Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	kindness_n	lord_n	love_a	1,686	5	9.5041	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52032	A tender visitation in the love of God unto all people everywhere particularly unto the inhabitants of Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Bristol, and to my neighbours in and about Tetherton, Calloways, and the adjacent towns and villages / by Charles Marshall.	Marshall, Charles, 1637-1698.	1684 (1684)	Wing M744; ESTC R28809	14,556	25

men of the extending of which Love you the Inhabitants of that City have been large Partakers c. But now O Inhabitants of that great City how have ye answered the Lord for all his tender Mercies and undeclarable loving Kindness Hive you so hearkened to the Voice of Wisdom as to break off your sins by true Repentance Have you heard her cry and turned to the Lord Have you loved Judgment Mercy Truth and Righteousness Are ye of that Number that shall obtain Mercy because ye are Merciful In a word Have ye answered the Requirings of Almighty God and prized the Day of your Visitation and all the Mercies multiplied unto you honouring the great Creator of Heaven and Earth in bringing forth the Fruits of the Spirit Love Joy Peace Long-suffering Gentleness Goodness Faith Meeknoss Temperance c. But O Bristol Bristol have you not evilly requited the Lord Have ye not slighted the tender Day of his Loving-kindness Are not your Sins of a deep Die and your Iniquities of a Crying Nature like unto the Sins of Sodom and Gomorrah great and grievious And are you not bringing forth Fruits altogether contrary to those of the Spirit before mentioned which are these Adultery Fornication Vncleanness Gal. 5.19 20 21. Lasciviousness Idolatry Witch-craft Hatred Variance Emulations Wrath Strife Seditions Heresies Envying Murder Drunkenness Revelling as the Apostle saith they which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God Read and consider whether many of you thy Inhabitants are not guilty of several of these grievous Sins summed up by the Apostle Is not Violence in your hands as it was in Nineveh Are not you cruelly Persecuting and Imprisoning those whose Cryes ascend to Heaven and are entred into the Ears of the most high Lord God of Sabbaths Are not vain Lifeless Professions and Prophaness multiplied in thee Oh! consider these things and be invited in the Bowels of Christ Jesus to break off all these Sins by Repentance and turn to the Lord God with all your Hearts and Repent as the Inhabitants of Nineveh did who cried mightily to the Lord and said Yea let them turn every man from the Evil of his way and from the Violence that is in their Hands who can tell if the Lord will turn away from his fierce Anger that we perish not but if ye shall still go on and persist in your Iniquities Prov. 1.24 25 26. and resist the Counsel of God against your selves then hear the Voice of that Wisdom that invited and invites Because I have called and ye have refused I have stretched out my Hand and no man regarded but ye have set at naught all my Counsel and would none of my Reproof I will also laugh at your Calamities I will mock when your Fear cometh as Desolation your Destruction as a Whirl-wind when Distress and Anguish cometh on you then shall they call upon me but I will not answer they shall seek me early but they shall not find me for that they hated Knowledge and did chuse the Fear of the Lord they would none of my Counsel therefore shall they eat of the Fruit of their own Way and ●e filled with their own De●i●es c. Ah poor Bristol what Lamentation shall I take up over thee First in the Consideration of the unexpressible Love Mercy Tender Dealings and Long-suffering of a tender Father secondly of thy Inhabitants grievous Sins Ingratitude and great Provocation which is a very unsuitable return to the Lord for all his tender Mercies And thirdly of thy deplorable estate on several considerations but mourn over thee in the Compassion of the Spirit of Christ Jesus who when he was come near Jerusalem he beheld the City and wept over it saying If thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy Day the things which belong unto thy Peace but now they are hid from thine Eyes c. My Soul is concerned for you deeply in the sence of the Lord 's being angry with you because you have and do continue to sin against great Mercies yea adding Sin unto Sin Oh! be prevailed with to go on no further in the Broad Way of Destruction before demonstrated lest you provoke the Lord more and more and he pour forth his Fury like Fire Oh! Inhabitants of Bristol Awake Awake high and Low Rich and Poor Male and Female Bond and Free consider your states in this Evening of many of thy Inhabitants Day Ps 2.11.12 before it be too late Return return and serve the Lord with Fear and Trembling kiss the Son lest he be angry and ye perish from the Way when his Wrath is kindled but a little blessed are all they that put their Trust in him Oh! that the Dread of the Most-High God might seize on your Spirits to give you that sence the Inhabitants of the City of Nineveh had John 3.5 6 7 8 9 10. and what Mercy and Kindness of the Lord followed the turning every man from the Evil of his Way and from the Violence that was in their Hand might be thy Inhabitants lot how should my Soul rejoyce and Spirit be right glad and bow before the Lord God of the whole Earth in Humility with Thanksgivings c. But if you will harden your Hearts and stiffen your Necks and will not hear my Soul shall mourn in the sight of your Distress that will overtake as Travail on a Woman wherein your Faces will gather Paleness your Hearts be filled with Anguish Fleet-Prison the 9th Moneth 1683. C. M. AH thou holy Most-high God of Mercy and tender Compassion look down with an Eye of Pity on the Inhabitants of the Earth and send forth thy Light and Truth more and more to guide the People out of the Broad Way of Destruction into thy narrow Way of Life which leads to thy Holy Mountain where there is no burting nor destroying O! that through the glorious out-stretched Arm of thy Salvation Sin may be finished and Iniquity brought to an end that the Righteousness of Christ Jesus the dear Son of thy Love may cover the Earth as the Waters cover the Sea Ah! for thy Name 's sake hear the Cry of the Poor and Sighing of the Needy and stretch forth thy Arm and deliver thy oppressed out of their Distresses that thy Creation O Lord may be eased and thy great Name and the Noble Acts of thy Almighty Arm and divine Power may be renowned gloriously through all Lands Amen Amen THE END