Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	john_n	spirit_n	worshipper_n	1,614	5	12.0333	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91828	A Lamentation in tender bowels of love over thee, Oh England that thou mayst return to the Lord in humility and seek him, yet while he may be found / [by] Ambrose Rigge.	Rigge, Ambrose, 1635?-1705.	1696 (1696)	Wing R1484; ESTC R42344	4,923	1

A LAMENTATION In Tender Bowels of Love OVER THEE OH ENGLAND That thou mayst return to the Lord in Humility and Seek him yet while he may be Found OH England England How is my Heart Rent and my Bowels Concern'd at the sight of thy impending and approaching Misery and Calamity which without unfeigned Repentance and hearty Contrition for all the Abominations which are daily committed within thy Borders by the greatest part of thy Inhabitants will certainly work and effect thy utter Ruine and Destruction and make thee a Reproach and By-word to them who are round about thee Oh! That my Head were full of Waters and mine Eyes a Fountain of Tears that I might throughly Bemoan thy distressed State and Condition as now it appears and hath a good while appeared before me The Lord God of Heaven and Earth in Infinite Loving kindness and tender Mercy Visited thee the Earliest of the Nations of the Earth in these last Days with the Glorious Beams and Rayes of the Rising Sun of his Righteousness even when thou Sat'st in Darkness and under the Region and shaddow of Death And I yet live as a Witness for him that when thou laid'st polluted in thy own Blood and was 't not Salted nor Swadled at all he had Compassion upon thee above many Nations and said unto thee Live and offered his Word to be to thee an Everlasting Covenant of Life Light and Glory and Raised many Living Witnesses to publish his will and mind in order to gather thy Inhabitants of all States and Conditions under the wing of his Power as a Hen gathereth her Chickens under her wings and his good purpose was to Incompass you all within the Wall of his Salvation and have made you one Sheep fold under the Instruction and Government of one Shepherd who would have led you every Day into Green Pastures by the Rivers of Living Water and that you might thereby have been Nourished up to Eternal Life and have gone no more forth But Oh! How have the far greater part of you Slighted Neglected and miserably Undervallued the Exceeding Riches of this Grace offered you in a day acceptable wherein you might have seen and known the things which belonged to your Temporal and Eternal Peace Happiness and Tranquillity and might have been a Nation and People saved by the Lord who would have made your Enemies as Ashes under the Soles of your Feet He hath long waited to be thus Gracious unto you and his poor despised Servants and Messengers have not ceased to warn you early and late to embrace his Mercy and so avoid his Wrath and hot Displeasure But you have turned a deaf Ear and hardned your Hearts against all those Reproofs of Instruction which would have been to you a way of Life Had they been Received Imbraced and Entertained in that Love and Mercy in which they were sent you had Certainly and Experimentally known in this your day the thing which belong to your Temporal and Eternal Peace which now is very near to be hid from your Eyes the God of Mercy give you Repentance of all your ungodly deeds and hard speeches against his Name and Glory My Bowels yorn towards you once more that you may imbrace and kiss the Son of the Fathers Love who is standing at the Door of your Houses i. e. your Hearts and dayly inviting you to let him have enterance there Lest he be angry and ye perish from the way of Life and Peace he will not always wait to be thus Gracious to you nor his Spirit always thus Strive with you but will Smite the hairy Scalp of every one who goes on in Iniquity for Holiness is the way to God's Kingdom without which none shall ever see him to their Eternal Comfort this is the Word of the Lord to you all Great and Small therefore cast off all unholiness and unrighteousness whatsoever and that speedily if ye intend to enter into the Kingdom of Glory for it stands in Righteousness and Holiness and no unrighteous or unholy Man or Woman shall ever enter therein Oh! Therefore wash ye make ye clean the Fountain is now open and free without Money or Price put far from you the evil of your doings and that speedily for God is pure and will have his People so you must cease to do Evil before you can learn to do Well it is not your Lip-service nor Bodily-exercise that will profit you any thing if you had it every Day that you are to Live for God will not be served with Sinners neither doth he hear their Prayers John 9. 31. Yea their Sacrifices are an Abomination in his sight but if any Man or People be Worshipers of him in Truth and do his will him and them he heareth and answereth for he is a Spirit and they who truely Worship him must Worship him in Spirit and Truth and the Songs of your outward Temples must be turned into Howling if ever you come to see him whom you have pierced by your ungodly Deeds he hath Recorded your Sinns as with a Pen of Iron and the point of a Diamond in the Book of your Consciences out of which both Quick and Dead must be Judged at the last Day Oh! England England let the time past which thou hast spent in the Lust of the Eye the Lust of the Flesh and the pride of Life be sufficient for the Days are now Evil and the times Perrillous and Eminently Dangerous and Distress and Anguish is taking hold of People and Nations that if possible they may repent and amend their Lives and turn unto the Lord our God that he may have Mercy upon them This is my fervent desire for thee Oh! thou Land of my Nativity that thou mayest escape the Stroak of his divine Vengeance which will fall grievously upon the Head of the Wicked and on every one who wilfully goes on in Iniquity Oh! The Pride Drunkenness Gluttony Whoring Lying Swearing Killing and Stealing c. that abounds in this Land And profaneness from it is gone out into other Nations and Islands a far off so that the very Heathen have Blasphemed the name of God through you and have blessed their Idols beyond the true and Living God because of the Evil and Corrupt Fruits which they have seen brought forth by you who profess in Words to know and worship him by whom all things were made and Created The Lord of the Vineyard is now come to look for Fruits and every Tree that bringeth not good Fruits of Righteousness and true Holiness he will hew down and cast into the Fire Every Plant which his Right Hand hath not Planted he will pluck up and Cast into the Furnace of Fire where is weeping and gnashing of Teeth for ever Let their profession of him and his holy name and power be what it will for true Christianity and all in it who are truely Baptized into Christ stands in and by that Faith which purifies the Heart and Inside of all