Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	abraham_n	mount_v	zion_n	25	3	8.2064	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15762	The pilgrimage to paradise Compiled for the direction, comfort, and resolution of Gods poore distressed children, in passing through this irkesome wildernesse of temptation and tryall. By Leonard Wright. Seene and allowed.	Wright, Leonard, b. 1555 or 6.	1591 (1591)	STC 26032; ESTC S102797	28,957	79

haue byden with mee in my temptation saith he and I will giue you a kingdome bee faithfull to the end and I will giue you a crown of life He that ouercommeth shall possesse all thinges and I will be his God and he shall be my sonne and shall eate of the tree of life which is in the middest of Paradise of God But hee that taketh the Plough in hand and looke●h back is vnmeete for the kingdome of heauen Not euery one that runneth but he that commeth to the end of the gole hath the garlande Not euery one that worketh in the vine●ard but he that cōtinueth vntil night hath the penny Not euery one that fighteth but he that getteth the victory hath the crowne of triumph Not euery one that beginneth wel and doth good for a time but hee that indureth to the end shall be saued When the Angell had wrestled and night with Iacob at last because it drue neere day desyred to depart no quoth Iacob I will not let thee go before thou blesse me Iacob by faith preuailed and was therefore called Israel that is to say one that preuaileth with God so all that wil be taken at the last day for true christiā Israelites must by faithfull prayer patience and constancy preuaile with God To become a Citizen of heauen is an office of great honor and no small matter to obtaine so high a calling We may not thinke to haue that at the fyrst chop which all the godly before vs haue obtained in long time with great trobles greeuous crosses and many tears An Oke springeth vp by litle and litle in great space of yeares and cut downe againe by many small strokes The soft drops of water by often falling do pierce through the hardest stone By continuall perswasion the hardnes of mans hart is molifyed and by continuall prayers our God is easily intreated Without great labor and long sute a worldly benefyte is not obtained at an earthly kings hands so many we think our selues most happy and blessed if when we haue paciently waited in hope with cont●nuall praying and intr●ating all the dayes of our life we may yet at length obtaine our long desired ioyes Happy and blessed is hee whom the father of mercy endueth with his interior grace so to worke runne and perseuer as in the ende hee may say with the Apostle I haue fought a good fyght and got the victory I haue finished my course and woon the prise Christ is to me life and death to mee aduantage To him with the Father and the holy Ghost be all honor glory and thankes for euer Chapter XV. A comfortable consolation to the faithfull troope of Christian Pilgrams PLucke vp thy hart and reioice litle poore dispised flocke for the Lord hath heard the voice of thy weeping whose will and pleasure is to giue thee a kingdome Great are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord himselfe is the defender of their cause and will deliuer them out of all One haire of their head shall not perish for they are dearely bought Euen as a Father pittieth his owne sonne so is our God mercifull vnto them that feare him The naturall infirmities of man are not hid from his eies he knoweth whereof we are made he remembreth that we are but dust Right deare in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Sainctes He that toucheth one of his obedient Children toucheth the apple of his owne eie Will a wife forget the child of hir wombe or the sonne that shee hath borne and though shee do forget yet wi●l not I forget thee saith the Lord. I haue bene younge and now am olde sayth Dauid yet saw I neuer the righteous forsaken nor his Children begge their bread Yea rather then Helias shall die for foode he will prepare the Rauens to feede him Rather then Sampson shall decay for drinke hee will bring water out of an Asses Iawe bone to refresh him Rather then Israell shall starue for hunger He wil send Manna from Heauen to norish them rather then his people shall perish for thirst hee will turne the hard Rocke into a standing water to comfort them Rather then any harme shall come vnto his chosen hee will set his Angels to keepe and preserue them and carry the poor begger into Abrahams boosome The Mountaines shall moue and the hilles shall fall downe but my louing kindnes shall neuer moue nor fall saith the Lord. They that put their trust in him saith the Prophet shall be euen as mount Sion which may not bee remoued but standeth fast for euer And though our louing Father whose will and pleasure is not to cocker his children in this life but rather to punish their sinnes that they should not be condempned in the world to come do feede them for a time with the sowre bread of heauinesse and bitter water of affliction to try them in the fournace of aduersitie as the potters vessell in the ouen or gold in the fyer yet the time of refreshing no doubt is euen at hand He will come shortly and will not tary to wipe all teares from their eies and turne their sorrow and miserie into ioy and felicity for euer Whom the Lord loueth him hee chasteneth and yet delighteth in him as a father in his sonne Because thou wast beloued of God saith the Angell to Tobias it was necessary that temptation should trye thee Lyke as the Heards-man when any of his flocke are vnruly and straye from their fellowes sendeth forth his dogge not of mallice to hurt on deuoure them but of loue to saue and refourme them Euen so our heauenly Shepheard when his sheepe goe astray and offende him hee sendeth out his dogge of tribulation not of e●uye to hurt or distroy them but of fauor to correct and am●nd them And as the skilfull Phisitian prescribeth not one manner of dyet nor one kinde of medecine to all his patients but onely that which he knoweth most meete for their bodily health according to the complection of the man and quality of the disease so where as God our only sailfull Phisitian knowing best what is meet and expedient for the health of all men both body and soule doth giue vnto some prosperity some aduersity some health some sicknes some quietnes and some troubles it is our duty to rest contented with his will knowing that hee neuer faileth his children in necessity nor suffreth them to bee tempted aboue their power Though he maketh a wound sai●h Iob hee giu●th a plaister and though hee smite hee maketh hole As in wrastling with Iacob with one hande he did comfort and strengthen him to ouercome with the other So will hee either strengthen the rest of his obedient Children to indure and ouercome their troubles or else open a way whereby to auoide