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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	lord_n	see_v	4,192	5	3.2926	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30834	The blessed effects of true and saving faith with good counsel, vvholsome advice, and also encouragement to all Friends every where, that suffer for truth and righteousness sake / given forth by a servant of the Lord ... John Banckes.	Banks, John, 1637-1710.	1684 (1684)	Wing B651; ESTC R3552	9,717	12

the Jailer awaked he thought to have killed himself seeing the Doors open supposing the Prisoners had been fled but Paul said Do thy self no harm we are all here and then he came trembling when he perceived what was done and said What shall I do to be Saved and Paul and Silas spoke unto him the Word of the Lord and bid him Believe in the Lord Iesus Christ and he should be Saved and he and all his House Believed Oh! what great Encouragement is here for all faithful honest Hearted Friends though in and under Suffering or that yet may be called thereunto to go on in all faithfulness freely giving up Life and Liberty and all into the Lords hand willing to cast their care and put their Confidence in him who hath all power in his own hand to do and bring to pass whatsoever seems good in his own Eyes Oh! how the Wicked many times in the height of their Wickedness are frustrated and Gods People beyond all expectation preserved and delivered as you your selves have many times been made living Witnesses hold it fast Dear Friends in your Remembrance And you may also see when there is a freely giving up to answer what the Lord requires in the faithful performance of the same thorough the Might of Gods Power Peoples Hearts and Consciences are reached to the causing of them to tremble whereby good desires are begotten and raised What Men shall do to be Saved though before they have been Persecutors and Afflictors of Gods People as you may see by the Goaler afore mentioned and whose care it is thus to walk and shew forth a Godly Conversation and Example in doing or suffering so as to reach to the Witness of God in Peoples Consciences though in the Inner Prison as Paul and Silas was they have not only cause to bless and praise the Holy Name of the Pure God for accompanying them by the Angel of his Presence but also to Sing and make Melody unto him in their Hearts For now Dear Friends and Suffering Brethren though the Lord our God see it good so to come to pass for a tryal of your Faith and Patience to see how you will trust in him in the hour of Temptation and time of Tryal that Man shall be so far permitted to take your Goods and seperate you from your dearest and nearest Relations your Dear Wives and Tender Children and put you in Prison now this is greatly your Joy and Comfort being sensible of the Cause wherefore you suffer Man with all his Power and Strength Fury and Rage cannot seperate you from the pure enjoyment of the presence of the Lord but by it reacheth unto his Dear Suffering Lambs though in a Dungeon which if it were not so above all People we were most Miserable but now above all People we are most Blessed and Happy Blessed and Praised and Magnified for evermore be the Holy Name and great Power of our God by and thorough which he always did and doth carry through all his faithful Children and People for he is for ever worthy of all Praise Honour and Glory unto him alone be it given both now and for ever more Amen And so Dear Friends put on Courage and Boldness in the Name Fear and Power of the Most High as an Armour faithfully to follow your Captain the Lord Jesus Christ that will never leave you nor forsake you except you first leave him who will lead in and through the good and bad report the Fire and the Water the sixt and in the seventh Trouble and Exercise will also be your Preserver and Upholder who upholds all his by his Word and Power I say Dear Friends all in faithfulness follow your Leader whithersoever he goes for as you with diligence follow him he will bring you thorough and bring you forth in his own time 〈◊〉 happy are they that patiently wait till it be though as great a Tryal as ever any of his People suffered Yet I say if you be stedfast in the Faith he will still bring you forth and thorough more bright and more pure Holy and Clean for the fiery Tryal makes so concerning which as the Apostle Peter said Marvel not concerning the Fiery Tryal as though some strange thing had happened for it 's for no other end but that you more and more may shine as the Stars of Heaven in the Firmament of his Power that so a True Living and Faithful Testimony whether in doing or suffering Body or Goods by you all according to your several Measures may be born unto the Truth and for the pure God and his Pure Holy Worship and against all Oppression and Unrighteousness that is upheld in the World that the same may stand remain and be left upon record to after Ages and Generations how faithful ye were to God in your day as a confirmation unto their Faith and as may greatly tend to their Encouragement as those faithful Witnesses that have already finished their course in the Faith of our Lord Jesus Christ and are gone to their rest doth greatly tend to strengthen the Faith and encourage all those that yet remain that are travelling on in the same way That so in that same love Pure Life and true tenderness into which at first you were begotten and raised to bear a faithful Testimony for the Lord his Name Truth and Glory though but in little and small things when nothing in that day all keep it in Mind was too near or dear for you to part with that you may all persevere and fi●ish in that in which you have begun that that which was known to be the First may carefully be kept unto to be knowa to be the Last the Alpha the Omega the Beginning and the Ending the same to Day Yesterday and forever who is from Everlasting to Everlasting that so the Crown of Life and of Immortal Glory may be set upon your Heads that is laid up in store for all that in faithfulness continue unto the end unto which the Lord God of Life by and through the greatness and strength of his own Power keep and preserve you all Faithful in Life and unto Death and in the end Amen From my Prison-house in Carel●le in Cumberland the 17th of the ●th Month 1684. Printed by Iohn Bringhurst in Leaden-Hall