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	sin_n	10,727	5	4.5334	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18665	A Christian meditacion or praier to be sayed at all tymes whensoeuer God shall vyset vs wyth anye mortall plague or sicnesse		1551 (1551)	STC 5179; ESTC S113545	1,559	9

¶ A Christian meditacion or praier to be sayed at all tymes whensoeuer GOD shall vyset vs wyth anye mortall plague or sicnesse ¶ Imprynted at London By Wylliam Awen 1.5.5.1 A Christian meditacyon or prayer to meditaciō or prayer to be said at all tymes when soeuer God shal viset vs with any mortal plage or sicknes O Lord GOD almighty and Father moste merciful who thoughe thou be dayly prouoked to wrathe and vengeaunce by the grieuous offenses and sinnes of vs thy most disobedient children yet neuerthelesse art so pacient and of such long sufferaunce that thou holdeste thy rod tyll by our outrageous contemptes and most wilfull breakinges of th● cōmaundementes thou art for our correccion cōstreigned to strike remember good Lord thine accustomed goodnesse towardes thy people whome of thine owne fatherly thendernesse thou hadest euer more lieffer to saue thē to spill to emend thē to destroy to forgeue then to punyshe What soeuer scourge or affliecions thou diddest in old time eyther threaten or laye vpon the stubberne vnrepentaūce people of Israell yet dyddest thou neuer shutte vp thy mercies from them whan soeuer they woulde wyth all their herte returne vnto the. Gene. 18. Whan the crye of Zodome Gomorre came vnto thyne eare for their most grieuous abominaciōs yet such is thy readines to shew mercy that at the prayer of thy seruaunt Abraham thou madeste promisse to saue the cityes and not to destroy them Firste if fifty secondely if fourtye fiue than yf fortye afterwarde if thirty Ioan. 3. at last if twenty yea finally if tenne righteous persones could haue bene found in them Whā thy Prophete Ionas had proclaimed the destruccion of Niniue for their great and manifolde sinnes yet for their repentaunce sake thou diddest most gladly and readily call backe thy sore sentence afore pronounced against them 4. Re. 20 Whan thy Prophete Isay had at thy cōmaūdemente declared to Kynge Ezechias that he shoulde not scape death yet for his herty prayers sake thou diddest reuoke that sentence agayne diddest adde fyfteen yeares vnto his dayes And we also now O Lorde acknowledge our manifold sinnes and most grieuous transgressiōs We confesse that we haue moste iustely deserued this sodayn plague mortall disease and a greate deale wurse We graunt that we haue by oure wickednesse moste worthely enkēdled thy wrathe and indignacion against vs. But o Lord what is man that thou wouldest matche thy selfe to trye in battaill agaynst him What glory should it be to the o Lorde if thou shouldeste destroy all fleash beyng but chaf and duste Remember good Lord that yf thou wilt stand in triall with vs we haue nothynge to lay for our selfes nor can be hable to stande in iudgemente before the. We therfore appeale from thy iustice vnto thy mercy whyche for thy names sake for thine owne glory thou hast in thine eternall woorde and trueth promysed vnto all suche as will earnestly emend and conuert vnto the. Spar vs therefore good Lorde and like as thou hast at this presente sent vnto vs this sodayn plague both as a warning of thy greate indignacion for oure most grieuous sinnes and also for a token that except we will now emende we cannot escape thy handes to be beaten with a sharper rodde so graunte O Lorde that thys maye be vnto vs an holsome medicyne for oure emendement of lyfe and that it may all together redounde vnto thy glorye so that whether we lyue or dye we maye styll bee thy people and thou still our God and most tendre louing Father And forasmuch as euerye good gyfte of true fayth repentaunce cometh from the geue vs thy grate that we may by this thy most tendre and fatherly correccion returne from our did iniquities whych haue now prouoked thy wrathe and also that from hensforth we may serue the in all holinesse and purenesse of lyfe wherby thy glorye may encrease and thy name may be magnified Yea euen emong them that other wise are blasphemers of thy most holy Ghospell and doe impute vnto the knowledge of thy most holy woorde sent vnto the world in these later times al the plagues Which haue bene prouoked by oure stubbernesse and hardenesse of herte But heare thou O Lorde the hertye prayers of the faithfull litell flocke trustyng in thy only mercy and graunte thys oure petycyon for thy Sonne IESVS Christes sake to whom with the and thee Holye Ghooste bee all prayse honoure and glorye for euer and euer Soo bee it