Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	abhor_v	head_n	zion_n	76	3	8.5998	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88818	The wolf stript of his sheeps clothing or The antichristian clergy-man turn'd right side outwards. Wherein is briefly discovered and layd open their subtile and wicked wayes and practises to deceive and destroy not only private people, or particular societies, but whole nation and kingdoms, and all under the plausible vizzard of reformation, church-government, punishing of hereticks and sectaries. / By R. Lavvrance Marshal General.	Lawrence, Richard, d. 1684.	1647 (1647)	Wing L682; Thomason E386_10; ESTC R201479	19,259	30

onely of those hirelings whose own the sheep are not which onely flee when the wolf comes and leaves the sheep to the wolf John 10.12 but these are rather those wolves which Christ forewarned the Church of Matth. 7.15 These are of that sort Paul prophesieth of Acts 20.29 For I know that after my departure shall grievous wolves enter in among you not sparing the flock These may be fitly compared to Jerusalems false prophets and wicked priests Ezek. 22.25 26. There is a conspiracy of her Prophets in the midst thereof like a roaring lion ravening the prey they have devoured souls they have taken the treasure and precious things they have made her many widows in the midst thereof Her Priests have violated my law and have prophaned my holy things they have put no difference between the holy and prophane neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths and I am prophaned among them Her Princes in the midest thereof are like wolves ravening the prey to shed blood and destroy souls to get dishonest gain And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter seeing vanity and divining lies unto them saying Thus saith the Lord when the Lord hath not spoken If there were but such a noble spirit in thee as those Beareans had Acts 17.11 to search the Scriptures daily whether those things be true or no that men hold forth to thee how soon would the vanity and simpleness of these learned deceivers be discovered to thee If thou wouldest but take the Apostles for an example not to have regard to the words which mans wisdom teacheth but which the holy Ghost teacheth comparing spiritual things with spiritual 1 Cor. 2.13 If thou wouldest not beleeve every spirit but try the spirits whether they be of God or no because many false prophets are gone out into the world 1 John 4.1 How would light break forth to thee and darkness flee away but we have been more fearful to scruple or question the testimony of men and their subtile intricate interpretations of the Scripture then we have been to question the testimony of God himself and the plain sayings of the spirit in the Scripture and the Laws and Ordinances which these men have procured and caused to be established against Heresie and false Doctrine did never run in the defence of the Scripture as it stands pen'd by the Spirit of God but as it were interpreted by them not thus If any man shall declare or hold forth any doctrine or opinion contrary to the Scripture or contrary to the form of sound words delivered by Christ and his Apostles but thus by the Papists If any man shall hold forth any doctrine or opinion contrary to the holy Catholike Church or shall deny the supremacy or infallibility of our holy Father the Pope c. And among the Protestants thus If any man shall hold forth any doctrine or opinion contrary to the present government established or contrary to the doctrine or articles of Faith received by the Church c. he shall be proceeded against as an Heretike c. and accordingly If any have been accused of Heresie or Schism c. why they have been proved Heretikes c. by those Laws and Ordinances and not by the Scripture nor by Christs precepts and practice as they stand upon record from his mouth neither will it avail the accused to plead in his defence any testimony from Scripture to maintain the lawfulness of his practice but his adversaries will cry out we have a law by our law he ought to die and thus hath these men like those wicked Pharisees Christ proves Matth. 15.6 made the Scripture and Law of God of none effect by their own traditions they have been alwayes striving and contending with Kings and Parliaments for Laws and Ordinances pretending them against Heresie and Schism and hath ever turned the edge of them against the very power of godliness this being their very way and means whereby they have destroyed so many good Christians as you see they have done in all ages so that they have not been satisfied to persecute and destroy good people themselves but have hereby imbrued the hands of Emperors Kings and Parliaments in the blood of many millions of Gods people to the ruinating of themselves and their Kingdoms besides the loud cry of blood to God for vengeance against them which he will surely require at their hands and when he had opened the fifth seal I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held and they cryed with a loud voice saying How long O Lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth Revel 9.10 And I heard the angel of the waters say Thou art righteous O Lord which art and wast and shall be because thou hast judged us for they have shed the blood of Saints and Prophets and thou hast given them blood to drink for they are worthy Revel 16.5 6. When the Lord shall once come to make inquisition for blood it is not a pretence of building up Sion and establishing the peace of Jerusalem that shall satisfie his justice no he will avenge it on all hands Hear this I pray you ye heads of the house of Jacob and princes of the house of Israel that abhor judgement and pervert all equity They build up Sion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity The heads thereof judge for reward and the Priests thereof teach for hire and the Prophets thereof divine for money yet will they lean upon the Lord and say Is not the Lord among us none evil can come upon us Therefore shall Sion for your sake be plowed as a field and Jerusalem shall become heaps and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest Micah 3.10 11 12. And do but compare the practice of these men to the practice of Christ and his Apostles and see what little agreement there is betwixt them and then chuse whether thou wilt serve God or Mammon for no man can serve both Matth. 6.24 Ye shall finde Christ himself which was not onely the great Prophet and Teacher of his Church Acts 3.23 24. but likewise their great King and Law-giver Isaiah 33.22 one that hath all the power of heaven and earth committed to him and yet did he never use any arbitrary power over or in the Church but saith he All things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you John 15.15 It was his Fathers business not his own that he came to do Luke 2.49 John 4 37. 17.4 His Fathers will not his own that he came to fulfil John 5.30 Mark 14.36 And in his Fathers name not his own did he do all that he did John 5.43 17.6 26. And so the Apostles which were chosen and ordained by Christ himself