Selected quad for the lemma: saint_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	judgement_n	lord_n	ungodly_a	1,215	5	10.0738	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77975	The vvofull cry of unjust persecutions, and grevious oppressions of the people of God in England, through the injustice of some of her rulers, and wikednesse of teachers and people, who hasten to fulfil the measure of their forefathers cruelty. With a lamentation over them all who rewards the Lord evill for good, and is a warning to them all for repentance; shewing that the coming of the Lord is nigh. And this may serve for an answer in full, to all such who have persecuted by violence, by word or writing the innocent people in scorn called Quakers. With a short addition, which shewes unto all, the ground of persecution; in its first cause, and the enmity which is betwixt the two seeds, is clearly discovered, by a friend to the suffering seed of God, E.B.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1657 (1657)	Wing B6058; Thomason E927_1; ESTC R207590	26,005	39

should grow grieveous yoaks have you laid upon it by false imprisonments and unjust fines and illegal proceedings by beatings halings abusings reproaches and revilings all manner of evil have been acted and spoken against the generation of the just by you and under you in your judicatories and jurisdictions in your Corporations high-waies Townes and Goals and other places O! what have you done consider and suffered to be done under you lay it to heart what havock of the people of the Lord in their persons and estates and what cruelty exercised upon them through your robellious hearts without any evil justly charged upon them or breach of any law justly proved against them for well doing and not for evil have you caused them to suffer For crying against iniquity and reproving sin in the gate and for bearing witnesse to the truth and against all unrighteousnesse which abounds in this generation such have you falsly judged to be offenders and cryed a confederacie against them and strengthened the hands of the wicked and caused the innocent to groan O! what will you do in the day of your visitation when the Lord ariseth to plead with you to whom will you fly for refuge and to whom will you cry for deliverance Shall not the Lords soul be avenged upon you yea from the least of you to the greatest You shall feel his hand of judgment even all you who have had your fingers dipped in the unjust sufferings of the dear servants of the Lord whom he hath called to place his name with for ever who are his faithful witnesses in this perverse generation and by your persecuting of them have you proved them to be the people of God in the sight of all Nations and it is for a testimony unto them that they are of God and against you that you are of the Devil and Christs words are fullfilled upon them to their rejoycing and to your sorrow who said The time comes that they shall speak all manner of evil falsly and persecute you and think they do God service that kills you and casts you from among them and the Devil shall cast some of you into prison And these things you have done and fullfilled Christs words against your selves for a witnesse against you and to shew that you are enemies to Christ and to his kingdom and that you will not have him to reign as I have said Therefore when hee reigneth hee shall say bring hether those mine Enimies and slay them before me O! what will the just Judge of true judgment the God of Heaven and Earth render unto you when he ariseth to plead the cause of the poor and needy and to deliver his Inheritance from under your oppression into perfect freedom What account will you give in that day when hee brings swift destruction upon you And wherewith will you answer him when the secrets of your hearts are made manifest and when the true witnesse in you all is awakened which will bring to your remembrance all your cruel and unjust dealing and all your bitter and hard speeches which in your envy you have brought forth against the Lord and against his people What will be done to you his enemies when Christ Jesus whom you have persecuted comes to reign in his Kingdom and subdues the kingdoms of this World and changeth them into the Kingdoms of the Lord and his Christ and the Saints which you have oppressed receives the Authority and Dominion It shall be said All that would not that Christ should reign slay them before him when it shall be given to the Saints to bind Kings in chains and Nobles in fetters of iron and to execute upon the heathen all the judgments written for behold all ye stout hearted the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his Saints to judge the World in righteousnesse and you shall be convinced of all your ungodly deeds for the Scriptures must be fullfilled and as you have done even so will it be done unto you when the suffering of the righteous is finished and your wickednesse come to an end when the Lord shall reign you shall lick the dust off his feet and all the persecuters of Christ shall be trodden down as mire and the righteous shall rejoyce over them and the Lord shall mock when your fear and calamity comes which come suddenly in a day when you expect not how shall the Lord pardon you for this you have sinned against knowledge and gone on after warning and hardened your hearts after reproof and the day of your visitation you have greatly slighted ye Rulers have abused your power and ye subjects have abused your subjection and now consider what God did in gerations past unto the rebellious children what he did to Pharaoh and all his Hosts when his long suffering was finished how did Pharaoh harden his heart and his cruel Task masters oppresse the righteous even as you have done and they would not let Israel go free to serve the Lord but they kept them in bondage and this way you walk who exercise cruelty as they did and laid heavy burthens upon the innocent grieveous to be born cruel task-masters have you been over the heritage of the Lord and in Pharaohs example of wickednesse have you walked fullfilling his measure of cruelty and Pharaohs example shall you follow in a cursed end remember how the loftinesse of his heart was bowed down and how his proud heart was abased in the day that God pleaded with him in his righteous judgments he and all his task-masters was confounded in a day and the bondage of the righteous was broken in a moment how was his whole strength of tyranie overturned and turned into weaknesse the righteous were delivered and he and all his train overwhelmed in one day and thus shall it come to passe upon you Therefore consider this all ye that fullfill the measure of iniquity suddenly will the righteous God be awakened to take vengeance upon you and the just shall not alwaies groan under your bondage for he that looketh from the heaven hath pity upon the distressed for whom now his arme is stretched out to bring deliverance unto them and all their enemies will he confound who have this long time ploughed long furrows upon the back of the righteous the oppression and cruelty and injustice brought forth in this Nation it calls for vengeance from Heaven Alas alas woe is me for you you Heads and Rulers and Judges of England what have you done and suffered to be done under you against the innocent people of God who is as dear to him as the apple of his eye for they be written on the palms of his hands and because of the cry of the poor and the needy will the Lord arise and plead their cause Oh consider and let it enter into your hearts the cruelty and injustice that hath been brought forth in this land and remember what God did unto all the persecuters of old how was their strength