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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	life_n	name_n	write_v	18,504	5	6.4426	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76237	A seasonable warning and word of advice to all papists, but most especially to those of the kingdome of France; for them to turn from their idolatry, and gross superstition, and speedily to repent, and hast to meet the Lord by amendment of life, least he come on them, and smite them unawares ... / Charles Baily.	Bayley, Charles, 17th century.	1663 (1663)	Wing B1473A; ESTC R170471	59,588	68

by which means they are not found worthy Therefore ye which are straglers come away even ye who are as much strangers as any fear not faint not ye shall have your penny as well as those who laboured in the heat of the day I say come away a feast of fat things is prepared for you even a goodly heritage which floweth with Milk and Honey there is large possessions therein my friends for you and if ye be willing and obedient ye shall eat of the good thereof yea In my Fathers house are many Mansions and if it were not so I should not say it but as my soul hath richly fed thereof so I would all should come away and partake with me of the same I am truly filled with love ever as a vessel which is filled with new Wine even to all the whole 〈◊〉 of God and would if it were possible perswade all the Sons of men to come away for the Bride hath made her self ready and the Marriage-Chamber is prepared And the voice of the Spirit saith come yea all that will come freely see therefore that you have your Lamps trimmed all to the Light that ye may not be of the number of the foolish Virgins and so miss your entrance into the Marriage-Chamber for though the door may be freely opened yet it will not be alwayes therefore Blessed are they who are found watching that when the cry of the Bridegroom cometh they may enter for they shall enjoy the joy of their Lord and there will be no more cause of weeping because the Bridegroom will be alwayes with them but they which are foolish shall be shut out among the Dogs and Sorcerers therefore be ye warned that ye may be partakers of peace rest and joy for evermore and think not any thing too dear to part from for the price of the Mark of the High Calling which is in Christ Jesus that is set before you for saith Christ Whosoever shall forsake father and mother wife or children house or land for my sake shall receive an hundred fold in this world and in the world to come life everlasting And truly friends I tell you by true experience that the sufferings of this world is not to be compared to the joy which is and shall be revealed in us and though many may speak evil of you and revile you because ye run not into the same excess of riot as before heed it not if you receive Christ ye shall have power to become the Sons of God which will be greater riches than ye can loose in this world being made witnesses of the birth which is not of man nor by man but of God I say this will bear you over all the reproaches of the wicked one and this state you will come to know by taking up the dayly Cross and following of Christ for he that will be his Disciple must so do in reallity and in truth which Cross is not a piece of Wood or Stone neither will you need any such thing to put you in mind of God or Christ but the Cross ye will witness to be the power of God unto salvation if you believe for Paul said God forbid that he should glory in any thing but the Cross of Christ whereby he was crucified unto the world and the world unto him so as you come to witnesse the true Cross and to bear it dayly you will come to witnesse the same thing without which all your profession will be vain so as you come to dwell abide and walk here you will come to know what the true Baptisme of Christ Jesus is which is the Fire and the Holy Ghost without which you cannot witnesse the body of sin put off and except you do witnesse this ye are far from Christs life which makes a true Christian for it is not only the washing away of the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good Conscience towards God And this is the onely Baptisme which must be witnessed by all before they come to a Christians life for the Apostle Paul said There was but one Baptisme which is the Baptisme of the Spirit for John said He was to decrease but Christ was to encrease for his Baptisme was but a figure of the true Baptisme for Christ came through all Figures having the Substance and the Life in himself so they who come to this only true Baptisme which is onely needful to salvation they come to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost for they who knew no other but Johns Baptisme they knew not whether there was a Holy Ghost or no therefore it is said concerning Apollo That he onely knew Johns Baptisme and that Priscilla and Aquilla ministred unto him and instructed him in the way of God more perfectly Therefore be ye instructed in this matter and be ye no longer deceived with a name and shadow but come to the substance that your souls may live for ever so will blessing and mercy follow you all your dayes and happy shall you be in the end thereof though men may persecute and revile you matter it not for so they did to Christ Jesus and the Holy Prophets before you and remember The Servant is not greater than his Lord And the Saints of old who wandred up and down cloathed with skins and wandred up and down in dens and holes of the earth of whom the world was not worthy I say all who desire eternal life take them for an example in sufferings and patience and your names will be written in the Book of Life with them even amongst those who are sanctified who loved not their lives unto the death by which means they came to be crowned with immortal Glory even to live and reign with the Lamb upon Mount Sion for ever which is not to be compared with all the treasures of Egypt the Gold of Ophir or Onix stones And it being so that nothing availeth any but a new creature What do you think will all your Crosses avail you with your Beads and Reliques of dead men and womens bones with your Processioning and counterfeit Fasts Pardons for sins from the Pope and the like stuffe as your vain repetition of other mens words in your prayers and giving your means to build great Monasteries for men to be kept up a fatting like so many Swine living idlely upon the Creation of God and likewise women who are as wanton as Beasts kept and fed there I say what will all these avail you and them but adde to your condemnation seeing the ground and root of the old man stands whole in you in which nature all your works is not accepted with God who is a Spirit and must be worshipped in Spirit and in Truth and such onely he seeketh to worship him So it is no more at Jerusalem or at this or that place or house where God is worshipped neither doth he dwell in Temples made with hands for he hath no need of these things nor