Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	death_n	life_n	sin_n	20,389	5	4.8932	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91137	To the mayor and aldermen, with all others in authority, both in the civil and millitary affaires in and about the city of London, together with all other sorts of people of what condition soever, high and low, rich and poor, professors and prophane, who reside in and about the said city; : listen and give good eare to what is here declared unto you by a servant of the Lord.	Parker, Alexander, 1628-1689.	1665 (1665)	Wing P388; ESTC R181437	2,732	1

To the Mayor and Aldermen with all others in Authority both in the Civil and Millitary affaires in and about the City of London together with all other sorts of People of what condition soever High and Low Rich and Poor Professors and Prophane who reside in and about the said City Listen and give good Eare to what is here declared unto you by a Servant of the Lord. THe Living God of Heaven and Earth whom all people ought to Reverence and Worship with all humility in Spirit and truth in their hearts hath waited long to be gracious unto you and hath done great things for you he hath given you life and breath strength and health and fulness and plenty of all good things more hath not been in any age as in this latter age besides all these outward Blessings and mercies manifested from God unto you he hath also held forth himself in much love and kindness unto you in giving his Son a Light into the World that hath enlightened your understandings and shewed unto you what is good and what is evil and he hath long been striving with you inwardly by his Light and Spirit to draw your hearts out of the evil into the good that you might walk with him and live unto him in the life that is pure and holy and moreover as the overflowings of his love and to manifest his willingness that all might be saved and none perish he hath sent forth his Messengers and servants amongst you to invite you to come unto him and wait upon him and serve and obey him in truth and uprightness of heart and much more hath the Lord done for you whereby you are for ever left without excuse All which Mercies have been abused by many of you and the proffers tenders of Love sleighted and you have kicked against God and have not turned at his reproofes but have cast his Law behind your backs and turned his Grace into wantonness you have lived in pride and pleasures and have delighted and taken pleasure more in the Creatures then in the Creator Oh the sins the sins of the people of this City are great drunkenness whoredom luxury rioting and excess and all manner of abominations are found within your borders and when you have been warned by the Servants of God in the day of your Prosperity of the calamity and misery that was coming upon you and the Plagues and Judgments that did hang over your heads as many have been faithful in warning of you you have made a light matter of it and esteemed the many warnings as a thing of nought and despised the Messengers and Servants of God and evilly entreating of them by reviling and scoffing and casting them into nasty Prisons as in these late years past hath been largly manifest Those who have departed from iniquity and according to their best judgment and understanding have cleaved unto the truth and followed after Righteousness they have become even a prey unto you who could not joyne with you in your wayes of Worship which men have invented and set up and not God and could not go on with you in your vain wayes riotings and other flesh-pleasing practices such have been branded with strang and foul names as Phanaticks dangerous persons Plotters of mischief and contrivers of Insurrection c. though none of these things ever was proved nor never can be proved against that innocent people called Quakers though we have deeply but most unjustly suffered as witness the year last past how have your Prisons been filled with a People whose conversations have been and are more innocent blamless then yours and Oh how many have laid down their precious innocent Lives in the last year fresh young people that according to what we can judge might have lived many years and been serviceable to God and men in their generation had they not been suffocated and even stifled and Nature corrupted in that foul stinking Prison of Newgate whose blood cries aloud for vengeance surely the Lord ●s now come to render vengeance upon the Inhabitants of this City for ●his great Sin of persecuting and imprisoning and banishing of a People meerly for the worship and service of God and though you have not mentioned this Sin in your late confession yet know that this Sin cryes ●ery loud in the eares of God And now what will you doe in the day of Calamity and sore misery that is come and coming upon you your Sins are so numerous and weighty and being so far alienated from the word of eternal Life you cannot look death in the face which hath strongly assaulted and entred your borders but flyes before it and whether can you fly Shall not the Lord finde you out y●a surely and his judgement will not cease untill he have eased himself ●… his adversaries he is highly provoked and his wrath is kindled very h●t Oh who can stand before him or who dare supplicate him on your be●alf I know not the man that knows God in Truth that dare appear fo● you in the state and condition you are in for though the Lord hath visit●… you in judgement yet this is observed that most are apt to put it al● off and doth not humble themselves by repentance and though any may draw nigh to God with their lips and cry aloud now when t●e judgement is upon them or near unto them yet will not the Lord he them for your sins have made a separation between you and the Lord and though you make many Prayers the Lord will not hear Oh what sh●…l I say unto you in this day my heart is even pained within me becaus● of the misery that is coming upon you from the Lord. I have little to say to you because he is angry with you onely as one who has found mercy from him and knowes what is pleasing and displeasing unto him I advise and councel you to humble your selves before the Lord and to break off your sins by Repentance open the Prison doors at Newgate and other Prisons and set those free who suffer onely for their Conscience towards God and whatever you know to be evil shun and avoid it and whatever you ●…ew to be good embrace it The Lord hath given you Light to shew you what is evil and what is good let every one speedily turn from the evil and cleave to the good and walk humbly before the Lord it may be he may then be i●treated to remove the heavy Judgment and Plague that 's now broken forth and shew mercy unto the penitent that not onely confesses but forsakes his sins Delay not time but now even now while it is called to day harden not your hearts for the Lord will not alwayes strive with man but will render vengeance in flames of fire upon all the stiffnecked and disobedient and they shall be seperated from the presence of God and from the Glory of his Power Blessed are the faithful and obedient who follow the Lamb of God in the Regeneration who have taken up the Cross and despised the shame who suffer with him such shall raign with him and whether living or dying in health or sickness in bonds or at liberty in banishment or in any other condition it shall go well with them and they shall rest in peace and dwell with God in his Holy Presence where there is Joy and Pleasures for evermore Given forth by one that mourns with the Mourners and suffers with the Sufferers who am a lover of Truth and Righteousness waiting to see it flourish as a branch and to run down as a mighty stream as God hath promised Alexander Parker London 11th of the 5th Moneth 1665.