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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	church_n	faith_n	rome_n	4,081	5	7.0107	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54445	To the Prince of Venice and all his nobles which was delivered for him in his pallace and received by him in his council-chamber, being a visitation and warning of that city, which also may serve unto England and all the nations called Christian nations / written by the servant of the Lord, John.	J. P. (John Perrot), d. 1671?	1661 (1661)	Wing P1633; ESTC R29389	27,608	37

TO THE PRINCE OF VENICE AND All his NOBLES Which was Delivered for Him in His PALLACE and Received by Him in His COUNCIL-CHAMBER Being A VISITATION and WARNING of that CITY Which also may serve unto ENGLAND and all Nations called Christian Nations Written by the Servant of the Lord JOHN London Printed for Robert Wilson at the sign of the Black-spread-Eagle and Windmill in Martins Le Grand 1661. TO THE PRINCE OF VENICE c. FRIEND I Have many things to say unto the Rulers Prophets Priests and People of the City VENICE but yet you are not able to bear them You being yet in the Nature and Ground in which Amaziah the Priest of Bethel was in the dayes of the Prophet Amos Read Amos 7.10 c. And are not come to the Charity which Paul wrote of which bears all things believeth all things 1 Cor. 13.7 hopeth all things and endureth all things But whether you will hear bear or forbear this is the Word of the LORD GOD to you all The LORD of Hosts hath a Controversie with the whole Earth with whom he is arisen to plead even with all sinful Flesh upon the face of the Earth which have corrupted their waies before the Lord. Behold the mighty Day of the Lord GOD is at hand wherein the LORD will Plead with all Flesh and enter into Iudgement with all Flesh and execute Judgement by Sword and Vengeance with Plague and fulfil his Wrath by Famine and Fire until he sweeps the Land as with a Beesom of Destruction and that it be cleansed of evil-doers Behold Overturn cometh and Overturn followeth until the Last Overture be fulfilled and He Come whose right it is to Reign and the LORD Christ set up his Everlasting Kingdom whose Dominion shall never have end With whom no hypocrite lip-worshipper nor sinner shall have an inheritance of Life but shall be cut off for ever from the presence of the Lord and separated unto perpetual Woe and Misery to be held in the lake of fire and sulphure with the blackness of the chaines of darkness under the fiery Indignation and wra●● the Lord God and therein to be swallowed up alive and to remain beyond the measure of all times Think of this you Whoremongers Whores and Harlots you Drunkards Gluttons Proud Covetous cursed Swearers and Lyars Cheaters and Defrauders Revellers Sporters Gamsters you that spend your pretious time in Vanity wherein yet GOD hath spared you to Repent In your abominable unclean Lusts Vanity and Wantonness you Envious-hearts that cannot speak out of Crookedness and Frowardness GOD hath a treasure of Vengeance seven Vials full of Wrath the Wrath of the Lamb whose Life in your Sodom is day by day throughout the number of your days slaughtered in your streets Think of Sodom and call to mind the end of Gomorrah for now at this time the Lord warnes you even as he visited them Cities Prepare prepare therefore to meet the LORD by true and unfeigned Repentance if haply the Lord may spare you and turn away the fierceness of his Wrath which looketh towards you Leave off your flattering-speeches and Titles one to another and let every one speak the plainness of his heart and truth to his Neighbour Amend all your waies and flatter not your selves nor deceive your souls with saying that you are of the Church of Rome For many shall say Lord but not enter and the Jews called Abraham their Father yet wanted his Faith But forsake your cursed speeches and Oathes and Adulteries and Whordoms and Drunkenness and all Idolatries and Inchantments and Sorceries cast from you the cords of vanity and so turn to the Lord and then the Lord will turn to you Or else GOD hath spoken in his holiness that he will visit you with his Vengeance because of your unrighteousness and ungodliness and although you may now shut your ears against your burden and laugh and mock at God's Messengers and afflict and punish them which cry against your loathsom abominations which stink in the nostrils of God and his Saints and is an abhorring unto modesty yea though you may but gain-say our voice It is because we cry against your sins and for none other cause but because we cry against all sin and reprove Iniquity in the gap Yet be it known unto you that GOD sent unto Babylon her burden Isa 13.1 and unto Moab his burden Isa 15.1 And unto Damascus her burden Isa 17.1 And unto Egypt Isa 19.1 And unto the Desart Isa 21.1 And unto Tyre Isa 23.1 And unto the South Isa 30.6 And unto Niniveh her burden Nahum 1.1 And unto Dumah Isa 21.11 And unto Arabia Isa 21.13 And unto the Valley of Vision her burden Isa 22.1 And it came to passe that those things which were once the Prophet's burden for them God laid every one's burden upon their own back and made them all to bear their own burden even as also from the Lord God I say unto you GOD will make you bear your own burden even for your own sin which is grievous whose burden also will be grievous in the day whereof you shall say each one to his neighbour and to his acquaintance even as Cain said Gen. 4.13 Our burden and punishment is greater than we can bear Remember you are warned in the day of the Lord's pitty Repent and turn from your sins for the Lord God laughs at your Confessors and Confessions whilst you and they are still following on in sin heaping sin upon sin drawing Iniquity with cords of vanity and sin as it were with cart-ropes Else in God's day of Vengeance Isa 5.18 you shall remember that I did not run before I was sent that God might visit you with warning even as Niniveh was by Jonah which then repented Prize your time for this is the word of the Lord to you all therefore whilst you have time Repent And thou the PRINCE of Venice and the rest of the Nobles Arise from your Throne put on mourning in the inward parts and proclaim this in the City Jonah 3.5 6. for my MESSAGE is unto you and I clear my self unto you Let the KING of Niniveh be your Example and clear your selves to the People of all their blood I am come to make blind those which say they see and to turn from the darkness those which are blind to the LIGHT that they may see I am not come with the inticing-words of man's Wisdom neither in the excellency of Speech to man's Wisdom nor in the deceivableness of vain Philosophy but in the plainness of the demonstration of the Truth in the Power of GOD unto that of God in all but hid and sealed out of sight from the unclean and vulterous in all the World I am the Light of the World saith Christ which lighteth every man that cometh into the World Saith John John 8.12 John 1.9 who was a witness of him that was and I do tell you of the same