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	time_n	week_n	12,399	5	9.7424	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77554	Now heare this all yee persecuting rulers, preists [sic], and magistrates throughout the world. Woe, woe, terror, terror, and feirce [sic] indignation from the Lord God, even the true testimony written in this book, / by the servant of the Lord Daniel Baker.	D. B. (Daniel Baker), fl. 1650-1660.; Bache, Humphrey.	1659 (1659)	Wing B482C; ESTC R170425	6,824	8

Now heare this all yee persecuting RULERS PREISTS AND MAGISTRATES Throughout the WORLD The tree is known by it● fruits so sai●● the Scriptur● as may appe●● by what Joh● Waterton ca●●ed a Justice 〈◊〉 peace hath been long bearing and hath brough● forth as may appear by these following lines Woe woe terror terror and feirce indignation from the Lord God even the true Testimony written in this Book by the Servant of the Lord Daniel Baker T … is your just recompence from the righteous hand of the Lord even the equall portion of your Cup which the farther you goe on in persecution the deeper will this Cup be filled with the wrath and sore displeasure of the Lord God of recompence And yee Preists Magi●rates and Rulers of England New-England and Rome who have Lawes made in the corrupt wills of Men that were in the making of them out of Gods feare and not in that spirit and wisedome of God that gave forth Scripture and so unjust grounded Lawes by which the Popes inquisition is persecution to death by fire for the testimony of a good conscience New-Englands Law after banishment to be hanged to death Englands Law Mens wills and imprisonment till death for bearing testimony against corrupt Lawes and corrupt Mens wills Oh ye Magistracy and Ministry of England and New-England call not the Church of Rome Whore any more like ill-bred children all you that persecute seeing you may read your selves and all that runnes may read you like Mother like Daughters in persecution all Sonnes of the Bond-woman seed of the Adulterer and the Whore who must all drink up this Cup of Gods feirce indignation and I say again the farther you goe on the deeper will it he filled to you and it will be for you the more bitter to drinke it and all you Constables Marshall and Servants to him Goale-keepers and Servants to them I warne you all in the feare and dread of the Lord God take heed how any of you or any man obey the command of any Magistrates that doe or shall in their corrupt willes or according to any corrupt Law command you to serve them in persecuting the innocent to hale them without a just Order under their hand and dragge from their presence to Prison without a just mittimus or somewhat to shew the crime to be just for which you are commanded to doe their command and let Goalers consider how they receive any into Prison without a signifying from the Magistrate the crime laid against them which is but reasonable lest blind service be done by them and so they be found Servants to the Devill in doing what the corrupt willes of Men command them which feare not God and so all of you who joyne with them and lend a hand to them in persecution partake with them in what is written in this Booke even the feirce and bitter Cup of Gods just indignation H. B. Now is the time of thy tryall come oh John Waterton who shalt most assuredly give an accompt before the throne of the Lamb the light of the holy Citty for all the deeds of darknesse done in thy body who art weighed in the equall ballance of the true Sanctuary and art found wanting notwithstanding thou art called a member of a Church of Christ who I am certaine never had nor hath at this day such a corrupt fruitless unsavory darke blinde wicked member pertaining to his most pure body which is the Church of the living God the pillar and ground of truth which thou art out of And all sober people may behold where thou art and hast been exercising the power of darknesse of the Beast and of the Whore that hath bewitched thee with her sorceries and made thee drunke that thou hast long time reeled and staggerd and vomited up thine owne shame through the open streetes thy stinke and ill savour behold I tell thee is come up into the nostrils of the most pure Lord God of Sabboth and the eternall eye comprehends thee and all the fruitless and wild trees of the Forrest the land of darknesse and barrennesse the fire is already kindled and woe to the stuble the chaffe the vipers and serpents the deafe venemous Adders which in no wise would heare the voyce of the Charmer and can a fire be kindled among such venemous uncleane creeping things and will they not hisse make a noise and shoote forth their stinges surely it hath and will be so and who can expect to gather Grapes on Thornes or Figges on Thistles I know their expectations shall faile that doe a member of the true Church of Christ or the Man of God of truth meeke and mercifull as a Ruler ought to bee and of sound Judgement to shew forth all long suffering gentlenesse meeknesse sobriety temperance purity moderation brotherly kindness love without dissimulation or respect of Persons and these and such like are the fruites of the pure cleane spirit of the Lord but mine eye hath not yet beheld these fruites proceed from thee but contrarywise bringing forth corrupt and unsavoury fruites by which the poor and needy have been long time eppressed and burthened under which they have deeply sighed and groaned cheifly upon the first dayes of the weeke which thou in thy blind darke zeale hath often called the Sabboth or Lords day whose is every day to the shame of thy darke Teachers who have not yet taught thee to distinguish between the dayes of the weeke and the Sabboth and so art found persecuting with the powers of darknesse them that feare the Lord and keep his Commandments who said six dayes shalt thou labour and the seventh the Sabboth which was given for a signe to Israell in the wildernesse where the Idolaters and Murmerers were destroyed and fell before the Beleevers entred into the good Land of rest and many shall fall after the same example amongst whom thou art who shalt give an accompt for every Loafe of Bread and ounce of Meate Flower and necessary Foode and Rayment which the poore the Widdowes and Fatherlesse have wanted which thou through thy persecuting oppressing blinde wicked zeale on the first dayes of the Weeke hast so frequently taken from them without pitty compassion or mercy which is all out of the way of God whose wayes are equall and if any Man doe the thing that is good just or equall on the first day which is one of the six which the Lord commanded Israell saying six dayes shalt thou labour he doth well and if the Lord command one thing and blinde persecuting Magidrates and great Men of the Earth make Lawes and Decrees to command another thing whether is it better to obey God or man let such as feare and desire to feare the God of truth judge and let every Man search with the light his owne heart and so be fully perswaded in his owne mind see what Daniel in such a matter and the three children did Dan. 3.17.18 and Dan. 6. and I am sure

Justices that did grant them Licences next day thou told J. W. That thou would indite him to the Sessions for denying to put my maid in the stocks though J. W. were not then there in thy presence and thou may remember that thou said if thou were a theife thou wouldst rob the Quakers rather then any other as thou past the fields with him to Stepny steeple-house and it's manifest what was in thy heart was it not fulfil'd last first day of the week when thou commanded two Men to take my goods out of my shop and hast not yet restor'd it again which was about a bushill of flower and it s written the theife should restore fore-fold or be sold for his theft and I would not have the theife hang'd but that he might live to repent and reform his life And work with his hands in the thing that is good and this is according to Moses spirit in the Scriptures of truth and the Apostles doctrine who said let him that hath stolen steale no more and I would not have any hanged for stealing on the first day or any other day as the Mayor and some Aldermen of the Citty of London can testifie for I am a friend to Moses Christ the Prophets and Apostles spirit O man what will be thy end for surely these things will lye heavy upon thy conscience when the hand of the Lord visits And the reason thou gives in thy lying Mittimus of my Servants commitment was for asisting silly women to keep open my shop on the Lords day but art not thou in the night in the darknesse and is not the light good and is not that which is good called day and is not the first day of the week a good day and so is every day whose is the Lords that made them and tell me which day I shall open my shop that is not the Lords day And whereas thou calls them silly women whom thou saidst my servant did assist I tell thee again thou hast falsly accused the innocent and they are not silly women for they have learn'd of Christ the light the Lord of the Sabboth the substance that ends the signes to come out of the shaddows and likenesses and thou may read in the Scriptures that they are silly women that are laden with sins led away with divers lusts ever learning c. 2 Tim. 3. chap. The thorny briery and unsavoury professors of the Prophets good words may read themselves who are so proud haughty and scornfull in their costly aray and changeable suites of apparrell being at ease in the flesh whose minds are led captive after every lust and vanity and so become defiled and hardened walking haughtily with stretched forth neckes the spirit of envy exercising their minds with such scornfull eyes that they can hardly tell how to looke one another in the face without disdaine not knowing a bridle to their own tongues nor like to Sarah's adorning within which will bridle the whole course of the proud rebellious nature and I say this is not liked nor beleev'd in by these which serve the Lusts Pride Vanity Pleasures which are of the world and not of the Father of truth and yet such are called Christians members of Churches and of the body of Christ the light the la … 〈…〉 … fore whose throne such shall assuredly give an account and 〈…〉 also tell thee such are silly women and they are not so who learne of Christ whom thou hast falsely accused and freequently vented forth bitter lying reproaches against them which I say againe Will lye heavy upon thy conscience when the Lords hand visits from which in any wise thou canst not fly nor hide Though thou say he refused to tell his name yet thou knew it and did expresse it in thy mittimus and also to make him odious with thy enmity thou hast caused to be written in thy lying mittimus these lying reproachfull words saying he appeareth before me to be a dangerous suspicious person of idle life and this I testifie for the poor man my servant to thy face which will stand upon thy head that this is evill and wickedly false and many people and neighbours about my dwelling house can bring in their record and beare testimony with me against thee and the Lords eternall witnesse in thy conscience will also beare a true testimony and judge thee for these and many other abominations acted by thee against me my wife and family from time to time and behold this I tell thee the Lord knowes my heart I desire these things I have written might not be laid to thy charge at the time when if happily thou may find a place of repentance unto life D. B. Poultrey Counter the inner prison the 1. 9th month 2. day of the weeke 1659. THE END Printed for M. W. 1659.

it is very unreasonable and unequall oppression and cruelty for any one who beares the name Read a Book entituled an Epistle to all the Christian Magistrates and powers in the whole Christendome Sold at the Bull and Mouth neer Aldersgate And another sheet entituled the voyce of thunder especially of a Christian Magistrate or Chris tian or of a member of a Church of Christ to take foode or rayment by force tyranny and cruelty from the poor and needy the Widdowes and Fatherless after they have wrought hard for their bread then to have their bred food and raiment with violence force and cruelty taken from them without mercy pitty or compassion by thee Oh John Waterton how hard will it be for thee with many more that 's in thy nature to finde repentance unto Life for in these and such like cruelties hast thou long exercised thy selfe now the everlasting light of life is springing up and will shine over the whole Earth and spread from Sea to Sea for it comprehends the darknesse and fathomes the depths of Satans wiles his Lawes and Decrees and espyeth out the turnings and twinings of the most subtle Serpents and thou in any wise cannot be hid from this eye the light the Rodde of whose mouth will smite the Earth the breath of whose Lippes shall slay the wicked who are as the troubled Sea that cannot rest as thou did manifest thy selfe the last first day in thy rage and fury without mercy pitty or compassion To my wife and children who are left as the widdow and father less I being cast into prison by unreasonable men because of my testimony in obedience to the Lord against the deeds of the world that lyes in wickednesse for they are evill and wicked and the Lord is pleading with the inhabitants of the earth for these things and thy worke and place should have been hadst thou been a man of God the last first day which thou calls the Sabboth to be a terror to evell doers and bruitish people that are with thee in Cain Esau Nimrod and Ismaells life and nature to have still'd and restrained them from offring and doing violence against them that depart from evill by the feare of the Lord but contrary wise thou did as much as in thee lay strengthen the hands of the wicked to make a prey of the innocent that fear and obey the pure spirit of the Lord in doing the thing that 's Just Equall and good in his sight though the heathen rage and persecute and imagine vaine things yet it shall goe well with them that feare the Lord who is and is to be worshiped in spirit and in truth out of which thou art otherwise I say thou would not have so strengthned the hands of evill doers in going about to ruinate my wife and family who I say was left as a widdow and fatherlesse by throwing one of my servants into prison and putting the other in the stocks and making as it were a prey of my goods and venting forth bitter wicked vile threatnings and unsavoury words as is thy usuall manner so to do not becomming a man thou bearest the name of but art not speaking these words of my wife calling her Baker's Wench and my Maid Bakers Impe and of such sober people that could not doe nor act violence with the wicked calling them Bakers Imps and sometimes saying I was a rogue oftentimes telling people I was mad and Baker thou wilt be in hell ere long when I bid thee repent fear God and do justice these and such like unsound words and filthy abominations acted by thee which are for judgement and to be condemned came from thee and the eternall eye and eare of the Lord hath seen and heard these things and behold the light of life is arising who with the hand of his power is comming neare to judgement with which he will plead with the oppressors and the cause of the innocent suffring seed of Christ in the male and in the female Yea he is arising who comes not to send peace on the earth but a sword Here followth some particulars written in a mittimus under John Waterton's hand who committed my servant Richard Taylor to new B●ide-well who performed the duty of his place and trust and honest fidelity about the space of halfe a yeare and as the duty of a good servant is hath performed his worke the time of his being my servant so that I have no evist thing to lay to his charge and this I testifye that he served under the command of Captaine Whore in the service of the Common-wealth immediately before and since he came to be my servant who cheifly went through all my business in my honest imployment for the maintenance of my Wife and Family I being in bonds my self and this my Servant by force taken out of my house and cast in to prison by John Waterton called a Justice of peace with the mittimus stuft with lyes slanders and reproaches As the moderate reader may read and understand MIDDLESEX To the Governours of the house of correction These are in the names of the keepers of the libertyes of England c. To receive into your custody the body of Richard Tailor being a dissolute and disorderly person and cannot give any good account of his living nor whence he came Now herein be it known to thee John Waterton that thou hast much abused belyed and falsly accused the poor man who did and yet may testify to thy face that he was my servant and that he had been so long with me as above mentioned about halfe a yeare and this was a good account of his living I beare reccord also though thou have caused such lyes and standers to be written under thy hand of the poor man my servant and moreover he told thee concerning his name where it was to be found in the muster rolles and also told thee his name and when James Brock asked John Waterton why he put my servant in prison his answer was because he would do it then James Brock asked if this were an answer beseeming a Christian much more a Christian Magistrate and he said twice it is good enough for thee And thou telling people concerning the people of the Lord who worship him in spirit and in truth that they were a company of Whores and Rogues and that they met together to play the whore and the rogue and this is true that thou said so but in the feare of the Lord in the behalfe of his innocent suffering people behold I testify that it is utterly false and these unclean wicked ahominations is hated abhorred and utterly denyed by us A●d moreover John Waterton thou saidst to Jeffery Winchurst when he said to thee that it was better to suppresse the Ale-houses which were so many and the cause of much sin in the land then thou told him it was long of him and he answered thee it was long of thee and other