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cause_n	believe_v	good_a	great_a	1,387	5	2.5396	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88859	The wars of David, and the peaceable reign of Solomon symbolizing the times of warfare and refreshment of the saints of the most high God, to whom a priestly kingdom is shortly to be given, after the order of Melchisedeck. Set forth in two treatises written by J. Lead: and according to divine ordination publish'd in this present year of jubilee. For the service of all the children of the captivity, now watching and praying in many countries, for the great jubilee of the Lord to begin, and follow upon this very speedily. Containing I. An alarm to the holy warriours to fight the battels of the Lamb. II. The glory of Sharon, in the renovation of nature, introducing the kingdom of Christ in his sealed virgins, redeemed from the earth.	Lead, Jane, 1623-1704.	1700 (1700)	Wing L791A; ESTC R226473	14,453	20

Obserservations and from Year to Year did make her Calculations from the same at the beginning of every New Year so long as she had her Eye-sight has been almost continually exercis'd under great Temptations and Oppositions and been Fighting the Good Fight of Faith from her youth upwards has been above Threescore Years call'd by GOD after a manner more than ordinary and to her self exceeding Strange as well as to others unto a Life which the World knows not and cannot Judge of and has been above half the time under the more immediate and constant Visitations of the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation as what hath been already Publish'd doth Testifie And 't is to be observ'd that though she was Baptized and Educated in the Church of England in which all the Extraordinary Stirrings of the Divine Spirit are too generally Slighted and by some Blasphemed it pleased the Wisdom of GOD more Illustriously to break forth in the manner of her Conversion in the Sixteenth Year of her Age and so to give an Evidence that the Voice of the Eternal Wo●d of God speaking to Souls in a distinct and sensible manner is Real and Substantial not Imaginary being to be distinguished by such who can't be suppos'd to have had any pre-conceived Notions about it but must have the Prejudices of Education directly against it and all External Motives not to attend to it The Sober and Moral Conversation in which she was Nurtur'd was not sufficient to give her any Rest when this Voice first spake to her which was very suddenly and surprizingly For it was in a time of great Festivity at the Celebration of the Nativity of CHRIST according to custom with Musick and Dancing in the House of her Father where was a Concourse for that end of the Gentry when of a sudden grievious Sorrow was darted as Fire into her Bowels and she was made to consider that this was not the way to be Comform'd to CHRIST or to remember his Birth aright And a soft Whisper gently entred into her saying Cease from this I have another Dance to lead thee in for this is Vanity Vpon which she was as constrain'd to give over abruptly her Dancing and so presently withdrew her self from the Company retiring to consider of this Immediate Call Which the Divine Spirit pursued so very hard as after this she had no liberty to Converse as formerly in the Family or to mind any concern of it but was so wholly taken up in the consideration of her Interiour State and of the One Thing necessary as to desert all things besides Yet though her Relations and Acquaintance took great notice and marvelled much at what had happen'd she diligently conceal'd the true Cause from them all excepting only a Chaplain in the House who having some time afterward surpriz'd her reading in his Study inquired into the matter bad her be of good Courage and believe that God had some great Good to bring about by all this Conflict of Soul she was in Which was so terrible indeed as nothing was able to give her any Satisfaction or Rest or to ease her Wounded Spirit that was struck through and through for having once persisted in a falsehood about a Triffle The Sense of which continued upon her for the space of Three Years with very great Anguish and Trouble these Words being frequently brought before her Whoever loveth and maketh a Lye cannot enter into the New Jerusalem The Dreadfulness and Horrour of Sin carried her down to the Gates of Hell and every little Circumstance of its Evil was continually presented to her Mind with all the possible Agnravations thereof And if this were but her beginning what may we expect of her latter End And if in the first Conversion only of a Soul to GOD so great a Dread there be for having offended against the Truth in but a Trivial matter how great of necessity must it be in the Progress of that Soul if it should fall again so strangely to offend against the Truth more Highly more Solemnly and in matters of the very greatest Importance Surely this is no flight Presumption for the Vadility of a Testimony which is given afterward in the most Sacred Form and persisted in with the greatest constancy and chearfulness notwithstanding all kind of Oppositions from the World and the Devil as well as the Flesh Now it was in the Nineteenth Year of her Age when the Light of the Divine Countenance which had been hither to hid begun to shine upon her and to bring her Soul out of this State of Obscurity and Darkness and out of the Pains of Hell that had taken hold upon her feeling the Arrows of the Wrath of the Almighty And she was Comforted with the sweet Message of the Free and Superabounding Love and Grace of the most Tender and Merciful Father and was so richly favoured by her dear and blessed Mediator as to receive at that time the Seal of her Absolution and Assurance in a manner very special there being presented to her in a Vision the form of a Pardon with a Seal to it signifying that her Transgressions were blotted out and that she was Sealed by the Spirit for the Promise of the Father as a Witness whereof a mighty Gust and Power of Prayer was then given to her And ever since she has been a trained Soldier under the Discipline of the Blessed JESVS and the leadings of his Spirit which is a Spirit trying the Reins and the Marrow and that will not abide but with simplicity of Heart and Truth in the inward Parts Let this suffice for the Credibility of the Evidence for the present at least Now as for the Subject Matter both of the one and the other Treatise it is a Divine Call to prepare and fit our selves against the greatest Revolution to come upon the World that ever has been with Directions how we ought to behave our selves in this wonderful Crisis and what shall be the Success if we abide Faithful and Stedfast The stile and manner in which they are written is not suitable to the Genius of this Polite Age and especially of this Nation It is Parabolical and Emblematical full of Figurative Speeches and Abrupt Transitions and so utterly strange to the Mordern Reformation of Language from the Stage as it is not to be wondred at that it pleases so few but withal such as it is the Power of God is the more manifested through it and it wants not also a Beauty and Strength which is peculiar to it and which would be very hard if possible to imitate In the first Treatise there are these Things Remarkable viz the General of the Army appearing upon a White Horse in a Triumphant Manner the Trials Excuses Expostulations and Discipline of the Person to whom he so appears the Parable of the Mill which is to supply the Army the Decree of the Heavenly Council and Proclamation of War the Alarm for the Gathering of a Priestly Host