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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	bring_v	know_v	life_n	4,258	5	4.2561	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25352	A visitation in love to those of the people called Baptists, with whom the Lords Spirit yet ceaseth not to strive, that have not slain the witness by making war, and contending against the light ... by one who travels in the Spirit for their souls good ... J.A.	Anderdon, John, 1624?-1685.	1660 (1660)	Wing A3084; ESTC R35	11,450	16

you be also cut off from the Land of the living and the day of your visitation passe over your heads But come to the light that you may see to work out your salvation with fear and trembling while it is called to day for the night cometh wherein none can work Therefore prize your time for the Lord wil cut short the work in Righteousnesse for the Elects sake and be ye separate and come out from amongst the unfruitfull workers of darknesse that you may learn to walk in the way to ever lasting life in which it is the very desire of my soul to meet you even in the way of Gods salvation which is but one through the Baptisme of one Spirit into one Body whereof Christ is the head and strive no longer about words and formes but come to him who is the word of life that you may be brought from under Satans power into the power of God and in him live dwell and abide for ever that you may no more goe down again into Sodom and Egypt to feed on the flesh-pots thereof which will but make leane your soules and fatten you for the day of slaughter which is hastening upon the wicked And let not the faire and feigned words of some that even make merchandize of your soules any longer deceive you with the enticing words of mans wisdome to keep you in bondage but come to the Light in your own particulars that you may feele the Life without which you are dead and all your services are but abomination in the sight of the Lord who is the living God and the dead praise him not Seeke no longer for the living amongst the dead but to the Light to the Law written in the heart to the Testimony of Jesus the Spirit of prophesie that you may witnesse the true annointing in your selves which will teach you all things that you may not be foolish Virgins without oyle in your Lamps and so shut out of Gods Kingdome in which state the highest professors of the letter are that witnesse not the Life and Power in themselves Therefore redeem the time because the dayes are evill and cleave no longer to lying vanities and forsake your own mercies but repent and return to the Lord God withall your hearts withall your mindes and withall your soules that you may live for ever in the Lambs Light of life in which the Nations of them that are saved shall walk And sit down and consider whereunto have your teachers brought you in so many years but even into trouble and dissatisfaction not knowing whether to goe for rest to your pretious soules which are even languishing under deaths power and shall not find refreshment but in the presence of the Lord unto which the Light onely will bring you See you not how dead and dull your teachers are become striving to keep you in that which profits you not but starves your soules and how nigh they are come to be one with the hirelings who form weapons from the Scriptures to fight against the Lord of life pleading against perfection in this life because they cannot attain thereunto in their way laying hold on the sins of others that they themselves may continue sinners Crying out the word of the Lord and the Lord saith when the Lord hath not sent them nor spoken by them they knowing not his voyce neither have they seen his shape at any time who is full of grace and truth but feed people with imaginations in worshipping a God a far off ignorantly when indeed our God is not onely a God a far off but nigh at hand and that which may be known of him is manifest in man But here is the transgression from the beginning that man is not content with his Lot and gift that God hath given him but through lust covets after and eats of the forbidden fruit which brings death upon his soul and misery and disorder upon the Creation and from thence comes wars and fightings rents and divisions even because men abide not in the measure of Gods Spirit given to every man to profit withal but run out in their vain minds to follow their own hearts lusts and so strengthen the hands of the wicked against the just And many are ashamed through the Cross to return by which the enmity comes to be destroyed but go on untill their hearts are hardened unto destruction that they themselves standing not in that wherein God makes people free to serve and worship him but having lost the way and their wisdoms confounded they strive also to keep others with themselves still in bondage and even envy others in whom the power and Spirit of the Lord God is made manifest which commeth not in their way nor by observations but worketh in us freely both to will and to do according to the good pleasure of our Heavenly Father which is contrary to the will and wisdom of the flesh which pleaseth not God And let not the Spirit of bondage so prevaile in you any longer to envy the Spirit of prophesy in Gods people but come up to the help of the Lord against the mighty enemy of your Souls and give up all the materialls of your own buildings unto the fire of the Lord that your work may be tryed that your hearts may be purified and that you may be saved so as by fire for the Spirit of Judgment and burning must passe upon you before ever your bodies become the Temples of the holy Spirit and you become vessels of honour fit for the Masters use I say again and lay it upon you that you expect not Salvation from the Hills nor from the Moutains But wait in the Light for the coming of the Holy One in Gods own-way and the Resurrection of the Just out of the grave where he lyes buried in Sodom and Egypt spiritually so called under your lusts and corruptions which war against your Soules that you may know him the word nigh in the heart and in the mouth who is ready to helpe and mighty to save and that you may come to feel the Seed of Gods Kingdom in your own hearts working out the seed of corruption and all that worketh abomination and whatsoever loveth and maketh a lye which is for the lake of fire into which the Beast and false prophet is to be taken and cast a live That you may know the children of the Kingdom begotten of the seed of the bond-woman cast out that the right Heir and Seed may take his Possession and Inherit the Kingdom whose right it is to reign in the kingdoms of men and blessed are they that are become joynt heirs with him of that Inheritance which is everlasting and never shall fade away And thus Friends as from the Lord well knowing that you are not as you stand in the way of Gods Salvation have I written in the uprightnesse of my heart and in tender love to your souls and to that pure seed which yet breaths in

highest and tallest Cedar amongst you shall know that the Lord God is confounding the wisdom of the wise and all the likenesses and Images set up or practiced by men in their inventions and fallen wisdom is but abomination in the sight of the Lord though in your services you could speak even with the Tongue of men and Angells yet you being not in the right Spirit you find not acceptance with God but are barren and unfruitful unto God in all that you do And if you stand stil me thinks you cannot chuse but see from whence ye are fallen how low weak and carnall all your performances are imagining to your selves a life in things that are dead and will not come to him who hath the words of eternal life who was before Abraham was to that word which was in the beginning Christ Jesus the Light of the world the same yesterday to day and for ever He that was dead is a live and behold he liveth for evermore unto whom you must all come for Salvation as he is come a Light into the world there being Salvation in no other name under Heaven and this is the mighty Power of God unto Salvation and whosoever believeth in him shall not perish but have Eternal Life And unless ye come unto the Light and follow it you shall for ever abide in darknesse and though it seem never so small and contemptible a thing in your eyes but as a grain of mustard seed by reason of your high profession which sometimes hath had esteem amongst men yet unto it you must all bow and yeild obedience if ever you expect Salvation to your immortal Souls there being not another way but this which will bring you down and teach you to become fools and deny your selves and to take up the daily Cross to the carnal mind that by it which is the power of God you may witnesse a death unto sin even in the root and ground from whence all the works of darknesse doe proceed This Light is the mavellous Light which will shew you all things that you have done and will lead you in the path of life And truly Friends to me it is a thing to be Lamented that you a professing people that have seemed so zealous for the way of the Lord as that you should now be so blind as to hate the Light and not to come to it to try the power and strength thereof what it will do for you at length after all your own Labours from which you must cease and in the silence of all flesh which is a hard work waite to hear the voice of the true Shepheard which will teach you to do the will of God Surely this I conclude that if you come not to the Light it is because your deeds are evil for it makes all things manifest even the hidden things of the heart brings the sinner to judgment through which Sions redemption is to be known what think ye friends that its dangerous to come to that Principle of God which teacheth to deny ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and to walk righteously soberly and godly in this present evill world which is the grace of God that bringeth salvation which hath appeared unto all men that light which enlightneth every man that cometh into world that Spirit which convinceth the world of sin and leadeth us into all truth is he that we testify of and perswade all men every where to take heed unto and follow And are you affraid of him and do you look for another because his Visage is marred more than any and do you fly the crosse because of the shame onelse what is it that makes you stand at such a distance from the way of life know yee not that the Kingdome is for the poor and hungry and that the fat and strong are for judgement and the rich are sent empty away Truely friends if that pure principle of God that somtimes breathed in you after Gods righteousness be so choaked and stifled in you through the deceitfulness of sin and the cares of this life with things that are carnall which feeds not the birth immortall that it ceaseth to strive and stir in you your case is lamentable you are but clouds without water carryed about of winds trees whose fruit withe●eth yea without fruit twice dead plucked up by the roots the end whereof is for the fire of Gods wrath in the day of the revelation of his righteous judgements upon the workers of iniquity in which you are found without the Spirit of life and power under the deepest coverings of Antichrist wherein the mystery of iniquity lodgeth in those dayes of his reigne in the hearts of the children of disobedience even in the highest likenesses of words and conformity to the letter that he is even transformed into an Angell of Light to deceive many who comes not to the light of life and power of God which discovers and destroyes his Kingdome root and branch What aileth you is blindnesse happened unto you that you cannot see where you are and that it shall be more tollerable for Sodom and Gomorah in the day of judgement than for these that are called Jews but are not that have a name that they live but are dead in sins and trespasses see you not how through your deceit hypocrisie and unfaithfulnesse to Gods witnesse in you you have brought up your enemies on top of you that misery threatens your persons barrenness leanness is entred into your very souls so that fear the pit and the snare daily attends you that you are become weak and unstable as water that element that you have so much builded upon and are become a shame unto Religion by your abominable Apostacy from the wayes of truth and the paths of righteousnesse unto which you have sometimes had a Call and a Day to make it manifest but you would not come down to the foolishnesse of the Cross of Christ that so in him yee might have been more than conquerors over all your enemyes within and without but have chosen your own wayes and set up the abomination which maketh desolate and standeth in the place where it ought not and have made that which should be the Temple of the living God a Cage of unclean Birds the enemy having found the house as it were swept and garnished is returned again with seven worse Spirits than himself opposing the living truth of our God and that under a profession of God and of Christ of the Scriptures of Ordinances of the Words of the Prophets and Apostles yet hating envying reproaching and persecuting them that live the life of the Prophets and Apostles that in sincerity and godly simplicity serve the Lord God in the measure of his eternall Spirit which to you may seem a low thing that can pray when you will and preach when you will that have made such a great shew in the flesh in that wisdome which comprehends not the things of