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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	lord_n	mercy_n	psal_n	4,793	5	8.0417	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B10277	A preface, lecture, and a sermon preached by that famous servant of God, Mr. John Welsh.	Welch, John, ca. 1624-1681.	1686 (1686)	Wing W1313; ESTC R186362	19,245	32

why deall ye with Israel as if he were a slave or it may be spoken by way of Lamentation alas how my people how they are guided is Israel a Servant he is not a Servant he is not a home borne slave for that is the import of the Question a strong negation you are mistaken to think that I will not have respect to Israel I will cause you yet answer for the spoill of Israel why then is he spoilled And then you have this particularly laid out what it was that enemies did to Israel the young Lions rored upon them and yelled and they made his land waste His citties are brunt without inhabitant I have seen for all that is done to my Church I will take order with it ye shall finde that I lay claime to Israel and then I have sad chairges and challenges to give in against them yet I will give no thanks to them that hath spoilled my poor people my sones that I have such respect unto Then is 5. or 6. words of observations that we shall give of them and close this exercise and enter upon another The first Obs is this that the Lord hath sometimes very heavy and sad verbal chairges to give in against his Church the Lord hath very much to charge upon his Church that he is ill pleased with look to the 4. Chap of Hosea at the begin ye will see there like the controversy what is the chairg because there is no truth mercy nor knowledge of God in the Land 2. vers by swearing and lying and committing adulterie they break out and blood tutcheth blood and therefore the Lord hath a contraversy with Israel no truth no sincenity in the Land c. There the chairg and 81. Psal there a sad chairg given in against Israel from the 10. vers I a me the Lord the Lord the God that that brought to the out of the Land of Egypt and out of the house of Bondag opne thy mouth wide I will fill it but what is the chairg but my people would not harkne to my voice and Israel would non of me and Deut 32. and 5. There a sad chairg given in against Israel the chairg is this they have corrupted themselves ther spot is not the spot of his children they are a pervers and a wicked generation and here a sad chairg given in against them they have forsakns me the fountan of living Waters add have digged to themselves brokne cisternes that can hold no water ô sayes hee this is a verbal horrible chairg that I have to give in against this Church of Israel now this God never had more terrible chairges to give in against a Church then the Church that we live in ô but we have behaved unworthely God planted us a noble vine but we are become a degenerat plant unto him God ingadged us in a solemne Covenant to be for him and with lifted up hands to God we did swear how is that Oath keeped how is it but the Lord may chairg us with horrible perjury some hatht akne the Declaration that is ane opne way of a woued perjury and some hath takne this bonde that there posterity will think shame of if it should be reakned to them that there fathers should have done it ô horrible chairg that such should put Christ out of Scotland I shall say no moor to this point The 2d obs that I shall give you is th is that when the Lord is chairging his people with horrible things he would then have his people affected with what he chairges upon them he would not have them making light of his chalinge therfor when hespeaks in that 1. of Isai to the people he eraies here o heavens what a chairg I have to give in against my people the ox knowes his ouer and the as his masters cribe but my people does not know nor Israel does not consider ah sinfull nation sayes he a seed of evil doors childrene that are transgressors c. God would have a people when hee is chairging aney thing upon a church that is horrid wickednes he wold have all men to be so much affected with the chairg as that they might lay it to heart ther are some folke that will lay nether sin nor judgment to heart God would not have folk doing so but laying both to heart Ther was in the. 42. chap of Jsa and 24. they did not consider who gave Jacob to the spoill and Israel to the robbers and that it was the Lord and that it was because they had finned against him and hee sett them on fire round about yet they laide it not to heart The 3. thing in the words be astonished o heavens and be horrible afraide holds furth a great stupidetie to be in sinners that is not affected with all the guilt that is chairged upon them ô if ever ther was a stupid generatione since the world began it will be found this day that make light of all the chairges that is given in against them this day I spake to them but wer they at all ashaemed when they did such things no sayes hee they wer not att all asheamed Jer 8. and 6. J harkned and heird but they spake not aright no man repented him of his wickednes saying what have I done eve●ie one turned to his cours as the hors rusheth to the battel they arre never so much as once brought to a serious thought as to speir the questione what have I done The 4. thing that I nott is this that when God Sumonds up folks faults hee wil find two faults and see two wher men sees but one you see heir they committed two greatievels wha● was that some would thinke that that was but one evel they have forsakne me the fountan of living waters and they have made brokne cisternes that cane hold no water that was ther faults ther was two faults it may be looked upon as one yet God wil find it two and verie gross two faults and God will looke upon it as two befor long let us looke to the chairg they have forsakne me the fountane of living waters two things ther. 1. Christ Jesus is the Fountain of living Waters what is that he is the Fountan of all the refreshings of his people all the consolations of Israel they have all ther arise from him all the conforts of his people whil under sufferings all ther arise is from Jesus Christ hee is the Fountan of all ther confort and consolation The nixt thing that I see is this if he be the Fountane of our consolation then we take alwayes the wrong way when we are under a disconsolat Estate when we turne not to him for our consolatione are you not going to your prayers to God to gett your consolation he is the auther of all thes and the Fountane of living Waters and he is the arise of all thy cosolation Another word that we shall say that which they wer chaged with they