Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	beseech_v	good_a	please_v	23,628	5	8.8360	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43254	A call to a general reformation of manners and manifesting in several particulars the great lets and hinderances thereunto / preached at the arch-deacon of Sudbury's visitation, holden at Kentford in Suffolk in April last, 1700, by Clement Heigham, Esq., now rector of Barrow in Suffolk.	Heigham, Clement, d. 1714.	1700 (1700)	Wing H1370A; ESTC R36595	13,878	32

blesseth or chastiseth a Nation according as they either fear or dishonour him we must then believe that all our private and publick Happiness and Safety will depend upon our holy living and discountenancing Vice Your very Safety and Prosperity in any kind rests move upon this Basis than upon all our wisest Counsels or the force of Arms and the very Safety and Reputation of our Church both at home and abroad depends upon a thorow Reformation of Manners yea the Peace and Honour and Prosperity of your Families depends upon it and what is much more valuable I am sure your inward Peace and comfortable hopes of another Life rests upon your regular good Christian Practice In a word your Baptism requires it and the care of your Childrens Souls and others of your Family exacts this Duty of you to live well your selves and to discourage Sin in others And for many of you that hear me I must plainly tell you that your very Offices and solemn Oaths do bind you to prosecute the wicked Doers and to all of you I say your Allegiance to God and the King exacts all this at your hands Wherefore let the sum of our Thoughts bend this way let this be the chief end of all our Study Learning and Reading Let this be the end of all our Preaching and Praying and counselling and reproving and correcting to save our own Souls and the Souls of others Then will the Almighty shine upon us and give us his Blessing and all Europe shall behold and see that we are not only mighty in Battel but mighty in Prayer too and shall be forced to confess that God is with us and on our side because by due fearing and serving him we are become a wise and understanding People But to conclude Since so august and puissant a Prince leads the way since a Prince mighty in Battel to defend and protect us is neither afraid nor ashamed to engage himself resolutely under the despised Banner of the Cross and to fight Christ's Battels against the Corruptions of a wicked World and commands us all not only to live well but to attend and assist him in our several Offices and Places to discourage and suppress the Corruptions of the Age we live in I do take it to be a special and signal Call from Heaven to you all to join unanimously in this great work of endeavouring to amend a corrupt World And if any Magistrates or inferior Officers shall neglect to prosecute his Majesty's pious Intentions they will have a great deal to answer for not only to the King but to the Great God the King of Kings and they will bring the Guilt of others Sins upon themselves and the whole Nation For the Connivance of Governours makes the Sins of private Persons the Sins of the Community and altho the Punishment of private persons or particular men may be deferred to a future State yet Communities as such as one well expresseth it having no Resurrection in the World to come they may justly expect the fruits of their Delinquencies in this present Life But because it cannot be hoped or expected that so great a work as the Reforming a polluted Age can be brought to any great effect unless all that have the least stamp of Authority upon them shall put their helping hand to this great Work unless Parents and Masters of Families shall begin at home unless Ministers and Magistrates and all inferior Parish-Officers shall conspire and conjoin in this glorious Work Let us therefore pray to Almighty God that he would inspire the Hearts of all Orders and Estates of Men in this our holy Church that every Member of the same in his Place and Office Spiritual or Civil may gird themselves with a true Christian Zeal and Courage to countenance Goodness and to bring all Wickedness into a just shame and contempt that so God may be glorified and many Souls saved and that God may delight to dwell amongst us and that we may all rejoice and be glad in the Peace and Prosperity of our Church and State DEO GLORIA Now the God of Peace that brought again from the Dead our Lord Jesus Christ that great Shepherd of the Sheep through the Blood of the everlasting Covenant make you perfect in every good Work to do his Will working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be Glory for ever and ever Amen Grant we beseech thee Almighty God that the Words we have heard this day with our outward Ears may through thy Grace be so grafted inwardly in our Hearts that they may bring forth in us the fruit of Good Living to the Honour and Praise of thy Name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Peace of God which passeth all Vnderstanding keep your Hearts and Minds in the Knowledg and Love of God and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord And the Blessing of God Almighty the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost be amongst you and remain with you always Amen FINIS