Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	ghost_n	holy_a	word_n	15,366	5	4.0928	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66451	A paraenetick, or, Humble addresse to the Parliament and assembly for (not loose, but) Christian libertie	Williams, Roger, 1604?-1683.	1644 (1644)	Wing W2769; ESTC R39762	11,662	18

are of the same religion with you Did you send us out to be cut off and to make a hand of us Did you slay part of us in the field with the sword of the Enemy that you might the easier suppresse the residue at home Do you count us no better then to be swords-meat and to stop the mouthes of Canons O Earth cover thou not our bloud the Lord behold it and require it Should such a din fill your eares sleeping and waking what fruit would you have of your violent proceedings Should you effect your purposes suppresse our Way and cast forth our persons out of this good Land could you put the price of our bloud into the treasury Would you have any list to r●●st what you had g●t by such hunting Would not your stomacks nauseate and turne againe at the raw and bloudy cruelty of the game Take up Oh take up betimes know you not that it will be bitternesse in the latter end Are we not your fellow-servants and Brethren Did not the same hand make us that made you And is there not one Father of us both One Lord one Faith one Baptisme one Religion Are you the onely rightfull Inhabitants of this good Countrey And is there not a curse denounced against those that lay house to house and land to land that they may dwell alone Doe you stand in no more need of us or have wee been reprieved till now onely as the Canaanites to help you to master the Lyons the wild Beasts that they prevaile not against you Brethren I would to God there were no Divisions among us I wish it under the Imperiall law of Heaven and my hearts desire and prayer for Engl●nd is that they were of one heart and one way But is that upon any Scripture-ground to be expected here at least till those Halcyon dayes come while we kn●w but in p●rt Must we never be of one heart till we be of one way Then belike those Exhortations to love and peace and Christian forbearance of one another and not to judge but to keep the unitie of the Spirit are not visions which the Apostles saw for these dayes The time is not yet as the Jewes said Hag. 2. But the Lord may answer us as he answered them Is it time for you O yee to dwell in your ●eiled houses c So is it time for a you to agree and make your common engagement against any of the Lambes of Christ the ground of a renewed friend●hip Is it a time for Papists Atheists loose and carnall Protestants and Malignants to agree laying aside their particular interests opinions and differences Is it a time for French and Spaniards and Danes and Walloones and Irish Rebells to agree and make a confederacy with our homeborne Vipers against the truth And is it not a time for us to agree for the truth Is it a time for godly able men that have in a great part renounced the hidden things of Antichristian darknes to agree with ignorant superstitious Ceremony-mongers that are devoted still to a Common-Prayer-Booke and petition for a Captain to lead them back into Aegypt and with the meanest and unworthiest spirits that will but serve the time and acknowledge their soveraigntie as good Christians and able Ministers to make their party stronger And is it not a time to agree with those that denying themselves and the world professe to seek the truth in love Is all truth among one sort of men Hath not Christ rendred his members all in a mutuall need of one another * Is your way the fulnesse of him th●t fills all in all Can your refuse-Brethren in Conference and Communication of spirituall gifts adde nothing to you Is there not most oft-times in things that are most despised Would Christ have such desperate Experiments practised upon his members to kill them if you cannot cure them of their lesser errours to fine them prison them banish them which to some persons and estates is little more mercy then to knock them on the head Doth not nature teach to beare with a blain or blemish rather then to destroy the body Is Christ so put to it quite out of hope May they not be gained hereafter Are their opinions damnable either in themselves or proper consequences Are they not further ingaged to persist in their wayes good or bad by suffering for such things so deeply and is not the bridge of retractation drawne up thereby Consider these things and take heed what you doe unto these men the Lord hath made Ierusalem a burdensome stone that shall crush all that attempt to remove her If our Way be of God you cannot overthrow it You may shew your selves fighters against God and get the reward of such and that 's all Take heed of walking contrary unto God of casting shame on those on whom he hath reflected such eminent honour both in the Army and otherwise For I aske you By whom hath God more deliver'd us hitherto Who have shewed themselves more valiant in fight who have oftner put to flight the Armies of the Aliens in the North and els-where but those men that in the end shall be put to flight themselves if some may have their will The sword of the Lord and despised Gideon hath saved this Nation Saul hath slaine his thousands and David his ten thousands Let no man envy God will be acknowledged in his Instruments as well as in his Attributes Take heed of resisting the Holy Ghost for that mighty works have been done by these men you cannot deny their power in prayer their shining doctrine their exemplary burning conversation though wee will not paint the blemishes of any of them But 〈◊〉 de tabula I have offer'd my candle it is in the Lord to proportion the successe To some it may be a word in season to others perhaps it will be a 〈◊〉 and a stone of stumbling 〈◊〉 vineet veritas Truth shall overcome I verily beleeve and expect The little Stone cut out of the Mountaine without hands shall irresistibly grow and fill the whole earth and every plant that the He●v●nly Father hath not planted shall be puld up Men may root out themselves by persecution as the Prelates have done but they shall never root up the truth Christian friends and Brethren if the truth be on your side confide to your Cause cease from force and violence that you reflect not disparagement upon it I would end as I began in the spirit of love and meeknesse Consider your calling Brethren that you are called unto peace and take our Lord Jesus Christ for an example who though he was Lord of all yet became a servant unto all He was further above his Disciples in knowledge and understanding then the wisest among us above the simplest Infant yet he disdain'd them not provoked them not upbraided them not punisht them not taught them as they were able to beare after his resurrection comes to them alwayes with