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	heaven_n	kingdom_n	10,536	5	5.6204	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74728	Plaine Scottish, or Newes from Scotland. Part thereof being the copy of a letter sent form Edenburgh: and the substance of the rest being by word of mouth imparted to a friend in London, by some of no small estimation in that Kingdome.		1643 (1643)	Thomason E247_5; ESTC R206807	6,166	6

Christs most faithfull Servants who doe onely ayme at the glory of Christ and Hi●… Majesties happinesse He also prayed That God would give Him most reall sollid and sound Humiliation for His own and His Peoples most fearefull raging and Crying sinnes their idolatry Superstition Profanesse and Blasphemies That the Lord would humble Him for His over-long favouring and honouring of the Enemies of Jesus Christ that he would let him see and know what manner of persons are about him and to discerne his Friends from his Foes all true hearted Nehemiahs from al●… treacherous Tobiaths and Sanballats all well affected Mordecaies from all those proud insulting Hamans who onely seek the utter extirpation and rooting out of al●… the people of God and of his precious Truth out of all his Kingdomes That he would remove farre from him all Ahabs false Prophets and overpowerfull and malicious Doegs with all ambitious and prating Diotrephesses against the Lords most blessed People and Truth together with all time serving Sycophants all wicked cursed profane Atheisticall and Popish affected persons and worldly wise Achitophels with all Apostaticall Demasses that for the love of this present world forsake the Truth and the Cause of the deare Saints of God which is Gods own cause that hereby his Throne may be established in righteonsnesse and in the utter confusion of the cursed and pernitious Councels of these Enemies his Crowne might flourish upon his own and the heads of his posterity Also for the Queene he prayed That God would bring her to the knowledge of Christ and give her a sincere love and affection unto the Truth with all his holy Ordinances to grant her an understanding and a tractable heart to all the wayes of God and to let her know that all the wayes of Antichrist are wayes of death that shee being throughly acquainted with all the hellish and abhorred practises of Popery may utterly detest and forsake the same He prayed also for the Religious holy heavenly and happy education of their Royall Issue and especially of the Prince his Highnesse And because whom the Lord blesseth should be blessed and whom he curseth should be cursed he desired The God of all blessing with all the blessings both of heaven and earth to blesse that most learned wise and Religious Assembly the high Court of Parliament his Majesties great brave and worthiest Councel in that most renowned Kingdom of England in which Kingdome the Lord had bin and it was his prayer and his hope that he still might be worshipped in great power and purity even in the beauties of holynesse notwithstanding all the cursed conspiracies and practises of all the enemies of Reformation there He also earnestly prayed That the Lord should blesse all those that blessed them and that he would curse those that curse them to be a friend to those that are friends to them and an enemy to those that are their enemies and that he would smite through the loynes of all them that rise up against them and of those that hate them that they arise not againe He also prayed very affectionately and zealously that the Lord would blesse all their Armies both by Sea and Land all their Officers and Commanders in Chiefe especially the Right Honourable Gods faithfull Servant Robert Earle of Essex Lord Generall of their Forces with all subordinate Officers imployed in that service for the glory of God the felicity of his Majesty and tranquility of the Kingdome He prayed That God would fight his own Battle and maintaine his cause against that cursed deceitfull and Trayterous profession and practise of bloody and hypocriticall Roman Catholiks risen up in Armes in deare England and distressed Ireland to exterminate the truth and sincere professors of the glorious Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ Oh that God would divide these cursed enemies in Jacob and scatter them in Israel and give glorious victory to his Servants in either Kingdome and render to all their implacable enemies a recompence answerable to the worke of their hands and give them sorrow of heart The curse of the Lord be upon them even to the utter destruction of all such who do not belong to the Lords election of grace and if still the Sword of the Lord would not be quiet he desired that God would give it a charge to destroy his enemies the adverse party those uncircumcised Philistims Atheists and Papists that have banded together and would not have Iesus Christ to raigne over them who refuse to bee guided by the Statutes of his Kingdome and desire not the knowledge of his holy wayes This was the summe of that part of his prayer which occasioned exception besides divers exceptions which were taken at his Sermon which I forbeare to mention We are wayting for the Kings answer unto our Commissioners and accordingly you shall see the resolutions of this Kingdome raised for most of our Gentry Comminalty are firm unto the Parliament of England but amonst our Court Parasites both Nobles Gentry there is nothing but unsoundnes in them and treacherie to be expected from them your Court Malignants there have such influence into ours here that had not the divine providence prevented it wee had ere now beene imbroyled in the same sufferings but I hope God will breake their bands and burst their cords asunder not our bands whom you call Malignants can affect although it tends unto the ruine of their owne as well as of your Kingdom they will attempt it at what price soever upon Thursday last being 16. February The Earle Mon Rose and Lord Oglseby were proclaimed Traytors to God their King and Countrey with the beat of a Drumme and the sound of a Trumpet here in our Citie of Edenburgh Because that contrary to there Covenant to the breach of the peace of both Kingdomes they stole out of Scotland to Newcastle an hundred and twenty horse men to assist the King against the Parliament There be two bookes in Print the one is called Plaine English the other a New Plea for the Parliament which have done much good in this Kingdome But we heare that you are about a Treaty which is much wondred at that contrary to former expresses it should now be concluded and upon such disadvantages as we heare of and as you wil find the pardoning of Delinquents to be unto you such a peace wil lay a foundation of future misery unto your Kingdome and end in a more bloody war so their treaties intend onely their owne ends The Spaniard ever gained more by their Treaties than by their Swords by their Counsels King Charles is too much acted as all the World can witnesse and his Popish Army make no little boast thereof And if both Armies were disbanded which we believe the Catholiques wil never yeild unto although the King should grant unto adisbanding this cause concerning them so much are you not in statu quo prius nay worse can that be cordially forgiven which will