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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	judgement_n	lord_n	sin_n	3,017	5	4.8345	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27398	A tender and unfeigned salutation of love and good-will to professors, or, A tender invitation and call unto all people in whose hearts there hath been, and still is, some true desiring and breathing after the Lord God ... from one whose tender soul (in spirit) doth travel for the prosperity of Sion ... / a friend to all people, William Bennit.	Bennit, William, d. 1684.	1664 (1664)	Wing B1894; ESTC R5155	19,011	34

the Bread and Wine outward did figure out which the Manna that God gave the Israel of old in the Wilderness was a pure type of the heavenly Manna the living Bread which the birth that is born of God feed upon and lives thereby and grows up into Eternal life The day of gathering is come wherein the Lord God of everlasting bowels of Compassion is a gathering the dispersed and seeking that which was lost ●ek 34. 12 〈◊〉 14 15 16. and bringing back that which was driven away and healing that which was sick and binding up that which was broken but the strong and the fat he is feeding with Judgement The Lord is a gathering people out of the Forms Shells and Shadows wherein many hath long stuck and is bringing of them to the Substance and life its self out of the many Sects and heaps and divers ways into the one pure path into the one way of Life Light Peace Truth and Righteousness who by the one Spirit hath and is 1 Cor. 1● baptising them who believe in the Light into the one body wherein the unity the ownness and the fellowship is witnessed blessed be his Name The way of the Lord is pure and righteous and unchangable I am the Way the Truth and the Life John 14. Rom. 10. John 12. the 8 ch● saith Christ the immortal Word which saith Paul is nigh in the heart to be obeyed and done This is he the Light the Salvation of God the true Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world who saith None can come unto the Father but by me I am come a Light into the world saith Christ that whosoever believe in me shall not abide in darkness but shall have the light of life Therefore dear people love the Light and believe in the Light while ye have the Light that so you may become children of the Light and become heirs of an Inheritance incorruptible that will never fade away There is no obtaining the Crown but through the Cross and this you will come to know who come to love the Light Mat. 11. 29. ● 6. 13. th● 10. 38. and to be taught of him and to learn of him who is meek and low in the heart and to follow him in the strait and narrow way that leads to life which few there be that finds it and vvalk therein He that will be my Disciple saith Christ must deny himself and take up his daily Cross and follow me This you will come to feel and witness if you be followers of the Light a daily denying of self you will know a denying of your own wills your own desires your own thoughts your own affections your own words and works your own wisdom and righteousness and a dayly taking up the Cross an hourly living in the Cross through which you must come to be crucified to the ●6 14. World its Vanity its Pomp Pastime and Pleasures Sins and Iniquities vain Words Works Fashions and Customes Inventions and Traditions so coming to be crucified with Christ unto the world and to be Baptised into death with him unto sin you will come to live with him unto God in the life of Righteousness in whom then you will find that Rest Satisfaction Joy Comfort and Peace which no man can give unto you So dear people who are seeking and desiring after the Lord God to find peace and comfort to your souls this I leave with you flie not from that which doth judg you in your own hearts for sin and evil and bring trouble upon you and sorrow upon you and woundeth and peirceth you in secret because of Transgression I say love that flie not from it for oh dear people how many is there that when they have been judged and Gods pure light in their hearts for their sins when trouble and sorrow and distress hath seized on them because of their sins which Gods Witness hath set in order before their eyes then hath they run unto vain helps and run unto men for help even to those that could not speak a word in season to them but hath daubed them up with untempered Morter and hath endeavoured to heal their wound deceitfully and hath Preached peace to that which is for judgment and so thereby they have gotten some kind of satisfaction for a time until the Lord wounded them again with the Sword of his Righteous Judgments and then their seeming rest fled away as smoak before the wind and sorrow and trouble took hold on them again as pain on a Woman in travel and then they have run again unto that which could not remove the very cause of their trouble and sorrow they have run to the Scriptures of Truth and therein hath found a promise and this they have applied to themselves for to get peace and rest thereby when alas poor hearts they have not been in that state and condition which that promise which they applied to themselves was unto and so not for them and then they have read what the Saints once did and performed and they set themselves to do the like and to imitate them and so hereby for a time they have gotten some satisfaction some kind of rest and peace until the Lord God did thunder again with Dread and uttered his Voice with Terror which caused the Earth to tremble and their habitation to fall and then dissolation came upon them again and their Fig-leave garment came to be rent and their wound greater then ever it was before and thus they have run from Mountain to Hill from one Physitian to another for healing but they were unto them as Physitians of no value for none of them could rightly heal their wounds until at last they said in their hearts We will seek no more unto man for vain is the help of man But we will return unto the Lord God who hath wounded us and he will heal us who hath broken us in peices and he will bind us up and so returning to the light of Christ Jesus in their own hearts with which the Lord hath wounded them for their sins and brought trouble and sorrow upon them for their iniquities waiting therein in patience upon the Lord God in the way of his Righteous Judgments which was set up in their hearts they came to feel through their believing in the Light and loving the Light by which they were wounded for sin the cause of their sorrow and trouble and wounds taken away by the Blood of Jesus which is his life which they came to feel in them cleansing of them from their sins and washing of them away and so the very cause of their wound being taken away and the corruption purged out then he the tender pitiful compassionate God of Mercy that in mercy towards them had wounded them healed them with the sweet Oyl of joy peace and gladness and now these that were mourners doth rejoyce and they that were heavy-hearted are made glad and

minds unto is the Life of the Word which is Immortal Eternal Permanent ● 1. 2 3 9 Divine and Immutable and not Natural Thou who ever thou art and whatever by men thou be accounted of that doth make a large profession of God Christ and the Scriptures of Truth in words and doth hate and speak evil of the Light the true Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world thou art a hater of God and of Christ and art of Antichrist against Christ although thou profess him in words and say thou art saved by him and justified by him c. yet if thou hate his light in thy own Conscience which doth check thee for evil doing and prick thee for thy sins in secret thou art in enmity to him and condemned by the Light and not justified and thy confession of Christ in words will not save thee from his Righteous Condemnation whilst thou hate his pure light in thy Conscience and thy profession is for the fire and unto the Light thou must come before thou canst find true peace with the Lord God Yea what ever thou art who art climbed and a climbing up thy Imaginations and a soaring up aloft with the god of the world the Prince of the power of the Air above the light the door into the fold striving to enter into the fold and not by the door to wit the Light thou art the Thief and Rober Joh. 10. ● who run before Christ the Light the Door into the Fold and thou must come down come down to that which appears a small thing in thy eye who art swell'd big in thy fleshly wisdom from which the things of Gods Kingdom is hid even to that which 1 Cor. 1. 2● 29 30 31 19 20 21 thou counts a foolish thing a weak a poor thing not worth the minding or heeding but this is it the foolish thing in the eye that is to confound thy wisdom and turn it into foolishness that so thou becoming a fool may be made wise in it This is the weak thing in thy eye which is to confound thy strength and make thee weak that thou may be strong in it and the poor thing in thy eye which is to rob thee of all thy Riches that thou becoming poor in it may be made Rich so where is the Wise the Rabby the Scribe the Disputer of this world Hath not God made foolish the Wisdom of this world for the world by wisdom know not God and so the boaster is excluded that God may have the Glory and all flesh abased and silent before him who of God is made unto his Saints that love his Light and are led by his Spirit Wisdom Strength Power Righteousness Justification and Redemption who have the heavenly Treasure in the Earthen vessel that the glory may be of God who is worthy of all Glory and Praise for ever So heed not dear people you who have any desire in you after the Lord what this man or the other saith of the Light but love the Light and take heed ● 3. 20. unto it for that which judge and condemn sin in you which is that which separate you from the Lord and hinders your peace with the Lord and is the cause of your burden and sorrow this you shall not need to fear will delude you That is a spirit of delusion that leads into sin and evil beware of that but that which reproves you for evil in your own hearts and manifest the deeds of darkness take heed unto it for that is the ● 5. 13 14. Light that doth make manifest darkness that which is reprovable is made manifest by the Light for what ever make manifest is Light and that will not onely make manifest the sin and evil but as you come to turn your minds in unto it and love and follow it it will save you from your sins and redeem your minds and souls unto God for who receive his Light his pure Grace in them they receive power through it to become the Sons of God for through his Grace doth he manifest his power in them that believe in the Light to the drawing of their hearts and minds out of the ungodliness and worldly lusts and to the teaching of them to live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world and thus the free Grace of God bring Salvation to their Souls And so dear people thus you who come to believe in the Light to love and obey the Light in your own Consciences will come to feel and witness the work of the Lord God in your hearts the working and opperation of the Word of Life to the casting out of the Bondwoman and her son which is not to inherit to the binding of the strong man and casting of him out yea the Old man with his deeds Eph. 4. 20 2● 22 23. is to be put off and you renewed in the spirit of your minds and the new Man is to be put on who after God is created in Righteousness and true Holiness to put him on and to bring him forth before all men the only begotten Son of God who is full of Grace and Truth Mercy and Love Pitty and Compassion Purity and Holiness and Good-will towards all who love his Enemies and do good to them that hate him c. So coming to the Light Christ Jesus you come to the Substance to him in whom the Figures Types and Shaddows end in and so come to witness him in you who fulfil all Righteousness he who is the end of the Law for Righteousness sake unto them Col. 2. 11 1● that believe in him and to be Circumcised in him with the Circumcision made without hands by the putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the Circumcision of Christ which the outward Circumcision was a figure of and to witness the Baptism of Christ which is with the Holy Ghost and with fire which Johns Baptism with water outward was a true figure of and he bore Testimony unto Christ the Light of the world who said I must decrease but he must increase I indeed baptise you with water but he Christ 3. 30. Jesus who was before me shall baptise you with the Holy Ghost and with Fire whose fan is in his hand 3 11 12. and he shall throughly purge his floor the Wheat he shall gather into his garner but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire So the outward water was but a type the outward washing a type of the inward washing and inward cleansing and inward purging and purifying by the Water of Life or the Blood of Jesus that cleanseth from all sin which is felt thus to work in them who believe in the Light and walk in the Light and they come to know that begotten in them that feeds upon the flesh of Christ which is the living Bread upon which the living Soul feed and is the Substance which