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	hear_v	see_v	10,326	5	3.3220	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60439	Idolatry declared against by a servant of the Living God, a sufferer for the testimony of His Name in the common goal at Winchester, Humphry Smith.	Smith, Humphrey, d. 1663.	1658 (1658)	Wing S4064; ESTC R10255	4,329	10

Beasts are found and unsanctified Persons meet together who commit all abominations and live in all manner of filthiness and yet lean upon the Lord and say is not the Lord among us no evil shall come unto us whereas they are an evil and an adulterous generation ●●●tarated from the spirit of truth in which the true worship stands and are ignorantly worshiping in a Temple made with hands in which God dwelleth not neither is his power there received to overcome the sin and so the people are wearying themselves for very vanity and travelling to bring forth death and labouring for that which profits not neither do they come to meet the Lord in the way of his judgements nor find the path of life where the unclean can never come neither yet do they know the bread of life nor drink his blood that cleanseth from all sin nor come to be translated into the kingdom of the Son of God but remain in that ground which was curssed by reason of mans rebellion Gen. 3. 17. Heb. 6. 8. which ground being not removed with the mighty power of God the blessing cannot be received nor the understanding opened to know and receive that which the natural man perceiveth not the eyes of their mind being darkened through the ignorance that is in them the vail being over the heart when that is read every day of their worship which discovers sin but makes nothing perfect which worshippers did and do crucifie him that comes to take away the sin But now he is come who hath for ever perfected those that are sanctified and he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one but they that are not sanctified are not of the one out are in the many opinions in the lusts of ignorance waies of unrighteousnesse being not come to the one faith which purifieth the heart nor to know the one baptism one Church one way one truth one God the Father of him who is the one light which lighteneth every man that cometh into the world of the which light which is but one there is given a measure to every one of you which light shineth in darknes though not by it comprehended which light wil let you see that you your selves are out of Gods Covenant in the worlds worship not reconciled to God upholding idols temples and heathenish cus●oms with Bels and such things which the people of God never used but did and do deny for ever and exhort you and all others to leave worshipping the Beast or upholding that which is not the true worship of the true God practised by 〈◊〉 of sin in Steeple-houses every first day Wherefore all people every where leave your Idolatry which you have learned and received by tradition from the former Papists Heathen who worship the work of their own hands and bow down to their own inventions as you long have done and for this many hundred years have been learning and yet are not come to the truth neither to believe in it but remain in unbelief and ignorance and your long time of ignorance God winked at Acts 17. 30. but now light is come in which God is calling to you and all men every where to repent and forsake your Idolatrous worship which by you a sinful generation is practised in a Steeple-house one day in seven and Cains nature remaining in the inward parts from the which Idolatry all that fear the Lord God of Abraham are now to come from the uncleannes of that Worship which is upheld by the Heathen for verily the hand of the Lord God Almighty is stretched forth against it and them Wherefore all people turn your mindes to the Lord God of life who dwelleth in his people and not in Temples made with hands and hath given to every one of you a measure of the true Light of his Son which light in you will let you see your secret sinnes and will teach you and shew you plainly of the Father if you love it and come to be led by it to do Gods will so may you come to worship the Lord God of Life in spirit and in truth with the children of the Light and of the day which hath dawned upon many who need not any man teach them but are all taught of the Lord glory and honour and everlasting praises to his blessed Name for ever and ever Amen Given forth A Testimony against all Idolatry and Heathenish Worship from the true love of God the Father in pity to the souls of them who have eyes and see not and ears and hear not that they may come forth of darknesse to follow Christ Jesus the Light of the World who is bringing the blinde by a way that they know not Isa 42. 16. Therefore is this to go abroad among all people and read in Steeple-houses Streets Market-places Private meetings and Families that all may consider what they have been doing in the dark Ezek. 8. 12. By a servant of the Living God A sufferer for the Testimony of his Name in the Common Goal and House of Correction at Winchester The fourth Moneth 1658. Humphry Smith THE END