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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	call_v	people_n	quaker_n	2,523	5	9.6997	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76271	A short relation or testimony of the working of the light of Christ in me, from my childhood, by one who is now a witness of the spirit of truth (whom the world cannot receive) which doth convince of sin, of righteousnesse and of judgment: and brings all things to rememberance, and shews me things to come, glory to the Lord for ever: / W:B:.	Bayly, William, d. 1675.	1659 (1659)	Wing B1537; ESTC R170480	14,195	12

this is to you all Priests Baptists and people that be from the light which you be lighted withall that lets you see your ungodly deeds and hard speeches what shall I say more of you Why you passe over judgement and so the love of God you know not this is from the Lord God to you as shall be witnesse on your death bed So after a season in this my breathing and longing condition in which I desired that God would make an alteration and change among us being in all we performed dead to the pure simple life of God for which my soul thirsted it happened that I heard a book read of the sufferings of some of the people of God who were called quakers in a dungeon at Suesham whose name and sufferings was strange to me at that time yet at the hearing of it something in me did arise with much tendernesse and pitty toward the innocent suffering people which drew tears from mine eyes believing they did suffer for conscience sake and the same thing in me even said that God would avenge them on the bloudy persecutors which hath been performed by his mighty hand of power on some of them even to the cutting them of the earth as briars and thornes for the fire but did not know all this time what it was that let me see these things and knew not light from darknesse as is the state of thousands who professe Christ as I did in words who lighte●● every man that cometh into the world and leads his sheep out of darknesse into the fould of eternall life and peace from which the wise and prudent withall their knowledge comprehension and imaginations are shut out for ever Then I heard Jacob Behements bookes and began to read much in them and to gather something of that into my comprehension and imaginations in the braine but this and all the other gave not p●ace and rest to the immortall soule which still lay in death and bondage by reason of transgression and sin but not long after came one a Minister of the word of life whose name few know and preached to the spirit in prison which rejoyced much at the sound of his words to which I gave diligent heed and was eternally convinced that it was the very truth he declared and that there is no other way to know God or to be saved but as I walked in the light which I was lighted withall which did let me see all my ungodly deeds and hard speeches that ever I had committed which light comes from Christ the Saviour and leads all that follow it out of the evill that is in the world unto him that was before the world was by whom it was made gloryfied with the Father the substance of all the types figures shaddows ordenances of which might be spoken many things but he is the sum that redeems man by his blood the life out of the earth into which man was driven in transgression up unto God againe before transgression was to the beginning and the end So as to the true light in my heart my mind was turned many Scriptures came fresh unto me confirming the truth of which he spoke and the povver of the vvord in my heart of God vvhich the light comes from began to stir and vvorke and condemnation vvas administred upon all my former profession and a svvord vvas comming upon the earth vvhich had sate still in peace and open vvar vvas proclaimed against the beast vvhore and false prophet by the lambe that vvas slaine vvhose svvord came out of his mouth and the prisoner of hope rejoyced at the begining of this day of vengeance believing the yeare of redemption vvas come so that here vvas a change began and that vvhich seemed strang● to me vvas happened vvhich vvas quickly perceived by the baptists vvho vvere then my companions in profession but not in tribulation for I vvas made to vveepe and lament seeing all the religion in the vvorld to be but as a fading Leafe vvithout the pure life and povver of God vvhich saveth from sinne and brings into unity vvith him so that I could no longer be satisfied nor live in a talke of God and Christ and not enjoy the eternall rest even the sincere milke of the immortall vvord of life vvhich my soule breathed after even from a Childe though I knevv not vvhat it vvas nor vvhere to find it but in this my troubled condition many baptists follovved day and night to persvvade me out of it looking upon me to be deluded and some vvith prayers and some vvith flatteryes and others of them vvith envious vvords strived to get me back to them telling me that I vvas fallen from grace and vvas become under the Lavv and makeing the blood of Christ of none effect but I not knovving then the blood to be the life and that the life is the light of men though I vvas convinced in my conscience of the eternall truth yet my understanding God vvas confounding and the day of the Lord vvas darknesse and not light to that part which had held the truth in unrighteousnesse as they shall all one day vvitnesse vvhere their covering is rent of them and their inside made more manifest vvho by their many tattling vvords drevv out my minde from Gods vvitnesse in me and from the Law vvritten in the heart to vvhich I should have kept and been faithfull even the sure word of prophecy which let me see all that ever I did for Moses vvas faithfull as a servant in all his house but this mistery I knew not then and so to get ease turned out my minde from the truth which is required in the inward parts and gave heed to seducing spirits and words which darkned councell in so much that I joyned againe vvith them in more zeal then before and encouraged others to follovv their strong imaginations from the letter of Scripture looking for a Saviour vvithout us though the Scripture saith Christ within the hope of glory and know yee not that Christ is in you except yee be reprobates c And for his comming without us though he said when they shall say loe here and loe there believe them not and goe not forth and for his Kingdome and glory vvithout us though the Kings Daughter is all glorious vvithin and the King said the Kingdome of God is within you and for his resurrection and life and reign without us when as the King said I am the resurrection and the life and am come a light into the world who lighteth every man that commeth into the world these things we imagined and builded one another up in contrary to the Scripture and to the Saints which builded up in that which is a miistery held in a pure conscience so we past over judgement like the Pharisees and hipocrites of old which did professe and say but doe not climbing up an easier way then by the doore Christ who condemnes sinne in the flesh like the