Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	day_n	lord_n	word_n	7,457	5	4.1658	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34914	A fore-warning and a word of expostulation unto the rulers, magistrates, priests of England, and her dominions, uttered forth from the spirit of the Lord, that they may read, weigh, and consider.	R. C. (Richard Crane)	1660 (1660)	Wing C6811; ESTC R24283	5,193	8

A Fore-Warning And A WORD OF Expostulation Unto the Rulers Magistrates Priests of England and Her Dominions uttered forth from the Spirit of the Lord that they may Read Weigh and Consider LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Sign of the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1660. A Fore-Warning AND A WORD OF EXPOSTULATION Unto the Rulers Magistrates Priests of England and Her Dominions c. GIve ear O ye Rulers of England and her Dominions who are now exalted of what degree or quality soever diligently hearken to the reproof of the Lord which is uttred concerning you is it not for you to do Justice and Equity in this Nation and to undoe the heavy burden which hath been and is born amongst the people knowing that for leaving this thing undone your Predecessors the fore-going power was rejected of the Lord and think ye that if ye be found in the same steps and walking in the same path that the same hand which is the righteous hand of the Lord will not reach you and bring you down though you be never so high and may think your selves never so sure and though you may in your thoughts strive with Eternity yet know your day is comprehended in it and must have an end assuredly Therefore stay a little and consider honestly in the sight of God let us reason together for what cause is it think you the Lord hath brought you into power and exalted you is it because the Lord hath a love to you more than any other or is it because the Lord is well pleased with your doings or is it because your Righteousness exceeds theirs that are rejected and cast out before you let that which is just in all your consciences judg and answer me whether it be for all or any of these things forementioned if it be then what means all these abominations which are of late excercised and as it were free toleration of them for there is no restraint at all by any man in power high or low laid upon them but the Flood-gates or rather the Hell-gates of wickedness are opened wide truly it is very hard to he uttered the several wickednesses committed as Stage-plays and other plays Bear-baiting Bul-baiting leading the poor creatures up and down the streets drest with Bells and Ribons Bag-pipes playing before them multitudes of men women and children following them leaping shouting and rejoycing now this is publikely done to the amazement of all that fear the Lord and the private wickednesse is exceeding hard to be uttered as Drunkennesse Whoring Thieving Murthering Revelling Blaspheming God Scoffing and Deriding all that fear him When I have beheld many of these things my heart hath even melted within me to consider the end of them for truly I must bear my Testimony in the fear of the Lord that the tenth part of the wickedness now committed was not committed in the time of the fore-going Power though the Lords controversy is with them and he hath brought them to Judgment Therefore see search and read this is my advice if your Righteousness exceeds not their's you can in no wise escape the Judgment of God who is Just and renders to every one according to their doings and if the hypocrite be brought to Judgment who said and did not what will become of the open prophane read with that of God in you and then you will understand for I tell you the sin of the hypocrite and the sin of the open prophane is all abomination in the sight of God and for judgment though it may be the stroak may be heavier upon the one then upon the other read I say and then you will know your Condition and think not that in this day the returning to your abominable broth and Swins flesh which the Lord spued out many years since will be an acceptable sacrifice in this day of the Lords great Manifestation and appearance who is risen in great might and Power to confound and dash in pieces root up consume and burn whatsoever the Heavenly God hath not planted for into the fire must it be cast which burneth for ever And you who are the Ministers of this which the Lords curse is to wo wo from the Lord is your portion and better it had been you had never been born then to grieve Gods good Spirit in you and all his children by doing that which the witnesse of God in you condemns for Oh you prophets of wine and strong drink have you been hid in the earth these many years are you now moved out of your holes if your worship were the worship of the Spirit then where hath been your Testimony all this while The true Ministers of the Gospel who speak by the spirit of God concluded woe to themselves if they preached not the Gospel it was not the powers of the earth could silence them but they were obedient to Gods commands but dumb Idoll Shepheards have you been and so you are And think not because you have the Powers of the Nation on your side that your wares will come to a better Market than your Ancestors if so good for the day is dawned and the Sun is risen which is the Light in thousands of men and women and hath discovered the Marchant of Babylon with his deceitful wares so that no more of them will be bought of you for ever glory to God and Immortal praises of all his be given for ever and ever who hath made bare your skirts and so appears your shame and nakedness to all And as to your long Robes Vestures and Girdles you flutter up and down the streets in you find neither rule nor example in Scripture of any of the Ministers of the Gospel that wore such for distinction yet there were such as wore long Garments but they were deceivers and know this is your Figure which you wear you dumb and speechless do you intrude into the house of the good Man to the supper which he hath prepared you are by him found dumb and he hath pronounced against you to be bound hand and foot and to be cast into utter darkness this is your sentence from the Lord and the type of your Girdles And as to the Power that gives you life and vigour in this thing I say a day is given them though it be a day as in Winter yet a work they have to do for the Lord who hath ordained them as a Rod and a Scourge to chastise his people by and hath filled them as a Vyal with his wrath which is to be powred upon that Spirit that hath dealt treacherously and rebelled against Gods manifestation and so just it is because the Lord hath appointed it and when the Rod hath finished and he that appointeth it saith it is enough then into the fire shall it be cast Therefore consider what you are and how you are in the hand of the Lord for assuredly the Lord will plead with the Rulers and Priests of this Nation