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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	great_a	lord_n	see_v	5,118	5	3.3465	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69544	The Lambs government to be exalted over all in Israel ..., or, The glory of the Lord risen like devouring fire ... with an exhortation (from God) that none ... seek to physitians ... without his leadings ... / given forth in the movings (at the commandment) of the Captain of Israel, by one that followeth him, William Baily.	Bayly, William, d. 1675.	1663 (1663)	Wing B1531; ESTC R24857	28,238	40

last for ever unto whom my soul ascribeth all glory praise honour and thanks who is worthy of all to whom be it for ever given by all that feel Breath in the land of the living And now all ye dear and tender breathing Babes and Children of the most high God whose hearts and understandings the Lord hath opened who have cast down all your Crowns at the feet of the Lamb who have forsaken and can forsake all for his sake in whom is no guile who have obeyed his voyce and faithfully follow him in the Regeneration who love not your lives unto death for his sake that was slain from the foundation of the world because of the sweet savour of his precious oyntment which you dayly feel poured forth into your vessels Ye onely are the wise Virgins ye are the Redeemed from the Earth and are not defiled with women the weak and beggerly things And this is the word of the Lord God Almighty that lives for ever unto you all The day of your Redemption the day of your sitting upon Thrones the day of shouting and of singing Halelujahs for joy is at hand in the triumphant Dominion of the Lord God Omnipotent over all flesh and uncleane spirits over the raging waves of the Sea in the midst of the greatest stormes yea over Death and Hell and the Gates of it which shall never prevaile against you as you abide on the Rock as you inhabite the Rock you shall sing praises yea high praises unto him that sits upon the Throne and to the Lamb for ever and ever who is worthy to receive power wisdome riches honour glory and blessings for ever and ever over all in the Highest Amen Halelujah who giveth you the victory Therefore faint not for unto you this is the word of the Lord God who liveth and reigneth for evermore Amen Israel is commanded not to meddle with Physick or Physitians c. for any disease or distemper without the Leadings and Counsel of the Lord their God c. Dear Friends I Am commanded of the Lord and it lyes upon me in the fear of his Name and in the bowels of his love to warn and charge you whom it concerns that I may be cleer in his sight of these particulars following viz. 1. All you who in this great day of judgements and tryals within and without feels any distemper weakness sickness pains or any disease whatsoever Seek not to Physitians without Gods eternal motion or in the clear freedome of his life nor let out your minds in an eager seeking a remedy to any man people or things outward but as the living God alone guides you who is a present help in time of trouble to all his children that wait upon him And know ye this for a surety that the Lord our God hath made known the Tree of Life again unto his babes that fear him which is in the midst of the Paradice of God whose vertue heals within and without blessed and praised be his holy name for evermore Therefore all ye who professe the knowledge of God and faith in Jesus Christ now try your selves and your faith concerning these things for if you truly know God and Christ whom he hath sent to be a Prince and a Saviour and your faith stands in the power of God and not in a sound onely then you know the Tree of Life and him that gives us life and breath and all things Mark and if he gives us all things then he gives wisdom understanding and counsel to his people in all things needful how to walk act or speak in all occasions and at all times and places who guides the meek in his way and teacheth the humble in judgement Therefore I say wait you upon God alone in the pure fear of his name for counsel and instruction in this particular if you love the peace of your own souls and seek not any thing for a remedy but in his leading counsel and wisdome and in the faith of Gods Elect for if you do it will adde to your trouble and sorrow and distemper it s the Word of the Lord unto you which you will know fulfilled in the end Therefore my dear Friends Dwell in the Light which makes all things states and conditions manifest and wait upon the Lord in the still cool and quiet spirit for the right understanding of your own particular state and the ground and cause of all distempers diseases or judgements in your own particulars else how are you as the spiritual man that judgeth all things if you know not the things of God and what is in man and the ground of all distempers diseases and judgements where is your dwelling with him that is greater than Solomon if you know not that wisdome which gives the understanding of all things from the Hysop on the wall to the Cedar in Lebanon how can you be wiser than Serpents or how will you know the suries of wilde Beasts and that which bounds and limits them if you know not the ground of all things in your own particulars Therefore I say again Wait upon the Lord of life and think not your time mis-spent in so doing neither give your selves rest till you in very deed know Jesus Christ who is the Tree of Life in the midst of the Garden of God For I must say in the word of the Lord many may be deceived with the apprehension or a name to live and may profess and talk of him and yet be dead and ignorant of the true and right knowledge of him and his wayes to whom he will professe he never knew them Oh! that this fearful day and sentence may never surprize any of you who have tasted that the Lord is gracious For many people have been destroyed for lack of knowledge and of a right understanding in these things before mentioned not knowing the intent of the motions of Gods Spirit within them neither discerning the Lords body for since transgression disobedience and ignorance of God the cloud of errour and darkness hath over-spread the world the ground of these things have been hid to the children of men so that when the displeasure of God hath been kindled against them they have not perceived it in the ground in the particular but were apt to talk of it in a general way that sin is the cause when great plagues and judgements comes upon a people or the like but scarce one man in a Nation did turn in his mind and wait upon God to see his will and counsel in such things in the particular but such as did and obeyed the Lord were Prophets who cryed against such things in the general as they had suffered the indignation of the Lord for who had subdued them in the particular And so the Lord God hath often sent his visitations amongst the children of men and his Servants to warn them that they might be awakened and repent and be humbled before him that so he might

judge all things as God judgeth in his infallible righteous judgement and not before or without him who is Lord and Head over all to his Church Friends I preach the Crosse unto the world and to the nature spirit and wayes of it without respect of persons in the sense of what God is doing and will shortly bring to passe that no flesh may glory in his presence And this I say to you all within the Camp of Israel who are of the mixt multitude that came out of Egypt and yet love the Garlick and the flesh-pots thereof that love the earth and sticks in the earth and saves self alive hides from sufferings for feare of losing the earth or your reputation among men you follow not the Lamb of God in whom is no guile who humbled himself to the death of the Crosse for the Joy that was set before him who made himself of no reputation and had not whereon to lay his head who set his face like a flint because of truth and righteousness against all unrighteousness hypocrisie and wickedness whatsoever without respect to the persons of any possessions or places of any For which end he was born and for which end his followers are born who feel him born within them even to witness for the truth and to stand up upon the Earth and plead for it and suffer patiently for the Testimony which they hold till the Spirit of life from God arise in the Consciences of ungodly and wicked men to plead his own Cause with them You I say who are of that spirit of self-saving you have and shall have your reward as the Pharisees had as the mixt multitude had and as the murmuring Israelites had God gave them their hearts lusts seeing they desired it but sent leanness into their souls This is your state therefore take heed and be awakened and retire back to the foundation of God out of the earth for the Lord will crosse you and vex you by rolling the earth out of its place and will abase your reputation and bring you into shame and contempt til you know that the Most high ruleth amongst men and governeth in the Kingdomes and Authorities amongst men and people who is higher then they whose the Earth is and the fulness of it and not yours you must give an account to him how you have ordered it and used and improved it to the praise and exaltation of his Name and the help of the true woman For the earth and heavens are hers and the Childs which she brings forth to govern the Nations and you are but as wormes and Grashoppers in Gods sight who can crush you and tread down the high places of the earth in a moment and rebuke and break in pieces the strong Nations in a moment and this is the Lord God of heaven a doing that all people may fear and obey him And these things are coming to passe and will be accomplished by him that respecteth not the persons of men but will reward every one according to his wayes And my friends Judgement hath begun at the house of God but greater things then many have yet seen are approaching for a short work will the Lord make on the earth for his oppressed Seeds sake for his great Name sake amongst you and in the world therefore expect you not great and finall destruction to come upon the wicked without untill the Temple is neerer built For I tell you nay you must first be faithfull followers of the Lamb if you would see your Conquest over the Beast Dragon Whore and false Prophet the Antichrists without you must first see it and your victory over the world and the spirit of it through faith and patience within for this way it cometh to passe that no flesh should glory but be abased even to the dust from whence it came And this have I seen in Gods secret Counsell even how he will accomplish his great work among his people and how he will destroy his and their enemies with a finall destruction even like a whirlewinde when once it ariseth Therefore my friends Gird up the loines of your minds watch and be sober and waite alwayes upon God and feel your hope to the end and be not hasty but remember the dayes of Noah how the Lord was long-suffering till the Ark was finished then came the Floud upon the world of the ungodly And thus is the son of man come and his long-suffering to us-ward who obey his voyce is salvation Let him that readeth understand For as it was in the dayes of Noah even so is it now at the coming of the son of man blessed is the eye that seeth and the heart that understandeth and keeps out of that eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage building and planting there spoken of For much that is joyned together must be separated and scattered and much that is builded and planted must be thrown down and plucked up by the roots and the earth must be burnt up and the Elements melt with fervent heat For hot will be the day in which all the ungodly shall become as ashes under the soles of the feet of the Saints of the Most high and in which the sons of Levi shall be purged and purified as fine Gold which day is but as it were begun amongst many but it draweth neere and hasteneth greatly Therefore blessed is that wise servant that is alwayes ready waiting for his Lord and who is giving his fellow-servants meane in due season and do not eare and drink with the drunken nor smite his fellow-servants for on such the day will come unawares and in an houre they think not of And this hath the Lord God Almighty proclaimed which shall sound a certain sound throughout all the Tribes of Israel and to the ends of the Earth Amen So this I have written in obedience to the Lord that I might be clear of their blood whom it chiefly concernes and concerning whom it came into my heart from God to lay these things before you For I have desired of the Lord to direct me aright in all things according to his will and I labour to keep my Conscience voyd of offence toward him and all men and I travell and pray to God that I may finish my Course with Joy and give up my account dayly and at the last with joy and not with griefe And this God knoweth is the hearty desire of my breathing soul unto his Throne for you all that with one minde and heart we may all press forward in the same way which is the steps and path of the just one that leads more and more unto perfection out of the imperfection out of the earth out of the darkness and the old leavens into Paradise where man was made a living soul in the image and likeness of his Maker where the Dominion is known and the Blessings enjoyed which makes rich and the pleasures at his right Hand which