Selected quad for the lemma: earth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	heaven_n	lord_n	word_n	16,216	5	4.2023	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86672	A true testimony of obedience to the heavenly call, for which I suffer the loss of all things, that I may be found in obedience to him who hath called me.	Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662.	1654 (1654)	Wing H3239; Thomason E731_13; ESTC R202143	5,008	7

A True Testimony OF OBEDIENCE TO THE Heavenly Call For which I suffer the loss of all things that I may be found in obedience to him who hath called me A Servant of the Lord and a Prisoner for the Testimony of Jesus whom he hath called by his grace to deny the world and am made partaker of his sufferings being in outward bonds by the deceit in West-Chester and of his free-will hath given me not only to beleeve but to suffer for his Name sake who hath called me out of my own Country and from my fathers house and to go in obedience to his Command whithersoever he shall call me while I was young I girded my self and went whither I would and then I yielded obedience to my own will and to the will of man and was a man-pleaser but the Will of God I knew not neither was obedient to his Commands but when the Lord was pleased to reveal his Son in me and make known his Will unto me to enlighten me with his true Light which hath enlightened every one that cometh into the world and by it let me see my self to be a strrnger to him and knew him not though I was grown mighty in the Egyptians wisdom and was in love with the world and in the favour of men and in a profession and words of mans wisdom exceeded others being in a form of godliness but was ignorant of his Power and his Word but when his Power was made manifest and his Word spoken within me which Word was in my heart and was as a fire or a hammer and this Word being made manifest within me and my Conscience being awakened by the light of God which did convince me of sin and did testifie against all my words and actions and that just Judgments of God were revealed from Heaven against that nature I lived in and the Trumpet of the Lord was sounded within me and the Earth did tremble and the vials of the wrath of the Almighty was poured down upon me and the powers of the Earth were terribly shaken the foundation of wisdom and earthly knowledg was shaken and the Judgments of God were upon the outward man till my flesh was wasted off my bones and the bones smote one against another and I knew the Lord to be terrible and his Word powerful in burning up and hammering down the lustful nature I lived in in pleasure and wantonness in pride and fulness which the Word of the Lord was declared against and this Word I witness spoken from the Lords own Power within me which made my flesh and bones to tremble exceedingly and did cause pain in all my loyns and paleness of face my comliness was turned into corruption and my joy into lamentation and I was brought to the bed of sorrows where I cryed out in the bitterness of my spirit and I had no ease nor rest day nor night for the hearing of the ear which I did hear and the sight of mine eyes which I did see I heard the sound of the Trumpet the Alarum of War within me terrors wo misery and destruction was upon me in my trouble I cryed in the evening would God it were morning and in the morning would God it were evening and the terrors of the Almighty being upon me my Acquaintance and familiars stood afar off me for they knew not the power of the Lord nor the Judgments of my God which I do witness to be revealed and made manifest in me and the Lord raised up in me a love to his Word by which all the powers of the Earth did tremble and the Earth it self was shaken by it and by this Word was I called to go and declare it as I had received it from the Lord to those who lived in the same heathenish nature without the knowledge of God and to declare the Judgments of God against sin and ungodliness as they were made manifest in me and by this Word was I called to forsake father and mother lands and living to go in obedience to the Lord who commanded me not to take thought what I should eat or what I should drink or wherewith I should be cloathed but cast my care upon him and this I witness the Lords care and those whom the Lord calls into his Work and who labor in his Vineyard need not to complain to the wold for want and for yeilding obedience to the Lord and his Commands and not giving obedience to the corrupt will of man who commands me contrary to what the Lord hath commanded do I suffer under the persecution of those who are set in the place of Rulers and Magistrates professing themselves to be Ministers of the Law of England and to act Justice according to that Law and do bear the names of Major Justices of peace and Magistrates and say they act according to the Law of the Nation and present Goverment but they are seen to be in the generation of those who were ever persecutors of the righteous Seed where ever it is brought forth and the Servants of the Lord in all ages were ever persecuted by that generation professing to be Ministers of Justice but that which is acted is cruelty persecution and Injustice and the Righteous suffer which the Law was not for but for the Lawless and disobedient and was added because of transgression The Righteous Law of God was made to be afflicted upon Transgressors and breakers of the Law but the unrighteous Law of men is afflicted upon the Righteous who walk blameless and are proved no Transgressors but in Obedience to the Lord do witness a good conversation towards God and towards men our consciences bearing us witness in the sight of God and those who are Rulers of the City and rulers of the sinogogue under which I suffer imprisonment Say this is their law that if I will go home into my own country and to my fathers house and stay there and depart this City I may be free upon this accompt else I shall remain in prison and this is contrary to the command of the Lord for he hath commanded me out of my own country and from my fathers house but my own country dwelling and fathers house the world knows not that which I am called from they know the natural man knows that which is natural and this is contrary to the law of the nation for the law of the nation doth not confine any to stay at one place nor to be kept from any one city being proved no transgressor nor breaker of the law but I seek a countrey and a City whose builder and maker is God and truly if I had been mindfull of the country I came forth and did love the pleasures delights and flesh pots of Egyp● which I am called from I might have had opportunitie to have returned thither but in obedience to the Lord I had rather suffer affliction with the people of God then enjoy the pleasures of Egypt and you