Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	blood_n	lord_n	shed_v	1,770	5	9.8115	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86358	The right separation incouraged; in a sermon preached to the Right Honorable the House of Lords, in the Abbey-Church at Westminster, on Wednesday, Novem. 27. 1644. being the day of the monethly publick fast. By Thomas Hill, B.D. pastor of Tychmersh in Northamptonshire, and one of the members of the Assembly of Divines.	Hill, Thomas, d. 1653.	1645 (1645)	Wing H2026; Thomason E23_1; ESTC R369	31,606	44

separation from uncleannesse and fellowship with wicked men therein as they come to share in their sins so will they bee involved in their calamities If Israel had not separated themselves from Aegypt by the blood of the Paschall Lambe but had communicated with them in their Idolatry they might have felt the sword of the destroying Angell in their houses as well as the Aegyptians It did cost them very deare afterwards that they had such fellowship with Achans offence for his act they smarted indeed because Josh. 7. 1. The children of Israel committed a trespasse in the accursed thing they were not carefull to keepe themselves and one another from that evill as God had charged them Josh. 6. 18. It was a seasonable prayer of that man of God Lord deliver mee from my other mens sinnes God knowes wee have personall finnes enow standing upon our score to undoe our soules eternally the greater reason have wee to renounce all communion with other mens uncleannesse Hence Paul calls upon the Saints in Ephesus Ephes. 5. 11 Have no fellowship with the unfruitfull workes of darknesse but reprove them rather make them not your sinnes by command counsell consent connivence nor any other way but rather beare witnesse against them at least by a checking silence if not by a seasonable speech by lookes by gestures by some rebuking actions if not by downe-right reproofes If you joyne hearts in sinning against God expect to goe hand in hand under punishments from him If God lookes that all his Saints should make such a separation as not to touch any uncleannesse then behold how much worke you have this day for deepe humiliation So farre are you from answering Gods expectation herein that many of you are drenched in great defilements and wallow in grosse impurity The Lord helpe you to behold it with weeping eyes over your selves and this unclean Nation May not the Lord send his Prophet to you as once hee did Ezekiel to Hierusalem Ezek. 22. 24. c. Son of man say unto her Thou art the Land that is not cleansed nor rained upon in the day of Indignation sometimes raine waters and makes a barren Land fruitfull sometimes there is a raine of righteousnesse which washeth away unrighteousnesse Hos. 10. 12. 25 There is a conspiracy of her Prophets in the midst thereof like a roaring Lyon ravening the prey They have devoured soules they have taken the Treasure and pretious things they have made her many Widowes in the midst thereof 26 Her Priests have violated my Law and have profaned my holy things they have put no difference between the holy and profane neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths and I am profaned among them 27 Her Princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey to shed blood and to destroy soules to get dis-honest gaine 28 And her Prophets have daubed them with untempered morter seeing vanity and divining lies unto them saying Thus saith the Lord God when the Lord hath not spoken 29 The people of the Land have used oppression and exercised robbery and have vexed the poore and needy yea they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully It concernes you wisely to consider that the complaint in the 30 verse bee not as justly taken up against you 30 And I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge and stand in the gap before mee for the Land that I should not destroy it but I found none What no mourners none that sigh and groan for Englands filthinesse then the sad portion in the 31 verse may prove yours 31 Therefore I have powred out my indignation upon them I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath their owne way have I recompensed upon their heads saith the Lord May you not heare God speaking to this polluted Kingdom as once to his Hierusalem Jer. 13. 27. I have seen thy adulteries and thy neighings the lewdnesse of thy whoredome and thine abominations on the hills in the field Woe unto thee O Jerusalem wilt thou not bee made clean when shall it once bee What not after so many yeeres purifying Sermons not after so many melting mercies which should have led thee to repentance not after so many purging judgements What not yet cleansed by all these rivers of teares upon so many praying dayes by all these streames of blood in so many cruell fights Oh when shall it once bee What England never cleansed from her old abominations Doubtlesse if wee still tread in Hierusalems steps wee must expect her cup of Trembling to bee put into our hands till wee bee utterly overturned Historians make a sad relation of the Desolation of Hierusalem twelve severall times the heavy judgements of God fell upon them as the wofull fruites of their abominations So as at last it became the Jews prison and then their grave and after an heape of carkasses then of stones Luk. 19. 41 42 43 44. I hope you will Right Honourable and Beloved seriously humble your selves before God this day for that you have in many things walked so unbecomming Saints Instead of Separating from all Impurity the All-seeing God knows you have contributed very much to make England more unclean First Every one of you hath an unclean spring within in your own corrupt natures which bubbles up daily in many impure thoughts desires c. Jer. 4. 14. O Jerusalem wash thine heart from wickednesse that thou mayest bee saved how long shall thy vaine thoughts lodge within thee And in Matth. 15. 19. 20. For out of the heart proceed evill thoughts murders adulteries fornications thefts false witnesse blasphemies these are the things which defile a man The heart is the Fountain which is full of filth many carnall principles sinfull inclination c. hence so many unclean streames in our polluting actions Secondly You defile both your selves and others by corrupt speeches and sinfull conversing together Ephes. 4. 29. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth but that which is good to the use of edifying that it may minister grace to the hearers Sometimes one rotten hearted person in a family like one rotten apple upon an heape corrupts many others they little know what it is to speak to edify profitably but rather at a Table in a with-drawing roome pull down that in one houres discourse which a faithfull Minister hath been building up by many Sermons ver. 30. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God such sinfull discoursing doth not onely sad the spirits of the Saints but even grieve the Spirit of God himselfe ver. 31. Let all bitternesse and wrath and angor and clamour and evills speaking bee put away from you with all malice One passionate word begets another and so you doe mutually helpe to defile one anothers soules Thirdly You adde much to the common pollution even by the iniquity of your