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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	bring_v	life_n	lord_n	6,557	5	3.5008	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63080	This is for all or any of those (by what name or title soever they be distinguished) that resist the Spirit and despise the grace that brings salvation that favour them which work wickedness and condemn the righteous, upon such must be fulfilled the judgments prophesied : also, things to come are here declared, but blind men cannot see, but as the world draws to an end, some shall remember me / [by] R.T.	R. T. (Rebecca Travers), 1609-1688.	1664 (1664)	Wing T2063; ESTC R32889	9,665	14

before they have proved us either in error or evil doing to the civil Magistrates to persecute and cast in prison for not conforming to we know not what so would make simple people believe that they give us up to the Devil when they give us up to you by this means our Goods and Estates have been wasted and we imprisoned yea some for their whole life time which Proceedings be so unlike those good Shepherds which Christ told us of that would lay down their lives for their Sheep that I and many do believe in our Consciences such are more like to be the Wolves and Hirelings which Christ spoke of which would run away when the Devourers came for they were gone and their Religion for many years that if we would we knew not where to find them And there are many thousands in these Nations that may not be come with the Quakers to give their backs to the Smiters and their cheeks to the pulling off of their hair which are of this mind concerning your Priests And for your Magistrates I and my Friends have not found that you are such as put the Wicked far from you and will not let a Lyar dwell in your house or that you are a Terrour to Evil-Doers and a praise to them that do Well nor that you releive the Oppressed nor set the Prisoners at Liberty or defend the Innocent nor suppress the Proud as those good Rulers did for Drunkards Swearers Proud and Wanton persons are at liberty and those who have departed from Iniquity and fears to sin against God are haled to Prison by those that work wickedness yea some of those that have sate to do Justice have smore pinchched tore off the hair of such as have been brought before them though they have had nothing against them but for worshipping God in Spirit and these are some of the reasons that we cannot believe that these are good Trees that bring forth such bad Fruit or that they rule in or for God that is the preserver of man that instead of preserving us as good David did who offered his life that the Plague might cease from his People you have cast many hundreds of us into prison together in the heat of Summer which might bring sickness and death to the destroying of us and as if this were not enough are hastening to transport us into unknown places of the Earth Is this like Christ or those that ruse in him who gave his Life for his Enemies but we that fear the Lord have prayed that some of you might come to the Wisdom of Gamaliel and cease from your cruelty lest you be found fighters against God for what is of God shall stand and know That by true Judgement and Mercy the Throne of the King shall be established And of how little account soever you the Magistrates of England make of us God hath regard to all that fear him and he did and will plead with those that throw his Law behind their backs and though we have and may still feel hard sufferings for breaking Mans Laws do you think to escape for breaking God's Laws and he hath not left you without the knowledge that you should do to every one as you would be done by now have you or are you about to do so by us that have cast us in prison are preparing for our banishment before you have sent any of the Fathers of the Church to convince us of our error or give us sound reason that you are in the Truth yet go about because we will not conform to worship we know not what to separate Husbands from Wives and Wives from Husbands Children from Parents and Parents from Children and all from the Land of our Nativity from our Estates and livelihoods who though accounted as a poor People have all our time we have been a People born paat of your burdens and charges and yet you not charged by us nor have you found any thing against us but in this matter of our God that we keep our Conscience undefiled knowing the Scriptures of Truth That in the pure Conscience is held the Mystery of Faith and if we have the Faith we shall have the victory over wickedness for against that we war for by this the Saints did overcome and though you banish us we shall conquer the Devil I mean for we have the Faith but if you think we have not deal so righteously with us as to send your Teachers to us into our meetings to convince us by the Scriptures and plain Demonstrations of the Spirit as Paul did who said He was manifest to that of God in every man Conscience and in so doing we might be conformed to you And if you should say to us we may go to the several places hear them there we answer those that Christ sent and called to convert men and turn them from the evil of their wayes sought them out and went to them but if we should go to them as some have and ask them any Question or object against any thing they say would they answer us and satisfie us or would they not rather turn us out and imprison us as they have done by some of us So Friends consider these things whether you have done to us as you would be done by What if the Quakers had power to compel to their Religion but they are so low the Mighty of the Earth never fear their rising But what if the Papists or Turks had power would you be thus used by them or would you yield to them without any other arguments than Blows Prisons and Banishment Well Friends if ever you should be tryed as God is trying us by you you will have need of our strength which yet you resist though it yet hath not done striving with some of you and this upholds us that we cannot fear what Man can do unto us for the Lord is with us and the Ark of his Strength and a hiding place is prepared for us and he will arise to plead the Cause of the Innocent Some among you God hath and will visit with Mercy and they will fear to go on in the execution of your unrighteous Decrees lest they be found fighters against God and you that have been and are working so wisely as you think for the safety of the Nation by suppressing the Innocent and forcing to conformity what if I say unto you remember what the Prophet said If God speak war who can speak peace therefore that which concerns your peace do not still reject for he had the tongue of the Learned that said there was but one thing needful and this indeed preserveth Men and Nations and if this were taught and sought amongst you wickedness would not so abound as it doth but God hath shewed thee O Man what thou shouldst do to shew Mercy and walk humbly for if you do go on to deal thus with an Innocent People that never wronged any of you