Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	according_a	lord_n	word_n	3,370	5	4.2871	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29185	The ministers of England which are called, the ministers of the gospel vveighed in the ballance of equity: by way of consideration, whereby it plainly appears, whether they be the ministers of Christ, or of antichrist. And also, whether to bear a testimony against a setled maintenance, either by tyths or any other way which may be invented to uphold that ministry, be any way dangerous to destroy the gospel of Christ; resolved. With a serious meditation upon the dealings of God with England, and the state thereof in general. Published for the satisfactiou [sic] of such as desire to prove all things, and are willing to hold that fast which is good; by a friend unto the faithful ministers of the gospel of Christ, John Braithwait.	Braithwaite, John, fl. 1660.	1660 (1660)	Wing B4206; ESTC R221651	16,773	40

England And do not many of thy People think and say the same what would it be thy happiness to sin without reproof surely nay for if once they whose souls are vexed with thy filthy conversation were driven out of thee then would thy misery come the Lord would make thee desolate even like Sodom Gomorrah which was overthrown for an example of his righteous judgments unto all that would not receive instruction Oh how is thy Silver become drosse And thy liberty become bondage Oh how art thou gone backward and not forward even doating upon thy old Idolls and not content that they should worship them that have set their minds thereupon but thou wouldest also compel that remnant in thee that are followers of the Lambe for whose sake the Lord hath long spared thee and yet thou art so foolish and unwise as much as in thee lyeth to hasten on thy own distruction what may wickedness be tollerated in thee and not be reproved Is this the liberty that thou now seeks after Wouldest thou have wickedness established by a Law and the reprovers thereof to be condemned Is it not even thus within thy borders and yet for all this thou wilt lean upon the Lord and say is not he amongst us no evil can come unto us and cry peace peace even till distruction come upon thee from the Lord Oh how often hath the Lord invited thee and even with his love sought to draw thee unto himself but thou hast refused his loving invitation and greived his holy Spirit from time to time so that if the Lord say as he once said concerning Ephraim it is but just England is joyned to Idols let it alone and then desolation and misery will come upon it when I would comfort my heart against sorrow it is even faint within me to consider what warnings from time to time hast thou had and this thou hast and dost account thy trouble but greater trouble shall come upon thee from the Lord except thou repent Oh how hast thou chosen thy own waies and followed thy own Counsels and would have Ministers of thy own making and Prophets which would flatter thee in thy wickedness and Prophecy smooth things unto thee even the deceit of their own hearts and this thou hast loved rather than plain and honest dealing and now what shall the Lord do unto thee for those things shall not he recompence thee according to thy wayes and doings and in that day thou shall confesse to his righteous judgments How have thy Priests stirred up thy Rulers against a harmless people even like as Amazia the Priest of Bethel did who complained against Amos the Prophet saying Amos hath conspired against the King the Land is not able to bear his words is it not even thus among thy Priests Oh England and alas what have this People done against thee I mean the dispised remnant which are called Quakers what evill have they done that thou art so mightily troubled what do thy Priests say concerning them do they say they are Heriticks and such like But how when or where did they prove it against them within thy borders it is good for all thy Inhabitants Oh England to consider of this matter and not imbrue their hands in the blood of the innocent for of a truth the Lord hath raised this people up within thy borders to make thee a happy and a blessed Nation for even in him in whom they have beleived the Nations comes to be blessed even in Jesus Christ the Covenant the light which is given for salvation to the ends of the earth of whom they have born and do bear their Testimony within thy borders of which Testimony they need never be ashamed which if thou shouldest alwaies reject and go on in thy Rebellion thou wilt be most unhappy and miserable even the worst of the Nations and therefore it is my desire in the bowels of love as being one of thy Inhabitants who wisheth thy welfare and happiness that thou mayest seriously meditate upon the dealings of God with thee and upon his loving kindness which hath been and yet is tendered unto thee and that thou mayest return to the Lord is the earnest desire of my soul lest it be said to thee as Christ once said to Jerusalem O England England thou that killest the Prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee how often would I have gathered thy Children together as a Hen gathereth her Chickens under her wings but you would not Oh that thou hadst known in this thy day the things that belong to thy peace but now they are hid from thine eyes The End