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cause_n	believe_v	receive_v	truth_n	1,611	5	5.9464	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08383	Some buds and blossoms of piety also, some fruit of the spirit of love. Which directs to the Divine wisdom, being a collection of several papers, found in manuscript, / written by a young man, many of them in the time of his apprenticeship, some of them since. Who, as appears by his writings, had a true travail after the knowledge of God, and heaven, and heavenly things. And did attain to know him and his son, Christ, whom he hath sent, which is life eternal. ; To which subjoyned is a tripple plea, touching law, physick and divinitie, formerly printed and subscribed T.C.	B. A. (Benjamin Antrobus), d. 1715.; T. C. Tripple plea.	1684 (1684)	Wing A3523A; ESTC R176216	28,434	89

that which is the cause of Strife That men may live in Vnity and Peace And Amity and Wars and Blood-shed cease A Time of Darkness o're this Land has bin So thick so dark so gross because of Sin That many People Truth will not receive That God is Light nor in his Son believe Although the Scriptures amply do declare That God and Christ the Name of Light do bare And first concerning God who all things made By his eternal powerful Word He said Let it be so and so it came to pass That all in Heaven and Earth created was This God is Light and in the Light doth dwell As doth the holy Scriptures plainly tell In many places you may plainly find Who read the Scriptures with an humble Mind And that his Son our Christ who is the Lamb Is call'd the Light who from God's Bosom came To lead Man up to God out of the Fall In which through Sin we are concluded all And so through Sin in Death and Darkness be Till by the Light of Christ we are set free Who came to lead all those that him obey Out of the Night into the perfect Day O blessed Day O glorious Day of Light Which conquers Darkness and expels the Night Blest be time in which thy Day-Star bright And Morning redness of Eternal Light Our Hearts did visit and by splendant Rayes Reveal the Glory of these latter Dayes In which the Lord of Host our God most-high According to his Promise doth draw nigh Unto his People and their King will be And by his powerful out-stretch'd Arm set free His Sons and Daughters who long Captives were Under oppressing Pharoah and did beare The heavy Yokes oppressing Burdens and Increasing Talks of black dark Egypt's Land Of Divine Love WHat shall I say of Love the chiefest Good 'T is Bread of Life the Soul 's Coelestial Food The blessed Mansion of Eternity The Residence and Dwelling of the high And lofty One the New-Ierus'lem bright Fill'd with that glorious Splendor and great Light Which doth the seven-fold Light o' th' Sun transcend Which Light transparent never shall have end O depth of Love and boundless Ocean wide Under the shadow of thy Wings us hide And keep us Lord in perfect Rest and Peace Shower down thy Mercies make all Discords cease Reveal thy Light thy glorious Truth make known And by thy conquering Love bind all in one That in a Oneness all may sing amain Iehovah-King on Earth in us doth Reign An Exhortation to dwell in Love DWell Friends in Love and then no Strife will be Nay nor Contention but a Unitie For Love in all things doth for Oneness call Thinking no Evil but pure good to all Yea Love is God and God is Love and Light Fulness of Pleasure Joy and great Delight Dwell ye therein and ye shall witness Friends Such sweet Enjoyments can't be writ by Pens For since the Lord in mercy hath made known This Dispensation of his Love and shown To me its Vertue and choice Nature pure To ye with boldness this I dare assure That Love 's the highest Dispensation yea That ever hath or will dispensed be Christ the true Light Christ the Son of God's Love DWell in the Light and there true Love will be Dwell in true Love and great Light ye shall see For in the Light there true Love doth abound And in the Love there true Light may be found For Light and Love though they seem two by Name Yet one in Substance and in truth the same DEar Friend J. C. with true unfeigned Love I thee salute which in my Heart doth move Towards thee and all our tender Friends most dear Whose Minds are staid on God in his pure fear Feel me dear Friend a Member joyntly knit To all in Christ in heavenly Places sit And here to Friends no Stranger would I be Though they my Face as outward ne're did see For truly Friend I dearly love and own All travelling Souls who truly sigh and groan For the Adoption which sets free from Sin And works Redemption from that state wherein The Prince o' th' Power of Darkness long did reign But blest be God the time 's at hand a Chain In utter Darkness must his Portion be There to be bound and never more set free O! all the Riches that are here below Pomp State and Glory man esteemeth so What is It all if I It once compare Unto a Child that doth Gods Image bare But Dross and Dung yea filthy Dirt and Mire To purest Gold refined in the Fire How can I then but dearly love and own Those precious Members which are Bone of Bone And prize their presence and enjoyment more Than Butts of Wine and Oyl and Barns of Store THe man that lives in Sin walks in the Night And spends his dayes in Darkness not in Light A righteous man his Works to Life do tend But wicked men their Minds to Strife do bend Avoid the Ways of Satan they 're not right But traoe the Steps o' th' Just which Shine as Light Comfort the Comfortless in time of need Distribute to the Poor and Hungry feed A Complaint against New-England Professors O Sad New-England I have heard strange News concerning Thee Why didst Thou thus abuse Gods Children dear Male and Female Surely Their Blood Thou Slew and Hang'd aloud doth cry Unto the Lord who will avenge the same Upon Thy Head A Record to thy shame A shameful thing indeed what shall I say You are the stock of Cain this was his way Your cruel Works Your hardned Hearts make known Your Babel great must to the Earth be thrown Your boastings high like Caparnaum tall Must all come down your Pride shall have a fall You that so cruel and merciless were The Vengeance of Almighty God must bear Concerning Persecution SInce Abel's time unto this present day There is an Evil that hath born great sway An Evil Great A Horrid and Black Sin Call'd Persecution All that walk therein What e're they say profess or do pretend By Persecution People to amend Yet none of them could ever make appear Co-ercive Means was a good Course to stere It ne're did Mend but rather always Mar Who e're harpt on that ftring still made a Iar IT is a hateful foul destructive thing To King nor People It ne're good can bring The Work and Fruit thereof as many write Nought else produceth but a Hypocrite I think it strange why some should pleasure take And Toil themselves but Hypocrites to make It is work that Marks all in it are With Mark and Badge of Satan which they weare The Mark o' th' Flesh and Birth that 's from below A Badge with which all Persecutors go For as it was so still it is I say The Fleshly Birth the Spirits Birth would slay Nothing more certain is the Mark and Seat O' th' wicked Whore than Persecution great Nothing the mark of the false Church more plain Than Reformation per force to

Riotous appears In Words Deeds nor Intent And yet they 'l boldly swear the same So wickedly they 're bent But certainly the time 's at hand God will his Children dear That serve him uprightly in Truth From all false Charges clear And they that wrongfully accuse And hate them without cause Shall bear his Righteous Judgment fierce And Rigour of his Laws Who Rigorous to his Lambs have been Severe beyond all Reason Conspirators against the Lamb And guilty of High-Treason They at his Bar of Justice then Arraigned all shall be And sentence from the Judge receive For their Iniquitie Depart from me ye Workers of Iniquity and Sin Unto the place prepar'd of old Tophet 't is call'd wherein The Worm ne're dyes and Fire burns Exceeding hot and fierce A flame of Brimstone kindleth it Where Piles of Wood's not scarce In Everlasting Torments they Their Teeth shall gnash with Pain In Chains of Darkness they 'l be bound Not to be free'd again Therefore to those that persecute The Righteous and the Just I say Repent before God say Depart from me ye Curst For if Repentauce ye don t know And from these Evils cease Then into Thraldom must you go Ne're more to have release And what you have to good Men done And that without just cause The same to you shall measur●d be By those contemn your Laws Oh! that my Native Country-men And Subjects of this Realm To Moderation might incline And those set at the Helm The Cry of the Oppressed and The Case of all the Poor Would hear and those in Goals now lie To Freedom would restore And grant to all the Israelites Free leave to serve the Lord And go to New-Ierusal'm to Praise him with one accord Then Blessings from above will come Upon this Nation great The Nations round about shall all Not only hear but see 't When Truth and Righteousness prevails Iustice and Iudgment to The want of which where-e're it be That Nation will undo Where Iudges for Rewards do judge More then the Case o' th' Poor The Righteous Judge of Heav'n and Earth Will judge with Vengeance sore Where Priests that preach are Hirelings found And tear the Wool from Sheep They Shepherds are void of Gods fear Not fit his his flock to keep And God whose Eye goes to and fro And all things doth behold His Controversie with them 's great As Prophets said of old That Light is come and now doth shine False Teachers doth discover And It must break forth more and more And spread all Nations over For to discover Babylon And all her Merchants great That so the Whore may reign no more But come down from her Seat She long has sate and reign'd as Queen No Sorrow she would see But now the time 's at hand in which Will come her Destinie She long the Blood of Saints hath drunk ' Cause from Truth they 'd not turn But now the Kings shall hate the Whore Her flesh with Fire burn B. A. A Tripple Plea Law Physick and Divinitie Were at a jarr could not agree To prove their Right which of all three Should have Superioritie The Law pleads It preserves Mens Lands And keeps their Goods from Ravenous Hands Therefore of Right challengeth he To have Superioritie Physick prescribes Receipts for Health Which men prefer before their Wealth Therefore of Right challengeth he To have Superioritie Then steps up the Priest demure That of mens Souls takes Care and Cure Therefore of Right challengeth he To have Superioritie LEt Judges judge this Tripple-Plea Then Lawyers shall bear all the Sway. Let Empiricks their Verdict give Physitians most of all shall thrive Let Bishops be Judge in this case Then Priests shall have the highest place Let Honest Sober Wise Men judge Then all these three away may trudge For let men live in Peace and Love The Lawyers Tricks they need not prove Let men forbear Excess and Riot They need not live by Physicks Diet. Let men attend what God doth Teach They need not care what Priest doth Preach But if men Fools and Knaves will be They shall be Ass-rid of all Three T. C. THe Day of God doth now draw nigh From which the Wicked fain would fly Which Day discovers all their Deeds And plainly shews they are but Weeds And fit for nothing but the Fire And to be burned in Gods Ire Who now will throughly purge his Floore And save the Wheat for evermore Christ is the Door he is the Way Where all should walk where none can stray Turn in thy mind without delay That thou mayst joy in Gods pure Day To God Most-high Antient of Dayes My Soul aloud doth sound forth Praise This is the thirsting of my Heart That God his Love would more impart My Soul doth magnifie the God of Light For my Redemption great out of the Night Blessing and Praise to him for evermore Who hath inricht me with his heavenly store And gave me Entrance in by Christ the Door To dwell with him now and for evermore Glory and Praise be unto God I say Who brought me from the Night into the Day HOw fresh and green Things are in time of Spring How sweetly then the Turtle Dove doth Sing A heavenly Song of Praises pure I hear The time of my Redemption now draws near Praises pure Praises unto God forever Who by his Word my Soul from Sin doth sever And fit the same to enjoy endless Life By perfect Freedom from all Iars and Strife To live in Peace and in a joyful state With Christ my Head my Portion and my Mate Now I no longer in the World may dwell To me to live therein seems like to Hell The Course of the whole World which lies in Sin Too much therein I heretofore have bin But now my Life it stands in God most pure And here O Lord let me for a'ye indure And when that Satan did draw out my Mind I oft did in me hear a Voice behind Which said to me keep to the Good within For by It thou mayst be preserv'd from Sin Keep to its Teachings and mark the effect For by Its Power All Sin thou mayst reject Of this thou need in no wise for to doubt For by Its Power the Devils are cast out And that State known that 's always pure and clean Wherein no Spot nor Wrinkle can be seen And here the Soul may now for a'ye Rejoyce And Praise the Lord with a pure holy Voice The Lord hath often knocked in my Breast That my Immortal Soul might have its Rest And be Redeem'd from all that hath opprest To have my Life in Freedom which is best And so know Death through Life destroyed quite And Mortal cloathed with Immortal Light THe Day of God most holy is and pure Which Day and Light the Sinner can't endure He hates the Light appearing in his Heart Because the coming of it is his smart For as an Oven it will fiercely burn All that is bad and to Truth will not turn Yea all that is in Man it now will try And all that is Impure must surely dye And be consum'd as with a burning Fire And be destroyed in Gods dreadful Ire So only that which can the Fire endure Shall stand and so come forth holy and pure And shall be crowned with a Crown of Life Prepared as a Bride and the Lamb's Wife Therefore ye Sinners hear lest that ye dye The Voice of Christ Gods Son with him comply Who is the Saviour great and kiss him straite And to him bow before it be too late And take his Counsel for I plainly tell Those that reject the same go down to Hell Therefore with speed come turn your Minds within Obey that Voice which doth reprove for Sin And say This is the Way come walk in it That you with me upon my Throne may sit Go not therefore in Ways and Works of Evil No longer live in Sin and serve the Devil But follow me in those Ways that are Pure For dark and sinfnl Ways I can't endure My Soul in all respects doth loathe the same Those walk therein dishonour Gods pure Name My Counsel heed and do not run before Incline not to the Spirit of the Whore Her Cup of Wine is Fornication great Vials of Wrath shall come upon her Seat THe Lord doth feed his Flock and give them Rest In pleasant Pastures where they richly feast And drink of Shiloes Brooks that run so clear For they only the living God do fear They hear his Voice and do his Will aright In Holy things their Souls have great delight But this unto the Sinner seemeth strange Whose great delight in Darkness is to range And rove about and from the good to raven Walking in sinful Ways yet hope for Heaven 'T is a false Hope the Hope o' th' Hypocrite It leads not out of Darkness into Light Therefore that Hope I say trust to no more But come to Christ within the Hope the Door Come from that place where Satan has his station Enter the Kingdom through great Tribulation For all that will live godly in Christ they Shall meet with Persecution in their Way But God preserves the Humble and the Meek The Proud and Persecutors Head he 'l break Therefore thy Neck subject unto Christ's Yoke Fear not thy Bands though strong shall all be broke His Yoke is easie Burden light and shall Give to thee Rest and bring out of the Fall Into that Way which narrow is and straite Bow to his Yoke before it be too late J. C. THE END Page 9. line 8. read look not thou thereon l. 16. r leasure p. 10. l. 9. dele who l. 24 for placed r. plac'd p. 14. l. 23. f. doth r. do p. 16. l. 26. r. like to a post