Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	bless_a	know_v	lord_n	2,311	5	3.7000	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09295	I Iohn Penry, doo heare as I shall answere before the Lord my God in that great day of iudgement set downe sumarily the whole truth and nothing but the truth which I hold and professe at this hower eyther in regard of my faith towards my God and dread soueraigne Queene Elizabeth unto whome only of all the potentas in the world I owe all reuerente, dutie and submission in the Lord.	Penry, John, 1559-1593.	1593 (1593)	STC 19608; ESTC S100448	9,959	10

be his good pleasure and not make any farther breach in his Church by the taking awaye of any more of vs as yet to the discouraging of the weake and the lifting vp of the horne of our aduersaries I would indeed if it be his good pleasure liue yet with you to helpe you to beare that greueous and hard yoake which yet ye are like to sustaine eyther here or in a strange land And my good brethren seing banishement with losse of goodes is likely to betyde you all preparcy our selues for this hard entreatie and reioyce that you are made worthy for CHRIST cause to suffer and beare al these things And I beseech you in the bowels of Iesus Christ that none of you in this case loke vppon his perticular estate but regard the generall state of the Church of God that the same may goe and be kept together whethersoeuer it shal please God to send you Oh the blessinge wil be great that shall ensue this care whereas if you goe euery man to prouid for his owne house and to loke for his owne familie First neglecting pore Sion the Lord will sett his face against you and scatter you from the one end of heaven to the other neyther shall you finde a resting place for the soles of your feet or a blesing vppon any thing you take in hād The Lord my brethren and sisters hath not forgotten to be gracious vnto Sion you shall yet finde dayes of peace and of rest if you continew faith full This Stampeing treading of vs vnder his feete this subuerting of our cause and right in iudgement is done by him to the end that we shoul search and trie our wayes and repent vs of our carelessnes profannes and rebellion in his sight but he wil yet maintaine the cause of our soules and redeeme our liues if we returne to him yea he wil be with vs in fire water wil not forsakevs if our harts be only and especially of the building of Sion whethersoeuer we goe Let not those of you then that either haue stocks in your hādes or some likly trades to liue by dispose of your selues where it may be most commodious for your outward estate and in the meane tyme suffer the poore ones that have no such meanes eyther to beare the whole worke vpon their weake shoulders or to ende their daies in sorowe and morning for want of outward and inward cōforts in the land of strangers for the Lord wil be an auenger of all such dealings But cousult with the whole Church yea with the brethten of other places how the church may be kept togeather and built whethersoeuer they go let not the poore and the freendlesse be forced to stay behinde heere and to breake a good conscience for want of your support and kindnesse vnto them that they may go with you and here I humbly beseech you not in anie outward regard as I shall answer before my God that you would take my pore and desolate widowe and my messe of fatherlesse and freindlesse orphaines with you into exile whether soeuer you goe and you shall fynde I doubt not that the blessed promesses of my God made vnto me and myne will accompanie them even the whole Church for their fakes for this also is the Lords promise vnto the holy seede as you shall not need much to demaunde what they shal eate or wherwith they shal be clothed and in shorte time I doubt not but they wil be found helpfull not burthensome to the Church only I beseech you 〈◊〉 I and where they must be enforced to goe againe vnto Egypte and my God wil blesse you euen with a ioyfull retourne vnto your owne country for it there are of you whoe I doubt not wil be carefull of the performance of the will of your deade brother in this poynt whoe may yet liue to shew this kindenesse vnto youres I wil say noe more Be kinde louinge and tender harted the one of you towardes the other laboure every way to encrease love and to shew the duties of love one of you towardes an other by visitinge comfortinge and releeuing one the other euen for the reproach of the heathen that are round about vs as the Lord saith Be watching in prayer especially remember those of out brethren that are especiallye endaungered perticulerly those our twoe brethren M. Studley and Robert Boule whome our God hath strengthned now to stand in the forefront of the battell I feare me that our carelesnes was over great to sue vnto our God for the liues of these towe so notable lights of his Church who nowe rest with him and that he tooke them away for many respects seeming good to his wisdome soe also that we might learne to be more carefull in prayer in all such causes pray for them then my brethren and for our brother M. Fran Iohns and for me who am likely to end my dayes eyther with them or before them that our God may spare vs vnto his church if it be his God pleasure or giue vs exceding faythfullnes and be euery way comfortable vnto the sister and wife of the dead I meane vnto my beloued M. Barrowe and M. Greenwoode whome I most hartly salute and desire much to be comforted in theyr God whoe by his blessinges from aboue wil counteruayle vnto them the want of soe notable a broher and husband I would wish you earnestly to write yea to send if you may to comforte the brethren in the west and North countreys that they faint not in these troubles and that alsoe you may have of theyr aduise and they of youres what to doe in these desolate times and if you thinke it any thing for theyr further comfort and direction send them conuenientlie a copy of this my letter and of the declaration of my faith and alegiance wishinge them before whomsoever they be called that theyr owne mouthes be not had a witnesse against them in any thnge yea I would wish you and them to be together if you may whethersoeuer you shal be banished and to this purpose to bethinke you before hand where to be yea to send some whoe may be meet to prepare you some resting place be al of you assured that he whoe is your god in England wil be your God in any land vnder the whole heaven for the earth and the fulnes thereof are his and blessed are they that for his cause are bereaued of any parte of the same Finally my brethren the eternall God blesse you and youres that I may meete with you all vnto my comfort in the blessed kingdome of heauen Thus haujng from my harte and with teares performed it may be my last duetje towardes you in this life I salute you all in the Lorde both men and womē even those whoe I have not named as hartelie as those whose names I haue mentioned for all your names I knowe not And remember to stand steedfast and faithfull in Iesus Christ as you haue receiued him vnto your immortality And he conferme and establish you to the ende for the praise of his glory Amen The 24 the of the 4 moneth Aprill 1593. Your louinge brother in the patience and sufferinges of the gospell Iohn Penry a wittnesse of Christ in this life and a pertaker of the glory that shal be reuealed