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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	earth_n	heaven_n	lord_n	7,940	5	3.5508	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81107	A cry for a right improvement of all our mercies, and all those vvorks of wonder that God hath wrought among us: VVith some cautions touching the election of the (expected) new representative. Humbly presented by a friend to the publique.	Friend to the publique.	1651 (1651)	Wing C7448; Thomason E643_21; ESTC R206016	9,521	12

A CRY FOR A Right Improvement OF All our MERCIES and all those VVORKS of wonder that God hath wrought among us VVith some Cautions touching the Election of the Expected New Representative Humbly presented by a friend to the Publique Psal 98.1 O sing unto the Lord a new song for he hath done marvellous things His right hand and his holy arm hath gotten him the Victory Psal 47.5 God is gone up with triumph the Lord with the sound of a trumpet Psal 68.4 Sing unto God Sing prayses to his name Extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his Name Jah Allelujah LONDON Printed for Tho. Brewster and Greg Moule and are to be sold at the three Bibles in Pauls Church-yard at the West-end thereof MDCLII A Cry for a right Improvement Of all our MERCIES Allelujah for the Lord God Omnipotent is taking unto him his great power and raigneth HOW evidently how eminently hath he reigned in the Field in England Scotland and Ireland How great is his Name how dreadful and yet how gratious is his presence Yea how glorious in power is his right hand there where he dashed in pieces the enemy where he brake the Arrows of the Bow the Shield the Sword and the Battle and none of the men of might have found their hands when the Lord arose to judgement for the meek of the earth and made his judgement to be heard from heaven through the world O ye All ye Servants and saved ones of the Lord be ye greatly ingaged and abundantly inlarged in real praises Vow vows and pay them unto the Lord our God who shall who hath cut off the spirit of Princes and is terrible to the Kings of the earth who will be exalted among the heathen who will be exalted in the earth who is more glorious and excellent then the Mountains of Prey Who not only in our first and our second war but also in this our third most difficult and dangerous contest wherein the Enemy and old Deceiver plaid his Master-piece contending for the old interest of the Dragon the Beast and the false Prophet under the most specious pretences of all that is sacred to dazle and deceive and draw into the confederacy so many of our poor brethren and to deceive even totally if it were possible the very elect Who I say not only in those former but in these latter also hath not despised the prayer of the humble but hath given in such a gracious return unto the prayers of his poor people so much despised by their now subdued brethren As again a third time to restore England into a real and Scotland and Ireland into a very hopeful capacity to lead a peaceable and quiet life in all godliness and honesty That the Lamb may lie down in peace with the Wolfe and the Leopard the Beer and the Lion that the hand of violence may cease in all the Mountain of his holiness and that none that fear him in truth or are sound in Fundamentals in Religion may be destroyed or hurt in all his holy Mountain Now let all that are real * And as for all formal false hearted Hypocrites his hand will find them out servants unto the God of our salvation that guideth us with strength and crowneth us with his saving health let them be joyful in glory let them sing unto the Lord and bless his name and declare his salvation from day to day Let the redeemed of the Lord say and do so even fear the Lord and serve him in truth and with all the heart for consider how great things he hath done for us And what the Lord our God doth now require of us even to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with our God Now O dear Sirs the Lord help us he hath loaden us with mercies and how doth that charge us with Duty God hath now put us upon the tryal and trusted us with a vast charge who is sufficient to answer it what a price is in our hands a blessed price how much may it be improved through his grace towards the promoting of that great design of heaven in ruining the man of sin furthering of Reformation and advancing the Scepter of Jesus Christ in the Church and in the Kingdoms of this world which shal become our Lords O that it may be O let it be so so shall we have joy and gladness indeed and our brethren of Scotland that worship God in truth and any Scots or Irish that hereafter shall do so shall bless God heartily that ever they were beaten by us as some honest quondam Cavaliers have done and do Let now the worst and more incorrigible be made exemplary by feeling the hand of Justice But let all that are capable of mercy see our earning bowels towards them in the concernments both of body and soul O that they may have cause to bless God for his mercy in subjecting them unto us Let 's study to exalt God in the eys of men and Angels and especially in the eys and hearts of these poor deluded souls upon whose ruins he hath exalted or established us Is not Gods ends in smiting and depressing that he may boar mens ears to receive Instruction and cause them to turn from their Enterprises that he may cause their life to see the light O that we may do like God! let such be our ends and the travel of our souls God hath made us our Scottish Brethrens Masters notwithstanding all difficulties discouragements and earnest and constant prayers with Fastings and appeals of their Friends to Heaven He might have made them Ours and we know the duty of Masters and the manner of Good ones the Lord make us such Indeed their deserts are very ill but so were the deserts of Josephs Brethren and we know our Saviours Rule viz. To love enemies do good to them that hate us and we must be like our Father which is in Heaven in mercy Indeed they have forfeited all their Interest in our Solemn League and Covenant for Vnity and Amity and endevor to promote their wealth and can now challenge nothing of us But God hath not forfeited his interest in us nor in them nor disengaged us from seeking even in all self denying ways to promote his interest in them His Ayms in all his ways are purely to sanctifie Gods Name to advance the Scepter of Holiness and Righteousness in the hand of Jesus Christ and the accomplishment of that holy and righteous will of his from which if we turn aside unto carnal Interests we lose our selves and our Interest in our God The Lord help us to serve the Interest of his Name and Scepter and to do his will with all our might and in the simplicity of our hearts God hath great things to do in the world in these later dayes and he seems to have layd the foundation of the great things of our Age among us in these Nations and if we fall in and comply

with him how happy how happy are we But if we shall either by injustice oppression or want of bowels of mercy or by prophanness or accursed self-seeking or slothfulness and non-prosecution of his ends make frustrate his Ayms in these beginnings how dreadful will our account be Hath any Nation under the whole Heaven such a price such a tallent in their hands God by furnishing us with such Instruments as the better spirited of our Souldiery and many others like to them in single-heartedness to the best Interest and single-ey'd-cleer sightedness and most heroick resolution together with the fame of Gods doings gone forth into all the world and by his mighty encouragements to our faith and confidence by the eminent evidences of his presence with us and of his purposes to go through stitch with his work and by removing the great externall impediments out of the way hath put into our hands the greatest tallent that is in the hand of any Nation under Heaven And if we improve it at home and abroad for real advantage to the interest of the Giver then blessed are we but if not then how much the more shall we be accursed Heb. 6.7 8. And take the unprofitable servant and bind him c. Cast him into outer darkness God hath once more subdued under us all that rise up against us and hath suppressed the Suppressor Take we now warning by former harms procured by Principles of division and suppression Let all that fear God and love his Name be now of one heart and maintain the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace not setting up Vniformity against unity of spirit not Circumstantials against Essentials Let 's allow Jesus Christ to be the apportioner of the measures or proportioner of his own gifts unto persons and Societies and let us own all that are his and all that is his in them and not disown as not persons so not Communities because not of our length and breadth whether below us or above us let us rejoyce that Gods name is sanctified and Christs kingdom advanced in any measure in any Societies or Assemblies though not of our own way and let us desire pray that it may be so and that in all the dwelling places of Mount Zion and in all the Assemblies thereof he will create a cloud and smoak by day and the bright shining of a flaming fire by night and prosper his own work And in case of offences let 's apply to Christs direction and Authority and not to the Dragons power or means and let the help of Caesars sword in matters religious be craved only against such as are inconsistent with true Christianity and only when the Church hath done all it can and the delinquent is become as a heathen man Mat. 18. But let swords be beaten into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks and let none hurt or destroy in all the Mountain of his holiness And take heed of any more breaches shut the Devil out of doors Remember a Kingdom divided cannot stand hath not stood two of them have been through division utterly demollished amongst us in these last ten years true their Ruins hath been or is advantage to the interest of God in the promoting his designs and in the present peace and security to his little ones but that 's no thank to those that gave the occasion nor may we do evil that good may come thereof therefore let 's have peace amongst our selves God hath promised his special presence as the God of love and peace among his people united and not otherwise Let us now therefore with mutual imbraces in peace and love sit down under this shadow even the shadow of his saving health stretched over us in him who is his saving Arm and our Lord and SAVIOVR with great delight and let his fruit be sweet unto us and let the high praises of God be in our mouths And as breaches and division should be avoided under greatest peril among the sound principled as for others there 's no peace to the wicked and we must separate the precious from the vile the whole from the infectious sick and unsound So also must such a spirit of malitious prejudice and sensoriousness which causes Ridged and Crabbed severity towards brethren Conscientiously discenting and differing in Judgement practices yet sound in fundamentals and eminently pious by all means be avoyded Seeing Conscience pure Conscience being Gods Vice-King may not be forced nor ridgedly dealt with when it really eyes God though erroneous if not in fundamentals and things directly destructive God accepts no forced none but voluntary service from this creature wherein he hath placed this Vice-King whom he will have guided by no Rule but by the light of his own truth Iradiating the understanding and by or through it directing and regulating the Conscience And the Conscience that purely keeps to this Rule is a tender thing and is certainly one of those little ones which our heavenly father will not have to be offended Also take we heed of Pride and base self-seeking That the hearts of none be proudly lifted up above their brethren and that we seek not great things for our selves Remember we what was evidently the cause of that division bringing that totall ruine that is come both upon that Monarchical Kingdom in the house of the Stuarts And also upon that other power which after Resided in the hands of Lords and Commons united with the Scots and was eminently reputed Presbyterian and this latter of the Scots alone being but a branch of the other Was it not clearly pride causing contention and self-seeking to Monopolize the great things of the earth that they might Rule as Lords alone And that malitious ridged crabbed spirit of severity towards discenting brethren In one word was it not their balking the Interest of heaven which looks with an indifferent eye upon all that are servants to it so far as they are servants to it and setting up the Carnal interest of a party in prejudice thereunto let the Conscience of the unbyassed Spectator speak Take we heed therefore of clashing with the Interest of heaven but be we sure we advance it with all our might and with all our soul For all Revolutions and Changes whatsoever but especially in the habitations of the Church and more especially in these last dayes wherein he is causing those eminent Allelujahs to be said and sung unto his Name Are for the perfecting of his glorious work and praises for and in the Church or Churches of Christ And if any person or people impowred for this end will not bow and buckle hereunto he will break them in pieces or lay them by and take up others And in expression of our gratitude why should not annual days be assigned in thankful remembrance with command that Psalms of prayse be sung unto our God and the people stirred up to a thankful remembrance of all those never to be forgotten works of