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cause_n	good_a	justification_n	work_n	9,756	5	6.9844	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29602	A clear voice of truth sounded forth, and as an ensign lifted up and displayed in answer to the proceedings of the Christians by name in Asia, by way of controversie and expostulation : together with savoury and wholesome admonishments, which may become of good use and profitable to all that read with a single eye, and understand with an upright heart : also the same somewhat tends by way of gentle reproof to their hasty and inequitable proceedings against the innocent servants, messengers and living witnesses of the living and true God : yet with tendernesse of an upright heart and spirit (not onely of a free born English-man, but also of a true Christian) from the same hand its principally directed to the Lord Embassasdor (so called) in Constantinople, and to the English Company of Merchants and Factors in Smyrna, with somewhat to the merchants in Genoa, tendred again by way of visitation, and that from God, for them and others in Italy to consider and not reject to their own hurt.	D. B. (Daniel Baker), fl. 1650-1660.	1662 (1662)	Wing B482; ESTC R22863	27,445	38

if I should testifie saying This is a certain warning from the hand of God that liveth for ever I right well know you can hardly believe the words of my Living testimony but I perfectly know from what Spirit and ground they are brought forth and I am well satisfied in the life that now is and was and shall for ever be one and the same which is Unchangable Immortal Invisible Eternal without variableness or shadow of turning in the least degree into any contrariaty from its own pure nature or property and clear substance of its undefiled nature of true Light and Life which never fadeth away in which I rest and in the same my living soul magnifieth the living invisible God of immortality and eternal life to whom be living endless praises with eternal Dominion over all this and that which letteth which is to be taken out of the way now and for ever as in the beginning over all Amen And for so much as you have so far made light of the appearance of the good day of your visitation of salvation now the day light of the morning is begun to dawn over the Nations the dark night of Apostacy since the Holy Apostles dayes being so far spent the clouds of obscurity and unfruitful works of the night of darkn●ss being made manifest by the Light of Eternity and brought to the same for judgement and condemnation but behold how you have been found Defying Rejecting Abhorring and Persecuting the Prophets and Messengers and People of the true and living God who sent us not in our own name will or time to prove you and to warn you and to preach repentance and reformation and reconciliation to God among you in Asia as in other parts of the World not in your own way or wisdome that is not from above but from beneath of the World who have been permitted so far as to stop us in the work of our God to your own hurt and what if I should say on this wise Let the Lord require the same at your hands and of that Generation that is under the line of unrighteousness that runs paralel through the unbelieving wrathful persecuting nature even from Cain unto this present day who are uncircumcized in heart and ears and stifnecked alwaies resisting the holy Ghost as did your Fathers as the holy man who was filled with the Holy Ghost saith Acts 7. But I have prayed that what you have done may not be laid to your Charge who know not what you do ye know I speak truth and the Light of Christ in you will answer me in the day of God whether yet you hear or forbear I am and shall be clear albeit as much as in you is ye have endeavoured to stop and hinder the work of the everlasting God and his glorious truth from spreading yet the Truth the Light that is eternal the same which lighteeth every man that cometh into the World I say with a notwithstanding shall it break forth and shine perfectly bright and spread its same glory and eternal excellency through and over all Nations and prosper according to the most wise Decree and eternal Counsel of the everlasting Lord the Light and King of eternal life and the same shall awaken and answer the eternal witness that is just in every Conscience whether Turks Jews Christians or Heathens under what name or denomination soever they be called And behold this my spirit prophecieth viz. that with them eyes you now may see with shall you never behold the same neither the Goodness Riches Blessings and Mercies which the everlasting Light hath in store to dispence among and over the Nations of men that come to fear him and his goodnesse and also turn from ungodlinesse And behold furthermore I declare that your evil intents and works of darknesse what if I say the same shall work together for our good unto eternal life and peace and so turn to us for a testimony as it doth not to your justification but contrariwise yet our prayer is for you that hate us without a cause but the time may come and it hasteneth that you may wish you had never been born to have seen this Age and Generation whilst we cry wo and alas for you in the day in which the burthensom stone though little as cut out of the Mountain without hands it is known and the Nations that burthen themselves with it shall be cut in pieces and grownd to powder on whom it falls whose light is like unto a stone most pretious clear as Chrystal according to the prophesie of the eternal Spirit of holiness and verily the mercy and goodness and knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ the same shall fill the Earth and abundantly stream forth and spread its virtue and excellent power over all Nations and flow plentifully even to the ends and uttermost parts of the Earth from Sea to Sea and to the utmost extent or circumference of its bounds the Lord the Lord of eternity in his own life and by the Almightinesse of his own Arm that 's revealed and manifest in the midst of his poor afflicted and despised yet honourable people against whom you have magnified your selves to your own hurt in and by whom without visible weapons of war will he even our Lord perform the same and much more and many both on the right hand and on the left shall break forth as a mighty flood or as the Stars of the Firmament of the power of the everlasting Light and many shall fear and tremble because of the abundance of peace and truth that is and is yet to be revealed even in them that turn from ungodlinesse to the Light of the Lord who enlighteneth the poor and deceitful mans eyes the Lord enlightneth both their eyes saith the wise man and the poor man is guided in obedience to the same light which justifieth him and condemneth the deceitful man that hates it Prov. 29. so he that doth evil hateth the Light which is not Salvation but Condemnation to the evil doer as Christ saith John the 3d. And blessed shall the man be that believeth in and obeyeth the Light of the Lord manifest in him to guide him into all Truth from all the contrary and the Nations shall be asnamed and confounded because of all the goodness that the eternal God of Judgement will perform unto and in the blessed and beloved obedient Seed of his bowels that 's to be gathered from the four winds and ends of the Earth where they have been in the dark night of Apostacy scattered Wherefore with my single voice behold I cry unto you yet by the same Eternal Spirit of Life and Prophesie take heed and beware least that therefore come upon you which is spoken of in the Prophets saying Behold ye dispisers and Wonder and Perish the Lord is working a work in your dayes which you will in no wise believe though a man declare it unto you

Gods Truth for their eternal good freely albeit they hated us without cause as it befell our Lord and Master I also was moved in the fear of the Lord to write and give the Ambassadour an honest and true information of the intent of our hearts to the end he might be honestly warned of receiving any evil and false intelligence that he may not consent with the same nor with the ground of it to joyn or stretch forth his hand therewith against the Lord his Truth and innocent People THE Copy of the Letter is seen meet to be inserted here following seeing the same was made leight of and rejected as a thing of nought as many have done to their own hurt and condemnation namely O. C. and the many Parliaments in their dayes past in which the Eternal God tryed them what if I say to the uttermost before he smote and broke and shattered them to pieces as Potters Vessells and wherled them up and down as Clouds of Tempests and Darkness as it were from one end of the Land to the other in his sore displeasure in the sight of the Nations to the final destruction of many of them that turned the back Albeit they seemed to have their face towards the good Day of their Visitation from on High which they wofully sinned away and the just recompence of reward as a fruit of their own doings even in the sight of the Nations fell upon them as a weight too heavy for them to bear and as great judgements from the same Hand of God is reserved in store and is ready to be revealed and executed upon the Heads of them that walk in the same wayes and paths of unrighteousnesse which provokes the Lord to his Face I speak not on this wise to upbraid without the Fear of the Lord the generation that 's passed away and seems to be laid in the dust of the Earth but rather that the present generation of men of what Name or Denomination they were are or may be under that have but somewhat of the Fear and Zeal of the God of Truth in their Hearts thereby to be warned in their day and not to make the evil example of any to be so to them as evil to follow it nay but contrariwise which is so far acceptable to God for Sodom and Gomorah and the old World were and are evident examples of the sore displeasure of the Eternal God of vengeance to whom it peculiarly and properly belongeth and he will certainly repay Fury to his Adversaries and Recompence to his Enemies when he awakes and stirs up his strength as a MIGHTY ONE the KING the Lord of Hosts is his Name to bend his Bow and whet his glittering Sword he will cast up cut down and overturn and not spare to spend his Arrows of famine and destruction and let them fly with his outstretched Arm of strength to smite and strike into the Hearts of the double-minded so that his anger shall smoak in the fiery Zeal of his Eternal Majesty against such a one that being often reproved goeth on still in his iniquities he shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy as saith one in a certain place Prov. 29. yet the Nations of men may certainly understand that the most High holds forth his Eternal Name as he is the Lord God long suffering and of great goodness neither delighteth he in the destruction of any but rather in their return unto the Wisdom of the Just unto Eternal Life in it to live for ever and not to die in their sins for as he is the Light of Israel and his Holy One for a flame and a consuming fire to burn up Bryars and Thorns against the workers of Iniquity so is he a God of Judgement and blessed are all they that wait for his Salvation and put their trust in him he will shew them his Covenant and establish them in the same in which they shall not be confounded neither be ashamed nor yet shall any make them afraid but quietness and assurance for ever shall be their reward in Eternal Peace and Blessedness together with him and the Spirits of Just men made perfect on this wise my Soul in life breatheth and travels for the Restauration of all things into the Glorious Liberty and Freedom of the harmless Sons of God Verily the Eternal love of my God that 's shed abroad within my heart it s much enlarged to stream forth Universally even to the whole Creation that travels in pain under the Bondage of Corruption over which mine eyes have poured forth many tears and in the brokennesse of my very heart have I dolefully Lamented and Mourned for the same but at present I am necessitated to proceed on to what is before mine eye as I have began concerning this little Treatise The Copy of the Letter FRIEND THy Everlasting Honour and Wel-being with the Lord and with the Spirits of just men our soul wisheth right well so peace be unto thee This is that thou may according to the Just Noble Principle of God in thee have a right understanding of somewhat of the Truth Innocency and Vprightness of our hearts who are the Servants of the One True and Living God and Father of all Truth and called by his grace of life which in our hearts we have received gladly to Declare to the Nations even the same grace that hath brought Salvation to us the same also that appeareth unto all men without respect of persons that they may be saved from the wrath to come by which grace of life I say we are called to peace and good will to all men as our Fathers were in the same to forsake the Pollutions of the World and our Native Country Kindred and Fathers House to do and suffer the will of God and keep his Commandments which are not grievous to us in the life of our Obedience to his Blessed Will who called and sent us into these parts whether the Sons of men believe us or not or hear or forbear And seeing the God of our Life hath blessed and prospered us hitherto in our journey we have the Living Testimony of the Spirit of Life witnessing to the same in our Consciences and to the Truth of what is here written unto thee And forasmuch as we understand from the Consul here that we shall not by him be admitted to pass further without thy advice or consent therefore have we freedom and in the fear of the Lord seen meet to let thee know somewhat from our hands as to the present service of our God whose Power Favour and life in his Covenant of Eternal Light and Peace we possesse Glory to his Name for which our lives are not dear unto us which are also in our hands to serve the Lord his Truth and People and to the end thou may not in any wise be as an Instrument to stop or let the work of God from going on by the hand of his Messengers and