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master_n	child_n	servant_n	wife_n	7,379	5	6.5654	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28133	The trumpet of the Lord sounded forth unto these three nations as a warning from the spirit of truth, especially unto thee, oh England, who art looked upon as the seat of justice, from whence righteous laws should proceed : likewise, unto thee, thou great and famous city of London, doth the Lord God of vengeance found one warning more into thine ear ... : with a word of wholsome counsel and advice unto thy kings, rulers, judges, bishops, and priests ... : together with a few words unto the royal seed ... / by one who is a sufferer for the testimony of Jesus, in Newgate, Esther Biddle.	Biddle, Ester.	1662 (1662)	Wing B2865; ESTC R38832	17,824	25

have beheld the Sufferings of my People notwithstanding the noble and worthy Acts that have been done by my People in thee how hast thou Bruised Beaten and Knocked down Killed and Spilt the blood of my innocent Lambs and haled them into thy nasty Prisons until they die Oh! the blood of the innocent is found in thee which cryeth aloud for Vengeance unto my Throne Drunkenness Whoredom and Gluttony and all manner of Ungodliness Tyranny and Oppression is found in thee Thy Priests Preach for hire and thy People love to have it so Rioting and ungodly meetings Stage-Playes Ballad Singing Cards and Dice and all manner of Folly not in corners only but in the high places of thy streets wicked works actions are not punished by thee and hundreds may meet together to commit folly and take the name of the pure God in vain and cause his soul to mourn and abuse themselves with his Creatures until they can neither go nor hardly speak Taverns and Ale-houses are frequented day and night and are seldom disturbed by the Magistrates or sent to Prison or Bruised or Knocked down but they that are Innocent and cannot lift up a hand or bear Arms for or against any man and have no evil or hard thought in their Hearts against any one neither do they speak evil of things they know not or contemn Magistracy but reprove Sin in the Gate and ungodliness in the Streets and so have made themselves a Prey these are they that are Punished by thee and whose Sufferings are deeper than any People upon the Earth besides Oh London the sins of the old world is found in thee art thou guilty or not guilty for thy time draweth near wherein thou must give an account unto me who am a dreadful and most terrible Judge unto that Spirit which leadeth thee into Persecution Oh! thou art grown numerous and very great thy beam reacheth unto Heaven and thy Glory unto the end of the Earth and thou hast Crowned thy self with Dignity and hast built thy Nest among the Stars and sitteth as a Queen thou hast made thy self strong and hast said in thy Heart Thou shalt not see Sorrow thou seest no Scarcity within thy Gates but Fulness within thy Pallaces But know this as from the Lord thou bloody City thou shall know his terrible stroak who is God Almighty He will plead with thee as in the Valley of Jehosaphat even with the Fire of his Wrath and the glittering Sword of his Spirit Oh! thou famous and beautiful Harlot who art beautified with the Glory of Egypt thou hast played the Whore with many Lovers Oh! thy Bed is defiled and thou hast forgotten thy Creator which maketh my Soul to mourn thy strength shall become weakness and thy Glory shall perish thy beauty shall be turned into ashes and thy honour shall become contemptable because thou art covered with a dark Cloud of Sin and Transgression and so cannot behold the Lord Envy hath misled thy mind which hath caused thee to Imprison his Messengers not only them of thy own City but Strangers who hath forsaken all to visit thee in Bowels of Everlasting Love and thus hast thou rewarded them which is contrary to Christ's Command which is to love Strangers In the Dayes of Old they received Strangers and washed their Feet and gave them to eat and to drink but thou briusest and knockest them down and keepest them in Prison from their Families and hast said The Parish will look after them Oh thou merciless City dost thou think to obtain Mercy from the Lord How many Families hast thou seperated the Wife from the Husband and the Husband from the Wife and the Mother from her Children and the Servant from the Master not suffering them to see each other for a time The Lord hath said Cursed is He that separateth a man from his Wife and dust not thou bring that Curse and many more upon thy head we have been found in no Plots nor Risings but have seeked the good of all Souls and the Prosperity of all Nations in Olivers Dayes and ever since we have been gathered out of the Worships and Vanities of this City and could not Bow unto Hammon we have been a suffering People and nothing could be found against us but concerning the Worship of our God which must disanul all unjust Laws made by Man The Medes and Persians had nothing against Daniel but concerning his Faith and I know Daniels Spirit liveth amongst us Therefore consider what thou art doing for in vain dost thou set up Briers and Thornes in Battle against the terrible God for by the brightness of his Coming shall they be burnt up for assuredly the Lord will arise mightily for his Seeds sake for as a Lyon roused up is he come who is the munition of Rocks and as a she Bear bereaved of her young Ones will he roar and disquiet all thy Inhabitants Oh London God hath a remnant in thee which he hath marked for his own which shall escape the Wrath that is to come Glory Glory Songs of Everlasting Praises be rendered unto the living God who hath not left himself without a witness in thee Oh London If thou wouldst return saith the Lord Almighty I will heal thy Back-slidings and forgive thee all thy Sins I will withdraw my bitter Cup which I have filled full of my Indignation and I will cover thee with my Garment of Everlasting Love and I will be married unto thee even as a young Man marrieth a Virgin never to be seperated I looked down from the Throne of my Glory and I saw thy distressed Condition thou art as a Sheep without a Shepherd as upon the Mountains of Prey and art scattered hither and thither amongst the Clouds of Religions thou knowest not which way to turn thou art like the Dove thou canst find no rest nor footing for the soal of thy foot thou art liable to be torn by the Woolfs and devoured by the Lyons thy TeachErs are removed into corners And thou art disposessed of thy wonted Houses and Service Therefore saith the Lord do I pitty thy ConDition and if thou wilt hearken unto me who am near thee in thy Heart and in thy mouth at thy down lying I am with thee and in the night season I visit thee and at thy uprising I call thee to repentance how many years have I born with thee as I did with the old World but my Patience came to an end and my Wrath waxed hot and so it will against thee if thou wilt not hear my beloved Son which I have sent a Light into the World and if thou wilt learn of the Light which shines in thy Heart then thou wilt be on heaps no more neither will thy Teachers and Worships and Church be any more removed into Corners but thou wilt be built upon Christ the Pillar and Ground of Truth who is the Church of the First-born then wilt thou have Fellowship with the Lord and thy-Glory