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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	day_n	holy_a	sabbath_n	45,615	5	10.2433	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58412	A tender visitation of love to professors and profane, but especially to the inhabitants of the town of Waymouth. With some directions how they may try themselves, whether they are yet in their sins, or whether they are come to him that makes an end of sin. Also a warning to all sorts of people, that they may repent of the evil of their wayes whilest the day of mercy lasteth, least repentance be hid from their eyes. Howl ye inhabitants of the earth, for the day of vengeance is at hand, the Lord will stain the glory of all flesh. Being written from the breathings of life, by a hand-maid of the Lord, S. R.	S. R.	1661 (1661)	Wing R77; ESTC R219656	10,437	16

A Tender Visitation of Love TO PROFESSORS and PROFANE But especially to the Inhabitants of the Town of WAYMOVTH With some directions how they may try themselves whether they are yet in their sins or whether they are come to him that makes an end of sin Also a Warning to all sorts of people that they may repent of the evil of their wayes whilest the day of Mercy lasteth least Repentance be hid from their eyes Howl ye Inhabitants of the Earth for the day of vengeance is at hand the Lord will stain the glory of all flesh Being written from the breathings of Life by a hand-maid of the Lord S. R. London Printed for Thomas Simmons 1661. I have a long time kept silence now will I write that I may be eased I will declare that I may be unburthened O You professors the Lord God in measure hath shewed me your states and conditions which is very bad and dangerous for you to go on in O you are all of you poasting the very way to Destructon a black day hangs over your heads you are all of you as people in the dark you are seeking the way of the Lord where it is not to be found O your wayes and doings are not good they are not according to the Truth of the Living God you have ayrie light vain spirits you speak of the things you know not you are like people who are dreaming of things and when the sleep is over behold it was not so you have gotten the shew or shadow of truth but the Substance you know not you are in the many wayes where no true peace is to be found but Rents and Divisions you have chosen lying vanities and you go on in the imaginations of your own hearts chusing that which the Lord hath no pleasure in but his Righteous Soul is vexed even from day to day O you barren Trees you cumber the ground leaves are found on you but no fruits at all The Lord God will shake off your Leaves and your Branches shall wither you shall have nothing left to cover your selves withal the very foundation shall be shaken whereon you stand then may you wish that the Mountains or Hills could hide you from the Wrath of the Lord God he will speedily avenge himself upon all the workers of Iniquity Therefore you stout-hearted men and women leave off doing that which is evil and repent make no delay for the time is short the day of the Lord God is at hand wherein all your wayes words works and actions are to be tryed of what profession so ever you are of the Lord will visit you he will prove all your wayes by Fire and there is nothing shall be able to stand in that day but that which is pure of God which hath known the day of burning and purifying by fire of such the second death shall have no power but all Professions which are out of the life and power of the truth of the living God such I say shall perish and die the Lord hath no pleasure in them they are as a loathsome thing which hath an ill savour in his nostrils O you Professors your many long prayers the Lord hath no regard unto your holy Sabbath Daies and your solemn feast-Feast-daies are as an Abominable thing the Lord hath no pleasure in them they are no more to him then if you offered Swines flesh or did cut off a Doggs neck the Lord is even wearied with your Sacrifices your hearts are unclean before him read Cain the Murderer which slew his Brother the just Abel who was born after the Spirit I say Cain which slew the just he brought also a Sacrifice and offered it unto the Lord even as Abel did whom the Lord had regard unto but unto Cain and to his off ring the Lord had no regard for the same Nature which slew the just one I say that same Nature can offer Sacrifices the same Nature which went out into the Transgression which was the first Nature I say the same Nature can Pray and sing and speak many great swelling Words but this the Lord hath no regard unto O why will you die why will you die Why will you stand out any longer Why will you put the day afar off Are you resolved through wilfulness to die in your sins hath not the Lord set good and evil before your eyes and will you still chuse the evil and despise the good O you Professors of the Town of Waymouth the Lord hath had a tender pitty towards you O your warnings hath been many by the Lords Servants and hand-maids but you have made it as a leight thing and you have called the Lords Messengers and Servants the Devils and some have said that the Devil sent them but the day will come when many of you shall say be made to confess that many of you have been warned from the Lord out of their mouths and many shall stand as witnesses in the day of God when his wrath shall be revealed against the unrighteousnesse of every man and woman I say in that day many shall stand as living witnesses against you because the Lord hath warned many of you out of their mouths although you have despised the reproof of the Lord and cast his Law and his Counsel behind your backs O may it not justly be said to you as the Lord said to a people in the daies of old because you would not receive my Counsel nor regard my repoof therefore the Lord said to that people he would laugh at their calamities and mock when fear cometh upon them Awake awake you who are asleep in security I say awake and come forth out of your graves the Lord our God is risen he hath sounded his Alarm to the Nations he hath uttered his voice to the ends of the Earth the remote Islands hath heared his sound the graves are opened and many dead bodies are raised to sing prayses to the Lord for ever and ever And now is the Lords own chosen remnant to be gathered in and now is he making up of his Jewels with whom he will dwell and he is chusing of a Peculiar people who shall worship him in spirit out of all Shews and Shadows Forms Customes and Traditions of men And all Forms and Customes and Shadows of things shall be laid wast I say it shall be laid wast the Lord God will do it his own mouth hath spoken it the day is at hand wherein our God will work Wonders I say the day is at hand wherein our God will work Wonders amongst the Children of men and amongst all that dwell on the Earth will he make known his Arm of strength and his Power shall be seen and his Miracles shall be made manifest to the view of all the Inhabitants of the Earth Babylons Merchants shall trade no more in that day their lying devinations shall cease the Lord will raise up Pastors and Teachers after his own heart such as

shall feed his people with knowledge and with understanding but such as go on in their lyes which makes Merchandize of the Just and starves the souls of many which deceives the simple and causeth the weak to err in Judgement a day of bitter torments is prepared for them endless misery shall come upon them Babylon the Mother of Harlots she with all her Merchants and their Merchandizes shall fall and her downfal must be great she that hath long sat as a Queen which said she should see no sorrow she I say must be thrown down and all her goodly Children with her which lean upon her knees they must be taken Captive together she hath Captivated and killed the Saints and hath drunken the blood of the Innocent she must be led into captivity she that hath led others she must have blood for blood as she hath done to others others must do to her her very lovers shall loath her none of them shall pitty her the fire of Gods wrath shall consume her flesh shame shall cover their faces who have taken pleasure in her beauty her fame shall be taken away her glory shall utterly be defaced her Foundation shal be rooted up her Memorial shall utterly rot and be consumed from off the face of the whole Earth the Lord God Almighty hath spoken it and it shall come to passe and be fulfilled in its season Therefore howle all you that dwel on the Earth I say howle all you who are yet in your sins be you afflicted and mourn and weep let your laughter and singing be turned into mourning and your Joy into heavinesse let shame cover your faces you proud wanton ones is it not high time for you to consider your wayes and to cease from that which is evil O return whiles you have yet a day remember you are but flesh and all flesh is as grasse or as a flower of the field who appeareth beautiful for a time and in a moment is changed or withered away and you must dye You know not how soon it may be before the Lord may call you to an account and then what will you say for your selves You who have spent your time in Wantonnesse Pride Vain laughter and foolish talking in singing of Songs and Ballats and telling of Stories and taking Gods holy Name in vain in Swearing Lying and Drunkennesse to the abusing of the Creation of God and many other lascivious actions Take warning O be perswaded prize your time make better use of it whiles the day of mercy lasteth let a true Reformation be known amongst you Repent Repent put sack-cloath upon your loyns and wallow in ashes let a true mournful state in the sight of the Lord God be known witnessed amongst you that the Lord God may take pitty and compassion on you Nineveh that great City who went on in wickedness for a time was warned by one of the Lords Servants as you may read in Jonah and they received the Lords message without questioning of it and the Nenivites repented before the Lord for the evil of their wayes and the Lord was intreated by them and he took pitty upon them and spared the City And now O Inhabitants of the Town of Waymouth there is a necessity laid upon me at this time to warn you because of the evil day which must assuredly come upon all the workers of iniquity but you have made leight of the many warnings of the Lord and of his Messengers and some of them you have requited with cruel mockings and Imprisonments and other ill usage O people consider of these things the Lord doth not usually bring destruction or sore judgements or plagues upon a People or Nation but he first warns them of the evil that is to come upon them unless they repent Sodom and Gomorab had a day wherein the Lord warned them of the evil that was to come upon them but they sleighted the Lords warning O read sudden destruction came upon them How could I take up a lamentation over thee O Waymouth Waymouth How could I take up a sore lamentation over thee How could I mourn over thee O Waymouth Lamentable is thy state mournful is thy dayes I am bowed down for thee I have mourned for thee many times as I have passed through thy streets tears have trickled down mine eyes to consider the sad estate and conditions of many of thy Inhabitants the Lord God hath a controversie against you the cry of oppression is found amongst you O I have born the weight and burthen of many of your iniquities upon my own shoulders the yoak of oppression have lain heavy upon my neck I have born a great burthen for you dayes without number O the Seed of God lies opprest in you all Professors and Prophane O the Seed of God the Immortal Babe the Begotten of God lies opprest in you all not heeded nor regarded although it cries aloud in you and often groans by reason of your wickedness O you bruise the tender Principle of God in you all and you put him to open shame daily he who was the man of sorrows who was well acquainted with grief whose visage was mared more then any mans he is oppressed in you all and by you Read the little Babe the begotten of God he was laid in a Manger in the worst place of the Inn the beast fed over the Babe it lay in the Manger I speak near to you all the beastly nature which was the first forward nature is not yet cast out of many of you the Babe lies under in you the first nature lives above it and this nature makes merry over the just the little one that is low whom you tread over And now in the fear of God I warn you all who ever you are that are out of the Truth of the living God come down come down to the true witness of God placed in you all which makes manifest sin and evil in the hearts and consciences in every man and woman and this is pure of God which makes manifest every man and womans state and condition and this is not of man nor of woman although it is placed in man and in woman but this stands in every man and woman as a faithful Witnesse for God against sin and evil and this witness cannot consent to any thing that is evil which men and women does although men and women acts and walks contrary day after day to the leadings of this true witness and where this true witness which God hath placed to be man and womans guide I say where and in whomsoever this true witness is not obeyed loved nor believed in by such it is crucified and slain and so Scripture comes to be fulfilled as it was said in a certain place in Sodom and Aegypt spiritually called was our Lord Jesus crucified and slain and this shall be every mans and womans great condemnation that light is come into the world and men love darknesse rather then