Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	darkness_n	death_n	shadow_n	3,756	5	10.1492	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65241	A short narrative of the late dreadful fire in London together vvith certain considerations remarkable therein, and deducible therefrom : not unseasonable for the perusal of this age written by way of letter to a person of honour and virtue.	Waterhouse, Edward, 1619-1670.	1667 (1667)	Wing W1050; ESTC R8112	75,226	194

Rich and Hospitable Whose appearances were pompous and becoming their Descents and Fortunes That London which was so celebrious for publique Edefices of State and Religion that it was not possible almost to wish better or more remarks of Christian Devotion and Politique Grandeur in such dimensions as it stood upon That this City which once deserved the Union of all Characters of glory vying with Rome for Religion with Naples for Nobility with Millan for Beauty with Genoa for Statelyness with Florence for Policy which Venice for Riches That this which was compleat usque ad Invidiam mundi as I may so write should become inglorious and be the Subject as well of her Enemies insult as of her Friends pity This Inscription of Gods fury on the Roll of her Judgment Lamentation and Mourning and Woe ought to call us From joy and melody from pleasure and riot which God has caused to cease unto prostration and confession before God And that not by Hanging down the head like a Bulrush for a day and returning to our Sin the next day like the Dog to his Vomit not by presenting our selves in the Congregation of God which too few do and there only counterfeiting Devotion for an hour only but following it with unmortified bestiality and inhumane luxury not by bare words of piety without any reflexion of them on the heart or any evidence of the truth of its radication in the Flower of it the life Humiliation that God commands and accepts is deep and setled the souls contusion and exinanition such abhorrence as Iob speaks of 42 Iob. 6. an abhorrence of a Mans self and of that Sin that cleaves closest to him and is most connatural with him and a repenting in dust and ashes that is an evidence of self condemnation in the vivid'st and most exact note of it in that which is Emblematical of the lowest dejection such a frame of Soul as weeps bitterly with Peter and makes restoration with Zachaeus and rejects the former allurements to Sin with Mary Magdalen and resigns up it self wholly to Christ Jesus as consternated Saul did when Christ dismounted him and he became his Convert such a humiliation as Manasses and the Good men in Nehemiah presidents us to in the 9. Neh. where 't is said the Children of Israel were assembled with fasting and Sackcloth and with Earth upon them and the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquity of their Fathers Such a humiliation as pulls with indignation sin from its Root and suffers no corner of the Soul or Land to be fantive to it or polluted by it such a humiliation as is in sincerity and truth commensurate to the God of Truth whom it is devoted to such an humiliation as includes the Kings the Peers the Prelates the Clergy the Laity does God call for and that in proportion to that Epidemique mercy that he hath obliged all by and suitable to that heavy and repeated judgment he hath already brought and farther may bring upon all such a humiliation as excuses no degree no age no person from it dres the Lord require from thee O England and from thee O London To whom he hath shewed Mercies of a former or latter date parallel with if not paramount to his manifests to any Nation He hath called us Beloved who were not beloved and caused us an Island to become the Head and not the Tail of the Nations He hath brought us into the marvellous light of Christianity who sate in darkness of errour and in the shadow of death through Ethnicism he hath not been a wilderness to us nor planted us in a barren soil but given us a Canaan flowing with Milk and Honey a Land rich in Corn Pastures Cattel Fruits Fish every thing that necessity and delight calls the glory of any Land God has raised us up Kings Rulers and Iudges not è Fece populi but derived from loins Noble the Sons of Honour and Majesty who have been Nursing Fathers to our Pieties Persons and Laws God has preserved us from Vassalage and made us free in our persons and properties safety and propriety being in the Kings Protection and his peoples subjection according to the Law God has preserved the Rights and Renown of England so that the Subjects of it are famous for Valour and Success in their Enterprises by Sea and Land God hath made this little spot that in the Map of Chorography is hardly discernable a Mart of Trade and a Mine of Wealth which the inexhaustion of this last twenty six years by Sums unsummable and in their possibility to be adjusted would be incredible yet have not drawn low but preserved pregnant to carry on its just and necessary Interests against her potent combined Enemies These Mercies to Engl. ever since her Christianity recognised by those abridgements of them in the Reigns of the five last Princes equalling all other anteceding them The Reformation of Religion by E. 6. The deliverance from the cruelty of Popery in Queen Maryes Reign The Restoration of Protestancy in Quen Elizabeths dayes in spight of the Jesuited Plots Spanish Invasion expensive Wars purposely raised to distress and divert her In the Reign of King Iames whom God brought in rightfully setled quietly and deliverd from the fatal Powder-Plot to leave his Crown Rich and Great to his Successor the late Glorious King Charles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whose Reign was as beneficial and peaceful for the most part of it as any preced-ed and had made the Nation as happy after a Cloud had not God punished and polluted the glory of it with the storm of Contradiction in a Civil uncivil War and with the guilt of the bloud of that Solomonique Codrus whose life was sacrificed to vindicate the Religion and Laws of Loyalty and Liberty against the Oppressions and Insolencies of Antiscriptural Errour and Antimonarchical avarice These five last Reigns in which the Princes and people of England were kept from either the sufferings of publique mischief or the long and grievous detinue under it shew Gods Mercy to this Nation and call for humiliation from it And if these so long past are not fresh in our Memories as God forbid they should being done but within the Age of those that yet Live and God forgive if they be which ought to be had in everlasting remembrance yet there are Obligations of late which are Monitory to us of Mercy abused and ingratefully deported to And here give me leave Sir to Apostrophize as God did by his Prophet Isaiah Hear O Heaven hearken O Earth bear witness Angels and Men and our own Consciences whether God has not nourished us up that are now alive as his Children and yet We we have rebelled against him O Sir the Mercies shewed to our Glorious Lord and Renowned Soveraign of England our Gracious King Charles the Second whom God long preserve and