Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	punish_v	punishment_n	sin_n	7,494	5	5.5732	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27986	The book of the Song of Solomon in meeter with some brief observations from the text, something pleasant, but more profitable to the unprejudiced reader, who loves the knowledge of God, and hath his heart inflam'd with the love of the Lord Jesus / by T.S. ...	T. S.	1676 (1676)	Wing B2632; ESTC R36655	56,274	78

nation it is of the Jews Distinct from others by the name Hebrews I am an hebrew from the loyns descended Of him that was of God so much befreinded As for Religion I do fear the Lord And worship him who by his powerful word Did frame and fash'on both sea and dry land That governs all things at his own command To God alone and t'none else am I bound Yet at this time in base rebellion found When men are brought into some great distress Though not before yet then they will confess Their evil deeds Observ from Jonah's confession and acknowledgment of God and his rebellion the hearts that stubborn were Are bruis'd and broken in a time of fear God in his wisdome often thinks it fit To whip a frantick person into 's wit And sure at such a time ●ells his best To use and to improve what interest He hath in God if any such thing be And to his uprightness for comfort flee Then were the men afraid with greater fear When so much of the true God they do hear And see for sin he doth due vengeance take And will not spare it for a prophets sake Then did they say why hast thou done this thing How dar'st thou disobey thy Lord and King What couldst thou turn away when he says go Dare you professing Hebrews once do so What fond conceit possest thee didst thou think That for so great a fault thy God would wink For he had told them and thereby they knew That from the presence of the Lord he flew Thus he that disobeyed Gods command Doth now convict condemn'd Observ from the heathens reprehending Jonah and censur'd stand Among and by the barb'rous heathen crue In silent wise account it all his due So every one that feareth not Gods name One time or other he will clothe with shame And make them stand as men all in a maze Dumb like a stock on which others do gaze And by the words of others are reproved Cause by the words of God they were not moved The Seamen say Jona thou hast undone us The seas still rage and tempest lyes upon us Our souls are fill'd with dreadful fears and care And still encreasing as the tempests are The lot's faln on thee conscience tells thee too Thou art the man that doth us quite undo By which two things thou plainly art detected To be the cause yet let us be directed What we shall do unto thee that the seas May rage and foam no more and winds may cease Then Iona answered 't is not you but I That have provoked God so mightily 'T is for my sake not yours the seas are raging And tempest still is on you not asswaging Now take me up and cast me overboard For that 's appoynted for me of the Lord That is the sentence I must undergo it And silently submit my self unto it Then shall there be a calme upon the main And boystrous waves shall smoothly glide again Though God in justice seem to be severe And strict in punishing for sin Observ from Jonah's so patiently submitting to Gods will accepting the punishment of his iniquity yet here A gratious soul submits in any wise And suffers not one grudging thought to rise Against Gods dealing so but will submit Knowing his sin is the just cause of it For to excuse himself he will not do But say 't is righteous Lord that thou dost so Hee 'l take unto himself deserved shame Thereby to honour Gods most glorious name Come take a view how these rude heathen men Behav'd themselves in love to Jonah when They saw his patience and did hear his word And knew he was a prophet of the Lord Sure greater love then theirs could not be shown They seek to save his life dang'ring their own They fain would save him and therefore they try The best of means and skill before he dye They row full hard now each man lays his hand To work thinking to bring the ship to land They toyl they sweat they labour in great pain And when th 'ave done their labor 's all in vain For now as though the elements conspire To vex them still the waves they mount up higher The sea still works the windy tempests roar The sea-men cease there rowing and give ore From hence we see that a meer humane soul Hath so much pitty others to condole That God of nature Observ from the heathen mens endeavour to have sav'd Jonah so much reason gave To teach one man anothers life to save More when a beam divine hath influence On them they give the greater reverence These men that worshipt idol gods before Have quickly learn'd the true God to adore And now like unto new converted Saints They go to God alone with prayer and plants And lest the guilt of blood should on them ly They make to heaven and list up their cry We do beseech thee Lord destroy us not For this mans sake but leave us without spot We do beseech thee Lord and humbly pray Blood innocent on us thou wilt not lay For we perceive Lord that it is thy will And we as executioners do fulfill Even as thy blessed pleasure hath design'd For all is done according to thy mind Men in affliction earnestly will cry Observ from the heathen mens addressing themselves to God in this strait The worst of men then unto God will fly Self guides the stern ofttimes and beareth sway For love to self and not to God they 'le pray But every one that is a convert true In every season yeildeth God his due Unto his God he prays to him he 'l cry Not only when afflictions on him lye And when some difficultys stand before But when all such with ease he can get ore If this or that befall he 's mov'd by neither Hee 'l pray as well in fair as fouler weather So they took Jonah as it pleas'd the Lord Into the sea they cast him overboard Whereat the sea it seem'd well satisfy'd The stormy tempest now is layd aside No token of displeasure now appears Nor nothing seen to usher future fears Now all is done even as the Lord did please His anger now is calme so are the seas If judgment at Gods house do first begin Observ from Gods not sparing his own servant And God not wink though at a prophets sin If God his dearest ones he will not spare But they of this and t'other stripe must share As God in justice pleaseth to pass sentence Then those ungodly ones without repentance Those fearless graceless wicked wretches who From one rebellion to another go The devils drudges driving on sins trade Must pay full dear for it when th'reckoning's made The seamen seeing all things that had past They cannot chuse but stand like men agast They cast off idols greatly fear the Lord And offer sacrifice while yet aboard And lest these wonders should slip out of mind Themselves by vows and oaths full