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	heart_n	see_v	10,346	5	3.3489	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B20878	An epistle of peace and good-will unto all the children of the Lord against this suffering time	Crook, John, 1617-1699.	1664 (1664)	Wing C7205	3,530	2

An EPISTLE of Peace and Good-will unto all the Children ●f the Lord against this Suffering Time DEar Lambs of the living God for I know you are so because the Wolves are so greedy to destroy you I have a Message from the great Bishop and Shepherd of your Souls unto you all and in his Fear and Name I am faithfully to deliver it Thus saith the Lord the mighty God and great Shepherd of the flocks 〈◊〉 ye not dismayed with any amazement neither be ye afraid ●●●se of the multitude of Wolves and wild Beasts of prey that ●ee●●devour you for thus hath the Lord spoken unto me saying Like 〈◊〉 Lion or young Lion roareth upon the prey that he hath gotten ●●not afraid though the multitudes of Shepherds cry out upon him 〈◊〉 abased for all the heap of them So shall the Lord of Hosts ●et down to fight for Mount Sion and defend his Hills L●ke as the 〈◊〉 flutter about their Nests so shall the Lord of Hosts keep de●●●ive and deliver Jerusalem and what-ever may come to pass it 〈◊〉 only try you but not destroy you for I will not not not leave you ●●●sake you saith the Lord but you shall be mine and I will save ●ll whose trust is in me the living God as a man save●h his only ●●it serveth him But as I have already in measure shewed you ●●an is in his best estate and the son of man with all his endow●●●● of Wit Parts Learning and Understanding Streng●h and Po●● together with all his Experiences and Observations which is out ●●y fear and counsel so I will yet manifest unto you further the ●●jand helplesness of man and the son of man how that he is not to be ●●●ted of and all for this end that you may cease from him and c●re lean upon his arm neither within nor wi●hout nor go down Egypt for help for it shall be known that the Egyptians are men ●in God and their horses flesh and not spirit O my People saith ●●rd remember now what Balak King of Moab consulted and 〈◊〉 Balaam the son of Peor answered him from Shittim even to Gilgal ●●e may know the Righteousness of the Lord and how I have ap●ed for you from time to time and followed you from Prison to 〈◊〉 saith the Lord with my Life and Presence and from East to 〈◊〉 I have been with you as I have called you and sent you forth 〈◊〉 and by Land ye have seen my Wonders according as my Provi●●e hath ordered any of you and in Sickness and Health I have ●e with you that many of you can say and bear witness for me that ●re made your weak infirm and tender bodies to be strong and to 〈◊〉 more hardship and sufferings than ever you could have believed ●●●d been able to have gone through and also I have made you ●●g to forsake your dearest Relations and to chuse rather to be in ●●●n Prison with Me than to dwell in your ceiled houses without my ●nd Peace in your hearts and this you know right well 〈◊〉 my People saith the Lord remember these things that ye may 〈◊〉 to know me more and more for I change not but as I have been with you in all estates and conditions so I will be with you unto the ●nd and will bring wo and misery upon all your Enemies that decree ●●righteous Decrees against you they shall not be able to bring to pass their purpose saith the Lord for I will befool them and then make their own folly to corect them and they shall see it and b● ashamed but shall not be alle to help themselves nor deliver their own souls ●u● For you my People saith the Lord that dwell in my Fear and give up ●●ll unto me keeping nothing back in hypocrisie I will be with you and in you and your Enemies shall see you ascend in power and great glory as gazers upon you but not being able to hinder you While I am speaking of it my heart melts within me and the Joy of my God overcomes me only I must not forbear to write these things unto you because required thereunto by the Lord. Be ye still and ye shall all know him from the least to the greatest and he will not forget any one of you beest thou never so little poor and weak in thine own eyes but the Hypocrites shall be bound hand and foot so that all their nests and holes shall not hide them and shall be cast into thick darkness that as they shall not be able to find their hands to help themselves so shall they not have an eye to see any way to escape the just hand and judgment of the Lord but the upright in heart shall now be known in this day of tryal who have none but the Lord alone to trust unto and lean upon these shall see the Salvation of God and praise his holy Name for this pure separating day of his Love unto them but of Judgment unto all the Hypocrites in Sion my Exhortation from the Lord unto you All is To keep low in your hearts and mind close unto his Light that it unto the Seed of Life ye may be led in it to have your dwelling day ●d night where no evil tidings come as you know right well and in this ●ansomed Seed keep your Meetings so will they be full of glory un●● the astonishing of all that come among you that it may now be ●●own unto all people that we are those whom the most High hath ●osen to write his Name upon as that City of God in which he delights ●●ell that the little Si●●er scatte●ed upon the face of the Earth ●hich hath no breasts may now be thought upon and that tidings of ●●●iverance may be sounded in her ears in all Nations whither she is ●●ven that she may flock as the Doves to the windows through the ●●aring of the Joyful Sound that the Mighty GOD is risen in a poor and afflicted People in England who cannot how to any graven Image nor give their power unto the Beast but will follow the Lamb where-ever he goeth chusing rather to die with him than to forsake him And dear Friends and Brethren my further Exhortation to you from the Lord of Hosts is That you all now do live in that Truth which you have both heard and spoken of to others that so your union in the Life and Power may stand then will you be strong as Mount Sion and an help one to another the strong taking the weak by the hand saying I feel thee and therefore cannot leave thee behind but must have thee along with me and this will not only encrease your Number but discourage your Enemies when they see you keep your Meetings and worship the God of Daniel as at other times And what though you are carried to Prisons by droves and slocks and sent wheresoever your Enemies have power will not that their hour and power of darkness be the hour in which the Father will glorifie himself yes it will for the Lord hath spoken it and by this shall all men know you are Christ's Disciples not as Judas to betray him or deny him before men but because you love him you keep his Commandments and they are not grievous unto you though men would make them so accord to their power by their pains and punishments And I am further do declare unto You in the Name of my God for your comfort and your Enemies torment that he is bringing forth a Birth in you his People which fears no● Death for it hath in despight of all Deaths power passed through Deaths Country and Regions as a Conqueror through the strength of Jesus and is now passed into Life and Immortality where it dwells safely in love and peace with all men not at all fearing what they can do unto it having already tryed the strength of him that is the power of death which is the Devil and this Birth is that which is and shall be more and more as an Army terrible with Banners to affright the Wicked when they see that there is no Conquering by Death or Banishment because Death it self is Conquered by that Birth immortal in which you dwell and inhabit O blessed Birth of the Morning of the everlasting Day of the Most High Sing ye sing ye and again I say sing ye the Songs of the Lamb and rejoyce ye in the mighty God for he lives that will Crown you and he abides faithful that cannot deny himself who 〈◊〉 our God and Helper for ever unto whom I am joyned with you and 〈◊〉 whom I dearly salute you and embrace you all who are faithful ●●●nesses unto the Name and Truth of the Lord in this Trying but not Destroying 〈◊〉 I behold ●ee 〈…〉 Glorious as the Noon-Day in despight of all Clouds and Darkness in the Pure promised Heavenly Seed in thee revealed and made manifest unto the endless praise of thy God over all the World and powers of Darkness for evermore These Things I was commanded to write unto you in the opening Spirit of Life where I am with you all in the meek Suffering Spirit of the Lamb who am now in outward Bonds though in perfect inward Freedom for the Name and Testimony of JESUS Your Brother and Companion in the Faith and Patience of the Lamb JOHN CROOK Ipswitch Town Goal this 28th of the third Month 1664. Let this be read in the pure Fear of the Lord in the Assemblies of the First-born