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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	great_a	love_n	love_v	4,041	5	6.5654	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27083	A true and faithful warning unto the people and inhabitants of Bristol and unto the rulers, priests, and people of England ... that they might prepare to meet the Lord ... / ... Charles Baily.	Bayley, Charles.	1663 (1663)	Wing B1473D; ESTC R16496	30,294	42

in the other to cast me into Prison where I am at present a sufferer in the patience and good will of God And thus with as much brevity as I could have I declared something of the hard measure which I have sustained and received at the hands of unreasonable men in and about 3 yeares time since I Landed at this City upon my return from Virginia after my sore Captivity there and truely had it not been by reason of the many and various reports which are concerning me amongst many I know I should have been still willing to have concealed the grief of all this within my own bowels yea and notwithstanding all these things besides the Lord alone which might have induced me to this matter I should certainly have concealed it And now after all this in which through which the Lord hath tryed my poor soul by the common enemy if he should try me at or by the hands of dearest friends as Job was shall I be angry with him or repine at it God forbid in whose good will I rest until he arise and plead my Cause Charles Bayly Written in Newgate Prison in Bristol the 13 of the 3 Moneth 1663 A true and faithfull Relation of some of the sufferings tryals sorrows and travels of the Seed and Spirit of God for the creature and now of the creature in with the same Seed and Spirit manifest through an earthen vessel known by name C.B. SUrely had I the Tongue of the Eloquent and the Pen of a ready Writer it would be hard for me to declare the grievousness of my hard travels and sorrow which I have undergone since I was but 12 or 13 years of Age in which time my deep travell and sorrow began it being so that in my tender years I had been tenderly brought up about the Court of England my natural Parents belonging thereunto who were Roman Catholiques in which Religion they carefully brought me up sparing neither cost nor pains for any thing which might tend unto my edification and bringing me up in that way But my God intending to make me an instrument in his hand for his own work did raise up something in my soul of a child which was of himself which caused a secret dislike in my heart of that Idolatrous way of worship in so much that I could never heartily embrace the same which thing hath caused tears to be shed for me by my own friends then who dearly and tenderly loved me according unto the love as Parents bear unto their Children and it being so it raised a great discontent sometimes in them to arise towards me which was the first ground and original cause of my sorrow though I did not know what that was in my self which caused me for to dislike it both in way and worship which since I found to be the light and gift of Gods grace in my soul which was nigh me and in me at all times and places a sure and living Witnesse against all sin and evill whatsoever And from that time forwards I was ever seeking for to separate my self from my natural Parents and the wars coming on in England did enlarge my opportunity for to fulfill my intended purpose it being so that most of the Court Officers were dismissed of their outward beings in and about London where I had my natural birth and bringing up untill about the Age before mentioned and it being so I did begin to wander about not being kept at School nor at Board as formerly I had been But my Parents being willing to have me to their own natural Countrey which was France I passed thither with one who was Extraordinary Embassador sent from the King of France called the Prince Deicourt who loved me and kept me by him some time for his Interpreter whilest he was in England but still something there was in me which could not be satisfied to feed at the Table of Princes nor to be in their love and favour without the love and favour of God which made me still in a restlesse condition which caused me for to return out of France without the consent and knowledge of my outward friends or relations And coming to England at Graves-end as I was intending to passe for London I met with one Brad-street who was commonly called a Spirit for he was one of those who did entice Children and People away for Virginia he fell into discourse with me and I being tender in years he did cunningly get me on Board of a Ship which was then there riding ready for to go to those parts and I being once on Board could never get on Shoar untill I came to America where I was sold as a bond-slave for seaven years in which time it would be too hard for me to shew in every particular the hardship and misery that I did undergo in that time of hunger cold and nakednesse beatings whippings and the like for many times was I stripped naked and tied up by the hand and whipped and made to go bare-foot and bare-legged in cold and frosty weather and hardly cloaths to cover my nakednesse besides the soare and grievous labour which I was continually kept at during which time my poor soul would be often bemoaning it self every way concerning my soar captivity and misery and something I can indeed say did in secret answer and refresh my tender soul in the feeling of which I could in truth of heart say I did forgive my then persecutors And when grief would be ready to swallow me up I would consider how that that which did then befall me was surely for my good and would rather judge my self than others beleeving that I indeed did deserve it and much more for my disobedience though of a truth it was very grievous and hard for me to beat as to the very natural what I did and surely had not the secret hand of Gods love upheld me I could never have supported my burden there being such an alteration with me when I came to eat my bread in the Ash heap whenas before I had been in the presence of Princes and also the alteration both of food and every thing else for instead of a well stringed Lute in my hand I had hard labour and my daily exerci e was beyond the common manner of Slaves for mine was often night and day I say had it not been the very hand and love of God which had supported me my very outward man would have been laid in the dust as several of my then fellow Labourers were in a most sad and deplorable condition which thing I desire may not be laid to their charge who were the Authors of it I say the Lord forgive them for that which they did to them and me for I am sure the poor creatures had better have been hanged than to have suffered the death and misery they did which thing I should not in this place have spoken were it not so but that