Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	day_n	great_a	judgement_n	11,581	5	5.9316	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65232	To all rulers and magistrates in England, and all men in authority from the highest to the lowest a few sober words tendred to your serious consideration, which you are desired to read with moderation.	Wastfield, Robert, fl. 1647-1665.	1665 (1665)	Wing W1035; ESTC R33569	6,716	9

River whereby the holy Spirit of the Lord is grieved and wherewith his righteous Soul is vexed from day to day And is not this their work and that which the Lord requires of them and if through their negligence or remisness herein or their countenancing or tolerating thereof or winking thereat the Lord be so long provoked until his Wrath break forth and his Fury and Indignation be poured out upon such who are under their Government and for whom they are accountable and they be destroyed in his Wrath though they perish in their sins yet will not the Lord in justice require their blood at the hands of such Rulers and Magistrates who had power to prevent such things which was the cause of their destruction but did it not And ought not you seriously to consider these things and to walk so in your several places and capacities as that your consciences may be clear in the sight of God and that you may be clear from the blood of all men for surely you cannot but expect that the righteous God will deal righteously and reward every one according to his deeds done in the body whether they be good or whether they be evil And though he be a God long-suffering and of tender mercy yet he will in no wise acquit the guilty and may you not read this at large in holy Scriptures which were written afore-time for our learning upon whom the ends of the world are come that though he suffered long the provocations of the wicked yet at last except they turned unto him by unfeigned repentance his Wrath brake forth against them and he overthrew and destroyed them in his fierce Anger and sore Displeasure as the Land of Egypt the Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and many other Kingdoms and Nations and are not the same sins which they were guilty of and which was the cause of their overthrow as great in these dayes as in theirs and as abominable in the sight of the Lord now as then and cry as loud in the years of the Lord now as then and is he not as greatly provoked thereby now as then and may not his Wrath break forth and his Judgments be executed and his Fury be poured-out in Justice now as then And is it not then your wisdom to be considerate in these weighty matters which are of such great concernment to you that you may find a hiding-place in the day when his Wrath is poured forth upon his Enemies And do you indeed judge that the most heinous crimes and crying sins of these times is difference in Judgment about matters of Religion and that such as differ from you in Judgment concerning matters of Faith and Worship are the onely evil-doers Do you believe and judge that People meeting together to wait upon the Lord and to worship him according to the perswasion of their consciences though differing from you in judgment is in it self a sin so heinous and a crime so great as that it cryes in the ears of the Lord and provokes him to VVrath is this the heinous Abomination of the times and are these the great Offenders against God and man that above all others your eye is upon them and your Sword drawn forth and the edge thereof turned against them though you have nothing against them of evil-doing either against God or man but only concerning the VVorship of their God because they differ from you in judgement concerning the way thereof and yet must such be look'd upon and accounted the greatest transgressors and undergo the greatest stroak of your Power as the chiefest Disturbers of the Kingdomes peace and the only Troublers of Israel do you believe that this is according to the will of God and that hereby you please him and do that which is accepted of him and that which he requires of you in order to the discharge of your Trust and the clearing of your Consciences is this ruling for God to turn your Sword against such who live in his Fear and endeavour to keep a Conscience void of offence towards God and towards all men only because they cannot bow nor conform to a way of your prescribing contrary to the perswasion of their consciences though in all lawful things they submit to you and are subject to your Authority and live honestly and walk peaceably towards all men Are there not very heinous crimes and crying sins yea great abominations against God that are evidently and apparantly so and which are not found by secret search but are manifestly known and openly committed throughout the Land and which none dare to plead for or justifie which you cannot be ignorant of neither can you be mistaken which doubtless you know is so in the sight of God and whereby he is greatly provoked and should it not be your care to endeavour a Reformation thereof and to stop the currant thereof Is this a time to be striving with people and punishing them about disputable points of Religion which you your selves have not an infallible judgment in neither indeed doth it belong or appertain to your judgment or relate to your trust it being the prerogative of Christ Jesus who alone is Judge in these cases and hath reserved that power to himself and not given it or committed it unto any Ruler or Magistrate upon Earth so as to force or compel any man in things pertaining to the VVorship and Service of God whom we are to hear and obey in all things who is both King and Lawgiver to his People I say is this a time to be striving about things which are disputable and to spend your time and imploy your selves about such matters when the Land even overflows with wickedness and abomination which is evident and apparent and concerning which you cannot doubt or question but that the Lord is provoked therewith and which properly doth belong to you to look after to endeavour a reformation of Would you not judg it great imprudence and indiscretion in that Ship-master whose Vessel having sprung a leak whereby himself and all that are imbarqued with him are in danger to perish in the Sea that when his careful Mariners are diligently imployed in stopping the same for general preservation that even then at that time he should be striving and contending with them and punishing of them because they differ from him in judgment about some disputable points of Navigation which he himself hath no certain knowledge of in order to the bringing of their Ship to its desired port though peradventure his judgment be more erroneous than theirs and so whilst he is imploying his time about that which is then needless and neglecting that which is absolutely necessary to be done for their present preservation his Vessel in the mean time even sinks under him And is not this a fit comparison and doth it not run parallel with the present case and state of things at this day and is it not more needful for you to