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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	great_a	king_n	name_n	5,555	4	4.7547	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27130	Iacob is become a flame and the house of Esav stubble, or, The battail betwixt Michael and the dragon in which the seed of the woman is bruising the serpents head, and Cain the first birth ... is found the vagabond, and Abel and Abraham ... the friends of God : being a true discovery of the two seeds or births between which the enmity is put, the time and day being come in which the elder must serve the younger : with a few words to the priests, Bishops, Episcopal-men, and professors of this last age, and a short warning to the rulars and inhabitants of the earth.	Bayly, William, d. 1675.	1662 (1662)	Wing B1530; ESTC R27128	18,671	21

and of his Apostles and Prophets in the days past who wandered in Sheep-skins and Goat-skins being destitute and afflicted having no certain dwelling place But if you say nay these are no Vagabonds though Christ had not a place to lay his head on nor Abraham a foot of ground and wandered into a strange Country not knowing whether he went and the Apostles and Patriarks wandered and were in Dens and Caves of the Earth being destitute afflicted and tormented by the wicked men of the World who was not worthy of them having no certaine dwelling place yet these were no Vagabonds but good men Righteous men sincere and holy men of God 4. Qu. Then what is the absolute ground of being a Vagabond seeing these men are no Vagabonds though they have no certaine dwelling place but wandred up and down in the earth and that Cain is a Vagabond though a rich man and builded a Citty 5. Qu. Whether the word Vagabond doth not signifie a seperation or wandring from God who is truth and love or a being banished from his presence by reason of envy murther and rage which seperates from the pure just God For Cain said when he had been wrath and had slain his brother now shall I bee a Vagabond and a fugitive in the Earth and from thy presence shall I be hid mark that and behold every one that findeth me will s ay me so he fled from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the Land of Nod on the East of Eden where this Murderer built a City a strong hold being afraid every one that found him would kill him mark here the first builder in the Earth was a Vagabond a rich man a persecutor and a Murderer about Sacrifice Gen. 45. 6. Qu. Now whether envy wrath persecution murder cruelty oppression and imprisoning about Sacrifice and Worship be not the very ground and cause of being a Vagabond or seperated from God and not the want of a certaine dwelling place in the Earth Seeing Cain is a Vagabond though he builded a City and Abraham and the Apostles and Prophets and many other holy men of God and Christ are no Vagabonds though they wandred and had no City house or dwelling place in the Earth or so much ground as to set their foot or to lay their head on 7. Qu. Whether God hath not chosen the poor of this world rich in faith and heires of his everlasting Kingdome and whether the rich men that did oppress them and draw them before Iudgements seats were not the blasphemers and such as tormented and afflicted them in envy ambition and wrath were not the Vagabonds seeing such things seperates from God and hides his presence from them 8. Qu. Whether Lazarus was a Vagabond who was very poor and lay begging at the rich mans Gate where the Dogs came in more love then their owner ticking his sores or whether this hard hearted Rich man was not the Vagabond seeing he was cast into Hell torments where he was seperated with a great Gulf from the presence and Glory of Gods love for ever and Lazarus the begger carried into Abrahams bosome the friend of God by an Angel being comforted and the other who lived in pleasures unrighteousness and deliciousness every day in his life time tormented Luke 16. He that hath an ear to hear let him hear Now seeing Cain is a Vagabond being in the wrath envy transgression the ground of it Let us search the line of true Iudgement yet further and see if we can finde more rich men to be Vagabonds and Blasphemers though they have Citys like Cain or habitations in the Earth 9. Qu. Whether Ishmael the wild man the mocke and scoffer was not cast out of Abrahams house the freind of God into whose bosom the poor man Lazarus was carried and whether he was not seperated by his wildness mocking and enmity whose hand was against every man and every mans hand against him from the presence of God and was a Vagabond seeing the word Vagabond signifies a seperation or being driven from or cast out of Gods presence 10. Qu. Whether Esau the cunning Hunter the prophane person was not a Vagabond seeing he sould his Birth-right for a mess of Pottage and lost the blessing and afterwards sought a place of Repentance but could not finde it but was rejected though he sought it carefully with tears consider this ye prophane and ungodly ones whose pleasures and treasures are in this life out of whose Loyns came the Dukes of Edom and twelve Princes from the Loynes of Ishmael the wild man the mocker and scoffer who was cast out of Abrahams house and these had Towns and Castles like their brother Cain and great possessions in the Earth Gen. 21.9 25.16 36.40 H●b 12.16 11. Qu. Whether such as are in the envious wrathful wild mocking and scoffing nature Now and are prophane persons cunningly hunting Now and persecuting and afflicting about Sacrifice Now and drawing the poor of this world wh are chosen rich in faith and heirs of Gods Kingdome before the Iudgement seats Now Whether these are not the Blasphemers Vagabonds and seperated from Gods presence Now in this state though they may be great and rich in this world as the Princes of Ishmael Cain and the Dukes of Edom seeing God hath chosen the poor of this world rich in fai h and heirs of his Kingdom without end from which Cain was a Vagabond though he builded a City and called it after the name of his son Gen. 4.17 THerefore hearken all you Kings Rulers Governours and people upon earth and take heed you do not persecute and imprison or abuse the servants and Children of the most high God wherever they come in your Dominions or Countrys under the name of Vagabonds wanderers or Idle persons or the like who come in love to your souls And be you warned that you hurt not them who do no evil I charge you in the name of the dreadful God that made heaven and earth least you bring Innocent blood upon your own heads and as you will answer it in the terrible day at hand for the Almighty God is no respecter of persons who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords neither doth poverty or riches in this world make a Vagabond or keep from being a Vagabond for they were no Vagabonds who had here no continuing City but sought one to come whose builder maker is God though they wandered about in sheep skins Goat skins in Dens Caves of the earth yet these were no Vagabonds but had a habitation in God of whom they obtained a good report through faith and were blessed of whom the world was not worthy And if any of us who are of the same seed and generation and built upon the same foundation Christ Jesus the Light that lighteth every man who was hated scorned derided and drawn from prison to Judgement I say if any of us who declare his Generation now by afflictions

though he might rage storme and persecute or promise all the Glory Kingdoms and pleasures of this world to be bowed unto or worshiped yet the Royal seed cannot give glory to another therefore would the Devil like his son Haman have him destroyed out of the world in which he himself hath been worshiped as God blinding and vailing the minde of mankind from the true knowledge and understanding of the noble seed the heir whose right it is alone to Reigne and he must Reigne now till all his enemies are trampled under his feet the Lord hath spoken it to whom be all Honour Worship Glory Dominion Praise Thanks-giving and Eternal songs of deliverance and Redemptions over all Heaven and Earth Halelujah Amen ALL you Bishops Prelates Preists Episcopal men or any other that are professing God Christ and Scriptures and are offering Sacrifice in your own wills and time and places out of the fear and counsel and wisdome of God This is the word of the Lord God you and your Sacrifices are not accepted in his sight but are Abomination unto him even iniquity and Idolatry and all your prayers singings preachings fastings feastings and roarings enters not into the ears of the Lord God of Sabboths but is a smoak in his nostrils all the day long and all your Sacrifices and Sacraments as you call them are not better in the sight of the pure living God of Heaven then if you cut off a Dogs neck or offered Swines blood for it is so you offer Swines blood and not the blood of the Lamb without spot the acceptable seed and the broth of Abominable things which the Lord abhors is in your Vessels if you have ears to hear hear you offer Swines blood the life of the Swine the greedy devourer that lives in your dwellings in which the Devils is entered and you are running violently down the steep place and you will perish among the waters if you Repent not and turn speedily the Lord hath spoken it Therefore hear hear you that are offering Sacrifice and prayers called Common and are in your will Worships and feigned humility never commanded of God though you make a great noyse with your Organs and Sacraments and Surplices and Tippits and Girdles and tables and fingings and pipings and ringings and the like it s all but as the hidious howling of a Dog at midnight whilst you live in lusts envy pride coveteousness coveteousness and unrighteousness and no more accepted of the Righteous holy just God then Cains was the Vagabond who slew his brother being in the same nature and ground of malice and wickedness and God hath set a mark upon you as upon Cain which shall never be blotted out unless you turn and be converted from that root and sink down in your minds to the righteous suffering seed in you which never had fellowship in these things in which you are thus excercised but reproves you in secret for sin and lets you see the evil and vanity of your ways For while you do evil sin lyeth at your door and your prayers and Sacrifices do not enter into the acceptance of the holy God for God heareth not sinners but if any man be a Worshiper of God and doth his will him he heareth but none worships God but them 〈◊〉 worship him in spirit and in truth even in that spirit which you dayly greive and provoke with your abominations and Sacrifices and Oblations sinning and superstitions which he is weary to bear of which he will shortly ease himself and of you also if you proceed in these things which never came into his mind to commend or require at your hands Therefore hear and consider and fear and tremble before the just God of power who is arisen to plead with you about these things and will reprove you for your words worships and Sacrifices feigned imitations which are without the true knowledge darkening the Counsel of God in your own selves and others whereby his pure way of life and truth is not heeded but evil spoken of and his Eternal Counsel by you is not understood which is to stand still in the Light of Christ Jesus the Saviour and not will nor run but as led and guided by it which leads out of all unrighteousness into soberness goodness equity all truth it will let you see if you are quiet in your minds that the jealous God of holiness hath no fellowship nor delight in your ways of superstition and wickedness but secretly saith Returne returne this is not your rest for it is poluted but and if you will not hear and come into the still waters of Shiloah which run saftly but will still ride upon Horses even go on in the strength of your wills in your great noyse of false worships ways Sacrifices and ungodliness then they that persue you even the Judgements of God shall be very swift against you faith the Lord God of Hosts This is your warning and visitation as shall be witnessed whether you hear or forbear Some occasional Queries concerning a Vagabond 1. Qu. VVHether the ground of being a Vagabond be the want of an outward Inheritance Habitation or earthly riches or certain dwelling place in the Earth as some have said yea or nay if yea then how was Cain as a Vagabond seeing he was a Rich man and had an Inheritance and certain dwelling place in the Earth who builded a City and called it after the name of his son Gen. 4. 2. Qu. And if the want of an outward Inheritance or certain dwelling place in the Earth be the only ground of being a Vagabond then whether Abraham was a Vagabond when he went out of his own Country not knowing whether he went having not so much ground as to set his foot on of whom it is written he is called the freind of God Acts 7. Heb. 11. For there hath been a great noise in the World amongst the Rich and great men and professors thereof in these latter days saying if you cannot give an account of your certain dwelling place habitation or place of aboad in the earth we account you as Vagabonds and wanderers and Rogues and you must be prosecuted against as such by our Law Ordinace or Act of Parliament or the like which if they have such a Law that doth Iudge conclude such to be Vagabonds as have no certain dwelling place in the earth that this in their account is the ground of being a Vagabond then marke how far this Law will reach 3. Qu. Whether it will not reach as far in this case as did the Scribs and Pharisees the Jews Law to the son of God who said we have a Law and by our Law he ought to dye for said Christ the Foxes have holes such as Herod and the fowles of the Aire have nests of whome the Devil is Ruler but the son of man hath no where to lay his head Now this Law taks hold of him and of Abraham his freind