Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	good_a	law_n	transgression_n	4,529	5	10.4346	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30514	A declaration from the people called Quakers, to the present distracted nation of England with mourning and lamentation over it, because of its breaches ...	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing B5989; ESTC R15613	12,844	18

have been making themselves rich with the Nations Treasure and loved this worlds perishing honour and vaine titles the Nation hath starved for want of mercy and just judgment and the cause of its necessity hath bin forgotten and mercy and truth and the freedome of the people neglected and the cause of the faeherlesse widdow and stranger and the cause of the afflicted people have they not respected Oh Nation the men that have sitten on thy Throne they have left thee groaning yet under great oppressions wounded with the spirit of Tyranny yet un-cast out and thy people are yet unhealed but the breach hath been made wider even by that Spirit which hath possessed thy Kings thy Parliaments thy Protectors thy Councils thy Committees who hath proved unto thee Phisitians of no valew but have bin the encreasers of thy greefe and even because of their iniquities and the Sin of their ambition and oppression hath the Lord dealt thus with them and suffered them to dash one another in pieces and through judgment unto themselves and thee oh Nation are they at present ceased from thee and thou art left alone and without a deliverer in the Earth full of troubles and distractions oh that thou wouldest now look unto the Lord and seek him in righteousnesse that he may heale thee for there is none of all them that do pretend to Rule thee that do rightly proceed in the way of thy deliverance they do not apply healing balm unto thy wound they rather add unto the cause of thy sorow then removes it from thee their hearts are not aright before the Lord and how then shouldst thee prosper in their doings All these things have we veiwed and pittied the condition of our Nation and thus we do declare that the very cause of these things that are come to passe in thee is in that oh Nation thou hast sinned thou hast sinned and the cry of thy iniquities is come up before the Lord even the sinns of thy Rulers and thy People is the cause of Gods displeasure against thee and he is provoked through their transgressions in thee is found the blood of the innocent in thee is found the murther of Souls in thee is found treachery against God and hipocrisie and dissimulation with God and men in thee is found pride and oppression whoredome and drunkennesse stealing and murther in thee is found the very burthen of iniquitie and the full measure of transgression even the transgression of Gods whole Law deceit is found in the unsoundnesse of heart and unconstancy in all good things multitude of hypocriticall fastings prayers and services in thee is found even destroying sins of all sorts doth abound and thou hast provoked the Lord God by thy abominations Thy Rulers have bin oppressors thy Teachers deceivers of Soules and thy People are froward and perverse against the Lord in thee is found the men that judge for rewards and the Priests that preach for hire and the Prophets that divine for money thy fins are like Israells of old for number and greatnesse and thou hast lost Gods favour and gain'd his fury by thy own doings and thou art the very cause of this misery and hast brought it upon thy self and because thou art departed from the living God by thy transgressions therfore hath he confounded thee and turned thy wisdome into folly and he is departed from thee and out of thy counsells and men are left to the counsells of their own hearts and as it were ready to destroy one another Ruler against Ruler and Neighbour and Friend full of strife one against another and this is hapned unto thee as a judgment for thy iniquities who hast also neglected a glorious day of visitation thy Rulers and inhabitants have bin warned and the cry of repentance hath bin sounded towards them all by a despised people but warning hath not bin regarded but the Word of the Lord rejected by thy Rulers and People and loe what wisdome is there in them not so much wisdome from God as can preserve them but it may be just with the Lord to suffer them to drink the blood one of another even because they have finned against God and rejected his counsell therfore is this come to passe in the Nation for hadst thou oh Nation walked in the light of the Lord it had bin better with thee had every one obeyed the light in his own conscience and had every one sought the Lord and not himself had thy Rulers Ruled for God and had thy people bin Ruled of God then this day had not bin a day of trouble but it had bin a day of joy and sorrow and anguish had bin removed farr from thee and blessings had filled thy habitations And now wheras many wise men have bin advising and consulting the peace of this our Nation and they have given in their counsell for the removing these troubles yet peace and unitie seemes to be farr away and though they have sought peace for this nation yet they have not walked in the perfect way therof for innocency truth and simplicitie have bin wanting which God only will blesse and by flatteries and deceipts and the pollicy and wisdome of this world have they thought to make up thy breach but it cannot be for in the way of that proceeding will not the Lord be found in a needfull time and his presence hath bin wanting in their counsells and therefore the fruit of peace is not yet grown up this we have seen and therfore thus we do declare O Nation the inward cause of thy distractions must be removed even thy iniquities must be forsaken and thy transgressions repented of thou must forsake thy former waies and doings that are not right thou must leave off thy hypocrisies and flatteries with God and men thou must repent thee of thy profannesse and of thy profession also thy sin and thy righteousnesse must thou put away which are both abominations unto God thou must cease to do evill and learn to do well and thou must be uncovered of thy Sheeps cloathing thy large profession of Religion and the multitude of thy prayers and Sermons and the number of thy Oblations and Offerings these things have not bin pleasant unto the Lord from thee but because hrreof is he the rather provoked against thee and thou must be stripped of thy filthy garments and sett as in the day that thou wast borne before thou canst be cloathed with divine righteousnes and O Nation thou must be changed not in name only but in nature thou must be converted that the wrath of the Lord may be turned back from thee every inhabitant in thee must becom a fighter against the evil in his own heart and the plague therof must be sought out and removed the sin must be forsaken that judgment may cease and every one must cease to provoke the Lord and no longer vex his Spirit within them and every one must love the light of Christ in his own

conscience and become a follower of it that will lead him out of all sin and every man must put off his transgressions and forsake himself and lay down the enmity and cast it out of his heart that he hath against Persons and he must warr against the Enemies of his own Soule and the Enemies of his own house must be slayne even his own lusts and even the evil affections of his own heart must he become an Enemie unto and every man must deny the false Teachers and Deceivers and must come to be taught of the Lord every one must turne to him and come into his Covenant and hear his Word and obey his Voice and become humble and meek and must tremble at the word of the Lord and must become upright and innocent And O Nation if it were thus with thee then shouldest thou be a happy people if thou do thes things then shal all thy breaches be healed and thy sorrows be turned into joy and the Lord shal cease to smite thee his anger shal be turned clean away This is our counsel unto thee remove thy iniquities by repentance be converted to the Lord and he shall heale thee and his love shall be shed abroad peace plenty and satisfaction unity and concord shall be unto all thy inhabitants and the Lord himself shall be thy King thy Judge and thy Law-giver he will judg thee with equity and not with oppression he will teach thee in the perfect way and thou shalt not err he will defend thee from all thine Enemies and Tyrants shall not have power over thee Oh Nation if thou do these things even turn to the Lord with all thy heart that he may walk in thee and dwell in thee then should thy light break out of obscurity and the dew of mercies should fall upon thee and it should be unto thee as a Morneing without cloudes and thou should'st be refreshed after all thy sorrowes the Nation should be happy and the People blessed and the Government of peace and truth should be established never to be confounded any more And thus thy iniquities being removed the plague should cease and the cause of destruction being taken away no fruit thereof should appeare wherfore let men cease to hatch mischiefe one against another and to seek vengeance one of another and let them seek with all speed and sincerity to get victory over their own sins and that vengeance may be taken upon their own transgressions and this is our counsell for the healing of our Nations breach and for the turning away of the anger of the Lord But and if O Nation thou continue in thy perversnesse and in thy transgressions which the Lord hates and if thou wilt not turn to him that smiteth thee and love his Rod that corrects thee but wilt alwaies greive the Spirit of the Lord and will be obstinate and stout-hearted against the Lord and his reproofes and if thou wilt continue in thy accustomed sins then shall the reward therof be upon thee even breach upon breach and one judgment upon another and mercy shall be with-holden from thee and the dew shall not fall upon thee but thou shalt be as a barren heath and thou shalt be given up to consume thy self in mischiefe and in thy heart burnings one towards another if thou wilt set up Rulers of thy own proud and ambitious men and will not choose the Lord to Rule over thee but reject him and his people then shall thy breach never be healed by the men whom thou choosest but through them shall thy breach be more desperate and thy wound made more incurable and if thou wilt set up Teachers that teach for filthy lucre and Prophets that divine for money and Priests that preach for hire and will not receive the Covenant of the Lord and him to be thy Teacher by his Spirit then shalt thou Err in thy wayes and stumble and fall and never know perfect peace with God nor one with another but as thou lovest oppression and deceit and walkest in transgression so shall it be unto thee and thou must eat the fruit of thy own doings misery upon miseries shall be upon thee and thou shalt not see the face of the Almighty to refresh thee wherfore O Nation consider before the night come upon thee when no way will be found by thee to be delivered for in the midst of thy confusions God is a working he hath a work to bring forth which shall be a work of great mercy and deliverance or of sorrow and of great judgment even to the whole Land And as for us we hereby declare unto thee we are not thy Enemies we seek not thy hurt nor do we desire vengeance upon our Enemies we seek not thy destruction but we desire thy repentance that thou mayest be healed we have not the spirit of mischiefe and rebellion in our hearts towards thee neither are we for one party or another nor do we side with one sort and rebell against another neither do we joyne our selves to this sort or the other nor do we warr against any by carnall weapons neither shall we ever provoke the Nation against us otherwise then by our righteous and holy walking we do declare that we are not for men nor names nor shall we joyne with this or that sort of men but as they act righteousnesse alone nor any thing which yet appears can we fully embrace or rejoyce in for they are all corrupted in their waies and that cursed spirit of self seeking seemes to be the rule of and to leaven their principall actions and we rather yet chuse to suffer by all as for a long time we have don already then to lose our integrity and innocency by joyning to any in their unjust waies for we reject all places of corrupted honour and we are yet kept free It is true we are a people gathered of the Lord into one Spirit and though a people littie in account and very low in reputation and greatly reproched and even a suffering people by all sorts of men yet we are a people loved of the Lord and his presence is among us and his dread filleth our hearts and though we are accounted as a cast-out people yet are we dreadfull unto the wicked and must be their fear for we have chosen the Sonn of God to be our King and he hath chosen us to be his people and he might command thousands and ten thousands of his Saints at this day to fight in his cause he might lead them forth and bring them in and give them victory over all their Enemies and turne his hand upon all their persecutors but yet his Kingdome is not of this World neither is his warrfare with carnall weapons neither is his victory by the murthering and killing of mens persons neither hath he chosen us for that end neither can we yet beleeve that he will make use of us in that way though it be his only