Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	earth_n	hand_n	heaven_n	12,835	5	5.1423	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41058	A letter sent to the King from M.F. here is also thereunto annexed a paper written unto the magistrates in 1664, which was then printed, and should have been dispersed, but was prevented by wicked hands / by M.F.	Fox, Margaret Askew Fell, 1614-1702.	1666 (1666)	Wing F633; ESTC R5602	6,447	10

make them transgressors with though they be of the same Religion that they themselves profess they profess Christ and the ●criptures in words but those that come to the works of Righteousness and to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ which is the work of God such they persecute and make Lawes aga●●st so that England appears now as if it would shut Christianity out of its dominion and what will they bring in and set up next seeing they banish out Christ and his Members and s●●vants and saints and so makes them slaves that be freeborn English men which hath been a blessing unto them and to the Land wherein they lived and no hurt to them and if they had given them the liberty of their Conscience to have served the Lord God they might have been partakers of the blessing with them but being that they have turned their hand against the Lord and turned their sword backwards against the Righteous surely the Lord will plead for this and surely there will a recompence come for its hard to strive against the Lord and to touch his Anointed and to do his Prophets any harm when they were but few in number be reproved Kings for their sake and he is the same now he changes not and his arme and power is the same and his Righteousness is the same which is to be revealed upon the head of the wicked and he is engaged to plead the cause of the innocent who hath no pleader in the Earth and his eye sees and beholds all the Actions of the Children of Men and those that acts against him and his servants he takes special notice of and be saw the affliction of his people formerly when they were afflicted in Egypt and heard their cries and knew their sufferings and surely he is the same now as he was then and as he hath said himself in as much as you do it unto my little ones you do it unto me this he said when he knew that his next appearance should be in his Saints and certainly those that persecuted his Saints even without a Law when they had none and contrary to several Lawes of England as several of the servants of the Lord hath suffered hath Christs servants been persecuted by those that were in power formerly and they that did this and they that make new Lawes certainly if Christ and the Apostles had been and were upon the Earth they would have done the same unto them but all these things the Lord hath taken notice of and they are written where they cannot be bloted out and all the righteous blood that hath been shed since Abel and all the Saints sufferings in all ages the Lord hath taken notice of and all those Christians in these latter times where several have been imprisoned to death for the Christian faith all this the Lord hath in everlasting remembrance and when he comes to make inquisition for the blood of his saints and servants it will be a hard and a sad day for the acters and fighters against God so all ye Christian Magistrates beware what ye d● and keep your hands out of blood and persecution of the innocent and let that which is past suffice for ●e will find it heavy enough and for the time to come dread and fear the Lord God of Heaven and Earth that hath all your lives and breath in his hand to give and take away at his pleasure and do not that which may incur the Lords displeasure against you by making Children fatherless and wives widows as there are already several in England at this day it 's better for you to offend Man then God and so endanger your mortal souls so mind that which concerns your eternal peace and the eternal welfare of your souls and this I am moved of the Lord to forwarn you of least you bring wee and misery on your souls and a general judgment on the whole Land and this is true love unto you and the desire of the general peace and good And remember that you were warned from a prisoner of the Lord in Lancaster Castle 7th day ●th Mon. 1664. Margaret Fell. THE END