Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	aaron_n	altar_n	incense_n	710	4	11.2123	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19581	Londons lamentation for her sinnes and complaint to the Lord her God. Out of which may bee pickt a prayer for priuate families, for the time of this fearefull infection. And may serue for a helpe to holinesse and humiliation for such as keepe the fast in priuate: together with a souereigne receipt against the plague. By W.C. pastor at White chappell.	Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.	1625 (1625)	STC 6017.5; ESTC S118685	24,200	62

amongst vs euen the great sinnes and bold Sinners of this Nation that then as thy Word hath told vs thy Plague may bee stayed To which end also make our Mosesses to stand in the Gappe and our Aarons with the swéet Incense of their holy Prapers to stand betwixt the liuing and the dead and stirre vp our Priests the Ministers of the Lord to wéepe for vs before thy Altar and let them cry and say Spare thy people O Lord and giue not ouer thine Heritage to reproach Let not the Papists and Schismatickes insult ouer vs Let them not say at their Idolatrous Méetings nor prophane Conuenticles Where is now their God for thou art our God and thou art in Heauen and thou doest what thou pleasest and all thy wayes are right and the Iust walke in them but Transgressors shall fall therein Let them know O Lord that thou being our Father and wee hauing iustly prouoked thee thou wilt take thy Children in hand and that they ought not to haue reioyced ouer vs in the day of our destruction O suffer them not good Lord to make thy correction their aduantage O let them not lay their hands vpon our substance in this Day of our Calamitie suffer them not to stand in the crosse-wayes to cut off those whom thou shalt spare and make a prey of those that shall remaine Wee shall euer acknowledge how great soeuer this Plague bee yet thy mercies are greater in that thou tookest vs into thine owne hand to correct vs and gaue vs not ouer into the hands of these men the Iesuited Papists whose mercies are cruell and their cruelties insatiable Therefore good Lord when thou hast remooued thy hand let vs not fall into their hand but saue vs for thy selfe and let vs liue to call vpon thy Name and let vs desire rather now to dye vnder the hand of thee our Father and in thy feare and loue then to liue to heape sinne vpon sinne and to be reserued for further vengeance or to be exposed to the cruel Papists the wicked Enemies of Religion O looke vpon vs in mercie Lord who lye downe in the dust of Desolation and are couered with confusion of our faces O look downe vpon vs who looke vp vnto thée and who desire to rend our harts though not our garments and to turne to thée the Lord our God O looke vpon this desolate and distressed Citie who now may cry to all her stately Sisters the Cities of Europe and to all her beautifull Daughters the Cities of England and with ashes now vpon her head instead of her stately costly Crowne cals vpon them all and sayth Come and behold the workes of the Lord what desolations hee hath made in the midst of my most wealthy and populous streets learne by mée and seeke the Lord while hee may bee found left he pull downe your Pride And reioyce not ouer mee O thou mine Enemie thou Daughter of Babylon lest the Lord turne his wrath from mee to thee and hasten the vengeance so long agoe deserued by thee and pronounced vpon thee trust thou in thy Horses aud in thy Chariots thy Idols and thy Idoll Superstitions We will remember the Lord our God For thy Name O Lord is a strong tower and the righteous flying vnto it are alwayes helped Thou hast spoken it Lord and wee beléeue it and in that beliefe are wee bold to presse vnto thee nay to presse thee with performance of thy promise Therefore O thou that art the helper of the friendlesse helpe vs in this City who are forsaken by so many friends and left destitute by them that should haue stood to vs in this day of our desolation but hast not thou told vs that if our Fathers and Mothers should forsake vs yet thou Lord wilt take vs vp Thou therefore who séest our friends faile vs and our acquaintance to stand afarre off stand thou so much the néerer vs O Lord our God And now that humane helpes fall short Helpe thou vs O God of our Saluation for the glory of thy Name O thou in whom the Fatherlesse finds mercie in thée let the comfortlesse findcomfort In thée let this desolate Citie find consolation Looke mercifully vpon vs who come vnto thée with teares in our eyes sorrow in our soules Lamentations in our mouthes heauinesse in our hearts workes of mercie in our hands and humilitation of the whole man And thou that loosest not a teare forgettest not one desire but hearest euery greane and counts the very sighes and sobs of all thy Saints giue vs comfort and fill our hearts with hops that this humiliation of our King and his people shall not be fruitlesse but after it is not barely performed but accomplished and perfected as thou appointest it shall then preuaile with thée our God not onely to make an end of our miseries but to remember and renew thy Cauenant with vs and to bring vs and this Citie and our whole Land both Court and Kingdome neerer vnto thée and hauing in this fire of affliction consumed our corruption and purged away our drosse both in Church and Common-wealth wilt make vs come out new creatures both high and low both publike and priuate persons pure as Siluer and as Gold most precious before thée And wilst hereby worke out that inward Renouation and that outward Reformation in our Church and State in our Court and Kingdome and all that see it shall say This hath God done for they shall shall perceiue it is thy worke Then we that did sowe in teares shall reape in ioy Then the long night of our sorrow beeing ended the long desired morning of our ioyes shall shine forth The voice of the Turtle shall be heard in our Land Blessed shall then they all be that come to vs in the Name of the Lord And beautifull the feete of those that bring vs the glad tydings of the Gospell whose faces formerly haue béene contemned Olde things shall then be done away and all things shall bee made new Truth shall flourish and Heresie finde no footing Iustice shall reigne Oppression shall be oppressed The hand of Briberie shall be broken The arme of iniustice cut off and the Mouth of Iniquitie shall be stopped Then shall our Sons grow as plants and our Daughters bee like polished precious ftones Our Garners shall be full and our Cattle shall increase we shall feare no breaking of Enemies to inuade vs nor heare any newes or noyses to affright vs no cryes nor clamours nor complaynings in our stréets Our poore shall eat and be satisfied and our rich shall reioyce in the blessings of their God Our Priests shall be clothed with Saluation and Sions Saints shall sing aloud for ioy Our Princes shall be wiser and our Iudges better instructed and insteed of seruing themselues and the time will then learne to serue the Lord with feare and reioyce to him with reuerence Then shall our King and Queene