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	new_a	sabbath_n	12,020	5	10.1331	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96139	I being moved of the Lord, doth [sic] call unto you that are gathered together in Parliament.	Web, Mary.	1659 (1659)	Wing W1205; ESTC R186329	3,621	4

I being moved of the Lord doth call unto you that are gathered together in Parliament O Sons of men eat your meat with trembling drink your wine with trouble and carefulness and cease from the evil of your doings least it should be said to you as it was by Ezekiel the Lord ordered him to declare this I will set my face against that man I will make him an example and a Proverb O if there be any here that are haughty I beseech you in the fear of the Lord come down to that low little principle placed in every one of you which doth check and reprove you in secret this is the way by which you must enter into the Rock I say hide your selves there for fear of the Lord and for the glory of his Majesty for the day of the Lord of Hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty and upon every one that is lifted up for he shall be brought low and upon all the Cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up Mark what are you lifted up from or what is it you are a joyning too are any of you as oaks are any of you as high as Mountains in your own thoughts are any of you as Towers in strength come to know that pow●… that can shake you are any of you as fenced walls turn in and feel who is your fencer and try can you dwell with everlasting burnings if not your fence will be consumed and your walls thrown down for the Lord alone will be exalted in this the day of his Power Therefore let not the wise man glory in his wisdom neither let the mighty man glory in his might let not the rich man glory in his riches but let him that glorieth glory in this that he understandeth and knoweth me that I am the Lord which exercises loving kindness judgement and righteousnesse in the earth for in these things I delight saith the Lord if there be any of you now here that is truly noble come to the tryal hast thou received the word with all readinesse of mind if so then thou knowest how to search the Scriptures O be not satisfied with the piece of nobility which Felix had nor with that measure which Festus enjoyed behold not many wise men after the flesh not many mighty not many noble but God hath chosen the foolish things of the World to confound the wise Therefore he that will be wise must first become a fool that he may be made wise and he that will be truly honourable must know the fear of the Lord by that pure principle which is placed in you which will lead you to humility This is that which reproves for a vain life namely covetousnesse which leads to idolatry pride uncleannesse swearing lying evil speaking foolish jeasting idle communication let it not be once heard amongst you for for these things cometh the wrath of God he that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom Friends one thing more I have to lay before you which I have been long burthened with it is namely this that which you call your Church Government who ordained those houses to be called Churches who ordained those Priests which receives hire from what fountain ariseth their words consider is it not from the letter These are such whom I deny their voice for these are strangers the sheep of Christ knowes his voice and they follow him the Lord in his infinite love hath opened my understanding that now I know a Minister of the spirit from a Minister of the Letter their fruits makes them manifest the one is Colledge bred taking his degrees there thus he is made a Minister of men the other is fitted and furnished with the Spirit of the Lord sometimes called out of their shops some from their handi-craft Trades and some from the Plow those being made able Ministers of the Spirit think this not strange for it was the way of Christ when he was upon earth to call men from their nets these are as they were having the same spirit as they had they have had power given them to turn men from darkness to light from the power of Satan to know the living God and to love him and to fear him in keeping his commandments they are not grievous but joyous these Friends which have been sent forth to declare this truth which hath been a word of Life unto me and many others they need no Steeple-house neither a hundred nor hundreds a year neither want they Curate Clerk or Sexton nor Bells wherein many thousands of pounds are laid out wastefully Consider how many Widows and Fatherless Children there be which wants bread lying up and down the Streets Down with your Bels and make money of them and cloath the naked and feed the hungry and come to know what the Bell of Aaron is come to know what the fast is which the Lord God accepts of so shall you come to know the everlasting Sabbath Friends I would have you really believe this That God is no accepter or respector of persons but in every Nation he that feareth him and worketh righteousness is accepted with him wherein the Righteous doth rejoyce and are exceeding glad for all the upright in heart have cause to rejoyce for their crown none shall take from them O all ye Inhabitants of the earth WHo are in the profession and not in the possession of a Sabbath be awakened out of the sleep of your security for the Lord our God hath a controversie with you for your hypocrisie Behold he is weary of your lip-service ye have drawn near him with your mouths but your hearts have been far from him Oh consider if this be not your state This that you call your Sabbath Hast thou not put it to this use there hath been more preparation for the flesh then for the Lord in the cost of thy apparel and the fulnesse of dyet instead of spending this day holily thou hast spent it idlely wantonly and vainly Mark If it be not your studies against that day what to eat and what to drink and what to put on and when you are richly clad full fed I speak to you as have enough as to the outward Consider was your talents given you for this end is this the way to be accepted of the Lord either in the day or in thy action you that are of a lower degree do ye not also strive to follow the steps of these that are mentioned before in working wickedness with greediness Turn into the measure of God I say turn in both old young rich poor for I have a witness in every one of you which doth or shall set these things in order before you therefore whilest it is yet time whilest it is called to day Consider in the pure fear of the Lord if it be not high time to cease from vanity O thou that art rowling thy self in vanity thou knowest not how soon thy breath may be stop't this know assuredly that thou must give an account for thy actions done in the flesh your words and your thoughts also which hath been evil and that continually I say continually feel my words thy prayers thy fastings thy Sabbath keeping and all is abomination to the Lord so long as thou abides in the fallen state consider are you not as those people were who did eat and drink and rose up to play I say to play the generality of you on that day which you call your Sahbath when you are full feed do you not go to the Steeple-house and there behave your selves as in a Play-house gazing and viewing each other for your new fashions The Lord our God is wearied with these your wicked and prophane practises And for this cause hath he a controversy with you I hate and abhorre your Fast dayes 〈◊〉 the Lord and I will not smell in your solemn Aslemblies But ye being ignorant of God you observe dayes moneths and times Behold the Kingdom of God comes not by observations See what the Lord saith nay rather feel I will cause all your mirth to cease your Fast-dayes and your Sabbaths it is your iniquities which hideth good things from you O repent repent forsake the evil of your doings before the Vials of his indignation be powred out upon you for the day is come and coming wherein the Lord will take vengeance on them that knowes not our God and that obeyes not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ The Lord is raising up witnesses to declare unto you the folly of your vain observations mark One man esteemeth one day above another another man esteemeth every day alike Let every man be fully perswaded in his own mind he that regardeth the day regardeth it unto the Lord is this your state and he that regardeth not the day unto the Lord he doth not regard it Rom. 14.6 Let no man therefore judge us in meat or in drink or in respect of a holy day or of the Sabbath dayes which are a shadow of things to come But the body is of Christ 2 Colos 16 17. O my Friends let us walk worthy of the Lord unto all well-pleasing being fruitful in every good work and witnessing the increase of the knowledge of God Quit your selves like children of light Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility if ye be dead with Christ from the Rudiments of the world why as though living in the world are you subject to Ordinances touch not taste not handle not for all these things are to perish and we are to trample upon them in this present life who art thou that canst limit the holy one of Israel how he shall work or by what means I find the spirit without limitation this query is in love these lines are from a friend to the whole Creation and a lover of Righteousnesse I am known by the name of Mary Web whom the world scornfully calls Quaker The End London Printed by Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1659.