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death_n	good_a	life_n	see_v	9,943	5	3.4753	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54452	A visitation of love, and gentle greeting of the Turk and tender tryal of his thoughts for God, and proof of the hearts of his court, and the spirits of the people round about him, in his own dominion, and the inhabitants of the earth that are borderers upon his skirts, in their declared religious wayes : and is a warning to all men that are in the corrupted wayes of sin and iniquity, to repent and turn to the living God ... : to which is annexed a book, intituled, Immanuel, the salvation of Israel / written in the will and countenance of God, by ... John Perrot.	J. P. (John Perrot), d. 1671?; J. P. (John Perrot), d. 1671? Immanuel, the salvation of Isreal.	1660 (1660)	Wing P1639; ESTC R40666	27,935	40

day afar off but even nigh unto the door that the Lord will separate of all Nations both Jew and Gentile the just from the vile him that feareth God from him that feareh him not him that keepeth the Law of God which is written in his heart through the sanctification thereof by the power of the Lord ruling in his conscience mind spirit and life from him that in words which professeth God and his Law and Statutes and ordinances and yet walks in his life and daily practices contrary to the Law written in the heart which God spake unto Moses saying The word is nigh thee in thy mouth and in thy heart that thou mayest do it See I have set before thee this day life and good death and evil And unto ye Oh Jews is the same come and before you in the Name of the Lord coming unto you do I set life and death light and darknesse in this the day of the Lord which is dawned unto a measure of the Remnant even in this day which is light and not darknesse wherein the promise of God is fulfilled and it came to pass according to the Prophesie in a day when it was neither night nor day neither dark nor light but in the evening it was a little light And not as from the traditions of my forefathers or the generations of men in the corrupt and polluted nature in the degeneration from God and alienation from the Covenant of life and promise who confessed the Messiah as this generation doth to be come in words with their corrupted tongues and polluted lips but in their works and by their practise and life make his coming void and of non-effect unto them neither by the reading of the Scriptures came I to know that he was come as he is come but by the spirit of the Lord by which I was chosen in the womb and sanctified in the day of my birth by which also I am seperated from the Land of my natural nativity and brought unto the feeling of sorrows in a strange Land for your sakes I come to know and now to declare unto you that Immanuel who is God with us who is the light of the world the Messiah in the power of God who is a spirit is come reigning in spirit in the hearts of his people over whom and in whom he rules as King treading down and trampling upon all principalities and powers making the Earth new and the Heavens also warring against all which is contrary to his own pure nature in many until he hath put all his enemies under his feet and then will he give up the Kingdome to the Father that God may be all in all And for this cause also even for your sakes who are of most men despised in heart I pass as one desolate and despised and hated and mocked of many and many more of the nation of my naturall birth would gladly have my blood yet am I not forsaken of him that sent me with his message unto you of salvation and everlasting glad tidings of Redemption And now he that hath an ear let him hear and a heart to perceive let him understand Be it known unto you all That God hath more regard to your souls then that you should perish in your sins and your souls is more precious in his eye for which he hath ordained life everlasting for as many as come to believe then the pleasure and ease of your corrupt careases which are to rot in Graves and Sepulchres And therefore for the Lord to regain his own Image which is lost in man through fall in the transgression and to r store man unto the same uprightness where in man was created which was the promise of God unto man in this wise the seed of the woman shall bruise the Serpents head Behold unto you it is given forth and declared for the redemption and restauration of the seed the Messiah came and now is coming the second time without fin unto salvation even he cometh now in spirit and in power who was the Rock whom your Fathers in the Wilderness forsook and the light of the world whom your Fathers slew at Ierusalem which brought a grievous curse upon you of being a people troden upon by all the world and not onely so but the most lamentable thing and curse which is over you for which cause my soul mourns for you that such cruel hard-heartedness distrust doubt jealousies and unbelief coveting fraud deceit dissimulation and Hypocrifie hath vailed your hearts and grossely darkned your understandings Oh that is the worst of all that is the greatest curse in how much throughout ages the Iews have been given over unto vile affections hard-heartedness sinn and unbelief which is the cause why ye cannot rightly speak of the things of God and understand the Prophets writings which were spoken and do stand as mysteries yea deep mysteries to your thick hearts your understandings being covered as with a thick cloud of darkness which now we the seed Abraham of the true Iew inwardly do walk by the light thereof as a Pillar of fire by night and therefore said the Lord by his Prophet for want of knowledge my people perish The Prophets they prophesied of the Messiah to come in spirit in a mystery to the whole world Iew and Gentile so that when he came he was not received but by the Remnant in them dayes as he is received now in these dayes but unto whom the spirit of wisdome and understanding was given to read and understand that which the Prophets spake forth in Parables to the whole world of mankind which lay in sin and wickedness And therefore ye Iews now in these dayes ye ought not to speak of God or to name his name in perversnesse whilest ye hate to be reformed in your hearts minds and spirits but ye ought to hear the Message of the Lord God and to ponder it in your hearts that you may see how farre ye are yet from the Promise being not come in truth in spirit and in life unto the condition thereof fulfilled and made up in you untill which ye cannot justly expect the fulfilling of the promise unto you in the substance For whilest you are in your sins as your Fathers were in their sins in the day that they slew Jesus at Ierusalem you cannot but as men in the flesh look with any other than an eye of flesh for a God of flesh to come among you and to save you by the Arm of flesh Oh blind and sottish of dull ears and dark understandings and so could not your Fathers neither can you now as you stand see him that cometh to ransome the seed in spirit and in power Behold none other but Immanuel the Messiah which is God with us the light of the world that is come unto us and is passing through the whole world who will smite the earth with the Rod of his mouth and with the

the spirits of men take offence at me in this thing Can not I try the choicest in their wayes as plainly as the greatest Apostates who have lost the state of Manhood in whom brutishness is seated and violence as the chief Governor of the bodies of people who have lost the first ear that could hear through the degeneration of him that begat them and mankind springing from the same Root of Adams polluted nature Yea without a Parable may I not plainly prove all Nations that stumbles the honest part of thy inquiry and cannot I reach unto Rome Pope and over the darkness and sottishness of all people who blindly will speak and question things as to matter of evil consequences calling them so in their inquiries before they come to see the substance of the good which cometh only from God and thereby in perverse ignorance calls the good evil and are setters up of evil for good Should the love of God extend beyond measure compassion reach over a Nation to touch idolatry with a tender visitation of putting a people upon enquiry before wrath as an overflowing Flood doth overwhelm and if the people of that Nation should rise up against the servant in that work and slay him that the Master sent would not such a people plainly appear to be fallen below the spirits of men yea far below a beastly part which are naturally out of the sence of rewarding their kind so unspeakably full of evil and wickedly Many such things came to pass through the cruelty of the ungodly forwhich cause God overturned and utterly overthrowed the places of great renown and made beautiful Palaces a howling Wildernesse when in ages past their iniquities Whoredomes and Murders were filled up But this I shew as to what hath been chiefly now that which is to be I write I cannot run from the Porch of wisdoms Gates or fly from the door of her House forasmuch as I would shew the greatest among men the entrance into her habitation that that onely beautifull habitation may be known to be the Kings Pallace where Infamy shall never touch the Head of his Dignity And here is Wisdome for the Emperor to know the birth of the Imortall Seed in him to know something of God brought forth unto Majesty and Dominion in him which shall rule the Nations as with a rod of Iron Many parables might my life utter and seal up the Mystrie in hidden sentences and leave the sons of men in the same obscurity groveling as in the night-season and groping as in a black Dungeon and after wearisome times to lye down in sorrows and never able to come to know the light of the Day of God which is more clear then Cristal and the Wisdome springing from it which is more excellent then Rubies and more refined and precious then pure Gold which is the defence of Armies and strength of Nations Oh how might the aged solace themselves in the meditation thereof and the yonng men take pleasure in the exercise of the infinite vertue which is hid therein which maketh all shine as a Diadem yet hideth the comely parts from the eye of the vulterous that the unclean may not see the face of the King so that the prudent in a pure life can only draw nigh in the presence of wisdome to stand justified in the Kings Court. Oh that the greatest among men in anthority did but see my affection to the least in the Land Oh that mine hand might touch his head that he might suck of the Breasts of my Mother which bare me that he might drink and live for ever and have a dwelling-place over death to see the powers thereof swallowed up into Victory Had I began my meditation in the dawning of the day and written since the timely sun-rising and continned to the hour of this season yea could I have pondered since he hour of my conception and meditated in the Chambers of the Womb and written since the hour of my birth yet could not I speak of that which is as it is nor that which is to come in the infinite fulness as it is ready to break forth I may cry wisdom in the streets and spread forth mine arms in the gates and open my mouth in the pleasant Fields and say Return O ye sons of men return to the Lord God whom the whole world hath for saken and gone a whoring after other gods and sought strange things and planted themselves Trees in a wilderness but behold the fruits thereof the Lord hath no regard unto for how is it that the sons of men are calling upon God with their mouth whilst they profane his holy Name in their hearts God heareth not the prayers of the ungodly and their cry in their early season is but as the barking of a dogge at midnight and but as the skreech of a devouring beast seeking his prey in his wandering course at evening in the wilderness Verily I say unto all mankind upon the Face of the Earth God is wearied yea the Lord God is burdened and his soul is laden with the sacrifice of the unclean yea how can it be declared in this generation how the Lord hath waited for many generations to be gracious unto the sons of men but their iniquities have turned aside his blessing for thus it hath been even over the face of the whole Earth the sons of men in all their wayes have spoken of Gods worship and have worshipped in this place and upon that Mountain and in this Form and in another Administration so called but as soon almost as they are removed from their seats in their Temples made with hands where they were worshipping the works of their own hands and the imaginations of their hearts they turn into lewdn ess and lying and swearing and whoredom and drunkenness and robbery and envy and hatred and murder and scoffing and scorning and into the lust of uncleanness and their sacrifice the Lord God requires not until they have washed their hands of blood and their hearts of iniquity and their whole body of the pollution of their Life And lo I shew this unto the JEWS of all sorts that the Jews also may come to be converted and come to know the healing They must all come to the cleansiug of the heart by blood and the purifying of their consciences by the blood of sprinkling which is not used in this the mighty day of God which is dawned as an Ordinance of a carnal Commandment but is come and coming as the substance of the eternal Decree of God concerning the redemption from all the former and restauration unto the first and as the fulfilling of the promise of an endless life And therefore be awakened all ye that have slumbered and are slumbering in the night of your Fathers who were in the rebellion against God notwithstanding they had the Law and the Precepts of God even as from the mouth of God Oh how did your Fathers the Jewes