	9.3439	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80816	An epistle to Friends concerning the present and succeeding times being a faithful exhortation and warning to all Friends who profess the truth to beware of the manifold wiles of the enemy and to stand armed in the light of the Lord God of heaven and earth against his assaults, that so they may be ready to answer the call and requirings of the Lord : also, some thing signified of the mistery of the succeeding times, that all may be prepared and that the evil day may not overtake any at unawares, but such as turn away their ear from counsel / by Stephen Crisp.	Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.	1666 (1666)	Wing C6931; ESTC R202128	14,440	19

Love and to good Works that ye might abound in the grace committed to you and none of you who have known the Truth might be entangled with the Wiles of your subtile enemy and that you that have begun well might not lose the things that ye have wrought but might persevere in well-doing till ye have finished your course in peace And Friends this is the joy and delight of those that labour among you in the Lord and hereby is our hand strengthened and our hearts refreshed when we do find ye such as we desire ye should be even stedfast in the Truth and then also do you find us to you-ward such as ye desire we should be even a refreshing in the fellowship of life unto you and our God comforts us together in the mutual joy and comfort of his holy Spirit working in us and you And Friends I am the more drawn forth at this time to visit you with an Epistle because the Lord hath given me some sight of his great and dreadful Day and Workings in it which is at hand and greatly hastens of which I have something to say unto you that ye may be prepared to stand in his day and may behold his wonderous Working among his Enemies and have fellowship with his Power therein and may not be dismayed nor driven away in the tempest which will be great And as concerning those succeeding times the Spirit of the Lord hath signified that they will be times of horror and amazement to all that have and yet do reject his Counsel for as the dayes of his forbearance warning and inviting hath been long so shall his appearance amongst those that have withstood him be fierce and terrible even so terrible as who shall abide his coming for the Lord will work both secretly and openly and his Arm shall be manifest to his Children in both Secretly he shall raise up a continual fretting anguish amongst his Enemies one against another so that being vexed and tormented inwardly they shall seek to make each other miserable and delight therein for a little season and then the Prevailer must be prevailed over and the digger of the Pit must fall therein and the confidence that men have had one in another shall fail and they will beguile and betray one another both by counsel and strength and as they have banded themselves to break you whom God hath gathered so shall they band themselves against one another to break to spoil and destroy one another and thorow the multitude of their treacheries all credit or belief upon the account of their solemn engagement shall fail so that few men shall count themselves or what is theirs safe in the hand of his Friend who hath not chosen his safety and friendship in the pure Light of the unchangable Truth of God and all the secret counsels of the ungodly shall be brought to nought sometimes by the means of some of themselves and sometimes by impossibilities lying in their way which shall make their hearts fail of ever accomplishing what they have determined and in this state shall men fret themselves for a season and shall not be able to see the hand that turns against them but shall turn to fight against one thing and another a third thing and shall stagger and reele in Counsel and Judgment as drunken men that know not where to find the way to rest and when they do yet stir themselves up against the holy People and against the holy Covenant of Light and them that walk in it they shall but the more be confounded for they shall be helped with a little help which all the ungodly shall not hinder them of to wit the secret Arm of the Lord maintaining their Cause and raising up a Witness in the very hearts of their Adversaries to plead their Innocency and this shall make them yet the more to vex themselves Isa 8. and to go thorow hard-bestead for when they shall look upward to their Religion to their Power Policy or Preferments or Friendships or whatsoever else they had trusted in and relied upon they shall have cause to curse it and when they look downwards to the Effects produced by all those things behold then trouble and horrour and vexation takes hold on them and drives them to darkness and having no help but what is Earthly and being out of the knowledge of the mighty overturning Power of the Lord God Almighty they shall dispair and wear out their dayes with anguish and besides all this the terrible hand of the Lord is and shall be openly manifest against this ungodly Generation by bringing grievous and terrible Judgments and Plagues upon them tumbling down all things in which their Pride and Glory stood and overturning overturning even the Foundations of their strength yea the Lord will lay wast the Mountain of the ungodly Nahum 3.12 13. and the strength of the fenced City shall fail and when men shall say We will take refuge in them they shall become but a snare and there shall the Sword devoure and when they shall say We will go into the Field and put trust in the Number and Courage of our Souldiers they shall both be taken away and this evil also will come of the Lord and his hand will be stretched out still and shall bring Confusion upon Confusion Ruine upon Ruine and War upon War and the hearts of men shall be stirred in them and the Nations shall be as Waters into which a Tempest a swift Whirlwind is entred and even as Waves swell up to the dissolution one of another and breaking one of another so shal the swellings of People be And because of the hardship and sorrow of those dayes many shall seek and desire Death rather than Life Ah my heart relents and is moved within me in the sence of these things and much more than I can write or declare which the Lord will do in the Earth and will also make hast to accomplish among the Sons of Men that they may know and confess That the Most High doth Rule in the Kingdoms of Men and pulleth down and setteth up according to his own will and this shall men do before seven times pass over them and shall be content to give their glory unto him that sits in Heaven But Oh Friends while all these things are working and bringing to pass repose ye your selves in the Munition of that Rock that all these shakings shall not move even in the knowledge and feeling of the eternal power of God keeping you subjectly given up to his heavenly will and feel it daily to kill and mortifie that which remains in any of you which is of this World for the worldly part in any is the changable part and that is up and down full and empty joyful and sorrowful as things go well or ill in the World For as the Truth is but one and many are made partakers of its Spirit so the World is but one