Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	peace_n	spirit_n	unity_n	1,812	5	8.9331	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92207	An evening sacrifice, or prayer for a family; necessary for these calamitous times.	Reading, John, 1588-1667.	1643 (1643)	Wing R445A; Thomason E1144_6; ESTC R208501	4,429	10

were enemies cast us not away séeing thou hast made us thy Sons though thou afflict us with grief and fill us with bitternesse to make us consider our waves and to return unto thée yet thou hast not forgotten to be gracious nor is thy mercy come to an end for ever Therefore have compassion on us we have rebelled and thou hast not spared fear and snare destruction and desolation are come upon us we hope and attain not we cry unto thée but yet O holy one of Israel it appeareth not that thou hearest us yet we beleeve Lord help our unbelief and are assured of the truth of thy promise once to heare us But Lord how long shall we mourn and finde no comfort in our souls We know we cannot be deceived in our confidence for thou hast never failed them that trust in thée Lord try us not above that patience which thou wilt give us and so thy holy will be done Reject us not finally and so give us patience to expect thy saving health Blessed Iesus who after many sharp repulses gavest a gracious answer to that importunate Canaanites intercession now at last answer our Petitions with comfort Lord look down from Heaven and behold how we labour and have no rest Where our Prayers want fervency poure out upon us thy Spirit of grace and supplications where our sins hinder thy mercy in mercy turn us unto thee and we shall be turned where our hardnesse of heart holdeth us in impenitency take away our stony hearts and give us hearts of flesh give us unfeigned repentance who will assuredly shew mercy to the penitent renew our dayes as of old thou art our portion give us not over unto the will of our destroyers we resigne our selves wholly into thy hands O Lord our Maker make us such as thou wouldst have be that thou maist be pleased to shew mercy unto us in our deliverance give us rest from our dayes of trouble that we may again rejoyce in thée before we go hence into the silent grave where none can praise thée let the end of all our sufferings be thy glory and our amendment not our destruction Neither are we mindfull of our selves alone but we humbly pray thée also for thy universall Church Lord blesse her with the Spirit of Truth and Unity Suppresse all those unhappy Schismes Heresies and Factions which any wayes or any where distract or disquiet thy little flock Lord God of Unity grant that all we who professe one truth of the Gospel of Iesus Christ may by our mutuall love approve our selves his Disciples and being united by his good Spirit may all hold that unity in the hand of peace to the glory of thy great Name who art the God of peace to the adorning of the Gospel which is the doctrine of peace to the good example of our Brethren who are the sons of peace to the silencing them who are the enemies of peace and to the endlesse peace and comfort of our souls and consciences through Iesus Christ our Lord. Blesse our Soveraign Lord the King save and defend Him that He may defend the Faith and faithfull People Kéep Him from all Treasons and Conspiracies confound the Councells of all mischievous Ahithophels give Him the Spirit of Wisedome and Counsell to govern this people in peace and godlinesse Blesse Him with aboundance of peace a prosperous Raign Faithfull subjection of His People length of dayes and eternall happinesse in the world to come Blesse the Quéen and the Royall Issue Lord so season their tender yéers with grace and truth that in their riper Age they may become nursing Fathers and nursing Mothers to thy Church Blesse all the Counsellors Iudges and Ministers of State with Wisedome Fidelity and Equity be with them in the Cause and direct them in the sentence so as that they may Councell prudently and Iudge equally ever remembring that themselves must ere long stand before thy more dreadfull tribunall where there is no respect of Persons Blesse all the faithfull Ministers of thy holy Word and Sacraments with sincerity of life and soundnesse of doctrine that they may faithfully and powerfully dispence thy saving Mysteries and lead thy People in the strait paths of Life everlasting shew thy mercy on all the afflicted Servants of Christ Iesus apply thy Comforts to them according to their severall wants and necessities speak peace unto their souls and assure them of thy saving health that they faint not under their burden Blesse and kéep this Family and all that thou hast given us set thy fear in every one of our hearts and make us all thy faithfull Servants preserve us from all noysome contagion and infection of bodies and souls from all the snares of sin Satan the World and the Flesh from the power of the adversary from robbers spoilers and oppressions and from all dangers spirituall or temporall forgive us all our neglects and failings this day past And now that the night and darknesse are upon us wherein thou hast appointed that we shall rest we humbly pray thée whose providence neither sléepeth nor can be prevented by any sudden evill to watch over us and preserve us so as that our sléep may be comfortable for the refreshidg our weary bodies that our souls resting in thee we may awake enabled to thy service and the works of our callings Into thy hands O Lord we commend and commit our selves bodies and souls and all that which thou hast given us and made neer and dear unto us whether we sleep or wake live or die have us ever in thy gracious keeping this night and ever more Amen FINIS