Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	blood_n	body_n	sacrament_n	22,235	5	7.4969	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52167	The covenant acknowledged by an English Covenanter, and the manifested wants of the common prayer, or divine service, formerly used, thought the fittest for publique worship by one vvhose hearty desires are presented to all the lovers of peace and truth in these nations, and shall be the prayers of a wel-wisher to both, and a very much obliged servant to all the promoters of this just cause, E.M., Mason.	E. M., Mason.	1660 (1660)	Wing M913; ESTC R7635	12,716	22

too frequently used amongst us and too covetous of all manner of our Neighbours goods But when those heavenly-breathed Petitions were poured out by all the Congregation to the Almighty glory Lord have mercy upon us and encline our hearts to keep this Law and also Lord have mercy upon us and write all these thy Laws in our hearts we beseech thee O what acclamations of joy those men breathed Petitons made against the walls of heaven and entered into the holy ears of the Almighty which by experience we may and ought to know when his holy glorious blessings preserved our Governours and Nation with tranquility and peace both from domestick and forreign foes for many score years together when those forms of publick Worship were continued wherein all had a share But our old enemy with his busie instruments who were long ago about to slight this work knew well that as long as God was so worshipped by those constant forms of so well an instructing Church his labours were to no end But at last he found Feoffees indeed he could trust who with their schismatique hammers and destroying Pickaxes of Division would now up with Root and Branch and take the Bramble for the Vine whose government he well knew would sufficiently scratch both Church and Common-wealth into the sad condition he long ago wished for as our selves and the distressed poor stript Sons of the Church by woful experience can testifie But since the constant Prayers for all occasions of our well-ordered Church were put out of use how hath all things looked like the Antipodes as if a Chaos of confusion had infatuated all our Councils and actings that nothing cometh to good And since the Pale of our distressed Sion and National Government was broken down by our schismatique Factions England Scotland and Ireland have all suffered a just deserved affliction by the loss of uniformity in Prayer for Magistrates and people And also those unhappy hands who set about this fatal work in making way for the Church of Rome to unkennel her subtil Foxes to destroy ours with the help of our long tusked Bores with their basket-hilted swords who have rooted out and thrown down the Vineyard and laid waste the inheritance of our dear Mother and are like to destroy the rest of her tender plants if God in mercy prevent it not But Gods divine vengeance whose Judgments have fallen upon divers of them our eyes have seen that are roled into their graves with reproch and their names recorded in infamy for after-Ages to abhor that nulled these heavenly petitions From Plague Pestilence and Famine from Battle and Murther and from sudden death Good Lord deliver us From all sedition and privy conspiracy from all false doctrine and heresie from hardness of heart and contempt of thy Word and Commandments Good Lord deliver us the which in all likelihood by our humble addresses and with our hearty united prayers and truly compunctious tears to his heavenly Majesty might have moved our gracious God to have had compassion on us and our King and all his people which now lie languishing in woful distresses because we have rejected those usual means by which for many years his gracious goodness was pleased to deliver our Land and Governors from Plague Famine and intestine Wars and from factious Schisciomites What a decent sight it was to see the people so reverently worshiping the mighty Lord when they warbled forth with joynt consent O come let us sing unto the Lord let us heartily rejoyce in the strength of our Salvation and those eternal dues from all the Earth in the Landamus We praise thee O God we acknowledge thee to be the Lord c. that all the people both young and old rich and poor are in duty bound reverently to worship the Father everlasting whose infinite Majesty gloriously commands all the whole world And yet we poor Underlings the sinful Sons of Adam must be tongue-tied and may not bear a part in those heavenly Hallelujahs to our most gracious preserver and powerful Redeemer because a few of our tender-conscienc'd brethren will not allow us that freedom to discharge our eternally obliged duties without offending them who under the name of Liberty of Conscience do manage all kind of mischiefs witness the direful Petition Febr. 9. 1658. When these decent Orders were used in our well-disciplined Church with what reverence did my eyes behold both old and young adore their holy Maker and since this named Reformation how unreverently do most demean themselves in his sacred Temples the place of his divine worship where children boyes and unmannerly servants clap on their hats before their Masters Magistrates Ministers Judges and all degrees of men and yet forbear it at home but presume to affront God with as much unhandsom worship as the Reformation is pleased to suffer to avoid Superstition When I have observed in inferiour Courts as at Sessions and elsewhere in cooler air before men onely earthly Judges and upon wooden benches highly reverenced as if it were some great fault to be covered before them who are but the Keepers of the laws of Men when our ever-living God who made the glorious heavens with all the mighty vast movables who keep their course for the observation of times and seasons ever since the Creation with the massy globe we trample upon which he hath hung in the air by the power of his all-commanding word with the proud waves of the great Deep who keep their violent ebbings and flowings in their appointed channels round the circumference of the earth with admiration and wonder And yet this infinite incomprehensible all-powerful God that giveth us all good things here and eternal life hereafter is so unhandsomly served by us his poor creatures and may not be suffered without offence forsooth to tender Consciences to use our dear Mothers decent dressings in her humble ornaments to do her divine adorations to this glorious King for fear of ushering in Superstition as if rational men might not teach their children and servants such respective observations in holy worship to our great God before whom the Cherubims and glorious Angels tremble when they come before him as in civility we do to one another and before our earthly Judges which die like men And why those decent postures of humbly kneeling when the Sacrament is received and those known prayers fitted for that posture said as The body of our Lord Jesus Christ which was given for thee c. and likewise those agonizing words The bloud of our Lord Jesus Christ which was shed for thee c. all those known prayers used by all the Communicants to keep the evil one from hindring our serious meditations and humble invocations upon our bended knees whiles others were singing those hallowed Hymns while the holy sacrificed Oblation was remembringly performed by all the believing Communicants over that that I have seen of late by divers who are very observant to see how the