Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	israel_n	lord_n	pharaoh_n	1,941	5	10.2752	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13312	The ready path to the pleasant pasture of delitesome and eternall paradyse so called, bicause herein is declared how, and by what meanes, we shall easily obtayne the surprising pleasures of heauenly felicitie.	I. T. fl. 1570.; J. T.	1570 (1570)	STC 23621.5; ESTC S2915	39,568	120

first both to vnderstande the force in preuayling with God and also the glorious renoume of the Lorde his eternall maiestie through graunting the request of his poore people For when his people the children of Israel were after much affliction trouble and torment delyuered out of the lande of Egypt and was going into the wyldernesse to serue the Lord their God Pharao and all his hoste persecuted them in all haste to bring them againe into bondage which would haue bene more grieuous and sorrowfull than present death vnto them And when they were in such case that presently before their faces was the red foming and roring Seas vpon their right handes high steepe and craggie mountaynes vpon the which they could not ascend and escape vpon their left hande no refuge but daungerous and deadly perilles behinde their backes their cruell disdainefull wicked and horrible enimies threatning death tormentes and perpetuall miserie then they cried vnto the Lorde in their miserie he deliuered them out of their distresse they poured out their complaintes before him and he glorified himselfe by their deliueraunce they humbly sought for his gracious assistaunce and he mercifullye graunted the request of their earnest prayers they feared bondage he gaue them libertie they were compassed with grieuous daungers he gaue them sure are safe passage they were ready to be deuoured of the sworde he ouerthrew their enimies they were almost persecuted vnto death he brought to passe that they sawe the death and destruction of there persecuting tyrannes But how did he deliuer them Certes he commaunded the wylde waters to staye their course to lose their swiftnesse to chaunge their nature He made the waltring waues to be turned into strong walles the surging seas into the vse of sturdy stones the flickring floods into a steady bridge so that his people passed ouer with ease safetie But when the Egyptians were so bolde to enter into the same passage they were ouerwhelmed in the waters the walles turning and chaunging themselues into their woonted nature Thus was his glorie magnified his name glorified his power knowne his mercie specified his terror taught his loue enlarged his might multiplied his goodnesse graffed in the heartes of his people that afterwards they loued him as a carefull father they feared him as a mightie reuenger they honored him as a péerelesse Prince they reuerenced him as a seuere iudge they glorified him as their onely deliuerer they sanctified him as their holye profectour they folowed him as a well experienced Capitaine they obeyed his will as their only guide and defender For his name to them was fauourable to other nations and people terrible to them comfortable to gentiles fearefull to them peaceable to others dreadfull to them it brought quietnesse and safetie to others confusion to them tranquilitie to others miserie to them plenteousnesse of all thinges to other penurie of things necessarie to them solace to forrein kingdomes ruine and ouerthrowe to them pleasure to other plagues to them a ioyfull expectation of mercie to others an horrible terrour of extreme iudgement Nothing apperteyneth more to the glorie of God than prayer The ninth Chapter WHat therefore can more belong to the establishing of his prayse to his royall pompe to the blast of his magnificence through all the earth to the publishing of his glorious name than with humble and hartie prayers continually to be called vpon of hys afflicted people that he may stretche out his arme and declare his power bende his bowe and valiauntly ouerthrow his enimies Verily nothing For thus he looseth the simple captyues and bindeth the bloudy Balaamites he saueth his siely souldiours spoyleth the boasting bloud-suckers he protecteth his poore people and racketh vnruly ribaldes he mightilye beyonde all hope helpeth the miserable and contrariwise debaseth subuerteth confoundeth the bragging boldnes of the proude disdainefull and swelling tirannes Seing therefore that it is a religious worke commaunded by God himself enioyned to vs by Christ our onely sauiour taught by the Apostles and Prophets tending to the celebration propagation of his eternall glorie renowme and reuerence as nothing more by subduyng the stubborne sinfull malicious people and by releeuing helping and succouring his afflicted humble and sily flocke it must néedes folowe that they which dispise the vse of prayer and negligently nay rather obstinately and deuilishly contemne the commaundements and promises of God our heauenly father and nothing regarde his gentle admonition calling them by pacience to hartie repentaunce and amendment of wicked life that they I saye depriue God of his due honour spoyle him of his worship rob him of his reuerence and consequently fall into the daunger of eternall damnation For 4. Iohan. Pater tales quaerit qui adorant illum The father séeketh such as worship hym not such as renounce his lawes and reiect his commaundementes And his not séeking is nothing else but misery griefe anguish and condemnation Againe they are trées which beare no fruit For they which are not possessed with the spirite of God which are not directed with his holy hand which are not illuminate with the light of heauen which are not assisted with the helpe of the highest nor stirred vp with the motion of the holy ghost nor plentifullye enriched with the graces of Christ our sauiour cannot bycause of their weakenesse will not bycause of their wilfull wickednesse neyther doe couite bycause of their fraile and cursed corruption eyther to deliuer themselues from the chaine of Sathan wherewith they are bounde and tyed or to replenish themselues wyth the swéete and well sauering flowers of vertues that they maye be purified to the proofe wherof Christ sayth Iohn 15. Quia sine me nihil potestis facere bycause without me ye can doe nothing And Math. 15. Omnis plantatio quam non plantauit pater meus caelestis eradicabitur euery planting which my heauenly father hath not planted shal be rooted out And Iohn 15. Si quis in me non manserit eiectus est foras sicut palmes c. If anye man doth not abide in me he is cast out as a braunche and withereth and they gather it and cast it into the fyre and burne it Here we maye perceyue that 〈◊〉 are not directed with the spirit of God are not the sonnes of God but impes of Antichrist not the friendes of God but the limmes of the Deuill not swallowers of saluation but heires of eternall condemnation And saint Paule sayth Filij dei sunt qui spirit u●de●●guntur They are the sonnes of God which are driuen by the spirite of god And Christ sayth in the 15. of Iohn Ques meae vocem meam audiunt My shéepe heare my voyce and his voyce is Luc. 15 Quod oportet semper orare nec defatigari That we must alway praye and neuer be wearie And in the sirt of Mathew he prescribeth forme of prayer saying Ad hunc ergo modum orate vos Pator noster c. Praye ye after