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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	let_v	lord_n	soul_n	2,937	5	5.5712	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66861	The rock of ages known, and foundation of many generations discovered after this long and dark night of apostacy, which shall never cover us again, because of the anointing, and though darkness may cover the nation, and gross darkness the people a little season, yet the Lord shall be unto his people and everlasting light, and their God their glory : also a prayer that the Lords people may be preserved to the end : also a few words to the King, and his council from the everlasting counsellor and Prince of Peace : also the Lords testimony against all persecutors of the innocent lambs of Christ, in whose light the nations of them that are saved must walk, and against all forms of worship whatsoever, taught by the precepts and commandments of men, which themselves are not led and guided by the spirit of the Lord : also a few words in answer to the last book of common-prayer / this is written in the fear of the Lord, and in the counsel of the everlasting counsellor, whose name is the Lord of Hosts, in Humphry Wolrich.	Wollrich, Humphry, 1633?-1707.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3298; ESTC R15328	12,166	18

to take to fill prisons holes and dungeons with such as were Hereticks indeed and to be cast out and rejected did he bid them banish imprison and whip them Now thus do you serve your friends which tell you the Truth and such which cannot observe dayes for his sake that hath commanded saying six days shalt thou labour and do all that thou hast to do Therefore consider your wayes and turn to the Lord for he is jealous and a God that will not be mocked with words This Way ye take may make many Hypocrites and seeming friends and they may bind themselves with Oaths and Protestations and yet in their hearts wait an opportunity to break all again But by all your Jayles spoiling of ' our goods and bodies in stinking Prisons two hundred and fifty together having scarce room to lie one by another I say this by all these things you may make your selves manifest as ye do to be persecutors of the innocent Lambs of Christ but never shall ye convert enemies nor turn one to the Lord by these things England shall see that saying fulfilled The blood of the Martyrs the seed of the Church And as for our Religion it came not up after this manner namely by the change of a King a Parliament Protector but through all these changes that have been it hath stood the same and we the same in it and to none of their commands in the matters of our God and his worship could we submit but chose rather to suffer patiently by them all and our persecutors are fallen and we yet stand and our confidence is the same as it ever was not in the Arm of flesh or weapons of War but in the name of the Lord of hosts that made Heaven and Earth doth our hope stand the Sea is his also and his hands prepare the dry Land but as for the wicked they shall deal yet more wickedly and they that hate us without a cause will become our cruel Enemies that the Faithful may be made manifest whose love is to the Lord and such as are Hypocrites fearfulness may take hold on them And now to your own Book return a little and consider it First ye teach the Priest what he shall say which is utterly contrary to the Scriptures and Command of Christ therein which saith Take no thought what ye shall speak before hand for it is not you but the Spirit of the Father that speaketh in you he doth the work and also contrary to their Practice who waited at Jerusalem for the Spirit and as that gave them utterance they spake And it is better as Paul faith to speak five words with the Spirit and understanding then ten thousand in an unknown tongue And it doth not profit at all to read or hear read Prayers Praises or Confessions of sin taught by the Traditions and Commandments of men whilst the tongue of the Learned is not known to speak a seasonable word to the weary and also to the wicked And also the people which ye teach to say after him consider in what a sad state their Souls are in towards the Lord whose Holy Name ye teach them to pollute with their unclean lips whilst they are filled with iniquity and unconverted Is he the Lord their God ruling in their hearts And whether they that live in persecution pride covetousness and all manner of vanity which the Lord hates whether these be his people and the sheep of his pasture as in your Common Prayer is taught to all manner of wicked persons altogether unlike David or the sheep of Gods Pasture which for his Names sake were killed all the day long and counted as sheep for the slaughter Let them that fear the Lord judge in these things whether the despised Quakers be not the People whom ye are persecuting without a cause filling your Prisons holes and dungeons withall O let the Lord look down on our unjust sufferings in whose sight we are clear as Children newly born into this world from all manner of plotting or inventing either in thought word or deed against the King this present government or any other since we were a People called and chosen of the Lord to bear our testimony against the persecution oppression and cruelty in them all thus are we rewarded evil for good to the spoiling of our Souls and accounted your Enemies also because of these things And now what and if the just and Righteous God should turn your own words upon your own heads again and say be it to you as in your morning Prayer you have said for his Elect sake which cryes day and night and for Jerusalems sake which gives him no rest until he make her a praise in the midst of the Earth O Jerusalem Jerusalem thou wilt be a burdensome stone to this generation of persecutors If I forget thee then shall my right hand forget her cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth I say what if the Lord give you the answer of your own Prayers which you say and teach others These are the words first spoken by the Prophet in the integrity of his heart and the same good words have ye stole and speak them again whilst in your heart lodgeth persecution O Lord my God mark and be moderate and consider your own words if I have done any such thing or if there be wickedness in my hands If I have rewarded evil to him that dealt friendly with me yea I have delivered him that without any cause is my Enemy then let my Enemy persecute my Soul and take me let him tread my life upon the ground and lay my honour in the dust Now must ye either condemn Davids words and the Common Prayer Book also or else deny persecution and leave it else your own words will be fulfilled upon yon and in your selves Behold he travelleth with mischief he hath conceived sorrow and brought forth ungodliness he hath graven and digged a pit and is fallen himself into the destruction that he made for others but the Lord hath prepared for him the Instruments of death he hath ordained his arrowes against the persecutors and as for us which suffer and are persecuted for Righteousness sake our help cometh from the Lord our God and though the Lord suffer you to plow long and deep surrows on our backs for the tryal of our precious Faith yet when he hath searched our very hearts and tryed our reins then shall we be made more pure as Gold that is tryed in the fire is add that saying fulfilled The Lord delivereth the Righteous and preserveth them that are true of heart then shall the Righteous be delivered out of all temptations For the Lord knoweth how to deliver the Righteous out of them all and to reserve the Wicked to a day of Judgment to be punished the righteous Lord knoweth how to do all this in his season O the pure endless infinite love of our Father that bears

up our heads that in all our sufferings we faint not but in our heart can forgive our Enemies and pray for them that know not what they do And Friends in your Morning-prayer you pray for the King that the Lord would set his watchful Providence as a continual fence about him to be his guide and Counsellor and never leave him which in the truth of my heart do I desire which the Lord most certainty will do if at the Spirit of the Lord he take counsel only and not at you who limit it in his Lambs and Children into whom he hath poured out of his Spirit according as it is written I will pour out my Spirit in the latter dayes upon my Servants and Handmaids and they shall prophesie this will I do unto them and not forsake them saith the Lord. And now Christ being come and his Spirit given which leadeth into all truth even the Word of the Oath Mark the Word of the Oath which was before and since the Law He saith Swear not at all and though Abraham Solomon and the Prophets which were not come to the end of it did Swear and them that did Swear in Judgment Truth and Righteousness the Oath was to them an end of all strife as saith the Apostle but Christ when he came which was greater than Solomon and was before Abraham he saith Swear not at all And though ye may read the Angel in the Revelation did swear that time should be no longer yet in a certain place is it written concerning the Son which saith Swear not at all When he bringeth his first-begotten into the world let the Angels of God worship him So whether they be Angels Thrones or Dominions Principalities or Powers things in Heaven or things in Earth they must all be subject to the Word of the Oath which was since the Law by whom and for whom all things in Heaven and Earth were made and created who is God eternal and King immortal that in all things he might have the preheminence who saith Swear not at all But this I say the Lord did never counsel King Charles the second nor never will to fill all the Prisons Holes and Dungeons in his Dominions with an Innocent People for these things As not for Swearing and observing Days and Times as Manasseh did who filled Jerusalem with innocent blood or as Jezebel did when Ahab stoned and took possession of the Vineyard of Naboth but it was the Enemy of the Lord and his People and the Council when the Quakers which are innocent as children newly born were numbred with Murderers It was no better than the Counsel of Ahithophel which the Lord turn into foolishness I say these were the Lords Enemies and to King Charles in the end will not prove Friends the Nation shall see and consider it diligently For the Nation knows yea our Enernies themselves will confess the Quakers will not fight or plot against any for Conscience sake towards God but after they have owned the Light Christ which is the Way and the Truth many have left the Army both private Soldiers and Commanders in so much that the Commanders some of them have said That if they should not fight th●●●ing of the Scots would soon come in and so by them were we persecuted as friends to you and not meet to live in a Commonwealth because with carnal weapons w could defend our selves no longer but their wisdom di the Lord confound and both them and their honour lies in the dust which durst not trust in the Lord but made flesh their Arm but we remain the same our Weapons the same not carnal and the Lord whom we serve the same and as able to deliver them that fear him as ever he was his hand is not shortned nor grown weak but he is the same and his years fail not and to his People is he the same and changeth not ant therefore the Son of Sion and Daughters of Jerusalem are not consumed whose hope is in the Name of the Lord and not in Sword or Spear And though the Prisons in London and all over the Nation be filled that we can scarce lie one by another two hundred and fifty in Newgate men their wives and children yet dare we not Swear nor observe Dayes Christ having commanded the contrary unto vvhom vve do commit our Righteous Cause and the keeping both of our souls bodies and families vvhich ye are vvasting and endeavouring to destroy without a cause who is the Prince of Peace and ends the old Covenant and puts an end to Swearing observing of Dayes Times and Seasons and brings in to the Rest that remains and was with and in God before either Dayes Times or Seasons were commanded to be observed But man being gone into the Darkness out of the eternal and everlasting Day out of the Life Power and Vertue that made him and was inwardly ravened from the Spirit and altogether restless and unstable as waters that fail knowing not a rest in him that made him alwayes to keep holy day and with himself at all times to be satisfied with peace rest and all manner of unutterable felicity as it is written Eye hath not seen nor ear-beard neither hath it entred into the heart of man in that state to conceive of the glory that is prepared for them that love him O the infinite endless eternal depths of love past finding our which Paul was come into in Christ the beginning and the end of Dayes New-moons and Sabbaths and all such things which he calls Carnal Ordinances and mad● nothing perfect being imposed untill the time of Reform●●●on and no longer till Christ the better hope comes who saith Old things are done away all thinge are become new Blessed is he that reads and understands for the time is at hand the Spirit and the Bride saith Come even so saith my Soul Come Lord Jesus come quickly Take unto Thee thy Great Power and Reign in the midst of thy Enemies THE END Let this be sent to all Magistrates and Bishops by Friends as moved