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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	great_a	know_v	lord_n	3,918	5	3.5901	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47152	Immediate revelation, or, Jesus Christ the eternall Son of God revealed in man and revealing the knowledge of God and the things of his kingdom immediately : or, the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit of promise, the spirit of prophecy poured forth and inspiring man and induing him with power from on high ... not ceased, but remaining a standing and perpetual ordinance in the Church of Christ and being of indispensible necessity as to the whole body in general ... / writ by George Keith, prisoner of the truth in the Tolbooth of Aberdein, the 29th of the third moneth, 1665.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1668 (1668)	Wing K175; ESTC R28754	117,830	152

perfidiously and treacherously for their filthy lucres sake and ye are generally convinced that they are but time servers wicked and bad ye are now openly and avowedly come to plead for a wicked ministry that such who are natural men and wicked may be Ministers of Christ and ought to be heard followed and maintained and such whom the Lord has sent forth to Minister in the power of his life and spirit ye call deluders Fanaticks and the like oh oh remember the day call to mind the time when your souls ●…oathed such Ministers and ye would travel many miles from one remote corner of the nation to another to hear a man who could speak lively to your souls in demonstration of the spirit and of power then there was in you a measure of pure discerning whereby ye could favour the man of God and distinguish the formal dry withered cold and dead preacher from the living and all his painted fine good words could not deceive you e had then a mouth a sence that could taste words as meat and such ye would follow and hear who could speak from and Minister of the power and spirit of life the Ministers of the Letter the dead formal preacher who could chant and talk the Scripture words and steal from other mens lines the good words made ready to their hand ye could not away with they were loathsome and burthensome unto you but now-having lost the discerning these ye can follow and maintain them And such who deny them ye call denyers of the Ministers of Christ a standing Ministry and yet when it was better with you then it is now ye denyed them and many a day cryed in good earnest of your souls to God that he would remove them and whip out of his house such buyers and sellers and purifie and purge the sons of Lev how cryed ye out and breathed to the Lord for a spiritual Ministry a Gospel Ministry a powerful Ministry and now when it s come and coming ye oppose it and bend your force to keep it down oh foolish people and unthankful do ye thus requite the Lord return return from whence ye are fallen repe●…rand do you first works turn to the Lord the fountain of living waters from whom ye have deeply revolted cease cease from the broken Cisterns ye have hewed out unto your selves drink no more at the pudled waters the dead waters which who so drinketh off dye they are dead because not freshly issuing and springing from the fountain of life if ye will return come and walk in the light of the Lord with us O house of Iacob O ye lost scattered sheep who have been driven from the fold of rest the sweet pleasant green pasture of your souls the still runing waters the pure sweet Christaline river of life that issueth fresh in living streams from the fountain it self Lo every one that thirsteth come unto the waters and drink wihout Money and price that your souls may live for of a truth the Lord God his opened unto us the fountain a vein of life a well-spring of life a well of living water hath he revealed in us who have believed in his light and hearkned to his voice which cryed in our hearts many a day saying in us turn ye turn ye why will ye die turn ye at my reproof and behold I will pour ou●… my spirit upon you this is the well of living water the gift of God which who so drinketh off will never any more drink or thirst to drink of these dead waters that is the good words uttered from a dead killing spirit the waters of the Whore on which she sits and holds forth this cup of fornications unto the inhabitants of the earth whereby they are made drunk bewitched and killed for her lips drops as an hony comb and her mouth is smoother then Oyl but her end the breath and spirit of her mouth from which the words proceed and which accompanies them is bitter as Wormw●…od and sharper then a two edged Sword to kill and destroy that of the Lords begetting and starving of it but to the edifying feeding and building up of the false birth Babilons brats which are not to live but to be starved and dye and happy are they who taketh them and dasheth them against the stones And now I say for your sake O ye my ki●…olk according to the flesh my little Sister who hath no breasts 〈◊〉 scattered sheep who have no pasture for your souls but that which feedeth death and maketh you live in the earthly corrupt principle which is the Serpents meat that if by any means I may provoke some of you and be serviceable as a mean in the Lords hand who am nothing of my self unto you that ye may return unto the Bishop and Shepherd of your Souls I am drawn in the tender love of God to write unto you concerning this principle to wit Jesus Christ revealed and revealing in man God and the things of his Kingdom even these veins and passages of li●… which runs through Paradise the City of God wh●… streams make glad every inhabitant thereof who because of this can sit and sing God is our refuge we will not fear though the earth be removed and cast into the midst of the Sea God is known for a refuge in her palaces she is beautiful for Scituation the joy of the whole earth is and shall be Mount Sion on the sides of the North the City of the great King 〈◊〉 it must be he alone even this great King who must open an eye in you by the revelation of himself where by ye can behold th●… glorious Mountain of his Holiness on wh●…ch his City Ierusalem from above is built where a feast of fat things full of marrow of wines on the Lees well refined is given to all who enter thereinto the vultures eye the eye of the natural understanding that eye which now seeth cannot see it and the path thereunto is short from all living in the natural earthly corrupt principle and it must be the Light of Christ that can only open the true eye to see this blessed path of Life which if ever ye know it must be known alone by Immediate Revelation and manifestation of Christ in you And it were a great step in its p●…ace for you to be convinced of this that it must be so And for this cause this is written to the simple hearted who are willing to see and loves to know the truth that ye being convinced by sound reason and it being demonstrated to you that there is such a thing among the Lords people and must be and that there is no other way to know God or the misteries of his Kindom but as this ●…ey of knowledge which your teachers take from you viz. Jesus Christ revealed in you opens them up then ye may be brought to wait for this glorious dispensation which many thousands can truly witness is come and I in my

body fitly joyned together and compacted by that which every joynt supplieth according to the effectual working in the measure of every part maketh increase of the Body You see how it is said This Head this Foundation This Corner-stone hath an effectual Working in the Measure of every part for it is a living Stone a Stone which is Life and Spirit and so breathes Life in every part and member of the Body Whereby every Member also becomes a living Stone 1 Pet. 2. 5. A Temple of the Holy Ghost which is therein 1 Cor. 6. 19. So the holy Spirit of Christ dwels in the whole Body and in every Member and is not divided but is one in all and in every one Now mark further Christ is this Foundation as Peter confessed him Revealed not by Flesh and Blood but by his Father which is in Heaven Christ must be revealed by the Father before he become a Foundation this is that which bu●…eth which edifieth the effectual working in every part the Revelation of the Arm of the Lord in mans heart This is that which diggeth deep beyond all the earth and sand and that which is Corruptible till it come to the Incorruptible The Word of God which abideth for ever and is able to carry the Building and bear it up against all the storms that can affault it Whosoever cometh to me saith Christ and heareth my sarings and doth them he is like a man that built an house and d●…gged deep and laid the Foundation on a Rock and this is himself Lo●… now he saith He that builds on the true Foundation on the Rock he diggeth deep for it and he heareth Christ himself and not only heareth but doeth So he must dig deep beyond all words till he come to the Power wherein the Kingdom standeth 1 Cor. 4. 20. In Power and not in Words he must dig deep beyond all Words till he come to the eternal Word which Created the Heavens and the Earth and is the Foundation which upholds them and hereupon must this new Crea●…ion be builded for nothing else can carry the weight of it and as is touched already this Foundation must be revealed not by Flesh and Blood but by God himself or else it cannot be come into and so cannot be built upon No man cometh unto me s●…th Christ unless the Father draw him and he who hath heared and learned of the Father cometh to him John 9. 44. 45. See how this agreeth with that which Christ said to Peter Flesh and Blood hath not revealed this unto thee This Rock on which I will build my Church but my Father in Heaven it must be the Revelation of the Father which must give the knowledg of it The living knowledge the knowledge which is life eternal for this Foundation being Life its effectual working is to quicken that which is dead that it may become a Member and it draws to it self by the vertue and power of its life and by the drawings a feeling of the life which draws is begotten and this feeling is the true knowledge and hereby man comes to know infallibly the true Foundation he discerns it in the feeling and so he can distinguish it from that which is Corruptible and is not able to bear up the building And therefore now ye who have not come to the revelation of the Father and of his Son ye have not yet seen the Foundation and how can ye Build on it If ye have not heard Christs words from his own mouth and do them not and if ye have not digged deep beyond all Words yea and thoughts and comprehensions of the carnal Mind if ye have not digged so deep till ye come to the Power wherein the kingdom of God stands your building is but on the Sand and that Church whatsoever which is not builded on this Foundation Christ Jesus immediately revealed both in the whole Body and in every Member thereof is not the true Church but a Synagogue of Sathan a vile Harlot Mystery Babylon the Mother of Fornicators for the true Church is one in all ages past present and to come and it hath ever had one Foundation which is Jesus Christ the same yesterday and to day and for ever and there is one Body and one Spirit one hope one Lord one Faith one Baptism Ephes. 4. 4 5. Now what was this Foundation of the Church of God before ever Scripture was writ before Moses and the Prophets and Apostles which came after who wrot the Scriptures Was it not Jesus Christ the Word which was in the beginning had it any other Foundation and what gave them the knowledge of this Foundation and builded them upon it when they had no Scripture and whereupon was their faith founded by the hearing of what word did they come by their Faith seeing then the Scriptures was not writ it was even the Word which came from God himself and taught them immediately and many of them believed when they had no man to speak unto them The Word of the Lord came unto Abraham when he was in his own country saying unto him Get thee out from among thy kindred and from thy Fathers house out of thy country unto the Land that I will shew thee and there was no man brought this message to him for those among whom he lived were Idolaters but God spoke to him by his own immediate Word and he heard and believed and it was counted to him for Righteousness Thus ye may see how Abraham's Faith came by the hearing of the Word of God proceeding from his own mouth Now every Believer is the Seed of Abraham Gal. 3. 29. And this Faith is the same Faith with his for there is but one Faith and it hath the same Foundation the Word of God proceeding immediately from himself for no other Word is able to beget it but the same Word of power which begot the Faith of Abraham for Faith is the gift of God it is a Supernatural thing and therefore it must have a supernatural Cause it must stand in the power of God the Word of Power which was in the Beginning 1 Cor. 2. 5. For nothing else is able to bear the weight of 〈◊〉 and so Isaac and Iacob heard God and believed And the Word of the Lord came unto Moses and he believed And so many others we read of who heard God himself and now the 〈◊〉 being one in all and having one foundation it follows manifestly That every believer must hear the Word of the Lord which proceedeth out of his own Mouth on which alone that one Faith is builded And to this one Foundation Moses and all the Prophets and Apostles testified and b●…ar witness So did Jesus Christ himself in the daies of his Flesh. Let us begin with Moses after he had fully declared unto the Iews as he had received them from the Lord all the Laws pertaining to the first Covenant and have writ them in a book and had given them