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
A70666	Innocency cleared the liberties and priviledges of Gods people for assembling together in his fear to wait upon him very calmly expostulated and their refusal of all oaths in meekness vindicated	Mason, Martin, fl. 1650-1676.	1660 (1660)	Wing M930; ESTC R3559	8,207	10

were of the World the World would love us for the World loves its own but we are not of the World therefore the World hates us If we have lived peaceably amongst you and walked inoffensively towards you why should we be so deprived of our Priviledges by you Have we forfeited our Liberties Lives and Estates by Treachery against you or by any aversness to the Peace and Prosperity of our Countrey Convince us of error before you thus unreasonably condemn us Have we not as good right and priviledge to assemble together in the fear of the Lord in our own hired Houses there to wait upon and worship the living God as you have to resort unto the House of Rimmon May the wilde and the wanton meet by hundreds if not thousands together in your Steeple-houses and must the little harmless Flock be shut up in a Pinfold and caged up in a Prison and not meet above three or four together How comes this to passe Come shew us our Crime if you can or deal more candidly with us if you cannot for we have neither lost our Understanding nor forfeited our Freedom though Man seek to imbondage us yet the Beast must not In Gods eternal Light we see our Duty Right and Priviledge to assemble together to worship our God Heb. 10.25 and know full well what that is which seeks to hinder us and would limit the breathing Seed of Eternity to Time and Place and we are not afraid to publish this unto you the Sons and Daughters of Moderation that 't is the old Dragon who seeks to devour the Seed of Innocency both in you and us if the Power of the Lord should not restrain him But our Trust and Confidence is in the living God who can put a Hook in the Nostrils of this Leviathan and shoot the Arrows of his Wrath into the Bowels of him and wound the Head of the Wicked as it pleaseth him But if our God do suffer that dark seed which hath now dominion to make further shipwrack of their Consciences and still to oppresse his Innocent People in the strength of our God we shall encounter him and without Sword or Spear or any carnal weapon in patience conquer and overcome him for we have learn'd to give our backs unto the smiter our goods to the spoyler and our cheeks to him that plucketh off the hair until we have finished the Testimony which our God shall give unto us for his Truth for we may not betray that which God hath committed to us nor seek to make our Peace with Man by sinning against God Could we temporize as others do Prisons then could not be our Portion We cannot bow to the Will of Man where it commands what is contrary to our God Is it lawful for the wild Bruits Drunkards Whoremongers Idolaters Swearers and all sorts of prophane people to repair by thousands to your Steeple-houses and may not the Sons of Innocency Gods harmless Flock meet together in the fear of the Lord in their own hired houses above three or four in number but such snares must be spread for their feet Doth this advance the Honour of your King thus to favour the Brats of Babylon and discountenance the Children of Sion doth not the All-seeing Eye discern all the crooked windings of his Enemy Will he not arise in his fury and fall upon his Adversaries if they go on in persecuting his People Can they make resistance against him Are they able to give battel to him did ever any strive thus against him that were not broken and confounded by him Alas poor men how I pitty you How easie is it with the Lord to overturn your Mountain and in a moment bring it to a Mole-hill Your breath is in your nostrils glory not therefore in the strength of Egypt nor proceed no further in your fury against Gods People for it will but aggravate your Condemnation in the Day of the Lord and make his Judgments fall more heavily upon you when he comes to reckon with you Have you not sins enow besides to answer for sufficiently able without true Repentance to sink you into the pit of endless perdition but you must needs pull down a greater weight of Gods wrath upon you Ah! how doth my Soul lament and pity you when I foresee and consider the flood of Misery which is coming upon you Then the pleading of your Loyalty to Caesar now used as a cloak for your inveterate wrath and enmity to Gods harmless Seed cannot save you nor all your smoothness and subtilty divert or bear off the stroak of Gods Justice upon you Nor your swallowing in hypocrisie and fear the Oath of Allegiance which is done by many of you adde one Mite of true Comfort to you but be a greater weight upon you where it is taken contrary to that of God within you And now a few words to you that are so wrathful against us because your vain Oaths are denyed by us Vain Oaths indeed may they well be termed by me for our Yea and Nay is sufficiently binding to us and whatsoever Man requireth of us more than these cometh of evil Search the Scriptures for they testifie of that Truth which here shall be declared unto you Christ Jesus the Lip of Truth in his Sermon upon the Mount Matth. 5. bids the People they should not think that he came to destroy the Law or the Prophets I am not come to destroy but to fulfill And that except their Righteousness exceeded the Righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees they should in no wife enter into the Kingdom of Heaven You have heard said he that is was said by them of old Thou shalt not kill and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of Judgment Christ came not to destroy this Law which in its time and place was good which the Pharisees owned but now he comes nearer to them telling them as before Except your Righteousness exceed the Righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees who observed this Law Thou shalt not kill you cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven For I say unto you saith Christ Whosoever is angry with his Brother without a cause Mark this is lesse than bodily Murder shall be in danger of the Iudgment Lo thus Christ came not to destroy the Law but in the bond of Love to perform or fulfil it and so forbad all Anger without a cause from whence the Murder hath its beginning So Christ here layes his Ax to the root of the Tree and plainly intimates unto them the Scribes and Pharisees kept to the Law Thou shalt not kill but they who would be Christians or Christs Disciples must come nearer to him and not be angry without a cause and so exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees or else they could not enter into the Kingdom of heaven And so he goes on in several other things as in that other Commandment Thou shalt not commit adultery Christ came not to destroy