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	israel_n	people_n	11,566	5	4.5954	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86310	Queen Esthers resolves: or, A princely pattern of heaven-born resolution, for all the lovers of God and their country: opened in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at the monethly fast, May 27, 1646. / By Richard Heyricke, Warden of Christs Colledge in Manchester in Lancashire, and one of the Assembly of Divines.	Heyrick, Richard, 1600-1667.	1646 (1646)	Wing H1748; Thomason E338_11; ESTC R200845	22,360	35

sides waiting for Gods determination at last God in his glorious Majesty raysed himself from his Throne and effectually cryed out How shall I give thee up England how shall I give thee up and so without Conclusion and finall determination dissolved the Session to the admiration and astonishment of both parties Beloved the truth is we are yet in an uncertain and doubtfull condition none knows what the sentence shall be at last what God will do with us God hath already done as much above our hopes as our deserts God hath lengthned out our tranquillity he hath given us a breathing time great Salvation he hath wrought for us he hath given us Liberty and opportunity to work our salvation with fear and trembling beleeve it the Lord waits for something from us O yee that are the Lords remembrancers ye Senators ye Ministers ye people speak often in his ears give the Lord no rest ye Israel of God ye mighty Princes of the Lord ye men and women of Prayer O all ye that are before the Lord this day this Fasting day open your mouthes wide unto the Lord ask great things of God ye Noahs ye Daniels ye Iobs ye Moses ye Aarons ye Jeremiahs ye Ba●u●hs plead Englands cause with God and let not God go till he hath left the blessing behind him O pray pray pray with strong cryes and groans pray away what ever it is whether person or things that keeps God from us Esther Mordecai they of Shusan they prayed Haman and all the Conspirators dead together Haman and his wise Counsellors they for twelve Moneths together used Divination and Inchantment Esther in three dayes praying overthrew what they were contriving twelve Moneths nothing can stand against Prayer Prayer is omnipotent it is a Commander of the Heavens a Controuler of the Elements it commands God himselfe one prayerfull Christian may do more then ten thousand beside let not then God go lay hands upon him pray the sentence on your side You that are the Parliament of England act strongly for God act like your selves according to the trust reposed in you Did Publius Scipio a private man kill Tyberius Gracohus that did but lightly weaken the Common-wealth and shall we that are Consuls saith the Consul of Rome let Cataline alone to work a common-destruction let not Malignants rest quiet amongst you there can be no safety to our Country to our Religion whiles such misereants lurk in our dwelling little know we what Gun-powder Plots are now in hatching and how neer they are to the Birth whilst the Pope remains at Rome and the Devill in Hell and their Agents in England the sons of darknesse will be still working in the vault of Darknesse to ruine the children of light shew not the least countenance to the detestable Neutrality that is practised by many God writes in his books write you in yours all Neuters Enemies all that are not for you against you The Hedgehog the Hierogliphick of the Newter hath two holes the one towards the South the other toward the North when the South wind blows she stops that hole that is toward the North when the North wind blows she stops that towards the South such urchins are all Temporizers that halt betwixt two opinions And as for Apostates that are fals to their Covenant and to your State let not your eye pitty them let not your hand spare them execute justice to the enemies of the Common-wealth shew mercy with favour to your friends You my Beloved in the Ministery be zealous for God if God bids us prophecy nullus consultandi locus no choise is then best that Roman Magnanimity must then take place necesse ut eas non ut vivas Silvanus and Timotheus peremptorily told the Emperor Power thou hast O Emperor to punish us but never to drive us from the Tenets of our forefathers Eusebius refused to deliver Constantius the Emperor the Decree made by the Councell against the Arians though he threatned to cut off his hand yet he refused it Theodosius reports that the King of Scythia slew Anacharsis the Philosopher for worshiping the mother of the gods after the Athenian manner and the Evangelist records that twice our Saviour purged the Temple he that was the mirrour of Patience see how he looseth the Reines in an holy Indignation in Sacrilegious abuses in Religious quarrels The Multitude of the Offenders the might and malice of the Observers the danger of the Action nor the perill of the consequence stayes his hands but he scourgeth out the buyers and sellers out of the Temple Truly Phineas Zeal Iehu's March Iosiahs Resolution Luthers Heroicall Spirit are necessary for these times It is all one to deny the faith and not to maintain it silence strengthneth Error and they that through fear or negligence hold their peace like sleepy watchmen they betray the City when a truth in Religion is questioned when error is preferred he that to his power doth not resist de suo damnabitur silentio shall be condemned for his silence Courage the Lord is with you And ye people of the land come forth and helpe the Lord against the mighty Curse ye Meroz saith the Angel of the Lord Curse ye bitterly the Inhabitants thereof because they came not to the helpe of the Lord to the helpe of the Lord against the mighty These are not the words of an angry passionate Prophet but of the Angell of the Lord not rashly thundered out from the Pulpit but zealously from Heaven not with meeknesse and calmnesse of Spirit but in bitternesse and fervency of Spirit Here is not a single Curse but a double a multiplyed Curse not against the professed open Enemies but against the lukewarm the feigned friends not against the Cities of the Cananites but against Meroz a City now in the Confines of Israel All Israel was against Achan and all Israel must be for the publike safety If any man draw back Gods Soul shall have no pleasure in that man they are no Israelites indeed that will sit still on this side Iordan whilst their brethren are in the field Be all active in your way for encouragement I will onely say this you shall see your desire of your Enemy your soul shall be filled with the goodnesse of the Lord for the first see Isaiah 60.14 The sons of them that afflicted thee shall come bending Unto thee and all they that despised thee shall bow down themselves at the soales of thy feet and they shall call thee the City of the Lord the Zion of the Holy One of Israel God will make the sons of Princes bow down unto you the greatest that have afflicted you and despised you shall lie at your feet For the second see the successe of this Resolution Esther 9.29 30 31 32. Your Fasts shall be turned into Feasts your dayes of mourning into dayes of rejoycing your good ones shall be made great the Esthers the Mordicais shall be advanced the Hamans the common Enemies shall be destroyed Religion shall be established the Peace and safety of the Country shall be secured Gods glory shal be exalted and you your selves highly Honoured God shall have the glory you the happinesse posterity the blessednesse of this desired Work FINIS Pro. 24.6 Doct. Exod. 32.26 Luke 14.26 1 Cor. 16.22 Eph. 6.24 Acts 21.13 Rom. 9.3 Exod. 32.31 32. 1 Joh. 3.16 Reason 1 Exod. 5.2 Dan. 4.30 1 Chro. 29 14. Heb. 10.5 Cant. 2.16 1 Sam. 2.30 Mat. 26.13 Luke 17.33 Mat. 10.1 Mal. 1.10 Prov. 19.17 Esth. 4.13.14 2 Esdr. 9. 40. to c. 16 27. Ezec. 9.4 Vse 1. Ezec. 37. Isa. 7.11 12. Isai. 53. Esth. 9. c. 10. v. 16. 2 Sam. 21.3 4 5 6. Exod. 21.30 Jer. 41.8 Revel. 18.6 Psa. 137.8.9 Lam. 3.64.65 66. Isa. 26.11 Mat. 23.35 Esth. 1.16 17 18. Ezra 7.26 2 Sam. 9.3 Esth. 6.1.3 1 King 22 19 20. Deu. 4.32 33 34. Judg. 5.23 Isa. 60.14

as her predecessor Vasthi how easie had it been for her to have over-looked the calamity of her people she that before neglected her Husband her Soveraign how would she have here under-valued her servants her subjects her wise Ladies would have perswaded her yea she would have said her self it had been an unnecessary anxiety to have interrupted her mirth with the thought of their misery a businesse beneath the State of a Queen to undertake the rescue of a few despised Country-men especially with the hazzard of the forfeiture of her honour the high displeasure of the King the danger of the Law the hazzard of her life the small hope of successe This certainly would have been her voyce if they perish they perish but Religious Esther she more esteemeth of her peoples safety then her own her life is bound up in theirs if they perish she could not live she would have been more miserable had she surviv'd their Misery who could desire to live when the Country is dead all owe more to their Country then to themselves this Esther knew which thus strengthned her resolution together with the preservation of her Religion a second consideration 2. Religion is the very Nerves and sinews of the Common-wealth the very heart and prime fountain of life and livelihood the Crown the glory of a Nation the beauty the strength the perfection the Spirit the soul of a Kingdome In Religion is Embarqued the publike safety when that is aimed at the danger is dreadfull the losse beyond recovery Eli's heart trembled whilst the Arke was in the field in doubtfull disputation but when he heard the Arke was taken he fell from his seat whose heart was sooner broken then his neck yet with that he dyed Happy death that made him not out-live the losse of the Arke none but Atheists that know no life but the present but they make Religion the first thing The Heathen is recorded to all ages for the laying aside his Father Wife and Children and taking the care of his Country gods few make Religion their businesse especially they that sit at the top of the wheel cloath'd in soft rayment dandled on the knee and lul'd in the bosome of soveraignty there are that will sell Paradise for Paris and will launce no farther forth then they may return safe again but Esther is of a more divine temper she stands up for the defence of her Religion In her Religion she saw the glory of God had founded it and it could not be ruin'd without a manifest hurt to the glory of that God which was dearer to her then her own life the third and last encouragement Nothing is more dear yea so dear to a Religious soul as the glory of God the glory of its own soul is valued at a cheap rate in respect of this Gods glory is the supream the highest glory the sun of glory if that be darkned though all the stars shine it is still night whereas if that shines in its glory though no stars shine yet it is day Chrysostome professed he loved nor honoured Rome so much for her Antiquity her multitude of inhabitants her sumptuous fair buildings the great priviledges and immunities of the Citizens the beauty and glory of the City as for that the Lord of Glory was held forth there in the preaching of Peter and Paul Heaven it self is not so glorious as a poor Country Village where the King of glory is preached Queen Esther rather then the glory of God should be obscured by a black cloud of his servants blood rather then the miscarriage and downfall of Religion should open the mouth of blasphemy to spit reproach in the face of Gods people she will stake her owne soul lay her life at pawn to redeem the glory of God from such an injury Finis dat amabilitatem the end beautifies the enterprize if any end can adde glory to any surely this doth multiply on the head of Ester she is resolved actum est it is done already in her unbended resolution she cloaths her self with Virtue and puts on courage with her Jewels Thus accompanied with Divine beauty and heavenly Valour she sets forward to her already bleeding Nation her Weapons are faith and prayer her Armour courage and resolution her Attendants beauty and virtue her word Si pereo pereo nor can danger difficulty or impossibility Haman Death nor Devill turn her back again Go I will Thus you have heard with what cautions with what courage and wisdome Queen Esther and by her Example every good Christian ought to enter into a Resolution here was an absolute integrity of all concurrencies which made this resolution good acceptable to God comfortable to her self profitable to her people The person that made it fitly qualified the end moving sufficiently warrantable the circumstances honest and seasonable the means direct and lawfull Here was no defect iniquity and exorbitancy of any particular but a generall combination of all requisites The Resolution was necessary and religious which will the better appear if we compare what Queen Esther did in Persia with what the Scriptures testifie the Saints and servants of God have done at other times and ought to do at all times which is my second thing the Doctrine and the confirmation of it In the Cause of God Religion and our Countries we are not to passe for perishing Gratious and Religious spirits neither are nor ought to be out-dared in the cause of God Religion and their Countries safety by the fear and danger of perishing They that are on Gods side as Moses proclaimed in the gate they are to know neither father nor mother but every one to stay his brother companion and neighbour Christ teacheth us to hate father and mother and wife and children and Brethren and Sisters yea and our own lives also when they stand in competition with God Saint Paul saith 1 Cor. 16.22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be Anathema Maranatha he speaks not of the Jews and Heathens but of Christians the Apostle blesseth those and prayes for them that love Jesus Christ in sincerity Ephes 6.24 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity as the blessing is so is the curse Anathema Maranatha to them that love not the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity None can love Jesus Christ in sincerity that love their lives before and above Christ Saint Jerome protested he would trample upon Father and Mother if they hindred his way to Christ Cursed be he said that noble Marquesse that counts the whole world to one houres enjoyment of Jesus Christ Saint Paul could not by the prayers and teares of his friends be kept back from going to Hierusalem though the Spirit witnessed Bonds and afflictions did attend him there why do ye break my heart for I am ready not to be bound onely but also to dye at Hierusalem for the Name of the Lord Jesus

County but now she sits like a Widdow desolate the hand of God hath lately gone out against them the onely Town untouch'd by the Enemy and the onely town in all the County stroke of God The Priests the Ministers of the Lord that did bear the Ark of God upon their shoulders there were sixteen of them in that Parish and now I know but one one alone as Eliah left to do the service of the Lord and he is upon tiptoe ready to take his flight scarce having bread through the wickednesse of the times the great revenues of the Church being unjustly withheld from him to put into his childrens mouth the Wals of the Garrison they moulder away and what the Enemy could never do time hath made wide breaches in their Works and there is not at this time that I know of five souldiers to keep the Garrison these things in a Petition they have lately laid at your feet Give me leave in theirs and others behalf to say Let not so great labour of Love be forgotten Let the blessing of them that are ready to perish be upon you Comfort them yea comfort them according to the time wherein they have been afflicted yea give them double for what they have done There are many Uses that I could make of this Doctrine but time and strength would both fail me I will conclude all with a short meditation peruse 1 Kings 22.19 20. And he said hear thou therefore the Word of the Lord I saw the Lord sitting upon his Throne and all the Host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left And the Lord said Who shall perswade Ahab that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead and one said on this manner and another said on that Be pleased to conceive a Parliament at this time conveen'd in Heaven and God on his Throne asking this Question Shall I destroy England And so some Answers after this manner and some after that One stands up and sayes England must be destroyed Elijah a bold and daring man he makes intercession to God against Israel Lord they have killed thy Prophets and digged down thine Altars thou hast consumed with the Spirit of thy mouth and hast consumed with the brightnesse of thy comming the great Antichrist the Grand Imposter the man of sin the son of Perdition the wicked one and behold there are many Antichrists many wicked ones that are risen up in the room of him there are little Foxes that spoyl the Vines those Vines that have tender Grapes and they are not taken away A Second seconds the former and saith England must be destroyed there is a great cry of injustice of oppression of wrong of injury blood toucheth blood Courts of Justice Committees are Courts of Robbery and spoyl the poor sheep flyes to the bush for shelter and loseth his fleece Papists Malignants compound and they oppresse their poor Tenants that have engaged themselves in the publike for the Lord against their lords A third assents to what the two former hath said England must be destroyed wrath is begun amongst them they begin to imbrue their hands in each others blood and because others cannot murther them they will kill one another Lord what fears what suspicions what jealousies what sad divisions amongst thine own people they that Affliction made friends prosperity makes enemies they whom one heaven will contain one Church cannot A fourth confirmes and concludes with the three former England must be destroyed they have broke the Covenant they have falsified the Oath of God Oaths and Covenants are like Sampsons coards every one makes use of them to their own Interests To these agreed many more there was a great cry heard in the house Down with it down with it even to the ground God looked from his throne and wondred there was not one found not one to stand in the Gap to make an Atonement to speak in the behalf of England After a short silence one arose from his seat and said Lord wilt thou destroy England England for whom thou hast done so great things amongst whom thou hast magnified thy Name hast done Wonders What Nation is there so great who hath God so nigh unto them as the Lord their God is in all things they have called upon him for and what Nation is there so great that have Statutes and judgements so righteous Aske now of the dayes that are past which were before thee since the day that God created man upon Earth and aske from the one side of heaven unto the other whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is or hath been heard like it Did ever people hear the Voyce of God speaking out of the midst of the fire as thou hast heard and live or hath God assayed to go take him a Nation from the midst of another Nation by temptation by signes and by wonders and by War and by a mighty hand and by a stretched out Arme and by great terrors according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes God never did more by Josuah by Macchabeus by Alexander by the King of Sweden then by the Parliaments Army this year wilt thou destroy what thine hand hath done what will the Atheists the Papists the Malignants say Surely God was not able to save them save them for thy great Names sake A second ariseth and saith England must not be destroyed Lord wilt thou destroy a righteous Nation if there be fifty forty thirty twenty ten righteous there shall not the Judge of all the Earth do that that is right there are seven thousand at least that have not bowed their knees to Baal there are sixty thousand and more yea then sixty hundred thousand that cannot discern betwixt the right hand and the left thou never didst destroy a praying a reforming people wilt thou now do what was never in thy thoughts before A third ariseth after the second and pleads the same cause England must not be destroyed there is a Parliament in the midst of them Physitians of great value God hath been amongst them and in the midst of them and they are still acting for God and the Kingdomes safety did ever Parliament perish before After all these the fourth ariseth that there might not appear fewer to speak for then there was to speak against England England must not be destroyed they cannot dye alone the three Kingdomes must dye with them yea the Protestant Churches throughout the world hast thou not said That hell gates shall not prevail against thy people To these many more joyn'd in heart and Vote there was a considerable partee of both sides nor could it be determin'd whether had more voyces they that spake for the destruction or they that spake for the salvation of England and having said they were silent And behold as we read in the Revelation there was in heaven great silence for half an houre both