Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	speak_v	spirit_n	worship_v	2,123	5	8.9605	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35591	A word of remembrance, reproof & counsel, to England and London put forth by one that loves and longs for their prosperity.	M. C.	1663 (1663)	Wing C86; ESTC R37526	2,059	1

A Word of Remembrance Repoof Counsel TO ENGLAND AND LONDON Put forth by One that Loves and Longs for their Prosperity OH People of England and London remember thy former Zeal when thou wast willing of thy self to enter into a League and Covenant with thy God with Hands lifted up to the Heavens that thou wouldest Reform and square thy Life in Matters of Religion according to the Word of God and the best reformed Churches for the performance of which thy Ministry did sound an Alarm for Men and Money which was answered in a large measure in an Army which God furnished with a Spirit of Prayer and Courage in subduing thy Enemies which thou didst then judge was an answer of thy Dayes of Fasting and Prayer in which thou didst greatly rejoyce and set many Dayes of Thanksgiving a part to praise the Lord for his Goodness which thou didst account at that time Infinite Mercy These thy Enemies being subdued that did Tirannize over thee both in Spirituals and Temporals and God did put a Prize into thy hands that thou mightest have been happy hadst thou improved it but thou didst grow Proud and Kicked against the Lord and fell from thy Promises and Engagements and the Mercies now are swallowed up in Selfe-Intrest none must now Serve and Worship God but as one Sort of People would have it and when that could not be obtained then Hatred and Malice did increase and those that stood in the Gap in a day of trouble must now be made the Objects of Scorn and Reproach in the Streets And this was occasioned by some that carried a great stroak in Religion because they had not their Lust satisfied to have all brought into one Uniformity in Religion bitter and sharp Disputations were daily by which means Brethren were divided and looked one upon another as Enemies and Strangers rather chusing to close with the common Enemy that endeavoured to destroy them both then to own one another which to accomplish there was secret Designes carried on with much Industry for a closure with that party that God had born a Testimony against in the face of the Son to the Terror of the Nations in making of them like the Chaff of the Summer Threshing-Floor This Designe at last taking effect the common Enemy having now obtained that which they long looked for thorow the help of those restless Spirits who must now be the Subjects of Ruin and Dissolation but those who had ingaged their Lives Liberties and Estates and spilt much Pretious Blood to save the City of London from Dissolation by Fire and Bloodshed their Houses from Plundring and their Wifes from Ravishment and their Children from being Murdered these I say must now be delivered up to be destroyed by a revengful Enemy in which thou didst sport thy self in their being Executed and their dead Bodies set upon the Gates of thy City for the Fowls of the Air to eat further assisting the Enemy to Persecute in filling the Prisons and Dungeons with such as fear the Lord that prayed for thee and sought thy Welfare thy Ungratefulness is written in Capital Letters that they that run may read it nothing will satisfie thee but a great Trade which to accomplish thou must have a K. though thou didst destroy thy Friends But hadst thou ever such a loss of Trade as now thou hast by which Poverty is coming upon thee as an Armed man Thou didst complain of Taxes and Oppression hadst thou ever the like as now thou hast and art like to have Thou didst complain of Prophaness and the abuse of God's Ordinances but was there ever such Prophaness and Contempt of God's Word and Ordinances as is now What designes there is to destroy all Virtue and to encourage all Vice I shall leave to the Rational to Consider Oh People of England and London I appeal to your Consciences whether these things be not true and many more of the like nature Oh! remember how many of you that pretended much Religion how deep you were in encouraging of Prophaness in making Bone-Fires Drinking Healths Roasting of Rumps to the abuse of the Creatures Swearing and Blaspheming of the holy Name of God all manner of Debauchery committed which must needs enter into the Eares of the Lord of Host and do undoubtedly cry unto him for Vengeance upon this Nation and City Oh! England and London look into thy aforesaid Actions and repent of thy Wickedness humble thy self before it be too late consider how Strangers now throng thy Streets the Gunsmiths and Sword-Cutlers can inform you if they will how the French and Irish Papists do this day buy up Armes and how they walk in Companies Armed and how they buy up Horses in Smithfield is notoriously taken notice of Surely these things speak no less than Ruin to thy Inhabitants if God in much Mercy prevent not how are the Papists Meetings this day suffered and Idolatry pleaded for and the Lord's People who desire to Worship him in Spirit and in Truth are abused in such a manner as the like hath never been since those People have born the Name of Protestants nor hardly ever before as it hath of late been Oh People of England and London be ashamed and horribly amazed for this thy abusing thy Friends and strengthening the hands of thy Enemies was ever People so Industrious to destroy themselves as you have been Oh! let my Counsel be acceptable unto thee and repent which my Soul desires who am one of thy poor Children that have and do pray for thee and shall conclude with the Words of my Master once to Jerusalem Oh! that thou hadst known in this thy day the things that belong unto thy present and Eternal Peace least it fall out with thee oh England and London as it did to Jerusalem that it shall be suddenly bid from thine Eyes M. 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