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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	city_n	great_a	lord_n	2,295	5	3.5103	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26344	God's anger ; and, Man's comfort two sermons / preached and published by Tho. Adams.	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1652 (1652)	Wing A492; ESTC R22209	47,052	94

pestilence of three dayes was a storm soone blown over though it were bitter for the time Gods displeasure hath dwelt longer upon us But how then doth the Prophet say that he retaineth not anger Well enough for he never retaineth it on● moment longer then we retaine the cause of it So soon as ever we cease sinning against him he ceaseth to be angry with us After Davids humiliation and sacrifice the Angell struck not one blow more with the sword of pestilence He measures out the length of his anger by the continuance of our rebellions So that if we expostulate with him Lord how long wilt thou be angry with us He replies O ye sons of men how long will you be rebellious against me Let us not look that the Lord should begin first that his pardon should prevent our repentance There is great reason he that hath done the offence should be first in making the peace Every day we expect comfort from God and every day God expects conversion from us Every week we look for some abatement in the bils and every week God looks for some abatement of our sins for some amendment of our lives So long as we continue guilty it is in vain to cry O Lord how long wilt thou be angry Our hard hearts are not yet broken with remorse alas what should be done to break them l The voyce of the Lord breaketh the Cedars he m breaketh the mountains he breaketh n the heavens he o breaketh the stones and yet his word cannot break our hearts But if he cannot break us with the rod of Affliction he will breake us with a rod of iron and p dash us in pieces like a Potters vessel God is long patient before he grows angry why should he not be long angry before he be appeased He is not easily provoked why should he be so easily pacified yet so propense to mercy is our gracious Father that the fire which was long a kindling is soon quenched His anger that is not blown into a flame without many and long continued sins is yet put out with a few penitent tears When our houses are burning it were but foolish to cry out we are undone alas the fire rageth and we all the while forbear to cast on water The Usque quo of Gods anger waits for the Quousque of our repentance He will not give over-striking till we fall a weeping and we may do well to weep before him for sure we did ill to sin against him His anger doth now long offend us but our wickednesses did farr longer offend him We have provoked him many yeares and shall not his wrath burn many days Still it flameth let us make hast to bring our buckets of water filled at the cisternes of our eyes and derived from the fountaine of our hearts to quench it Let no hands be wanting to this businesse for if some bring in the water of tears whiles others cast in the fewell of sins this fire will burn still But from the higehst to the lowest let us come in with repentance and that all of us even the whole people for so far Gods wrath extendeth 3. He may be angry with the whole people which is the third proposition He hath been angry with a whole family with a whole Army with a whole City with a whole Country with the whole earth With a whole family so he cursed the house of q Jeroboam that him that dyeth in the City the dogs shall eat and him that dyeth in the field shall the fowls of the aire eat r With a whole army so he slew of Sennacheribi host in one night 185 thousand With a whole city so the city of Jericho was cursed with an universal desolation never to be reedified without the ruine of the builder With a whole country So Saul was charged to destroy Amalek man and woman infant and suckling sheep and oxen and all that belonged to them With the whole earth whenit was become corrupt he drowned it with a floud Yet observe how God hath qualified his wrath with his hand of favour snatching some out of his hand of anger When he cursed the whole Family of Jeroboam he excepted Abijah When he doomed to death the whole City of Jericho he excepted the family of Rahab When his wrath burned Sodom he excepted the family of Lot When his anger drowned the whole world in a deluge yet his mercy excepted Noah and his octonary houshold But his anger is very grievous when it extends to the whole people Through the wrath of the Lord of hostes the land is darkned c. What makes him thus universally angry with us but the universalitie of our sins against him when the passengers ask Wherefore hath the Lord done thus to this great City Answer is made Because they forsooke the Covenant of the Lord and worshipped other Gods To such a fearfull height may the sins of the children bring the mother that that Church which now enjoyes such abundance of truth and peace may be poisoned with heresie and wounded with schisme and suffer an utter direliction The whole people is guilty of sin and why for their sins may not God be angry with the whole people Yea and long angry too for it will be very long before that fault will be amended which hath so long been committed God came to low conditions in the behalfe of Sodome Abraham brought him down to ten He came to lower conditions in the behalfe of Jerusalem he brought himself down to one See if you can find a man if there be any that seeketh the truth in the whole Citie and I will pardon it O how epidemicall is that wickednesse where not one escapeth the corruption We have found the Lord angry enough with a whole people for the sin of one man Lord hath one man sinned and wilt thou be wroth with the whole Congregation No Gods vengeance when it is the hottest makes difference of offenders and knows to distinguish betwixt the heads of a faction and the traine Though neither be faultlesse yet the one is plagued the other pardoned Depart from the tents of these wicked men lest you be consumed in their sins So soon as the innocent are severed the guilty perish One Achan sins all Israel suffers One David sins in pride seventy thousand of his subjects suffer in the plague One Saul slew the Gibeonites three years dearth lies upon the Israelites for it The blood of those Canaanites shed against Covenant almost forty years before by the then King is now called for of the whole people They had all sins enough but God fixeth his eye of anger upon this Every sin hath a tongue but that of blood outcryes them all And if Justice do not revenge the murder of one God will require it of the whole nation When seven of Sauls sons were hanged up God was intreated for