Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	creator_n	young_a	youth_n	255	3	8.3787	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28350	The yellow book, or, A serious letter sent by a private Christian to the Lady Consideration, the first day of May, 1659 which she is desired to communicate in Hide-Park to the gallants of the times a little after sun-set : also a brief account of the names of some vain persons that intend to be there, whose company the new ladies are desired to forbear.	W. B. (William Blake), fl. 1650-1670.	1659 (1659)	Wing B3153F; ESTC R24202	17,764	24

cannot touch this righteousnesse no no Christ keeps that for him as in a Cabinet of gold untill the day of resurrection and then his dead body though consumed to dust and that again to nothing yet shall that nothing be raised and arayed too like a Princess in the morning of her esponsal and all by vertue of that power which sa●es to the North and to the South give up and bring back my sons and daughters from fat Isa. 43. 6. And oh that this almighty power might bring back you or some of you the captive daughters of Sion oh that you might returne like the rivers in the South from all your lying vanities to the living God and from all your follies to the wisdom of God which is better then fine gold or silver yea then Rubies Prov. 8. 10 11. Riches and honour yea durable riches and honour are with me saith the Lord my fruit is better then gold yea then fine gold and my revenue then silver verse 19. therefore hearken O ye Children of men unto me for blessed are they that keep my waies but cursed are those that go a whoring after other Gods sorrow shall be multiplyed yea thay shall lie downe in sorrow Isa. 50 11. this sorrow is the daughter of sin but the mother the daughter shall sit downe and lay downe upon the heads hearts and soules of all that will not hearken unto me saith Wisdom Wherfore O ye foolish ones turn ye turn ye at my reproof Prov. 1. 22. hear ye and your souls shall live and if you wil hear hear ye young and lovely Lords and Ladies and Gallants of the times and for Christs sake remember ye your Creator in the dayes of your youth before the evill day commeth wherein the Lord shall say I have no pleasure in you before the Sun and blossome of your virginitie and flower of your age be darkened yea before Christ and the things of Christ be hid from your eyes before the Moone the Stars and the Clouds returne after the rain Eccles. 12. all the lesser meanes and helps of your salvation be blown away like a cloud or a rain that is carried away by the clouds ye before the day when the keepers of the house the spirit and noble courage of your souls shall tremble at the approach of death when he comes climbing in at your windows and up to your beds whe●e you lie panting like the poor Partridg in the tearing tallents of the Falcon and what is a bed of state in such a condition though surrounded with a thousand Lords and Ladies who are but vain comforters or as flesh flyes when the strong men shall bow themselves the leggs arms and sinewes of strength all shrinked up yea the whole man turned to the wall like Hezekiah and weep like a child the grinders cease as not able to doe there office and they that look out of the windows be darkened the light and sight of thine eyes dim and creamy the throat rattle and the breath earthly when the doors shall be shut in the streets all the intellects of the soule that take in and shut out vissible appearance be locked up then the sound of the grinding shall be low no noyse or motions hardly heard when you shall rise up at the voise of the bird the secret chirpings of conscience the private bird that tells all old and almost forgotten things and ungodly acts when the daughters of musick are brought low all your former vain and sinful vanities and delights are husht still blowne over and gone through the fear of that which is coming on namely death hell and he that hath the power over death yea the keys of death and hell too in his hand Revel. 2. 18. but the Almond tree shall flourish then that is the righteous man yea mark for the end of that man is peace Psal. 37. 37. but woe to the transgressour the Grashopper shall be a burden to the wicked and all his desires shall saile because he goeth to his long home whether he will or no yet he goes and the Mourners about the streets the silver cords be loosned the golden bow and pitcher broken at the fountain the veines and strings of life all broken through the invisible shouting of the immortall soul into another world whereby the pitcher of mans body becomes broken as at the fountain head in the return of the spirit to that God that gaive it the dust returns to the dust for a while and the spirit to God for a final sentence O vanity of vanities how is all but froath and vanity besides Christ and the knowledge of Christ this knowledg ● recommend to you and every one of you in Hide-Park after your unwearied pursuit of lying vanities and if you refuse it your blood and the blood of your souls will be upon your own heads Acts. 20. 26. I am more free from that then thousands of your Chaplains and others too that deal not so faithfully with you as they ought God Almighty bless and turne you from your sins though Israel be not gathered yet my labour is and shall be with my God Isaiah 49. 5. but my hearts desire and prayer is and shall be that Israel may be saved in the day of the Lord Iesus Rom. 10. 1. and that you may the eyes of al mercy look upon you to convince you one by one and oh that you dare or that he would take you alone a little this night to mind and meditate what you have done this day and all your dayes for him or rather against him but you dare not walk alone or be in the dark one hour nor will the Devil let you think on Christ heaven hell death or Iudgment And now O Christ how few lives to thee O Christ how few mind thee O Christ how many diss●mble with thee and when shall the Nobles lick the dust of thy feet whilest Kings and Queens attend on thee and count it honour enough to own and honour thee in the most contemtible way and manner when shall they bring their gold and silver and offer unto thee who art all in all in life death and eternity Coll. 3. 11. But poverty parts good company thou at present appears not in thy glory 1 Iohn 3. 2. but art as it were upon the wain while the World and Nobles of the world are in their full sun splendor but appear O Christ and le● the world see thee that art invisible and yet thou rulest the stars and bounds the tumbling seas while thou stands knocking at the sinners heart Rev. 3. 20. courting as it were this or that or t' other gnat-worm nothing for a little admittance O Christ fling them down to hell yea fling them down quick that storm and contemn thee because they are fine and tricked up in the offiles of thy creature and if these golden Sparks and Ladies will not own thee make them like a wheel and let them perish as the stubble Psal 84. 13. yet if any man love not our Lord Jesus Christ let him be Anathema Maranatha so sayes Paul 1 Cor. 10. 22. but I say love him Lords love him Ladies he and he onely is altogether lovely in his name in his nature in his person in his promise to look to to hope in to follow after and to lean upon he is altogether lovely the last present the future hope of sinners But do what you will I have chosen him and he hath washed me in his own blood Rev. 1. 5. Glory Honour and Salvation be ascribed to him world without end W. B. For Christs sake do not tear nor fling this about but tell the Lords and Ladies of it and ask for the green Book or the Ladies Tryall